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Kim Kardashian Celebrates Her Bachelorette Party in Las Vegas
But Kim crashed a certain other party a few blocks down.
-Kenneth Thapoung
As much as some of us want to cancel the Kardashian life on our TV subscriptions, let's face it: They know how to party the right way!
This weekend, Kim Kardashian and her fiancé Kris Humphries both celebrated their bachelorette/bachelor parties in Las Vegas. And in typical sister behavior, Khloe Kardashian made it her mission to embarrass the eldest sibling the entire night at Tao, whether that meant hiring a miniature male stripper or ordering straws and cakes shaped like penises, according to Us Weekly.
"My sisters are doing everything they can to embarrass me," Kim told the crowd that included Lala Vasquez Anthony, Simone Harouche and Brittny Gastineau.
Across the strip, Kris was at Lavo with Rob Kardashian, Lamar Odom, and several NBA players. But the free-style karaoke night with the DJ came to an abrupt halt when Kim crashed the celebration around 2 a.m., People reports. But wait, didn't they vow not to see each other this weekend? Another reason to call Vegas, Sin City, I suppose.
Broken promises aside, the Kardashian bride-to-be tweeted how much she loved the evening.
The whirlwind weekend came to a close as Kim and friends relaxed at the Venetian and the Palazzo, laying by the pool, sipping frozen cocktails, and munching on cuisine served by Wolfgang Puck and Sweet Surrender bachelorette cupcakes. Yum!
Tell us: what was the craziest bachelorette party you've been to?
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Eve Plumb's THREE FACES OF EVE to Open at Michael Ingbar Gallery, 2/21
Eve Plumb, actress and artist, has been working in television, movies, and stage since the age of six, and has been painting steadily over 20 years. Eve has been expanding her view from still life for her subject matter to include images from film noir movies and New York City. Her exhibition Three Faces of Eve will be on view at Michael Ingbar Gallery, Thursday, February 21 to Saturday, March 16, 2013.
Eve's artworks have had successful showings in galleries across the US. She is a spokesperson for Fredrix Canvas and regularly donates artworks to charity including Wildhorse Ranch Rescue in Arizona, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, and the Laguna College of Art and Design.
Eve is most remembered for her portrayal of "Jan" on "The Brady Bunch," but she has also been seen in other series and many television movies. Along with her television and film work, Eve studied improv comedy at The Groundlings School in Los Angeles and appeared on stage off-Broadway in Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron's "Love, Loss, and What I Wore," "Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating & Marriage," and at Lincoln Center with Florence Henderson in "Broadway Backwards 5." She can be seen in the upcoming film "Blue Ruin" and an episode of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit."
Please join Eve for the opening reception on: Thursday, February 21, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. RSVP for limited seating for a gallery talk by Eve on Thursday, February 28th at 7pm. For more information, visit www.michaelingbargallery.com and www.eveplumb.tv.
Artwork: "Bang, Bang, Bang", Canvas, 40" x 53", Ed. of 25


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Category Manager - Impulse Channel
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- SmithCarey Recruitment
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- Based at our prestigious offices in Hook
- Salary
- highly competitive salary, £6,000 car allowance and a generous bonus 30%
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- 02 Apr 2012
- Closes
- 30 Apr 2012
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- Category Management
- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
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- Full Time
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Category Manager
Impulse Channel – MS/1297
Based at our prestigious offices in Hook
The company
Owned by independent distiller William Grant & Sons, who operate in 180 markets worldwide, First Drinks boasts a brand portfolio that includes the world's number one single malt whisky Glenfiddich as well as Grant's, Tullamore Dew, The Balvenie, Hendrick's Gin and Sailor Jerry. We also manage Rémy Martin, Tia Maria, Cointreau and Disaronno, to name just a few. First Drinks is now the country's leading supplier of premium spirit brands in the UK Off Trade*. We're investing heavily in building our brands in the UK this year and, with big plans for the future, this level of success is set to ramp up even more.
This is a company that blends a rich heritage with an exciting vision. An environment that offers the freedom to explore fresh ideas and question accepted wisdom. A place where you can be inspiring, be bold and be yourself. So if you're looking for true professional challenge and exceptional reward, this could be the perfect choice.
The role
With responsibility for the Impulse Channel, this role is truly cross-functional. Reporting to the Head of Category Management you will work cross-functionally both internally and externally to drive category performance within a number of key customers including category captaincy leadership. Key activities will be driven by consumer insight including ranging, merchandising, price together with brand plan alignment to individual customer trading strategies. You will also assume responsibility of becoming the internal UK market category brand champion for two of our major brands.
