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My kids and I really enjoy hidden picture games. We also really like Ranger Rick magazine. Now there is an app that combines the two: The National Wildlife Foundation has come out with a new app where kids can hunt for objects that are quite well hidden while learning about the endangered rhinoceros and other animals.
Hooked into GameCenter, Raiders of the Lost Aardvark follows a storyline about hunting down a poacher who is trying to sell rhinoceros horns and locating a missing animal. It has eight different locations to search. Each one shows a different part of the world with different kinds of animals. Kids tap on objects that are hidden, or they can tap on the animals in the scene to learn more about them.
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Apple's been itching to open up shop in China where their massive smartphone market is untapped as far as the iPhone goes. And the Chinese have been just as anxious. In its first three days in stores, the iPhone 5 sold more than two million units, making it the fastest-selling iPhone to date. Before their China launch, analysts doubted such success since Apple cut orders for the iPhone 5 from suppliers to balance excess inventory – meaning analysts didn't expect the Chinese market to be so welcoming of the iPhone 5 as other markets.
But lo and behold, Apple sold two million units over the weekend and they expect to sell more, aiming to make the iPhone 5 available in 100 countries by the end of the year. But is two million really that impressive for Apple?
Analysts have different takes on the number Apple has posted, but Apple's shares have significantly dropped since December, so news of their two million sale in China could alleviate investors' concerns that iPhones are no longer in demand. Apple's also confident that more iPhone 5's will be sold in China as iPhone users want to upgrade.
"Recall, Apple launched the iPhone 5 in China on Friday (12/14) and given the lackluster lines, there was growing concern around demand for this new iPhone," Topeka's Brian White said. "Clearly, this view turned out to be incorrect as this represents a big print for Apple and the first time the Company ever issued a post-launch press release for iPhone sales in China.
"With the Chinese New Year beginning on February 10 and shopping season starting in January, Apple has the two hottest products (i.e., iPhone 5 and iPad mini) in the world available for the Chinese consumers… We have previously indicated that we expected a big uptick in China demand with the iPhone 5 as we believe both iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S owners will upgrade. The strong iPhone 5 sales this weekend support our view. The key reason is status. In our view, a new form factor shows the world that you have the latest and greatest iPhone, a sign of status in China."
But Anna Leach of The Register pointed out that given the population of China, two million is not that impressive. With China's population of 1.3 billion, two million is just 0.15 percent, or one in 667 people who bought the iPhone 5. It's not that they are disinterested in owning a smartphone, but it's because they have more smartphones to choose from from local brands who offer cheap smartphones comparable to the iPhone's best features.
Stretching Apple's Global Reach & Influence
ISI's Brian Marshall countered Leach's claims by stating that Apple was able to sell more in the Chinese market compared to other markets like the US, since they managed to sell two million units in just three days compared to the 5 million units sold in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the UK combined in its first weekend of sales.
"We view this as a very strong launch, particularly in light of a relatively limited 3G subscriber base in China," Marshall stated. "For comparison, recall AAPL had sold over 5mil iPhone 5 units in the weekend of its launch in the U.S. and 8 other developed markets. We estimate ~2mil iPhone 5 units were sold at U.S. carriers (T, VZ, S) in the first 10 days of launch or ~1.0% penetration of a post-paid subscriber base of ~200mil. In a shorter time span of just 3 days, AAPL sold over 2mil units at China Unicom and China Telecom, or ~1.5% penetration of a ~130mil 3G subscriber base. In our view, this suggests potential for subscriber penetration in China could be similar to that of developed countries despite per capita GDP that is less than 1/5 of the U.S."
As for the reduced production of iPhone 5s, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster stated that this was not a new occurrence since suppliers generally reduce production after the release of a new device which means it doesn't actually affect the current supply of devices.
"[S]uppliers reduce production in the quarter following a new iPhone release," Munster stated. "While some suppliers suggest a 20-30% q/q step down in March, it is difficult to say what inventory already exists in the channel to make an assumption on March units."
How Can Apple Sell More iPhones in China?
He also added that in order for Apple to effectively penetrate all markets, they need to introduce lower priced devices, and he expects Apple to do so in 2014 or even earlier.
While diverse pricing could help Apple become more competitive in the Chinese market, working some partnerships with local telecoms could help as well. With his breaking analysis on this idea is contributing editor John Cassaretto. See his full analysis in the video below, from this morning's NewsDesk segment with Kristin Feledy:


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(May 8, 2009)--The second of two bi-annual fire alarm tests will be done in May and June at the three UTSA campuses, as required by the state fire marshal's office. See the testing schedule below.
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- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
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just picked up 2 assassins from my local petco they were very reasonable I think $3
they don't seem to do much but I do see a lot of empty pond snail shells on the floor.
I still plan of picking out or squashing as many on the glass that I can and I may pick up 3-4 more if needed I'm pretty confident that they will handle the problem, I'll keep you posted as it's only been 48 hrs since I introduced them to the tank
Good luck
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You have to treat everything in order to remove snails. They are in the filter too. Unfortunately if you like to kill snails you have to kill your beneficial bacteria too.
My method is 10 min dip in 10-15ml hydrogen peroxide to 1gal of water.
You can use noplanaria. It will kill all the snails i thing .It should keep bacteria alive. Ask here for more info.
Not to be confused with Fenbendazole. Flu won't harm shrimp of fish and is 100% plant safe. Know what you handle but 10% Flu dosed correctly kills a number nasty's along with all snails I have ever exposed to it.
|I put 2 assassins in a 20L with a bunch of pond snails and they had them eradicated within a month. As far as them being shrimp safe, mineactually died after the pond snails were gone, they never touched my cbs. I was trying to feed them algae wafers and spinach, but i guess after juicy snails they weren't interested. Incidently, I never saw any babies, so I'm guessing either the adults ate them or they never reproduced.
|remember a tear down requires a brand new cycle... not worth the delay IMHO...
|I started with 4? assassins maybe a year or so ago? (can't really remember!). I think I might have 12 now including the juvies. They don't reproduce quickly, and are very easy to pick out and pass on to others if you don't want them.
forgot to mention also, the lettuce & zucchini works great you could try placing it in a glass salt/pepper shaker and the snails will get trapped in there. this didn't work too well for me because I have approx 10+ ABN's in my tank that love veggies but it seems to be the most popular way to get rid of pond snails.
honestly I almost gave up on my 55Gal Dirted Tank, I'm just too cheap and I couldn't walk away from all the money I'd spent on plants so I stuck with it and now if I find 1-2 snails a day its a bad day.
Good luck and keep us posted
|from what I hear about assassins is that they pretty much focus on the small pond snails at 1st but I guess if there's nothing else to eat they'll start looking around. Honestly I'm not an expert myself, I would probably go the Loach route just because I really dont like the thought of an overpopulated Assassin snail problem either, although they do sell quite well
I actually wanted to get some loaches, but read some bad things about them hunting shrimp. My tanks about as safe as you can get right now with only a few otto's and cory cats.
