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Hi. I'm wondering about formatting in general and Table of Contents in particular. Are links to chapters pretty much a must? Sadly I'm not very familiar with Nook. Is it a real pain to jump to a certain page without a link? I wouldn't think so, but...
Trying to get a good format going in Word. Wasn't too crazy about how the links looked on the page in preview. Would rather not have links, but if it's considered super-convenient, I guess I'll have to include them.
Please share your thoughts.
You must have links to chapters but you do not need to create a TOC (in fact you should not have it at all). When you create each chapter in MS, just start it with with Heading 1 Style. BTW, you can modify the Heading 1 Style if you don't like the look.
Doing this creates the link, when the eBook is completed, for readers to jump to each chapter. It can be VERY frustrating to figure this all out.
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Star Wars is one of the most popular science fiction franchises ever created and goes back to the days of many geeks' youth. The newer flicks are not as cool by some standards as the original trilogy, but they are still really cool.
A while back, it was announced that the Star Wars franchise would be coming to Blu-ray for the first time in September of 2011. We didn't get an exact launch date for the flicks when they were first announced, but that
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also reports that work is underway at the Disneyland Resort that will see the Star Tours: The Adventure Continues ride get a 3D update with some new action and characters. The ride is set after the events of Revenge of the Sith and before the first of the original trilogy.
Riders will get to see characters from the original trilogy and the new films during the ride and C-3PO will be at the controls of the virtual spaceship the passengers are in on the ride. The new attraction will also take its riders to different parts of the Star Wars universe for the first time. I now know where my summer vacation will be.
One of the action sequences in the attraction will have the riders chased by Boba Fett with Admiral Ackbar communicating with the ride via hologram. Disney will not confirm or deny many of the details about where the ride will take people in the Star Wars universe.
"I want people to see my movies in the best formats possible. For [Paramount] to deny people who have Blu-ray sucks!" -- Movie Director Michael Bay
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LONDON (AP) -- The new year rally in global markets faltered Monday as investors became more cautious ahead of comments from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.
A number of stock indexes around the world have hit multi-year highs as a key measure of volatility, the so-called VIX index, has fallen to a five-year low. The main reasons have been relief that U.S. lawmakers agreed a last-minute package of measures to avoid the "fiscal cliff" of automatic spending cuts and tax increases and renewed hopes over the debt crisis in the 17 European Union countries that use the euro.
However, as the day progressed, the momentum dried up and most of the main indexes in Europe and the U.S. were either trading flat or slightly lower as investors awaited a raft of U.S. corporate earnings this week, particularly from banks such as Bank of America and Citigroup.
"Traders might be holding something in reserve as the banks are due to start reporting later in the week," said Alastair McCaig, market analyst at IG.
In Europe, Britain's FTSE 100 index fell 0.2 percent to close at 6,107.86. Germany's DAX rose 0.2 percent to 7,729.52 while the CAC-40 in France rose almost 0.1 percent to 3,708.25.
In the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average was flat at 13,497.92 while the broader S&P 500 index fell 0.2 percent to 1,469.13.
Much of the focus later will center on Bernanke, who is due to speak at the University of Michigan after the markets close. Investors will be interested to hear if he sounds more confident about the U.S. economy and provides hints on future monetary policy.
"Given how much Bernanke's comments have a knack of creating volatility in the markets, this may be one to watch very closely," said Craig Erlam, market analyst at Alpari.
Any market response to Bernanke's comments will initially likely be felt in the currency markets. Ahead of his speech, the dollar was steady, with the euro up 0.1 percent at $1.3368.
The latest round of U.S. corporate earnings will also feature large in investors' thoughts this week.
"Expectations are extremely low around fourth quarter earnings, despite stock indices trading at multi-year highs, which suggests there's plenty of room for the rally to continue in the short term," said Erlam.
Markets have also been helped by expectations that figures on Friday will show China's economy gaining traction following a period of relative weakness. China reported last week a rise in exports and imports, a sign of higher demand both inside and outside the country. More signs of improvement are expected when China releases a slew of data on Friday, including factory output, investment and retail sales.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 0.6 percent to 23,413.26. South Korea's Kospi added 0.3 percent to 2,002.77 and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 advanced 0.2 percent to 4,719.70. Japan's financial markets were closed for a public holiday.
Mainland Chinese stock markets were boosted when Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China's securities regulator, said at a conference in Hong Kong that there was room to raise by "at least" tenfold the quota of foreign institutions allowed to invest in China's domestic stock markets, which are largely off-limits to outsiders because of capital controls.
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The Wright State baseball team broke things open with an eight-run seventh inning as the Raiders went on to a 14-1 win at Butler Sunday to take the rubber game of the series.
WSU opened the scoring in the first on a Ryan Ashe sacrifice fly and made it 3-0 an inning later on RBI singles from Jake Hibberd and Corey Davis. Davis doubled in a run in the fourth and Hibberd doubled in two in the sixth to push the lead to 6-0.
Butler tallied its lone run in the sixth before the Raiders broke it open with eight in the seventh. Bases loaded walks to Kyle Mossbarger and Michael Timm accounted for the first two runs with the final six coming in on two-run hits from Sam Picchiotti, Hibberd and Ashe.
On the mound, Taylor Braun (1-0) earned the first complete-game victory in his collegiate career, scattering eight hits and a walk in allowed just one run with seven strikeouts.
Offensively, Hibberd had three hits and five RBI while Davis and Picchiotti each had three hits and two RBI. Ashe had two hits and three RBI.
Wright State (11-10, 4-2 Horizon) hits the road for four more games next week. After a 6:00 contest at Ohio on Tuesday, March 27, the Raiders visit Valparaiso for a three-game series next weekend, starting with a single game on Friday, March 30, at 4:00 Eastern.


