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Hummus Pizza With Caramelized Onions and Roasted Red Peppers
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 30 mins
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 pizza crust (either home-made or store bought)
- 1 cup hummus
- 3 red onions, sliced thinly
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 1 pinch raw sugar (optional)
- 1 (8 ounce) jar roasted red peppers, drained and cut into strips
- 2 teaspoons dried rosemary, crushed to release flavor
- Preheat the oven to 425°F.
- Cook the onions in the balsamic vinegar on med heat until they are sticky and caramelized (about 15 minutes).
- Spread the hummus on the pizza crust.
- Top with caramelized onions.
- Then lay the red peppers on top in rows to form a pattern.
- Sprinkle the rosemary on top and bake for 10-12 minutes until crust browns. *If you made your own crust you will need to bake the crust for 10 minutes, take it out and add the toppings, then bake for 10-12 more minutes.*.
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This is REALLY good! It is great as is but you can also play with it. I've added eggplant, mushrooms, and extra balsamic. Try it! You'll like it! Thanks Karina A!
We really liked this. I made two individually sized pizzas and only used 1 very large red onion and had to use cider vinegar as I realized as I started cooking that I was out of balsamic vinegar. I probably ended up using 3/4 cup of my own homemade hummus (Epicure Hummus) which is very garlicky which gave it some extra kick. We will definitely make this again. Thanks for posting!
I used 1 sweet onion. whole wheat dough. Skipped the sugar. This doesn`t look so pretty BUT it is yummy! And very healthy. I was thinking I should have sprinkled some olive oil on it but no need doesn`t need it. Thanks!


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Adding a piece of holiday-specific clothing to the pile of clothing that hasn't seen much wear? Perhaps not wise, but with our yearning for spring's arrival, St. Pat's Day practically goads us into buying some new duds for our littles. The trick to rationalizing the cost is finding options that are used everyday, for Easter or beyond. Here are some babies' & toddlers' bargain buys to pick up and keep them pinch-free.
Baby & Toddler Girls
1. Carter's 2-pc. legging set, NB-12M, $7.00, was $13, jcpenney.com
2. Old Navy Sueded Fleece pants, 12/18M-5T, $8.00, was $12.94, oldnavy.com
3. Old Navy Jersey dress, 12/18M-5T, $7.00, was $9.94, oldnavy.com
4. Janie & Jack Dot rainboot, infant to big kid sizes, $29.99, was $39.00, janieandjack.com
5. Marmelatta chiffon striped dress & capris, NB-24M, $18, jcpenney.com
6. Little Maven by Tori Spelling Dress, 6M-24M, $20, jcpenney.com
7. The Children's Place Striped Icon Top, 6/9M-4T, $8.39, was $14.95, thechildrensplace.com
Baby & Toddler Boys
1. Old Navy Slub-knit graphic tee, 12/18M-5T, $7.99. was $10.94, oldnavy.com
2. Gymboree Tartan plaid shirt, 3/6M-2T, $12.59, was $26.95, gymboree.com
3. Circo Boys' Long-Sleeve tee with Removable Cape, 12M-5T, $8.50, was $10, target.com
4. Little Maven by Tori Spelling Boat Shoes, baby sizes 2-4, $12.00, jcpenney.com
5. Janie & Jack plaid cap, NB-10/12, $13.99, was $22, janieandjack.com
6. Carter's Sleep & Play, NB-9M, $8.00, was $16.00, jcpenney.com
7. The Children's Place Faux-layered graphic polo, 6/9M-2T, $8.39, was $14.95
Since we are down to the holiday wire, I chose stores that are likely found at your nearest mall. Just some ideas for you to swing by and pick up, should you be so moved.
Check out my earlier post to green up your man…and don't miss my St. Patrick's Day clothing bargains board on Pinterest with extra picks for everybody!
I have very little green in my wardrobe. I think I'll be staying home because I'm better off with orange tones…How do you sport green on St. Patrick's Day-just a touch or all out Oscar the Grouch?

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Considering the entire world during the period we commonly call the Middle Ages, ca. 300 CE to ca. 1500 CE is a relatively new practice within a variety of disciplines. Traditionally, the Middle Ages has meant the Western Middle Ages with a Eurocentric bias. During the past few years, however, more scholars are taking a broader view. While some are broadening their own work, others are finding ways to collaborate with colleagues within their own disciplines and across others to integrate all human experience in this period--creating a Global Middle Ages.
Digital Philology invites paper proposals for a special issue that focuses on how different peoples and cultures envisioned their role in the universe--through creation stories, ritual practices, spiritual beliefs, celebration and other aspects of human experience--within the perspectives of cosmogony, cosmology, and/or cosmography. We seek papers from scholars worldwide in any discipline, who can broaden our understanding in this area. Of particular interest are papers that offer an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, or transdisciplinary perspective. Papers may be focused on a single culture or address cultural beliefs and practices in more than one part of the world.
To submit your proposal, please e-mail title and a 250 word English abstract and detailed contact information for primary author with the subject line: ATTN:DIGITAL PHILOLOGY by August 15, 2013 to: Dr. Marguerite Ragnow, firstname.lastname@example.com. Authors of accepted proposals will be invited to submit articles by November 1, 2013; all papers are subject to the standard review process at Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures (http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/)


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The Jefferson Parish school system has announced its summer school schedule. It will offer two sessions for students in grades eight through 12 who need to make up missed coursework, pass classes they previously failed or earn new credits. The first session will run from June 1 to June 25, the second from June 27 to July 19.
John Ehret High in Marrero and East Jefferson High in Metairie will host the summer sessions. Classes will convene from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on instruction days using an online learning program. Students must take coursework sequentially, completing prerequisite sections in the first summer bloc and registering for following sections in the second month.
LEAP test remediation also runs from June 4 to June 22 with re-testing from June 25 to 29. School officials advise eighth graders needing to retake the LEAP test and make up classes to focus on the standardized test during the early summer and the coursework later.
Summer class tuition is $210 per semester for Jefferson Parish residents and $310 for non-residents. To register, students need to provide summer school permission forms signed by counselors, copies of their 2011-12 final report cards and proof of residence such as a driver's license or utility bill.
Anyone seeking more information on summer school in Jefferson Parish can call 504.349.8529.


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text: An expert marksman who has fallen afoul of Batman on numerous occasions, Floyd Lawton is both a top mercenary and a man who wants to die. He served as a core member of the Suicide Squad for most of the period when it was headed up by Amanda Waller, managing to survive every mission despite his wish to die. He has even been known to arm his targets in order that they may have a chance of killing their assassin, but he has not yet achieved his goal.


