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Brava, TavieMature
I handed her a pen and pencil. Alright Tavie, here's what you can and can't eat.
Basically, if you like it, you're not allowed to eat it. Because you eat too much of it.
She wrote it all down. Now she's accountable to her piece of paper. She's the type that will follow it diligently.... too diligently, doctors would say.
And remember how you were taught that breakfast is the most important meal of the day? That's just not true. Especially for you, my dear. You can't lose weight without going hungry.
She's so easy to mess with.
Day one of changing herself was off to a great start.
She entered the kitchen... I surrounded her with delicious foods... her usual favorites... And told her she couldn't have any of them.
Her mom offered her pancakes. She didn't want them.
And than, I had a breakthrough with little Miss Tavie:
I've already eaten breakfast, Mom.
Brava, Tavie. I swelled with pride.


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- 1the headache and sick feeling that you have the day after drinking too much alcohol She woke up with a terrible hangover.
- 2[usually singular] hangover (from something) a feeling, custom, idea, etc. that remains from the past, although it is no longer practical or suitable the insecure feeling that was a hangover from her childhood hangover laws from the previous administration see also holdover
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text: Information Extraction in the Past 20 Years: Traditional vs. Open Heng Ji firstname.lastname@example.com Acknowledgement: some slides from Radu Florian and Stephen Soderland Long successful run – MUC – CoNLL – ACE – TAC-KBP – DEFT – BioNLP Programs – MUC – ACE – GALE – MRP – BOLT – DEFT 2 Genres – Newswire – Broadcast news – Broadcast conversations – Weblogs – Blogs – Newsgroups – Speech – Biomedical data – Electronic Medical Records Quality 3 Portability Quality Challenges 4 Where have we been? We're thriving We're making slow but consistent progress Relation Extraction Event Extraction Slot Filling We're running around in circles Entity Linking Name Tagging We're stuck in a tunnel Entity Coreference Resolution 5 Name Tagging: "Old" Milestones Year Tasks & Resources Methods F-Measure Example References 1966 - First person name tagger with punch card 30+ decision tree type rules - (Borkowski et al., 1966) 1998 MUC-6 MaxEnt with diverse levels of linguistic features 97.12% (Borthwick and Grishman, 1998) 2003 CONLL System combination; Sequential labeling with Conditional Random Fields 89% (Florian et al., 2003; McCallum et al., 2003; Finkel et al., 2005) 2006 ACE Diverse levels of linguistic features, Re-ranking, joint inference ~89% (Florian et al., 2006; Ji and Grishman, 2006) Our progress compared to 1966: More data, a few more features and more fancy learning algorithms Not much active work after ACE because we tend to believe it's a solved problem… 6 The end of extreme happiness is sadness… State-of-the-art reported in papers 7 The end of extreme happiness is sadness… Experiments on ACE2005 data 8 Challenges Defining or choosing an IE schema Dealing with genres & variations –Dealing with novelty Bootstrapping a new language Improving the state-of-the-art with unlabeled data Dealing with a new domain Robustness 9 99 Schemas of IE on the Wall… Many IE schemas over the years: – MUC – 7 types • PER, ORG, LOC, DATE, TIME, MONEY, PERCENT – ACE – 5 7 5 types • PER, ORG, GPE, LOC, FAC, WEA, VEH • Has substructure (subtypes, mention types, specificity, roles) – CoNLL: 4 types • ORG, PER, LOC, MISC – ONTONotes: 18 types • CARDINAL,DATE,EVENT,FAC,GPE,LANGUAGE,LAW,LOC,MONEY,NORP,ORDIN AL,ORG,PERCENT,PERSON,PRODUCT,QUANTITY,TIME,WORK_OF_ART – IBM KLUE2: 50 types, including event anchors – Freebase categories – Wikipedia categories Challenges: – Selecting an appropriate schema to model – Combining training data 10 My Favorite Booby-trap Document http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/19/business/lvmh-makes-a-two-part-offer-for-donna-karan.html LVMH Makes a Two-Part Offer for Donna Karan By LESLIE KAUFMAN Published: December 19, 2000 The fashion house of Donna Karan, which has long struggled to achieve financial equilibrium, has finally found a potential buyer. The giant luxury conglomerate LVMH-Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, which has been on a sustained acquisition bid, has offered to acquire Donna Karan International for $195 million in a cash deal with the idea that it could expand the company's revenues and beef up accessories and overseas sales. At $8.50 a share, the LVMH offer represents a premium of nearly 75 percent to the closing stock price on Friday. Still, it is significantly less than the $24 a share at which the company went public in 1996. The final price is also less than one-third of the company's annual revenue of $662 million, a significantly smaller multiple than European luxury fashion houses like Fendi were receiving last year. The deal is still subject to board approval, but in a related move that will surely help pave the way, LVMH purchased Gabrielle Studio, the company held by the designer and her husband, Stephan Weiss, that holds all of the Donna Karan trademarks, for $450 million. That price would be reduced by as much as $50 million if LVMH enters into an agreement to acquire Donna Karan International within one year. In a press release, LVMH said it aimed to combine Gabrielle and Donna Karan International and that it expected that Ms. Karan and her husband ''will exchange a significant portion of their DKI shares for, and purchase additional stock in, the combined entity.'' 11 Analysis of an Error Donna Karan International 12 Analysis of an Error: How can you Tell? FAC Saddam Hussein International Airport 8 FAC Baghdad International 1 ORG Amnesty International 3 FAC International Space Station 1 ORG International Criminal Court 1 ORG Habitat for Humanity International 1 ORG U-Haul International 1 FAC Saddam International Airport 7 ORG Karan International Committee of the Red Cross 4 Donna International ORG International Committee for the Red Cross 1 FAC International Press Club 1 Ronald International ORG Reagan American International Group Inc. 1 ORG Boots and Coots International Well Control Inc. 1 ORG International Committee of Red Cross 1 Saddam International ORGHussein International Black Coalition for Peace and Justice 1 FAC Baghdad International Airport RG Center for Strategic and International Studies 2 Dana International ORG International Monetary Fund 1 13 14 Dealing With Different Genres: Weblogs: – All lower case data • obama has stepped up what bush did even to the point of helping our enemy in Libya. – Non-standard capitalization/title case • LiveLeak.com - Hillary Clinton: Saddam Has WMD, Terrorist Ties (Video) Solution: Case Restoration (truecasing) 15 } 16 Out-of-domain data Volunteers have also aided victims of numerous other disasters, including hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Andrew and Isabel, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. 17 Out-of-domain Data Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson got a boost on Tuesday as a horse he part owns What A Friend landed the prestigious Lexus Chase here at Leopardstown racecourse. 