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More Sandy Bridge E Laptops: Eurocom Panther 4.0 and Maingear Titan 17by Kristian Vättö on 2/8/2012 1:55 PM EST
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justkuz - Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - linkWow...that thing is just horrid looking. Reply
CharonPDX - Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - linkPutting the optical drive directly underneath the ports? Of all the stupid locations....
As for it being generally monstrous, yeah, you try squishing 300W of desktop parts into a notebook... Reply
8steve8 - Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - linkwho ok'd this thing? ivy bridge in a couple months... Reply
Johnmcl7 - Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - linkThese are six core processors and there won't be any of those as part of the Ivy Bridge launch, as mentioned in the article these are aimed at mobile workstation use where the applications are more likely to be optimised for the additional cores.
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8steve8 - Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - linkyeah, but i wouldn't be surprised if 4 ivy cores usually beat out 6 sandy cores... just seems like an incredibly small market of those who need a laptop and "need" the 2 extra cores vs 4 better cores... Reply
Kristian Vättö - Thursday, February 09, 2012 - linkIvy Bridge won't do much for the CPU performance. The clock speeds are pretty much the same (100-200MHz bumps), we won't see +4GHz. Clock for clock performance seems to be up by around 10% if early benchmarks are to believe. That won't make IVB as fast as hex-core SNB-E given the clocks of SNB-E.
The price tag should already tell you that these are laptops with very small market ;-) Reply
tayb - Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - linkWhy? Why do companies keep putting a toddler sized touchpad on these gigantic notebooks?
It's ugly but that's to be expected with a notebook replacement. But the touchpad? Why so small???? Reply
8steve8 - Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - linki agree... but when you have the space for this laptop, then you have enough space for a mouse. Reply
aguilpa1 - Thursday, February 09, 2012 - linkThese make the Alienware m17x look like a prom queen in comparison. Reply
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A couple who are raising money for a charity which helps people with a rare and incurable condition have completed their first challenge.
Ryk Downes and his wife Bev ran in the Leeds Half Marathon to raise money for The Lily Foundation, which helps people with mitochondrial disease.
The couple, who live in Pool-in-Wharfedale, decided to set themselves a series of tough physical challenges in support of the charity after their baby grandson Cory was diagnosed with the disease.
After completing the half marathon Ryk, a councillor for Otley and Yeadon, said: "We have so far raised over £1,400. We both had a great day taking more than 20 minutes off our best times. So we have completed the first leg of our challenge."
Ryk, who had set himself the target of completing the race in under two hours, had a time of 1hr 58min 34sec.
"Now for a small matter of a 69-mile Ultra Marathon next month running from Carlisle to Newcastle," he said.
Ryk and Bev will be attempting a mixture of half, full and ultra marathons, along with a mountain hike for the Lily Foundation.
They are aiming to raise at least £2,000 over the year and are urging people to support them at http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/Downes2014 .
Launching their fundraising the couple said: "Our 14-month-old grandson Cory has been diagnosed with mitochondrial disease, which sadly has no cure.
"The Lily Foundation has been set up to offer support to families affected by this horrible disease and also help fund research, so that one day a cure might be found."
Mitochondrial disease is a group of disorders caused by failing mitochondria, the parts of body cells that generate energy. Symptoms include poor growth, loss of muscle, visual, hearing and neurological problems, learning disabilities and heart disease.

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self.Defense = 12
self.Strenght = 15
def Npc(race, Org, Elf):
race.Org = ["10", "15", "20"]
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File "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Chars.py", line 11, in <module>
TypeError: Npc() missing 2 required positional arguments: 'Org' and 'Elf'"
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Teri Toye was born a boy but found being a boy a bore
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- A northeast Ohio teen is facing trial in juvenile court for the alleged rape and slaying of his 3-year-old half-sister.
The Akron Beacon Journal (http://bit.ly/VZqXR6) reports that it will be the first jury trial of a minor ever in juvenile court in Summit County. It's scheduled to start Monday.
The boy was 15 when the crimes occurred in 2011. He turned 17 last month. If convicted, he could be confined to a juvenile facility until he turns 21. If he were to commit serious violations while in a juvenile facility, he would then be subject to adult sanctions, which could include life in prison.
An autopsy said the 3-year-old girl died from "multisystem organ failure," a medical term for serious infection over a period of time from traumatic injuries.
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CHANNELVIEW, Texas - A mother is asking for help to find her three missing daughters.
Cassandra Palmerin, 15, Chelsea Palmerin, 15, and Vanessa Palmerin, 17, were last seen about 6:30 p.m. on Monday.
According to Imelda Diaz, her daughters, who attend Channelview High School, wanted to go to Gene Green Park, 6500 East Sam Houston Parkway North, to meet some boys. She told them no, but they left anyway.
"I told them no … it's late, school night," Diaz said.
Diaz said she locked her daughters' phones so they could only call relatives. She went to look for the girls at the park and saw them apparently waiting for someone. She said she gave them a few minutes to calm down, but they were gone by the time when she went to approach them.
Investigators said they consider the girls to be runaways, but Diaz is worried that something bad has happened.
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Diaz said she found several text messages from one number on Vanessa's phone, and she called the number and spoke to a man.
"He denied knowing them," Diaz said. "(He) did admit (he) started talking to her online."
The girls left their purses, money, cellphone chargers and clothing at home, Diaz said.
Cassandra is about 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs about 160 pounds. She was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and jeans.
Chelsea is 5 feet 7 inches tall and about 160 pounds. She was last seen wearing a navy blue hooded sweatshirt and jeans.
Vanessa is 5 feet 8 inches tall and about 180 pounds. She was last seen wearing a red hooded sweatshirt and jeans.
