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Honestly, how do you think your own intelligence compares to that of your significant other? Do you think you are more intelligent, less intelligent, or roughly the same?
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We both have different strengths. For example she could write a hell of a lot better essays than I could, but my maths abilities are much better than hers. So it's hard to say either way.
Can't you tell she frequents these forums from my post... haha.
Me and mine are pretty much the same level, but have different strengths.
I am very logical, rational, and can argue and debate very well if I know my subject. I am also good with language and mathematics, although it does take me time to get things into my skull.
He is good at current affairs and is academic- he can memorise things pretty easily. He's also a dab hand with computers...he is an IT consultant after all
im far smarter. no it makes no difference to the relationship.
No, no, no. My girlfriend is about a million times smarter than me. I got BBB at A-level, she got AAAA. She's just amazingly smart, and I'm an average student.
I contribute to our relationship by telling jokes and being a big softy
I completely smash my boyfriend with maths, but I think that's about it
I've got much better grades than him but I think as far as raw intelligence goes he still beats me by a lot. The difference is that he has absolutely zero work ethic, and mine's pretty fantastic. And also his general knowledge far outstrips mine too. But... I'm definitely better at maths. So I can comfort myself with that.
Doesn't really make a difference with this relationship, but my ex was better at maths than me (oh, and everything else, he was a super genius) and to be honest it just got me better AS grades as I was so obsessed with equalling him. It really wasn't that healthy at all.
I'd say we're about the same, we're both off to study Medicine, me at Bristol, him at Oxford.
But despite that I think he's more intelligent, his natural flair for the sciences is far superior to mine.
Nope, he is smarter than me
I am still smart, but he is VERY smart.
On the other hand, I think I am more creative than him... and obviously because we take different subjects I know more about Psychology, Biology and Geography
I don't care that he is smarter, just glad he is smart. I don't get on well with stupid people lol! However, I often have no idea what he is talking about when he refers to actors or writers... I try to be interested, but find it hard to keep up sometimes.
Nope my girlfriend puts me to shame! while i have to struggle for everything my girlfriend never fails... at anything! although I am more confident and better in social situations and would rather have that than easy intellect.
I'm far more academic with a stronger work ethic and I often find myself correcting his grammar/english, but his general knowledge is far greater than mine and I certainly don't think he's stupid/unintelligent in ANY WAY. I don't think it causes problems, though I probably annoy him when I correct his grammar
Maybe she's letting me think I'm smarter
I am more intelligent than my girlfriend. Off the top of my head the only thing she does better than me is draw. I'd fail in anything related to art. But yeah i'd say i have a greater general knowledge, as well as more intelligent academically.
Edit: I don't find her unintelligent, nor does it affect our relationship.
Intelligence-wise, I'd say we have the same ability. However, I work a lot harder than he does, meaning I got AAA and he ended up missing his KCL offer and ended up with BBC.
It doesn't make any difference to our relationship, it's not like we sit and discuss it. Although it means he will be moving away and going to Kent Uni instead
Academically my girlfriend is more 'intelligent' than me (In her AS's she got AABC I got BCDD); we have a similar work ethic and, if push came to shove, I think I probably take education more seriously. I would say my general knowledge is slightly better, I would also say I can apply my brain slightly more effectively; I therefore do quite well in sciency subjects. She tends to be better at humanities subject's, where memory, a lot of the time, is more important.
At the end of the day we've been going out with each other for a few years and it has never cropped up in conversation; Intelligence doesn't matter if it doesn't adversely effect your ability to talk to each other
My girlfriend is somewhat more intelligent than I am, considering that she's pursuing a PhD in physics while I'm pursuing a bachelors, yet we never really discuss our educational goals or problems. Fortunately, she knows that if she did then that could be stressful to our relationship.
With english/spelling/grammar/random knowing of stuff I'm more "intelligent"
However he is good at maths and is in a far better job at 21 than I ever will be in. Damn English Lit. degree.
And I don't think it affects our relationship, but he probably gets annoyed when I correct his spelling/grammar
i don't think i am, i know i am.
he's not unintelligent and is quite good with maths and computers...but he lacks real logical thinking and reasoning ability that is on my level. its a bit difficult and i would prefer it if my partner was on my level, or at least closer to it. but i can recognize where his talents lay and i know my own. we are different types of thinkers and we have different interests. i am a very classic academic type who reads a lot. he enjoys tv. so in some respects it can make certain types of discussion / debate more difficult. its impossible to talk politics with the man. but that's what i have friends for.