18 Bootstrapping a New Language English is resource-rich: –Lexical resources: gazetteers –Syntactic resources: PennTreeBank –Semantic resources: Wordnet, entity-labeled data (MUC, ACE, CoNLL), Framenet, PropBank, NomBank, OntoBank How can we leverage these resources in other languages? MT to the rescue! Mention Detection Transfer ES: El soldado nepalés fue baleado por ex soldados haitianos cuando patrullaba la zona central de Haiti , informó Minustah . EN: The Nepalese soldier was gunned down by former Haitian soldiers when patrullaba the central area of Haiti , reported minustah . El soldado nepalés fue baleado por ex soldados haitianos cuando patrullaba la zona central de Haiti , informó Minustah . The Nepalese soldier was gunned down by former Haitian soldiers when patrolling the central area of Haiti , reported minustah . O B-GPE B-PER O O OO O B-GPE B-PER O O O O B-LOC O B-GPE O O O O System Spanish Arabic Chinese F-measure Direct Transfer 66.5 Source Only (100k words) 71.0 Source Only (160k words) 76.0 Source + Transfer 78.5 Direct Transfer 51.6 Source Only (186k tokens) 79.6 Source + Transfer 80.5 Direct Transfer 58.5 Source Only 74.5 Source + Transfer 76.0 How to deal with out-of-domain data? How to even detect if you're out of domain? How to deal with unseen WotD? (e.g. ISIS, ISIL, IS, Ebola) How to improve significantly the state-of-theart using unlabeled data? 22 What's Wrong? Name tagger s are getting old (trained from 2003 news & test on 2012 news) Genre adaptation (informal contexts, posters) Revisit the definition of name mention – extraction for linking Limited types of entities (we really only cared about PER, ORG, GPE) Old unsolved problems Identification: "Asian Pulp and Paper Joint Stock Company , Lt. of Singapore" Classification: "FAW has also utilized the capital market to directly finance,…" (FAW = First Automotive Works) Potential Solutions for Quality Word clustering, Lexical Knowledge Discovery (Brown, 1992; Ratinov and Roth, 2009; Ji and Lin, 2010) Feedback from Linking, Relation, Event (Sil and Yates, 2013; Li and Ji, 2014) Potential Solutions for Portability Extend entity types based on AMR (140+) 23 Entity Linking Milestones 2006: The first definition of Wikification task (Bunescu and Pasca, 2006) 2009: TAC-KBP Entity Linking launched (McNamee and Dang, 2009) 2008-2012: Supervised learning-to-rank with diverse levels of features such as entity profiling, various popularity and similarity measures were developed (Gao et al., 2010; Chen and Ji, 2011; Ratinov et al., 2011; Zheng et al., 2010; Dredze et al., 2010; Anastacio et al., 2011) 2008-2013: Collective Inference, Coherence measures were developed (Milne and Witten, 2008; Kulkarni et al., 2009; Ratinov et al., 2011; Chen and Ji, 2011; Ceccarelli et al., 2013; Cheng and Roth, 2013) 2012: Various applications(e.g., Coreference resolution (Ratinov & Roth, 2012) – Dan's talk 2014: TAC-KBP Entity Discovery and Linking (end-to-end name tagging, cross-document entity clustering, entity linking) (Ji et al., 2014) Many different versions of international evaluations were inspired from TAC-KBP; more than 130 papers have been published 24 Current Linking Problems and Possible Solutions State-of-the-art Entity Linking: 85% B-cubed+ F-score on formal genres and 70% B-cubed+ F-score on informal genres State-of-the-art Entity Discovery and Linking: 66% Discovery and Linking F-score, 73% Clustering CEAFm F-score Remaining Challenges Popularity bias Require better meaning representation Select collaborators from rich contexts Knowledge gap between source and KB Cross-lingual Entity Linking (name translation problem) Potential Solutions: Deep knowledge acquisition and representation (e.g., AMR) Better graph search alignment algorithms Make more people excited about Chinese and Spanish 25 Slot Filling Milestones 2009-2014: Top systems achieved 30%-40% F-measure Ground-truth is created based on manual assessment of pooled system output – relative recall; score may appear lower with stronger teams 2014 queries are more challenging than 2013; including some ambiguous queries sharing with entity linking (Stephen's talk) Consistent progress on individual system (RPI, test on 2014 data): 2010: 20% 2011: 22% 2013: 28% 2014: 34% Successful Methods Multi-label Multi-instance learning (Seadeanu et al., 2012) Combination of distant supervision with heuristic rules and patterns (Roth et al., 2013) Cross-source Cross-system Inference (Chen et al., 2011; Yu et al., 2014) Linguistic constraints (Yu et al., 2014) – Heng's one-week pencil-andpaper work to semi-automatically acquire trigger phrases; an awfully simple trigger scoping method beat all 2013 systems 26 Have the Error Sources Changed over Years? 0.3 2010 0.25 0.2 0.15 0.1 0.05 0 (Min and Grishman, 2011) (Yu and Ji, 2014) 2014 27/35 Blame Ourselves First… Non-verb and multi-word expression as triggers his men back to their compound Knowledge scarcity - Long-tail A suicide bomber detonated explosives at the entrance to a crowded medical teams carting away dozens of wounded victims Today I was let go from my job after working there for 4 1/2 years. Possible solution: increase coverage with FrameNet (Li et al., 2014) Global context I didn't want to hurt him . I miss him to death. I threw stone out of the window. vs. I threw him out of the window. Ellison to spend $10.3 billion to get his company. We believe that the likelihood of them using those weapons goes up. Fifteen people were killed and more than 30 wounded Wednesday as a suicide bomber blew himself up on a student bus in the northern town of Haifa Possible solution: joint modeling between triggers and arguments (Li et al., 2013) 28 Then Blame Others… Fundamental language problem – ambiguity and variety Coreference, coreference, coreference… 25% of the examples involve coreference which is beyond current system capabilities, such as nominal anaphors and non-identity coreference Almost overnight, he became fabulously rich, with a $3-million book deal, a $100,000 speech making fee, and a lucrative multifaceted consulting business, Giuliani Partners. … His consulting partners included seven of those who were with him on 9/11, and in 2002 Alan Placa, his boyhood pal, went to work at the firm. After successful karting career in Europe, Perera became part of the Toyota F1 Young Drivers Development Program and was a Formula One test driver for the Japanese company in 2006. "a woman charged with running a prostitution ring … her business, Pamela Martin and Associates" 29 Then Blame Others… Paraphrase, paraphrase, paraphrase… "employee/member": Sutil, a trained pianist, tested for Midland in 2006 and raced for Spyker in 2007 where he scored one point in the Japanese Grand Prix. Daimler Chrysler reports 2004 profits of $3.3 billion; Chrysler earns $1.9 billion. In her second term, she received a seat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee Jennifer Dunn was the face of the Washington state Republican Party for more than two decades Buchwald lied about his age and escaped into the Marine Corps. By 1942, Peterson was performing with one of Canada's leading big bands, the Johnny Holmes Orchestra. "spouse": Buchwald 's 1952 wedding -- Lena Horne arranged for it to be held in London 's Westminster Cathedral -- was attended by Gene Kelly , John Huston , Jose Ferrer , Perle Mesta and Rosemary Clooney , to name a few 30 Then Blame Others… Inference, Inference, Inference… systems would benefit from specialists which are able to reason about times, locations, family relationships, and employment relationships. People Magazine has confirmed that actress Julia Roberts has given birth to her third child a boy named Henry Daniel Moder. Henry was born Monday in Los Angeles and weighed 8 lbs. Roberts, 39, and husband Danny Moder, 38, are already parents to twins Hazel and Phinnaeus who were born in November… He [Pascal Yoadimnadji] has been evacuated to France on Wednesday after falling ill and slipping into a coma in Chad, Ambassador Moukhtar Wawa Dahab told The Associated Press. His wife, who accompanied Yoadimnadji to Paris, will repatriate his body to Chad, the amba. is he dead? in Paris? Until last week, Palin was relatively unknown outside Alaska… does she live in Alaska? The list says that the state is owed $2,665,305 in personal income taxes by singer Dionne Warwick of South Orange, N.J., with the tax lien dating back to 1997. does she live in NJ? 31 Portability/Scalability Challenges 32 Defining the Problem • Deep understanding of all possible relations? • Open IE, pre-emptive IE, on-demand IE… 10/15/2014 DEFT PI meeting -- U. Washington 33 Defining the Problem • Deep understanding of all possible relations? • Deep Extraction for Focused Tasks (D.E.F.T.) – User has a focused information need: • A few dozen relations, several entity types: • Date_of_birth(per, date), city_of_headquarters(org, city), … • Treatment(substance, condition), studies_disease(per/org, condition),… • Arrive_in(per, loc), meet_with(per, per), unveil(org, product), … – Quickly train an extractor for the task • Domain independent: parsing, Open IE, SRL, … • Task