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Epic video explains how the 41-megapixel Nokia Lumia 1020 camera works
0. phoneArena 08 Aug 2013, 04:49 posted on
The 41-megapixel camera on the Nokia Lumia 1020 is an engineering marvel that took years of research to realize, but the end result is the best cameraphone out there…
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
9. WHoyton1 (Posts: 1635; Member since: 21 Feb 2013)
jeez thats like your default word....
15. tech2 (Posts: 3455; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
No ! Its,
(in Capslock)
'< name of the OEM to which article relates to >,FTW !' (in Capslock)
e.g. NOKIA, FTW !
19. WHoyton1 (Posts: 1635; Member since: 21 Feb 2013)
hahahah made my day!
22. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
Yeah, your brother TROLL always say that.
2. SIGPRO (Posts: 1438; Member since: 03 Oct 2012)
Truly the cameraphone out there!
3. sando09 (Posts: 4; Member since: 09 Sep 2012)
10. WHoyton1 (Posts: 1635; Member since: 21 Feb 2013)
calm down bro its only a video....
11. papss (unregistered)
Is he upsetting you by commenting? Easy solution is don't open an article about.
20. WHoyton1 (Posts: 1635; Member since: 21 Feb 2013)
im not upset i read the article and the video is cool but there is no need to have a panic attack over it! wait oh thats right because this artcile is about nokia you suddenly get very defensive!
23. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3770; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
What makes you think he had a panic attack?
Because he commented with Caps on?
Maybe he likes writing it that way...
32. WHoyton1 (Posts: 1635; Member since: 21 Feb 2013)
37. davuvnik (Posts: 1; Member since: 08 Aug 2013)
he capsized but at least his comment made sense, why don't you put your ideas in order before commenting...
(BTW if you work for this webpage kudos on your ability to force people to subscribe only for the meaningless cr@p you write which makes people feel obliged to return the favor, if not well congrats anyway for making me waste my time, good troll) xD
4. konnor (Posts: 30; Member since: 25 Apr 2013)
Lol, what a BS video. Realy? The camera is like a river? Bullsh*t marketing.
5. slygates (Posts: 4; Member since: 27 Jul 2013)
Hater. This video is great
7. eisenbricher (Posts: 973; Member since: 09 Aug 2012)
Hater... very less people understand the technical jargon. Such type of videos are definitely good.
8. SIGPRO (Posts: 1438; Member since: 03 Oct 2012)
Ahhh dont be mad, i know your droid device cant have this type of camera, please dont cry maybe some day you will have such a great awsome unbeatable cameraphone, or just buy the 1020 and stop posting BS comments!
27. Tuxedo (Posts: 346; Member since: 19 Mar 2013)
They didn't just show the camera... but yea, electrons flowing through wiring is actually analogous to water flowing through a pipe or in your case, a river.
28. XperiaFanZone (Posts: 2114; Member since: 21 Sep 2012)
I smell jealousy
31. clevername (Posts: 1436; Member since: 11 Jul 2008)
uh, yes. actualy it sort of it.
6. gazmatic (Posts: 795; Member since: 06 Sep 2012)
haters gunna hate
they know that they wished that other phones had this
look how many people want nokia to make android....
android has a million oems... with GOD devices... why do they need nokia?
cognitive dissonance
12. rantao333 (Posts: 322; Member since: 21 May 2013)
Nokia FTW!
definitely the best
13. itsdeepak4u2000 (Posts: 3718; Member since: 03 Nov 2012)
Best Camera Phone till date.
14. dexter_jdr (Posts: 1163; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
epic dismantle. just like lumia 920 video too
17. theminolaboy (Posts: 128; Member since: 18 May 2013)
OMG! The best Nokia advertisement to date! Samsung Galaxy Zoom's jaw dropped.. Hahaha..
18. ShenAlJoker (Posts: 113; Member since: 19 Jul 2013)
f**k the haters. LUMIA IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
21. WHoyton1 (Posts: 1635; Member since: 21 Feb 2013)
lol we all know its not....
24. Ruisleipä (Posts: 31; Member since: 06 Apr 2013)
o·pin·ion [ ə pínnyən ]
personal view: the view somebody takes about an issue, especially when it is based solely on personal judgment
Regards RL
33. WHoyton1 (Posts: 1635; Member since: 21 Feb 2013)
your Finnish enough said!
25. UdhaiyaPrasanth (Posts: 76; Member since: 05 Sep 2012)
Rise of Lumias :D
26. koloss (Posts: 14; Member since: 17 Nov 2012)
but can someone tell me the name of the music
29. xtian1103 (Posts: 363; Member since: 11 Feb 2012)
yeah right epic 41 megapixels. but aside from the camera, what else?
34. clevername (Posts: 1436; Member since: 11 Jul 2008)
lets see:
beautiful 720 display with a refresh rate better than competitors(sure its not 1020 but its hard to tell the diference unless side by side)
2 gb ram
dual core processor that makes the phone run as smooth and faster than a quad core
elegant and durable design that can take cartwheeling drops on to concrete with negligible damage (i speak from personal experience).
32 gb of storage and automatic back up of photos to my free skydrive storage who's integration allows me to see the photos on my phone even when i delete them from the device(no need for an sd card).
tighter intgration of social netwoks than any other OS
fluid experience unlike any other OS.
live tiles that show me all i need to see at a glance.
xbox live integration(my gamerscore has certainly been boosted).
dual HAAC mics for superior recording.
absence of IOS boredom and android lag/ bugginess - knowing it just works, all the time.
im sure youll still hate on this but hey, you asked.
38. theminolaboy (Posts: 128; Member since: 18 May 2013)
he was stumped by your comment. did not even reply. lol
39. xtian1103 (Posts: 363; Member since: 11 Feb 2012)
wow you can read brochures!
30. freebee269 (Posts: 539; Member since: 10 Aug 2012)
this is a nice video. shows off the camera internals in a cinematic and naturistic way (light falling like rain and flowing along the conduits like a river). much better than attacking other oem's.
35. sam.7 (Posts: 68; Member since: 10 Jul 2013)
man they made best video ever :'( ..awesome! how the lens open,the picture goes inside like million dust,the lens close and action starts. the music is somewhat u can feel, haters n lovers have to admit.
36. sam.7 (Posts: 68; Member since: 10 Jul 2013)
sorry i mean 'lens' as the 'mechanical lens door' on the 1020.
40. samystic (Posts: 230; Member since: 25 Mar 2012)
no manufacturer on this planet will beat it in a 1000 yrs.