He is FAR cleverer than me. He can debate anyone into the ground, knows a hell of a lot about politics and history, and remembers nearly everything he hears.
However, his emotional intelligence and common sense can be damn useless.
He'd also say I'm cleverer than him, but I don't think if you met the two of us you'd think I was smarter.
I'd say we're just intellegent in different ways. He keeps up to date on current affairs, and has different interests, while I get straight A's but dont really know what's going on in the world. Depends how you define intelligence, really.
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Had my laptop for five days and created the recovery disks before going online with toshiba's wounderful software. After the creation of each disk verification of contents was completed and everything was fine. Desided to test it. got error cannot find preinst3.swm file. Toshibas wounderful recovery creation software sucks then clearly. Desided then to install vista ultimate edition. At the end of the install i get the message telling me windows cannot change the boot options installation failed.
Now boo hoo what to do .. Called toshiba and got through to there SUPER qualified indian crew who were as much use as **bleep** on a fish. Told me that it was bad cds. COULDNT POSSIBLY be there verification of contents software that was screwy. ??
So yeah toshiba have a hidden partition on the hard drive for recovering there systems. *unsure why they dont make this public.
To access said partition take battery of your laptop and hold down the 0 key located next to right key and press power button . Relese 0 key one beep sounds. Problem solved....
Why dont toshiba want people to know this?? Perhaps because they charge 24 bucks for a recovery cd to be sent to your house that should come with the computer in the first place. Hmmm??
Failing installations still and have a different copy of windows but cant install due to windows being unable to change boot options?
Format the whole lot with a linux disk. Start over.
Thanks toshiba for a wounderful product. REALLY! thank you!
Soulda got a mac or a hp.
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When this laptop dies, Ill seek another brand name.
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The use of the "R" word runs the gamut from a common descriptive adjective to a derogatory slur. It can be used unintentionally or intentionally. I urge you to see and hear this word for its true meaning, acknowledge the negative power that it conveys and to respectfully speak up when it's used. Our voices together are more powerful than this word.
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The federal government is ordering child seat maker Graco to explain why it didn't include 1.8 million infant seats in a recall for faulty buckles.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says Graco has until March 20 to explain why February's recall of 3.8 million child seats didn't include infant seats, which have the same buckles that can get stuck on the child seats.
Graco has said the child seat buckles get stuck because children drop food or drinks on them. It is sending replacement buckles to owners for free.
NHTSA says Graco will face fines of $7,000 per day if its response is late or incomplete.
Graco said Friday it will comply.
Spike in electricity bills triggers action
If your electricity bill is higher than usual, the state attorney general wants to hear from you.
In the past five days, the Office of Attorney General's Bureau of Consumer Protection has received 7,790 complaints from Pennsylvanians who reported an upswing in electricity costs. Its local office can be reached at 871-4371.
The Public Utility Commission has also received about 3,000 complaints, according to PUC spokeswoman Jennifer Kocher.
Some residents have reported high bills that have increased about 300 percent.
Samsung introduces free streaming radio
Samsung is unveiling a new free music service for its phones.
The South Korean gadget maker says its Milk Music service includes more than 200 stations and 13 million songs.
The app is designed to be easy to use and highly customizable, but it enters an already crowded space. There are numerous streaming music services, including Pandora, Spotify and Apple Inc.'s iTunes Radio.
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Estimation Of The Cyclical Component Of Economic Time Series
The objective of this paper is to show an alternative technique to smooth time series from Monte Carlo Simulations. The technique considers that time series can contain more than one structural break, coming from movements in coefficients of trend or from intercept. The Hodrick-Prescott Filter (HP) does not provide identification of such possible breaks in order to smooth trend from the series to analyze its cyclical component. If the series are relatively stable, this problem may not have relevant implications. Otherwise, for economies relatively unstable, trend movements may interfere in the specification of the cyclical component, and Hodrick-Prescott smoothing could lead empiricists to achieve simplistic forms to economic cycles. In the context, we present an empirical methodology that allows structural breaks in any point of time, from coefficients or from intercepts. We apply this recursive technique to different models with variations in trend, from coefficients and from intercepts, using series simulated by Monte Carlo. Moreover, we compare the results of both techniques to the Brazilian GDP.
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Finding a Greater Purpose: The Human Element of Project Management
Author and activist Wes Moore closed out congress to a standing ovation.
By Cyndee Miller
Not to get all sappy, but everybody needs a sense of purpose, a reason to get up in the morning.