I also thought about assassins, but also read mixed reports on them although they seem to be safe for the most part. As they're snails though how much do they breed? I know they eat other snails, but don't want to have to hunt them down to get them out later if they breed like rabbits lol
I have no idea what kind of snails I have, but know that I've never seen any bigger than around the size of a bb. I've seen some flat ones with the swirl in the middle, but most just have circular brownish shells.
I'm going to look into the assassin's some more, but am leaning towards redoing the tank as I'm not really heavily planted. Would boiling clear the cholla? Is putting the old water back in the tank a good idea as far as keeping the bacteria in and the water the same?
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I had a horrible snail problem about a month ago in a planted tank.....
you could also try Yoyo loaches they would help out and I haven't heard of them messing with shrimp before but I would research them more if your going that route
Although if you go this route there's a few things that you need to know:
I had a horrible snail problem about a month ago in a heavily planted tank.
I mean it was bad I just picked out anywhere from 20-50 daily and scraped off the egg sacks from the plants.
I originally was trying to buy some assassin snails which I still might do just to be absolutely sure but honestly if you are just dealing with a 20 gal it should be pretty easy to handle
you could also try Yoyo loaches they would help out and I haven't heard of them messing with shrimp before but I would research them more if your going that route
You have to treat everything in order to remove snails. They are in the filter too. Unfortunately if you like to kill snails you have to kill your beneficial bacteria too.
My method is 10 min dip in 10-15ml hydrogen peroxide to 1gal of water.
You can use noplanaria. It will kill all the snails i thing .It should keep bacteria alive. Ask here for more info.
|Assassin snails took care of my pond snail issue in no time (and I had a huge overpopulation, I liked them at first). But they didn't touch my MTS snails.
|Instead of going all out and tearing the tank down I would first try to manually remove as many snails as possible. Then I would set a piece of zucchini/veggie and let them pile on it then remove. How much are you feeding?
Redoing the tank, help with snails...
I know this has been asked a billion times, but I've got a serious snail issue and here's what I'm thinking about doing. I have a 20 gallon tank, with around 50 orange shrimp, maybe 4 tigers, few cories, and lots of moss.
I figure the easiest and most sure fire way of killing them all is to just remove all the shrimp, dump the tank, boil the cholla/wood, and quarantine the plants to pick through at a later date. Now I don't want to shock my little shrimp too much so I assume the easiest thing to do is to put them in a new tank with their old filter/sponge and a some of their old (snail free) tank water.
My second question is once I get the main tank snail free and want to transfer them back what's the safest way to do it? Should I bucket out 5 gallons of their current tank water and just pour it back in? I hope to accomplish all this in a day so they shouldn't be in the bucket for all that long. Basically I don't want to screw up their environment too much as my tanks established and they've been breeding very well over the past few months.
Also wanted to ask about the best way to clean the plants once I get them out? Is there a certain dip that's best? Dip them soak in water, what's the dealio?
Same thing for the sponge filter and HOB filter. Figure it's best to keep them as dirty as possible for bacteria so is it best to just pick through those the best I can?
Any advice would be appreciated. The snails are the bane of my existence... I really hate the little buggers lol. Probably picked 40 out in the past month and it hasn't made a dent.. new ones every day it seems.
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However much we might try to separate politics from personal tragedy, 9/11 has come to stand for a wide range of important issues, including domestic security, the fight against international terror, the Patriot Act and other sacrifices of civil liberties, the detainment and treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, and, thanks to President George W. Bush, the war in Iraq.
So perhaps we should not be surprised that this year's 9/11 anniversary, which came in the midst of Ogonowski's congressional campaign, triggered a politicized mess in the Bay State.
Accusations first flew when Ogonowski was not invited to speak at a State House ceremony commemorating the anniversary. Then, Governor Deval Patrick's choice of words at that event set off another round of criticism.
Politics hangs on small, symbolic points such as who stands on a stage and what phrases an officeholder employs. When applied to an occasion with the symbolic weight of a 9/11 commemoration, the stakes are multiplied.
Blame the event's organizers and Patrick, then, for failing to grasp how every little detail would be magnified in that context. And blame state GOP leaders and talk-radio conservatives for overreacting to trivia.
But perhaps we should stop pretending that it's possible to keep politics out of 9/11 — at least for the duration of this congressional election.
Politicize? Never!
It is considered uncouth, in a state that lost more than 200 people in the attacks, to acknowledge that 9/11 carries inherent political overtones. To do so, local pols say, would bring immediate criticism.
"Victims' families have made it pretty clear that they don't think politics, and the commemoration and contemplation of those who were lost, have any connection," says Ted Livingston, executive director of the nonpartisan Massachusetts 9/11 Fund, which organizes the annual memorial.
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Is this possible, or do I need to put in some time in an entry-level position first?
My justification for wanting to do this is that I think my technical skills are much more in line with an intermediate-level position.
I have 6 years of full-time experience in networking, programming, and IT management. My responsibilities have included managing an IDS and performing product security testing.
I'm Security+ certified and plan to pickup the C|EH soon. I've taken Foundstone's Ultimate Hacking: Expert course.
I've published several articles (in print) on buffer overflows and other security topics and have also contributed to several Wikipedia articles. I can write exploits and shellcode and can use advanced techniques to bypass StackGuard, PointGuard, no-exec, ProPolice, etc. I can also find and exploit other vulnerabilities such as as SQL injection and XSS. About eight years ago, I reported several vulnerabilities on Bugtraq. I spoke at Defcon around the same time.
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What really defines a crossover? Is it an SUV without balls, a car with a lift kit and some exterior differences, or a modern minivan for "soccer moms"? How do you define cars like the X6, Cross Tour and others with that same design? Are they wagons? To sum this up in a few words, what is a cross over?
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a big suv looking body on a car platform.
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Crossing a car and an SUV. Hence, crossover. In theory, they handle better than SUVs but have more room than a car. I think they're pretty bland.They are not wagons. A wagon is a sedan with the back extended for cargo space.
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Supposedly, they are a car based suv. In reality, they are wagons, hatchbacks, and minivans with self loathing issues and extra tall suspension + big wheels.
--"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." -- George Patton
A lifted hatchback.
A compact crossover like the CXZ-5 is essentially a lifted hatchback. Big ones like the Flex are minivans without the sliding doors because they're insecure about the minivan stigma.I define the X6, CrossTour, and ZDX as "Ugly as all hell". Seriously, I don't know about them.
It is just a SUV body on a car chassis. Using unibody car platforms, a CUV has both features of a SUV and passenger car, examples are of what some posters said above. You get the ground clearance, AWD capability while having the handling and fuel economy of a passenger car.