specific: semantic tagging, extraction patterns, … TAC-KBP Freedman et al. Extreme Extraction -- Machine Reading in a Week. EMNLP 2011 Zhang et al. NewsSpike Event Extractor, in review 10/15/2014 DEFT PI meeting -- U. Washington 34 Aim for the Head ? A Zipfian Distribution of surface forms to express a textual relation Dead simple Frequency The real challenge A hopeless case Patterns 10/15/2014 DEFT PI meeting -- U. Washington 35 Open IE for KBP • Advantages of Open IE – Robust – Massively scalable – Works out of the box – Finds whatever relations are expressed in the text – Not tied to an ontology of relations • Disadvantages – Finds whatever relations are expressed in the text – Not tied to an ontology of relations • Challenge – Map Open IE to an ontology of relations – Minimum of user effort github/knowitall/openie 10/15/2014 DEFT PI meeting -- U. Washington 36 OpenIE–KBP Rule Language Arg1 Rel Arg2 (Smith, was appointed , Acting Director of Acme Corporation) entity slotfill per:employee_or_member_of (Smith, Acme Corporation) Terms in Rule Example Target relation: Query entity in: Slotfill in: Slotfill type: Arg1 terms: Relation terms: Arg2 terms: per:employee_or_member_of Arg1 Arg2 Organization appointed <JobTitle> of 10/15/2014 DEFT PI meeting -- U. Washington 37 Hits the Head, but … • High precision, average recall • Limited recall from Open IE, – Good with verb-based relations – Weak on noun-based relations • "Implicit relation" patterns "Bashardost, 43, is …" (Baradost, [has age], 43) "… the Election Complaints Commission (ECC)…" (Election Complaints Commission, [has acronym], ECC) "French journalist Jean LeGall reported that …" (Jean LeGall, [has job title], journalist ) (Jean LeGall, [has nationality], French ) 10/15/2014 DEFT PI meeting -- U. Washington 38 NewsSpike Event Extractor • Extracts event relations from news streams – Event = event_phrase(arg1_type, arg2_type) • NewsSpike = (entity1, entity2, date, {sentences}) – from parallel news streams – Open IE identifies entity1, entity2, and event phrase – a spike in frequency on that date indicates an event between entity1 and entity2 • Automatically discover relations not covered by Freebase arrive_in (person, location) beat (sports_team, sports_team) meet_with (person, person) nominate (person/politician, person) unveil (organization, product) … 10/15/2014 DEFT PI meeting -- U. Washington 39 NewsSpike Architecture Parallel news streams Discover events Group E=e(t1,t2) Test sentences s Generate training data NS=(a1,a2,d,S) (a1,a2,t) S={s rr1 r2r1r,3rs2 ,s3} r1r41 r2r25r33 NewsSpike w/ Parallel sentences Training Phase 10/15/2014 Event E=e(t (a1,a12,t,t)2) ,a ) rs→E(a r11rr2r2rr3r3r1 2 s'→E(a' r41 r25 31,a'2) input learn Extractions s→ E(a1,a2) extract Event Extractor Training sentences Testing Phase DEFT PI meeting -- U. Washington 40 High Quality Training • Paraphrases in NewsSpike gives positive training • Negative training from Temporal negation heuristic: – If event phrases e1 and e2 are in the same NewsSpike – and one of them is negated – e1 is probably not a paraphrase of e2 "Team1 faces Team2" "Team1 did not beat Team2" face ≠ beat • High precision from negative training 10/15/2014 DEFT PI meeting -- U. Washington 41 High Precision Event Extractor Doubles the area under PR curve vs. Universal Schemas NewsSpike-E2 on news stream Universal Schemas on news stream Universal Schemas on NYT 10/15/2014 DEFT PI meeting -- U. Washington 42


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| Verena Wolff |
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (dpa) – Andy Hancock, a burly guy, could easily pass as a trucker. But the Australian expatriate is a sand sculptor on South Padre Island, a barrier island off the coast of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico.
"It's always warm and sunny here, and the sand is like nowhere else," he said. There's also plenty of it: The island, close to Mexico, boasts 55 kilometres of uninterrupted beaches.
The beaches are part of the so-called "Texas Riviera", an arc of south-eastern Texas along the Gulf Coast, which is sometimes called the "Third Coast" after the US Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Cruise ships call here, and small, attractive cities dot the 600 kilometres between Galveston and the Mexican border.
The mood is tranquil, the fish is fresh and the fine white sand is everywhere.
Hancock's office and workshop are under a wooden roof on the beach.
Everyone who takes a lesson from him gets a drinks bottle – the sun shines down mercilessly on South Padre Island – and a toolkit consisting of two spatulas, a fluffy brush to soften sharp edges, two mechanical pencils to draw designs such as shingles, stairs, bricks and windows, and drinking straws to blow excess sand from them.
Participants not only learn how to build elaborate sandcastles, but also animals of all sorts.
"We don't do boring," is Hancock's motto. His two-hour lessons attract families, individuals and corporate groups, all of whom have lots of other options for having fun in the region besides shaping works of art from sand.
"People also come here for sport fishing far out in the Gulf," said Mayor Robert Pinkerton Jr Either with their own boat or on guided tours, the anglers often spend all day hoping to hook "the big one", such as a tarpon or shark.
The less patient can pass the time horseback riding on the beach at Corpus Christi to the north. Many places along the coast offer surfing lessons as well, although the waves are much smaller than those at top US surfing spots out at the oceans.
"That doesn't matter," said Jeff, an instructor at the Ohana Surf School in Galveston. "It's calm and you can learn the motions."
It's hard to believe that the 2.2-million-population metropolis Houston, the most populous city in Texas, is just a short drive away. "You need about an hour to get there by car," said Jeff, who like many people living on the Gulf is perfectly happy staying put. "Here the highways and skyscrapers are far away. I like that."
Droves of visitors are drawn to the six historic districts of Galveston, which was built on a sandbank in 1836. By the end of the 19th Century the city had the country's third-largest deep-water port and was a commercial and cultural centre of the Southwest. Attesting to its past prosperity are beautiful Victorian mansions. The city's jewel of an opera house, built in 1894, still operates today.
Galveston is regarded as the northern end of the "Texas Riviera".
Visitors who drive south on Texas State Highway 35 can simply pick out the stretch of beach they like best. Many of the barrier islands, including Galveston Island, Mustang Island and Padre Island, home of Padre Island National Seashore, have been wholly spared hotels from the big US chains.
Instead, there are still small motels and guesthouses, and the restaurants, too, tend to be of the local variety. It's largely deserted everywhere, except during "spring break" in March, when university students descend on the area for a week of partying. Afterwards, the beaches belong to the birds again, and to the smattering of people enjoying the sun or building sandcastles with Andy Hancock. – PHOTOS: DPA


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For Canelo Alvarez, Alfredo Angulo fight chance to prove the hype
Saul (Canelo) Alvarez will fight in front of a sold out crowd in Las Vegas on Saturday. He will box before a television audience plunking down $50 or $60 to watch him on pay-per-view, and after the fight, he will cash a check for $1.25 million, with substantially more coming once all the revenue is totaled.
He will be treated like a star before, well, before anyone knows if he actually is a star.
It's hardly unusual. Canelo's Mexican compatriot, Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., is treated the same way. Chavez can show up on fight week bloated or disinterested—sometimes both—and HBO will still roll out the red carpet, because Chavez drives ratings. Golden Boy has a stable of prospects who have proven nothing (here's looking at you, Gary Russell, Jr.) but who get nationally televised slots against opponents who have no business being in the same ring with them.