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I'm not the biggest fan of the animal print, but I must admit that these zebra print patterns achieve a certain pop. Jonathan Adler lurves zebra – three of these rooms are his designs. Two are boutique hotels designed by Kelly Wearstler. Mostly the poor guy's skin is found on the floor, but it occasionally makes an appearance on upholstery. I like the zebra paired with pink, even if it's reminiscent of the Good & Plenty. (Are those still around?) My favorite is the gray drapery next to the desk with the Chinese Chippendale chair – so subtle. Ashley Whittaker's blue zebra print room is anything but subtle, and made quite the splash in Domino. It's Rose Cummings' Zebrine, the red version of which I actually featured in "Cover Ups," the first piece I ever did for the Globe magazine.
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If you see yourself as a moderate, independent centrist, there is an image I would ask you to ponder: a great serpent consuming its own tail. It is called the Ouroboros, a symbol of eternity. I've written about it before. You can once again see its outline in recent events.
The Wall Street Journal reports that General Motors is once again handing out campaign donations:
The beneficiaries include Midwestern lawmakers, mostly Democrats, who have traditionally supported the industry's legislative agenda on Capitol Hill, including Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.), Sen. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) and Rep. John Dingell (D., Mich.).
The list also includes Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor, the House Republican Whip, who would likely assume a top leadership post if Republicans win control of the House in November.
It isn't unusual for big companies like GM to spend on political campaigns, but complicating GM's situation is that the company is majority-owned by the U.S. government. GM is planning to return to the public stock markets later this year, allowing the U.S. to begin to sell off its roughly 61% stake in the company.
Meanwhile, Melissa Clouthier at Liberty Pundits spots the debonair Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, shoveling piles of taxpayer loot at a major Democrat Party contributor:
It appears that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to reward Arcata Associates, a big Democratic donor, a huge no-bid contract on the heels of two separate $10,000 (maximum) donation to the Nevada Democrat party.
Senator Harry Reid, along with his House cohort Nancy Pelosi, promised to drain the swamp when they took full control of Congress. Their behavior since taking office would indicate the exact opposite has happened.
In fiscal year 2010, Arcata won a 1.36 million dollar contract for the Continuous Threat Alert Sensing System (CTASS) according to OpenSecrets.org after spending $50,000 to lobby the Senate. What the site fails to mention are the multitude of Arcata donations to Harry Reid and the Nevada Democrat Party. In addition, Arcata stands to gain another two million dollars in 2011, also a no-bid earmark directed by Senator Reid. The requests for these earmarks can be found here and here.
In North Carolina, we see further evidence of what Ed Morrissey calls "the earmark / endorsement complex."
Bob Etheridge is now running a TV ad where several of his supporters praise him – but what the ad doesn't explain is at least two of the Etheridge supporters received 'Stimulus Fund' checks, thanks to Etheridge.
Mr. Linwood Parker is an example. Mr. Parker is a partner in a development near Four Oaks and back in August Etheridge handed him a $340,000 check – stimulus funds. Now, in return Mr. Parker has endorsed Bob Etheridge in his TV ad, saying, "Congressman Etheridge did not allow politics to stand in the way of job creation."
Of course, the fact is, Etheridge's grant to Parker (and Parker's endorsement) was nothing but politics.
Plenty more examples of can easily be found. It's not an exclusively partisan scandal. The party in power tends to attract the big payoffs, from contributors eager to turn thousands of campaign dollars into millions in taxpayer loot. It's an investment that pays huge dividends, no matter how rotten the economy might be. As the party dedicated to government growth and central control, the Democrats are more aggressive salesmen, and they can count on general media disinterest, so they can be more brazen.
The sharpest fangs of the Ouroboros are public employee unions, especially the teachers' union. Titanic amounts of taxpayer money are poured into the hands of the NEA, and despite generally poor performance, they are politically shielded from reform. One of the biggest controversies from President Obama's first year in office was the brutal murder of a popular District of Columbia school choice program, carried out by the Democrats on the order of the teachers' union. The NEA buys this kind of influence by donating tens of millions to Democrats each year – over $56 million during the 2008 election season.
These very expensive money-laundering systems have been running for decades, consuming taxpayer billions to stuff millions into the coffers of politicians, who then grab more billions to throw into the machine. As long as vast sums of money are accumulated in Washington, the politically connected will gather to feast. Politicians need funding to stay in office, and despite their posturing as selfless public servants, they tend to be greedy and envious… with a strong sense of entitlement to the lavish lifestyle paraded before them by big-money contributors. They will always lose the battle against temptation to sell their power. They wrap their sins in self-righteous rhetoric, which they can sometimes convince themselves to believe. No central accumulation of power has ever escaped corruption on a massive scale, anywhere in human history.
Consider the terrible image of this huge serpent feeding upon itself, and ask yourself: what is the use of a "moderate" agenda that merely causes the beast to chew a little more slowly? What is the "centrist" position relative to a system designed for automatic, perpetual growth? Even if the President repaired to the golf course for the rest of his term, and Congress held no further sessions, the growth of the federal government would continue automatically. You can hear the sounds of the serpent's teeth scraping against its own tail in talk of baseline budgeting, and the term "cuts" used as a curse against reductions in the rate of spending increase.
How will you maintain your "independence" when control over every aspect of your life is fantastically valuable, and politicians have plenty of eager buyers with deep pockets lined up?
It's not enough to tinker at the edges of this system. Vast amounts of power must be torn from Washington, and returned to the people. We must begin the fearsome task of pulling the serpent's tail from its jaws, or we will all be crushed by its death throes.
"Moderate" voters would be well advised to study the Tea Party critique of our unsustainable government carefully. As dramatic as it sounds, it's the truly moderate position. The Ourboros has shown it cannot be reasoned with, and there are no firm boundaries it respects. The "living Constitution" is but the tip of its flickering tongue. Leave it alone for a few more years, and it will teach you the true meaning of "extremism."
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Academy to honour Bill Taylor with Bonner Medal
The visual effects supervisor and director of photography will receive the John A Bonner Medal Of Commendation from the board of governors.