Projects—and the people managing them—are no different. Each project has a purpose, and will be judged by how well it delivers on that purpose.
But for the maximum ROI, project managers must stay focused on the people who will benefit from their work, said Wes Moore, founder of education initiative BridgeEdu, in Tuesday's closing keynote.
"Often it is the people we will never meet…whose lives will be immeasurably better because of the time and diligence and heart we put into [our work]," said the author and activist on Tuesday.
Project managers spend plenty of time thinking about stakeholders—how to manage them, how to communicate with them, how to serve them. But some things don't fit in a risk register or a project charter. In the midst of all that documentation, project managers shouldn't lose sight of the human element.
"We live in a completely interconnected society," Mr. Moore said. "The only way success means something is when our success doesn't just have a personal definition."
Looking forward to more interesting insights from speakers and sessions at next year's newly rebranded and renamed PMI® Global Conference in my hometown of Chicago, Illinois, USA. See you there. (And yes, I am more than happy to serve as your personal pizza and craft cocktail adviser.)
Disruptors Take the Throne—and Reshape the Workplace
Sue Gardner says winning companies of the future will put tech at the center of their organizations.
By Cyndee Miller
Nap pods, free laundry service, foosball tables, an endless supply of snacks. Ah, the perks of working at a Silicon Valley startup. Of course, there are also expectations of brilliance—and a willingness to log long hours.
And now the Silicon Valley way of working is infiltrating mainstream management.
More companies are realizing they need to create an atmosphere of ease, comfort and pleasure if they want their people—and projects—to reach their full potential, Sue Gardner told congress attendees at her keynote on Monday.
"The new workplace believes abundance drives innovation," said Ms. Gardner, former executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
That means becoming a lot less Office Space and a lot more Silicon Valley—focusing more on creativity and less on cost-efficiency.
"Organizations need to be more willing to take risks and break things," Ms. Gardner said.
I know, I know. Breaking things sounds messy. But face it, maintaining the status quo is never going to give companies an edge. In today's tech-drenched, rapid-fire environment, companies quickly move from challenger to incumbent to decline.
"For the past 15 years, this cycle has been aggressively speeding up, with more disruption being more quickly driven by technology changes," she said. "Tasks that used to be done by people are now being done by technology.
As technology takes center stage, so must the technical team. Smart companies will prioritize people with tech skills—giving them the chance to be innovators rather than order takers.
"Technology is now core to everything we do—and organizations that don't retain tech talent will be vulnerable in the marketplace," she said.
Project managers are in a prime spot to help drive the change, Ms. Gardner said. They can be the "connective tissue" between tech staff and management types, helping different groups understand each other. But it requires a degree of flexibility.
"Adapt to other people. Don't expect them to adapt to you," she said.
That doesn't mean project managers should be pushovers. On the contrary, Ms. Gardner thinks they have the power to address an organization's most intrinsic issues.
"You have access to information, so you will know where the bodies are buried," she said. "When there's an elephant in the room, project managers are the ones who need to acknowledge and resolve it."
And if Ms. Gardner is right, you'll have a nice nap pod to retreat to after all that hard work.
But is that enough? As much as I'd love my own personal concierge service a la Google, you have to wonder if the Silicon Valley startup style will really work for everyone.
Project Management Top Guns: Stay Focused on the Mission
F-15 pilot-turned-leadership-guru Joel "Thor" Neeb talks focus, feedback and failure.
By Cyndee Miller
As with most things in life, apparently being a fighter pilot isn't much like what you see in the movies. There's not a lot of witty Top Gun banter from the cockpit. No Kenny Loggins soundtrack. If you're smart, you're concentrating solely on the enemy trying to blow you out of the sky—not staring at the control panels.
"You're spending 90 percent of the time focused on what's going on outside the cockpit," said Joel "Thor" Neeb. (It turns out Top Gun-style nicknames are a real thing. And I want one.)
"It's the mission objective you're looking at," he said in the opening keynote at congress.
And so it goes with project managers, who must stay fixated on the assignment at hand—or risk crashing their projects into the ground.
"If you lost sight, you lose the fight," said Mr. Neeb, a former F-15 pilot-turned-president at corporate training company Afterburner.
But it's easy to get distracted when you and your team don't have enough time, tools or resources to accomplish the mission. That can translate to task saturation, what Mr. Neeb called "the silent killer to performance."
The most common response is channelizing—focusing on the one thing you deem most important—to the detriment of everything else going on around you.
Clearly, that's not a great idea.