The person
We're looking for a graduate with Category Management or Customer Marketing experience at Executive or Manager level within an FMCG food, drink and non-food branded company. Alternatively, you may be working in the Drinks sector in Off-Trade Impulse Channel National Account Management but now looking to develop your career in Category Management. Either way, you have a deep understanding of the UK marketplace and the commercial challenges facing business. You can influence at all levels and bring well-honed skills in data analysis, category range reviews, presentation, IT and project management. The role is office based in Hook and you'll need to live within one hour's commute.
The rewards
You'll enjoy a highly competitive salary, £6,000 car allowance and a generous bonus 30% as well as a superb benefits package. What's more, in order to ensure you can reach your full potential and achieve your ambitions, we offer plenty of opportunities for development.
To apply for this role, please email our retained consultant Mark Smith at SmithCarey Limited quoting reference number MS/1297, including your up-to-date CV and salary details. Email firstname.lastname@example.com or telephone 01488 649360. For further information, visit our recruitment website www.pioneeringspirit.co.uk
Closing date: 30th April 2012
*Bottles that retail for £20+ per 70cl (or 70cl equivalent). Nielsen MAT Data to 3rd October 2011


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Equine holiday ride at The Woods
December 7th, 2012 | SMWC
This time of year, traditions are everywhere, but there's nothing like the distinctive annual equine holiday ride at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC). On Monday, December 10, 2012, the seniors, faculty, staff and special guests of the SMWC Department of Equine Studies will ride majestic horses, singing Christmas carols as they journey across the campus. Students and their horses will be decked in holiday garb. The public and the campus community are welcome to enjoy the sound of jingle bells, the clip-clop of the horses' hooves and songs celebrating the season.
President Dottie King, Ph.D., will join the seniors as she rides horseback and spreads Christmas cheer.
All times are approximate. For those visiting campus, please use extreme caution while driving around the horses.
10:00—Conservatory of Music
10:05—Guerin Hall
10:07—Rooney Library
10:15—Le Fer Hall
10:18—Hulman Hall
10:35—Providence Hall
10:38—Owens Hall
10:45—Return to Barn
About the Equine Studies Program
The Mari Hulman George School of Equine Studies at SMWC is the only equine studies program in Indiana, and one of only 20 in the U.S. to offer a bachelor of science degree in equine studies. Three majors are available: equine studies, equine training and instruction, and equine business management. Additionally, the College offers the equine assisted therapy minor, a course of study that combines elements of education, mental health and organizational leadership.
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A MUM is set to launch a new police initiative after mentoring the burglar who stole a laptop containing precious memories of her daughter who was killed in a car crash.
Margaret Foxley formed a bond with Ian Ashworth when she became the first victim of crime in Lancashire to go into a prison to meet the person who committed an offence against them.
And he is also helping launch the county's first Victim and Community Advisory Panel in Colne after having regular meetings with Pendle counillor Mrs Foxley, from whom he stole a laptop, a camera and jewellery.
The laptop contained the most recent photographs of her daughter Jessica – who was killed in a car crash with two friends in Colne in July 2009, six months after the burglary.
Mrs Foxley said she visited Ian in prison in October 2009 as part of the 'restorative justice' programme.
Mrs Foxley said: "The panel has been meeting for a number of months now and Ian was keen to be involved with it.
"He will be attending the launch and speaking about how the restorative justice programme has helped him – he has been out of trouble with the police for two years now and clean of drugs.
"Ian is also going into schools in Burnley to talk to students about his experiences in the hope of warning them off crime.
"It has been fantastic to see what a massive impact it has had on his life."
The community justice panel has been set up by the police to improve the service they deliver to the local community.
Mrs Foxley added: "The members of the panel had the chance to talk about their experience of crime and about how the police could help victims.
"The group involves both young and elderly people with a range of skills and ages in order to truly represent local communities.
"The idea is that people in the community can eventually help to solve local issues with the help of police."
Mrs Foxley will chair the panel which has its official launch on March 14 at Colne Town Hall.
Other community partnership groups will also be attending the event which aims to promote restorative justice in the community.


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A TEENAGER was taken to hospital after getting into the river in Upton-upon-Severn.
Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service was called by the police just after 7pm yesterday to the River Severn by the Swan Hotel, Waterside, after reports of a girl in the river and a man who had gone in after her.
A boat crew from Evesham and Worcester along with a water rescue crew from Upton attended but the two people were out of the water by the time they arrived.
An ambulance, a paramedic and a rapid response vehicle were also called and the girl, thought to be in her late teens, was taken to Worcester Royal Hospital as a precaution.


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Has anyone owned or worked a beach stand before. I am going to buy one with my cousin. Wanted to know how people liked it.