The difference is that no one thinks Chavez is a star. The consensus is that if Chavez steps into the ring with Gennady Golovkin, Andre Ward or Carl Froch, it's going to be an ugly night. Similarly, should Russell end up squaring off with Vasyl Lomachenko later this year, he will find Lomachenko's skills a touch better than those of his recent string of opponents, some of whom took fights with Russell on short notice.
But there is a perception in boxing that Alvarez is different, that the former 154-pound titleholder with the sparkling record and telenovela looks has the substance to back up the style.
The question is: Why?
Think about it: Is Alvarez's résumé that much more impressive than Chavez, Jr.'s? Alvarez's last six opponents were Alfonso Gomez, Kermit Cintron, Shane Mosley, Josesito Lopez, Austin Trout and Floyd Mayweather. Chavez's last six were Peter Manfredo, Marco Antonio Rubio, Andy Lee, Sergio Martinez and Bryan Vera, twice. The name that stands out is Mayweather, but if there was anything positive to be taken away from Alvarez's one-sided whipping at the gloves of Mayweather, most missed it.
Here's what we know about Alvarez: He has power. He has knocked out 30 of his 44 opponents, displaying pop with both hands. He has speed. When Canelo puts his punches together, he does it faster than most in his division. He has a questionable chin. Jose Miguel Cotto nearly put him on the deck in 2010, and since then, Alvarez hasn't been tested by anyone who would be considered a crushing puncher.
On Saturday night, Alvarez (43-1) will face Alfredo Angulo (22-3) at the MGM Grand (Showtime PPV, 9 pm). Angulo is the anti-Mayweather, a bull in a china shop who is easy to find. But Angulo—with 18 knockouts on his résumé—is also the biggest puncher Alvarez has faced. In his last fight, Angulo dropped talented Cuban Erislandy Lara twice before a fractured left orbital bone ended his night.
Angulo was handpicked by Alvarez because of his one-dimensional style, and because, coming off a lackluster loss to Mayweather, Alvarez needed to be in an entertaining fight. And as a 4-1 favorite, Alvarez is expected to win handily. Angulo's power, however, and his relentless rushing style can't be overlooked.
"Angulo is a very dangerous opponent," Alvarez said. "He doesn't mind getting hit as long as he can hit back. It's a fight that can change in one punch on either side."
At 23, Alvarez faces his first crossroads. A loss to Mayweather didn't diminish his brand. A loss to Angulo—and let's face it, we all know what losses to Angulo usually look like—probably would. His plans to fight three times in 2014, to reclaim a world title and to position himself, perhaps, to fight Mayweather again in 2015 would crumble.
"We know the significance of this bout," said Alvarez's manager, Jose (Chepo) Reynoso.
Indeed, as the hype around Alvarez continues to rise, it's time for him to prove that he is worthy of it.


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- (c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.
- ASUKA & Sawako Shimono defeated Natsu Sumire & Rina Yamashita (11:08)
- Hikaru Shida, Misaki Ohata & Yumi Ohka defeated Aoi Kizuki, Hiroe Nagahama & Moeka Haruhi (15:45)
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It was a one try kind of a day.
And that's all it took for Wellington College to hold on for a desperate 5-0 win over a strong-finishing Nelson College side in yesterday's weather-ravaged quadrangular tournament rugby final in Whanganui.
A try to starting hooker Sitiveni Paongo five minutes into the second half was enough to hand Wellington their 12th consecutive title, and their 33rd of the tournament's 125-year history.
Paongo began the game at hooker but moved to loosehead prop for the second half of yesterday's rugged encounter, lunging across for the afternoon's only try following a period of sustained forward pressure on Nelson's line.
The wind had a significant bearing on the contest, with Wellington's win effectively centring on a magnificent first half defensive effort as they constantly denied phase after phase of Nelson forward attacks inside their own quarter.
With the wind at their backs, Nelson spent virtually the entire half camped inside Wellington territory but despite getting desperately close on a couple of occasions, were unable to breach Wellington's committed defence. Four penalty concessions in strong attacking positions clearly didn't help Nelson's cause.
No 8 Turoa Stephens led Nelson's attack with some typically powerful ball carries as captain Brendan Asomua-Goodman, fellow flanker Jake Amlehn and prop Jake Wetere also committed themselves fully to the task.
But the points never came, Wellington turning with confidence as they quickly exploited the wind at their backs to snatch their early match-winning advantage.
Nelson still made good headway into the wind, with one promising forward attack held up over the line five minutes from fulltime. Centre Tima Faingaanuku used his size and strength well to complement his forwards' committed efforts, Nelson ending the game on attack as a relieved Wellington side held on for a hard-earned win.
Replacement lock Quinten Strange handled a difficult lineout assignment admirably in the muddy conditions and disappointed skipper Asomua-Goodman knew his side had come within a whisker of securing what would have been a memorable win.
"The boys knew Wellington were going to be a good side and [we] put in a 110 per cent effort and that's all you can ask for really," he said.
"Wellington's forwards were really strong up front and we just couldn't crack them . . . that's the way it goes sometimes.
"It was pretty hard to get down there [into Wellington's half against the wind] . . . we did, but we just couldn't capitalise."
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Razer Blade Haswell Gaming Notebook is Damn Sexy, Powerful
Subject: Mobile, Shows and Expos | June 12, 2013 - 08:47 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: E3, razer, blade, haswell, gtx 765m, geforce
With the launch of Intel's Haswell processor, accessory maker-turned notebook vendor Razer announced a pretty slick machine, the Blade. Based on a quad-core, 37 watt Core i7 Haswell CPU and a GeForce GTX 765M GPU, the Razer Blade packs a lot of punch.
It also includes 8GB of DDR3-1600 memory, an mSATA SSD and integrates a 14-in 1600x900 display. The design of the unit looks very similar to that of the MacBook Pro but the black metal finish is really an attractive style change.
The embedded battery is fairly large at 70 Whr and Razer claims this will equate to a 6 hour battery life when operating non-gaming workloads. With a weight just barely creeping past 4 lbs, the Razer Blade is both portable and powerful it seems.
The price tag starts at $1799 so you won't be able to pick one of these up on the cheap, but for users like me that are willing to pay a bit more for performance and style in a slim chassis, the Blade seems like a very compelling option. There are a lot of questions left to answer on this notebook including the thermal concerns of packing that much high frequency silicon into a thin and light form factor. Does the unit get hot in bad places? Can the screen quality match the performance of Haswell + Kepler?
We are working with Razer to get a model in very soon to put it to the test and I am looking forward to answering if we have found the best gaming portable on the market.
Oculus VR Rift HD 1080p Prototype Headset Impresses
Subject: Displays, Shows and Expos | June 12, 2013 - 08:24 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: Oculus, oculus rift, VR, E3
I have been a big proponent of the Oculus Rift and its move into the world of consumer-ready VR (virtual reality) technology. I saw it for the first time at Quakecon 2012 where Palmer Luckey and John Carmack sat on stage and addressed the new direction. Since then we saw it at CES and finally got in our own developer kit last month for some extended hands-on.
While I have definitely been impressed with the Rift in nearly every way while using it, the first thing anyone says when putting on the headset for the first time is about the graphics - the resolution of the unit was just too low and it creates a "screen door" effect because of it. As I wrote in my first preview:
I will say that the low resolution is definitely a barrier for me. Each eye is only seeing a 640x800 resolution in this version of the kit and that close up you can definitely see each pixel. Even worse, this creates a screen door effect that is basically like looking through a window with a screen installed. It's not great but you could get used to it if you had to; I am just hoping the higher resolution version of this kit is closer.
At E3 2013 the team at Oculus was able to put together a very early prototype of an HD version of the screen. By using a new 1920x1080 display each eye is able to see 960x1080; roughly twice the pixel density of the initial developer kit.