Instead, Mr. Neeb advocates zeroing in on your "critical instruments," aka, the factors that will influence project success. "These change all the time," he says. "It's up to you to figure out what they are and to teach your team what they are."
Mr. Neeb promotes flawless execution, but he acknowledges that no project will be perfect. He says project management top guns must push their teams toward perfection while still allowing them to "pivot, fail and iterate."
"Tell teams they're empowered to fail and fail quickly," says Mr. Neeb. "Make that mistake but never make it again."
The best way to identify and avoid these mistakes is through a debriefing with "no names and no ranks."
"The key to a debrief is the tone. We're not pointing fingers," says Mr. Neeb. "It's not who's right, it's what's right."
Too often, companies skip this step, but they're missing out. According to Mr. Neeb, structured debriefings can increase the chance of success on future projects by 38 percent.
With "Danger Zone" as my official earworm du jour, Cyndee "Scoop" Miller is signing off now, but stay tuned for more from congress….
If You Want to Disrupt, It's Going to Take Some Work
Steve Dierker accepts the PMI Project of the Year award on 24 September.
By Cyndee Miller
When people talk innovation, they typically throw around a lot of fancy management terms: paradigm shift, game-changer, disruptive.
What's often left out is the blood, sweat and tears part.
So it was positively refreshing to hear Steve Dierker credit the hard work and sacrifices of the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS‐II) team as he accepted this year's PMI Project of the Year award. "It was a long journey with many challenges along the way."
I'm not even going to pretend I truly grasp the science behind this project. Let's just say, this was a tough one. The team at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, USA, was charged with creating a powerful photon microscope that would help scientists conduct research at the atomic level. The final design incorporated 900 custom-built giant magnets that created a concentrated beam of electrons thinner than a human hair—moving at 99 percent of the speed of light.
Completing that kind of paradigm-shifting, game-changing, mind-blowingly disruptive project took some serious project management.
"A disciplined approach to project management was part of the vision we shared with [project sponsor], the U.S. Department of Energy," Mr. Dierker said at PMI's Professional Awards Gala in San Diego, California, USA.
The payoff for all that hard work and discipline? The team closed the US$912 million project ahead of schedule and under budget—and delivered an additional US$68 million in scope enhancements not included in the baseline. (Get a look inside the project with this video and the cover story of PM Network® in October.)
Still, winning this award was no cakewalk. The Brookhaven team had some worthy competitors—with their own disruptive projects:
Guaíba 2 Pulp Mill Project, Guaíba, Brazil: A US$2.4 billion project nearly quadrupled the production capacity of the Celulose Riograndense pulp mill—while leading the way on social and environmental responsibility.
To make the factory energy self-sufficient, the company designed a system that would generate all required electricity through its own production processes. Celulose Riograndense also spent US$50 million on local roads and infrastructure, created more than 9,429 jobs and offered more than 230,000 hours of training courses that allowed locals to develop specialized skills. Check out the video to learn more about the project.
Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia:
When public enquiries found the local pediatric healthcare system was putting children with complicated medical problems at risk, the government of Queensland, Australia took action. To reduce mortality rates—and make it easier for patients to meet with the state's limited number of specialists—Queensland Health launched a project to consolidate and centralize pediatric services.
Putting the focus squarely on sick kids, the Aurecon project team created a collaborating project environment and followed a formal benefits management process. Lady Cilento Children's Hospital now provides an integrated facility that puts families at the center of its operations, while also reducing redundancy across the healthcare system. Check out the project video to learn more.
For more on finalists, look for in-depth feature stories in upcoming issues of PM Network®.
The Case for Grassroots Communities of Practice
By Peter Tarhanidis
These days there is such a high influx of projects and such a demand for project managers, but such a limited supply of practitioners. How can companies help their project professionals improve their skills and knowledge so that they can work to meet that need?
Leaders deliver more results by sponsoring grassroots project management learning and development programs. Common approaches and best practices are shared across all levels of project managers—ranging from novices to practitioners. Therefore, if an organization has more employees who can learn to leverage project management disciplines, then the organization can meet the increasing demand, and are more likely to develop mature practices that achieve better results.
One type of grassroots effort is to establish a project management community of practice (CoP). CoPs are groups of people who share a craft or a profession. Members operationalize the processes and strategies they learn in an instructional setting. The group evolves based on common interests or missions with the goal of gaining knowledge related to their field.
For project managers, there is a specific added benefit of CoPs. They bring together a group who are traditionally part of separately managed units within an organization focused on strategic portfolios and programs.
