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CHAMPAIGN — Illinois' soccer team took an early exit in the Big Ten tournament, but coach Janet Rayfield's club is continuing its journey: in the NCAA tournament.
The Illini (10-8-2) received an at-large bid Monday and will play Washington State at 3 p.m. Saturday in the first round in Pullman, Wash.
"We were excited to see our name pop up," Rayfield said. "It's been a roller coaster of a season. There have been a lot of positive things and some really tough times. To get a new life and wipe the slate clean with a chance to play in the NCAA tournament is what everybody hopes for. We are going to make the most of it."
Illinois was one of eight Big Ten teams to earn spots in the 64-team field.
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'Rowdy' Ronda Rousey is one tough S.O.B, we all know that, but her new book reveals just how tough the reigning UFC champion really is.
In Rousey's new book 'My Fight / Your Fight', she reveals her demanding and painful youth that moulded her into one of the most feared mixed martial arts fighters in history.
The New York Times shared some excerpts from the book, which covers subjects including Ronda's father's death, the tough love of her mother, drug addiction and her speech problems as a child after complications during birth.
Rousey was born in Riverside County, Calif., with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. She was blue. Doctors revived her, but those crucial moments without oxygen led to developmental delays. She didn't begin talking until she was 4 years old.
"At about 6, I began speaking coherently in sentences," Rousey says. "They told me I had brain damage from the hypoxia. But when you're a kid, your brain figures out a way to reorganize."
'The way I got here wasn't perfect, it was messy, and there was a lot of shit along the way.'- Ronda Rousey
Her beloved dad and namesake, Ron, encouraged her. "You're a smart kid," he'd say. "It's not like you're some f*ckin' moron."
Ron took her shopping for her first doll — a Hulk Hogan Wrestling Buddy, which she slept with every night. He took her hiking in the woods. At the end of each day, they'd sit together and watch the animal documentary series "Wild Discovery."
Rousey discusses the tragic death of her father in the book, a subject she very rarely speaks about:
When Rousey was 8, her father killed himself, committing suicide by asphyxia. He had suffered chronic, acute back pain since a freak accident a few years before, but no one saw it coming.
"None of us were the same after that," Rousey says. Her father's death was the most formative event of her life, and she almost never talks about it.
"I never wanted to be in the situation where I've told the story so many times that I become detached from it and don't cry," Rousey says.
Naturally, the book delves into Rousey's discovery of judo and the tough training regimen of her mum:
That same year, Rousey had another transformational moment. Rooting around the house, she came across a scrapbook. Inside were photos of her mom, who had her own secret: She had been a judo champion.
"It was an unbelievable discovery as a kid," Rousey says. "All this time, I'd been looking at my dad as big, strong, invincible, and my mom as the nurturer. I had no idea that my mom could kick my dad's ass."
Rousey's mother, AnnMaria De Mars, is a sixth-degree black belt and in 1984 became the first American to win the world judo championships.
Inspired, Rousey took up judo, and her mom became her first coach.
'All this time, I'd been looking at my dad as big, strong, invincible, and my mom as the nurturer. I had no idea that my mom could kick my dad's ass.' – Rousey
"I hurt my toe," I said. "I think it's broken."
"It's a toe," she said dismissively.
"But it hurts," I said, crying. "Do you have a pillow for me?"
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I hobbled away, more hopping than running.
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Rousey would go on to tear her ACL, break her right hand, break her nose, dislocate an elbow, get bitten by a dog four days before a fight and throw up during another, pushing through it all.
At 16, she dropped out of school, left her family and moved to Boston to train to compete in judo at the 2004 Olympics. She was thriving and unravelling, and began binging and purging to make weight.
Rousey even divulges that when she left home at 18, times got even tougher and she spiralled into addiction:
Her mother refused to let her live at home without a job. So, at 18, she went to live with a trainer who stole what little money she had. She found an older boyfriend who lived in his parents' basement, cheated on her constantly, and told her that, physically, she was "about a six."
Rousey began smoking and drinking heavily, often beginning her day with a cigarette and a vodka espresso. She developed a pot-and-Vicodin habit. She'd sleep in her car, and when she did find an apartment, all she could afford was a 12-by-12-foot studio.
"On more than one occasion," she writes, "sewage would come up out of the toilet and shower, and I'd come home from work to an apartment filled with shit. I didn't think I could get any lower."
So it turns out that Rousey has quite the life story. It all worked out in the end though; she's now one of the UFC's biggest stars and Hollywood has already come knocking for the femme fatale.
'My Fight / Your Fight' is available in the U.S today and on May 14 for UK fans.
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Isha Sharvani has been impressing the judges and audiences alike with her performances in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. This week, she faced the judges' challenge called Teen Ka Tadka, where she had to perform with an additional partner- Karanvir Bohra, along with her choreographer Salman.
Isha's act was a sensuous pole dance, which received thunderous applause. Judge Remo D'Souza called it a "parivarik (family-oriented) pole dance", while Karan Johar made a cheeky comment that it looked like a threesome on stage.
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I discuss here the Slippery Slope, which has both a causal and semantic version.
But first I'll deal with its causal version, the Fallacy of the Beard, also the Camel's Nose fallacy. The first name comes from an analogy with the greying of a man's beard, in which the amount of grey is small at first, but inexorably progresses until the entire beard is grey. The second name comes from a fable in which a camel is permitted by its owner to stick its nose in the tent for warmth from the cold desert night air, quickly followed by the entire camel, who crowds its owner out of the tent and into the cold.
Afterward, I'll discuss the semantic version, the Vagueness, or False Continuum.
The first asserts that a position or claim is unacceptable because if accepted, its extreme must inevitably follow, without sound reasons as to how or why this must be.
A superficially similar form of argument can be a strong line of reasoning when the chain of inference is laid out and logically follows, but this refers to the specious usage, as below:
The public teaching of comparative religion leads to awareness of religious diversity, then to religious doubt, then to agnosticism, then to atheism, then to anti-theism, then to nihilism, then to moral degeneracy, then inevitably to the disintegration of a society in total anarchy, so we don't want comparative religion courses taught in our public schools.
Beside the fact that the evidence just doesn't bear this ridiculous chain of consequences out, note here that no supporting reasons or other justification are ever provided as to why this chain must be true.
The semantic Vagueness, or False Continuum, is below:
One version attempts to argue that concepts B and E shade into each other along a continuum without any fine dividing line between them, so they are the same thing.