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all the size of an SUV, all the guts of a car XD
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I thought a crossover was defined as an SUV body-styled vehicle riding on a unibody platform. Traditional SUV's being developed on Body-on-frame platforms. Typically a crossover, or unibody platform, is riding on a car platform such as vehicles like the Edge, Highlander, Equinox, CX-9, XC90 etc. They aren't minivans, minivans have much more efficient packaging, nor are they wagons, wagons have better handling - but often times (frequently) share platforms with minivans and wagons (aka Honda Pilot / Honda Odyssey) sometimes they share platforms with cars (aka Flex and Taurus) and sometimes they share platforms with wagons (BMW 5GT and BMW 5 wagon.).
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A lifted minivan and/or carSlightly more room and usually significantly less efficient and mid to low range of towing with same off-roadablity. General Pros: Rides better usually, slightly more efficient then a common SUV, cheaper, good family haulers if you dont want a minivanGeneral Cons: overstyled with gaudy rims, usually poor towing, less efficent then a car/minivan, limited off-roading, FWD/transverse engine with a big butt is not a great thing


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The update to the Benchmarks report for Forrester's Service Management & Automation (SMA) playbook is now live and with its publication marks a change in how we at Forrester - and you - should look at SMA.
Past efforts in IT service management have brought some changes, but as our survey done in conjunction with itSMF USA indicates, not much has changed. Service management has focused too much on internal infrastructure and internal operations (IT), and while this is still important, the demands for technology to acquire and retain customers, which Forrester calls business technology (BT), must be addressed to leverage and apply technology to advance, not hinder or stifle the business we enable.
The world we support is progressing exponentially while ITSM is progressing linearly, arguably statically – please see the report for further evidence. Being linear is being human; the exponential comes from harnessing technology, and radically shifting our focus towards service management and automation topics essential to being partners with our business teams.
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Dr. Dennis vanEngelsdorp of the BeeInformed Partnership will be sharing what has been learned in that project.
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New York, May 7, 2010—The U.S. military should allow four banned reporters from different Canadian and U.S.-based media outlets to cover military commission proceedings in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The reporters were banned after each named a U.S. Army interrogator after being told to keep him and other participants in the proceedings anonymous. The proceedings were about the status of
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Can Congress force me to buy health insurance?
posted at 10:00 am on August 22, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
One of the more troubling components of the ObamaCare bill wending its way through the House is the inclusion of individual mandates to carry health insurance. What gives Congress the power to dictate that choice to American citizens? A single document enumerates Congressional power, and former Department of Justice attorneys David Rivkin and Lee Casey have some trouble finding that power in it. They argue, with appropriate citations of precedent, that HR3200 and any other bill that attempts to impose mandates will violate the Constitution:
Although the Supreme Court has interpreted Congress's commerce power expansively, this type of mandate would not pass muster even under the most aggressive commerce clause cases. In Wickard v. Filburn (1942), the court upheld a federal law regulating the national wheat markets. The law was drawn so broadly that wheat grown for consumption on individual farms also was regulated. Even though this rule reached purely local (rather than interstate) activity, the court reasoned that the consumption of homegrown wheat by individual farms would, in the aggregate, have a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce, and so was within Congress's reach.
The court reaffirmed this rationale in 2005 in Gonzales v. Raich, when it validated Congress's authority to regulate the home cultivation of marijuana for personal use. In doing so, however, the justices emphasized that — as in the wheat case — "the activities regulated by the [Controlled Substances Act] are quintessentially economic." That simply would not be true with regard to an individual health insurance mandate.
The otherwise uninsured would be required to buy coverage, not because they were even tangentially engaged in the "production, distribution or consumption of commodities," but for no other reason than that people without health insurance exist. The federal government does not have the power to regulate Americans simply because they are there. Significantly, in two key cases, United States v. Lopez (1995) and United States v. Morrison (2000), the Supreme Court specifically rejected the proposition that the commerce clause allowed Congress to regulate noneconomic activities merely because, through a chain of causal effects, they might have an economic impact. These decisions reflect judicial recognition that the commerce clause is not infinitely elastic and that, by enumerating its powers, the framers denied Congress the type of general police power that is freely exercised by the states.
Most states now require drivers to have auto insurance before issuing drivers licenses, car registrations, or both. However, that doesn't apply here for three reasons. First, that power rests with the individual states, as they are the licensing authorities and not the federal government. Second, driving is not a right but a privilege, which gives access to state-owned roads in exchange for a demonstration of competence and appropriate safety and insurance preparation, so the state can and does set conditions on that privilege (too many, but that's an argument for another day). Third, because the insurance is conditioned on that privilege, it only affects a portion of the populace. The states could not demand universal auto insurance on every man, woman, and child in their state.
But how about using the tax code to enforce the mandate? Congress has the power to tax, as we know all too well, and they can create some severe penalties for failure to comply. In fact, HR3200 does just that now. However, as Rivkin and Casey explain, any tax that seeks to impose policy that goes beyond the limits of the Commerce Clause is also unconstitutional:
Like the commerce power, the power to tax gives the federal government vast authority over the public, and it is well settled that Congress can impose a tax for regulatory rather than purely revenue-raising purposes. Yet Congress cannot use its power to tax solely as a means of controlling conduct that it could not otherwise reach through the commerce clause or any other constitutional provision. In the 1922 case Bailey v. Drexel Furniture, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress could not impose a "tax" to penalize conduct (the utilization of child labor) it could not also regulate under the commerce clause. Although the court's interpretation of the commerce power's breadth has changed since that time, it has not repudiated the fundamental principle that Congress cannot use a tax to regulate conduct that is otherwise indisputably beyond its regulatory power.
In other words, individual mandates are unconstitutional, regardless of whether they're explicit or buried in tax policy.
If that's true, what happens to universal coverage? It fails, because not everyone wants to buy health insurance now, and that's likely to be more rather than less true after ObamaCare passes. As we saw in Maine, when the government offers a public plan and forces community pricing and unrestricted access on private insurers, the people most likely to enroll will be the infirm, whose costs will unbalance the risk pools and drive up premiums across the board. That will make insurance even more expensive, which will discourage rather than encourage enrollments, and do nothing at all to lower public costs of healthcare — the entire stated reason for ObamaCare, other than universal coverage.
The only way to get mandatory universal coverage is conversion to a single-payer system, which Congress also doesn't have the power to do without amending the Constitution. Otherwise, free will in a free system dictates that people will make choices with which many disagree, and that includes the choice not to buy health insurance.
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So I have recently downloaded an appliance with Backtrack 4. I'm using Workstation 6.5 and the virtual machines on an external hard drive. Backtrack 4 was very slow this way! I thought it was that the concerned the appliance vm file was split into 10 files.