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Returning for our 13th year is Morgan Manor, where over 10,000 square feet of screams is taunting you to come inside. Don't worry, we still have the surrender rule so that when you get too freaked out, you can still quit.
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The inner workings of one of the world's most secretive private intelligence firms looks set to be exposed by WikiLeaks, which announced yesterday that it had obtained a huge cache of the company's emails.
The whistle-blowing website's founder, Julian Assange, said the emails from US-based Stratfor would reveal the "seedy business" of private intelligence firms and how they have become increasingly unaccountable.
The publication is a coup for WikiLeaks after months of internal turbulence and financial difficulties caused by a concerted campaign by the US government to close it down and ongoing extradition proceedings against Mr Assange.
But the release is also deeply controversial. Unlike previous WikiLeaks exposés, most of which were the result of ideologically committed whistleblowers such as the now incarcerated US soldier Bradley Manning, the Stratfor emails are thought to have been stolen from its servers by members of the hacking collective Anonymous.
At a press conference in London, Mr Assange refused to elaborate on where the emails had come from. "As a source protection organisation and simply as a media organisation we don't discuss or speculate on sourcing," he said.
But members of Anonymous, via Twitter accounts that have been previously used to claim responsibility for hack attacks, announced that the emails had indeed been taken by them last December and handed to WikiLeaks.
The website has partnered with more than 25 media organisations around the world and said it would release the emails over the coming weeks. The first set, published yesterday, provided an insight into the workings of Stratfor, a Texas-based security think-tank that has been likened to a "shadow CIA".
Among the revelations were details that it has been hired by large corporations to investigate activist groups and NGOs. Mr Assange said the database contained 4,000 emails looking into the activities of WikiLeaks itself, which would be published over the coming days. Emails already released reportedly show that Stratfor looked into the animal rights group Peta in Canada. Stratfor also appears to have given the US company Dow Chemical information on activists from Bhopal, an Indian town that became the epicentre of the world's worst industrial disaster caused by an offshoot of a company later taken over by Dow.
One of the activist groups mentioned in correspondence between Stratfor and Dow Chemical employees is the Yes Men, who have campaigned on behalf of those injured in the Bhopal disaster. Mike Bonano, an activist who was given advance access to the emails, said: "When we heard we were being monitored by an intelligence agency it wasn't that big a surprise. One always suspects the government might be listening to you. What one doesn't expect is that it's not the government listening to you, it's a network of unaccountable corporations and their only set of standards is their bottom line."
A spokesperson for Dow Chemical said they could not comment on the specific emails, but added: "Major companies, including Dow, are often required to take appropriate action to protect their people and safeguard their facilities around the world from those who would threaten, disrupt and misrepresent the company and its employees."
For your eyes only: Stratfor's 'glossary of terms'
One of the more interesting files released yesterday was one that WikiLeaks claims is Stratfor's glossary explaining the "useful, baffling and strange" terms it uses in its work (apparently for internal use only). Here are some of the highlights...After Action Report: Final report on conclusion of an Op. Never show the customer. It's like showing someone how sausage is made. Nauseating.
ATF: Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Rednecks with a license to kill. Never, ever, ask for their help on anything.Barium Meal: When there is a leak, feed bits of radioactive (traceable, false) information to suspects. See which bit leaks. You will know who leaked it. The leaker will know you know. Livens up a dull day like nothing else we've ever seen.
BYM: Bright Young Man Doesn't know shit. Doesn't know that he doesn't know. Likely to burn you the first time out. Try to get him killed as quickly as possible.Case Officer: The person who manages an agent in the field. [Needs] the skills of a psychologist and the morals of a pimp.
Clandestine: Operation that has no open connection to anyone. Israeli maxim: "If you're captured, we don't know you. If you're killed, we won't bury you. So ... don't get captured [or] killed." Synonymous with suicidal.
Craft: Intelligence is not an art or a science. It is referred to by the professional as The Craft, after Alan Dulles' [a founder of CIA] book "The Craft of Intelligence." Craft covers all of the skills and abilities of intelligence from writing to briefing to spying. People are said to have "good craft", or "bad craft" or "no frigging craft at all." A man with good craft can go into a bar, meet a beautiful woman assigned to seduce him, get seduced and wake up in the morning with the woman working for him. That's great craft. Or a man is picked up by a beautiful woman, convinces himself that she really likes him in spite of the fact that he is 50, balding and overweight. After two drinks he comes to feel that they really are soulmates. He describes his latest operation in detail and never gets laid. This is a total lack of craft.FBI aka the Downtown Gang. Very good a breaking up used-car rings. Kind of confused on anything more complicated. Fun to jerk with. Not fun when they jerk back.
Hoover's Dress: Yes, Jedgar liked to pop a dress on once in a while, just to ... kick back and relax with Clyde [Tolson, his right-hand man]. The dress is Top Secret and kept in a vault in the Hoover Bldg. Play with that thought for a while and then decide if this profession is for you.Secret Service: They catch counterfeiters, break up child pornography rings and guard the president. Continual identity crisis. Not, shall we say, the most sophisticated crew you'll ever find.
Source – burnt: A source that was blown in the process of being used. Every source gets burnt. The Craft is in the how and when. They're all dead men boys; make 'em count.
Target: soft: The drunken congressman looking to get laid.
Target: hard: A 30-year veteran of Israeli intelligence who has gone totally paranoid.
War Wagon: Follow car on protective details that carries the shoulder weapons and counter-assault team. If [it] is needed, intelligence has failed.