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Where are 'Family Ties' stars now?
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With "Family Ties" star Justine Bateman celebrating her 50th birthday on Friday, take a look at where she and the rest of the Keaton family are today.
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HEDGESVILLE - Calling himself a meteorologist for the Air Force, Hedgesville resident Allan Ramsay did not forecast traditional weather but, as an astrogeophysicist, he analyzed and predicted space weather.
Beginning a nearly 29-year career with the Air Force in 1959, Ramsay, 77, had no idea that when he signed up for the Air Force he would be pursing a career far from what he ever envisioned.
A newly graduated high school student, Ramsay's initial reason for joining the Air Force was financial.
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Hedgesville resident Allan Ramsay analyzed and predicted space weather as an astrogeophysicist for the U.S. Air Force.
"My folks couldn't pay my tuition without going into deep debt, so the Air Force came to us and said, 'Join the ROTC, and we'll pay for the last two years of college.' I couldn't say no," Ramsay said.
After Ramsay graduated with a degree in metallurgy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Air Force offered to send him to one year of graduate school in addition to three years of service - rather than the traditional four years of service - if he would become a meteorologist.
After agreeing, Ramsay studied meteorology at Texas A&M University. At the end of his contractual years of service, the Air Force offered to send him back to graduate school to study astrophysics with an additional four year commitment, so he could join a newly formed space forecasting program.
"This was 1963. They were starting a space forecasting service because of all the satellites and everything. They needed people to run their space forecasting business. So I went back to grad school. ... I was like the fourth or fifth person in the Air Force to come out of college and get into that program," he said.
After completing his required time, Ramsay chose to remain in the Air Force to help build and continue the space forecasting program.
One of Ramsay's first assignments included monitoring the sun for solar flares, which affected military satellites.
"The sun does all kinds of things to military programs. It does confuse things. ... We would watch the sun through telescopes with radio sensors, listening for radio noise, and we were looking for solar flares essentially, explosions on the sun that sent radiation to the earth," Ramsay said.
The program established sun observatories around the world to enable 24-hour monitoring. For two years, Ramsay ran the observatory program in the Philippines which, while not an undercover operation, did require confidentiality.
The Air Force established the Philippine observatory program at a Jesuit university, trading a $250,000 telescope and several radio telescopes to the university for permission to house the program.
"We weren't really spies, but we couldn't wear uniforms because we weren't supposed to be there. I'd go to work and walk across the campus and the students would say 'Good morning, Father,' and I'd kind of nod. They thought I was one of the Jesuits," Ramsay said.
"Eventually the Communists chased us out of there with bomb threats once they found out we were there. They started threatening the Filipinos and the Jesuits, and so we had to leave," he said, adding that there were about 15 people who were part of the observatory program.
During his time with the Air Force, Ramsay only other overseas assignment was a two-year program in Korea as the commander of all weather units in Korea and Japan. While enjoying his assignments overseas, Ramsay said his favorite aspect of working outside the country was that his wife and son were able to be stationed with him at both locations.
In addition to monitoring the sun, the space weather program also required Ramsay to assist NASA with space missions.
"At the time I was running the observatory, the Apollo program was going on, and we were sending people to the moon. Those people could have been killed with radiation, so part of our alert system was to call NASA if we saw a solar flame and could determine that the radiation was coming to the Earth. I don't think we ever had any serious radiation alerts during the Apollo program, but that was part of our job," he said.
About halfway through his career with the Air Force, Ramsay transitioned from forecasting space weather to a more technical and scientific direction, such as creating algorithms and programs to advance the satellite program.
"I got into management and dealing with classified satellite programs because all of them are affected by the environment and have to be forecasted atmospheric density, storms, radiation and that kind of thing," Ramsay said.
Although saying what is being used now is more advanced, Ramsay said that the math behind the search for the missing Malaysian Flight MH370 is based off a science he helped create.
"They're trying to figure out where it was doing the science that I helped develop. It was so long ago, they're no longer using what I did, it's infinitely improved, but I worked at the level where nobody would have thought to do those kinds of things," he said.
"What they're doing is, when you look at radio waves going through the atmosphere, they don't travel at the speed of light. When they travel through the ionosphere, they actually slow down depending on how many electrons they bump into," he said.
"I made one of the first models of how many electrons there are. I worked with the CIA on that one because they were doing similar things trying to locate where the Russian radars were, so I gave them my model, and they started using that," he said.
After deciding to retire from the Air Force in 1987 as a colonel, Ramsay continued working for the government supporting the Naval Space Command with a private company contracted by the government. Ramsay stayed with that company, located in Virginia, for around 10 years, working on different projects, including work for the National Weather Service, that always pertained to weather analysis.
"I (tested) an icing sensor, and I had a wonderful time with that, developing algorithms and computer programs to make it work properly. In fact, my licenses plate says 'FZDZ' for freezing drizzle because I became a freezing drizzle expert," he said.
Although Ramsay and his family lived in Virginia, an ad for a new golf course at The Woods Resort enticed him to purchase a small cabin as a weekend retreat. After retiring in 2000, Ramsay and his wife, Bonnie, moved to Berkeley County permanently.
Soon finding himself with the desire for something to do, Ramsay became involved with the Literacy Volunteers of the Eastern Panhandle as a math tutor.
"When I first went into the Air Force, as part of the procedure when you first sign in, they gave you a test at the time asking 'what would you like to do?' My results were a teacher or a social worker. Now here I am after a 30-year career as a meteorologist, and I had been trying to mentor people my whole life. So I came out here and said 'I can now be a teacher or a social worker,'" Ramsay said.
Ramsay has been a tutor with the program since 2000 and credits his time in the Air Force as helping him discover his love of mentoring.
"One of the things you learn in the military is, because you know you're going to move every two or three years, you get accustomed to training people to replace you. You learned to work with people to get them ready, and I think that's where the mentoring came from," he said.
-Staff writer Samantha Cronk can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 132, or twitter.com/scronkJN.