But it just doesn't follow that:
There is no difference between blue light and yellow light, despite no sharp dividing point in wavelengths in the visible spectrum.
Nor does it follow that:
There is no separation between humid or dry weather when the moisture in the air at any one time and place varies in degree from high to low.
The second variant is used to argue that concept B differs so little from concept E with no fine line between them, that concept E simply doesn't exist. As for this one, it doesn't follow that:
Truth doesn't exist because of the continuum between truth and falsehood. The concept of truth is without any objective reference.
These two fallacies, causal and semantic, are distinct, but they are mentioned together here as the use of the semantic version can and does often lead to the commission of the causal version. Their joint use implies that a slip from position or claim B to E is inevitable because of the lack of a fine point of separation between them.


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The Road to World Domination is Paved with Good Friends
I nearly cancelled heading to Portland for this year's World Domination Summit, the annual gathering of unconventional nomads and digital entrepreneurs, founded by break-out-of-the-box writer and travel hacker Chris Gillebeau. I had a spot reserved, I booked the airline ticket, and at the eleventh hour, I had considered backing out.
I didn't fully know what to expect and life is busy. I recently got engaged to the girl of my dreams. But I'm broke as a joke, I'm in between being in between jobs and everything seems to be happening at the Same. Damn. Time. Including this conference that was on the other side of the country. As more than one "life-coach" at WDS observed after talking to me, I was at a precipice. I am. Something needs to change, and I'm afraid that something is me. So I considered jumping ship.
But I had to go. I knew that much. I had a free ticket. That is, someone else invested her money in me to attend. Someone else sacrificed so I could be there. Someone else knew that I needed to be there. Little did I know, however, just how much I needed to be at the World Domination Summit. This is my journey there.
In prior years, I had seen a promo video on YouTube of WDS, the unconventional conference, and thought it looked like a mildly interesting gathering of granola-eating, hacky-sack-kicking nomads. But I wasn't really sure what it was, so I quickly forgot about it. Not long after that, I felt my own nomadic stirrings to wander, or at least to relocate. My city had nothing left for me anymore, so in 2011 I packed a duffle bag, sold my car, and moved across the country to Washington, D.C.
Meanwhile, Anna Ray, a friend of mine from college days, went to WDS last year. At the time, Anna was living in Dubai and I had no idea she went to the summit until I got a text from her on a Sunday afternoon.
"I'm listening to Scott Harrison of charity: water! You need to be here!"
This was a sort of unwelcome, unexpected proclamation as it reminded me of my youthful days of optimism, and here I was reading her jubilant text to the person she remembered me as. And I was jealous, and instantly frustrated. And I read that text on my break from that afternoon's shift at Starbucks. If ever a dissonant chord rang through my bones, it did so then as I remembered who I used to be and compared it to the rut in which I currently sat.
You see, Anna was one of those rare friends with whom it was easy to talk of big ideas and world-changing ambitions one usually keeps locked away from public ridicule. We had the occasional late night talk while other roommates played indie guitar and we'd all watch the day's last light rail trams rattle past our political-stickered dorm window.
It wasn't like we were the very best of friends. We had some great bonding times, sure, including one hell of a road trip to NYC, which was random and sensational. But I had only seen her once in the past couple of years and our contact was intermittent at best. Although it seems that such is often the case with friends like Anna. The kind of friend where time doesn't seem to matter, and the reunions are always joyous. In retrospect I suppose that's the best kind of friend one could have.
Moreover, our friendship is purely based in the greatness we see in each other, without any romantic or convoluted strings attached. Like I said, friends like Anna are rare. And she believed in me, effortlessly it seemed.
She got excited about my pie-in-the-sky dreams for personal greatness and global change. She was an early adopter to my large-scale ideas and she believed in me, independent of what I thought of myself. She believed in me every few months when she'd check in and I was an airport shuttle driver, a Starbucks barista, a seafood restaurant server, and a 28-year-old college student. Anna saw my seed of greatness, even as I had stopped watering and nurturing it.
In our conversations I can admit to incessantly talking about one organization in particular, charity: water. Anna knew first hand I was a huge fan of the digital-savvy, well-digging and well-meaning humanitarian organization since I happened upon them in their first year at the Sundance Film Festival.
"I'm listening to Scott Harrison, [founder] of charity: water right now! Joseph! You just need to be here to see that your ideas have a place in this world and that you need to be doing them."
OK, where is "here?" I wondered. I had no idea things were about to come full circle
Two days later I got my answer in another text:
"You're in. The ticket is in your name. So whatever happens, get your ass to the World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon next summer."
That was 12 months ago.
Now I'm reeling from my own WDS weekend, trying to process everything I experienced in Portland. And with the clarity of being on this end of the experience, I see the spark of inspiration Anna saw. She was someone who was in a position to make a difference in the life of someone she believed in, and luckily, she was the kind of person to act on it. Last weekend it felt like I just met 3,000 more of 'that kind' of person, and I can gratefully say I am the better for it.
I heard from Anna today in an email after I wrote her to say I was forever indebted to her for this opportunity and that in a very direct way, she was my catalyst for personal change. Her reply came swiftly:
"Yes, you are deeply indebted to me. The only payment I accept is the realization of your brilliant ideas and schemes."
All I can say for those schemes now is that they are underway. Some have more traction than others, but all are geared at the principles of WDS: Community, Adventure, and Service. I treat Anna's faith in me as an investment in my next world-changing idea. And with the tools and experience from WDS, I'm going to make good on that investment.
Of that, Anna, you can be sure.


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I have not tried their perfume oil base, but I have tried their massage/bath oil, and it has no off notes, quite rich and long lasting. (Interesting that they now have also the body cream for patch 24-they didn't last year)
I prefer the perfume oils. I tested the EDP. It does not seem to give as much power and smokiness. Ditto for the other fragrances--they somehow seem weaker. I prefer the perfume oils in the Le Labo scents for this reason.
I suggest you sample the oils and see which you prefer.
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What do you need to do? Control the water in all its forms to solve each one of the 80 puzzle available in four different chapters. This way, you'll be helping Agent P -Perry- save the world by getting to the headquarters.
What's the problem? Dr. Doofenshmirtz, the villain, has scattered lasers across the sewers and the task is much more challenging now. You will need to learn how to use items like the Heat-inator, the Cool-inator and the Celebrate-inator.