Taylor will collect the honour at the Scientific and Technical Awards presentation on Feb 9 in Beverly Hills.
Taylor is the co-founder of Illusion Arts, where he worked on the visual effects of more than 200 films. His visual effects supervisor credits include Lawless, Public Enemies Milk and Bruce Almighty.
In 1981 he earned a Technical Achievement Award for the concept and specifications for a two-format, rotating head, aerial image optical printer.
He joined the Academy in 1972 and served on the board of governors where he represented the visual effects branch for five terms and was a founding co-chair with Ray Feeney of the Science and Technology Council.
The award is named in honour of the late director of special projects at Warner Hollywood Studios.
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It has been quite a year at Continuum Estate. While it is still early days, I believe we are looking at a fine vintage, perhaps an extremely fine vintage. The 2011 wines, some still in tank with others already put to barrel, have real depth of flavor, a subtle nuance, and lower alcohols than normal. We are quite excited about 2011!
To better understand the year, let's take a look at the conditions up on Pritchard Hill.
Here at Continuum Estate, our normal temperatures are more moderate than the valley floor with fewer high temperature days as well as fewer days on the cold side when compared to Oakville. Much of the reason for this is our wonderful altitude; at 1300 to 1600 feet above sea level we are protected from extreme temperature variations and are well above the fog line. Since our arrival here in 2008, we have enjoyed four vintages. 2008 and 2009 were both normal, that is they were warm years with harvest taking place beginning in early September and finishing by middle to end of the same month. On the other hand, 2010 and 2011 have both been quite a bit cooler than normal and wetter than the last few years as, from 2007-2009, we were in a drought pattern. 2010 gave us challenges reminiscent of the late 1960's and early 70's with a late beginning to the year and a later harvest. 2011 repeated this pattern but with greater rainfall in the spring, a more uneven fruit set, and harvest about a month later than normal (two weeks later than 2009!) 2011 began with a wet winter and spring which continued on into mid-June with significant rainfall delaying bloom on Pritchard Hill. Overall precipitation for the season was more than a third above normal and these cooler/moister weather patterns delayed vine development dramatically. We found ourselves behind schedule by 3-4 weeks pretty much throughout the growing season.
As there were no high temperatures this year, Ryan Gerhardt and Continuum's vineyard team had to be extra vigilant, continually managing canopy growth to balance the vine and its naturally low yields to ensure an even ripening process with optimum light and air flow surrounding the fruit. Overall, Continuum Estate set a smaller crop and was blessed by a balanced canopy and so was better able to ripen the fruit across our 42 acres of producing vines. On average, the estate fruit spent 130 days on the vine from bloom to harvest as compared to 125 days in 2010 and 129 in 2009. These extra days made all the difference, developing deeper flavors and richer character in the fruit. What really stands out in this vintage in relationship to our Pritchard Hill estate are the well drained rocky soils which allow the vines to enter into a period of water stress and begin the ripening process earlier than vineyards on the valley floor, thereby giving us the edge in flavor and achieving excellent ripeness in spite of the challenges thrown at our vines this year.
Harvest began on Pritchard Hill with the onset of stormy, rainy weather which dropped nearly three inches of rain between October 3rd and 11th. This heavy rain damaged some grape skins with bunch rot developing in a number of blocks around the estate. Dry and warmer weather between October 17th and 21st allowed the vineyard team to harvest about a third of our fruit with excellent ripeness. Other blocks still needed more time to gain sugar and flavor and so we waited as strong winds, low humidity and warm temperatures gave us excellent ripening conditions for the next week. Harvest began again on October 29th and continued until November 3rd with the remaining 2/3s of the crop having benefitted from greater hang time. Total yields at the estate were down from last year but overall the fruit was excellent with fantastic flavors and ripeness with lower brix levels. This season's cooler weather may also mean lower yields for 2012.
At the winery Kurt Niznik, Carrie Findleton and our cellar crew sorted each vineyard block separately, carefully selecting twice so that only the best grapes went into our oak or cement tanks for fermentation. 2011's growing season brought the return of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot from our estate, which had been severely reduced by the cool temperatures in 2010. These precious lots, which add so much to Continuum's blend, are undergoing fermentation in small ¼ ton bins and smaller oak tanks.
Fruit at reception often was quite cool and fermentations began well and quickly. Slowly we are discovering the unique flavors of that each block of vines brings to the blend. All the new wines are showing well so far with 3BTOP being the current star. It looks to be a superlative vintage at Continuum Estate- ripe fruit and more importantly ripe tannins so necessary for a fine wine that is built to age. I think that this will be our best vintage yet!
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If there were ever a time for mastering the Essentials — perfect roasting techniques, a go-to pie crust — it'd be Thanksgiving. So naturally we turn to Kelsey Nixon, creator of fast, affordable and easier-than-they-look meals, to guide us through the thickets of Thanksgiving preparation.
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First the news. Marian Gaborik is not on the ice. He attended the funeral service for his friend Pavol Demitra yesterday. Wade Redden is not here; he was assigned to attend Connecticut's training camp right from the start. And Michael Sauer did not skate today with a tweaked knee.
UPDATE: Just spoke with John Tortorella. I missed earlier that Artem Anisimov didn't skate. He also has a knee issue and is going for an MRI today. Tortorella said that Sauer's injury is tendinitis in the knee and also groin-related, but that he doesn't believe it's serious. Tortorella expects Gaborik back today and promised that he will get his full testing done … in other words, no free pass.
Tortorella expects to bring 30-35 guys to Europe for the exhibition games. I hope to have more later on, including a Torts transcript, but am having some car and laptop battery woes at the moment.
Here are some early quotes. Will have more later as time (and my battery) permits.
Derek Stepan:
"I came to the conclusion that coming in with the same mentality as last year is the best way to go about it. I think that's something that a lot of guys do.