CoP members develop by sharing information and experiences, which in turn develops professional competence and personal leadership. CoPs are interactive places to meet online, discuss ideas and build the profession's body of knowledge. Knowledge is developed that is both explicit (concepts, principles, procedures) and implicit (knowledge that we cannot articulate).
In my experience, I have seen CoP utilized in lieu of project management offices. The members define a common set of tools, process and methodology. The CoP distributed work across more participants, increased their productivity to deliver hundreds of projects, improved the visibility of the members with management and positioned members for functional rotations throughout the business.
Which do you think drive better performance outcomes—establishing hierarchal project management organizations or mature project management disciplines through CoPs?


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More Details on CJ Ross Taking Leave of Absence
By Ryan Maquiñana
C.J. Ross, the judge who came under fire last Saturday for scoring the junior middleweight world title fight between Floyd Mayweather and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez a draw, is taking an indefinite leave of absence.
The 64-year-old Ross immediately became a lightning rod of controversy when her 114-114 scorecard was announced following what appeared to be an overwhelmingly dominant victory for Mayweather. The other two judges, Dave Moretti (116-112) and Craig Metcalfe (117-111), had Mayweather ahead by a large margin and overruled her verdict by majority decision. This writer was at ringside and scored the bout even wider, 119-109.
Ross had been licensed in Nevada for 22 years, but according to television station KLAS and the Las Vegas Review-Journal, she sent an email to Nevada Athletic Commission executive director Keith Kizer on Tuesday regarding her decision to step down. "I will be taking some time off from boxing but will keep in touch," Ross said in an excerpt.
Kizer, who appointed Ross to Saturday's panel, spoke to KLAS about the reasoning behind the judge's departure.
"To her credit, she does not want to take away from the story, being what a dominate [sic] performance by Floyd Mayweather," Kizer said. "So, she has asked us if she can take some time off; we've agreed. It shows the type of person she is. [NAC chairman] Bill [Brady] was very understanding and supportive. He agreed that that was a great avenue to take."
All three judges earned $8,000 for a decision that has sparked so much negative attention that Nevada governor Brian Sandoval, who appoints commission members, conversed with Brady about the matter.
"I apologized to the governor for any embarrassment we may have caused the state," Brady told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "He made me aware of his concerns. He wants things done right."
This weekend's debacle did not mark the veteran judge's first questionable tally in a high-profile fight. Last June, she was one of two judges who scored last year's WBO welterweight title bout between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley 115-113 for Bradley—despite a CSNBayArea.com poll where a staggering 50 out of 53 journalists saw Pacquiao as the clear victor.
In fact, Boxrec.com outlined at least nine other occasions since 2002 where Ross picked a winner, only to be overruled by the other two ringside judges with divergent scores for the other fighter.
"I thought it was a joke," Mayweather (45-0, 26 KOs) told ESPN's Bernardo Osuna after the win over Alvarez (42-1-1, 30 KOs), but eased up on his stance when asked about Ross's scorecard at the postfight press conference.
"The best commission in the world is Nevada," said Mayweather, who currently resides in Las Vegas. "If they feel she should be out there, it is what it is. Things happen."
The NAC will be under heavier scrutiny than usual next Wednesday, when it selects the judges for Bradley's Oct. 12 title defense against Juan Manuel Marquez at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas.
"There will be more questions asked, and Keith will be held accountable for his recommendations," Brady said. "We won't be a rubber stamp anymore."
Ryan Maquiñana was the boxing producer for NBCOlympics.com during London 2012 and writes a weekly column for CSNBayArea.com. He is a full member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and the Ratings Panel for Ring Magazine. E-mail him at [email protected], check out his blog at Norcalboxing.net, or follow him on Twitter: @RMaq28.
On her vacation I hope they have beaches.......where she can take a long walk off a short plank with a few Jelly Fish nearby.Comment by kozone on 09-18-2013
[QUOTE=rasdun;13761653]I thought canelo won 11 and i think it was 8 (if i remembr correctly). 12 was close. Others though 1 and 2 were close but I thought they were clear mayweathr rds. so I don't thin 117-111 is far…Comment by TaurusJ27 on 09-18-2013
Too bad there's no espn friday night fights this week. Teddy Atals would be going off the entire program about this crazy judge.Comment by RajahBell on 09-18-2013
She's just taking a vacation to cool things over folks. Nothing in this announcement prevents her from obtaining a judging license in the future.Comment by FloydvsPac on 09-18-2013
"Best commission in the world is Nevada"???? So why does Floyd need to go out and program his own PED Testing with USADA??? Just go with "the best commission in the world"...Nevada. Or better yet, Floyd should just use VADA…Post a Comment - View More User Comments (27)


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PITTSBURGH -- After eight surgeries for a back injury he received as a Marine in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2007, Matt Hannan wasn't about to lose his battle for a new life.