I got to spend some time with the higher resolution model today and I have to say that the difference is striking - and instantly noticeable. Gone was the obvious screen door effect and I was able to focus purely on the content. The content itself was new as well - Oculus and Epic were showing the Unreal Engine 4 integration with a custom version of the Elemental demo. The colors were crisp, the effects were amazing and only in a couple of rare instances of solid white color did we notice the black lines that plagued the first version.
As of now Oculus doesn't have plans to offer an updated developer kit with the 1080p screen installed but you just never know. They are still looking at several different phone screens and haven't made any final decisions on which direction to go but they are definitely close.
When I inquired about improvements on head tracking latency and accuracy to aid in motion sickness concerns (like I seem to have) Oculus was hesitant to say there was any single fix. Instead, a combination of lower latency, better hardware and even better thought out content were key to reducing these effects in gamers.
E3 2013: Monoprice Shows New 27-in and 30-in High-Res, Low Cost Monitors
Subject: Displays, Shows and Expos | June 12, 2013 - 07:58 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: wqxga, wqhd, monoprice, ips, E3, 2560x1440
While wandering the halls at E3 to talk with NVIDIA and AMD about the future of gaming, I ran across a small booth with Monoprice in it. If you don't know Monoprice, it is an online seller of electronics and cables and much of its merchandise can be found throughout the offices at PC Perspective.
In recent months Monoprice made news with PC gamers as one of the first major retailers to begin selling the low-cost 27-in 2560x1440 monitors shipping from Korea. While the monitors are likely very much the same, buying from a local company in the US rather than trusting an eBay buyer in Korea brings a lot of peace of mind to the transaction. Getting a dead pixel and 1 year warranty along with it helps too.
On hand at E3 was the Monoprice IPS-ZERO-G Monitor that runs at a 2560x1440 resolution with a single dual-link DVI input. This is an updated to the first model Monoprice shipped with a newer, thinner design and an even better $390 price point.
Monoprice also is offering a model with an internal scalar that allows the display to include additional inputs like HDMI, VGA and DisplayPort. The 27-in IPS-G Pro will sell for $474 and will also be tuned for AdobeRGB and sRGB options.
In addition to the two 27-in models, Monoprice also has added 30-in 2560x1600 monitors: the IPS CrystalPro and the IPS Pro with the same primary differentiation - input support.
I am looking forward to getting my hands on these Monoprice display options to see if they can live up to the levels of the other Korean-built displays we have in the office. If they do, then I think we have a new reason for PC gamers to celebrate.
Another interesting find at the booth were some new HDMI cables using a RedMere controller on the connector to allow for extremely thin (and long) runs. First shown at CES in 2008, the RedMere RM1689 chip runs solely on the power provided by the HDMI output and allows cables to use much less copper to create thinner designs. They will obviously cost a bit more than standard options but you can see from the photo above the difference is striking.
A necessary gesture
NVIDIA views the gaming landscape as a constantly shifting medium that starts with the PC. But the company also sees mobile gaming, cloud gaming and even console gaming as part of the overall ecosystem. But that is all tied together by an investment in content – the game developers and game publishers that make the games that we play on PCs, tablets, phones and consoles.
The slide above shows NVIDIA targeting for each segment – expect for consoles obviously. NVIDIA GRID will address the cloud gaming infrastructure, GeForce and the GeForce Experience will continue with the PC systems and NVIDIA SHIELD and the Tegra SoC will get the focus for the mobile and tablet spaces. I find it interesting that NVIDIA has specifically called out Steam under the PC – maybe a hint of the future for the upcoming Steam Box?
The primary point of focus for today's press meeting was to talk about the commitment that NVIDIA has to the gaming world and to developers. AMD has been talking up their 4-point attack on gaming that starts really with the dominance in the console markets. But NVIDIA has been the leader in the PC world for many years and doesn't see that changing.
With several global testing facilities, the most impressive of which exists in Russia, NVIDIA tests more games, more hardware and more settings combinations than you can possibly imagine. They tune drivers and find optimal playing settings for more than 100 games that are now wrapped up into the GeForce Experience software. They write tools for developers to find software bottlenecks and test for game streaming latency (with the upcoming SHIELD). They invest more in those areas than any other hardware vendor.
This is a list of technologies that NVIDIA claims they invented or developed – an impressive list that includes things like programmable shaders, GPU compute, Boost technology and more.
Many of these turned out to be very important in the development and advancement of gaming – not for PCs but for ALL gaming.
Continue reading our editorial on NVIDIA's stance on it's future in PC gaming!!
WWDC 13: Dissecting Apple's New Hardware Changes. MacBook Air and the new Mac Pro.
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Systems, Shows and Expos | June 11, 2013 - 04:06 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: wwdc 13, MacBook Air, Mac Pro, apple
Sometimes our "Perspective" is needed on Apple announcements because some big points just do not get covered by the usual sources. Other times, portions of the story can be relevant to our readers. This is one of those days where both are true. Either side should review our thoughts and analysis of Apple's recent ultrabook and, especially, their upcoming desktop offerings.
The MacBook Air has been, predictably, upgraded Intel's Haswell processors. Battery life is the first obvious benefit of the CPU, and that has been well reported. The 11-inch MacBook Air gains an extra four hours of battery life, usable for up to 9 hours between charges. The extra space on the 13-inch MacBook Air allows it to last 12 hours between charges.
Less discussed, both MacBook Airs will contain Intel's Iris iGPU more commonly known as Intel HD 5000. You cannot get Intel HD 5000 graphics without selecting a BGA socket component which you would install by soldering it in place. While there are several better solutions from competing GPU vendors, Apple will have one of the first shipping implementations of Haswell's canonical graphics processor. Iris is said to have double the performance of previous generation Ivy Bridge graphics for a fraction of its power consumption.
Also included in the MacBook Air is an 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi network adapter and Bluetooth 4.0. Apple is not typically known to introduce new standards and often lags severely behind what is available on the PC unless they had a hand in trademarking it, USB 3.0 being the obvious and recent example.
The specifications will be somewhat customizable, the user is able to select between: an i5 and an i7 processor, 4GB or 8GB of RAM, and 128, 256, or 512GB SSD. It has shipped the day it was announced with base prices ranging between $999 for an entry-level 11-inch and $1099 for an entry-level 13-inch.
But now we move on to the dying industry, desktop PCs, where all innovation has died unless it is to graft a touch interface to anything and everything.
"Can't innovate any more, my ass", grunts Phil Schiller, on the keynote stage.
Whether you like it, or think "innovation" is the best word, it's a legitimate new design some will want.
While the new Mac Pro is not a system that I would be interested in purchasing, for issues I will outline soon, these devices are what some users really want. I have been a very strong proponent of OEM devices as they highlight the benefit of the PC industry: choice. You can purchase a device, like the new Mac Pro, from a vendor; alternatively, you can purchase the components individually to assemble yourself and save a lot of money; otherwise, you can hire a small business computer store or technician.
We need more companies, like Apple, to try new devices and paradigms for workstations and other high-performance devices. While it is less ideal for Apple to be the ones coming up with these redesigns, Apple's platform encourages applications to be vendor-specific (only run on a Mac), it can still benefit the PC industry by demonstrating that life and demand still exists; trying something new could reap large benefits. Not everyone wants to have a full ATX case with discrete components but still want workstation performance, and that is okay.
Now when it comes to actual specifications, the typical coverage glossed over what could be easily approximated by a trip to Wikipedia and Google. Sure, some may have been in a rush within the auditorium, but still.
The specifications are:
- Intel Xeon E5-2600 V2-class CPU, Ivy Bridge-E, 12 cores max (suggests single-socket)
- 4-channel DDR3 ECC RAM, apparently 4 DIMMS which suggests 4x16GB (Max).
Dual FirePro GPUs, 4096 total shaders with 2x6GB GDDR5.