"I definitely feel more comfortable. That test doesn't get more comfortable. But I'm definitely more comfortable with the atmosphere, everything that goes on here and how everything's run. But it doesn't make it any easier."
"I'm just going to come in with the same mindset as last year. I want to come out and compete hard. I want to earn a job on this team.
"We have a good roster. You lool at the guys that are here. We have really good depth and everyone's going to be competing for a spot. The organization can go so many different ways with the number of guys we have here. So I'm competing for a spot, and so is everyone else?"
Center or wing:
"That's a good question. I'm just here to compete for a job, I guess. I was comfortable on the wing last year and I know if that's where I've got to be, I can end up there. Obviously I'll start whereever they start me, and that's where I'll play."
Mike Rupp:
"Well, I made it (through the testing). It feels good to have it over with. I've heard things about it far before I signed a contract with New York. I played with guys who've experienced it and it lived up to expectations. It was difficult,"
"It's a way that, you know guys are going to be coming in and they're going to be accountable, what they do with themselves in the summer, and it's a great way to start the year with everybody in shape. And I think this is a good indicator that guys have been training hard."
"We're excited to get going. We're extited to kind of just get past this testing thing and get going as a hockey team. We've got a lot of things coming up that can really bring us together with our trip overseas and beginning the season on the road out West, too. A lot of (the buzz) we try to keep on the outside and just play hockey and be there for one another."
"You just need to not get caught up in it. If you start the season real well and you're sitting pretty after 10-15 games, there's a lot of bad things that can happen after that because you get a little complacency. That's something that's been addressed as far as a lot of distractions that could be, and we need to make sure we're on the same page and not let that get in the way."
"I think it's good. I think the league has shown quite a bit of responsibility, protecting the players. Being a player, it's something you want. You want them to look at all the angles and I feel like they're doing that."
On wearing No. 71: "I heard there was a guy wearing 17 and I had to flip it."
Ryan Callahan:
(any easier?) "No, not really. It's a hard test no matter how much you prepare for it, or how good a shape you're in. It's a tough test. You know coming in what to expect, I guess, in your second or third year, but the test doesn't get easier."
Is it the Captain's responsibility to not be doubled over?
"No, I don't feel any more pressure. I go out there and try to put up the best times I can and try to do the best I can … and I think I was out there doubled over and panting, so … but I think everyone is."
On Derek Boogaard: "Some guys have talked about it. Obviously it's a big hole. To lose a teammate, there's no other feeling like it. I think we all have each other's backs and support each other and throughout the summer we've talked to each other quite a bit about it. We're always going to remember him. He's not forgotten at all."
On the difficult early schedule:
"It's going to be tough. It's an obstacle that we're prepared for and we have to overcome. We've talked about it a little bit. It's a distraction only if we let it be, and everybody on the team knows that. It's just a couple more road games. That's all it is."
Brandon Prust:
The testing: "It gets harder, I think. I felt way better last year because I didn't know what to expect. Sometimes your nerves get the best of you out there."
On the schedule: "We have a lot of things that could bring a team down, but I think it's going to bring us closer together and I think it's going to be good for us. Torts talked to us about it today — not having any excuses."
On Callahan's captaincy: "That's great. Cally's the heart and soul of our team and he's our leader. The 'C' is on the right shirt."
He talked quite a bit about the league taking a hard look at fighting after the summer deaths of tough guys Boogaard, Rick Rypien and Wade Belak.
"You might be talking to the wrong guy. I'm pro-fighter. So, I believe it should be in our game. I don't think anything should be changed. That's what makes our game unique, is that we can have the ability to police our own game. Obviously the league steps in if something gets out of hand, if there's a dirty hit. But if somebody's going after Gabby or Hank or Richie, that's my job to get in there and make sure they don't do that because those are our important players.
"There's 20,000 people on their feet every time there's a fight. It'sa tough job, but it's a job I chose and I love doing it and I love sticking up for my teammates, and I love knowing that my teammates know that I'll be there for them."
"There's always a middle ground. Like I said, it is a tough job. I definitely get a little nervous if I know I'm going to be fighting. Sometimes you might lose a little sleep. But, like I said, that's my job. I chose it and I embrace it and I like that rush. At the same time, the biggest sport in the world right now is UFC and nobody's really stopping that."
"It definitely opened (my eyes) … I'm not taking anything away from any of the tragedies that happened this summer. It was awful and I'm not taking anything away from that. I haven't talked to many other tough guys around the league. It was definitely an eye-opener, but I don't think it's just the fighting that's the cause. I know, for some of us, it's almost a stress relief, the fighting. Everybody's different."
"(Boogaard) was a big presence. He was a big boy. He was well-liked in our dressing room and we all miss him. We've been talking about him. I definitely like him on my team. He's a great teammate and we're going to miss him."
On league's reaction: "I guess it's natural with what's happened. It has been an awful summer. But it's definitely an eye-opener. I've obviously thought about it a lot and I don't think we should change the game at all."
"I'll honor Derek every game. I've always thinking of Derek. He was my roommate for the first half of the season before he got hurt, and a good friend of mine. We're going to miss him. I'm going to miss him especially. I hope he's out there with me every game."


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ANOTHER 200 parking spaces are being provided at the headquarters of Worcestershire County Council - after months of anger over congestion and safety fears in Spetchley Road.
Bosses at County Hall have revealed plans to create extra capacity at the site by enlarging the size of two existing on-site car parks.
It follows complaints from residents that too many commuters are using nearby residential roads, including Kilbury Drive and Spetchley Road.
There are 2,300 staff who work at County Hall, but fewer than 800 on-site parking spaces.
The number of employees based at the headquarters has rocketed by 43 per cent since January, when it was 1,600, due to workers relocating from other offices.