Hannan, 36, is attending the University of Pittsburgh on the Post 9/11 GI Bill. He is aiming for a career as a rehabilitation therapist, working part time and using his spare time as president of Pitt's Student Veteran Association to encourage veterans to use the bill, which when school starts this fall is on track to have assisted 1 million beneficiaries since August 2009.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia identified the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group along with al-Qaida and others Friday, warning those who join them or support them they could face five to 30 years in prison.
A Saudi Interior Ministry statement said King Abdullah approved the findings of a committee entrusted with identifying extremist groups referred to in a royal decree earlier in February. The decree punishes those who fight in conflicts outside the kingdom or join extremist groups or support them.
The king's decree followed the kingdom enacting a sweeping new counterterrorism law that targets virtually any criticism of the government.
The Muslim Brotherhood has been targeted by many Gulf nations since the July 3 military overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in Egypt, himself a Brotherhood member.
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BANGUI, Central African Republic -- Residents of a Muslim neighborhood in Central African Republic said three people were killed while trying to escape the country's sectarian violence.
Mahamadou Baba said the bodies were brought to the Ali Bablo Mosque in Bangui in the PK5 neighborhood on Friday.
He said the three men had tried to go to the airport to take a flight out of the country but it was full. Christian militia fighters attacked their car when they were driving back home.
4 couples sue over same-sex marriage ban
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Four gay couples from southern Indiana sued the state Friday, seeking to force Indiana to recognize same-sex marriages from out of state and issue licenses to same-sex couples.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in New Albany, Ind., asks a federal judge to overturn Indiana's Defense of Marriage Act, which declares same-sex marriages void even if another state recognizes the union.
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Antonio Tarver: Kayode is The Challenge I Need at 43
By Luis Sandoval
Antonio Tarver worked out in Carson, CA for his upcoming clash with Cruiserweight powerhouse Lateef Kayode which will take place at the Home Depot Center and airing live on Showtime this Saturday night.
The fight is a classic case of youth vs. experience as Tarver is now 43 years old and Kayode is an up and coming 29 year old force to be reckoned with. There is history between both combatants as Tarver was a commentator for a couple of Kayode's fights on Showtime and he was critical of his performances. Kayode took offense to that and has used that as his fuel and motivation coming into this fight. When Tarver spoke exclusively to BoxingScene.com he warned that Kayode should leave his emotions at the door as they could cost him in the ring.
"We know he's an emotional creature and fighting me you better have your emotions in check because it's going to be chess, not checkers. And we're going to challenge this young kid in every way and every facet of his mental, emotional, spiritual, and everything. He's going to get challenged in ways he's never been challenged before" explained Tarver.
"He predicted a 5th round knockout and that may be true but he just got the [person getting knocked out] wrong. I know I'm going to have to discourage him early to let him know he's in with a different creature. I can't let him get any confidence. I got to get his respect early and that's going to take me having to bite down and let him know I'm too old to run. I'm going to be right there".
While Tarver will indeed pose the biggest challenge of Kayode's career, he also feels Kayode will pose a challenge to him as well. Taking on a hungry, young and strong fighter like Kayode at the age of 43 will help Tarver gauge where he is now.
"I know Lateef is going to bring the type of challenge that I need at 43. I'm going to be able to measure myself and judge myself on this performance win, lose, or draw. I haven't taken Lateef lightly. I feel this is a dangerous fight because he has the type of power that can change a fight with one punch" said the Magic Man.
The Magic Man Antonio Tarver is very much looking forward to this Saturday night and promises he will have a trick up his sleeve for Lateef Kayode.
You can follow Luis Sandoval on Twitter @Truewest007. You can also tune in to The Boxing Lab, Boxingscene's official audio show every Tuesday from 6-8PM PST with hosts Ernest Gabion, Luis Sandoval, and Ryan Burton.
