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Apple Faces Real Competition, and It's Not Microsoft
Google introduced Chromebook Pixel on Thursday. In and of itself, that's not a big deal. This device will not change the game. It will not stop very many, if any, MacBook purchases from happening, though it, along with Google's less expensive line of laptops, will eventually gain traction against PCs, particularly ultrabooks.
Matt Baxter-Reynolds wrote an interesting article for
Clarification: Tech geeks and their sympathizers are talking about Chromebooks. As for the rest of the population, they either do not know or can faintly recall that they even exist. If Google wanted to pique the masses' interests, it could have used its firepower to do something less convoluted and more creative than purposely producing something that's not very good.
TheStreet contributor Anton Wahlman
As usual, what will happen likely situates somewhere closer to the middle.
What Google is doing makes sense. It's creating the type of hardware and software/services ecosystem Ballmer was never able to and will never be able to create with Windows. And it has the opportunity to create a better ecosystem than Apple's. There's no doubt that Google has done a better job positioning its seamless productivity/services/social/entertainment suite than Apple has. And now -- with its hardware strategy becoming clearer -- Google is on the verge of putting it all together.
Microsoft doesn't need help dying; it will kick off just fine on its own. Google will merely give it an additional push.
As it stands, Apple has no meaningful competition, but it needs some. And Google looks ready to provide it across spaces.
--Written by Rocco Pendola in Santa Monica, Calif.


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- Lifespan: 8 - 10 years
- Height: 21 - 25 inches
- Weight: 50 - 85 pounds
Medical Conditions Seen in Boxers
- Degenerative Myelopathy
- Prognathism
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Ulcerative Keratitis
- Aortic Stenosis
- Brachycephalic Airway Syndrome
- Cherry Eye
- Entropion
- Epilepsy
- Hypothyroidism
- Cardiomyopathy
- Cushing's Disease
- Elongated Soft Palate
- Mange
- Atopy
- Ulcers (Boxer)
- Corneal Dystrophy
- Demodicosis
- Neoplastic Conditions
- Progressive Retinal Atrophy
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Boxer Traits
- Jogging Partner
- Lap Dog
- Good with Children
- Warm Weather
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- Grooming Requirements
- Shedding
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- The Bullenbeisers were originally used to chase large game, such as boar, deer, and bear, through the forests, grabbing and hanging on until the hunter could arrive to dispatch it.
- In the early 1800s, German hunters tried to improve their hunting dogs by crossing their Bullenbeisers with mastiff-type dogs and with Bulldogs. The result was a strong, agile dog with strong jaws and a recessed nose to enable it to breathe while hanging on.
- By the late 1800s, these dogs were popular as butcher's dogs, controlling cattle in slaughter yards.
- The slaughter yard dogs were called Boxl, which may have been the origin of the name, Boxer. The Boxer was established by 1895.
- The Boxer was one of the first breeds used as a police and military dog.
- In 1904, the AKC recognized the Boxer.
- The breed remained relatively obscure in America until the 1940s, when it began its slow but steady rise. It eventually peaked at number 4, and remains in the top 10.
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- Makes a loyal and protective companion.
- Playful and gentle with children.
- Fairly outgoing toward strangers.
- Generally good with other dogs, but some can be aggressive toward strange dogs.
- Generally good with other pets.
- Learns quickly, but can be both sensitive and stubborn.
- Does best with a firm owner who can combine reward-based training with good control and leadership.
Boxer Suggested Exercises
- Makes a calm and alert housedog, but can be restless unless it receives adequate exercise.
- Requires daily exercise in the form of a long walk, jog or energetic games.
- The Boxer's short muzzle makes it intolerant of heat.
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- Obedience training is essential not only for control, but for the mental exercise it provides.
- Boxers compete in obedience and agility successfully.
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- It needs only occasional brushing, once every week or so, to remove dead hair.
- Shedding is average.
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- Boxers tend to stay in good weight.
- Adult dogs should be fed a balanced diet, with restricted calories if the dog starts to gain too much weight.
- Puppies should be fed a large-breed growth food, which slows their growing rate but not final size. This may decrease the incidence or severity of hip dysplasia in adults.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- U.S. stocks advanced Friday buoyed by solid first-quarter results from Google
Google shares gained 4.4% to $799.87 after the Internet search leader beat Wall Street earnings expectations for the first quarter.
The S&P closed up 0.88% to 1,555.25. The index slid 2.11% over the past five trading sessions. The Nasdaq jumped 1.25% to 3,206.06. The tech-heavy index fell 2.7% for the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished higher by 0.07% to 14,547.51. The blue-chip index dropped 2.14% this week.
Police continued to search Boston and adjacent towns for one of two men allegedly behind the bombing Monday at the site of the city's annual marathon that left three people dead and scores maimed. The focus was on the city of Watertown where all vehicular traffic has been banned, and in Cambridge, where the suspects, a pair of brothers were said to have lived and attended school, the Boston Herald reported.
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McDonald's slipped 2% to $99.92 after the hamburger chain warned its April global comparable sales may be negative amid a "challenging global environment. The company reported first-quarter earnings that missed estimates by a penny as revenues of $6.605 billion met expectations.


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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Updated Oct. 4
CNN Poll Has Romney Winning Round, 67%-25%
Poll: Blacks Watch TV News More Than Whites, Hispanics
Conservatives Hype 5-Year-Old Obama Speech
George Will: Voters Don't Want to Fire a Black Man
CNN's "Latino in America" Back With Look at Voters
CNN Poll Has Romney Winning Round, 67%-25%
If the progressive cable news channel MSNBC represents President Obama's base, then that base was stunned by the president's lackluster debate performance in his first face-off with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Wednesday night.
Competitor CNN's flash poll of registered voters who watched the debate found that 67 percent said Romney won, while only 25 percent chose Obama. Such a departure from the usual close split between the two candidates means "you have the president's supporters saying he just got spanked," CNN's John King told viewers.
"Where was Obama tonight?" Chris Matthews asked on MSNBC. "He should watch — well, not just 'Hardball,' Rachel [Maddow], he should watch you, he should watch the Rev. Al [Sharpton], he should watch Lawrence [O'Donnell], he would learn something about this debate. There's a hot debate going on in this country. Do you know where it's being held? Here on this network is where we're having the debate. We have our knives out. We go after the people and the facts. What was he doing tonight? He went in there disarmed. What was Romney doing? He was winning. If he (Obama) does five more of these nights, forget it."
Watching cable news is not Obama's favorite pastime. Michael Lewis, who recently spent hours with the president for a lengthy Vanity Fair piece, told NPR interviewer Terry Gross last month that Obama has ". . . decided that nothing on cable news is worth listening to. He doesn't watch it. He thinks it's totally toxic, like it affects your brain, and he won't turn on the TV."
The MSNBC pundits said the president seemed to view the debate as something to be endured, and to his detriment, he took pains not to detract from looking "presidential."
Host Rachel Maddow ticked off the issues that Obama failed to raise: Romney's secretly videotaped comment that 47 percent of Americans don't pay taxes and consider themselves victims, immigration, union rights, abortion, women's rights, the Bain Capital private equity firm Romney headed and Romney's jobs record in Massachusetts.
They weren't the only missing questions. In the 90 minutes of discussion of domestic policy, it seemed as though no concerns surfaced from the journalist of color associations, which submitted questions to the Commission on Presidential Debates that were presumably forwarded to moderator Jim Lehrer of PBS.
The National Association of Black Journalists' suggested topics were unemployment and the economy, particularly black joblessness; the Affordable Health Care Act; education; crime and law enforcement, specifically the stop-and-frisk laws; and the nation's changing demographics. The questions from the Hispanic and Asian American journalists associations emphasized immigration and jobs; those from the Native American journalists were specific to American Indians.