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Has anyone owned or worked a beach stand before. I am going to buy one with my cousin. Wanted to know how people liked it.
I worked a beach stand two summers ago in ocmd. Its all about location so make sure you have a high volume/ touristy beach. It's also a good idea to buy two adjacent stands so you can really monopolize the beach and up your prices.
yes. for several years i worked at an umbrella stand. kicked ass. surfed a lot. screw being a lifeguard.
It's been our family business for 36 years in OC. What town are you talking about? OC had the bids in December so your too late for 08. I'm not sure about DE beaches though. I might suggest that you get a job working for one of the operators and avoid the hassels of buying equipment, paying taxes, building boxes, paying the city, insurance, and all the rest. You will probably make the same or more then owning a stand or two.
i worked one towards the end of the summer in oc.. gett paid for sitting on the beach.
...and watch others surf which sucks on a good day
i am thinking about working at a stand this summer too. how much does it pay, and does anyone know who i can talk to or where i can get an application
Ya good luck trying to contain yourself when the waves are ridable and you need to sit there, I give a lot of props to anyone who can do that, if I'm near the beach I need a board under me.


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Lizard sponge described in article in ScienceNOW 17 Aug 2007. Some desert dwelling lizards are able to soak up water into their skin from any damp surface, as well as from rain. It was once thought that they were able to absorb water through their skin, but reptile skin does not allow water to pass directly through it, so they must transport it to their mouths and drink it in. Scientists at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia have carried out a microscopic study of lizard skin to see how they do this. They found that water harvesting lizards, such as the Australian thorny devil and Texas horned lizard, had a network of tiny tubular channels in the "scale hinges" between their scales. The channels were the width of one or two human hairs - a good size for promoting water flow by capillary action. Lizards that don't harvest water did not have these channels in their skin. The scientists are unsure how the lizards keep the water flowing in the right direction, but suggest it is with repetitive tongue movements that suck the water into their mouths.
Editorial Comment: Such capillary plumbing would be an ideal way for collecting water in the original good world that is described in Genesis where we are told that the earth was watered by a mist rising up each morning. Lizards with such capillary plumbing could simply stand out in the air and collect water. After Noah's flood when the climate degraded and deserts started to appear, this sophisticated system for collecting water would be an ideal pre-adaptation for living in deserts. The lizard can survive in such an inhospitable environment because it already had the necessary features. This is a good example of natural selection but not an example of evolution. (Ref. design, climate, reptiles)
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HI,I know I can find much of help here.I was trying to find my answer in google, but failed.
How do I selectDISTINCT(wo.wo)into few aliases like 'name' and 'label;. Since I cannot do:DISTINCT(wo.wo) as name, DISTINCT(wo.wo) as label
I couldnt not find any good article about multiple aliases issue (.
Thanx alot!
Why do you want two identical columns? Shouldn't it be your program code, not your database query, that handles outputting them in two places if necessary?
DISTINCT(wo.wo) !!!!
(awesomest post this week, hands down)
could you please do a SHOW CREATE TABLE for this table
Yes, sure.Schema was created only for testing purposes. WO bigint(20) UNSIGNED ITEM varchar(100) DATE1 date DATE2 date QTY int(11)
Because I dont want to do additional extra loop in my code.
Im sry, I put the wrong column name, I need distinct(wo.ITEM), that is not a PK
SELECT DISTINCT wo.item as firstOne, wo.item as secondOne FROM tablename;
Why you didn't just try this I don't know, but it does work, as I'm looking at some output just now.
Thanx a lot!
I m trying to do this using zend framework API.
$select = $db->select();
$select->from(array('wo' => 'WO'), array(
'name' => new Zend_Db_Expr('DISTINCT(wo.ITEM)'),
$select->order('name ASC');
$stmt = $db->query($select);
$rows = $stmt->fetchAll();
please, please, please don't write DISTINCT(wo.item)
DISTINCT is ~not~ a function
also, where did "name" come from? what are the two dates for?
and what does "aliases like 'name' and 'label'" mean???
Yes, thanx a lot r937. I thought DISTINCT was a function. And when I create select object in zend I used name=>DISTINCT(wo.ITEM) in my columns, and I figured out now that they have a special $select->disticnt() method to use.
These two dates are Work Order(WO) properties I dunno what for yet exactly. Just used a simple names for them.
Aliases name and label are used for Dojo to feed the dojo ItemFileWriteStore that later will be a source for dojo combo box dropdown. Basically its a dropdown element programming.