Worth remembering that Tarver has had only one fight at cruiserweight,and Kayode has fought his entire career at that weight. Tarver had better be slick and quick early until Kayode tires, or it may be an early and unhappy night…Comment by richardt on 06-02-2012
Like I said, Tarver would have to grow old overnight or make the mistake of laying on the ropes, otherwise he beats the robot with the bad motherboard.Comment by mathed on 06-02-2012
Tarver is going to school this dude. Swinging for the hills trying to KO the old man, tires himself out in the first round and he never recovers after that. Tarver picks him apart with the left and I could…Comment by SpeedKillz on 06-02-2012
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One Run Boston: Take 2 is coming up quick! The epic non-stop relay from coast-to-coast benefitting the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings begins March 16 in Santa Monica, CA and will be running through our backyard once again March 27.
In 2013, One Run for Boston relay became the first ever non-stop relay to happen from Santa Monica to Boston. One Run for Boston came through Amarillo on Sunday, June 16, 2013, and this year we are searching for even more support from our running community!
From personal experience I can tell you this relay bonds runners from across the nation and the feeling I got from being part of something much larger than myself, and such an epic event is nearly indescribable. What is so special about this relay is that for the second year it will come right through our hometown. What I am asking is for support, donations, runners, and excitement from all of you!
Amarillo and the Panhandle community is very unique and I would love to show the rest of the nation how much support we have for those who experienced the tragic events last year in Boston. This is a way to unite not only the running community, but the whole Texas Panhandle.
This year the route will be much more scenic than last, which is another reason to get involved and excited. The route is planned to go through Caprock Canyon (luckily it is mostly downhill). I will provide a link to the One Run for Boston website. Some stages already have representatives from our community, but you can always register and run with them for that leg of the relay, the more runners the better! Please spread the word and get involved.
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Fruit smoothies can be really amazing to satisfy your taste buds, keeping your skin fresh all day long, adding glow and glamour to your skin and to feel rejuvenated every moment of your life. But I don't restrict myself to a few smoothies only.
There are a number of fruits you can choose to make smoothies but many people are confused about which fruits to choose. For healthy skin, antioxidants are ideal to detox your skin, remove dead cells and improve blood circulation to all parts of body to make you glowing from head to toes. Antioxidants remove free radicals which attack healthy cells, kill brain cells, clog the veins and reduce immunity. Simply put, these antioxidant recipes will not only improve your skin but also improve your inner health.
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Green Smoothie
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- 1 cup chopped pineapples
- ½ cup avocado (peeled, pitted and cubed)
- 2 frozen ripe bananas (peel and slice)
- 1 cup chopped frozen mango
- 2 cups kale
- 1 teaspoon honey (optional)
Cut all the ingredients appropriately using a good kitchen knife set. Put all ingredients in the food processor like nutribullet and blend well. Pour in serving glass and top with crushed ice.
Blood Smoothie
- 1 scoop of hemp protein
- ¼ avocado (peeled, pitted and cubed)
- 1 tablespoon raw cocoa powder
- 11 ounce raw coconut water or unsweetened coconut milk
- ½ bunch of dandelion greens (remove stems)
- ½ cup organic chopped blueberries
Put all ingredients in food processor and blend well. Add a teaspoon of honey for making it a bit sweeter.
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- ½ cup crushed ice
- ½ cup orange juice
- 1 tablespoon fish oil
- ½ cup raw grass-fed yogurt
- 1 or 2 fresh mint leaves (optional)
Blend all ingredients except mint leaves. Before pouring out in the glass, add mint leaves and blend for 2 seconds only. Serve chilled!
Berry-Berry Smoothie
- ¼ cup chopped frozen blueberries
- ¼ cup chopped frozen blackberries
- ¼ cup chopped frozen strawberries
- ¼ cup chopped frozen raspberries
- ¼ cup chopped kale leaves
- ¼ cup chopped frozen banana
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Student power was out in the fore at the Marina on Friday, when as many as 350 of them rolled up their sleeves and plunged into a drive to free the beach of litter, on Friday.
The six-day 'Marina Beach Cleaning and Awareness Programme' was jointly organised by the Lion's Club, Chennai Corporation and Global Safety Trust, and inaugurated by Mayor Saidai S Duraiswamy.
Attired in the white t-shirts and sun caps, the volunteers — students of Quaid-e-Millat College for Women — went ahead with zest, removing the litter and dumping it into polythene bags. The garbage was taken away in a truck.
Speaking on the occasion, the Mayor said: "Singapore, it must be remembered, was a picture of squalor in the 1970s. It was through a concerted public effort that it has today become among the cleanest places in the world. I see no reason why the same cannot be replicated in Chennai." He lauded the students for taking part in the drive, adding that instilling such values in them would benefit the nation. District cabinet secretary of the Lion's Club, Lakshmi Narayanan, dwelt on the increasing tendency to litter the Marina and the need to keep it clean.