A planning application to make the changes is now due to be submitted by the end of April, and if expected work will take place over the summer to create the new spaces.
It follows talks between the authority's leadership and Councillor Richard Boorn, who represents the area for Worcester City Council, about the problems.
Cllr Boorn said: "It's been appalling, to be honest. Residents have had to put up with totally unreasonable behaviour for too long.
"I took the fight to the county council and to their credit, they are doing something about it."
Councillor John Campion, cabinet member for transformation and commissioning, said: "It's important to maximise our use of County Hall while ensuring we're a good neighbour.
"Therefore we are currently proposing to apply for planning permission to extend two of our on-site car parks, to provide around 200 extra spaces for staff and visitors.
"As part of the planning process, we have invited staff and nearby residents to several pre-planning consultation drop-in sessions to give them the opportunity to view the proposed designs and provide feedback."
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Delilah Pauline Lauer, 81, of rural Holdrege, passed away Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010, at the Phelps Memorial Health Center in Holdrege.
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Georgia Ensemble Theatre Continues 20th Anniversary Celebration with Premiere of SWELL PARTY, Now thru 1/27
Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET),North Fulton's only professional theatre company, will continue its 2012-2013 20th anniversary season-long celebration with the world premiere, Swell Party by award-winning playwright Topher Payne, directed by Shannon Eubanks, running tonight, January 10-27, 2013, at the Theatre's home, the Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest Street, Roswell, GA.
Georgia Ensemble Theatre commissioned this new play by Topher Payne as part of its 20th Anniversary Season celebration. The plot focuses on the events surrounding the mysterious death of tobacco heir Smith Reynolds. The year is 1932. Smith has just returned to his family's North Carolina estate from an extended trip to New York. He brings with him a surprising souvenir: a wife. The new Mrs. Reynolds is a popular jazz singer and actress, a dozen years older than her husband. A wedding party is flat-out ruined when the groom turns up dead. As the guests gather to reconstruct, along with the County Solicitor, the evening's events and try to solve the mystery, it becomes clear that for Southerners, the truth isn't nearly as important as a good story.
Swell Partyfeatures a cast of wonderful Atlanta actors including Weston Manders as Smith Reynolds, Suehyla El-Attar as Broadway star Libby Holman Reynolds, Kate Donadio as the secretary/debutante Babe Vaught, Scott DePoy as the solicitor Erle McMichael, Jo Howarth as matriarch Kate Reynolds, Tony Larkin as the best friend Ab Walker, and Tess Malis Kincaid as the acting coach Blanche Yurka. Three of the cast of seven are making their GET debuts: El-Attar, Howarth and Manders. This production also marks the launch of GET's new understudy/mentor program with Kennesaw State University and Gainesville Theatre Alliance. Zach Bromberg, Caitlin Findlay and Audra Pagano are the first participants in this new exciting program.
Ticket prices for Swell Party range from $23 to $33 (Senior/Student discounts available for select performances). "Recession-Buster" perimeter tickets may also be purchased for $10 or $20 based on availability. 2012-2013 "Three-Play" Season Packages, and individual show tickets are available now online at www.get.org, or by calling the Box Office at 770-641-1260.
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Atlanta — No. 15 NC State completed its sweep of No. 14 Georgia Tech with a dramatic 8-7 comeback win on Sunday at Russ Chandler Stadium.
The Wolfpack (32-10, 14-7 ACC) won its 14th consecutive game and its 10th in a row in conference play. In nine of those 10 wins, the Pack has had to come from behind. The 14-game winning streak is tied with North Carolina for the longest current winning streak in the nation.The streak is the longest since the Wolfpack won 16 in a row during the 2003 season.
State's sweep of Georgia Tech (27-13, 11-10) is its first since 1992, and the first ever in Atlanta. The Pack's only other series win in Atlanta came in 2001.
Brett Williams tied his career high with four hits in the afternoon, the fourth time he has recorded four hits in a game. Grant Clyde went 2-for-5 with a grand slam, a double to represent the tying run in the ninth, four RBIs and two runs. Trea Turner contributed a 3-for-4 effort with two runs and a walk.
Tarran Senay wrapped up his fantastic series with a 1-for-4, one-RBI, one-run outing. Senay finished the weekend with nine RBIs and three runs scored. Wolfpack hitters at the top of the order did their part to help Senay's production; Senay came to the plate with the bases empty only twice over the entire weekend.
The Pack utilized six pitchers in the ballgame, with Chris Overman (1-0) recording the win as the final pitcher of the day. Overman shut out the Jackets for the final four innings while holding them to two hits, which extends his streak to 20 innings since allowing his last earned run. Dating back to April 25, 2012, Overman has only allowed two earned in 27 2/3 innings for an ERA of 0.65. Georgia Tech reliever Zane Evans (0-1) took the loss on two earned on four hits over the final two innings.
NC State rolled to a 5-0 lead in the top of the third behind Clyde's grand slam. Turner started the rally with a one-out single. Jake Fincher followed him with a single of his own to put runners on first and second. Brett Austin threaded a 1-2 pitch through the left side, which deflected off of the third baseman's glove. Turner scored on the play, ruled an error. Senay drew an intentional walk to load the bases, then Clyde cleared the bases with a homer to left.
Tech answered with four runs in the bottom of the third to cut the lead to 5-4. The first two batters of the inning drew walks to set the table. After a double steal, Zane Evans singled to drive in a pair. Daniel Palka followed with a single to put two on for the second time. A sac bunt moved both over, and set up Thomas Smith's RBI single to make it 5-3. A walk and a hit batsman pushed the final run across.
The Jackets tied the game 5-5 with back-to-back doubles to start the bottom fourth, then took the lead when Smith hit a solo shot to left as the leadoff man in the fifth.
State knotted the score 6-6 in the top of the sixth after another one-out single from Turner. Austin drew a two-out walk to push Turner into scoring position. Senay cashed in the run with an RBI single to center.