Stratfor's chief: George Friedman
A regular pundit on American TV networks and author of numerous political books, Stratfor's founder, George Friedman, has become one of the most influential people within the ever-growing field of private intelligence. Born to Hungarian parents, his family fled Soviet Russia and set up in the US. After two decades within academia, Friedman turned to the private sector and created Stratfor in 1996. It has since become a highly influential intelligence think tank, with more than 300,000 clients subscribing to daily updates. Barron's magazine once labelled the group a "shadow CIA" but others have questioned the quality of their output. Cyber security experts also expressed surprise that much of the information taken by hackers in December was unencrypted.
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Princess and her brother Barry came from a feral family, but were socialized by their foster mom and are now very friendly, snuggly and love to be rubbed and brushed. They love to sit on your lap and would be perfect for someone who wants a cat to be very attentive. They have been around other cats and would love to be adopted together. Can you give them a chance at a new life?
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These are the new "OddPods" from McFarlane - - stylized Master Chief and Brute Chieftain figures. There's two other Halo OddPods on display here.
Relatedly, here's one of the entries in a Halo toy posing contest organized by McFarlane - - Halo-themed wedding cake toppers by Jim Cunningham:
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Using multimedia technology for hypertension control for low-income, low-literacy African Americans in Birmingham, Ala.
The Foundation's initiative, Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change, was designed to use research and evaluation to test hypothetical solutions for reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care settings and actual disparity reduction outcomes in ongoing programs.Culturally Sensitive Intervention (CSI): Birmingham will develop an interactive DVD intervention to promote hypertension management for African American patients. The intervention uses narrative communications or storytelling to break down cognitive resistance to health messages that may have resulted from perceived discrimination or lack of trust. Located in an inner-city in the Deep South and serving a large population of African Americans with a high burden of cardiovascular disease, Cooper Green Hospital provides an ideal setting in which to develop and test innovative health promotion interventions. Specific aims are to: (1) develop a series of interactive, testimonial-based DVDs to promote hypertension control focusing on medication adherence, doctor-patient communication and healthy lifestyles; (2) evaluate the effect of the intervention in a randomized trial of 300 African American patients; and (3) estimate costs for intervention development, dissemination and adaptation to other populations, settings and conditions. At three months after enrollment, a higher proportion of patients randomized to the intervention group (versus those in the comparison group) will achieve appropriate blood pressure control and report high adherence to hypertension medications. CSI: Birmingham will deliver three DVDs that use peer-based narrative communication to: (1) promote appropriate health beliefs for adherence to hypertension medication; (2) provide motivation and empowerment for patients to take an active role in managing their health; (3) teach simple, proven techniques of ordinary conversation for improving patient-physician communications about medication problems; and (4) promote healthy lifestyles. The intervention will be patient-centered, grounded in cultural appropriateness and easily adapted to other populations, settings and conditions. CSI: Birmingham will engage a team with interdisciplinary expertise that has a proven record of accomplishments and collaborations, and expresses a strong commitment to eliminating disparities.
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Awarded on: 11/27/2006
Time frame: 12/1/2006 - 5/31/2009
Grant Number: 59741
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In the interests of the non-technical..Old posts Tagged Old posts, Old posts April 4th, 2011
.. and maybe many others..
RE. OS upgrades..
Microsoft, please stop producing 'Upgrade only' disks for operating systems. Far too many have problems because what they are upgrading can be so flawed. Also, the practice of allowing users to download upgrades without forcing the user to create a disk is not good ether, because when it comes to re-install time, there is no disk. Some are upgrading upgrades with no original OS disks in their possession.
I understand that you can't be blamed for the general state of computer, but you are not helping the cause. Upgrade disks already look for an activated, active installation of a qualifying operating system, but they should also check for the existence of an original disk and/or a workable recovery partition. If neither are evident, the upgrade should not continue.
Manufacturers owe it to their customer base to work with Microsoft re these issues.
RE. service packs and updates..
In the old days of Windows XP update, some updates could not be preformed along with others. This should be mandatory for major updates for Vista and Windows 7. It would help too if maybe 'sfc' was automatically run to check for errors before major updates ploughed ahead, sometimes screwing up stuff in the process.
RE. Backup applications..
I watched somebody try to initiate a backup utility supplied on a SanDisk flash drive. Needless to say, the process was not completed. One of the many stumbling blocks was a question regarding the installation of a 'UI'.
Yes, most who read this blog know what a 'UI' is, but there are plenty of home users who do not have the first clue. The backup utilities should be set up for simple operation by default, but have an advanced feature for those who are not so computer illiterate.
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April 5th, 2011 at 03:53
Can't agree with the OS upgrades one enough. Back in the day, I had to reinstall Upgrade-only Vista by first installing Upgrade-only XP (which required me to fish out an ancient Windows 98 SE Disk) It was a painful process for someone as technical as me; I can't imagine someone like my mother going through all that.
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McQuery is claiming that then-university president Graham Spanier made him a scapegoat after Sandusky was arrested. But Penn State attorney Nancy Conrad wrote, "It is not enough that the alleged victim of a statement be embarrassed or annoyed, he must have suffered the kind of harm which has grievously fractured his standing in the community of a respectable society."
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A scheme to train teachers in six months? I trained in six weeks.
An intensive summer course, and then, in at the deep end. Well ... to be more accurate, the intensive six weeks were followed by a year of support from mentors who regularly observed my attempts to teach and gave me rigorous feedback.
"Two-thirds of the way through the course I was chomping at the bit," a colleague who completed the one-year PGCE course told me. I've sometimes wondered how a full year of training might have given me a different start – but, to be honest, I doubt I would have entered teaching were it not for the opportunity to enter it via a fast-track route.
I couldn't afford another year as a student and, aged 23, I wasn't sure I should spend a whole year training for a career that I wasn't sure I wanted. As it turned out, three years on, I'm still teaching.
The teaching profession needs sensitive and intelligent people; it also needs motivated leaders. As I left Oxford, I watched dozens of graduates take banking jobs – would they be any good in the classroom after six months training? No, they would be rubbish. But after a term of teaching they might begin to have an idea of what they should be doing.