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The biker gang shootout in Waco, Texas illustrates a major problem. No, not violence. Something more serious.Diversity. There is a shocking lack of diversity in biker gangs. Where are the women gang members? Where are the transgender bikers? Why no gender fluid people? This looks like a bunch of cis White men with guns.
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What is interesting is how this biker look (which was originated in 1950s America) has gone worldwide.
The traditional biker look dates from a movie in 1953 - The Wild Ones. Now 60 years later, Russians are dressing like 1950s American bikers.
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But why the lack of women in these gangs? Anyone that watches Hollywood learns that the smallest woman could kick these guys' ass. Could it be the engine noise triggers them?


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In Drupal 8, Search API Solr is the consolidated successor to both the Apache Solr Search and Search API Solr modules in Drupal 7. I thought I'd document the process of setting up the module on a Drupal 8 site, connecting to an Apache Solr search server, and configuring a search index and search results page with search facets, since the process has changed slightly from Drupal 7.
Install the Drupal modules
In Drupal 8, since Composer is now a de-facto standard for including external PHP libraries, the Search API Solr module doesn't actually include the Solarium code in the module's repository. So you can't just download the module off Drupal.org, drag it into your codebase, and enable it. You have to first ensure all the module's dependencies are installed via Composer. There are two ways that I recommend for doing this (both are documented in the module's issue: Keep Solarium managed via composer and improve documentation ):
- Run the following commands in the root directory of your site's codebase:
composer config repositories.drupal composer https://packagist.drupal-composer.org
composer require "drupal/search_api_solr 8.1.x-dev"(or
8.1.0-alpha3for the latest stable alpha release)
- Install Composer Manager and follow Composer Manager's installation instructions to let it download module dependencies (after having downloaded search_api_solr into your codebase via Drush or manually).
Basically, you need to make sure Search API , Search API Solr , and Facets (formerly Facet API ) are in your codebase before you can install them on the Extend page:
Install those three modules on your site (either on the 'Extend' page, or via Drush with
drush en [module_name] ), and if you don't need the redundant core search functionality (you probably don't!), uninstall the Search module.
Connect to your Solr server
Visit the Search API configuration page (
/admin/config/search/search-api , or Configuration > Search and metadata > Search API in the menu), and click 'Add Server'. Add a server with the following configuration (assuming you're running this on a local instance of Drupal VM , which easily installs and configures Solr for you):
- Server name :
Local Solr Server(don't use
localhostuntil this issue is resolved!)
- Backend :
Solr(should be the only option at this point)
- HTTP protocol :
- Solr host :
- Solr port :
- Solr path :
- Solr core :
collection1(this Solr search index/core is set up for you if you use Drupal VM and uncomment the example post-provision script for Solr )
- Basic HTTP authentication : (make sure this is blank)
- Advanced : These options are up to you. Leave the version override and HTTP method set to their automatic defaults.
Click 'Save', and the server should be saved. Hopefully under Server Connection on the page that you're taken to, you see the message The Solr server could be reached. This means the server is set up correctly, and you can move on to creating a search index on the server.
Create a search index
Back on the Search API configuration page, click 'Add Index'. For the example, we'll create an index with only Article content, with the following configuration:
- Index name :
- Data sources :
- What should be indexed? :
None except those selected
- Bundles :
- Languages :
- What should be indexed? :
- Server :
Local Solr Server
Make sure the index is enabled (there's a checkbox for it), and click 'Save'. By default, Search API will index all article content that currently exists immediately (or none, if none exists at this point).
If you don't have any article content yet, create a few articles with a title, body, and some tags. Now that you have content, make sure it's indexed by running cron (either use
drush cron or run it via the Reports > Status report page). Check the index page at
/admin/config/search/search-api/index/articles to make sure articles are in the index:
Add fields to the index
Before you can search for content in the index, you need to make sure all the fields you're interested in searching are available in Solr. You need to go to the 'Fields' tab for the index, and click the 'Add fields' button to add fields from the content type to this index:
Under the 'Content' section, I chose to add the following fields:
- Content Type
- Title
- Authored by > User > Name
- Authored on
- URL alias > Path alias
- Body
- Tags
Note: As of May 2016, the UI for adding fields feels slightly jarring. There's an open issue to improve the field management UI in Search API: AJAXify and generally improve the new Fields UI .
Click 'Done' once finished adding fields, then make sure all the fields you added are present under 'Content' back on the field overview page. (Later, when you're going further into index customization and optimization, you'll spend a bit more time on this page and in this process of refining the fields, their boost, their types, etc.)
Add processors to the index
The last step in setting up the search index is the addition of 'processors', which allow the index to be more flexible and work exactly how we want it for a fulltext 'fuzzy' search as well as for faceted search results. Go to the 'Processors' tab for the Articles index, and check the following checkboxes:
- Aggregated fields
- Highlight
- Ignore case
- Node status
- Tokenizer
- Transliteration
Then, to give ourselves the ability to search with one search box on multiple fields (e.g. title, body, and tags), at the bottom of the page click 'Add new Field' in the 'Aggregated fields' configuration (note this might currently drop you into a different vertical tab once clicked—switch back to the Aggregated fields tab if so), and then call the new field 'Fulltext Article search'. Check Body, Tags, URL alias, Title, and Authored by.
Click 'Save' at the bottom of the form to save all changes. The search index will need to be updated so all the processors can have an effect, but before doing that, go back to the 'Fields' configuration for the Article search index, and switch the new aggregated field from type 'String' to 'Fulltext':
Click 'Save changes', then go back to the search index View page and click the 'Index now' button (or use cron to reindex everything).
Configure a search page and search facets
Now we come to the final and most important part of this process: creating a search page where users can search through your articles using a full-text, faceted search powered by Solr. Create a new View (visit
/admin/structure/views and click 'Add new view'), and name the view 'Article search'. For the view's general settings:
- Show :
Index Articles
- Page : Create a page (checked)
- Page title :
Article search
- Path :
- Display format :
Unformatted listof
Rendered entity
- Page title :
Click 'Save and edit' to configure the view. Now we will configure the search index view to our liking:
- Click the 'Settings' for the Rendered entity (Format > Show), and switch from the Default view mode to Teaser.
- Click the 'Add' button under Filter criteria, and add the "Fulltext Article search" aggregate field we added earlier.
- Check the 'Expose this filter to visitors' button, and change the label to 'Search', then Apply the changes.
- Save the view, then visit
Test out your new search page, and make sure you can search any part of any of the aggregated text fields.