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Archaeology of the Americas
The archaeology of the Americas is the study of the archaeology of North America (Mesoamerica included), Central America, South America and the Caribbean. This includes the study of pre-historic/Pre-Columbian and historic indigenous American peoples, as well as historical archaeology of more recent eras.
The Pre-Columbian era is the term generally used to encompass all period subdivisions in the history of the Americas spanning the time from the original settlement of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic up until to the European colonization of the Americas during the early modern period. While technically referring to the era before the voyages of Christopher Columbus from 1492 to 1504, in practice the term usually includes the history of American indigenous cultures until they were conquered or significantly influenced by Europeans, even if this happened decades or even centuries after Columbus' initial landing.
The pre-Columbian archaeological record in the Americas is conventionally divided into five phases according to an enduring system established in Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips's 1958 book Method and Theory in American Archaeology.[1] This differs from old world prehistory where the terms Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age are generally used.
Numerous regional and sub-regional divisions have since been defined to distinguish various cultures through time and space, as later archaeologists recognized that these generalised stages did not adequately correspond to the cultural variation that existed in different locations in the Americas.[1]
- Defined by the ostensible prevalence of big-game hunting. In most places, this can be dated to before 8000 BCE. Examples include the Clovis culture and Folsom tradition groups.
- The Archaic stage
- Defined by the increasingly intensive gathering of wild resources with the decline of the big-game hunting lifestyle. Typically, Archaic cultures can be dated from 8000 to 1000 BCE. Examples include the Archaic Southwest, the Arctic small tool tradition, the Poverty Point culture, and the Chan-Chan culture in southern Chile.
- The Formative stage
- Defined as "village agriculture" based. Most of these can be dated from 1000 BCE to 500 CE. Examples include the Dorset culture, Zapotec civilization, Mimbres culture, Olmec, Woodland, and Mississippian cultures.
- The Classic stage
- Defined as "early civilizations", and typically dating from 500 to 1200 CE. Willey and Phillips considered only cultures from Mesoamerica and Peru to have achieved this level of complexity. Examples include the early Maya and the Toltec.
- Defined as "later prehispanic civilizations" and typically dated from 1200 CE until the advent of European colonisation. The late Maya and the Aztec cultures were Post-Classic.
Major regions[edit]
North America[edit]
Since 1990, in the United States, physical anthropology and archaeological investigations based on the study of human remains are complicated by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, (NAGPRA), which provides for the bodies of Native Americans and associated grave goods to be turned over to the recognized tribal body most legally affiliated with the remains. In some cases, notably, that of Kennewick Man, these laws have been subject to close judicial scrutiny and great intellectual conflict.[2]
Mesoamerica or Meso-America (Spanish: Mesoamérica) is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, within which a number of pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.[3][4] Prehistoric groups in this area are characterized by agricultural villages and large ceremonial and politico-religious capitals[5] This culture area included some of the most complex and advanced cultures of the Americas, including the Olmec, Teotihuacan, the Maya, and the Aztec.
South America[edit]
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Molecular genetics study suggests that surviving Amerindian populations derived from a theoretical single founding population, possibly from only 50 to 70 genetic contributors[6] Preliminary research, restricted to only 9 genomic regions (or loci) have shown a genetic link between original Americas and Asia populations. The study does not address the question of separate migrations for these groups, and excludes other DNA data-sets.[7]
The American Journal of Human Genetics released an article in 2007 stating "Here we show, by using 86 complete mitochondrial genomes, that all Indigenous American haplogroups, including Haplogroup X (mtDNA), were part of a single founding population."[8] Amerindian groups in the Bering Strait region exhibit perhaps the strongest DNA or mitochondrial DNA relations to Siberian peoples. The genetic diversity of Amerindian indigenous groups increase with distance from the assumed entry point into the Americas.[9][10] Certain genetic diversity patterns from West to East suggest at least some coastal migration events.[11] Geneticists have variously estimated that peoples of Asia and the Americas were part of the same population from 42,000 to 21,000 years ago.[12]
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Further reading[edit]
- ^ a b "Method and Theory in American Archaeology" (Digitised online by Questia Media). Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips. University of Chicago. 1958. Retrieved 2009-11-20.
- ^ Bones, Discovering the First Americans Elaine Dewar, Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, 2002, ISBN 0-7867-0979-0
- ^ "Meso-America." Oxford English Reference Dictionary, 2nd ed. (rev.) 2002. (ISBN 0-19-860652-4) Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; p. 906.
- ^ (2000): Atlas del México Prehispánico. Revista Arqueología mexicana. Número especial 5. Julio de 2000. Raíces/ Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. México.
- ^ http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/hohokam/Glossary.htm The University of Arizona
- ^ Hey, J (2005). "On the Number of New World Founders: A Population Genetic Portrait of the Peopling of the Americas". PLoS Biology. PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health. 3 (6): e193. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030193. PMC 1131883. PMID 15898833.
- ^ "Nomenclature for Incompletely Specified Bases in Nucleic Acid Sequences". NC-IUB. 1984. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
- ^ "First Americans". Southern Methodist University-David J. Meltzer, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Retrieved 2009-11-17.
- ^ "The peopling of the Americas: Genetic ancestry influences health". Scientific American. Retrieved 2009-11-22.
- ^ "First Americans Endured 20,000-Year Layover - Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News". Retrieved 2009-11-18
- ^ "Genetic Variation and Population Structure in Native Americans". PLoS Genetics. 2007. p. 3(11). Retrieved 2009-11-18.
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AT&T CENTER–Having worked alongside Gregg Popovich for 17 years as an assistant coach, spanning Tim Duncan's illustrious career, first year Atlanta Hawks head coach Mike Budenzholzer helped instill most of what drives the Spurs system today. Loop sets, Hammer plays, and pin downs, all staples of the Spurs system that Budenholzer is trying to incorporate in Atlanta.
It was the latter of the three aforementioned pet actions that took center stage Monday night in San Antonio, as Tim Duncan capped off a 23-point, 21-rebound performance with a game-winning shot off a play Budenholzer had probably seen a thousand different times in practice with the Spurs.
The play begins with Duncan setup at the opposite elbow on a sideline entry pass, with Ginobili and Parker on either low block and Kawhi at the top of the key. Like most Popovich inbounds plays, the key will be multiple actions designed to create several viable options that all hide the play's true intent.
As Marco Belinelli triggers the inbounds play, Duncan works his way across the lane to Parker's spot as Parker pops out to the corner. Simultaneously, Leonard and Ginobili cross paths, freeing Ginobili to get the ball at the top of the key as Parker races from corner to corner, behind Duncan and around a Leonard screen on the other side. If executed properly, the play will tilt the defense to the opposite side as it guards what looks to be a curl being setup for Parker with a backdoor option for Leonard.
From here you can almost see what's coming next: With the side cleared out, Belinelli (the inbounder) immediately sprints to set a pin down screen for Duncan, which will either free him at the elbow, or Belinelli at the rim:
If the play looks familiar, it should. The Spurs have run it several times in the past to free Duncan for what has become his favorite spot at the elbow. Asked about the specific play call after the game, Duncan immediately noted it was last run in a game-winner over the Los Angeles Clippers a season ago. If you watch one play right after the other, you can see almost the exact same events unfold due to the Spurs uncanny execution:
While the Atlanta Hawks are still very much a work in progress under Budenholzer, the Spurs have practiced these sets for years. For the key players, each pick and cut have been broken down to the last detail–from the timing of each screen to the angle that it's set–and repeated to the point that this set (along with many others) has become ingrained in their muscle memory.
"They did a good job running that play," Al Horford said. "They had guys flying all over the place. Belinelli came into the paint, I called the switch. If I could have gone back, I probably would have tried to chase Duncan off of there, but Belinelli got me pretty good. I've got to give him credit, that's how he was able to get free and get that shot up."
Look hard enough, and you can see hints of the same misdirection and timing that Popovich has drawn upon in the Hawks. Watch Jeff Teague (19 points, seven assists)–a jet quick point guard who once struggled to utilize that gift in a meaningful way–work off the ball, running through a series of screens along the baseline to come clean off a curl and attack a defender closing out at a poor angle.
Or Al Horford, anchoring a defense while working the elbows, reversing the ball, and slipping in for the occasional post opportunity, with Paul Millsap extending his range out to the three-point line to help space the floor.
Yes, the bones are still relatively bare (though this is still a team with Eastern Conference playoff implications), but the foundations are settling into place. And while Budenholzer utilizes the lessons learned under Popovich to help build his team, for a night he also go an opportunity to turn that knowledge against his former employer, sniffing out the Spurs intentions and directing his players to the key spots the Spurs tried to establish.
"I think at some point he just gave up, he was just like, 'whatever, we're going to call our plays'," Duncan said when asked if Popovich had trouble coming up with something Budenholzer hadn't seen. "Our offense is in front of their bench and they're calling out what we're doing. But we just had to execute and try to do the best you can."
The Spurs were hardly sharp, turning the ball over 17 times to keep Atlanta competitive throughout despite the Spurs shooting 53.8 percent for the game. Ball security near the rim, in particular, seemed to be an issue..
Tiago Splitter (four turnovers) would either show the ball too low, or too early, getting it swiped by smaller players or big men coming down from their jump after Splitter executed a successful shot fake. Parker (four turnovers) likewise had trouble holding onto the ball, getting it poked from behind by Teague on one play while coming out of a spin move near the rim.
With both teams knowing the others' plays, the game often delved into chaotic randomness, which both degraded the Spurs overall execution, and provided some moments for its creative second unit.
Boris Diaw, coming off a dislocated finger, had another impactful game with 16 points and three assists. Within the first few seconds of both sharing the court, Ginobili and Belinelli showcased their growing rapport, with Ginobili driving along one baseline as Belinelli (13 points, four rebounds, three assists, and one solid screen for Duncan in the closing seconds) snuck behind defenders from the other for a backdoor layup.
The bench helped carry the Spurs offense as it has all season, making up for Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green's continued struggles (a combined seven points on 3-14 shooting). It's been a rough few games for Leonard, who has seen his three-point shooting regress (0-2 tonight) while starting to show some hesitation (throwing a shot fake and driving into a shot clock violation).
"From time-to-time a player is going to have a couple of games where he looks a little bit out of kilter," Popovich said when asked about Leonard's performance. "It happens to Manu, it happens to Tim, it happens to guys on other teams. It's not a big deal."
Not too long ago Duncan's early struggles were starting to gain traction as a big deal everywhere besides the Spurs own locker room, even as the Spurs continued to pile up wins. Duncan started the season off on an early season slump, though he seems to have gotten his legs back under him now, posting 16.6 points and 10.2 rebounds in his last five games according to ESPN, the last two of which have been against quality defensive big men in Dwight Howard (who Duncan scored 20 points and eight rebounds against) and Horford.
Now Duncan, no longer today's best power forward, travels to Mexico City to face the man that holds that current distinction, Kevin Love. But if Duncan has proven anything the last three games, it's that he's never far from that discussion. And if Monday night showed anything, he can still teach Love a thing or two (even when it comes to outlet passes); just ask Coach Budenholzer, he's seen it all before.


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Less than one month after reaching out to the community for help, the Greeley History Museum has received enough money to purchase a set of historic letters sent to the city's founder.
In 1869, Nathan Meeker, Greeley's founder, published an article in a New York paper about the advantages of living in the West, and was flooded with more than 3,000 letters from those who wished to join his utopian community. That was the beginning of Greeley.
Just before Christmas, two fourth-generation Weld County residents offered to sell 320 of those letters to the Greeley History Museum, but the nearly $16,000 cost to purchase the letters, restore them and digitize them was not in the museum's budget. In fact, the museum hadn't purchased an artifact since 1901.
Greeley museum officials called on community members, history buffs and others to help them obtain the letters, and the community responded with more than $20,000 in donations, the museum announced on Thursday.
More than 70 entities donated from around the nation.
Peggy Ford Waldo, development curator for Greeley Museums, said the letters are a "treasure trove" of historical information because they are a good sample of the letters sent to Meeker, which could give city historians a better understanding of the first people to live in Greeley.
Waldo said she is stunned the letters escaped nearly being thrown out or destroyed over the 144 years they were kept.
Along with the letters, the Weld County family will also sell the museum a small bible given to Arvilla Meeker, Nathan's wife, by their son in 1864.