I did occasionally worry, in my first term, that although I was on a giant learning curve, my students weren't. In my second year, however, my GCSE set achieved a total of 30 A and B grades in the English language and literature exams that hadn't been predicted.
After a year's training, with plenty of teaching experience under their belts, a PGCE student may be ready to go into any school and teach. After six months training, a teacher is going to need a bit of support. I asked an old mentor what he thought about the idea.
"If you're a halfwit ,you need 20 years of training," he reflected. "And then it takes 20 years to get them out of the profession."
An influx of high-flyers can only be a good thing.
• Oenone Crossley-Holland took part in the Teach First scheme that encouraged graduates to teach for a year before going on to other professions. She is still a teacher.
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While it is absolutely right that we need to attract the best and most talented individuals into teaching, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers doesn't believe that this is the way to do it.
To teach well, you need a thorough understanding of your subject; you also need to know how children learn and how to help them learn your subject. You need to know how to find out what children already understand so that you can give them what they need next.
You need to know how to motivate children. And you need to do this for large classes of pupils of different ages and backgrounds, with varying needs, interests and challenges, some of whom really don't want to be in the classroom.
Six months might be enough to give you a basic grounding in the techniques to use. But this new group of teachers will need a huge amount of support to learn how to use those skills in different settings.
The success of similar schemes, such as Teach First, depends on the support available in school: experienced teachers who can provide challenging but supportive mentoring, early identification of problems particularly with behaviour management and links between schools and teacher training tutors. ATL isn't convinced that this support is available consistently throughout the country.
A lot rests on how the "most talented" career-changers are identified. A lot also rests on the six-month training: will it do more than get people into the classroom quickly? The success of this programme will be measured by the numbers who continue to teach and improve their practice. Otherwise, this is a costly exercise in demoralising the teaching profession.
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SYDNEY/HONG KONG, July 21 (Reuters) - A dramatic slide in gold prices this week threatens to squash a run of mining mergers and acquisitions just as momentum in the sector was picking up.
Mining executives and fund managers warn predators will turn more cautious before splashing out cash or approving capital raisings, at least until bullion shows signs of stabilising.
The value of completed gold mining mergers and acquisitions so far this year has reached $3.2 billion, compared with $4.4 billion for all of 2014, according to Reuters data.
Gold this week took its sharpest dive since September 2013, landing at $1,088 per ounce, a five-year low.
That sent key indices measuring the health of gold mining companies crashing in its wake.
The Australian and Canadian indices fell 11 percent each, while the Johannesburg Stock Exchange gold index dropped 12 percent.
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Don't be so literal; the "Subway Footlong" is a registered trademark, not an actual measurement. So wrote Subway Australia on its Facebook page on Jan. 16, after customer Matt Corby's photo of an 11-inch sub sandwich, measured against a ruler, went viral.
According to ABC News, the Subway response, which is no longer posted on the page, read: "The length of the bread baked in the restaurant cannot be assured each and every time as the proofing process may vary slightly each time in the restaurant." A representative told ABC News on Friday that while the bread is baked at each store, the company strives for each sub to be 12 inches long.
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Tom Stone, who led the Atlanta Beat to the inaugural WUSA championship in 2001, has been named the women's head coach at Texas Tech, where he succeeds Neil McGuire, who left to become the California women's coach.
Stone, the first coach hired in WUSA, had the best winning percentage of any coach in the
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Voters to Decide on Medical Marijuana Following Florida Supreme Court Vote
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GAINESVILLE -- Medical marijuana in the state of Florida may soon no longer be just a pipe dream following a vote late Monday by the state Supreme Court.
In a narrow 4-3 decision, justices on the state's high court approved the language of a ballot initiative that would put medical marijuana on the November ballot.
The push began last year after prominent personal injury attorney John Morgan began using millions of his own money to spearhead the effort.
If passed, the measure would make Florida the 21st state to allow the medicinal use of marijuana.
Proponents of the initiative, like Jordan Shepherd of Gainesville, say they are hopeful it will pass.
"People take oxycodone, and every type of pharmaceutical drug you can imagine, when you can use cannabis instead," said Shepherd, who is also the vice-president of the Gainesville chapter of NORML, a non-profit that works to reform America's marijuana laws.
"Cannabis has never killed anyone," he said.
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"I'm not a doctor, but I have a lot of experience in this field, and I have seen people that were clearly addicted to marijuana," said former Hawthorne mayor John Martin, who went through his own battle with substance abuse and used to council others with substance abuse problems.
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Midway through the tournament, Ryan defended his team's bang-it-up-to-Abby Wambach playing style. He told FIFA.com, "If you spend all your time trying to look pretty, you're going to end up with big problems the other way."
Not that anyone was asking for a full 90 minutes of the Beautiful Game, but the nation with the richest history in the women's game should serve up something more sophisticated than kick-and-run survival soccer.
Usually, coaches who opt for Route 1 and a reliance on athleticism over a possession game rationalize their crude tactics by claiming they haven't the talent to outplay rather than outmuscle their foes.
Of course you wouldn't expect Ryan to say such a thing - to disparage his players' talent -- in the middle of a tournament. But regardless of the game plan, the performance against Brazil revealed the skill gap.
The Brazilian players used trickery and guile to evade the Americans. U.S. players, in one-on-one situations, tried mainly to sprint around defenders, and that didn't work.
Referee Nicole Petignat demonstrated she goes quickly to the cards. Had American players been able to dribble past Brazilians and draw fouls, they may have gotten a makeup call to even the numbers. But the Americans failed to put the Brazilians in desperate situations because they couldn't beat them on the dribble.
The Brazilians were comfortable on the ball. The U.S. players weren't.