Lehrer stuck to questions about the economy, the budget, tax plans and the president's health care plan, which Obama said he did not mind being nicknamed "Obamacare." Not that Lehrer had much control of the debate or a chance to get in many questions. Former ABC anchor Carole Simpson, who moderated the 1992 presidential debate among Bill Clinton, President George H.W. Bush and independent H. Ross Perot, tweeted, "Oh, Barack. What happened to you? And Jim Lehrer, what happened to you? You lost control of the debate. A change has gotta come and soon."
However, O'Donnell said on MSNBC that he liked Lehrer's approach because "the moderator was not a factor. Romney came out to this debate determined to make it a debate."
"Lehrer got rolled over by Romney again and again, and it was the president's fault that he didn't try the same thing," Maddow said.
Jack Murchinson of the Huffington Post agreed. "It was Lehrer's 13th time moderating, but he was largely unsuccessful in his attempts to corral the candidates. Both President Obama and Mitt Romney rolled right over him as, with increasing plaintiveness, he tried to get them to stop talking. 'No, no, no,' he said to Romney at one point."
It will never be known whether another moderator — none of color was chosen for any of the four debates — would have had better luck.
The commentariat debated what went wrong with the president and why Romney had done so well.
"He was off his game," MSNBC's Ed Schultz said of Obama. "He was afraid to call out Romney because he didn't want to look angry." It was one of the few comments with racial implications, in that it harkened to an observation made often of the first African American president and the "angry black man" stereotype he is said to have worked hard to avoid.
Black journalists such as Roland Martin of CNN, Eugene Robinson of MSNBC and Juan Williams of Fox News Channel were missing from the commentary immediately following the debate.
Van Jones, an African American environmental advocate who was chased out of his administration post early in the administration after a right-wing campaign, appeared as an analyst on CNN. "I think they had the wrong strategy," Jones said of the Obama team. "I think he thought he could come on and have a conversation with the American people like Romney wasn't there, and treat it like a town hall format with nobody else there." But Romney was able to "out Obama Obama. On the connection piece, on the authenticity piece, on the being able to tell the story."
CNN analyst David Gergen, former adviser to several presidents, said on the same network, "I suspect that the president had never been talked to like that in the last four years. He was surprised that Romney was flat-out lying; it threw him off his game." The same fate had befallen other incumbents facing hungry challengers, such as Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, he said.
Another MSNBC host, Chris Hayes, said of Romney, "The one thing he did was lop off the right wing of his party. Whenever the president raised a popular idea, he was for it." James Carville said on CNN, "He just threw his whole tax plan under the bus."
Sharpton, who hosts MSNBC's "PoliticsNation," agreed with others that a full assessment would take days. The activist said of Romney, "He made a good testimony, but he will be indicted for perjury. . . . Romney's problem is this is 2012, not 1812. We can go back to the tape. No doubt Romney was his best tonight, but his best was not good enough. . . . We have heard him say things contrary to this. His problem is going to be [the previous] Mitt Romney."
The CNN poll included 224 men and 206 women; 359 whites and 71 nonwhites; 158 Democrats, 130 independents and 142 Republicans, Sam Feist, CNN Washington bureau chief, told Journal-isms by email on Thursday. [Updated Oct. 4]
- Charles M. Blow, New York Times: Cool Hand Barry
- Jonathan Cohn, the New Republic: The Four Most Misleading Moments in Romney's Debate Performance
- Melanie Eversley, USA Today: Romney's 'Big Bird' debate comment stirs social media
- Factcheck.org: Dubious Denver Debate Declarations (Oct. 4)
- George Farah with Amy Goodman, "Democracy Now!, Pacifica Radio: As Obama, Romney Hold First Debate, Behind the Secret GOP-Dem Effort to Shut Out Third Parties
- Keli Goff, theRoot.com: Yes, Romney Won the Debate. Sort Of.
- Emil Guillermo blog, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund: To all you Mittwagoners: Romney was good on camera in the first presidential debate, but what about the hidden camera truth (Oct. 4)
- Gwen Ifill, Washington Post: Five myths about presidential debates
- Glenn Kessler, Washington Post: Election 2012: Fact Check
- Richard Kim, the Nation: Jim Lehrer Gets Pwned [See definition]
- Colbert I. King, Washington Post: After a poor first debate, Obama must shape up
- Andria Krewson, Columbia Journalism Review: Protecting the polls in North Carolina As voter fraud allegations swirl, North Carolinians need deep, focused reporting
- Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica: What We Still Don't Know About Mitt Romney's Taxes
- Jack Mirkinson, Huffington Post: Debate Moderators And Topics Continue To Draw Scrutiny; Jim Lehrer 'Seething' Over Criticism (Oct. 2)
- Pew Research Center for the People & the Press: Obama Expected to Win First Presidential Debate (Oct. 2)
- Pew Research Center for the People & the Press: Romney's '47%' Comments Criticized, But Many Also Say Overcovered (Oct. 1)
- Daniel Politi, slate.com: Pundits Agree: Romney Wins Round One — and It Wasn't Even Close
- Tracie Powell, Poynter Institute: Presidential Debate Commission co-chair blames TV networks for lack of diversity among moderators
- Margaret Sullivan, New York Times: In Real Time, and Beforehand, Checking Facts on the Presidential Debate
- Byron Tau, Politico: Gore blames Obama debate performance on Denver's altitude (Oct. 4)
- Krissah Thompson and Josh Hicks, Washington Post: Native Americans chafe at Brown-Warren race
- Mark Trahant, Indian Country Today Media Network: Prepping for the Debate — No Questions from Indian Country
- Erik Wemple, Washington Post: Jim Lehrer: A stand-in for American dissatisfaction with media
- Armstrong Williams blog, the Hill: Round one goes to Romney by a wide margin (Oct. 4)
- Gary Younge, the Guardian, Britain: Romney gets off the ground in a presidential debate light on zingers
- Mark Zandi, Washington Post: Obama policies ended housing free fall
Poll: Blacks Watch TV News More Than Whites, Hispanics
A greater percentage of black consumers watches television news than do whites or Hispanics, according to a study of news consumption trends by the Pew Research Center for the People & The Press.
Sixty-nine percent of blacks said they received their news the previous day from television, compared with 56 percent of whites and 43 percent of Hispanics.
Forty-one percent of blacks said they watched the nightly network news regularly, and 50 percent watched cable news channels, compared with 26 percent of whites for the nightly news and 34 percent for cable news, and 21 percent of Hispanics for the nightly news and 27 percent for cable news.
African Americans have traditionally spent more time in front of the television than others.
The survey said Hispanics consumed news less than whites or blacks. When asked how they had received their news the day before, 33 percent responded "no news yesterday." Fourteen percent of whites and 15 percent of blacks responded "no news yesterday." No comparison with previous years was immediately available.
Overall, "The transformation of the nation's news landscape has already taken a heavy toll on print news sources, particularly print newspapers [PDF]," the center said in a report Thursday. "But there are now signs that television news — which so far has held onto its audience through the rise of the internet — also is increasingly vulnerable, as it may be losing its hold on the next generation of news consumers.
"Online and digital news consumption, meanwhile, continues to increase, with many more people now getting news on cell phones, tablets or other mobile platforms. And perhaps the most dramatic change in the news environment has been the rise of social networking sites. The percentage of Americans saying they saw news or news headlines on a social networking site yesterday has doubled — from 9% to 19% — since 2010. Among adults younger than age 30, as many saw news on a social networking site the previous day (33%) as saw any television news (34%), with just 13% having read a newspaper either in print or digital form."
The Pew Research Center provided Journal-isms with a breakout of blacks and Hispanics this week. Some 3,003 people were in the sample; 281 were black and 300 were Hispanic.