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Free Software in Brazil
Rio Grande do Sul (RS), one of 16 states in the country of Brazil, has been using free software (which they call software livre) for several years as a method of meeting their needs for production software in various areas. By using software livre, RS has been able to cut software costs. The money they do spend on software stays in the hands of Brazilian programmers, who buy Brazilian food, live in Brazilian houses and pay Brazilian taxes. None of the last three points is lost on the political leaders of RS, and these points are being learned not only by the other states in Brazil, but a lot of other countries in South America.
One successful project is called SAGU (sagu.codigoaberto.org.br), a unified open management system used to automate all of the relationships that exist between the academic, financial and administrative aspects of a grade school or university. Highly modular, everything from the entrance exam process to the financial accounting of overdue library book fees is handled by SAGU. As a flexible transaction-oriented database system, it allows for many other functions to be integrated. It can even be integrated with an external accounting and payroll system. Because a large part of teaching these days seems to be generating reports for local, state and federal governments, SAGU has its own reporting tool that generates PostScript documents on the fly. Originally conceived and implemented at Univates, a branch of the central university, it is now spreading throughout the Brazilian school and university system. And (of course) the whole project is software livre, so other school systems in other countries can benefit.
UERGS (Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul, www.uergs.rs.gov.br) is a project in which software is oriented toward distance learning. Designed for a distributed university with more than 22 campuses, the UERGS Project helps manage the processes involved with that type of learning.
Directo GNU (www.direto.org.br), a corporate mailing solution based on software livre, is also underway. By using this e-mailing solution on the state's 60,000 computers, the state of RS will save over $10 million US. Through the use of local knowledge and expertise in setting it up, they also will guarantee the technological control of the software by RS far into the future. This is an important consideration if you are thinking about buying mission-critical software from outside your country.
Speaking of technological control, I was contacted by a company studying biodiversity in the Brazilian rain forest. Unfortunately, the software the company (located in Rio de Janeiro) needed was produced only in the United States, was prohibitively expensive and was also available only in English. This last point meant that they had to teach English to everyone who needed to use the software, at least as much English as was needed to use the software, read the manuals and so on. By using software livre, they were able to reduce the cost of the software, have it respond in Portuguese, tailor it exactly to their needs and keep Brazilian programmers and scientists paid. Thus, software livre allows a company that otherwise could not exist in Brazil to thrive and do good work.
Likewise, a project called Rede Escolar Livre RS (www.redeescolarlivre.rs.gov.br) will be supplying educational software to more than 2,000 of Brazil's public schools. The savings in individual productivity tools and network operational systems is estimated to be over $24 million US.
In the past few years I have noticed how important geographical information systems (GIS) are to almost everyone in the world. Most of you are familiar with mapping programs like MapQuest, MapBlast and others, but the use of GIS software in planning government and commercial actions is crucial (for more on this, please see www.freegis.org). In recognition of the need for GIS software to be free, the project Geoprocessamento Livre (notice the word "Livre" showing up more and more in these projects?) is a free GIS project to provide inexpensive GIS software. This GIS software is being used in many strategic projects, including those dealing with health and education.
The largest bank in RS, if not in all of Brazil, is using Linux in their new ATM machines. Manufactured by PERTO S.A., the TPC-2100 has the outline of a distinctive penguin on the CRT screen before you start your transactions. Go Tux!
Probably the most humanly touching project is headed up by a person named Pascal and concerns the Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (www.mstbrazil.org). Brazil was settled by a few very wealthy families who continue to control the vast majority of land in Brazil today. This land ownership tends to impoverish many in Brazil by withholding the right to grow their own food or to otherwise earn a living. A movement to help these landless workers has formed in Brazil, and they have sent a couple dozen people trained in proprietary software to a central location in RS to be retrained as Linux system administrators. One woman had traveled four days by bus to get to the training and would now have to travel back the same way. It was an intensive month-long course that made each student a part of the fellowship of software livre and the Landless Rural Workers Movement.
As I travel to various countries that I view to be emerging economies, I see governments realizing that software livre means more than cheap software. It also means software tailored to their non-English consumers. It means jobs for their local programmers. It means industries that can happen inside their own countries, due to the availability of software that allows these industries to flourish. It means control over their own destiny. It literally means software livre.
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