Tech retook the lead in the bottom of the sixth, started by a leadoff single from Brandon Thomas. He moved to second on a balk, advanced to third on a fielding error at second and scored on a fielder's choice.
The Pack had one more rally left in the tank, scoring twice in the top of the ninth to seal the sweep. Clyde led off the inning by smoking a double down the left field line. Williams singled through the left side to score Clyde and advanced to second on the throw to the plate. A sac bunt moved Williams to third and Jake Armstrong's sac fly to right provided the game-winning run.
NC State returns to action on Tuesday, hosting Davidson at 6 p.m.


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From Werewolf Editor Gordon Campbell
Enter the Wolf!
Hi and welcome to the 48th edition of Werewolf, in which we continue to interview the nation's political leaders in the (possibly mistaken) belief that more information will make the decision about who to vote for on September 20 a less irrational choice. This month, we interview Greens co-leader Russel Norman, who has recently unveiled the Greens' new/old carbon tax idea – now snazzily refitted with cuts to (a) income tax and (b) company tax in a move that once again shows the Greens cannot be readily placed anywhere along a traditional left/right spectrum. Glory be. Can the Greens have now become a solid, mainstream political alternative that – virtually by default – seems the only party with a fresh and credible vision for the country's economic direction? Perhaps so. Are they also about to face serious competition on the centre-left from Internet Mana – or not so much ?
Elsewhere in this issue Alison McCulloch reports back on a collection of Asia/Pacific journalism from one of this country's unsung media heroes, David Robie. Meanwhile, Anne Russell reacts to the viral Look Up video and analyses its simple-minded message that we should all unplug the Internet and reconnect with' real' life. Huh. Anne wheels up some heavy friends (Marshall McLuhan and Michel Foucault) to show why that's a road to nowhere. In his film column this month, Philip Matthews does a great job of explaining why the new Godzilla is alone again, naturally. Our planetary saviour needs and deserves a friend - even though, for a mere nature allegory, Godzilla leaves a lot of collateral damage in its wake. Elsewhere in popular culture, we interview Deena Mohamed, the young Egyptian student whose Qahera comic introduced us to a burka-wearing Muslim superhero who kicks patriarchal ass. We also contemplate the awesomeness that is Heathers, the black comedy about teen suicide, high school hell etc that is 25 years old this year. Well, f*** me with a chainsaw.
Out in the Bay Area, Rosalea Barker takes us on a regal trip through the sights, railway gauges and fine pastries of Romania. In a separate article, Rosalea also analyses the minimum wage - and its role during the tech boom that's currently driving the cost of rent through the roof in San Francisco and Seattle. (Seattle in particular is doing something about it by substantially raising the minimum wage.) Can a minimum wage hike save capitalism from itself? We shall see. In his satirical column this month, Lyndon Hood takes over Prime Minister John Key's Twitter feed. In our Complicatist music column this month, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of De La Soul's wondrous 3 Feet High & Rising CD, the most beloved hip hop album of all time and – on the side - a righteous blow against restrictive copyright law.
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Plants that are in the shadow of bigger plants extend their height to the sun in order to avoid the shadow and reach the sun. And they do this using a very special method.
Everybody knows that the first phase of plant growth begins with the bud coming out of the seed. This event, which some people consider as routine, is actually a great miracle. This is because the bud rising to the surface requires a great strength. The vastness of this strength is better understood when it is understood that emerging buds can crack the sides of walkways. The source of this tremendously effective power is the hydraulic pressure found in the cells that make up the plant. This pressure, required for plant growth, has the ability to stretch and widen the cell wall. Without this quality, there would be no cell growth in plants, and so the seed would never bud.
Another miraculous power of a bud trying to emerge out of the land, using its great strength, is that it always inclines up to the light and sun. A seed, which is in the dark of the ground, has no eyes, has never known the light and does not know in which direction the surface is in that dark environment, nonetheless finds its way, and always the right way, is of course a great miracle. Almighty Allah reveals in one verse that He is the One Who creates the seed and grows the plant when it falls inside the soil:
"Allah is He Who splits the seed and kernel. He brings forth the living from the dead, and produces the dead out of the living. That is Allah, so how are you perverted?" (Surat al-An'am, 95)
The Method a Plant Rising to the Surface Uses to Reach Light
It would be difficult for the plant to achieve photosynthesis when it is underneath an object that inhibits sunlight. This means that the plant cannot grow. Therefore, every bud that comes out of the soil changes its growth direction towards the source of light as soon as it reaches the surface. This light-sensitive direction- finding system found in plants is called "phototropism."
When you place the plants in your home to a location that is dark or does not get the sunlight directly, you see that some time later these plants turn towards the sun. You witness that they extend the height of their leaves, and change the direction of their leaves as well, or that sometimes they become curled. A plant being able to detect the direction of sunlight as soon as it comes out from under the soil, or when it is placed somewhere dark is an important subject that needs to be considered. Plants are able to accomplish this process thanks to their flawless direction finding systems based on light and gravity. When we compare them to animals and human beings, plants have a greater advantage when it comes to sensing light because animals and human beings can only sense the light with their eyes. But the direction finding systems in plants are very keen. Therefore, they never confuse their direction. This system possessed by plants is of course the inspiration of Almighty Allah. Our Lord reveals this truth in the Qur'an as follows:
"Have you thought about what you cultivate? Is it you who make it germinate or are We the Germinator? If We wished We could have made it broken stubble.You would then be left devoid of crops, distraught:" (Surat al-Waqi'a, 63-65)
Let's examine how this direction finding system of plants works.