- Andrew Beaujon, Poynter Institute: Pew: Half of Americans get news digitally, topping newspapers, radio (Sept. 27)
- Jeff Sonderman, Poynter Institute: One-third of adults under 30 get news on social networks now (Sept. 27)
Conservatives Hype 5-Year-Old Obama Speech
"One night before the first presidential debate, conservatives Matt Drudge, Sean Hannity, and Tucker Carlson hyped footage of a five-year-old speech by then-Sen. Barack Obama, widely covered at the time, in which the presidential candidate suggested the George W. Bush administration was discriminating against the victims of Hurricane Katrina," Dylan Byers reported Wednesday for Politico.
"But when footage finally aired on Hannity's Fox News program and on Carlson's Daily Caller website at 9 p.m., following hours of anticipation spurred by Drudge's promise of controversy and Hannity's promise of a 'bombshell', it fell flat.
" 'What's the "So what" of this video? I don't think it's going to really go anywhere,' Republican Rep. Allen West said on Fox News.
" 'I don't think this particular speech is definitive,' said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, though he added that it was at least a 'reminder' of Obama's 'pattern of dishonesty.'
"If the footage failed to impress, it may be because Sen. Obama's remarks were widely covered — by Carlson, by Fox News, and by the mainstream media — when they were made on June 5, 2007. . . ."
- Jonathan Capehart, Washington Post: 'The Daily Caller' plays the race card badly
- Wayne Dawkins, politicsincolor.com: 'Shocking' Obama video from Fox News and friends
- Matt Gertz, Media Matters for America: RERUN: Fox, Carlson, Drudge Attacked Obama's Hampton Speech Five Years Ago
- Peter Ogburn, FishbowlDC: When is a Scoop Not a Scoop?
- Ian Schwartz, Real Clear Politics: MSNBC's Kornacki On Race Tape: Let's Agree To Marginalize Matt Drudge
- David Taintor, Talking Points Memo: Tucker Carlson: 'Throne-Sniffers' In Media Dismissing Obama Vid As Old News
- Meenal Vamburkar, mediaite.com: Tucker Carlson Reported Obama Video In 2007 On MSNBC, Slammed Politicization Of 'Unjustifiable' Crime
- Todd Allen Wilson, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.: Fox News' Hannity criticizes Daily Press video of 2007 Obama speech at Hampton University
George Will: Voters Don't Want to Fire a Black Man
"Washington Post columnist George Will has a novel explanation for why President Barack Obama continues to lead challenger Mitt Romney in the polls: it's because Obama is black," Joy-Ann Reid wrote Tuesday for the Grio.
"Seriously, that's Will's reasoning.
"The idea is this: the country, its economy, and the Obama administration are in 'shambles,' to quote Will. Unemployment is at 8 percent. Durable goods orders are down! And who among us doesn't hinge our vote on the metric of durable goods? Tesla Motors isn't doing well — TESLA! — despite a major cash infusion from the Department of Energy, and as we all know, as goes Tesla, so goes the nation. Therefore, Romney should be mopping the floor with Obama.
"So why isn't Mitt ahead in the polls? Will's explanation starts with his favorite metaphor: baseball…
" 'A significant date in the nation's civil rights progress involved an African American baseball player named Robinson, but not Jackie. The date was Oct. 3, 1974, when Frank Robinson, one the greatest players in history, was hired by the Cleveland Indians as the major leagues' first black manager. But an even more important milestone of progress occurred June 19, 1977, when the Indians fired him. That was colorblind equality.
" 'Managers get fired all the time. The fact that the Indians felt free to fire Robinson — who went on to have a distinguished career managing four other teams — showed that another racial barrier had fallen: Henceforth, African Americans, too, could enjoy the God-given right to be scapegoats for impatient team owners or incompetent team executives.'
"And how is Barack Obama like Jackie Robinson? I think you can guess. . . "
- Wayne Bennett, the Field Negro: Mr. Will's race card.
- Joe Strupp, Media Matters for America: Black Journalists Association President: George Will Column "Narrow-Minded"
- Mark A. Thompson, Uptown: George Will Says President Obama Is Winning Because He Is Black
- Rachel Manteuffel, Washington Post: PostScript: George Will and firing Obama
State Sen. Ruben Kihuen, D-Nev., left, is among those interviewed in the next "Latino in America" episode. Kihuen had hoped to be Nevada's first-ever Latino U.S. congressman. He dropped out of the race in February. (Video)
CNN's "Latino in America" Back With Look at Voters
CNN's "Latino in America" series returns on Sunday as Soledad O'Brien, CNN anchor and special correspondent, "reports on how Democrats and Republicans are reaching out to the swing voter demographic of Latinos, with a lens on the pivotal state of Nevada, a state with both the fastest-growing Latino community in the nation, and a state that has voted for the last 24 of the last 25 U.S. presidents," CNN announces.
Asked what message there would be for fellow journalists, O'Brien told Journal-isms by telephone on Wednesday, "We take a very nuanced approach to this important population. I was surprised by the degree that both parties have serious challenges. Latinos are feeling very unheard. Some of it is immigration and some is the message carried out in the GOP primaries."
O'Brien, daughter of a white Australian father and a black Cuban mother, was named "Journalist of the Year" by the National Association of Black Journalists in 2010. NABJ called her "the impetus of CNN's acclaimed 'In America' franchise, which began with CNN's "Black In America" in 2008." Later the series looked at "Latino in America" and "Gay in America."
In March, CNN laid off dozens of employees in its two documentary units, including the "In America" unit. But it promised the "In America" series would continue. The last "Latino in America" aired aired Sept. 25, 2011.
"Latino in America: Courting Their Vote" debuts on CNN/U.S. on Oct. 7 at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and PT, repeating Saturday, Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and PT on CNN/U.S.
Kimberly Arp-Babbit is the senior producer. Cameo George, Robert Howell, Tina Matherson, Elizabeth Nunez and Dave Timko are the producers. Jennifer Hyde is the managing editor and Bud Bultman and Geraldine Moriba executive produced the documentary for CNN. Howell and Timko are no longer with CNN.
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- "Univision News' award-winning anchors of 'Noticiero Univision,' Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas, were honored with the reputable Lifetime Achievement Award, the first Hispanics to receive this recognition in the News and Documentary category, from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS)," Univision announced on Tuesday. "The 33rd Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards were presented during a ceremony [Monday] night at the Time Warner Center in New York."
- New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and director Spike Lee unveiled a campaign called "Flip the Script" that focuses on "changing the attitudes of and about young black men," Claire Galofaro reported Tuesday for the Times-Picayune. "It is part of Landrieu's 'Nola For Life' initiative to halt the city's murder rate, a rate 10 times the national average with a killing every two days on average." At the National Association of Black Journalists convention in June, Landrieu held up three thick folders containing files on murder victims and implored the journalists to "Tell the stories of these young people who take and are taken for all America to see." Jarvis DeBerry column.
- Valerie Taliman, Indian Country Today Media Network's West Coast editor, received the Native American Women in Leadership Award for her investigative journalism and media advocacy on behalf of indigenous victims of violence, particularly Indian women, Gale Courey Toensing reported Monday for the network.
- Hugo Balta, president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, "says that young Latinos entering the journalism field sometimes fail to see the steps and years of hard work. He advises them to be focused and strategic," Karen Cortés wrote in a profile of Balta for ctlatinonews.com. " 'It's not buying lottery tickets. It's using what's between your ears,' he says. 'You can achieve both short term and long term goals. A mentor can help. A lot of young people say they'll do anything to get a foot in the door, but if you choose a path that is not faithful to your long term plan, you are no closer to your goal. Be strategic at the beginning; you'll be successful at the end.' "
- "Tyler Perry's new exclusive deal to create programming for Oprah Winfrey's OWN means he is shelving his ambitions to launch his own cable network," Joe Flint reported Monday for the Los Angeles Times.