// server side
$db = Zend_Registry::get('db');
$select = $db->select()->distinct();
$select->from(array('wo' => 'WO'), array(
'name' = 'wo.ITEM',
'label' => 'wo.ITEM',
$select->order('name ASC');
$stmt = $db->query($select);
$rows = $stmt->fetchAll();
$dojoData = new Zend_Dojo_Data('name', $rows, 'label');
print $dojoData;


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Had only a little bit of used charcoal left in my BGE tonight. I didn't want to wait on the VOC's to cook off new coals before grilling up my skirt steak, so I decided to utilize what was left of the used and throwing on the Spider. It's a handy little gadget, and my Weber Smokey Joe's grate fit on top just fine. This placed the grate level just above the coals, so that the steak could get a nice sear even with just a little bit of coal.
We made some Steak Tacos with this tonight... I guess it was to make up for not eating Mexican food for Cinco de Mayo yesterday.


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HOUSTON - A couple has been accused of abusing a 7-year-old boy by hitting him with a shoe, cord, ruler, belt and their hands.
Christopher Burrell, 26, and Savannah Johnson, 26, have been charged with injury to a child.
Houston police said the 7-year-old went to school on Jan. 30 and an ambulance was called to take him to Texas Children's Hospital, where he was diagnosed with a broken arm, a broken hand, a black eye, a bruise on his head and several cuts. Doctors said the boy's injuries were a mix of new and old.
Detectives said the boy told them that Johnson, who he said was his stepmother, and Burrell, his father, hit him after he got into trouble at school. The boy said his father hit him in the face, used a ruler to hit his hands and both Burrell and Johnson hit him on his legs with a belt, police said.
Johnson's 6-year-old daughter told officials that she saw her mother hit the boy on the head with the heel of a shoe, investigators said. Police said she also told them that she saw the 7-year-old being hit with an electrical cord.
Police said Burrell admitted that he hit his son with a belt and Johnson admitted to hitting the boy with a shoe. Investigators said the couple did not have an explanation for the extent of the boy's injuries and claimed they only administered discipline.
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May 11, 1962: Feynman's "Brownian Ratchet"
Richard Feynman
The most famous is "Maxwell's demon," first proposed by James Clerk Maxwell in the 19th century in a December 1867 letter to Scottish mathematician Peter Guthrie Tait. Maxwell envisioned a container of gas molecules in thermal equilibrium. An insulated wall divides the container into two chambers. An entity (the "demon") opens a door in the dividing wall periodically to allow molecules moving faster than average to flow through in only one direction. Over time, this creates a temperature differential between the two chambers capable of being harnessed for work. Given the statistical nature of the second law, the demon appears to defeat the increase in entropy.
Nearly one hundred years later, Richard Feynman revisited the concept with his own thermodynamically-inspired thought experiment that appeared to violate the second law. Feynman grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens, and loved to solve puzzles from a very young age. When he was in high school, a student would often come to him in the morning with a geometry problem, and Feynman would work on it until he figured it out. Over the course of the day, other students would present him with the same problem, and he'd solve it for them immediately, earning a reputation as a "super-genius." His entire career in physics was about solving ever-more-complicated puzzles.
Feynman joined the Manhattan Project in the early 1940s, while still a graduate student, evincing a mischievous penchant for breaching the Los Alamos security systems just for fun. He taught himself the art of safe-cracking and picked the locks on vaults containing the most sensitive secrets to building an atomic bomb. He never took anything. He just left taunting notes behind bemoaning the project's lax security. In his later years, he developed passions for painting and playing the bongos.
In the 1960s, Feynman was a physics professor at the California Institute of Technology, and found himself involved in a three-year project designed to improve the instruction of Caltech's undergraduate students. The result was a classic series of lectures that eventually found their way into published form: The Feynman Lectures on Physics. The tome has since sold well over 1.5 million copies in English alone, and continues to inspire budding young physicists today.
During one of those Caltech lectures, on May 11, 1962, Feynman described a "Brownian ratchet" device based on earlier work in 1912, by a Polish physicist named Marian Smoluchowski. Smoluchowski proposed a machine capable of extracting useful work from heat in a system at thermal equilibrium. It features a small paddle wheel immersed in a fluid and a ratchet connected by an axle. The molecules in the fluid exhibit random Brownian motion and those collisions cause the paddle to turn. The key is that a pawl prevents its rotation in the opposite direction, so the paddle will continue to turn in just one direction, and can be harnessed to perform some kind of work.
Feynman's updated version of Smoluchowski's thought experiment was to demonstrate to his undergraduates that the ratchet will not rotate continuously in one direction. The pawl will also exhibit Brownian motion, jiggling up and down in such a way that occasionally the ratchet tooth will slip backward rather than forward. In fact, Feynman performed the first quantitative analysis of the device and concluded that over time the machine will ratchet backward as much as it moves forward, thereby canceling any possibility for extracting work, and most likely losing energy in the long run with no external energy source to keep it running. The only way to extract work from the system would be to find some way to create a temperature differential between the air on either side of the device–the same basic principle as a steam engine.