Plants' Direction- Finding System for Light
Sunlight is the only source for the earth to be warmed in the most suitable way and for plants to achieve photosynthesis. The wavelengths and frequencies of sunlight is different from any other. The shortest wavelength is 1025 times smaller than the longest wavelength. A big part of this one unit of ray interval (reflected by the sun from the electromagnetic range of 1025) is called "visible light". The rays just underneath, and just above this unit reach the earth as infrared and ultraviolet rays. Plants can sense and react to the existence of other plants with the help of infrared rays that we cannot see with the naked eye because the bigger plant that causes shadows emits these red rays and then reflects them outside. These plants, which stay in the shadow, sense these infrared rays, and essentially feel the plant that is putting them in shadow and thus extend themselves in order to reach some place that sees the sun and produce new leaves and seeds. If the plant still cannot reach the sun, then they will invariably produce new seeds to have better conditions for growth in the next season.
Scientists have found that plants have a special genetic structure that enables them to grow and blossom in shadow. This gene, which controls that the stalks and leaves can come out of the shadow and so grow by reaching towards the sun, enables the hormone "auxin" the be synthesized. During auxin production, which is composed of three phases, plants work like a chemical laboratory to ease the first reaction and carry out a series of complex processes. For this purpose, they use various amino acids and produce an enzyme called "tryptophane aminotransferase". So when the biggest light receptor (light-sensitive nerve) that ensures protection from shadow discovers the neighboring, plants, it synthesizes aminotransferase. This makes the auxin that leads to the plant's body to grow, to increase with speed. In this way, the plant extends itself towards the sun by getting away from shadow.
A Plant With No Eyes Being Able to Detect Sun Rays is a Perfect Miracle of Creation
A seed that grows in the depths of the soil always finding the right way to come out to the surface by expending great effort, the plant that comes out to the surface directing itself towards the sun knowing that it needs light to achieve photosynthesis, the plant trying to extend itself toward the light by sensing infrared rays when there is a plant preventing it, even though it has no eyes, the plants synthesizing a hormone called "auxin" to grow and the fact that this process is carried out through very complex chemical reactions, are not the things an unconscious plant could do.
This intelligence, seen in every phase of plants' life, is explicit evidence that they are created by Almighty Allah, the Owner of Superior Power. This truth is revealed in the verses as such:
"It is He who sends down water from the sky. From it you drink and from it come the shrubs among which you graze your herds. And by it He makes crops grow for you and olives and dates and grapes and fruit of every kind. There is certainly a Sign in that for people who reflect." (Surat an-Nahl, 10-11)
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Big news out of Palo Alto yesterday, as Facebook totally overhauled its News Feed, turning it into a kind of "personalized newspaper" with bigger photos and video that's -- oh, screw it. I am so completely bored by Facebook's 3,287th change to its interface I can't go any further. If you want to learn all about the new News Feed, please read one of the other 19,321 identical reports about it on the InterWebs.
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I'll start with this one from J. F., which might be my all-time favorite. He writes in response to my recent harangue about the sorry state of Web journalism, as it applied to the news "scoop" regarding my four-month-old story about Apple censoring email in the iCloud:
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Your words so needed to be said. Many will not get, and/or never read through to the part of your article about what is wrong with so-called Web journalism today. You're absolutely correct, and your tracing back the 5W's of your [barely legal teen] article should from this day forward serve as the pivotal moment in human history of when we became fully aware of what is wrong but also did little or nothing about it. What will our future look like when factual news, gossip and conjecture are indistinguishable from one another?
"Pivotal moment in human history" -- damn. I'd like to thank the Nobel Committee ...
On that same story, I heard from J. H. at Warner Bros Studio, production coordinator for "The Big Bang Theory." He writes:
I stumbled upon your article about emails with PDF script attachments disappearing with iCloud. We are experiencing the same issue on our TV show, however we're using Final Draft. Our script dept uses a Gmail account and several people on our staff & crew, including actors, use iCloud. Do you know if there was a work-around discovered, other than figuring out what phrase in the PDF content might be objectionable?
One thing that apparently worked for my original source, Steven G., was compressing the PDF using Apple's encrypted .dmg archive format. (Using Zip didn't work.) The attachment arrived intact with the phrase "[not Virus Scanned]" inserted inside the email subject line.
So that's now two examples of screenplay writers being nailed by Apple's prudish spam filter. Did Sheldon Cooper say something nasty about the iPhone? He definitely seems more of an Android guy.


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IAN Britton once saved Burnley Football Club. Twenty six years after his goal against the Orient kept the Clarets in the league, football effectively saved Ian Britton.
The Clarets legend had long since retired from the professional game, but up until last year his five-a-side 'career' was still going strong, every Wednesday lunchtime, with nine of his Pendle Leisure colleagues.
A seemingly innocuous fall left Britton with severe back pain, and other complications as the days went on, resulting in a trip to accident and emergency at Easter time, an X-ray, followed a few days later with a call from his doctor and the word that everyone dreads: cancer.
"I had to go for a second opinion because I couldn't take it in," said Britton.
"It's such a shock, especially because I was so active and I hadn't noticed any symptoms.
"Telling the family was quite hard. And it was hard to take at the start.
"You always think 'it won't happen to me'."
Britton was initially diagnosed with prostate cancer, but further investigations soon revealed the disease had also affected his bones.
The consequences of his condition, including, fatigue, pain and bone weakening, and ongoing treatment, meant that Britton had to quit football altogether, as well as take early retirement from his management role at Seedhill athletics track.
But in some respects the 58-year-old counts himself lucky.
"If I hadn't had that fall it could have gone on for months or even years and it could have spread. It could have been there for years," said Britton, whose Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) levels were sky high at the time of diagnosis, but are now under control with drug treatment.
With the love and support of family and friends, in particular his fiancée Eileen, who he will marry a week on Friday, he maintains a positive and cheerful disposition.
"They can't cure Ian's cancer, but they can hopefully keep it under control," said Eileen at their Barrowford home, where framed pictures of family and football – including Britton against George Best – are neatly placed on the walls and windowsills.