The Brazilians could keep possession while under pressure. The Americans couldn't.
Hopefully the convenient criticism of Coach Ryan doesn't overshadow the inconvenient truth that the Americans players were technically inferior.
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2007 Women's World Cup, semifinal
Sept. 27 in Hangzhou, China
USA 0 Brazil 4.
Goals: Own Goal (Osborne) 20, Marta 27, Cristiane (Renata Costa), Marta (Renata Costa) 80.
USA - Scurry, Rampone, Markgraf (Dalmy, 74), Whitehill, Lopez (Lloyd, 46), Boxx, Osborne, Chalupny, O'Reilly (Ellertson, 60), Wambach, Lilly.
Brazil - Andreia, Elaine, Aline, Tania, Renata Costa, Daniela, Formiga, Maycon, Ester, Marta, Cristiane.
Stats: USA-BRA
Shots: 12-19
Shots on Goal: 4-8
Saves: 5-4
Corner Kicks: 2-4
Fouls: 16-15
Offside: 0-0
Misconduct Summary:
USA - Shannon Boxx (caution) 14th minute.
USA - Lori Chalupny (caution) 26.
BRA - Aline (caution) 28.
BRA - Renata Costa (caution) 44.
USA - Shannon Boxx (caution) 46+
USA - Shannon Boxx (ejection) 46+
USA - Abby Wambach (caution) 49.
Referee: Nicole Petignat (SUI)
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Week 10 Power Rankings for all 32 NFL Teams
Welcome to the Pyromaniac.com Fantasy Power Rankings. This weekly article is where you will find out which teams are dominating, or are being dominated, on the offensive and defensive side of the ball, in terms of Fantasy points. See below to see who the BEST team in the league. These charts and our insight will help you visualize how the season has gone to this point, and give you a better feel for how the season will go week to week. By using these charts you will have a better understanding of which matchups to exploit on a week-to-week basis, and DOMINATE your fantasy league.
Tampa Bay has stormed up these charts in recent weeks on the back of the MUSCLE HAMSTER. He has carried the Bucs on his back to the 6th ranked offense in the league ahead of the likes of the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers and just behind the Atlanta Falcons. Doug Martin's monster fantasy day also vaulted the Tampa Bay running backs into a third ranking, increasing their score four full points! Their receivers also sport a top 5 ranking, things are looking up in Tampa Bay and they have found a nice mix of run and big pass plays to exploit defenses.
The Kansas City Chiefs have no entered the area no team wants to be in, they are suffering from the worst quarterback play in the league. They are the only team in the league that is suffering single digit fantasy points from their quarterback play, and that includes the anemic Jacksonville Jaguars. Turnovers have plagued the Matt Cassel and there are no other viable options on this team, and yes this includes Brady Quinn. The Chiefs need to seriously assess this position in the offseason or else this offense will soon find themselves alone at the bottom of the league.
Two teams starting rookie quarterbacks made big jumps up the ranking this weekend, the Indianapolis Colts and Seattle Seahawks both jumped five spots in the rankings in this installment. Andrew Luck put up the most yards ever by a rookie and Russell Wilson added three passing TDs. These quarterbacks are in very different situations but both stepped up in a big way on Sunday. Luck is the master of his offense and it all goes through him while Wilson is the game manager who leans on the run game and short passing game.
There were four offenses who were shut down by opposing defenses and each lost 4 spots in the rankings. The Giants offense was stifled by the Steelers D as they shut down the passing and running games in a much anticipated match up. The Bills were dominated by the Houston Texans led by JJ Watt. Everyone else besides Adrian Peterson on the Vikings was shut down by the Seahawks as Ponder threw for 63 yards. The Ravens also held down every one on the Browns except for running back Trent Richardson. What do all of these teams have in common? Each had their quarterback fail to throw a touchdown on Sunday.
The Cleveland Browns have been climbing out of the cellar the last few weeks, which non-coincidently aligns with the return of their best defensive player, Joe Haden from suspension. They are still an inviting matchup for opposing receivers but most of the damage was done while Haden was not on the field for four games. Since his return from the suspension however their rankings against receivers have vastly improved going from 30.7 points per game after week 7 to 26.2 as of now. What an effect this guy has on this Browns defense.
In a league where offenses are the talk of the town, the best bet not to fall in the rankings is to be on a bye week. Two of the 4 teams on bye weeks increased in the rankings, the others, well one had no way to move up as they were number 1 (49ers) and the other fell only one spot (Rams). The Patriots were the biggest beneficiary as they jumped 4 spots just sitting at the beach sipping margaritas. The Jets also jumped a spot in the rankings all while their trio of over rated guys sat at home.
The Baltimore Ravens got their defense back on track as the faced the young Cleveland offense on Sunday. They were the biggest riser this week jumping 7 spots on the defensive side. They are slowly playing better against the run on the pass, and as the season continues with their young guys getting more and more snaps it can only start to look better.
Two defenses fell 7 spots in the rankings, as they were torched by two rookies this weekend, and one of them wasn't RG3. Doug Martin and Andrew Luck caused the Oakland Raiders and Miami Dolphins too drop 7 spots almost on their own. In a week the Raiders go from allowing 18.2 points a game to 22.6, I guess that's what one of the best fantasy days ever can do to a defense. As for the Dolphins they were allowing 15.9 points a game too quarterbacks to 17.1 after a rookie put it on them on Sunday.
The Pittsburgh Steelers and Houston Texans each rose a spot this week further cementing their spots in the top five. Both of their defenses were stifling this weekend against good offensive football teams. The offenses also played well each staying true to their identity and thriving buy doing so.
Looking at the chart you can clearly see breaks in the talent level of teams. The top 10 teams all have double digit differentials. Ten through fifteen are all in the single digits with positive differentials. 15 to 25 all are negative but in the single digits and the final 7 teams are double digits in the negatives whether it is to blame on their offense or defense. Look out another tier system!