Feynman's thought experiment has continued to interest physicists over the decades, even extending it to scenarios involving multiple ratchets. Eventually it led to developing the concept of Brownian motors: nanoscale machines capable of extracting useful work not from thermal noise, but from microscopic sources of nonequilibrium, such as chemical potentials.
In 2010, physicists at the University of Twente successfully demonstrated a machine based on the Brownian ratchet, using 2000 bouncing beads whose bouncing motion rotates a paddle inside the machine, to generate a small net excess of energy. In order to ensure that the paddle turned in one direction only, the Twente researchers covered one side of each vane on the paddle. This caused the beads to lose more energy whenever they hit the taped side.
It is a highly inefficient system; much of the energy is lost to heat and sound, and it doesn't violate the second law. But it could shed light into the movement of biological molecules like RNA polymerase and protein kinesin. At those size scales, such molecules travel through the body along "tracks" in cells via a ratcheting mechanism–a phenomenon called back interaction. The Twente apparatus models that motion on a macroscale.
So while Eddington was technically correct in his assertion that the second law may not be broken, ingenious physicists continue to demonstrate that perhaps it can be bent.
Further Reading:
Eshuis, P. et al. (2010) "Experimental Realization of a Rotational Ratchet in a Granular Gas," Physical Review Letters 104(24): 4.
Feynman, R.P. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 1 (Chapter 46). Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1963.
Von Smoluchowski, M. (1912) "Experimentell nachweisbare, der Ublichen Thermnodynamik widersprechende Molekularphenomene," Phys. Zeitshur 13: 1069.
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Staff Science Writer: Michael Lucibella


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10 Example of Hashtable in Java – Java Hashtable Tutorial
7 comments :
- John Ortiz said...
Do you know how to create an hash table from scratch? I am interesting in find examples about his.
Thanks for this information.
- February 27, 2012 at 6:35 AM
- Anonymous said...
Why we prefer to use String as a key value not only in hashtable?
- October 16, 2012 at 2:15 PM
- Javin @ tricky java question said...
@Anonymous, There are couple of reason like String is immutable and final, they have proper equals and hashCode method etc. See my post How HashMap works in Java for more details.
- October 19, 2012 at 10:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
How to Copy content of Hashtable into HashMap?
- June 30, 2013 at 6:01 AM
- Anonymous said...
By default Hashtable elements are unordered how can we retreive elements same order as we put inside
- July 17, 2013 at 12:14 AM
- Zachariah Howell said...
At least when I try to run in Eclipse, I get the warning "Hashtable is a raw type. References to generic type Hashtable should be parameterized."
You should declare using two reference types like this:
Hashtable companies = new Hashtable();
This gives you compile time errors when you try to put objects that aren't strings into your hashtable. Quite nice so you don't do something dumb like:
- October 10, 2013 at 10:53 AM
- Anonymous said...
instead of companies.containsValue("Japan") ,
you can write simpley companies.contains("Japan");
- March 23, 2014 at 2:42 PM


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Saint Leo softball team (10-9, 2-1 SSC) scored a combined 16 runs in their Sunshine State Conference, doubleheader sweep of Eckerd College (6-11-1, 1-2 SSC), Wednesday evening from the Turley Athletics Complex. In game one, the Lions claimed a 8-4, eight innings victory, while in game two SLU led wire-to-wire in securing an 8-2 win. The Lions have now won seven of their last eight games.
Individually, the Lions had another fantastic evening at the plate. Elysha Agen led the charge going 6-for-8 on the night, including three doubles, a pair of RBI, and three runs scored. Sarah Boyd and Amber Martyn each posted four hits, as well. Boyd connected on her first career triple, while Martyn delivered a double. Jaime Walker went a combined 3-for-8 from the batter's box and Dianne Gonzalez and Ana Castillo combined for four hits. Gonzalez popped her second home run of the season and Castillo drove in a game-best four RBI. Brittany Yates made her two hits count as both went for home runs, and capped her night with three RBI. Tiffinee Harvey had her nine-game hitting streak snapped in game one, but still crushed her third home run of the year in game two.
While improving to one game above .500, SLU combined for 26 hits and 16 runs, while amassing nine extra-base hits. The team posted a .388 batting average and did not commit an error in 45 total putouts.