- José Díaz-Balart, an Emmy Award winning journalist, Telemundo's news anchor, MSNBC contributor and host and managing editor of public-affairs weekly program Enfoque, was to be presented with the 2012 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Hispanic Television by Multichannel News and Broadcasting & Cable Wednesday at the 10th annual Hispanic Television Summit in New York, Laura Martinez reported Monday for Multichannel News.
- "Activist Jose Antonio Vargas hit a brick wall this morning, as New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan endorsed the newspaper's policy of using the term 'illegal immigrant': 'It is clear and accurate; it gets its job done in two words that are easily understood,' she wrote on her blog. Vargas has been campaigning to get the Times and the Associated Press to drop the term 'illegal immigrant' on the grounds that it dehumanizes the millions of people living in the U.S. illegally," John Hudson wrote Tuesday on his Atlantic blog.
- "The newspapers that make up the Los Angeles News Group have been gradually blending over recent months," LAObserved reported on Tuesday, "and today take a big step toward being a regional news operation with the emphasis on digital — and less on geography. Carolina Garcia, for instance, is no longer editor of the Daily News but managing editor for enterprise and investigations across all the papers. There are new managing editors for digital news, digital operations and the 'content center,' though in each case the new MEs are still involved in 'reader engagement' in the areas where they used to run the newspapers, and editors there will still report to them."
- " 'Transitioning' began in earnest at Dallas-based CW33 Monday, with reporters Dawn Tongish and Charles Bassett notified that they will not be part of the station's drastically revamped prime-time newscast," Ed Bark reported Tuesday on his Uncle Barky's blog. "The dismissals also included roughly a dozen off-camera personnel."
- "Pablo S. Torre is leaving Sports Illustrated for a spot with its rival, ESPN The Magazine," Chris O'Shea reported Wednesday for FishbowlNY. "Torre had been with SI since 2007. At ESPN he will be a senior writer and contribute to the magazine as well as ESPN.com."
- ". . . Touré of MSNBC is the man who has every intelligent black person in America wondering why he's on TV, myself included," Dr. Boyce Watkins wrote for his yourblackworld.net. "There are no credentials in his background which lead you to believe that he should be defining the direction of national thought on serious political issues (the bio I found says that he dropped out of Emory University in 1992). He also seems to say things for entertainment, rather than substantive, value and doesn't seem to take his work all that seriously."
- "Steve Harvey is elated. Just a few weeks into his eponymous new talk show, the former stand-up comedian has wrapped a taping at Chicago's NBC Studios with his biggest and most famous guest to date: first lady Michelle Obama," Karu F. Daniels wrote for the Daily Beast. " 'It was such an unbelievable gift,' he says. 'Of all the shows, she came on mine' . . ." The episode was to air Wednesday, the Obamas' 20th wedding anniversary.
- "President Barack Obama's strong defense of freedom of speech at the United Nations last month was clearly directed at the sputtering young Arab and North African democracies, where violent anti-American protests were ostensibly sparked by a video (Why don't people stop calling it a film?) that insulted the Prophet Muhammad," Charlayne Hunter-Gault wrote Wednesday for theRoot.com. "The president's tough speech followed his late-night call to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, demanding that he get control of the demonstrations by alleged radical Islamists. The big stick that President Obama wielded was America's huge aid to Egypt. And presto, the Egyptian president complied. The same tactic could be used in Ethiopia, where not only is the new leadership continuing the previous government's ongoing repression of independent journalists — including those imprisoned on specious charges — but it is getting even more repressive."
- "Rami Aysha, a correspondent for major international media including Time Magazine, Spiegel Online and GlobalPost, was tortured during nearly one month of detention by Lebanese security forces," Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday. "Arrested on 30 August, Aysha was freed on 27 September on bail . . . "
- "An $80,000 fine levied against an Ecuadorean magazine accused of spreading political propaganda constitutes a direct attack on freedom of expression," Scott Griffen reported Tuesday for the International Press Institute. "Ecuador's Electoral Arbitration Tribunal (TCE, according to its Spanish acronym) ruled last week that a May 4, 2011 editorial published by Vistazo magazine urging voters to reject elements of a popular referendum held three days later amounted to political propaganda, thereby violating Article 277 of the country's electoral law, known as the 'Democracy Code.' "
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Submitted by Greg Thrasher (not verified) on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 09:17.
Obama lackluster performance revealed a number of issues about our president besides having a passive demeanor. It was obvious he misplayed his approach in debating Romney. I reason this was a failure on Obama's part and his inner circle, which remains handicapped because of the lack of impressive Black males. It is not too late for a reset by Obama's team but he cannot afford another free fall in his debate performances.
greg hit it on the head
Submitted by ernchamp (not verified) on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 14:33.
I agree Greg, his inner circle is so concerned with making Obama the non-threatening Negro they emasculate him politically. He tries to be the smiling singing peaceful Black man to the point he is not feared by the opposition. Hopefully he will "man up" and come out aggressive next debate. Next term Obama needs to add some brothas to his inner circle so they can defend Valerie Jarett !
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Here I am, day 11 of a 17-day business trip, on my last leg of the trip this week, in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. I have been flooded with requests to give my take on EMC's latest re-interpretation of storage virtualization, VPLEX.
I'll leave it to my fellow IBM master inventor Barry Whyte to cover the detailed technical side-by-side comparison. Instead, I will focus on the business side of things, using Simon Sinek's Why-How-What sequence. Here is a [TED video] from Garr Reynold's post [The importance of starting from Why].
Let's start with the problem we are trying to solve.
Problem: migration from old gear to new gear, old technology to new technology, from one vendor to another vendor, is disruptive, time-consuming and painful.
Given that IT storage is typically replaced every 3-5 years, then pretty much every company with an internal IT department has this problem, the exception being those companies that don't last that long, and those that use public cloud solutions. IT storage can be expensive, so companies would like their new purchases to be fully utilized on day 1, and be completely empty on day 1500 when the lease expires. I have spoken to clients who have spent 6-9 months planning for the replacement or removal of a storage array.
A solution to make the data migration non-disruptive would benefit the clients (make it easier for their IT staff to keep their data center modern and current) as well as the vendors (reduce the obstacle of selling and deploying new features and functions). Storage virtualization can be employed to help solve this problem. I define virtualization as "technology that makes one set of resources look and feel like a different set of resources, preferably with more desirable characteristics.". By making different storage resources, old and new, look and feel like a single type of resource, migration can be performed without disrupting applications.
Before VPLEX, here is a breakdown of each solution:
|Non-disruptive tech refresh, and a unified platform to provide management and functionality across heterogeneous storage.
|Non-disruptive tech refresh, and a unified platform to provide management and functionality between internal tier-1 HDS storage, and external tier-2 heterogeneous storage.
|Non-disruptive tech refresh, with unified multi-pathing driver that allows host attachment of heterogeneous storage.
|New in-band storage virtualization device
|Add in-band storage virtualization to existing storage array
|New out-of-band storage virtualization device with new "smart" SAN switches
|SAN Volume Controller
|HDS USP-V and USP-VM
For IBM, the motivation was clear: Protect customers existing investment in older storage arrays and introduce new IBM storage with a solution that allows both to be managed with a single set of interfaces and provide a common set of functionality, improving capacity utilization and availability. IBM SAN Volume Controller eliminated vendor lock-in, providing clients choice in multi-pathing driver, and allowing any-to-any migration and copy services. For example, IBM SVC can be used to help migrate data from an old HDS USP-V to a new HDS USP-V.