"We've had our upset moments but on the whole we try to be strong. We're very positive people."
Britton adds: "You've got to be.
"As long as the levels are controlled that's the main thing. Although I get tired now and again I feel okay in myself.
"I usually get check-ups every six weeks but now it's 12, the Macmillan nurses come and see me too.
"They're happy with the way things are going. But if I do feel bad or have any other symptoms I've only got to phone them up and I'll get seen straight away.
"The treatment that I've had at the hospital and the hospice has been absolutely great."
Britton is grateful for the support of the football family too – at Burnley, notably through the Vintage Clarets and Burnley Former Players' Association, who have held fundraising events.
At his first club Chelsea, for whom he made his debut at just 17 – two years after leaving his Dundee home for England's capital city, a question and answer night with auction was held at a working men's club close to Stamford Bridge last year.
Seventeen former players, including Ray Wilkins and a few more of Britton's former team-mates, turned out and a pair of signed boots donated by John Terry for the event raised £1,000 alone.
"It was unbelievable," said former midfielder Britton, who spent 10 years with Chelsea, making 289 appearances and scoring 34 goals, and earning fame for his self-confessed "outrageous" hairstyle.
"It was like a Davy Crockett hat!" he laughed.
"I'm still in the top worst haircuts in the world, so I'm happy with that."
Britton joined boyhood club Dundee United after his decade with the Blues before returning south of the border for a three-year spell with Blackpool then on to Turf Moor, where he made more than 100 appearances in three years, scored 10 goals, and made history.
Burnley will be forever grateful to the smallest man on the pitch saving them with a big header on the final day of the 1986/87 season.
"It wasn't the best of games I've got to admit, but the result was the right one," said Britton, who is still hailed a hero in the town.
"It's nice.
"People now say to their kids 'that man kept Burnley up' and it's a great feeling. It's nice that people still recognise you.
"You don't get big headed about it but it's a great feeling."
As the swelled crowd swamped the pitch on that make or break day, everyone wanted a piece of Britton.
"I had hardly anything on by the end of the pitch invasion. I had one boot and just my jockstrap I think.
"Everything else went," he said.
"I didn't have a choice in the matter.
"But it was great. It was relief all round.
"If we had got beat that day I don't know if the club would have survived.
"You don't want to see a big club like Burnley go out of the Football League.
"We survived that and then went to Wembley the year after in front of 82,000 people to play Wolves in the Sherpa Van Trophy final.
"It just goes to show how quickly things can change.
"We were the underdogs against Preston in the semis but we overcame that to go to Wembley.
"It was absolutely fantastic."
Britton would love to see the underdogs have their day again and see his two favourite teams, Burnley and Chelsea, reunited once more in the Premier League.
And he believes it is possible with Danny Ings and Sam Vokes leading the line, and Sean Dyche at the helm.
"I think so," he smiled. "I'd like to see them go straight up rather than go through the play-offs, but even if they do get to the play-offs it will be a great experience.
"At the start of the season Burnley weren't in the equation.
"They've been there and stayed there and it's looking good.
"We've come through the tough times and gone from strength to strength."
Burnley, and the rest of the football family, will wish the same sentiment applies to Britton in his battle too.


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The Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship (Rice Alliance) and the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University will again be the largest and richest, graduate-level competition in the world with more than $600,000 in prizes and 36 teams from around the globe. The 2008 RBPC nearly doubled prize money from last year's competition prizes of $345,000 and tripled the number of applicants, from 75 to 225, with a large portion coming from international teams. THE COMPETITION The April 3-5, competition is designed to give collegiate entrepreneurs a real-world experience and fine tune their business plans and pitches to be able to generate funding to successfully commercialize their product. Judges consist of successful entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders, 160 in all, who judge the teams as real-world entrepreneurs soliciting start-up funds from early stage investors and venture capital firms. The judges are asked to rank the presentations based on which company they would most likely invest. More than 225 teams have already applied for consideration and only 36 teams will be selected to compete. Past competitors have included many of the country's most prestigious universities including Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Wharton, Northwestern, Chicago, USC, Rice, Texas, and Texas A&M. Teams in the areas of life sciences – including medical devices, drug development and diagnostics, information technology and web 2.0, energy and clean technology, sustainability and advanced materials or robotics compete for prizes in the elevator pitch and business plan presentation. The competition is for new, independent ventures, developed by graduate-level students, with a company in the seed, start-up, or early growth stages. "Great ideas are just that - Great," said Brad Burke, managing director of the Rice Alliance. "But, taking that novel idea ensuring it holds a competitive advantage in the market, conducting market research and identifying opportunities, demonstrating management capability, financial understanding and investment potential are what develop that great idea into a venture and hopefully a financially-successful business." THE PRIZES The Grand Prize winner of the business plan competition will receive a package valued at up to $325,000 in total prizes, including a $125,000 equity investment from The Goose Society of Texas, potentially one of two new $100,000 prizes given by the Greater Houston Partnership's Opportunity HoustonSM, $20,000 in cash sponsored by Shell and Kenda Capital, as well as $80,000 in incubation and other services. The first of the $100,000 Opportunity HoustonSM prizes will be awarded to the company with the best life science technology business plan. The second $100,000 prize will go to the team with the top business plan in one of the following four economic sectors: energy (including clean technology) and petrochemicals, information technology, aviation and aerospace, or nanotechnology. These awards will provide seed funding to launch these companies in the Houston region. Two other teams will receive $20,000 cash awards. The $20,000 Dow Sustainability Award is given to the best plan to address world challenges for affordable housing, food, clean water, health & safety, and alternative/sustainable energy. The $20,000 NASA Earth/Space Life Science Award acknowledges the best life science plan with application in earth and space. Winners will be announced at the Awards Banquet on Saturday night, April 5, 2008 at the Intercontinental Hotel.