In game one, SLU faced an immediate deficit when Eckerd's Shurr capped a three-hit inning with a three-run blast to give the Tritons a 3-0 lead. As usual, the Lions found a way to battle back and chip away at the lead. In the second, with both Boyd and Martyn on, Walker sent a shot up the middle to plate the Lions second run and trim the lead to one. The hit was later followed by an Agen RBI single, tying the ballgame up at three.
In the fourth inning, the Lions took their first lead of the contest when Castillo connected on an infield single scoring Boyd from third base. The Lions held the one-run lead into the bottom of the sixth inning when Eckerd's Alex Sasso scored on a controversial sacrifice fly, tying the game at four.
Neither team could convert a run in the final inning of regulation, but Saint Leo did break it open in the first extra frame. Gonzalez began the inning with a solo shot over the right field fence to swing the lead back in favor of the Green & Gold. Her run stood as the game-winner, as the Lions collected three more runs on behalf of a sacrifice fly, an RBI single by Martyn and a RBI triple by Boyd.
The Lions shutdown the Tritons in the bottom of the inning, leaving two runners stranded and walking away with their first conference win. In victory, Walker tossed 8.0 innings, scattering eight hits and allowing four earned runs. She now stands at 2-2 on the season.
Game two gave the Lions the same result, but a different path in getting there. The Lions did not wait to fall behind, as Harvey brought Agen home with an RBI single. Harvey came around to score on Yates' 19th career home run to give the Lions 3-0 first inning lead.
The Lions added to their lead in the second Castillo roped a two-RBI single up the middle to plate runs four and five.
Eckerd answered with a pair of runs themselves in the bottom of the third inning using three hits, including an RBI single, to make the score 5-2 in favor of SLU.
Harvey gave the Lions one of those runs back in the top of the fourth when she sent a towering shot over the right field fence.
The squad iced the game with an RBI double by Agen in the fifth and Yates' second blast of the contest in the sixth inning. It is the third multiple home run game of her career and the second of the season.
Ashton Whidden improved to 7-3 on the season, scattering nine hits and allowing just two earned runs over 7.0 innings of work. She struck out four batters and allowed only three walks.
The Lions return to SSC action this Friday, February 5 against Lynn University. The first of the three games is set for a 7:00 pm at University Field on the campus of Saint Leo.


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HOUSTON - A record number of Harris County voters turned out Tuesday night, but many were still waiting to vote long after polls were supposed to close.
Huge crowds at least half a dozen Republican polling places, keeping some voters waiting to get in for hours.
The winner in the Republican U.S. Senate runoff, Ted Cruz, was called before many even a chance to vote.
"We encouraged them to have more locations," Harris County Clerk Stan Stanard said. "They did not take our advice."
Stanard said the Republican Party didn't anticipate the large turnout. Republicans had 68 polling places to the Democrats' 78.
Stanard no one expected the big surge in voters who arrived after work.
"We had an extraordinary percentage of Election Day voters after 5 p.m., he said. "What we think is about 60 percent of the people voted after 5 p.m. in the Republican primary."
Another problem with tabulating votes resulted in inaccurate vote counts being reported in eight Democratic races during before the problem was corrected.
In the Democratic Precinct 2 constable runoff, for instance, Zerick Guinn went to bed last night believing he'd won with 98 percent of the vote counted. But Wednesday morning, after the vote was corrected, he discovered he'd lost about 600 votes and trailed opponent Chris Diaz by 3.
"In the transfer from the counting station to the reporting, something went wrong," Stanard said. "That caused the inaccurate numbers to actually be put in that report."
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1. Do some research
- Search the User Guide for the version of MEPIS you are using.
- Search this website using the search bar or the Google Custom search on the left of this page.
- Search these forums for similar issues:
- If you still cannot solve the problem, post a well-written question on the forum.
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The clues most useful in figuring out something that went wrong often lie in the events immediately prior to the problem occurring. So your account should describe precisely what you did (and what the machine did!) leading up to that problem. If you are using the command line quoting the relevant lines is very useful (copy and paste the output).
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The point is that population density in western europe, where most of the posters here live, is significantly larger then the US. As a result, the pings in the US are usually significantly higher then those in Europe. Therefore, netcode that can handle high pings is still a requirement in 2013.
This is why we can't have nice things like no lag compensation.
I guess another thing to look at would be the raw infrastructure. As mentioned by several people, higher density means more people served by the same cable which means cheaper service. It also means a single company can more easily serve a wider area because they have more paying customers per square foot of cable they lay. Companies that lay cable in rural America are paying more to get materials and supplies out past their centers of operations and getting less in return because of the small customer density.
So I suppose it's not entirely fair to call the companies here more greedy--I don't remember if anyone said that, though.
Another question: how often do European telecoms companies gouge the price by throttling bandwidth and splitting it between too many customers? Are you really getting connections that are twice as fast that often, or are you just being sold faster connections?