- Pretty clearly based on FirePro W9000
- Seems to be slightly underclocked, losing about 0.5 Teraflop per GPU.
- PCIe SSD
- Thunderbolt 2, USB3.0, and WiFi ac (+ a/b/g/n??), Bluetooth 4.0
Now the downside is that basically anything you wish to add to the Mac Pro needs to be done through Thunderbolt, Bluetooth 4.0, or USB 3.0. When you purchase an all-in-one custom design, you forfeit your ability to reach in and modify the components. There is also no mention of pricing, and for a computer with this shoplist you should expect to pay a substantial invoice even without "The Apple Tax", but that is not the point of purchasing a high-end workstation. Apple certainly put in as close to the best-of-the-best as they could.
Now could people stop claiming the PC is dead and work towards sustaining it? I know people love stories of jarring industry shifts, but this is ridiculous.
Computex 2013: The Comedic Return of the Ultra GPUs
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Graphics Cards, Shows and Expos | June 10, 2013 - 02:49 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Ultra, geforce titan, computex
So long to Computex 2013, we barely knew thee. You poured stories all over our news feed for more than a whole week. What say you, another story for the... metaphorical road... between here... and... Taipei? Okay, so the metaphorical road is bumpy and unpaved, work with me.
It was substantially more difficult to decipher the name of a video card a number of years ago. Back then, products would be classified by their model numbers and often assigned a suffix like: "Ultra", "Pro", or "LE". These suffixes actually meant a lot, performing noticeably better (or maybe worse) than the suffix-less number and possibly even overlapping with other number-classes.
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Just when they were gone long enough for us to miss them, the suffixes might make some measure of a return. On the show floor, Colorful exhibited the NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Ultra Edition. This card uses a standard slightly-disabled GK110-based GeForce GTX Titan GPU, with the usual 2688 CUDA cores, and 6GB of GDDR5. While the GK110 chip has potential for 2880 CUDA cores, NVIDIA has not released any product (not even Tesla or Quadro) with more than 2688 CUDA cores enabled. Colorful's Titan Ultra and the reference Titan are electrically identical; this "Ultra" version just adds a water block for a cooling system and defaults to some amount of a factory overclock.
But, this is not the first time we have heard of a Titan Ultra...
Back in April, ExtremeTech found a leak for two official products: the GTX Titan LE and the GTX Titan Ultra. While the LE would be slightly stripped down compared to the full GTX Titan, the GTX Titan Ultra would be NVIDIA's first release of a GK110 part without any CUDA cores disabled.
So if that rumor ends up being true, you could choose between Colorful's GTX Titan Ultra with its partially disabled GK110 based on the full GTX Titan design; or, you could choose the reference GTX Titan Ultra based on a full GK110 GPU unlike the partially disabled GK110 on the full GTX Titan.
If you are feeling nostalgic... that might actually be confusion... as this is why suffixes went away.
E3 2013: Serious Sam 4, Humble Bundle, 4 Serious?
Subject: General Tech, Shows and Expos | June 7, 2013 - 08:21 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: serious sam, E3 13, E3
We still have another 5-or-so days left on the Serious Sam Humble Weekly Sale and so if you were interested in donating a bunch of money for mindless shooters, you still have a chance. Also, you apparently have another reason to do so.
Crowdfunding is popular these days, we even did it. Basically anyone can set up a project, collect money from random people on the internet, and give perks in return. In this case, according to PC Gamer, Croteam is apparently using revenue collected from the Humble Bundle to fund the creation of the next Serious Sam: Serious Sam 4.
If you wish to snag a bunch of Serious Sam games for yourself or your friends, all while supporting Croteam and their future titles, then donate to the Humble Sale by Thursday, June 13th, 2013 at (I believe) 2PM EDT. By the way, that is the last official day of E3.
E3 2013: Thief trailer & confirmed PC, PS4, and Xbox One
Subject: General Tech, Shows and Expos | June 7, 2013 - 06:24 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: E3, E3 13, thief, Thief 4
The pre-expo press conferences are still three days out but only suckers want to get swamped in the press coverage, right? It is like people who leave work two days early to beat the traffic caused by people leaving a day early from a long weekend to beat traffic. This is all like that, if it were directed by Michael Bay.
And speaking of live action E3 movies, Eidos released a trailer for their upcoming Thief reboot. I really cannot tell which sections are in-engine, which are pre-rendered, and which are live action. As for the game? Well, all I know is that you are going to be stealing stuff.
Thief will be coming to the PC, PS4, and Xbox One sometime in 2014.
Let us play a little game here: what do you think is in-engine; what do you think is pre-rendered; and what do you think is live action? Let us know in the comments.
Computex 2013: New Haswell-Ready PSUs From SeaSonic Pictured
Subject: General Tech, Cases and Cooling, Shows and Expos | June 7, 2013 - 03:56 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: seasonic, PSU, m12II evo, m12II bronze, haswell, computex 2013, computex
Following Intel's announcement of new Haswell sleep states, various power supply manufacturers have released compatibility lists detailing which PSUs are able to deliver the low load necessary to support the power sipping sleep states on the 12V rail (which has not been much of a concern until Haswell).
One such PSU manufacturer was Seasonic, who has quite a few Haswell-ready power supplies across several lineups including its Platinum, G, and M12II series, among others. Included in that compatibility list were two new power supplies that Seasonic is showing off at Computex this week: the Seasonic Platinum 1200 and Seasonic M12II Bronze Evo Edition.
SeaSonic Platinum 1200
The Platinum 1200 is a high-end modular power supply that is capable of powering beefy multi-GPU setups. It is 80+ Platinum rated and is up to 92% efficient at 50% load.
Sesonic M12II Bronze Evo Edition
The Seasonic M12II Bronze Evo Edition is an updated version on past models and includes two SKUs that come in at 750W and 850W. It is a fully modular unit with flat black cables and fan control tech. It is 80+ Bronze and Energy Star rated, and is compatible with Intel's 4th Generation Core processors.
Also read: The full list of Haswell-compatible Seasonic power supplies @ PC Perspective.
E3 2013: Bludgeon that horse again! Xbox One DRM
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Systems, Shows and Expos | June 6, 2013 - 08:46 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: xbox one, E3 13, E3
So heading up to E3, Microsoft decided to drop their DRM bombshell so it would get buried over the next couple of days. In terms of permissiveness, the Xbox One is not nearly as bad as feared; of course, it is still terrible in certain ways.
Microsoft will allow games to be played offline on the Xbox One... for 24 hours. If your internet connection has been offline for longer than that period (unclear whether the timer starts when internet goes out or from last update) then your system will be locked to live TV and disc-based movies. Games and apps, even ones which should have no online functionality, will cease to function until you reconnect with Xbox servers.
This also means that if the Xbox servers have an outage lasting between 24 hours and "taken offline forever", all gaming and apparently apps will cease to function on the Xbox One.
And people wonder why I freak out about Windows Store.
It's like if Wall-E grew a Freddie Mercury
But at least they will allow some level of used-game transfer... if the publisher agrees. Check out this statement from Microsoft Studios:
In our role as a game publisher, Microsoft Studios will enable you to give your games to friends or trade in your Xbox One games at participating retailers. Third party publishers may opt in or out of supporting game resale and may set up business terms or transfer fees with retailers. Microsoft does not receive any compensation as part of this. In addition, third party publishers can enable you to give games to friends. Loaning or renting games won't be available at launch, but we are exploring the possibilities with our partners.
So this will be an interesting experiment: how will revenue and profitability be affected for game publishers who deny used game sales? I honestly expect that used game sales actually promote the purchasing of more games and that initiatives to limit used game transfers will reduce user engagement. Of course Microsoft is now taking all of the flak from Sony, who may or may not be considering the same practice, but I am sure at least Microsoft is hoping that everyone will forget this when shiny new trailers erase the collective gamer memory.