With EMC, however, the motivation appeared to protect software revenues from their PowerPath multi-pathing driver, TimeFinder and SRDF copy services. Back in 2005, when EMC Invista was first announced, these three software represented 60 percent of EMC's bottom-line profit. (Ok, I made that last part up, but you get my point! EMC charges a lot for these.)
Back in 2006, fellow blogger Chuck Hollis (EMC) suggested that SVC was just a [bump in the wire] which could not possibly improve performance of existing disk arrays. IBM showed clients that putting cache(SVC) in front of other cache(back end devices) does indeed improve performance, in the same way that multi-core processors successfully use L1/L2/L3 cache. Now, EMC is claiming their cache-based VPLEX improves performance of back-end disk. My how EMC's story has changed!
So now, EMC announces VPLEX, which sports a blend of SVC-like and Invista-like characteristics. Based on blogs, tweets and publicly available materials I found on EMC's website, I have been able to determine the following comparison table. (Of course, VPLEX is not yet generally available, so what is eventually delivered may differ.)
|EMC Invista
|Scalable, 1 to 4 node-pairs
|One size fits all, single pair of CPCs
|SVC-like, 1 to 4 director-pairs
|SAN Fabric
|Works with any SAN switches or directors
|Required special "smart" switches (vendor lock-in)
|SVC-like, works with any SAN switches or directors
|Multi-pathing driver
|Broad selection of IBM Subsystem Device Driver (SDD) offered at no additional charge, as well as OS-native drivers Windows MPIO, AIX MPIO, Solaris MPxIO, HP-UX PV-Links, VMware MPP, Linux DM-MP, and comercial third-party driver Symantec DMP.
|Limited selection, with focus on priced PowerPath driver
|Invista-like, PowerPath and Windows MPIO
|Read cache, and choice of fast-write or write-through cache, offering the ability to improve performance.
|No cache, Split-Path architecture cracked open Fibre Channel packets in flight, delayed every IO by 20 nanoseconds, and redirected modified packets to the appropriate physical device.
|SVC-like, Read and write-through cache, offering the ability to improve performance.
|Space-Efficient Point-in-Time copies
|SVC FlashCopy supports up to 256 space-efficient targets, copies of copies, read-only or writeable, and incremental persistent pairs.
|Like Invista, No
|Remote distance mirror
|Choice of SVC Metro Mirror (synchronous up to 300km) and Global Mirror (asynchronous), or use the functionality of the back-end storage arrays
|No native support, use functionality of back-end storage arrays, or purchase separate product called EMC RecoverPoint to cover this lack of functionality
|Limited synchronous remote-distance mirror within VPLEX (up to 100km only), no native asynchronous support, use functionality of back-end storage arrays
|Thin Provisioning
|Provides thin provisioning to devices that don't offer this natively
|Like Invista, No
|Campus-wide access
|SVC Split-Cluster allows concurrent read/write access of data to be accessed from hosts at two different locations several miles apart
|I don't think so
|PLEX-Metro, similar in concept but implemented differently
|Non-disruptive tech refresh
|Can upgrade or replace storage arrays, SAN switches, and even the SVC nodes software AND hardware themselves, non-disruptively
|Tech refresh for storage arrays, but not for Invista CPCs
|Tech refresh of back end devices, and upgrade of VPLEX software, non-disruptively. Not clear if VPLEX engines themselves can be upgraded non-disruptively like the SVC.
|Heterogeneous Storage Support
|Broad support of over 140 different storage models from all major vendors, including all CLARiiON, Symmetrix and VMAX from EMC, and storage from many smaller startups you may not have heard of
|Limited support
|Invista-like. VPLEX claims to support a variety of arrays from a variety of vendors, but as far as I can find, only DS8000 supported from the list of IBM devices. Fellow blogger Barry Burke (EMC) suggests [putting SVC between VPLEX and third party storage devices] to get the heterogeneous coverage most companies demand.
|Back-end storage requirement
|Must define quorum disks on any IBM or non-IBM back end storage array. SVC can run entirely on non-IBM storage arrays
|HP SVSP-like, requires at least one EMC storage array to hold metadata
|Internal storage
|SVC 2145-CF8 model supports up to four solid-state drives (SSD) per node that can treated as managed disk to store end-user data
|Invista-like. VPLEX has an internal 30GB SSD, but this is used only for operating system and logs, not for end-user data.
In-band virtualization solutions from IBM and HDS dominate the market. Being able to migrate data from old devices to new ones non-disruptively turned out to be only the [tip of the iceberg] of benefits from storage virtualization. In today's highly virtualized server environment, being able to non-disruptively migrate data comes in handy all the time. SVC is one of the best storage solutions for VMware, Hyper-V, XEN and PowerVM environments. EMC watched and learned in the shadows, taking notes of what people like about the SVC, and decided to follow IBM's time-tested leadership to provide a similar offering.
EMC re-invented the wheel, and it is round. On a scale from Invista (zero) to SVC (ten), I give EMC's new VPLEX a six.
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Earth Day Celebration visitors visit the Fish and Wildlife exhibit at the 2012 event.
The National Wildlife Federation's (NWF's) Campus Ecology program recently released 112 new case studies featuring the best green projects of 2012. These innovative efforts, from renewable energy systems to campus organic farms, can now be seen in a single online resource from NWF which shows that colleges and universities around the country, including Somerset Community College (SCC), are making a substantial investment in the sustainability of their campuses, communities and their curriculum.
The NWF Campus Ecology sustainability case study database, the only resource of its kind, is available online thanks in part to the support of The Kendeda Fund. More than one hundred new case studies highlight efforts to dramatically reduce pollution, waste, and costs, including recycling, energy efficiency improvements, renewable energy installations and green jobs training programs.
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The case study revolves around the annual SCC Earth Day celebration. Since its beginning seven years ago, the SCC Earth Day event has grown from 100 community and college attendees to over 750. The celebration is a model of collaboration internally and externally, engaging numerous departments, students, faculty and staff at the college as well as government agencies, education institutions and business and industry across the southern Kentucky region. The overarching goal of the event is to increase community awareness of environmental issues in a family-oriented outdoor event. Designed to generate an appreciation of natural areas and wildlife, event activities encourage personal responsibility and stewardship of the planet. Each year the college aims to increase attendance and to involve additional community leaders, businesses, and science professionals in the planning and implementation of the celebration.
Published each year since 1989, NWF's Campus Ecology sustainability case study database has become an indispensable resource for students, faculty, administrators, community leaders and others interested in the role of colleges and universities in protecting the health of our planet. The database is searchable by topic, year, school, and state and includes information on each institution's project goals, successes, challenges, funding strategies and project leaders.
"We are thrilled to have the annual Earth Day celebration featured by the NWF as a national case study," said Loris Sherman, SCC professor of Biology. "The SCC Earth Day celebration has become something the community has embraced and looks forward to each year. We hope to continue to grow and improve the event in years to come."
The next celebration date at the college has been set for April 21, 2013.
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""[Bill Gates] has been historically one of my best supporters…One of my favorite e-mails he ever sent me…I proposed this crazy project. And he sent back this two-line response: 'This has got to be the craziest thing you've ever suggested. Please proceed.'" "
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Four years ago, when I last wrote about the Cessna Citation Mustang entry-level twin jet, customer deliveries had just begun. Since then, more than 500 have been ordered and about 300 have been delivered. I've had a chance to log some simulator, cockpit and cabin time and talk to several happy Mustang owners. My conclusion: Cessna has delivered exactly what it promised-a rugged, dependable, economical, easy-to-fly airplane with superior avionics, comprehensive pilot training and great product support.