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Have you ever had a great idea that you presented to someone who could help you make it happen? In the entertainment business, that's called a "pitch." When actor Tyrel Jackson Williams, who plays Leo on Disney XD's Lab Rats, had an idea for an online video game based on his show, Tyrel decided to pitch his idea to the game developers at Disney Interactive. They liked his idea and worked with Tyrel to create the game, Leo's Stealth Ops, for disneyxd.com.
On Lab Rats, Tyrel's character Leo is a regular teen. He gains three super-human siblings—Adam, Bree and Chase—with bionic powers when his mom marries a billionaire inventor. The second season of the show premieres February 25 at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Disney XD. Recently, TFK caught up with the 15-year-old actor to talk about his video game idea and what's coming up on the show.
What was your idea for an online game based on Lab Rats, and how did you come up with it?
The game is based on Adam, Bree and Chase's bionic ability. The player is able to swap between them. So the way I came up with the idea is I thought of everything that made Adam, Bree and Chase's bionics really cool, and I wanted to find a way to put them into the game believably. The way we accomplished that is, in Leo's Stealth Ops, you play as Leo in a "stealth" version of the Exo-Skeleton [suit]. If you are near Adam, Bree or Chase, you are able to inherit their powers.
Were you nervous to bring your idea to Disney Interactive?
I was really nervous to pitch it to Disney Interactive because I had never pitched a video game before, so I wasn't entirely sure what I was going to do. But I kind of took it in stride, faced my fears and went ahead and did it, and I'm so happy I did.
Through the process of working with Disney Interactive, what were you surprised to learn about how video games are made?
One major thing that surprised me about the process is how little time the guys at Disney Interactive have to make the game, and what their limitations were. I learnedthat before I pitched the idea, so I had to take into account [when pitching my idea] that there weren't unlimited resources.
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I love it. It was amazing to see an idea that I had put up on a computer screen, and it's a real, playable game that people are going to be able to [go] to disneyxd.com to enjoy. I was really happy to see that my idea had come to fruition.
What are some of your other favorite video games to play?
I love playing any type of game that I can get my hands on, pretty much. On my phone, I have kind of gotten addicted to Cut the Rope. I didn't expect it to be as fun as it was, and now I can't stop playing it. I like games like that. And I'm also a big fan of the Ratchet & Clank series [for PlayStation]. That was one of the first games I started playing with my friends, and I loved it.
Do you have any advice for kids who have an idea for a video game?
My advice to any kids who want to start becoming game developers is to do research. That's something I've had to learn recently. Find out what you want to do, first and foremost, and then go online and look up the easiest way to get you there. If you want to make a 2-D game, look up how to make a 2-D game on Google. And don't give up because game development is a lot about patience.
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I'm so excited for Season 2 because it takes everything that was great about Season 1 and builds on it. There is a lot of action and there are many fight sequences, and there's some more drama this season. I can't really say what episodes they are and what happens, but there is a lot more drama this season, so I want fans to look out for that. And Leo gets more responsibility in the second season, which is a really big thing for Leo, and it's a big thing for me because I love acting as Leo.
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Whether or not they watched Season 1, why should kids tune in to Season 2?
It picks right up where Season 1 left off, and it starts off with a bang [that] gives Season 2 a nice driving force. I could tell by reading the first episode when they gave me the script that Season 2 was going to be so much better than Season 1, and we've been working really hard to make sure it is.


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Discussion in 'Great Skate Debate' started by reese, Mar 26, 2014.
It seems like we are witnessing the end of the sport.
I hold you personally responsible.
As has been pointed out many times, the system has less to do with fraud than fraudsters and their enablers.
Chiquanta, stop beating around the fxxking bush and fix the anonymous judging.
Any FSUer in Tokyo! Please $peedy in the face.
WTF!! He already messed up this sport and finally try to stop its breath.
Next he'll eliminate music and choreography and require everyone to perform their jumps in speed skate inspired national uniforms.
"In a sport with jumps surely there must be jumpsuits", he'd say.
Grimey Bastard.
I have no idea if you are being serious or not, but that is indeed the reason this "letter" was "leaked".
The week of world champs, no less.
Not a bad idea! And of course, there will eventually be only one judge--from Russia, who gives each competitor a score from 1 to 100.
Then in the final iteration, the skaters won't be required to skate at all. They'll just take a "skating theory" test, and won't even have to be physically present to do so. They'll just take the test over the Internet, with the results available for a $100 fee.
Real exciting stuff, folks!
The ISU does not want to fix the anonymous judging. They are happy with the system as is, because it's easier for them to manipulate the results.
I'm actually all for this. Pairs LP's always seems 30 seconds or so too long to me.
I also agree that the SP has become a bit redundant, since all the same elements are essentially required in the LP too, but I would rather see a significant restructuring of the SP and LP than scrapping the SP.
I also really like the idea of holding the junior and senior worlds together and think it would be a great benefit to the junior skaters.
For further insight into the mind of Speedy, check out his columns in ISU newsletters (here's the most recent one). It's like he's writing a parody of himself.
As for his suggestions, of course other sports are based on more than one segment, anonymous judging sucks, and short programs are not a waste of time. Free programs are a waste of time, because they are no longer free. Change it back and make it more free, problem solved.
Combining junior and senior worlds might be nice for the skaters but a huge headache for organizers, and regardless I fail to see why that should be a goal. Most sports don't do that, and since it is so clearly Speedy's goal to be like other sports, that should be a paramount consideration.
Agreed. I don't know how much power the individual feds have, but if they work together to get rid of this moron who has been destroying FS for years, perhaps it could be done. Aren't the feds that elect the ISU president?
He should be eliminated. And then sent to American idol and eliminated for a second time because the shit deserves it.
He's gone cuckoo... his speed skating proposals are crazy too and you'd think he would at least make sense in his own sport!
Does he have senile dementia?
I so agree with this.
I don't think I could say it any better.
No, no, no. Yes the President of the ISU, Ottavio Cinquanta, wants to make the sport more manageable, but there is no popular future for a sport like figure skating when it eliminates artistry, reduces the competition to a single night of hurried jumping, and tries to manufacture some artificial team event.
ETA: I like the idea of them wearing uniforms in the national colors, complete with hoods to improve their jumps and speed. Cinquanta would love that.
What about same music, same choreography, same costume and same elements.
This news is so depressing. Speedy has got to go. And he can take his anonymous judging with him.
It's time that the skaters and the skating community as a whole- the ones who made this sport what it is and once was - stand up en masse to their federations and this idiot and just say NO! ENOUGH!! FECK OFF!!! He is certifiable
The English speaking countries could form a skating union with their own rules and standards. The Europeans and Asians can join if they choose, but we know it's the end of the road for the ISU being of use to the sport.
This is the risk the ISU took by allowing him to stay passed the mandatory retirement ...