Note: If you want to be able to search parts of words (e.g. word stems like 'other' match instances of 'another'), then you have to do that in your Solr schema, using Solr's
EdgeNGramFilterFactory ; see this documentation from Hosted Apache Solr: Enable partial word match keyword searching with EdgeNGramFilterFactory .
Add search facets
Now that we have the general search page set up, let's add a few facets to allow users to more easily drill down into their search results. Go to the Facets admin page (
/admin/config/search/facets or Configuration > Search and metadata > Facets), and click 'Add facet' to add two different facets:
- A 'Publish date' facet:
- Facet name :
Publish date
- Facet name for URLs :
- Facet source :
Article search > Page
- Facet field :
Authored on
- Weight :
- Facet name :
- A 'Tags' facet:
- Facet name :
- Facet name for URLs :
- Facet source :
Article search > Page
- Facet field :
- Weight :
- Facet name :
For the facet display settings, leave the defaults for now (you can customize the facet display and advanced behavior later), and click 'Save' to save the facet. For the 'Tags' facet, edit the display and check the 'Translate taxonomy terms' checkbox so the term name (and not the term ID) is displayed.
Go to the Block layout page (
/admin/structure/block ) to place the two new facet blocks you just created into the Left sidebar (or wherever in the theme you'd like them to be visible), and save the updated block layout.
Now, if you visit the
/search/articles page, you should see a faceted fulltext Apache Solr-powered search page, and from here you can customize anything as much or as little as you need!
Note that there are a few bits and pieces of the UI and functionality that are still being worked out between Search API, Search API Solr, Facets, and other addon modules that extend these base modules' functionality. Some features that many rely upon in Drupal 7's Solr/search ecosystem, like 'pretty paths' for Facets (e.g.
/search/articles/tag1/tag2 instead of
/search/articles?taxonomy=tid1&taxonomy_2=tid2 ) are not yet available in Drupal 8, though there are some early ports (e.g. a Facet pretty paths port ) for many of these modules in the search ecosystem.
I was pleasantly surprised how robust and complete the core search functionality already is in Drupal 8; with Drupal 8.1.0 just released, and more and more companies beginning to move to Drupal 8 as their core platform, I think we'll see more of these addon modules make their way to a stable release.


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Events from the year 1738 in Canada.
- Smallpox strikes the Cherokee in the Southeast, killing almost half the population. Smallpox also reaches tribes in western Canada.
- Esther Brandeau, in the guise of a cabin boy, is the first known Jewish woman to arrive in Canada. Eventually she is deported to France for failing to embrace the Roman Catholic religion.
- Fort Rouge (the fort), built on the Assiniboine River near the Forks.
- Fort La Reine, one of the forts of the Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye western expansion, was built. It was located on the Assiniboine River near where present day Portage la Prairie stands.
- Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye travelled southwest from Fort La Reine to the area of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota.
- June 25 - Thomas Peters, black soldier and leader (died 1792)
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Found on waste lands and in pastures. Likes rich organic soil. Leaves are grey with veins of silver-white, large, with prickly edges. Flowers are large , thistle-form purple, and the involucres prickly and barbed. (Another species of milky-veined thistle grows in the Holy Land, also called after the Virgin Mary). The name –Marianum- is sometimes explained thus; a drop of milk from the breast of the Virgin Mary is said to have fallen on the thistle as she was cutting thistle fodder to feed her donkey. The thistle then became medicinal and edible. The word Carduus shows that the species was once used for carding wool. The word comes from the Gaelic word for carding wool. On good ground it can reach man-height. All parts of the plants are useful, but especially the seeds.
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Last weekend we ventured away with our son. This time to Tasmania, his third trip in eight months of life, and we knew how to prepare. Luggage was simple: a small daypack each for my wife and me, with a massive suitcase filled with the paraphernalia of infancy for him. But more than anything the trip was a success because I now understand the secret of parenting: always lower your expectations.
In retrospect, I should have understood this from the events of his birth. My wife had a routinely horrendous experience, with plenty of blood, screams and exquisite pain. Yet she still speaks fondly of it all; in the end, it could have been a whole lot worse. I imagine that once you accept the prospect of a runaway train ripping through your perineum things can only improve from there.
And so it is with just about every aspect of having a baby. We have long ago abandoned hope of a sudden change in his sleep. I originally thought this might happen at three months, then we pushed it to six. Now at eight months and still predominantly nocturnally alert I have become resigned to our fate. I doubt he will ever simply lie down and snooze for the night.
But by forsaking hope for an idea of perfect that may never exist, we can instead celebrate the real achievements that have been made. For starters, he is no longer in our bed. That means we can have dinner together, even if the whole process of cooking, eating and cleaning has to take place in the half hour we have before he wakes up again screaming.
It might not sound like much, but it is infinitely better than the early months of tag-teaming rocking in a dark room to keep him sedate. And then he will re-settle, eventually, and we can almost have a conversation before one or both of us collapses again.
While we do hope for improvements in his sleep, we know these will be gradual, and we adjust our expectations accordingly. Suddenly we feel less like failures, because we are ahead of rather than behind the game.
It doesn't end at sleep. Most parents will know that developmental milestones are another source of potential consternation. I was vaguely aware of how competitive these could be, particularly with other babies of a similar age around.
Consciously, we have tried to avoid taking them too seriously. He is smiling, laughing, engaging and pooping –- everything about that is incredible, and humbling. We don't want to have expectations of anything else along a specific schedule, lest we be worried about a mythically concerning delay.
Perhaps this is easier as a doctor. Milestones, as taught in medical school, are extremely broad. They exist only to discover significant illnesses that may require intervention, rather than a faux-concern about regimental steps in physical development, or specific weeks where changes are scheduled to occur. At the moment he giggles when we give him raspberries, and that seems about right.
This is not about anticipating underachievement; it is instead an approach to parenting that ignores meaningless external pressure. Really I hope it extends to how we treat him as a child, a teenager, and an adult. I want to encourage him to be whomever and whatever he desires, to the best of his ability.
There is always a risk coming from a family like ours of having a sense of necessary achievement. But I want him to know that my only expectation is that he is my son, and he can always expect me to be there as his father.
So what did we do on this trip? We saw some buildings. We spent about an hour at MONA before he lost it. He found some new carpet on which to vomit.