In return, however, Microsoft is being fairly permissive when it comes to how many users can be licensed on a single disk. Up to ten family members are allowed access to your collective library.
And, after all, it should not be a surprise that a console game disappears when Microsoft shuts down their servers: consoles were always designed to be disposable. I have been proclaiming that for quite some time. The difference is now, people cannot really deny it.
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Seventies: London Fashion Week
It's time to dig out those flares and embrace the fringing: the seventies are officially back on the radar. If your mum's vintage pieces are off-limits, we've got a selection of our very own pieces just for you. Dust off your records, cut in that heavy fringe and let's get to work.
Seventies style is all about channelling your inner Stevie Nicks. Think of chiffon, shearling and velvet as your key fabrications, with accents of suede, corduroy and berry-infused florals for mini-skirts, outerwear and pussy bow blouses. Meanwhile, tan coloured leather and flared denim offer something for the sartorially minded. Steer clear of modern touches such as PVC, holographic patterns and neon colours - we're going back to basics here.
For finishing touches, simply slip on a studded mule, cover up with a thick sheepskin jacket - cropped or long - and always remember to finish off with a fringed shopper bag to maintain authenticity. With a heavy focus on floaty fabrications, those looking for a more tailored look may revel in the resurgence of full fitted suits. While those looking to keep it fresh can team tailored trousers with a graphic t-shirt and chunky Chelsea boots.
With regards to the beauty look, focus on beautifully-coiffed flowing locks and heavy blunt fringes - auburn and chestnut hues are the colours of choice. Deep berry lips and kohl-lined eyes will round off the look to perfection. Ensure you prime your tresses with a heat-protectant before styling in those soft waves, we're not taking the 'old' in old-school too literally...
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July Whiskey Tasting UPDATE!
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July's Whiskey Tasting has moved venues! For July the tasting will once more be at the Irish Rose!
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USD/JPY: weekly wave analysis
Weekly. The market keeps forming the multiyear uptrend. The pair is currently forming corrective wave (IV), let us review its inner structure.
H4. At the new week, we expect formation of the final part of the converging horizontal triangle [iv], after which we'll see collapse of price or its slow decline. The approximate scheme of the upcoming move is shown on the chart.


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USA Olympic events set to take place around Houston this weekend
With Opening Ceremonies a week away, there are plenty of events in and around Houston that can help you send team USA off to Rio De Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The U.S. Olympic Men's Water Polo Team will square off with Montenegro at the University of Houston's CRWC Natatorium Saturday at 4:30 p.m.
The team will compete in Rio a week later on Aug. 6 against Croatia.
Buy tickets for the water polo match here.
You can also help send off the USA Women's Rugby team at the Hilton Americas on 1600 Lamar Saturday between 4:45 and 6:45 p.m.
There will be a rally for the team as they head to the airport to depart for Rio--you are encouraged to wear your USA Rugby gear and to bring your Texas pride.
You are advised to arrive at the hotel no later than 5:15 pm.
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Mother of missing Milwaukee woman Kelly Dwyer announces $10,000 reward
The mother of Kelly Dwyer has announced a $10,000 reward for information that helps find the Milwaukee woman, whose disappearance a month ago sparked an ongoing police search.
The month since Dwyer, 27, vanished has been devastating, her mother, Maureen Dwyer, said. She was joined Wednesday by Milwaukee police, who still consider this a missing person case.
"There really are no words," Dwyer said. "It sounds like a cliché, but there really are no words to say how horrible it is. I can't believe that I've survived a month without my daughter."
The family had been waiting to offer a reward because "we were hoping and praying we would find Kelly," she added.
Kelly Dwyer was reported missing more than a month ago when she didn't show up for work at a store in the Third Ward. Milwaukee police searched a Menomonee Falls landfill for several days and turned up "potential items of evidence," officials have said.
The reward is for any information that leads to Dwyer's whereabouts, said Milwaukee police Capt. James Shepard of the Sensitive Crimes Division.
Although tips have come in, Shepard is hoping the reward will bring others forward. No one has been arrested in connection with Dwyer's disappearance.
One of the last people to see Dwyer before she was reported missing is facing unrelated charges based on information that came to light during the investigation into Dwyer's disappearance.
Kris Zocco, who has been called a "person of interest" in the Dwyer case by a prosecutor, is charged with 17 counts of possessing child pornography and drug charges in a separate case. Zocco has since been released on $250,000 bail.
Maureen Dwyer called it "sickening" that Zocco is free, given the types of charges he faces. She said she has never met Zocco but knew he and her daughter had been dating for almost a year.
"As far as we knew, he was an upstanding citizen," she said.
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Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College is a constituent College of Tumaini University Makumira. The college is based at Moshi and owned by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania. The college trains health professionals for various university awards in clinical and health sciences. It currently wishes to recruit competent and committed candidates to the post of Insectary & Animal House Facility Supervisor (1 post) and Laboratory Technician (2 positions) to work under the PAMVERC research programme in Moshi.
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Donna Pledger's goal in life is to break the cycle of poverty. A state employee, she works with public housing residents all over Hampton Roads, counseling them to stay in school, find a job and be self-sufficient.
Lear Mejri was born into the cycle of poverty. One of eight children raised by a single mother on welfare in Diggs Park, she lived in public housing as an adult for 21 years.
Mejri didn't meet her father until she was 15. She raised two children in Roberts Village, where drug use and prostitution were rampant. Her husband was shot while working at a Portsmouth food store, a killing that remains unsolved four years later. Her son narrowly missed being shot in her back yard a few years ago.
Mejri is a certified nursing assistant who clings to one dream – a nice home in a safe neighborhood. "All I've wanted to do was to find a good place to raise my kids," Mejri said.
An innovative neighborhood called Broad Creek Renaissance has brought together Pledger and Mejri. The two women live two doors apart in a neighborhood that could be the answer to the prayers of people trying to lift themselves out of poverty.
Mejri this year moved into a new, two-bedroom Broad Creek apartment with a front porch, Internet access and a fireplace. Same for Pledger, whose son and daughter share her three -bedroom apartment.
"I don't hear any shootings," Mejri said. "I don't worry about my son playing. God blessed me by giving me someplace better to live. "
Broad Creek is the region's most ambitious, tax payer-funded attempt to build a mixed-income neighborhood where janitors will live next to professors, doctors next to nurses.
It's an effort to end the pattern of housing needy families in isolated enclaves of public housing. Officials hope it will become a model for fixing the ills afflicting so many public housing projects in Hampton Roads.
Two public housing projects, Bowling Green and Roberts Village, were torn down just northeast of Norfolk State University in neighborhoods bisected by Princess Anne Road.
In their place, a community of 700 homes and apartments is rising that will include equal numbers of subsidized, middle-income and upper-income homes. Demolition began in 2001. The project is nearly half done, with completion expected in about five years.
It promises amenities not found in most neighborhoods. The local Salvation Army hopes to build a $60 million recreation center, complete with an ice skating rink, pools and a performing arts center.
Homearama, the Tidewater Builders Association's annual toast to luxury homes, will be held in Broad Creek beginning Saturday. Homes priced at more than $500,000 are rising within a few yards of subsidized apartments occupied by former public housing residents.
Whether Broad Creek works remains a $250 million question – the estimated cost of the project. Taxpayers are on the hook for $140 million, including nearly $35 million in city money .
Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority officials say taxpayer subsidies are a must because private developers are skittish about investing in such a radical project.
So far, all residents are black and most live in subsidized rentals. Yet the early returns on market-rate housing in Broad Creek are promising.
Two Homearama homes, one priced at more than $500,000, already have been sold, Tidewater Builders Association officials say, a sign that some upper-income residents don't mind living in the same neighborhood with subsidized housing.