The Indianapolis Colts made a huge jump in the standings by defeating the Miami Dolphins both for fantasy purposes and their team's playoff hopes. They jumped 7 spots in the rankings and have been getting hotter since the bye week. Each week Andrew Luck looks better and better and so does this defense. They are starting to look like a team no one wants to play especially with the rallying cry they have around coach Chuck Pagano.
The Vikings and the Dolphins each fell 6 places over the weekend. Each were beat up on defense and their offenses didn't exactly light the world on fire. Before this weekend each looked the they would be contenders for the final playoff spot in their respective leagues, but when playing two other contenders it seems as if they were found out for what they really are, pretenders.
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Connect a master keyboard with 88 keys, plug-in DXi and VSTi softsynths with incredible real sounding instruments and have the presets of up to 3600 songs at your fingertips including text with chords and lyrics or even a scrolling display of the score. When a new style is loaded the current style will continue to play until the load is complete and then switches without a glitch. The song presets may also include a wave/mp3 intro or play a multimedia file as backing track instead of a style. Karaoke files will be displayed with scrolling tekst in large font. An editor to create Karaoke files is included. A large number of chord recognition methods is available, also for MIDI guitars, MIDI accordions and MIDI Pedals. In full keyboard mode you can play the entire keyboard and use a footswitch for chordfixation to indicate when chords should be recognised from the keyboard for the auto-accompaniment and when not. Studio musicians use OneManBand as a preproduction tool. In the arranger and song window they can quickly try ideas with a lot of different styles, variations and chord sequences. OneManBand is both DXi and VSTi host and supports ASIO drivers. A complete sequencer to operate on any MIDI file is included too. All detailed event editing is done in easy eventslists and pianorolls. The result can be saved in a MIDI-file for further operations elsewhere. Home musicians use OneManBand to upgrade their arranger keyboards or to provide their digital piano or synthesizer with real-time auto-accompaniment. Load styles directly from the hard drive of your PC. Use the style maker to "tweak" styles and make them sound better. Make a style from a MIDI file. Make a collection of exported style tracks and use them in uniquely blended styles. Absolute beginners use the "PC Keyboard 1" user-interface in OneManBand to play melody and chords live without a MIDI keyboard controller. Play "quatre mains": one plays the auto-accompaniment chords and variation changes with the mouse and the other one plays the melody on the PC keyboard.Features:==>Compatibillity-Windows 98/2000/NT/Me/XG/Vista (does not work with Chinese, Japanese and Korean laguage)-Plays all Yamaha styles (live and sequenced)-Automatic XG to GM conversion (in GM mode)-Reads and writes MIDI files, including XF chords.-Plays and creates Karaoke files-Hosts DXi and VSTi soft synths with support for ASIO drivers.-Supports Cakewalk .INS files for browsing instrumentbanks-Synchronises with other arrangers and sequencers thru MIDI clocks, both as master (sending clocks) and as slave (receiving clocks)==>Playing Live-Store all the presets to play a particular song (style, tempo, multivoice, etc.) and reactivate them with a single key stroke.-Accompaniment continues to play while a new style is loaded (switch without a glitch).-Full fingered chord recognition for 34 chord types.-Single finger chord recognition for major, minor and 7th chords.-Chord recognition for slash chords e.g C/E.-Free Form chord recognition allows for any keycombination, independant from existing chords.-Control the tempo with a modulation wheel or volume pedal.-Full keyboard chord recognition with chord fixation pedal.-Play bass runs in the chord section.-Play chords with a set of MIDI pedals, a MIDI guitar or a MIDI accordion.-Supports vocal harmonizers.-2 automatic harmonies for melody voices (close harmony and wide harmony). -Up to 4 instruments can be mixed for melody voices.-Enter commands for variation, tempo and volume changes, loading styles etc. using a MIDI keyboard controller.-On-screen display of the special functions of the MIDI keyboard controller. Including browsing thru style directories.-Switches for style variations (fill in A etc.) can be assigned to any key, slider, knob, button, wheel or pedal that sends MIDI signals or to PC-keyboard keys.-Record your real time performance in a MIDI file.==>Sequencing-Create accompaniment sequences (chords and directives) with the "drag and drop operated" arranger window.-Import melody and chords from MIDI files.-Add melody in real time or "drag and drop" notes on staff-Record chord sequences from your keyboard in the song window-Comprehensive sequencer for standard MIDI files-Detailed editing in eventslist and pianoroll-Add time dependend lyrics in real time to a MIDI file and create a karaoke file==>Style creating-Edit all the style parameters-A style programming language to make modifications to styles in batch.-A mixer window with sliders for rapid style tweaking-Record style tracks-Record live (e.g. wahwah) effects with the mixer window in styles and songs-Convert MIDI files to styles.-Export and import style tracks to produce "morphed" styles -Export and import style parts to produce "medley" styles containing variations of different styles-A drumset conversion tool-Apply random velocity to introduce more variety in styles-Detailed editing on style tracks in eventslist and pianoroll- 10 out of 10Limitations:-saving disabled and playing interrupted every 30 seconds in demo version
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Water industry associations are helping utilities provide water and sewer service to the financially challenged with guidance documents and other programs. Two efforts by the American Water Works Association include:
The recently released 6th edition of Principles of Water Rates, Fees, and Charges (M1 Manual) includes an updated and expanded chapter on affordability program options.
An Oct. 3, 2012, webinar featuring speakers from three utilities that have established successful discount programs:
Initiated because of large required rate increases
Cleveland Division of Water, Ohio
Karen Lisowski, consulting engineer
216-664-2444 ext. 5633
The homestead program provides discounts for the totally and permanently disabled and residents 65 or older. Another program, administered by the Cleveland Housing Network, provides a 40% discount to qualifying households.