Before he was born that would seem like a waste of a trip. But now, heading south, we imagined we wouldn't be able to leave the hotel at all. Instead we crossed that bar with plenty of space, finding unanticipated joy in the bonus. With low expectations, you can only ever go up.


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At an estimated £15 million Ashley Young's move from Aston Villa to Manchester United does not represent the most expensive signing of what has been a relatively quiet transfer summer, but it is the most significant deal that has been completed thus far.
It's also a bargain.
That might seem a somewhat crazy thing to say, but one of the most underrated factors when signing players these days seems to be proven quality.
Instead there is a prevalent obsession with "potential": everybody seems to be looking to find that rough diamond that they can then chisel in their own image - even if said diamond is going to cost you more money than Young (see Phil Jones and Jordan Henderson).
In ED's mind, though, one of the most derided transfer moves of last season proved to be one of the best.
When Darren Bent signed for Aston Villa from Sunderland for a reported £18m (rising to a potential £24m), the general consensus at the time was that Villa had paid massively over the odds. But why?
Darren Bent scores goals in the Premier League - he's been doing it for a good few years now - and at the prime age for a footballer of 27 - there is no reason why he can't go on doing it for a good few more years yet.
People seemed almost surprised when he walked straight into the Villa team and just continued doing what he was doing at Sunderland - playing well and scoring goals.
Will he get any better? Probably not, but who cares when you are banging in 20 goals a season without fail?
Liverpool, on the other hand splashed, out £35m on Newcastle's Andy Carroll with the sole justification for such a huge outlay being that "P" word we mentioned earlier.
Now if Carroll goes on to become, like Bent, a player who scores 20 goals in the Premier League each season, it will seem like a shrewd bit of business.
But does it not seem like a skewed market when you are paying almost double for someone who has the potential to do what a finished product is already doing at half the price?
Bent's now former team-mate Young is a similar signing for United. All transfers have an element of risk about them but the capture of Young is pretty much as safe as you can get.
He's English, he's played in the Premier League for a number of years now, he is an established international, he will know all about the histories and traditions of Manchester United and perhaps more importantly about Sir Alex Ferguson.
If Ferguson tells him he should do X or work on Y, Young will know to listen because he has grown up and then played in a culture that has (rightly) revered the record-breaking Manchester United manager.
The one big risk when signing a proven *superstar* (say the Kakas or Wesley Sneijders of this world who may or may not be on the market) is that they might expect to have the team built around them, because they have grown up being the centre of attention.
Sure, if they embrace and integrate themselves into the culture of the club (a la Dennis Bergkamp or Gianfranco Zola) they will become a huge success, but if they struggle to adapt their game and mindset to their new surroundings they can become an expensive mistake (see Juan Sebastian Veron or Andriy Shevchenko).
Young's progression to United has been much more organic. He has moved from what was then a small Premier League club (Watford) to a bigger one (Aston Villa) to the biggest one (Manchester United).
There is still work to be done at United; from a purely positional sense Young was not a crying need with the likes of Antonio Valencia, Nani and Park Ji-Sung already offering United good options in wide positions, and as the Armchair Pundit noted yesterday, some serious surgery is still needed in regards to the midfield.
But in the current climate, £15m for a proving Premier League star coming into the prime years of his career seems like a bit of a steal.
Stockpiling on young talent is an interesting tactic and one that can pay dividends if you make the right picks, but waiting for your numbers to come up can be a slow and painful process - just ask Arsenal fans.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "We are very open-minded, we are open to them, to their problems and not only the problems they face on the pitch but their problems that they face in their day-to-day life. We are not just managers of the game, we are people who understand the person as a whole. This is something that we feel can have a good impact." - with the likes of Ashley Cole and John Terry at the club let's see if Andre Villas-Boas attitude toward his players' "day-to-day" lives is still as tolerant in three years as it is after three days.
FOREIGN VIEW: Hundreds of furious River Plate fans tried to storm the club's Monumental stadium, a day after the Argentine giant moved to the brink of relegation for the first time in their 110-year existence.
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It's probably only temporary and on reading this they'll rear up again, but I can't recall an occasion when I've been subjected to such intense lobbying - I could swear that everybody of any merit in London enjoyed this exalted tax status, such was the importance attached to getting the non-doms off the hook.
Cutting through their indignation, it was obvious the Government had made a profound mistake.
For Alistair Darling to call his climbdown a "clarification" and a drafting slip was grotesque - not only has he lost the trust of the country after his shambolic start but it's hard to imagine how his officials and colleagues can have any faith in him. He's clearly one senior minister who is not prepared to take the rap.
What now? Having set out to implement tax reforms, the Government has been forced to beat a hasty retreat, not once but twice, on capital gains and nondoms.
We should not suppose, however, that just because Darling didn't succeed with his proposed changes that the status quo is perfect. It isn't - the UK has the most complicated tax regime in the world.
The current edition of Tolley's Yellow Tax Handbook, the definitive guide to the tax system, runs to four volumes and has 40% more pages than the 2001 version - it has a total of 9866 pages compared with 5952 pages in two volumes in 2001.
This is absurd.Yet at every step, Gordon Brown and his faithful servant, Darling, have appeared more intent on adding to it than subtracting. But, having been sent packing, now is the moment, surely for them to step back to look at what it is, after more than a decade in power, they're actually trying to achieve.
What is required is a wholesale (I nearly slipped into New Labour vernacular and said "root and branch") overhaul of the tax regime.
They should take a red pen to the myriad convoluted allowances and get rid of as many as possible. Income tax should be flat - 20% over £10,000. What we need to tax as a society is consumption - so raise VAT to 20% and to 25% on goods over £50,000 so it hits the rich. We're spending (and borrowing in order to spend) far too much and not saving enough. Investments should be made free of capital gains.
We should take a look at the United States and Ireland, where lighter taxation has produced a rise in GDP. To get round the problem of the "for cash" economy, Darling could make the provision of services under £200 VAT-free. Small businesses would get a huge lift and we would stop the charade that is played out with every builder, decorator and plumber in the land.
But a simpler code should be accompanied by a regime ready to crack down. Have you ever witnessed the reaction of an American when they mention their own Internal Revenue Service? You can almost see a shadow pass over their eyes. In the US, the tax yield has been rising. Why? Because they do not stand for any nonsense from anyone.
Draconian penalties coupled with a rigorous inspection system have virtually eradicated tax dodging in the US. No one will dare risk it.
Avoidance, too, is not the industry that it is here. We could do the same - the Revenue staff freed up by simplification could move across to collection.