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Last night, The Canadian Encyclopedia's Editor in Chief James Marsh was on CTV National News, talking about the most Canadian of subjects – hockey! More specifically, the Stanley Cup and it's history of bumps, bruises, and survival in the midst of euphoric, sometimes drunken, celebrations. Its handling has been less than ceremonious: it's been drop-kicked into the Rideau Canal, left and forgotten in a snow bank, slept with, dunked into pools, stolen twice, and used as a food bowl.


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If you are looking for something different to do tomorrow night that could involve you getting trapped up and trapped out, then check out the Bass Kitchen tour featuring Mayhem and Mark Instinct at the Miramar Theatre. These guys have blown up recently in the EDM world and will be stopping off here in Milwaukee to make the party happen. Marcus J, Tilex and TFares will hit the stage as well. You can get tickets here and it's an all ages show so don't miss it!


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's fight against impaired drivers hit a high note this past year, when the state recorded a decline in deaths related to driving under the influence (DUI) for the fourth year in a row.
This encouraging news coincides with last month's conclusion of a yearlong DUI enforcement campaign by the California
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"DUI has always been a huge safety concern for the law enforcement community and the motoring public," said CHP Commissioner Joe Farrow.
"Impaired driving is a dangerous and irresponsible behavior that results in hundreds of victims killed and thousands of others injured every year in California."
In October 2009, armed with federal funds set aside for the Border-to-Border DUI Enforcement Campaign, officers set out to reduce the number of alcohol-involved fatal and injury collisions and victims in California.
The California Highway Patrol conducted nearly 240 sobriety/driver license checkpoints, 100 DUI task force operations, and more than 50,000 hours of proactive DUI enforcement patrol resulting in more than 1,900 DUI arrests in this campaign.
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Additionally, the CHP implemented a statewide media campaign and conducted local traffic safety presentations and Designated Driver Programs impacting thousands of people throughout California.
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Paper and Other Submissions Due: December 1, 2001
Proposals from Prospective Seminar Leaders Due: October 1, 2001
Conference Web Site:
The Fifth Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society will convene in
the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, May 23-26, 2002, on the theme
"Perspective by Incongruity: The Comic Masks of Kenneth Burke." Hosted by
Tulane University, the conference features diverse opportunities for
Conference Theme
Burke notes in Attitudes Toward History (1937) that people generally take
either a tragic or a comic perspective on human motivation. The tragic view
holds that people are vicious or evil, "describable by an enemy as vermin"
(Rhetoric of Religion 276). The comic view, however, holds that people are
mistaken, necessarily mistaken, that "all people are exposed to situations
in which they must act as fools, that every insight contains its own
special kind of blindness . . . " (41). In adopting the theme, "Perspective
by Incongruity: The Comic Masks of Kenneth Burke," we want to encourage
conference presenters and participants to revel in our mistakenness, to
examine our insights for blindness, to lighten up or dig-in as the occasion
demands and in the spirit of New Orleans, where the carnivalesque is the
norm and the comic drama of the human barnyard is always in the third act.
Perspective by incongruity enables new meanings by "extending the use of
term by taking it from the context in which it was habitually used and
applying it to another" (Permanence and Change 89). We hope to see new
meanings and new relationships develop at and beyond this fifth triennial
conference of the Kenneth Burke Society.
Post-Prandial Parlors
One afternoon of the conference will begin with a concurrent series of
informal Post Prandial Parlors, loosely guided conversations in which you
are invited to dip your oar. These parlor sessions provide conference
attendees to engage Burke in lively and creative ways (and even venues).
Suggestions for topics and format are welcomed.
Keynote Speakers
James L. Kastely
University of Houston
(Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1980)
James Kastely is a nationally recognized expert in the history and theory
of rhetoric and the author of Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From
Plato to Postmodernism (Yale UP, 1997).
Additional keynote speakers will be announced shortly.
Submissions of Papers, Abstracts, or Panel Proposals
The Society invites submissions of papers, abstracts, or panel proposals.
Topics are open to any subject related to Burkeian scholarship. The
deadline for all submissions is December 1, 2001. Each paper accepted for
the program will be considered for a volume planned to come out of the
conference. Awards will be given for both Top Graduate Student Paper and
Top Paper overall. Only complete papers submitted by December 1 will be
eligible for awards; please identify student papers as such in the
submission cover letter only. Printed texts of all submissions (papers,
300-500 word abstracts, or program proposals) should be prepared for blind
review. Please send four copies of all submissions to:
Ellen Quandahl
Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Dr. 92182-4452
Ann George
Department of English
TCU Box 297270
TCU, Ft. Worth, TX 76129
Paper and and proposal selections will be announced by January 15, 2002.
Proposals from Seminar Leaders
The Society also invites proposals from prospective seminar leaders. One
highlight of every KBS triennial conference has been topical seminars,
which run each day of the conference and allow the seminar leader and
participants the opportunity to sustain discussion of important subjects
germane to the work of Kenneth Burke. Once seminars have been set, every
conference participant will have the opportunity to self-nominate for these
Past seminar topics have included the following:
The immediate goal of each seminar is to allow a group of participants to
explore a specific topic of pivotal common interest in multiple sessions
spread throughout the conference; however, the ultimate goal is to enable
participants to develop research questions and scholarly agenda that guide
further work on the seminar topic. Seminar participants will prepare and
present position papers, although formats may vary among the seminars.
After the conference, seminar leaders will be responsible for writing a
summary of the discussions for publication in the Society's newsletter.
Those interested in leading a seminar should send a one-page written
proposal by e-mail attachment (Word or RTF), fax, or snail mail to
David Blakesley
Burke Conference Planner
Department of English
Purdue University
West Lafayette IN, 47909
Phone: 765.494.3772
Fax: 765.494.3780
E-Mail: email@example.com
Proposals to serve as seminar leaders should be submitted by October 1,
Nominations for Awards
The Society also calls for nominations for awards in the following
categories: Lifetime Achievement, Distinguished Service, and Emerging
Scholar. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes sustained excellence in
Burkean scholarship and pedagogy; previous recipients are Leland Griffin
(1990), William Rueckert (1993), Bernard Brock (1996), and James W.
Chesebro (1999). The Distinguished Service Award rewards major
contributions to the work of the Society; previous recipients are Sharon
Dailey (1990), James W. Chesebro (1993), Dale Bertelson (1996), and Robert
Wess (1999). The Emerging Scholar Award honors a young scholar whose early
work shows most promise for long term contributions to Burke studies;
previous recipients are Dale Bertelson (1993), Mark Wright (1996), and Mark
Meister and Glenn Stillar (1999 co-recipients). Nominations should include
a brief rationale qualifying candidates for the Awards for which they are
nominated. All nominations are confidential. Deadline for all nominations
is December 1, 2001. Please submit nominations to
Andrew King
Department of Speech Communication
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225.578.6681
Fax: 225.578.4828
E-Mail: email@example.com
Request for Archival Material
Finally, the Society invites persons and/or departments with videotapes,
audiotapes, photographs or accounts of Kenneth Burke who would be willing
to show, display or otherwise share those materials at the Conference to
contact James Mackin at email@example.com or David Blakesley at
Host Site
Events at the 2002 Conference will be held at a variety of locations
throughout New Orleans and at Tulane University. The host hotels are the
Holiday Inn-French Quarter and the Chateau Le Moyne, both within footsteps
and located in the heart of the city's famous French Quarter. Both hotels
are just a short trolley ride to Tulane, where panel sessions and seminars
will be held. Keynote speeches and other ceremonies will be held at venues
chosen to capture the spirit of New Orleans and the Conference.
Early Hotel Reservations: Space has been reserved at the Conference hotels.
It may be limited, however, so those planning to attend may want to make
reservations now. Contact information and pricing for the two conference
hotels is as follows. In both cases and to receive conference pricing, you
should identify yourself as a participant in the Kenneth Burke Society
Triennial Conference:
Holiday Inn-French Quarter
124 Royal St
New Orleans, LA 70130
Phone: 800.747.3279; or, 504.529.7211
Fax: 504.524.9593
Single: $129 + Tax. Double: $129 + Tax
Chateau Le Moyne
301 Dauphine St
New Orleans, LA 70112-3199
Phone: 800.747.3279; or, 504.581.1303
Fax: 504.523.5709
Single: $149 + Tax Double: $149 + Tax
Additional lodging possibilities will be made available when space at these
hotels runs out and as the conference time nears. Alternative lodging
arrangements for graduate students will be announced in January 2002.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact David Blakesley at
Additional lodging possibilities will be made available when space at these
hotels runs out and as the conference time nears. Alternative lodging
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If you have questions or concerns, please contact David Blakesley at