No big surprise. Cessna Citations have been around for more than four decades and are the bestselling line of business jets in the world. This isn't their first rodeo. If Cessna couldn't get it right, who could? I mean, it would be like going to Spago and getting wilted greens.
What does surprise me are some of the spectacular flame-outs among those that could not get it right-namely Adam, Avocet, Century, Eclipse, Epic, ProJet, Safire and lesser others-and how two established companies, Embraer and Honda, continue to struggle in the VLJ arena. Aviation analyst Richard Aboulafia correctly labeled the very light jet craze that took hold eight years ago a "dot-com with wings." While Embraer has delivered more than 100 Phenom 100 very light jets, these aircraft have had a few problems, including some related to braking. Meanwhile, the futuristic, 420-knot HondaJet seems to be afflicted with Pentagon-style program schedule conjugation: late, later, latest.
On the Mustang, Cessna had no need for apologia or antibiotic press releases. Rather than viewing the model as more "disruptive technology" from San Jose, the manufacturer saw it for what it really was: a way to get a fresh generation of customers into its family of business jets and move them up the product ladder. We're talking Alfred P. Sloan here, not Bill Gates.
The program ran on time and without major glitches. The six-seat (two pilots, four passengers) Mustang was the first VLJ to be fully FAA certified, receiving its type certificate in September 2006 and certification to fly into known-icing conditions two months later. Cessna improved its odds of market success by embracing the tried and true: mostly metal construction. No carbon fiber fuselages baked in ovens the size of Delaware. No exotic, fighter jock side-stick controls for the pilots-just good old-fashioned control yokes. Like all the company's Citation CJs, the Mustang is certified for single-pilot operation. The avionics are modern glass panel, but are a variation of the Garmin 1000 system the company flew in its piston-powered propeller airplanes for two years before adapting it for the Mustang.
With a maximum takeoff weight of 8,395 pounds, the Mustang isn't the smallest or biggest VLJ, nor-at an average flyaway price of $3.04 million for the High Sierra option unveiled last year-the least or most expensive. The claimed top speed is on the low end of average, at 340 knots (although in test flights, better numbers have been achieved), as is range, at 1,150 nautical miles, and payload, at 600 pounds (full fuel, with a single pilot).
With the new $75,000 High Sierra option (shown below) you get a hipper two-tone exterior paint job, a choice of three new interior finishes with upgraded leathers and carpets and, in the cockpit, electronic charts and synthetic vision. The package also includes locking fuel caps (which, on a $3 million airplane, should be standard, not part of an option package) and two-year enrollment in Cessna's ProTech and ProParts maintenance programs (see previous comment).
On either the High Sierra Edition or the standard Mustang, passenger ergonomics rank among the best in class. The cabin is nearly 10 feet long and more than four and a half feet wide with a trenched center aisle that yields 54 inches of headroom. The oval windows have pleated manual shades and hearken back to Cessna's successful line of piston twin 300 and 400 series cabin-class airplanes. They provide ample natural light that is supplemented by LEDs.
The seats, while small, make extensive use of sculpted foam to maximize lumbar support. Headrests are adjustable. The outer armrests on the rear-facing single seats fold up and out of the way while the two-seat rear bench incorporates a center console with fold-down center armrest, storage drawer and compartment, cup holders and a power outlet. The rear-facing seats have limited recline-about 25 degrees. Tasteful automotive-style graphics substitute for actual veneer finishes. The subtly curved side ledges feature cup holders and foldout tables (one on each side). The four main passenger seats are aft of the cabin door.
Across from the door are small beverage and storage drawers and the cabinet that houses the chemical, non-flushing toilet. (Though it's certainly better than no toilet at all, you probably won't want to use it unless absolutely necessary.) With the lid closed, the toilet cabinet makes a good storage ledge for small briefcases. Baggage space is generous: 63 cubic feet between the nose, tail cone and interior baggage and storage areas for a theoretical total capacity of 718 pounds.
Today the aircraft has strong export sales: 60 percent of Mustangs ordered so far are destined for countries other than the U.S., including China. The Mustang is certified in more than 60 countries and is on its way to becoming if not the backbone, certainly a big part of on-demand charter intra-Europe. The aircraft is ideally suited for that continent's twin-engine IFR requirements as well as for alleviating concerns about noise. Its Pratt & Whitney Canada PW615F engines are not only miserly on gas but also relatively quiet.
Besides being used for personal and executive transport, the Mustang is finding new niches. It has been employed as an air ambulance, for example, and as a primary jet trainer for civil and airline flight schools worldwide. In 2009, Cessna delivered 125 Mustangs and last year-amid the carnage of new jet sales-it was the company's bestselling model.
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text: After exploring new (digital/social/emergent) media through a variety of media studies lenses, we began looking at the possibilities these media present for democratic political projects. This week we begin our next theoretical turn: into the interdisciplinary field of "cultural studies." This will provide tools to help us think about the relationship between new media and changing configurations of power. It's only in the context of the latter that possibilities for social and environmental change can be understood in their complexity.


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Long Straight and Voluminous with a Wicked Curl at the End
Looking for the latest hairstyles? This blonde bombshell looks fantastic with this sleek and sexy hairstyle. Her hair is long, straight and curled under at the base. Using a rounded brush, will curl the ends of your hair this way. The overall style is romantic and chic.The hair is cut long.This hair colour is a golden blonde.
Andrew Barton TV'S Favourite Hairdresser Photographer: Darren S Feist represented by Morgan Lockyer Assisted by: Richard Stow & Roger Dean Make-up: Carole Brown at DWM


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Once you've created a collage you like, you can review it in the AutoCollage View pane, and perform additional actions against it.
To zoom in and out, you can either use your mouse scroll wheel, or select the zoom control at the bottom left of the application and choose the desired zoom factor. Choices range from 12.5% to 800% zoom. There is also an 'Auto' choice which will fit the displayed AutoCollage to the size of the AutoCollage View pane.
If the AutoCollage is larger than the view pane, the scrollbars to the right and bottom of the view window become active. You can select the scroll bars to choose which part of the AutoCollage to view, or use the mouse to click on the collage and drag it until you can see the part you're interested in. Alternately you can select the AutoCollage View pane and use the arrow keys to pan.
The Actions pane in the upper right hand side of the application provides icons to perform the following additional actions with your AutoCollage:
See also: The AutoCollage Actions pane, the AutoCollage View pane.


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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
M.A.C Makeup - Starflash Haul
7 comments:
- Yellow Fever said...
i only got smoke & diamonds b/c i had to pick up a bunch of stuff for some brides, but i'm gonna go back and get sunset b. and talent pool!...maybe top hat...mink and sable too...a prolongwear ..lol
- August 5, 2008 at 2:33 AM
- Wes said...
I need to keep practicing... This makeup thing isn't as easy as I thought it was!
- August 5, 2008 at 9:52 AM
- Jaimie @ Just Kiss 'N Makeup said...
ugh! the great outdoors lol, ill try n remember. I like your vid, so informative. I'm surprised you liked this collection, you know how we lie our bright and vivid colors lol. It just didn't do it for me this time. I have better hopes for Cult of Cherry.
- August 5, 2008 at 10:59 AM
- Sharon Rose said...
A great post-thanks for sharing and you sure know your stuff!
- August 5, 2008 at 12:21 PM
- Product Junkie Diva said...
You have a great great haul Ren Ren.
I cant wait to see all of the looks that you will create.
- August 5, 2008 at 1:03 PM
- Nic Nic said...
nice swatches!! I really like the kohl liners, especially Mystery, it's so pretty!
- August 5, 2008 at 3:54 PM
- Brown Girl Gumbo said...