The EU has liberalized the Telecommuncation market in 1998. Which, to answer your question means: Not at all.Quote:
How much are telecommunication companies in Europe owned or subsidized by the government?
The EU is, however, actively working to increase the amount of competition in the sector, as well as doing the basic EU stuff: Decreasing the costs of inter-national telephone communication, for example (EU has this no-borders principle - they can force this stuff with laws). The EU, as well as my own (dutch) government, has made it significantly easier to swap between telecom providers.
And I can tell you that was REALLY needed. Honestly. We spent two months without internet because our former company tried as hard as possible to prevent us from actually swapping - and this was a general practice back in the day, to discourage dissatisfied customers. This today is no longer the case. Thank God.
I don't think that it is any subsidies that are doing their work here. EU's agressive anti-monopoly and pro-competition stance probably is a big factor though, as is, off-course, the population density. Rural areas do get significantly slower speeds even in the Netherlands- there is no "good internet for everyone" government program.


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I've often thought I could write about a different Asian restaurant every week for a year. These days (although I admit I haven't actually counted them) I could probably say the same thing about Japanese restaurants only, which have proliferated like mushrooms in a wet season. Hardly a week goes by without an email from a reader, enthusing about a sushi place -- usually in their own neighbourhood and, they say, absolutely the best in the city.
I understand their enthusiasm. Like Asian restaurants in general, Japanese restaurants offer some of the safest bets for eating out, rarely sinking below acceptability, at least. But every now and then I hear of one that not only rises well above mere acceptability, but which offers some intriguingly rare items as well -- it wasn't just the praise that brought me to Sushi Ai.
I was prepared for good food, but what I wasn't prepared for was the charm of the place, which few of my correspondents had mentioned (I guess some have eyes only for what's on their plates). And it is an elegant little room, with back-lit classic Japanese prints on the walls, and marvellously comfortable rattan armchairs, plumped up with well-padded cushions. Even the menu and the little folder that holds the bill are things of beauty, with bronze, flower-embossed covers and dark suede-like lining. The only discordant note is the television set high on one wall, with the sound on (but not too loud).
In any case, it's the beauty of the food that matters and Sushi Ai excels there too, in both taste and presentation. The menu isn't extensive, and the fish are the standard, predictable choices, but those that are available tasted fresh and meticulously prepared. Even the pink pickled ginger seemed to have more zing than usual. Prices also are relatively reasonable, with nigiri sushi from $2.75 to $4.95 for two pieces, regular rolls from $4.50 to $5.95, and special rolls from $8.50 to $14.
Sushi are usually the draw for Japanese restaurants, but confining oneself here to sushi only would mean missing out on some fine starters: the wonderful and truly rare takoyaki, for instance -- battered and fried octopus-filled balls, prettily presented on ceramic escargot plates (six pieces for $4.95). Or the less rare but truly superior potato croquettes -- deep-fried patties of creamy mashed potatoes, dotted by the occasional kernel of corn, and topped by a dab of concentrated teriyaki sauce -- two for $2.50, but really big, and the best I can remember. Tempura aren't exactly rare, but here a crisp, lacy batter encloses firm and particularly flavourful shrimp (eight pieces for $8.95).
There's an assortment of salads as well -- among them, tuna gomo ae with avocado in a lovely sesame-seasoned dressing ($6.25); and the biggest, and possibly the best, sunomono salad of my experience -- translucent noodles with slices of cucumbers and little nubs of octopus (shrimp, surf clam or crab are other options) in a slightly sweetened rice vinegar dressing, so good I kept drinking it after the noodles were gone ($4.50).
It's a rare sushi menu that doesn't include some newfangled concoctions -- the New Hampshire, for example, with deep-fried bacon among its components, and which -- along with the Philadelphia Roll of smoked salmon and cream cheese -- I'll leave to others to try. When I come out for sushi, raw fish is what I want, and all I tried were excellent in all their forms, from the simplest nigiri sushi with moist, perfectly seasoned rice and generous toppings, to the biggest, most complex of rolls.
Tempura crumbs delivered a nice crunch to the delectable Echo Roll of salmon, tuna and surf clam with lettuce, and to the Bakudan Tuna Roll, fired by a hot sauce that bit back. Another good choice was the barbecued River Eel Roll with cucumber and a drizzle of teriyaki sauce.
The Special Rolls probably deliver the most fish for your buck. The Rainbow Roll, for instance, of avocado, fish eggs and crab meat (real crab, not fake), with a topping of tuna, salmon, octopus and clam, with both teriyaki and hot sauces. But one of the best and most exciting rolls I've had in ages is the stunning Volcano Roll, which starts with a California Roll of avocado, crab meat and fish eggs, and is then topped by a cloud-like puff of lightly cooked chopped scallops with fish roe and mayo.