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Knapp ready to get back on field
June 18, 2013 - Mitch Rupert
By MITCH RUPERT
It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks for Andrew Knapp. From the end of his season at Cal, to being drafted in the second round of the Phillies, and eventually signing his contract, it's been quite the ride.
Knapp found comfort Saturday standing in the lush green grass of Bowman Field. The baseball field is his sanctuary. It's where everything makes sense and the off-the-field headaches which come along with the pro game go away. Baseball is what Knapp knows, it's what he loves.
And now, he's ready to begin his professional career with the Williamsport Crosscutters.
"All that off-the-field stuff is necessary, but I'm a baseball player and that's what I want to be doing," Knapp said Saturday during Crosscutters media day. "So I'm really excited to be here and start."
The draft was an exciting time for the 21-year old from Granite Bar, Calif. He had expectations of being selected high in the draft, especially after an impressive performance last summer in the Cape Cod Baseball League, the premier collegiate summer wood bat league in the country.
Knapp was a part of the Phillies string of up-the-middle players in the early rounds of the draft. The first five picks in the draft for Philadelphia were spent on either catchers, shortstops or center fielders. Knapp comes in as a raw, but athletic catcher, the best of the college crop in the draft.
His hopes, after hitting .350 with eight home runs and 41 RBIs as a junior for the Golden Bears, for the draft was to have his name called on the first day of the draft. Knapp's hopes came true when the Phillies made him the 53rd pick in the draft. He eventually signed for the recommended slot bonus of just over a million dollars.
"I grew up watching the draft and people announce the picks to the world, it's pretty cool," Knapp said. "It was really awesome to be one of those guys that gets drafted on the first day."
Knapp has become a complete hitter in the last year with an adjustment to his approach at the plate. He went from hitting just .253 in his first two years at Cal to hitting .293 in 40 games on the Cape, and then .350 this year at Cal.
He came to Cal as a dead-pull hitter from both sides of the plate. The change in his production came with the change to use all parts of the field from both sides of the plate. His spray chart from the Cape Cod League last summer is littered with hits, and even outs, all over the outfield.
"It came from maturing as a player. The first couple years in college you're so amped up because you want to hit .350," Knapp said. "For me, being naturally right-handed, when I switched to left-handed, I was right-hand dominant so I liked to pull with that bottom hand. So I did a lot of top-hand work with the left hand and really started using the opposite field."
It translated into more consistent contact and even a little more power. Although he profiles as an average power hitter as a professional, Knapp was fourth in the PAC-12 this year with eight home runs. That came after hitting eight in the Cape last summer in just 40 games.
He's not naïve enough to think he's turned into a Mike Piazza-like power hitter, but with the consistent contact may come more opportunities to drive the baseball.
"I know if I get one, I'll put a couple out. But I'm not trying to hit home runs by any means," Knapp said. "If I'm going good, I'm going to hit a double in the gap. When I'm going good is when I can shoot a ball over the shortstop or second baseman's head and then run a little bit."
The bat isn't the question for Knapp. He was drafted as a catcher after catching just one of his three seasons at Cal. He split time his last two years between right field and first base.
He's only been an everyday catcher since last summer. So he comes to the Phillies organization as a raw receiver. Where Knapp does feel comfortable and confident is throwing the ball.
He's been rated as being an above average thrower, but is still a work in progress as a catcher.
"I think I'm actually much better than I was just from catching and being back there every day," Knapp said. "For me, coming out here and catching literally every single day and getting that experience is going to be huge."
Getting comfortable receiving the baseball and blocking balls in the dirt is where most of Knapp's work needs to come. But Knapp is an athletic player with good hands and good feet.
He also has a good pedigree as his dad, Mike, was a catcher at Cal and for 11 years in the minors.
"It's all stuff that comes with experience and seeing pitches and learning how to catch certain pitchers," Knapp said. "The throwing has always been pretty easy for me. With my God-given ability I've got a pretty good arm, but the footwork comes with that, too. That's the stuff we're going to work on every day out here and it'll help make me a better player."
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The PS4 has come a long way since launch day. Small changes over the year, along with a few huge additions like firmware 2.5, PlayStation Now, PlayStation Music and Share Play, have added up to make the system a better value now than it was 12 months ago. It's faster, more vibrant and has more content available than ever before.
The PlayStation 4 isn't perfect, though. While it's made several improvements to its interface, the PlayStation 4 is still lacking in the one area that counts: games. Out of everything else, though, this may be the hardest to fix. There's hope on the horizon that games like Uncharted 4 will give gamers a reason to call the system "the best Sony system ever" but, until we get more quality first-party games in our hands, there will still be a distinct lack of content there to win us over.
So, you ask yourself, is it worth jumping in now at $399 or wait just another six months to see if I can get a cheaper bundle down the road? Let's break it down.
We liked
The system is cleanly designed, functional and a downright joy to putter around its interface. Everything is speedy and responsive right from minute one, and the interface is full of clever design choices that speed things up. Games begin to install the second you pop in the disc, and firmware updates download while the system is on standby.
Games themselves look loads better here than they did just one year ago at the peak of the PlayStation 3. The graphics aren't mind-blowing if you're used to high-end gaming rigs but, when compared to the Xbox One, there's a small, but notable improvement on Sony's system.
Even the controller is better than last generation's. The DualShock 4 controller is a significant upgrade over the DualShock 3. The most bothersome aspects of the DS3 have been addressed, resulting in a comfortable controller that's more functional for games of all genres.
PS Plus (and the PlayStation Network in general) are more enjoyable now than they've ever been and, while it's a bit disheartening to see online multiplayer go behind a $50/£40 paywall, Sony has tossed in a lot of stuff to sweeten the deal. You get improved standby functionality, discounts on games in the digital store and freebie downloadables that are actually quite good.
The PlayStation 4 did all this without losing any shred of its Sony DNA. It's hands-down the best media-streaming system on the market, capable of playing lag-free blu-rays and creating a minimalistic interface for Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon Instant Video.
It's also very apparent that Sony is concerned about growing the console and its feature-set for the long-term. It's refusing to let its console grow stagnant by providing monthly patches and forecasting interesting features down the road.
We disliked
Sony has made it clear that it's branch out or die. To add a new feature every six months or pack it up and call it quits. This amiable drive to create something from nothing every six months has given gamers a reason to pick the PS4 over the Xbox One.
The downside, however, is that Sony often forgets to improve what features the PS4 already has. Remote Play has been given PS4 owners four-player functionality but little reason to actually go out and buy a PS Vita - there are few games built with cross-over play in mind and even fewer that make for a compelling case to drop an extra $200.
And the list of innovative-but-forgotten features continues with everything from the touchpad on the controller to the unwieldy "What's New" section of the home screen. The speed at which new features come out seems like it has outpaced Sony's ability to refine and hone them. The potential for real change is buried inside the hardware of the system but, as it stands, the PlayStation 4 feels more like a PlayStation 3.5 than a real evolution of the platform.
And, yes, it's still missing those coveted first-party exclusives, too.
We'll say it again: the PlayStation 4 is a great piece of hardware. It's fast, nicely built and has a streamlined philosophy that puts games front and center. And let's not forget the price tag. It was the first console to be priced at $399 and continues to offer great value for the money.
What's more impressive was that it had a fantastic first year jam-packed with new features and firmware updates that improved the stability and speed of the system. These may end up hurting if Sony doesn't take some time to really work and refine the feature-set it's already put out. But, for the time-being, seeing monthly updates has only reinforced gamers' decisions to buy Sony.
You've had a good first year, Sony, but don't let up now.
First reviewed November 2013