Is the ISU broke? I ask this because the only possible rationale for submitting proposals like this is to cut costs. If the ISU has run out of money, then that alone is a testament to Cinquanta's complete and utter failure as President. Even if the ISU has run out of money, this is not the answer as it would completely destroy the sport. The solution is:-
1. Remove Cinquanta
2. Bring back the 6.0 system
3. Separate figure skating from speed skating by setting up a new governing body for figure skating
4. Appointing somebody to run the sport who knows how to market it properly
If it is the case that the ISU is on the verge of financial collapse, then Cinquanta should just do the honourable thing and go. He has done enough damage already
Let ISU members *ANONYMOUSLY* vote the solutions seperately.
Under the old 6.0 system, there was no anonymous judging. Hence, by bringing the 6.0 system back, that would get rid of that problem
I hate 6.0. CoP is better.
I also like SPs (apart from OD) much better than the LPs.
It would take so much away from the competition aspect of the sport and make is far less exciting and interesting.
IMO it would pretty much ruin FS.
Why doesn't he just eliminate both figure skating and speed skating from the world of sport, since he seems to hate them so much? Take his final revenge on the boredom of having to go to all those competitions (hence the nose picking) and give all those medals, time and time again.
What part of "the crooked judges" did you miss?
What the actual hell!? Is he TRYING to make people stop watching the sport?


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Overall, I think my veggie garden did pretty well this summer. I am still picking bunches of basil and tomatoes of the vine due to our long growing season. It's making me a little spoiled. There's nothing like a freshly picked tomato. Yum.
Here's a recap of what I planted and how everything did. So much goes into a successful garden that its hard to know exactly why certain plants prosper and others fail, but here's my best shot at an explanation.
In the raised beds
With the drip system installed I saw my plants thrive, but due to the location I got quite a few white flies. I want to look into natural ways I can prevent their infestation next year because soapy water really didn't work well this season.
Yellow Pear Tomato – died halfway through the season due to heat/fungus.
Thai Basil – this guy is still going. I love the purple flowers and will grow it next year. I am also partial to the elongated thin leaf. I reach for this variety over the other ones I planted for cooking.
Globe Spicy Basil – also a winner. It has pale green and white flowers so not as dramatic as the thai, but I love the flavor of it.
Black Beauty Zucchini – we had some white flies on the zucchini, but it still produced a lot of zuke.
Chinese Eggplant – I got quite a few eggplants from this plant, but then halfway through the season the eggplants would grow but not ripen. Not sure the reason for this, but intend to do some research before next year.
Mystery Medium Tomatoes – Well, my mystery tomato plant I received from my neighbor turned out to be a Roma variety. The one I planted in the raised bed is still going strong, but it didn't start producing until August.
Bull's Blood and Golden Beets – The beets did really well except I planted them too close together. Lesson learned – I'll spread them out next time.
Orange Bell Pepper – This guy was a surprise. He's produced a bunch of pepper and still has a few on the plant. I had forgotten how long it takes for the peppers to ripen though. Next year I need to plant the bell pepper earlier.
Pink Punch and Crimson Crunch Radishes – I really liked the pink and crimson radishes. We used them in salads all summer long. Only change I would make would be replanting them more often since they grow so fast.
Salad Leaf Basil – This basil variety produced huge leaves perfect for salads. I think I would only plant one or two of these next year – five was way to many.
Bush Beans – these guys did well but I am not sure if I would plant them again. They are rather small and you don't get very many beans.
Scallions – the scallions never came up from the seeds I planted unfortunately.
Italian Arugula – This arugula took off fast. I couldn't keep up with it. Mature arugula can be an overpowering taste so next time I need to harvest when it much smaller.
Red Leaf Lettuce – This lettuce was really pretty, but didn't do to well with the heat.
In the backyard pots
Overall I sucked at watering these plants on a consistent basis and it showed. If I do pots again, I really need to figure out a drip system or get into a better habit watering these guys.
Indigo Rose Tomato – This is the new variety developed by my uncle's friends at OSU. It's a purple tomato. It didn't mind my watering schedule and I would plant it again for sure. The tomatoes were small to medium size and a major conversation starter!
Mystery Medium Tomatoes (given to me by a neighbor) – Again the mystery plant turned out to be a Roma. The one I planted in the backyard pot developed blossom end rot due to my manual watering so I just took out the plant.
Bush Hybrid Cucumber – I got two cucumbers from the plant. It never really took off and I am not sure if that was due to my watering or just the plant.
Chinese Eggplant – The eggplant I planted in the backyard pots didn't ever do much except produce one unripe eggplant.
Fall & Winter Garden
Now on to the new crop. I've been collecting seeds to plant for the Fall & Winter season the last few weeks. This is all a big experiment in gardening over the cold months for me. I am going to start the seeds all inside then plant them in the raised beds. They should have some protection from frost on the side of the house.
Here's my lineup based on this online calendar I found:
- Container Lettuce (Ruby & Emerald Duet)
- Sugar Pod 2 Snow Peas
- Utah Tall Celery
- Green Onions
- Spinach
- Parsley
- Golden Chard
- Brocoverde Cauliflower
- Wasabi Arugula
- Cabbage
I am excited to get started. I love winter greens and can't wait to produce my own in our garden.


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Jared Serbu | April 17, 2015 4:08 pm
It's a safe bet that no one in the Defense Department would argue that the U.S. military has completely solved the challenge of making sure its forces will dominate the future cyber battlefield as convincingly as its conventional forces handle air, sea or ground power today. But the progress toward that goal has been significant, experts inside and outside of government say.
Two years ago, U.S. Cyber Command was brand new. President Barack Obama ordered its creation to coordinate and synchronize the cyber activities of all the military services, including recruiting a top-notch workforce.
As Gen. Keith Alexander, the then-new commander of CYBERCOM told a House hearing in September 2010, recruiting that workforce was one challenge. Holding onto it in the face of the much higher salaries the private sector could offer was another.
|Why the DoD cyber workforce was rated effective
| Reason #1: Air Force turns cyber into a career
Reason #2: DoD praises success of cyber teams that combine both attack and defend capabilities under a single commander
Reason #3: Gen. Alexander defines which national cyberspace missions belong to each of the four DoD branches, helping to define cyber workforce skills and abilities
(More primary source material available on The Obama Impact told a subcommittee of the same Congressional panel almost two years later. "I think the thing that's surprised and heartened me the most is that increasingly these men and women view themselves as warriors. While our civilian counterparts offer a lot of opportunities, one thing they don't offer is the ability to be a warrior. The workforce really seems to crystalize around that idea."
For these and other reasons, Federal News Radio has rated the Obama administration as effective in creating a DoD cyber workforce of the future. The rating is part of our special week-long multimedia series, The Obama Impact: Evaluating the Last Four Years.
Rethinking strategies to recruit, retain
Lt. Gen. Michael Basla, who just took over as the Air Force's chief information officer, said his service had a similar experience.