Love your video!! You are definitely a pro!! :-)
- August 6, 2008 at 9:27 AM


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When SoE Ruled The World
Cast your mind back to 2003. Everquest was middle aged and in it's prime, World of Warcraft and Everquest 2 were still deep in development and Warhammer Online was just a twinkle in Paul Barnett's eye. SoE ruled all MMOs and was king of the world. They were arrogant and brash and they released the most ambitious MMORPG anyone had seen so far – Star Wars: Galaxies.
Following on from my article yesterday, I thought it would be interesting to explain exactly why I felt nostalgic about SW:G. Sure, it was a heap of fun and it was a Star Wars MMORPG but there was something else. See, six years ago MMOs were rather rare and exotic, unlike today where pretty much any and every franchise seems to be getting turned into one. It was relatively new territory – new enough to excite people and inspire them, yet established enough to prove it was a lucrative market and SOE wanted to stake their claim.
I really admire the fact that SOE pushed the boat out with SW:G. They could've just made another Everquest or Dark Age of Camelot but they didn't. They decided to really go for it and introduced concepts we had never seen in MMORPGs before – an entire player driven manufacturing and resource based economy, player housing and cities, pure entertainment and fluff professions – and tried to radically move away from the standard level and hp/mana gameplay. Remember HAM (Health/Action/Mind) and absolutely no adventuring levels? Sure, SW:G wasn't the greatest game in the world but boy, it sure did try and I honestly feel that it could've been so much more.
I played SW:G for 10 weeks in the summer of 2003 and have never touched it since. Sometimes, just sometimes, when I'm sitting at home with my motherly EQ2 or wifely World of Warcraft, I cast my mind back to that holiday fling and smile to myself.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Dec. 20, 2007) - USA Volleyball has announced that the U.S. Women's Sitting Volleyball Team has qualified for the 2008 Paralympics on Sept. 6-17 in Beijing, China.
Although the Pan American zone, in which the United States sitting teams compete, did not have a qualifying tournament, the U.S. women's team qualified by virtue of its fifth-place finish at the 2006 Sitting Volleyball World Championship and because the Afro Arab zone did not have a champion to send.
"I am very excited for our team. We are really looking forward to competing against the world's best teams and showing how much we've improved," said U.S. Women's Sitting Team Head Coach Mike Hulett. "We are now two-for two in Paralympic qualifying."
Beijing will mark the U.S. Sitting Women's Team's second appearance in the Paralympics. At the 2004 Games in Athens the team won the bronze medal.
Six players from that team are training with the current women's sitting team: Allison Aldrich (Schuyler, Neb.), Kendra Lancaster (Sheridan, Ind.), Hope Lewellen (Palos Park, Ill.), Brenda Maymon (Sellersberg, Ind.), Gina McWilliams (The Colony, Texas) and Lora Webster (Cave Creek, Ariz.). Thirteen players are training with the team, but only 12 will be chosen for Beijing. The nominated players should be determined by April.
The U.S. Sitting Men's Team missed out on qualifying for the 2008 Paralympics when it fell to Brazil in the gold-medal match at the 2007 Parapan American Games. However, U.S. Sitting Men's Head Coach Bill Hamiter will serve as the team leader for the U.S. Sitting Women's Team in Beijing.
The other sitting women's teams that will be competing in Beijing are:
1. China as host nation (No. 2 at 2006 World Championship)
2. Netherlands as No. 1 of 2006 World Championship
3. Slovenia as No. 3 of 2006 World Championship
4. Lithuania as No. 4 of 2006 World Championships
5. Ukraine, replacing Pan American CVD Champion as No. 6 of 2006 World Championship
6. Japan as No. 2 of Asia Oceania CVD Championship
7. Latvia as No. 5 of European CVD Championship
With the qualification, 2008 will be a busy year for the team.
There will be a camp from March 16-21 in Chicago followed by an open team tryout on March 22-23. The camp will include morning practices and evening matches, preferably against men's teams, which provide great competition for the women, Hulett said. The Netherlands Women's Sitting Team has also expressed interest in participating in the Chicago event.
April 23-30, the team will be in Egypt to participate in the first WOVD (World Organization Volleyball for the Disabled) Intercontinental Cup Sitting Volleyball for Men and Women.
The U.S. Sitting Women's Team will be in Atlanta on May 24-31 for the 2008 USA Open Volleyball Championships.
The team will hold a series of Paralympic preparation camps in June, July and August at its headquarters at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond.
U.S. Women's Sitting Volleyball Training Team Roster
Allison Aldrich (Schuyler, Neb.)
Heather Erickson (Fayetteville, N.C.)
Alex Gouldie (St. Paul, Neb.)
Katie Holloway (Lake Stevens, Wash.)
SuGui Kriss (Ravena, N.Y.)
Kendra Lancaster (Sheridan, Ind.)
Hope Lewellen (Palos Park, Ill.)
Brenda Maymon (Sellersberg, Ind.)
Gina McWilliams (The Colony, Texas)
Nichole Millage (Champaign, Ill.)
Kari Miller (Washington D.C.)
Tatiana Rivera Torres (Bayamon, Puerto Rico)
Lora Webster (Cave Creek, Ariz.)
Head Coach: Mike Hulett (Des Plaines, Ill.)
Assistant Coach: Denise Van De Walle (Bowling Green, Ohio)


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The 2008 USA Canoe/Kayak Sprint National Championships concluded August 9th at the Regatta Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Click here for Club Points and Results.
Check out Powerhouse Timing for a full list of results.
A huge thank you to Oklahoma City, Chesapeake Boathouse and all of their sponsors for putting on an amazing event! Congratulations to all of the participating clubs and athletes!


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Family of missing man asks for public's help
American Woodcock an interesting species/Brian Hess
There has been a cool crispness to the air lately that, to me, indicates the approach of autumn. I've noticed even the smell of the woods has started to subtly change to the earthy aromas of fall. As the seasons change I, along with many other hunters, start to get ready for hunting season.
Bear and early goose season is already under way and small game and duck season is just around the corner. There is still time to sight in the rifle or get out and improve your shotgun skills by shooting at some clay pigeons.
Over the course of the last spring and summer there is one game bird that has got me curious. That bird is the American Woodcock. In the spring it was an odd flight display over the marsh that got my attention. The males fly high over their breeding grounds in an attempt to attract a mate in the spring.
It wasn't the flight that first got my attention, it was the sound. The air passing through their wings makes a distinct sound that I had heard over the years but was unable to place the source. I apologize that I cannot describe the sound in words but it's unique.
This spring I actually saw the bird in flight making the noise so I was able to identify it. They are rather small and hard to see during the late evening when they typically put on this performance. Later in the summer I noticed them again when I flushed one from my zucchini patch on more than one occasion.
The American Woodcock is a small migratory bird measuring approximately 11 inches in length. Woodcock are a member of the sandpiper family and also have a long prehensile bill. They have a mixed coloration of browns, tans and black that makes them perfectly camouflaged to their surroundings. Marshes, thickets and young forests with moist soil are where they spend the majority of time between nesting and feeding. The long bill is used to root through the soft earth for invertebrates such as earthworms for feed.
Woodcock migrate at night typically in small loose flocks. The migration south to their winter grounds typically starts in October and into early November as the ground they feed from begins to ice over.
The winter range for Woodcock is along the gulf and southeast Atlantic States. In the spring they begin their migration north to their breeding grounds starting in February but more likely arriving in our area around March-April.
The Woodcock season for 2013 in Michigan is from Sept. 21 through Nov. 4 and there is a bag limit of three per day. If you wish to hunt woodcock you must have a small game license. You must also have a Harvest Information Program endorsement. The HIP endorsement is free and required if you plan on hunting migratory birds such as ducks and geese but also includes woodcock. This endorsement can be asked for at the time you are purchasing your license. If you failed to do that, you can still visit the DNR website or a DNR service center to get this endorsement.