If Darling wants to be remembered for anything other than the Northern Rock, missing computer discs, capital gains and now the non-doms fiascos, he should tear up the books and start again.
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ERP at Kohinoor Planet Constructions - Dead End or A Road Ahead
Authored by Dr. R. Raman (SCIT, SIU, Pune India) and co-authored by Dr. Dhanya Pramod and Mr. S. Vijayakumar Bharathi (SCIT, SIU, Pune India) View Author(s) Info
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This case study is about certain unmet project challenges of ERP implementation at Kohinoor Planet Constructions Pvt. Ltd (KPC). KPC envisaged an ambitious plan of implementing ERP for certain key business objectives like strengthening the supply chain partnerships, improve customer relations, enhance organizational flexibility, transparency and clarity in decision-making and more importantly reduce project completion time and cost. The majority of contractor firms have awareness about the ERP systems but very few organizations have taken the initiative to implement the same. The challenges faced in time, cost and resources are the major factors of non-interest in ERP implementation.
The relevance of project management in ensuring that the implementation of ERP does not get into a cost and schedule over run is emphasized in this case. The case provides a multi-dimensional perspective of a project, such as planning, organisation, information system acquisition, personnel selection, and management and monitoring of software implementation. The strategic perspective of project management discussed extensively so as to convince the stakeholders that the system deployed is aligned with overall business strategy while enabling success.
The case study explains the different phases of ERP namely project planning, product and vendor selection and implementation and narrates the inherent inefficiencies in project scoping, scheduling and cost management. This case study also brings out the issues relating to configuration vs. customization resulting in a mismatch between the client expectation and project deliverables. Finally, the case explains the abandonment of the ERP product and the company's recent initiative of re-starting the ERP implementation from scratch.
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• The issues and challenges relating to project scoping, scheduling and budgeting in an ERP Project for a Construction Company
• The reasons that can lead to a mismatch between client's expectation and project deliverables
• The application of certain appropriate knowledge areas of project management with a view to enhance the implementation results
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Electric Panel Heating
This type of heating is often found in rural homes that don't have a gas or oil supply. Each panel heater is wired to the mains, most have an integrated thermostat that controls that particular panel. There is rarely a room or house thermostat to control the system as a whole. The systems are expensive to run, so any intelligent control that you can add will quickly save you money as well as making the system more convenient to use and monitor.
Types and Connections
There are two types of electrical connection used for panel heaters:
- Wall Plug
The Panel heater simply plugs into a wall socket (outlet), adding home automation control for this type is incredibly simple by using a Z-Wave Wall plug.
- Fused Spur
Each Panel is wired into a 'fused-spur' that provides power from the house's main power circuit, you can use a Z-Wave Relay/Switch (wired after the fused spur) to control power to the panel heater.
Add Home Automation to Control Your Panel Heating
Adding home automation to control this type of Electric Panel heating system is very easy straightforward. By adding a Z Wall Plug or Relay/Switch you have wireless control of each heating panel. You can decide when each one is active to ensure they are only used when they need to be - they are expensive to run, so the less time they are active the better. When they are active the in-built thermostat will control the temperature around that panel, however, these can be mistakenly set, so we also suggest using a Z-Wave Wireless Thermostat. The Thermostat will control the room's overall temperature, making sure it is comfortable and that all the panels work together in the most efficient manner.
Components - what they do
To add home automation control of your electric panel-based heating system, you only need to add three components (less if you already have a Z-Wave system). Below we explain the function of each component and our recommended products.
Wall Plug
This is a simple Z-Wave On/Off Wall plug that allows you to wirelessly control the panel's power. There's also a version that measures the power consumed by the heating panel, so you know exactly how much it's costing you.
- TKB On/Off Wall Plug
Simple, reliable plug to control the panel's power.
- TKB Wall Plug Switch/Meter
Provides On/Off control of the heating panel and measures its power consumption.
Relay / Switch
The Z-Wave Relay/Switch is wired into the mains after the fused spur, it then allows you to wirelessly control the panel's power.
- Fibaro Switch 2 (Single)
Ideal for controlling panels up to 2Kw (8A).
- Aeon Heavy Duty Switch
Provides On/Off control of the heating panel, up to 7Kw (40A) and measures its power consumption.
As you can see there are a variety of Z-Wave modules to choose from. We have a very good guide that can help you select the most suitable devices for your application - take a look at our Choosing a Z-Wave Module guide.
Wall Thermostat
Communicates directly with the Wall Plug or Relay to control the heating panel depending on the room's ambient temperature and the 'set-point' temperature you've selected. You can change the thermostat's set-point temperature wirelessly, giving you complete control over your heating system.
- Secure Wall Thermostat (SRT321)
Wall mounted thermostat controls the panels and can have it's set-point changed by the Z-Wave controller. All heating schedules will be run in the Z-Wave controller and the heating's On/Off periods controlled by changing the wall thermostat's set-point.
- Secure Programmable 7-day Thermostat (SCS317)
Very similar to the Secure Wall Thermostat, except it has an integrated 7-day timer that enables it to run the heating based on schedules you program into the thermostat - it can have up to 6 temperature periods per day.
Z-Wave Controller
The controller enables you to add and configure devices to your Z-Wave system and run 'schedule scenes'. It also acts as a gateway allowing you to control the system from a smartphone even when you are away from home. In the case of heating, the controller will run the schedules to control when the heating is On/Off and at what temperature, it will also run the hot-water times.
- VERA Plus
Extremely flexible controller for Z-Wave, Z-Wave Plus and ZigBee systems.
- VERA Edge
Low cost, very capable Z-Wave controller for heating and complete home automation.
- Fibaro Home Center 2 (HC2)
Flexible Z-Wave controller with an intuitive User Interface (UI), includes dedicated Heating 'panels' for easier schedule and control of your heating system and advanced LUA programming capabilities.
- Fibaro Home Center Lite
Flexible Z-Wave controller with an intuitive User Interface (UI) and includes dedicated Heating 'panels' for easier schedule and control of your heating system.
Further Guides
These guides and videos show how these various systems can be integrated with Vesternet's home automation products.
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"Well, Ivan is a lot like me. We're actually twins believe it or not." he smiled at my shocked face. Well, I wasn't actually shocked since Dale had told me, but I wanted him to feel good, telling me something he thought I didn't know about him.