"We've made it an operational domain. It's a warfighting domain. The folks involved in that understand that and want to be part of the fight," Basla said in an interview with Federal News Radio. "I have talked to warfighters like our fighter pilots, and they talk about having both kinetic and nonkinetic options for each of their targets. When you get that kind of mindset, the troops in the field who are providing this cyber capability get pretty excited. We haven't had any retention problems that I've seen."
Knowing they can't compete with the private sector on salary, the military services have calibrated their cyber recruiting and training strategies to emphasize benefits that don't show up in black-and-white on a leave and earnings statement, like training opportunities and operational experiences they can't find with industry.
"The money's better on the outside. Got it. But when you're working with the right authorities here, you can do a lot of things that will get you put in jail on the civilian side," Skip Runyan, the technical director for the Air Force's 39th Information Operations Squadron told Federal News Radio in a recent interview. "In the Air Force model, we've trained a lot of pilots that end up working for the airline industry. So there's always going to be a draw to the private sector, but a lot of those pilots we've trained have also gone on to be four-star generals. We're looking for that same career progression for our cyber officers and enlisted personnel."
Changes in oversight and governance from the Pentagon have helped with the workforce effort, according to Alan Paller, research director at the SANS Institute. He said up until about a year ago, the headquarters element of the Defense Department focused on exactly the wrong evaluation criteria for recruiting and maintaining its cyber workforce: compliance with certification and accreditation paperwork rather than real-world warfighter capability.
"The people they highlighted were people with what we call soft skills. Good writing. Good talking. Everything except actually being able to secure a computer," he said.
Requiring technical skills
After what Paller characterized as a behind-the-scenes battle between the Pentagon and on-the-ground cyber warfighters in U.S. Cyber Command and the military branches, that paradigm changed.
"Then they went ahead and did it right," he said. "The Air Force really is in the lead, but the Navy is right there with them and now the Army is catching up, and they're all focused on mission-critical skills. When you take the best military training right now, you get really technical, hands-on, hard-nosed skills. The headquarters people have discovered after a lot of feedback from the field that they had been doing it wrong. They're now looking at measuring proficiency instead of book learning, and I'm very impressed."
While the military services all have their own specific training responsibilities and missions-for cyber warriors, Alexander, the head of Cyber Command, has also emphasized the need for joint training so that when cyber warriors are tasked with a mission they're all trained to the same standards regardless of the uniform they wear.
While joint training exists today, the Defense Information Systems Agency is building on it in a relatively new effort guided by the National Initiative for Cyberspace Education.
"Our vision is to help to establish a very robust cybersecurity workforce development and certification program that will help prepare DoD cyber warriors to operate and defend our networks in an increasingly threat-based environment," said Henry Sienkiewicz, DISA's vice chief information assurance executive. "As we move the Department of Defense into a joint information environment, that whole environment needs to be able to be supported by consistent, repeatable behaviors. There are going to be service-specific attributes, and we clearly know that. The services are doing a great job on training their cyber workforce. We just know that DISA and our cyber partners, including the National Defense University, have really important roles in helping to augment that training and setting some of those standards."
The operational training framework will be organized around 42 specific roles in the DoD workforce. The first focus is on members of the Defense workforce who are specifically tasked with computer network defense, said Roger Greenwell, DISA's director of field security operations.
"And as we look at the various roles that an individual would play, we're making determinations about what's the appropriate training, what's the knowledge, what's the ability of each person in those specific roles, and we're working toward the development of more modularized training," he said. "That training can then be leveraged across each specific role, or in some cases, a training module may be more appropriate to different roles entirely."
Alexander has told Congress and public forums that another top workforce priority is to better integrate the capabilities of the offensive and defensive sides of the military's cyber workforce.
A numbers problem
And even though retention challenges have been less troublesome than initially feared and the military has begun to build effective training frameworks, DoD still is struggling to recruit and train the sheer volume of qualified cyber warriors it believes it needs.
"At present, we are critically short of the skills and the skilled people we as a command and a nation require to manage our networks and protect U.S. interests in cyberspace," Alexander told the Senate Armed Services Committee in March.
Paller agreed that while the quality and organization of the training pipelines have been significantly improved in recent years, the bandwidth of that pipeline is still far too small.
"Full understanding of this has come about just in the last six months," he said. "When it became public that the United States had been behind Stuxnet, it became acceptable for other nations to [use similar weapons]. And we're much, much more vulnerable than other nations are. Iran's centrifuges weren't connected to the Internet, but no matter what you hear, our power systems and a number of other things are connected to the Internet."
Top-notch cyber threat "hunters" and "tool builders" still are in short supply, Paller said.
"We probably have fewer than 800 of them in the entire country. China probably has 40,000 of them."
Basla, the Air Force CIO, said because his service faces fiscal constraints, it has to make tough decisions about personnel, it's important to zealously guard the elite cyber professionals it's built up so far.
That hasn't always happened, he said.
"In some force shaping measures over the past few years, we had to reduce our end strength, and we did it across-the-board without paying attention to the different capabilities that the airmen represented," he said. "It was a fair way to do it, I'll say that, but we didn't have the fidelity we needed to say, 'Hey, we've only got a handful of folks with this kind of skill. We need to protect them.'"
More from the special report, The Obama Impact: Evaluating the Last Four Years
Part 1: Evaluating the Obama administration's management initiatives
Part 2: Evaluating Obama's technology reforms
Part 3: Evaluating Obama's workforce initiatives
Part 4: Evaluating Obama's acquisition efforts
Part 5A: What would a second-term for President Obama mean for feds?
Part 5B: What would a Romney presidency mean for federal workers?
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I have no idea what a DE is worth. If you are just planning on, one all a round gun, I would look at something in the 9mm caliber. If money is a real big issuse, I would look at a Glock or a Sigma. I allso would sell the DE out right rather than trade it in. I got a feeling it's worth more to you that way. The 9mm is cheap to shoot, plus you can buy some man stoopers for it too.
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It was just phenomenal to see how those men had dug into the side of the gorge and built the railway in the late 19-th century.
"It's such rugged countryside, they [the railway workers] must have just about killed themselves - and many did die. They did it all by hand; there was none of the machinery that would be used today.
"The railway was built to get goods down the mountain from the farms to the port; it's so steep, there was really no other way.
"The Taieri train is a beautiful old train, which we boarded at Dunedin Railway Station.
"Inside, there were old-style carriages, with little tables with one or two seats on either side.
"We had gone on the New Zealand cruise specifically to do the train trip as we missed it on a previous cruise and realised afterwards that it was something we should have done.
"The scenery was incredible and we had a very good commentary on the train, so we learnt all about the history and some of the personal tales of the railway line.
"We stopped at Pukerangi, where some passengers got off, but we stayed on to do the full journey to Middlemarch, where there was a barbecue available, or you could go over the road to the pub for lunch.
"The trip took a whole day; the return train journey is about six hours and we had to get a bus to and from the railway station, although that was very easy.