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by Anton Shilov
Nvidia Corp. on Tuesday said that one of the top five makers of cell phones would utilize the company's Tegra system-on-chip in one of its mobile phones set to be released in the fourth quarter of the year.
Michael Rayfield, general manager of mobile business unit at Nvidia, said in an interview with The Street web-site that he expected Nvidia Tegra system-on-chip to "debut in a phone from one of the top five cell phone makers" in Q4 2009. Mr. Rayfield decided not to elaborate regarding the actual manufacturer of the devices, which is why rumours that Nvidia had inked a deal with Motorola or Samsung transpired almost instantly.
According to Gartner market tracking firm, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, LG Electronics and Sony Ericsson are the world's largest suppliers of mobile phones.
Earlier this year rumours transpired that HTC Corp., the world's fourth largest maker of smartphones (which commands tiny share of the mobile phone market in general), will utilize one of the Tegra SoCs in its smartphone due in the second half of the year. No official announcements have been released so far.
Considering that Nvidia Tegra can only work with Google Android or Microsoft Windows Mobile or Windows CE operating systems, usage of the chip inside smartphones by Nokia, Apple, Research in Motion and some others can be ruled out.
Nvidia is not completely new to mobile phone business: back in 2003 it acquired MediaQ company and continued to sell a lineup of its media processors for mobile phones for several years. For example, a number of Motorola V3-series phones were powered by Nvidia GoForce/MediaQ processors.
In case a large mobile phone vendor releases a phone powered by Tegra, this may substantially change the destiny of the family that was not adopted by a single company for a year. Recently a number of Taiwan-based contract makers unveiled several mobile Internet devices with Tegra inside, whereas Microsoft Corp. said that Tegra powers the company's forthcoming Zune HD portable digital media player.
Nvidia Tegra 600-series SoCs feature ARM11 central processing unit core, GeForce graphics core with programmable pixel shader and programmable vertex shader support, build-in low-power DDR memory controller, NAND flash memory controller, high-definition video processor that supports MPEG 4, H.264, VC-1/WMV9 decoding, H.264 and MPEG4 encoding and features some other capabilities. Besides, Tegra 600 and Tegra 650 support two displays, 12MPixel camera sensor, USB, Parallel ATA a variety of display outputs, including HDMI, as well as other necessary interfaces.


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Skip to comments.North Carolina farmer courts controversy with parade float that reads 'White history month'
Posted on 07/08/2013 4:30:37 PM PDT by tobyhill
A tractor pulling a cart full of watermelons bearing a racially charged sign stirred controversy at a small town Fourth of July parade last week.
White history month, was emblazoned on the side of farmer Donnie Spells float in a Hope Mills, North Carolina parade Thursday. The sign also read HUG WTE PPL.
And as is chugged along the parade route waving a Confederate Flag, many residents took offense to the racial implications.
Hope Mills Director of Parks and Recreation Kenny Bullock oversaw the parade entries. He told WNCN there was no mention of the signs on Spells float application.
According to Bullock, Spell only listed that hed be parading with 8-10 antique tractors, one with a trailer of watermelons for sale.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
We must be very very very respectful toward "Black History Month." Television stations, Google, school districts and universities must commemorate it. Typically, the commemorative activities mostly involve displaying the words "Black History Month" in public places.
We must also condemn anyone who utters the words "White History Month" because they are obviously a racist. We hate racists, who don't deserve to be treated as human beings.
And the problem is? I suggest White History quarters. After all, we do have "white privledge" don't we?
"and I had to sit there in the parade and explain to my son what that
Yes, "what that" can be very traumatizing. I hope I never experience a what that
As opposed to the none who take offense at black history month?
I have a feeling we're going to see more incidents like this.
The screaming media says racially charged. I say simply droll.
The fuss isn't being raised by the farmer, and the watermelon allusion is not even clear. Maybe it's supposed to mean that white people raised most of the watermelons produced in America?
Most people who do things like this these days aren't the stone cold racists of the old days (who, by the way, were always Dems). They are people pointing out the unequal treatment of the races wherein "Black History Month" is OK but "White History Month" is not. But in our PC culture, none of that matters. He has a "White History" float, ergo, he is an evil racist.
Great.. Which month? I'm dying to hear about what they will say the real American History is all about.. I'm not looking forward to what the media will say.. :)
Oh, I take great offense at black history month.
I also take great offense at Kwanzaa.
Obama's pretty offensive - so's his wife.
Jessee Jackson, Al Sharpton - offensive, offensive.
Holder, Uber Offensive.
Oh, don't get me started...
Now THATS moxie!!
why stop at 1 month?
LOL, I think you already started but with well-made points
Is this fellow a racist? According to the liberals, you can only be a racist if you are a member of a superior race.
How is the farmer "courting controversy"? If there was a float labeled "Black History Month", would that be "controversial" also? If not, why not? Questions the Daily Mail should answer just to clarify if they are racists or not.
This is the response of the "white envy" crowd every time some white guy tries to be proud of his heritage.
If not for "whitey":
she would be living in a mud floored, banana leaf thatched roof hut in some place without running water or sewage.
she would not be driving a car
She would never know what an airplane was
she would be toothless at 24, and probably dead at 30
she would have to keep rapists from the neighboring village at bay with a bat or machete
but most likely, she would be a slave for some izlamist.
White people changed the world, and brought the rest of these ingrates with them. White people have NOTHING, NOT ONE THING TO FEEL GUILTY FOR.
But, the ones who "invented" this anti white, bigoted, extremist idea of "white privileged," are themselves guilty of the terminal gut rotting hatred of "WHITE ENVY."
This bigotry known as "white privilege" is nothing more than an excuse for certain ethnicity's failure to achieve and produce.
Interestingly, Asians and Indians NEVER suffered this idiocy. They just said: "Hey, if whitey can do it, so can we."
At one time, India was on par with Africa. At one time China was on par with Africa. So WTF happened?
This stupid woman is poisoning her son.
If he had a sign that said "Creepy White Cracker Month" there would be no problem.
This poor lug must have been under the impression that just because other groups can have Black History Month, Hispanic Congressional Caucus, Asian lobbying groups, etc. that whites can do likewise.
What kind of racist logic is that?
I vote for October. It's an excellent month. Cooler temperatures, high school, college and pro football in season, the leaves turning to a rainbow of colors, warm apple cider and bit of crispness in the air. And at the end we can all repent and dress up in minstrel black face for Halloween.
Free Speech?
Free Expression?
Nah - that's just code word for "racism".
Now shut your racist face and go pay your taxes. Your hard working government is broke. :)
That was awesome.
Hmm, wonder exactly how many this is? Also what is the racial breakdown?
The last time I was down that way I bought watermelon straight out of he field...from mexicans.
I'm eating watermelon right now, so why is it racist to depict a black person eating watermelon?
Y'all don't worry now... you are not named Paula Deen.
An uncle of mine works for the Dept. of Agriculture, and many years ago he was inspecting planes for illegal biological materials of all kinds on arriving international flights. One of his co-workers was black. After one flight from somewhere in Africa was cleared, they were discussing how dirty and smelly the people were, and how awful food that they brought with them was. The black guy looked around, and then whispered to my uncle, "I'll deny ever saying this, but after looking at these people, I thank God that my ancestors were brought here, even in chains...at least I grew up with some cleanliness and eating normal food."
Personally, I find the idea of special carve-outs for any and every minority to be offensive. We're all people, and in this country we're all supposed to be Americans. Melting pot, remember that? This guy was merely being in-your-face about how annoyed he is about one particular carve-out. I congratulate him for his guts, though he could've and should've left out the watermelons.
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