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Sacred Other: Boundaries and Pores in the Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an
Seminar Organizer: Roberta Sabbath, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Bombarded by otherness, the subjectivity springing out of the three sacred texts of the Abrahamic tradition faces influence, invasion, and inspiration from innumerable sources in the Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an. Divinity, demons, destiny, and the desert all have their way with their human targets. The inscribed combat and collaboration between these biblical humans and their biblical others continues to resonate with believers and doubters alike. The use of a variety of theoretical and imaginative strategies helps to foreground the action at this dynamic interface. Polymorphous strategies are welcome, including rhetorical criticism, literary theories, cultural studies, narratology, philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, mysticism, sociology, psychology, and performance studies.
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A woman made a ghastly discovery late Tuesday night when she walked into her sister's North Philadelphia home and found her 52-year-old sister slumped on the couch, dead of severe blunt-force head trauma.
Medics arrived at the scene and pronounced the woman, identified as Lavonne Thrones-Johnson, dead at 10:50 p.m. They were unsure how long she'd been dead, but relatives told investigators they'd last seen the woman about 8 p.m. Police said there was no sign of forced entry into the house and were unsure if anyone lived with the woman. Police found a weapon they believe was used in the murder inside the house early Wednesday.


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TransCanada assumes that results from its Energy operations in 2010 will be materially consistent with those in 2009 and will include the positive impact of a full year of earnings from Portlands Energy and phase one of Kibby Wind, as well as incremental earnings from Halton Hills and phase two of Kibby Wind, which are expected to be commissioned in third quarter 2010.
The Company expects capacity prices in the New York City market, in which Ravenswood operates, to improve with the long-planned retirement of a power generating facility owned by the New York Power Authority which occurred at the end of January 2010. The positive impact from this facility's retirement may be partially offset by some reductions in demand in this market, driven by the economic downturn and the results of energy efficiency investments being made in the region.
The current economic climate continues to negatively affect demand, liquidity and prices in commodity markets in which TransCanada's Energy segment operates. Earnings in Western Power, Bruce Power and U.S. Power are expected to be negatively impacted in the near term by the expiry of existing forward sale contracts as new contracts would generally be negotiated at lower prices.
Although TransCanada has sold forward significant output from its power plants and Alberta PPAs, as well as capacity from its natural gas storage facilities, Energy's EBITDA in 2010 can be affected by changes in factors such as the spot market price of power, market heat rates, hydrology, capacity payments, natural gas storage spreads and unplanned outages. EBITDA from Energy's U.S. operations is also affected by changes in foreign currency exchange rates.
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Rosenberg moves to Blueprint
Maverick TV — the shingle behind FX's "The Riches" — has shut its doors.
Decision to close up shop was made jointly by Maverick TV partners Guy Oseary and Michael Rosenberg, who are separating amicably. Oseary has allowed Rosenberg to take all of Maverick TV's ongoing development out the door.
Rosenberg will be setting those projects up at Blueprint Entertainment, where he's just been named senior VP of creative affairs. Oseary and Rosenberg continue as exec producers of "The Riches."
Exec will be charged with heading up the Toronto-based company's development and production in the U.S., where Blueprint already has started to make a name for itself with shows such as ABC Family's hit "Greek."
Rosenberg brings along a Maverick slate that includes projects at MTV (a comedy from Joel Stillerman) and the N (a family drama by David Berenson) as well as a dark family comedy from "The Riches" creator Dmitry Lipkin and wife Collette Burson.
Rosenberg has also already started developing several projects in the weeks since he joined Blueprint.
"We're looking to expand Blueprint's presence here in the U.S. and in the larger cable world," Rosenberg said. "I think it's a place that writers and some actors and actresses can see as more of a creative partner than as a bank."
For Oseary, the decision to lock up Maverick TV and get out of the smallscreen biz, for the time being at least, comes as his management business dramatically expands. Oseary has long managed Madonna — who recently signed a rich pact with Live Nation — and also reps Lenny Kravitz and baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez.
Rosenberg said he hopes to create the same kind of environment he fostered at Maverick TV, where he put five projects on the tube during his four-year stint. Blueprint's cable-centric strategy also mirrors Maverick's focus, he noted.
"It's a company that's set up well to do business with existing and emerging cable networks," he said. "But we'll be developing for the broadcast networks as well. I think they're looking for me to strengthen their relationships with the networks and with the U.S. agency and writer communities."
Rosenberg, who is based in Blueprint's Century City offices, will report to co-founders John Morayniss and Noreen Halpern.
Blueprint is also staffing up at its Toronto home base, where Rachel Fulford has been named VP of creative affairs. Fulford joined from Canadian specialty channel Showcase, where she worked on shows including "Trailer Park Boys" and "Kenny vs. Spenny" (which also comes from Blueprint).
Founded in 2002, Blueprint has credits that also include the series "'Til Death Do Us Part" and "The Best Years" as well as telepics such as "How I Married My High School Crush."
Maverick TV's other credits include the MTV reality skein "I'm From Rolling Stone" and the ABC Family telepic "Chasing Christmas." Company most recently held a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox TV's Fox 21 alternative arm, but that deal was set to expire this summer.


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Cowboys' needs? Ex-Dallas OL Marc Colombo has the answer in six words ...
Former Cowboys offensive lineman Marc Colombo joined KRLD-FM 105.3. Here are some highlights.
Give us your opinion about the Cowboys:
Marc Colombo: The Cowboys need a run game. It's putting a lot of strain on the quarterback, it's putting a lot of strain on the tackles. When you're not running the ball, teams are just pinning their ears back. They're sitting in Cover 2, two safeties deep in the field, just saying come pass the ball. You have to make these teams pay with the run game. Jason Garrett is extremely smart. I don't think it's his issue. The offensive line needs to take it upon themselves, which we used to do, and say this needs to get corrected. They're not doing that right now. I think it's more of an inside problem, you know between the guards and the center. Doug Free's played a lot of football games. He's talented. He's that guy, but I think his confidence right now is shaken, because you have to line up and throw the ball 60 times a game. I don't care who you are at tackle, he's going to get beat.