"I loved the whole experience: the scenery, the social atmosphere on the train and the stories.
"I found it so interesting, I brought a DVD back to watch and show all my friends."
Value for money
Royal Caribbean offers a six-hour Taieri Gorge railway excursion from $189 an adult, including lunch.
Noelene and Ted opted to make their own arrangements and booked the train trip online before leaving Australia, which saved them some money but meant they had to make their own way to the railway station and back to the ship in time.
Noelene warns that the train was full and some passengers from the ship were unable to get a ticket, so booking is essential.
"Whichever way you do it, it's something you've got to do," she says. "It is really worth seeing."
WHO Noelene Davy, of Canberra, on her second cruise.
WHAT A day trip on the Taieri Gorge Railway in Dunedin, New Zealand. The historic train journey takes passengers through a spectacular river gorge (taieri.co.nz).
WHERE Dunedin is on the south-eastern coastline of the South Island.
THE SHIP Noelene travelled with a friend, Ted, on a 14-night cruise to both islands of New Zealand, starting and finishing in Sydney, on Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas (royalcaribbean.com).
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2010 (JUNIOR): First team All-Conference USA selection, becoming the first player in program history to be named to the first team in three consecutive seasons ... NFCA All-Midwest selection ... played and started all 55 games for the Miners, seeing time at first base and catcher ... was named Conference USA Hitter of the Week on March 1 and March 22 ... batted a team-best .376 and ranked first on the team in hits (59), RBIs (42), doubles (16), total bases (93) and double plays (5) and was second in slugging percentage (.592), on base percentage (.484), runs scored (38), walks (30), chances (324) and putouts (297) ... laced six home runs in 2010 ... intentionally walked seven times in 2010 - a season standard ... led UTEP in multiple hit (14) and RBI (13) games and posted an eight game hitting streak ... notched four double-digit putouts including 15 against Southern Miss (April 2) which ranks tied for third in UTEP's single-game records ... had three contests with four hits (NMSU, Memphis, UCF) which ties for third in single-game recordbooks ... recorded a grand slam home run against Belmont, driving in a season-high four RBIs and reached a career-high eight total bases ... four walks vs. UCF (May 8) ranks tied for first in UTEP single-game annals ... notched 42 RBIs in 2010, two short of the season record she set a season ago.
2009 (SOPHOMORE): Conference USA Player of the Year ... first team All-Conference USA in back-to-back seasons ... named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-Midwest team ... C-USA All-Tournament selection ... Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll ... played in all 57 games for the Miners, seeing time at catcher, third base, first base and designated player ... led the conference in batting average (.412), doubles (19), home runs (13) and total bases (133) and ranked first on the team in runs (44), hits (73) and RBI (44) ... became the first player in program history to lead the team in batting average, hits, doubles and slugging percentage in back-to-back seasons ... ranked first in C-USA in league-only games in batting average (.481), slugging percentage (.889), runs (22), hits (39), RBIs (22), doubles (12), home runs (7) and total bases (72) ... four C-USA series with batting average above .500 and two above .600 ... intentionally walked three times ... recorded three multiple HR games - the first player in school history to do so ... broke the season records for batting average, slugging percentage, hits, doubles, home runs, RBIs, total bases and intentional walks ... one grand slam ... ended the season ranked 28th nationally in slugging percentage, 33rd in BA and on base percentage and ranked in the top 100 in HR (52nd), HR per game (67th), walks (73rd), RBIs (91st) and runs (98th) ... posted 24 multiple hit games and was the only player on the squad to record double figure multiple RBI games with 13 ... recorded a six game hitting streak including a nine-game run in C-USA only contests ... registered 241 putouts and 41 assists.
2008 (FRESHMAN): Became the first Miner in softball program history to be recognized on two all-league teams - first team All-Conference USA and All-Freshman team ... named Conference USA Hitter of the Week on March 10 after batting .833 in a series against UAB, leading UTEP to its first-ever conference sweep ... was first on the team, fourth in the league and nationally in batting average (.373) ... is first on the team in hits (53), slugging percentage (.627), and ranks tied for first in doubles (12) ... second on the team in RBI with 32, home runs (8) and on base percentage (.440) ... recorded 32 runs and drew 15 walks ... batted .413 in conference-only games to rank sixth in the league and has batted over the .500 mark in three conference series in 2008 ... saw action at catcher, first base, third base, outfield and designated player ... tallied 52 putouts with six assists ... was 2-for-4 in stolen bases ... led the Miners in multiple hits games having posted 16 while registering seven multiple RBI games ... held the second-longest hitting streak in 2008 with 13 games from Feb. 23 through March 12 ... the only Miner to record five RBIs in a game - twice (Texas Southern and Prairie View A&M) ... also had four RBIs against Northern Colorado ... one of two players to lace back-to-back home runs in a game this season (vs. Texas Southern) ... notched a career-high 13 putouts vs. Binghamton ... named to Conference USA's Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll.
PRIOR TO UTEP: A catcher at Mountain Pointe High School in Tempe, Ariz., Carrera was second team all-region in 2007 ... earned first team all-region accolades in 2005 and 2006 ... tabbed All-City and was named Most Valuable Player during the two campaigns.
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Who represents me?
Who represents me?
As a result of the 2010 U.S. census, U.S. congressional and state legislative district boundaries were redrawn for more fair representation.
The Minnesota Legislature will convene Tuesday, Jan. 8, in St. Paul. Following are lakes area legislative districts and the legislators representing you in those districts:
Senate District 5
Sen. Tom Saxhaug, DFL-Grand Rapids
Northern half of Cass and parts of Itasca and Beltrami counties.
House District 5B
Rep. Tom Anzelc, DFL-Balsam Township
Includes Pine River, Backus and Chickamaw Beach; and McKinley, Bull Moose, Barclay, Deerfield, Pine River, Powers and Ponto Lake townships in Cass County, as well as other parts of Cass and Itasca counties.
Senate District 9
Sen. Paul Gazelka, R-Cass County
Parts of Cass, Wadena, Todd and Morrison counties.
House District 9A
Rep.-elect Mark Anderson, R-Lake Shore
Includes East Gull Lake, Lake Shore and Fairview, Home Brook, Loon Lake, Wilson, Walden and Bungo townships in Cass County, as well as parts of Wadena and Todd counties.


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In his CM: the Next Generation series, Joe Farah gives us a glimpse into the trends that CM experts will need to tackle and master based upon industry trends and future technology challenges.
From my perspective, the two most important guidelines are to keep it simple and to automate. But how do you keep CM simple? And how much effort do you spend automating? What's the most effective marching strategy? Let's take a look.
Process and Team Work
Take a fresh development team who have been working away for weeks or months without any CM tools. Now tell them that they have to start using a CM tool and put all of their existing work into the CM tool. The complaints begin: There's not enough time to introduce a new tool. Designers will balk at the idea. They don't want to lose focus and we've got a deadline to meet.