Broad Creek will demonstrate that "you shouldn't be cordoned off according to income," said Jeffrey Wermers, the builders association president and a local developer. "It's going to be a vibrant community where your grandmother can live and your college kid can come back and rent a unit."
Decades ago, Norfolk city planners followed the lead of other cities, building public housing projects that isolated thousands of the poorest residents into separate neighborhoods.
Streets of public housing projects were designed so they didn't connect with surrounding neighborhoods. Waste disposal plants, junkyards and factories were built on the edges of a dozen neighborhoods surrounding Norfolk State University.
An interstate was built through the center of many of those neighborhoods, splitting them in two and providing them with 24-hour traffic noise and pollution.
Urban vandalism is the term used by Abdelkader Labidi to describe what happened in these traditional black neighborhoods
"The things that have happened in these neighborhoods you would never see happen in other parts of the city," said Labidi, a housing authority architect and the Broad Creek project manager. "They've just beaten the heck out of these neighborhoods."
When the housing authority first proposed trying to fix some of these problems in 1999 by redeveloping Broad Creek, it was met with much skepticism .
Consider Ghent. Fifty years ago, it was a largely black neighborhood. The housing authority redeveloped East Ghent, relocating thousands of residents and promising many the chance to return.
It was a broken promise. Little or no lower income housing exists in Ghent. Instead, it's an enclave for the city's well-to-do. "No more Ghents" has become a rallying cry among many black civic leaders.
Ditto in East Beach in East Ocean View. The beachfront property was once known as City Beach. During the days of segregation, it was the only beach in Ocean View where blacks could swim.
More than 1,600 residences, most of them occupied by poor residents and many minorities, were razed, with a promise of some middle-income housing. Instead, 750 residences primarily for the affluent are being built.
"There was a lot of skepticism" about Broad Creek, said Shurl Montgomery, the housing authority's executive director. "That's why it's so important that we keep our word.
"We have to show our public housing residents that we can help improve their lives."
For starters, the city got a $35 million Hope VI program that paid for much of the demolition of public housing. Streets, electric lines and sewers had to be redone.
Although about a third of the units are subsidized, officials say all will be built to meet strict design standards. Houses must be made of brick or Hardiplank siding. The lot sizes are small to keep the more expensive homes from overshadowing more modest homes. The neighborhood will have landscaped ponds, hiking trails and parks.
All of the apartments were individually designed by architects, not simply from standard plans. All have 9-foot ceilings.
Even the subsidized apartments have high-speed Internet, dishwashers, disposals and fireplaces. Every unit, whether an apartment or town home, was designed to look similar, so that it is difficult to tell which is a low-income unit.
"When our first rental units started going up, people started calling us wondering if they could buy them," Montgomery said.
Mejri was not happy three years ago, when she was told she would have to leave Roberts Village, her home of 21 years.
She was given a choice of moving to another public housing project or taking Section 8 , a federal subsidy that allows someone with a modest income to rent a home.
Mejri rented a house in Fairmont Park. But the house was old and the utilities strained her budget.
"I was barely making it. The area wasn't bad, but I just didn't want to live like that. I felt like, with the type of job I've got and the years I've been on my job, I should be living in something better."
She returned to Broad Creek as soon as an apartment became available.
Housing authority officials said that 99 percent of the 503 families relocated from Roberts and Bowling Green remain in Norfolk. Nearly all moved into other public housing units or Section 8 housing. Half a dozen have purchased new homes.
All who want to move into Broad Creek will have a chance, housing authority officials said.
In order to return, each applicant must have a job, a good credit history and no felony convictions.
Each resident younger than 18 must be in school or a job training program. Mejri said she went through several hours of interviews, and housing authority officials checked with her employer and even her credit record.
Arline Henson, director of resident services for the housing authority, said that, so far, 14 families failed to meet the criteria to return to Broad Creek, most because of credit problems.
"This program wasn't about bringing everybody back," City Councilman Anthony L. Burfoot said. "You put the ball in their court. There are the things you've got to do to come back."
Burfoot and Rodney Jordan, vice chairman of the housing authority's board of commissioners, have taken an at times controversial lead in Broad Creek. They have pushed the housing authority to include middle- and upper-income housing, something rarely a part of Hope VI projects.
Burfoot said Broad Creek will prove that a mixed-income community can work.
"Public housing hasn't worked," he said. "We've failed a lot of families.
"You've got people who go to work every day, and have just never had the opportunity to get a leg up. I want those people to come to Broad Creek."
Norfolk is experiencing greater success than most Hope VI projects in re-integrating former public housing residents into their old communities.
So far, about 26 percent of the former public housing residents – 132 families in all – have returned. Housing authority officials expect that number to rise to about 40 percent.
The Urban Institute, an economic and social policy research agency, reports that less than 19 percent of former public housing authority residents return to the Hope VI replacement neighborhoods.
Robert Jenkins, assistant executive director of the housing authority, said the estimates are proof that Broad Creek is no Ghent.
"Every Bowling Green or Roberts tenant who meets our criteria will be able to come back, if not in this phase, then in the next," said Jenkins, who moved from a trendy Ghent address into a Broad Creek apartment.
City leaders hope Broad Creek will have a ripple effect.
Millions of dollars are being spent on tearing down selected housing in surrounding neighborhoods. Since the demolition of public housing, housing prices have skyrocketed in adjacent neighborhoods. Stonebridge Crossing and Middle Towne Arch are affluent. Others, such as Haynes Tract, are middle class.
There are ambitious plans for the final phases of Broad Creek, north of Princess Anne Road. Housing authority officials envision three -story mixed-use buildings, with retail on the first floor and condominium units on the top two floors.
Later this month, housing authority officials will begin advertising for a developer to build north of Princess Anne R oad . They will seek a developer to build more than 300 market-rate homes, including more than 100 condominiums and town homes.
A successful Homearama is the key to future phases of Broad Creek, officials said.
"It will bring tens of thousands of people to an area where most of them have probably never been before," Montgomery said.
But can such a mixed-income community work? And will it truly serve as a model for redeveloping public housing?
Pledger hopes so. She said Broad Creek is the model for solving the devastating social problems in public housing.
"I wish my clients could see the way it is here," she said. "It's safe. It's comfortable.
"In public housing, you've got girls there having babies. They get a place to stay and a refrigerator that's full, and they think everything is all right. But it's a trap, a trap that puts them in poverty forever.
" I try to tell them that education is the key, but without role models, they don't listen."
Talk already has begun about the next Broad Creek, which officials widely think will be Tidewater Gardens, an aging public housing project on the cusp of downtown.
Mayor Paul D. Fraim promises that unlike Ghent and East Beach, any redevelopment of Tidewater Gardens will include a large amount of subsidized housing.
"It would be a mixed-income community," Fraim said. "But if that's going to happen, it's going to take a significant contribution from the federal government. The city can't do it alone."
Regardless, Labidi is just pleased to see the growth of Broad Creek.
Residents are attending civic league meetings. A Girl Scout troop has formed. Residents of Franklin Arms, a senior retirement community, are learning how to use computers at Dreamkeepers Academy at J.J. Roberts Elementary School.
"I remember walking into the public housing units in 1999 and seeing the environment, talking to families and realizing there were wonderful, hard-working people who were caught in this weird environment," Labidi said.
"Now we're giving them a chance to live in a better environment. They deserved a chance to live in a better neighborhood."
Mejri has a bird's-eye view of the next phase of Broad Creek. Homearama is going up within 50 yards of her apartment.
"They are going to be beautiful homes," she said.
One day, she hopes to own a beautiful home of her own.
"I want to own a house, a place where I can cook out in my back yard, where I can grow flowers and stretch out," Mejri said.
"That's not too much to ask, is it?"


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