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SIGHT (book 1) - July 14, 2015
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Historical Traveler Reviews Danubius Hotel Gellert Budapest
Well past its prime
Although this hotel was once the happening place to stay in Budapest, I found the hotel remarkably run down, overpriced and poorly maintained. The rooms were small--roughly 10 by 10 feet, without a desk or other business-related ammenities. The bathroom had a single 45 watt bulb well behind the sink making shaving very difficult if not dangerous. The water pressure in the room barely created a stream of water from the rusty faucety. The green tiled shower, the burnt orange tiled floor and the moth-eaten brown curtains further enforced the fact that this hotel was in major need of renovation. The restaurant was poor and the front desk uninterested in assisting foreigners. I could never in good conscience recommend this hotel to a friend.
A pleasant experience
The hotel is certainly the most ornate I've ever stayed in. I liked its position by the river and it is close enough to sights, shopping and public transport. My room was comfortable, clean and had a balcony overlooking the Danube. The breakfast was fine. The hotel though not shabby is a little frayed around the edges, but I found this endearing rather than offputting. The baths and changing areas are very old and worn, but an interesting experience none the less. I ate in the brasserie - perfectly good meal at a reasonable price. The small bar is well stocked and pleasant, and service overall was attentive and helpful. For 66 euros a night I thought I got excellent value for my money.
An experience not to be missed !
I stayed in the Gellert for one night last week, and was sorry it was not for longer. The whole experience was wonderful, from beginning to end. The staff were very friendly and helpful, and our room was beautiful, with an amazing view of the Danube, and a large bathroom. The breakfast the next morning was gorgeous. The best part of the stay though, had to be the baths - it really is an experience not to be missed, and the convenience of the private lift is great. We found the location very good, both for restaurants in the area, and for the Danube cruise at night. I would highly recommend this hotel.
Gellert & baths
The once glorious Gellert is a shadow of its former past, superseded by more modern convenient, centrally located hotels on the Pest side of the Danube. But I wanted to experience the remnants of this once glorious past and fantasise of that decadent age, and I wasn't disappointed.
However, the practicalities of staying in such a hotel diminish from the pleasure of the experience. I'd like to point out the courtyard view is a marketers way of saying you look into a small quadrangle surrounded by other rooms, as is the case of many other hotels. There is no view at all. It is not a courtyard as you would imagine one to be as in an old coaching inn. Their terminology is misleading. The lack of air conditioning in summer is uncomfortable. You sit and sweat.
The main reason for staying in the Gellert is to experience the baths. There is a private lift with operator which takes you directly to the baths and the operator gives you your pass and points you in the right direction. The baths are wonderful and so is the private lift, but be ready to be exposed to the public in your Gellert robe as soon as you exit the lift. No one looks at you but you imagine they do.
Located in Buda near Gellert Hill the hotel is not conveniently positioned for going out by foot in the evening as there is not much of interest in the evening nearby. Once you have mastered the excellent transport system travel throughout the city is easy, without resorting to taxis. For a short stay (recommended) the hotel's Bistro and restaurant are well worth a visit.
It all comes down to price and value. Whereas, I was disappointed with the room's size, view and lack of temperature control I might have been better paying more for a better room. The en-suit facilities were adequate. The breakfast and breakfast room were excellent, as was the lobby and architecture of the building as a whole. The restaurant's terrace, food and service were divine, spoiled only by the head waiter standing over me as if he had something to hide, while I checked the bill, maybe he had, as I was intimidated to quickly sign my room number. The Bistro Bar is a good place for a snack and/or a drink, surprising for a hotel bar. Whenever you had to deal with a member of "The Gellert's" staff you felt that it was their privilege to serve you
Overall "The Gellert" is an experience not to be missed. The room is pricey for what you get, especially considering Hungary's cost structure. I paid the same for the 5* Intercontinental, but there I didn't get the baths or the classic architecture or superb service.
Terrible experience.
Very shabby and outworn. Old communistic flair.
Furniture like from bulky refuse, carpets with holes,...
Stuff not friendly and not helpful.
The famous baths a catastrophe.
But very expensive.
I will never go back and will use another hotel the next time in budapest.
Greeat character and charm - not to be missed
What a relief to see that the true character and charm of the Gellert Hotel has not been lost. You can stay in many Budapest Hotels which have more luxury but none of them can compare with the greatness of this hotel. It is still like going back in time and congratulations must go the those who make the decisions in preserving the character of this hotel. Things have changed grealty in Hungary, thank good ness the Gellert stays the same. Without doubt it is one of the great hotels of the world. Rooms, staff, services, spa baths etc you can read about anywhere. Just go and believe this place for the pure charm and character.
Stayed for the experience, will go elsewhere for comfort
Was travelling on business and excited to stay at the historic Gellert Hotel. My room was one of the smallest I have seen in a European hotel, kind of shabby as well. Also along with many other rooms, windows opened on a courtyard with some kind of disco party going on all night several nights in a row. The staff was friendly but not helpfull. I asked for a room away from the noise and was told to "ask again tomorrow". How do I buy concert tickets? "Ask us later". How do i arrange a cab to the airport? "Ask later". Lobby gift shop and pastery shop never open while I was there. Resturants and bar were nice though, as well as the famous thermal baths. Dont miss those.
Has seen better days
The Gellert is a beautiful old hotel from a former age, but at the same time is in need up updating. The dining room is drab and unairconditioned (yet the food and service were excellent). Apparently some (or perhaps all) of the rooms are undergoing renovation, but mine had not yet been renovated and was reminiscent of the communist era (or earlier). Fluorescent lights are de rigeur so ambience is a little wanting. The breakfast (included with my room) left a lot to be desired. Hungary is rivaled perhaps only by France for the excellence of its pastries yet the Gellert did not come through. Pools and spas are a great deal for outsiders and included for guests. A must see/experience. Massages and other services are very inexpensive; flipside: you must endure 60+ year old facilities/locker rooms. Main pool areas are timeless and very clean (natural thermal spring feeds pool continually so no need for chlorination). I'd probably go back and would recommend for first timers, but still think the hotel needs work.
Fantastic hotel!
Stayed at the Gellert in Jan 2004 for only one night, but wished we could have stayed for longer. This place just oozes character and from the moment we checked in the staff were fantastic (let us check in 3 hours early, sorted out taxis and take-away breakfast because we had an early flight the next morning). The room was great but the really superb thing about the Gellert are the ornate thermal baths that guests can use for free. Take advantage of them - the perfect way to wind down if you've been travelling.
Danubius Hotel Gellert: Pros and Cons
I have stayed at the Gellert a few times. The hotel is in an exellent location, directly across the street from the river. Excellent public transport also. The hotel is a grand old hotel. The interior is very nice. The staff at the front desk is very helpful, friendly, but overly so. The buffet breakfast is served in a beautiful dinning room on the second floor. Plenty to eat so you won't go hungry. The staff in the dinning room, again, friendly, but didn't see too many smiles on their faces. Now, the rooms, I book a single, and going to the room is like walking down a corridor looking like jail cells. Very non descript corridor with large white doors for entry into each room. The rooms VERY small. about enough room to turn around in, small TV, and very small bathroom. Adequate, but if you are a big person you may feel a little hemmed in. Now the good news, the famous Gellert baths, is included in the room rate. This should not be missed. It is well worth the stay just to take advantage of the baths themselves. Not to be missed. The next time I travel to Budapest I will probably look for a different hotel, the room, well again, too small, or maybe I am just getting to big.
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Welcome to my blog for Europe trip number 4. As the title of this blog suggests, this is going to be the last big tour for a while, so like John Farnham I'm having a farewell tour (most likely meaning I'll be back in the near future). I arrived in Budapest yesterday morning Europe time after 30+ hours travel time via Singapore, Frankfurt and …
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I have now started Top Deck tour number 4 and completed a couple of busy days in Budapest.
The Balkan Explorer tour began yesterday afternoon at the hotel and started with a driving tour around the city after meeting trip leader Asia and driver Tibor. Spent a couple of hours driving around and got some nice photos from Gellert Hill …
... 100 thermal springs and 12 medicinal baths, more then any other capital city in the world. We enjoyed a beautiful dinner cruise on the Danube River with many authentic Hungarian dishes. One interesting fact that I learned while in Budapest is that the Hungarian language is extremely difficult and unlike any other European language.Budapest, Hungary carpediemtravel


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Police release photo of Erie bank robber
Erie police have released a surveillance camera image of a man who robbed Widget Financial, 1029, Pittsburgh Ave., Wednesday afternoon.
The man entered the retail banking outlet, showed a black handgun and demanded money, police said. He fled the scene on a bicycle with a small amount of cash, police said.
No one was hurt in the robbery.
Police described the suspect as a black man, about 5 feet 7 inches tall, with a thin build.
He was wearing a brown hooded sweatshirt, bluejeans and white sneakers.
Anyone with information on the man's identity or whereabouts is asked to call Erie police.