Your development team may have some valid points. If you try the approach: "I know you'll take a hit, but it will improve product quality," you may make some inroads, but you may not get very far. Rather than imposing a CM tool on your team, take a different approach. "I want to make everyone's job easier. The result will be a better product." Now you'll get a bit more attention. So how do you deliver?
You have to get your product from the start line to the finish line. Not only that, but you have to make sure that what you finish with satisfies the requirements you started with. And you have to make sure the result is of high quality. Walk through the steps. How are you going to accomplish this? Well you'll need to test the product at the end. You'll also need to ensure that all of the requirements are covered by the tests. And then there's everything in between:
· You take the requirements of the customer/market and turn them into a product functional specification
· You take the functional specification and create a design around it
· You take the design and you structure your code base accordingly
· You fill in the modules of your code base using the best available integrated development environments
· You integrate the modules and do some sanity testing
· You do you full verification testing
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The illegal ivory trade has been a major problem in Africa for decades. Poachers and hunters have killed off hundreds of thousands of elephants to obtain this precious material. Now, affected areas are taking action. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced on Wednesday that key states where poaching takes place have pledged to stop the ivory trade and protect Africa's elephants.
Over the past few days, top officials and experts from 30 states met at the African Elephant Summit. The conference, organized by the IUCN and the government of Botswana, was held in Gaborone, Botswana's capital city
Conservation efforts will extend to countries outside Africa, including China and Thailand, where much of the ivory is sent. "Now is the time for Africa and Asia to join forces to protect this universally valued and much needed species," said Botswana President Ian Khama.
Years of Poaching
In the 1980s, as many as 1 million elephants across Africa were killed for their ivory tusks. The ivory was used to make jewelry and other items. This continued until 1989, when the Convention on International Trade in Species (CITES) voted to ban all trade in ivory. With trade choked off, demand for ivory fell. Governments cracked down on poachers. Elephant populations slowly began to increase. However, this progress was short-lived.
According to the IUCN, 2011 saw the highest levels of poaching and illegal ivory trading in at least 16 years. Around 25,000 elephants were killed in Africa that year. Preliminary data from the IUCN shows even higher levels of illegal trade may have been reached in 2013. "With an estimated 22,000 elephants illegally killed in 2012, we continue to face a critical situation," said John E. Scanlon, CITES Secretary-General. "Current elephant poaching in Africa remains far too high, and could soon lead to local extinctions if the present killing rate continues."
A Zero-Tolerance Approach
At the African Elephant Summit, key African states where elephants make their home agreed to develop a "zero-tolerance approach" to poaching. These states include Gabon, Kenya, Niger, and Zambia. Asian trade states Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia were also part of the agreement, along with China and Thailand.
The deal calls for maximum sentences for poachers and hunters, and increased cooperation between affected states. Officials are committed to classifying wildlife trafficking as a serious crime—and to making sure that the people who commit it are punished. All participants at the conference agreed to sign the deal. With these states coming together, there may yet be hope for elephants.


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Re: AW: st: AW: beta coefficients for interaction terms
Re: AW: st: AW: beta coefficients for interaction terms
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:17:59 +0200
Thank you very much Maarten.
So for the interpration of the beta coefficicients:
For example Y=5.09-2.30X+4.50Z+1.20XZ
The interpretion for my interaction term would be: the interaction
lowers the negative effect of X and it increases the positiv effect of
Z. Am I getting it right?
Zitat von Maarten buis <email@example.com>:
--- On Tue, 21/4/09, firstname.lastname@example.com wrote:
Without having iteraction terms, as far as I know you have
to coed -regress, beta- to get the standardised beta
coefficients, so you can tell which variable has the
biggest effect.
With interactions you have to very precise about what you
exactly want. The whole point of an interaction is that
the effect of a variable is allowed to change when
another variable changes. So the question which variable
has the bigger effect now has multiple answers.
The way forward is to go back to your substantive problem
and try to figure out what it is exactly what you want to
know, and derive your interaction term and standardizations
from that.
One way that could make sense is to present the difference
between standardized effects for different values of both
variables in a graph like in the example below:
*------------------------ begin example -------------------
sysuse auto, clear
local vlist "price mpg rep78"
foreach var of varlist `vlist' {
sum `var'
qui gen double z_`var' = (`var' - r(mean))/r(sd)
gen z_mpgXz_rep78 = z_mpg*z_rep78
reg z_price z_mpg z_rep78 z_mpgXz_rep78
gen effdif0 = _b[z_mpg] + _b[z_mpgXz_rep78]* z_mpg - ///
gen effdif_2 = _b[z_mpg] + _b[z_mpgXz_rep78]* z_mpg - ///
(_b[z_rep78] + _b[z_mpgXz_rep78]*-2)
gen effdif2 = _b[z_mpg] + _b[z_mpgXz_rep78]* z_mpg - ///
(_b[z_rep78] + _b[z_mpgXz_rep78]*2)
twoway line effdif_2 effdif0 effdif2 mpg, sort ///
ytitle("difference in standardized effects" ///
"of mileage and repair status") ///
legend(order(1 "z_rep78 = -2" ///
2 "z_rep78 = 0" ///
3 "z_rep78 = 2")) ///
*------------------- end example --------------------------
Hope this helps,
Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
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AOL Welcomes Luke Beatty as Head of Strategic Partnerships
Aug 28, 2013
I'm excited to announce that Luke Beatty is joining AOL as Head of Strategic Partnerships. In this newly created position, Luke will work with our business development, technology, advertising and content teams to create partnerships that will leverage outside thinking and resources to help build better products and services.
Luke's passion for the industry is coupled with deep roots in the digital media, content and tech spaces. His addition to the team is a great moment for us as we continue to open up AOL's content and capabilities to the best partners in the world.
His background includes Techstars – the world's leading seed fund accelerator located in Boulder – where he was the Managing Director; and Yahoo, where he was a VP and central business lead for its crowd-driven properties: Flickr, Yahoo Local, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Answers and Yahoo Contributor Network in the Americas.
In 2004, Luke founded Associated Content, an extremely successful venture whose first investor was Tim Armstrong. Known as the first and the largest crowdsourcing content collection platform in the world, Associated Content enabled hundreds of thousands of individuals to publish and generate revenue from the millions of articles, videos and images they contributed and built the web's largest freelancer community and distributed that community's content to media partners including Reuters, Yahoo and Turner. Luke ran Associated Content until Yahoo acquired it in 2010.
We're confident Luke will make a huge impact at AOL and look forward to his leadership. Please join me in welcoming him to the team on September 9.
For updates and the latest news from AOL, follow AOL PR on Twitter.
.@AOL welcomes @luke_beatty as Head of Strategic Partnerships. Details: http://t.co/migPj3d11m
- AOL PR (@AOLPR) August 28, 2013