"Yeah. We both have tempers, but since Ivan is more outgoing and talks more, he can control his thirst and temper better than I can. He's more confident in his restraint than I am. And you see, since we're vampires, our senses are faster and sharper, but when we're around humans we have to get used to your slow brains." he ended it in a joke.
"Oh, I'm sorry I have such a slow brain." I said and laughed.
"It's okay. I'm getting used to it." he said and I chuckled softly.
"So, what are the others like?"
"Well, Vincent, the one who's in your biology class, is obviously really strong and has a good sense of humor — Alister's the slick one and serious, Aubrey is really out there and is hard to explain." Then he quieted for a minute, obviously thinking of the best way to describe Aubrey. He furrowed his brow, making creases in his forehead and pressed his lips together in a hard line.
Wow. Was Aubrey really that hard to describe? I thought and then looked down at our hands. They weren't intertwined, but just like a regular holding hands thing. But then again, I guess we weren't really that close. I mean, we weren't even dating yet. I let out a low, barely recognizable sigh of yearning and hoped that he didn't catch that. He did though and glanced at me to see what was wrong, but I had already changed my expression and smiled at him, waiting patiently for him to continue.
He looked at me a second longer, but when he didn't find anything out of place he went on. "I guess you could say she's just happy all the time and it's hard to make her not happy, but when you do it's serious — And Mira, she's the hard one to please. She's really high on her important list, you know? — Very big headed. She's still cool though and once you get past her iron wall, she's soft and sensitive." After hearing that, I really wanted to meet them, but I wasn't so sure about Mira. He said that she was soft and sensitive, but he also said that she had an iron wall and I wasn't too sure I could get passed that. And to be frank, she kind of scared me.
"She looked at me once." I said, looking out in front of us while I saw her in the math room again, heading out the door, and catching my eye just as she disappeared.
"Mira? When?" he asked and sounded kind of nervous.
"In Math. It was just before she went through the door, her eyes just flashed to mine and then she disappeared. It didn't look mean or anything, just a look, a strong look." I said.
"I wonder what Alister has been telling her. Well, I'll have to talk to her about that later." he said and then moved on. "Do you have any siblings other than Kati?" he asked, glancing up at me.
"No, Kati's the only one, but she's cool… sometimes anyway. She can be a bit snooty at times, but other than that we don't really hang out together much." I said, looking at the asphalt.
"Why not?" he asked and I glanced at him. He looked oddly concerned about that and I couldn't help but smile at the sweetness of it.
"I don't know really, but I guess it's because it's our ages or maybe that she's in college now. We were really close when we were little, but ever since we both got in high school and she became a junior she just had so much she was doing." I said.
"I'm sorry." he said and I smiled at him.
"No, it's okay. I don't think about it much, having so much to do myself. I mean we were still close, don't get me wrong, but we didn't just sit around and chat up a storm or gossip about which guys we thought were cute or whatever. That's what I have Sue for and we had different groups anyway." I explained, making sure he didn't think I was mistreated or something.
"You were both comfortable and that's what matters." he said and I nodded, glad he got my point.
"So," I asked, getting back on subject, "What's Ivan going to do about Sue?"
"What do you mean?" he wrinkled his face in confusion.
"I mean does he like her or not?" I explained.
"He does." he smiled.
"Is he going to tell her what he is?" I asked.
"I don't know, but if I've already told you then he'll probably do the same. Though she might not react the same as you." he said and stopped walking. "Let's start back to the gym. It's almost time for dance practice."
"Are you still going to wear your hat?" I asked timidly, looking into his bright red eyes again.
"Today." he said. He gently lifted his hat off of my head and situated it back on his head.
"If it helps; I think your eyes are beautiful." I said and smiled at him.
"Thank you." he smiled back and took my hand. I was silently rejoicing with excitement. I was dating a vampire. Connelly! Well, it wasn't official, but I was definitely going to stop flirting with Louis.
"Are you still going to let me see your eyes even though you're wearing the hat?" I asked.
"Yes." he said and nodded. Then he smiled and lifted his hat so I could see his cherry red eyes.
As we entered the gym we noticed first, that it was missing the kids from our gym class and second, was now filled with kids from the other gym classes. I noticed all my friends and Louis standing on the edge of the crowd.
I heard Connelly sigh and when I looked up at him he seemed distressed. "What's wrong?" I asked.
"My family's upset. See, I had been planning to tell you for about a week now, well actually since that Saturday. I had talked to them and asked them for advice. They heard us outside and I have to go explain." he said. He smiled at me softly before he walked off towards his family. I looked over at them and his family did in fact look upset and angry.
"Kota." I heard Sue call and ran over to her.
"Hey, how'd it go? What did he say?" Sue pushed for details.
I decided not to tell her until I got an okay from Ivan.
"He likes me and said sorry for being rude." I said happily and we did our little girl dance thing.
"I saw you holding hands." Sue said quietly.
"Yeah, he's great." I said.
"Kota, what's up with you and Connelly?" Dale strode over with his chest puffed out, looking at me suspiciously.
"Nothing. Why?" I asked.
"I still don't trust him." said Dale.
"Well, you're going to have to get over it because I'm going to be around him a lot more from now on." I lifted my head, daring him to say something else.
"I'm just worried about you." It sounded like he was begging me. He had a right to worry about me though; I was going with a vampire.
"I know, but it'll be okay." I smiled. I looked around at Connelly and his family in the far corner of the gym. They were all around him and looking angry while he explained. They took turns saying things to him, which he would quickly answer before another one would say something. I felt bad for him and hoped that it wasn't going as bad as it looked like it was.