Cape Coral Utilities, Fla.
Jeff Pearson, utilities director
(239) 574-0710
The water department offers two rate-reduction opportunities based on income and household size: the Hardship Deferral Program, which is based on income, and federally funded Connection Grant Assistance.
Customer donation-supported discount program
Orange Water and Sewer Authority, N.C.
Kevin Ray, finance and procurement manager
"Taste of Hope": Customers can have their bill rounded up to the nearest dollar amount and the additional money donated to the Taste of Hope Fund. Or they can have the authority add any whole dollar amount to their bill as a donation.
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Called to Dance Workshop
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Saturday, March 2, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (CST)
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San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Join us as we answer the "Called to Dance." The most anointed brides: Minister LaVetta C. Williams of Dancing Before the King Ministries, Richmond, VA and Co-Pastor Alicia Dudley of New Generation Fellowship – Kingdom Building Ministry and Founder of the internationally-renowned Harmonious Voices for Christ Praise Dance Company will be our featured clinicians!
But it doesn't stop there, come and experience the greatest "Night of Worship" with local dance ministries and be ready to receive an apostolic word from the nationally-acclaimed, Pastor Maize Warren Jr of Spirit and Truth Family Worship Center of Baton Rouge, LA on Friday, March 1, 2012 at 7 p.m.
The "Called to Dance" workshop and evening service will be held at:
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7767 Tom Drive
Baton Rouge LA 70806
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EARLY REGISTRATION - $25 until February 17th, 2013.
Regular Registration - $35 online or cash only at the door.
Event Schedule**:
Friday, March 1, 2013
FREE evening service 7pm - 9pm (Free & open to the public)
SATURDAY, March 2, 19, 2013
Workshop: 9:00am-5pm
Host Hotel:
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9940 Airline Hwy Baton Rouge, LA 70816
Rates: Exterior Double Room - $89.95 per night
Group Rate Code: Sisters of Worship
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**Please note that this schedule is subject to change. Sisters of Worship IWAM submit wholly to the will of Christ, any change in schedule is subject to the leading of God.
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Spirit & Truth Family Worship Center
7767 Tom Drive
Baton Rouge,
Saturday, March 2, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (CST)
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Destiny battling for control of Maori women's league
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Destiny Church has launched a hostile take-over battle for control of one of the country's more respected culture organisations, the Maori Women's Welfare League.
Hannah Tamaki, wife of bishop and founder of Destiny, Brian Tamaki, is running a slick photo-shopped campaign in a bid to become national president of the league and its nearly 4000 members.
It is causing outrage in the league, whose first patron was the legendary Princess Te Puea Herangi (1884-1952), and was led into political pre-eminence by land rights campaigner Dame Whina Cooper (1895-1994).
At a candidate's meeting in Auckland, Destiny Church ordered its members out when a past league president, Christine Panapa, questioned what Destiny was up to.
"I could have cut the air with a knife; it was them and us, there was no unification at all," Panapa said.
Destiny was a sect and the league's constitution explicitly said it was to be a non-sectarian organisation, she said.
When Panape pointed this out on the Point Chevalier marae, a league coordinator, who was also in Destiny, stood up.
"She just took the mic and said 'would the branches of Destiny Church leave' and they did.
"I think they did not want Hannah to be embarrassed any more."
Destiny's campaigning style had not been seen in its 60 years and established members fear it is a take-over.
"That's what we believe, that is what we the women believe. What are they going to do for those members of us who are not members of the Destiny Church?"
There were many women with years of membership in the league who could be president.
"Why a woman who has only been part of it for only 10 minutes? She has not done the apprenticeship."
Destiny had done a "lot of wonderful work for our people, and I acknowledge that but I wonder if the reasons for her wanting to be president are right".
Another league president, Denise Ewe, told Radio New Zealand she is concerned at Hannah Tamaki's bid given that she had admitted five years ago she had never heard of the league.
"Why would you want to take the reigns of a very old and established and Maori organisation? Hannah's vote is coming from Destiny grown branches only."
Ewe says there around 500 Destiny women in the league
"Our concern is really about 'why now', why is she standing now.
"It is about someone coming on who has a powerful position in her own right and that has twice the membership of the league."
Hannah Tamaki says in her campaign material that her husband "is a direct descendent" of Te Puea.
Te Puea had no children.
She says she is "humbled and proud" to be standing for the presidency.
"If elected I would koha the honorarium paid to this position to a charity supporting women's initiatives," she said.
She admitted her bid was causing turmoil in the league.
"However I will continue to keep my nomination in there and at the end of the day if the members want me as their national president then great," she says.
"My nomination has certainly created a lot more interest in the league and if it means more members then that's great."
Tamaki told Stuff she had been a league member for three years, in her own branch.
She denied her presidency would give her control of the league's funds.
"The president is one of nine people who govern the organisation on behalf of 2934 members."
She said the league's stated aims and objectives included enabling members to "effectively participate in the spiritual, social, cultural and economic development of their whanau and community". Its creed stated that each member believed in god and had reverence for humanity.
"I believe there is a fit for me here," Tamaki says.
"The league has done a lot of mahi or work for our women and children, and I know that I can also contribute what gifts I have."
She said the league and Destiny were separate organisations and she was standing because both had similar views on the wellbeing of people.
"My husband fully supports my stand for this organisation which was founded by Dame Whina Cooper and his Great Grand Aunt Princess Te Puea."
Hannah Tamaki describes herself as a mother of three and grandmother of 10.
"She is a dynamic and highly experienced visionary leader who throughout her life has inspired countless whanau, hapu and iwi towards success in family, career and entrepreneurial pursuits," her campaign material says.
It stresses achievements in her "own right".