text: CARMEL, Ind., April 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- ITT Educational Services, Inc. (NYSE: ESI), a leading provider of post-secondary degree programs, today announced that it intends to release preliminary, select operational and financial results from its first quarter 2014 before the market opens on Thursday, May 22, 2014. ITT/ESI also will conduct a conference call with financial analysts that morning at 11:00 a.m. ET to discuss the information released. As previously disclosed, issues relating to the accounting treatment for the variable interest entity involved in the PEAKS Private Student Loan Program (the "PEAKS Program") have caused delays associated with completing the company's financial statements, footnotes and related disclosures for its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013 ("2013 Form 10-K") and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2014 (the "First Quarter 2014 Form 10-Q"). ITT/ESI has submitted a preclearance request to the Office of the Chief Accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission relative to the accounting treatment for the variable interest entity involved in the PEAKS Program. Although ITT/ESI's financial statements, footnotes and related disclosures for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013 and the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2014 may not be finalized by May 22, 2014, the company intends to release on that date its first quarter 2014 operational results and preliminary, select first quarter 2014 financial results that are available at that time. ITT/ESI also intends to provide an update in the release and on the conference call regarding the status of the 2013 Form 10-K and the First Quarter 2014 Form 10-Q. The public is invited to listen to a live webcast of the conference call. It may be accessed by following the "Live Webcast" directions on ITT/ESI's Web site, located at www.ittesi.com. Webcast participants are encouraged to log in prior to the 11:00 a.m. start time to ensure connection before the beginning of the call. An archived version of the webcast also will be available on the Web site for replay until May 22, 2015. About ITT Educational Services, Inc. ITT Educational Services, Inc. (NYSE: ESI) provides technology-oriented undergraduate and graduate degree programs through its accredited ITT Technical Institutes and Daniel Webster College to help students develop skills and knowledge that they can use to pursue career opportunities in a variety of fields. It owns and operates more than 135 ITT Technical Institutes and Daniel Webster College. ITT/ESI serves more than 55,000 students at its campuses in 39 states and online. Through the Center for Professional Development @ ITT Technical Institute, ITT/ESI provides short-term information technology and business learning solutions for career advancers and other professionals. Headquartered in Carmel, IN, ITT/ESI has been actively involved in the higher education community since 1969 and can be found online at www.ittesi.com.


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The Gran Premio Polla de Potrillos is a Group I flat race for three-year-old colts and geldings, run over a distance of 1600 metres every September in Maroñas racetrack in Montevideo, Uruguay. It is the first leg (together with the Polla de Potrancas) of the Uruguayan Triple Crown for three year-olds.
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[UPDATED] Foreign Policy's David Kenner pointed out Monday that former vice president and ex-Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney just went on a junket to meet with Saudi Arabian leaders, a quiet pow-wow that's been discussed in the Saudi media but not so much over here. Cheney—who's been busy defending torture and complaining that Barack Obama lets world leaders "think they're dealing with a weak president"—weakened the president by visiting a leading torture regime and its caliph, King Abdullah.
So, what was the ex-veep doing in Riyadh?
The obvious answer would be: something financially advantageous. Cheney, who oversaw the Saudi staging of Gulf War I, has always maintained good relations with the kingdom and its elites—relations that certainly came in handy after the war, when his oil-services and all-around shady operation, Halliburton, won lots of US and Saudi contracts to help extract the kingdom's petroleum wealth—and buttress its national defenses.
But those sorts of financial entanglements—and high-level contacts—can quickly deteriorate into policy interference. Which wouldn't be new territory for Cheney, who as CEO helped Halliburton skirt international and US terror sanctions on trade with Iran in order to make a quick buck.
If his Saudi expedition is intended in any way to undermine the US administration's foreign policy—and his track record here isn't great—then some politicians might argue he's skirting the law...the longstanding Logan Act, to be exact. Mind you, nobody's ever been prosecuted under that act, which prohibits private citizens from setting US foreign policy. But just a few years ago, Cheney's GOP colleagues in Congress constantly used the Logan Act to threaten Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, and even promulgated ethical guidelines on foreign post-employment activities for Republican politicians. (Cheney and fellow GOPers may not have read those guidelines, though, since the link to them seems to be dead.)
Look, it could be nothing. Richard Cheney, whether he's a nice guy or not, whether he's right or not, is entitled to his travels and meetings. And he's probably got a lot more friends in that desert-straddling medieval-style theocracy than he does in these United States. The least he could do is keep his countrymen in the loop. But hey, why start now?


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iPhone fans everywhere have been anxiously awaiting the announcement of the iPhone 5, and it looks like we won't have long to wait. Although Apple has not made an official announcement, there is an event planned for September 12 and most speculate that this sought-after new gadget will be announced at this event.
New features in the next generation iPhone are thought to include a slightly larger screen, NFC technology that would make it easier to make payments through phones, and a smaller dock connector.
There are also speculations that the "iPad Mini" may be unveiled on September 12. Many other tablet-makers are creating smaller versions of tablets, and Apple needs to keep up with the competition. And speaking of competition, Apple is now faced with a market of smart phones that are putting the iPhone to shame. Although the iPhone is still the most popular handset, Android's numbers are growing and growing. The new Samsung Galaxy S III has sold over 10 million phones in just two months, and many consider it to be better than the current iPhone.
Microsoft just announced that the final code for the new Windows 8 operating systems was released to manufactures. It is expected to be available to consumers on October 26. Updated features in Windows 8 include better personalization of the Start screen, better safety features, multi-monitor support, and improvements to various apps. In fact, Windows 8 is opening the door for huge opportunities for app development. Best of all, Microsoft has announced a Windows Upgrade Offer, meaning that it will cost only around $15 for current Windows 7 users to upgrade to the new operating system.
Operating systems aren't the only thing Microsoft is getting right these days. Microsoft just announced their brand new and really cool Wedge Touch Mouse and Wedge Touch Keyboard. Both of these products are cable-free, relying only on Bluetooth to connect. The keyboard comes with a cover that can be used as a tablet stand. The keyboard is compact but not cramped, and is equipped with keys specific to the new Windows 8 operating system. The Wedge Touch Mouse is another handy gadget that offers four-way touch scrolling. Its Bluetrack technology allows it to be used on essentially any surface. These new gadgets are just one indication of the greater strides Microsoft is taking to improve its technology and designs.
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America's Last Vietnam Battle: Halting Hanoi's 1972 Easter Offensive
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Dezember 2001
BeschreibungIn the spring of 1972, North Vietnam launched a massive military offensive designed to deliver the coup de grce to South Vietnam and its rapidly disengaging American ally. But an overconfident Hanoi misjudged its opponents who, led by American military advisers and backed by American airpower, were able to hold off the North's onslaught in what became the biggest battle of a very long war. Dale Andrad rescues this epic engagement from its previous neglect to tell a riveting tale of heroism against great odds. "One of the best books on the Vietnam War."--Washington Post Book World Dale Andrad, a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, is the author of Ashes to Ashes: The Phoenix Program and the Vietnam War and coauthor of Spies and Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam.
Untertitel: 'Modern War Studies (Paperback)'. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: UNIV PR OF KANSAS
Erscheinungsdatum: Dezember 2001
Seitenanzahl: 312 Seiten
Format: kartoniert