She says she is the co-founder of Destiny with thousands of Maori nationwide.
"Its numerous social ministries are a product of her leadership."
She says she is patron of Te Runanga a Iwi o Te Oranga Ake (TOA) which she defines as "a National Urban Maori Authority with 10 offices nationwide".
She does not say it was set up as Destiny's social service arm and is controlled by her husband.
TOA has also created a league branch.
Tamaki says she was "visionary and pioneer" of a kura or school with 255 pupils she did not name. It is the Destiny School at the church headquarters.
She is using the TOA website to tout her presidency.
As president of the TOA branch she claims to have increased league membership by 300, established a kohanga reo, run cervical and breast screening, helped women in prison, established a national food bank and mentored business women.
Says the campaign flier: "Hannah is clearly a highly accomplished leader with a huge managerial capacity. She is respected and sought after, not only because of her achievements and contribution to community, but because her desire to help and empower whanau and wahine is genuinely felt in and through all that she does."
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Location: Livestock Nutrient Management ResearchTitle: Wet distillers grains plus solubles concentration in steam-flaked-corn-based diets: Effects on feedlot cattle performance, carcass characteristics, nutrient digestibility, and ruminal fermentation characteristics Author
|Luebbe, Matt
|Patterson, Jodi
|Jenkins, Karla
|Buttrey, Emalee
|Davis, Trevor
|Mccollum, F. Ted
|Cole, Noel
|Macdonald, Jim
Submitted to: Journal of Animal Science
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/23/2011
Publication Date: 12/6/2011
Citation: Luebbe, M.K., Patterson, J.M., Jenkins, K.H., Buttrey, E.K., Davis, T.C., McCollum, F., Cole, N.A., MacDonald, J.C. 2011. Wet distillers grains plus solubles concentration in steam-flaked-corn-based diets: Effects on feedlot cattle performance, carcass characteristics, nutrient digestibility, and ruminal fermentation characteristics. Journal of Animal Science. 90:1589-1602. Interpretive Summary: Wet distiller's grains plus solubles (WDG), a co-product of the grain ethanol industry, can be used as a feed ingredient for finishing beef cattle. However, WDG are a new feed ingredient in the Southern Great Plains and more information is needed to determine the optimal way to use this ingredient in cattle finishing diets. To that end, we conducted two experiments to determine the effects of increasing the concentrations of WDG in finishing diets (0, 15, 30,45 or 60% of diet dry matter) based on steam-flaked corn (the predominant feed source used in the Southern Plains) on beef cattle performance and diet digestibility. Animals were also fed a control diet based on dry rolled corn - the predominant form of corn used in Northern Great Plains finishing diets. In Experiment 1, steers fed the steam-flaked corn-based diet had greater weight gain and more efficient weight gain than steers fed the dry rolled corn-based diet. The average daily weight gain and the feed efficiency decreased as the concentration of WDG in the diet increased. In Experiment 2, the digestion of organic matter and neutral detergent fiber were not affected by the corn processing method, but starch digestion was greater for cattle fed steam-flaked corn-based diets than those fed dry rolled corn-based diets. Digestibility of organic matter and starch decreased and digestibility of fiber increased with increasing diet WDG concentration. Feeding steam-flaked corn improved steer performance compared with feeding dry rolled corn. The concentration of wet distiller's grains with solubles and the corn processing method influenced nutrient digestibility and ruminal fermentation. The addition of WDG in steam-flaked corn-based diets appears to negatively affect animal performance by diluting the energy density of the diet.
Technical Abstract: Two experiments were conducted to determine the effects of wet distiller's grains plus solubles (WDG; < 15% sorghum grain) concentration in steam-flaked corn- (SFC) based diets on feedlot performance, carcass characteristics, ruminal fermentation, and diet digestibility of feeedlt ocattle. In Experiment 1, 600 crossbred steers (364 +/- 35 kg avg body weight) were used in a randomized complete block design with 8 replications/treatment. Dietary treatments consisted of a dry-rolled corn (DRC) control diet without WDG, a SFC control without WDG, and SFC with 4 WDG concentrations (15, 30, 45, or 60% on a dry matter basis) replacing SFC, cottonseed meal, urea, and yellow grease. Final body weight (BW), average daily gain (ADG), gain:feed intake ratio (G:F), hot carcass weight (HCW), and 12th rib fat depth were greater (P </= 0.05) for SFC than DRC. Dry matter intake tended (P = 0.06) to be greater for cattle fed DRC than SFC. Final BW, ADG, G:F, HCW, 12th rib fat depth, and marbling score decreased linearly (P < 0.01) with increasing WDG concentration. In Experiment 2, six ruminally and duodenally cannulated crossbred steers (481 +/- 18 kg avg BW) were used in a 6 × 6 Latin square design using the same diets as Experiment 1. Ruminal, postruminal, and total tract organic matter (OM) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) digestibility were not different (P > 0.14) for DRC compared with SFC. Ruminal and total tract starch digestibility was greater (P < 0.01) for SFC than DRC. Dry matter and OM intake were not different (P >/= 0.43) among WDG treatments. Ruminal and total tract OM digestibility decreased linearly (P < 0.01) with increasing WDG concentration. Intake, ruminal, and total tract digestibility of NDF increased linearly (P < 0.01) with increasing WDG concentration. Starch intake decreased linearly (P < 0.01) with increasing WDG concentration. Ruminal starch digestibility increased (P = 0.01) with increasing concentration of WDG. Total tract starch digestibility decreased quadratically (P < 0.01) with increasing concentration of WDG. Feeding SFC improved steer performance compared with DRC. The concentration of WDG with solubles and corn processing method influences nutrient digestibility and ruminal fermentation. The addition of WDG in SFC-based diets appears to negatively impact animal performance by diluting the energy density of the diet.