The only sashimi listed are salmon and tuna, but both are firm, sweet and fresh-tasting (eight generous slices for $12.50).
Two stir-fried noodle dishes came in portions big enough for two to share. The beef yaki udon of thick, chewy noodles with plenty of tender, tasty beef slices and crunchy veggies was tops for both texture and flavour. I also liked the yakisoba of skinnier noodles interlaced with seafood -- tiny shrimp, octopus, and (possibly?) surf clams ($9.75 each).
The only dessert available is ice cream encased in sweet rice -- a commercial preparation, apparently, and in any case by then we'd had enough rice. Service is friendly, attentive and accommodating. Since space is limited, reservations would be a good idea.
To see the location of this restaurant as well as others reviewed in the Winnipeg Free Press, please see the map below or click here.
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Miles to Go
The "Penguin" daily threads were originally conceived to emphasize that all members of the community have a place on the boards. Encouragement, motivation, a little love nip (you will love one, give it a try!) or even a little kick in the pants when needed -- it can happen here.
Basically, we celebrate just getting out there and moving our tails!What is "slow"? "Slow" is a perception but one of the common benchmarks is the 10:00/mi pace; but there's no firm line. In fact, there are many of us that have slipped past this, and just hope that no one notices and revokes their "igloo privileges."
It can be confusing for the forum newbies, but we're not one of the teams in any of the fine games. It's a totally open group, so stop lurking, post an introduction of yourself dive in and join the fun! No application necessary! There might even be a lovely picture for Scotty (we love pics!)
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What is Scotty going to do with no races this weekend????
Another RD for me. I'll try a slow mile tomorrow. BTW, Can someone send some of their excess heat to Chicago?
Good morning
No early am run today. I hope to go buy some tire tubes for my bike and get in a ride/ run this afternoon after chores. Super exciting huh
"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail."
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right."
I wish we could ship off some of this heat! August is the hottest month and its not even July yet.
tomas, is this the maiden voyage of the
RD for me. My right ITB is still annoyed. myrtls and core work later.
Bad Ass
Morning! Run with hubby and weights tonight.
Jerry, enjoy the rest day and good luck tomorrow.
Tomas, enjoy the bike ride.
traci, hope the ITB feels better so you can try the new shoes!
"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
It's always fucking hot in Miami!
Morning! I wish my conference was a fancy one with hotels and stuff, but it's just a small little one. Bilingual ed in Oregon isn't exactly the biggest field.
We're in the middle of a heat wave, plus we still have the humidity from last week's rain, but I noticed that it cooled down really nicely yesterday evening. I'm hoping that it does the same for my 5 miles tonight.
Jerry- Our heat should literally be on its way to you! Hope the mile goes well tomorrow!
T-rod- Hope your ride and run are great later!
Traci- How can you take a RD with new shoes? That must be tough! If you want to try neutral but *not* quite minimalist, you might check out Saucony Kinvaras as well. They maintained at least some cushioning, especially around the heel, and have a 4 mm drop.
D- Hope you and hubby have a nice run!
I wish we could ship off some of this heat! August is the hottest month and its not even July yet.
tomas, is this the maiden voyage of the
RD for me. My right ITB is still annoyed. myrtls and core work later.
No - yesterday was and I had a damn blowout. I did get in 8.6 miles though. And it was fun while it lasted.
I hope those new shoes help too.
Z- hot+ humid= no fun
D- dont hurt hubby to bad. Does he lift with you?
He does not lift.
Baby steps I guess. You will get to where you want him to be and he won't even know what's going on. That's what happens around this place.
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Hi Pens...
11 miles done at an 8:19 pace. Off to the swim meet in a bit. Have a good day.
While on the subject of shoes....do low heel drop shoes, like the Kinvara's have less weardown on the heels?
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Good morning!
Getting ready for the "USO Salutes Our Heroes" 5k and it's hot already, but at least it's not Miami hot
At packet pickup I was bib #22, does that mean it's likely going to be a small race? They were being given out in sequence and we actually showed up after the LRS had closed but they let us in (they have a store dog, so you know they're good people!)
I'm sure it'll be fun no matter how many show up, and it's for a great cause!
I can. I will. I am.
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Hi pens!
3.12 miles in 32 minutes - was going to shoot for 40 minutes today but I got up too late and it was miserably humid by the time I got outside. Felt like I was breathing through a straw after my strides at the end. 1 set of 2 minutes walk/8 jog and 2 sets of 1 walk/9 jog, followed by strides and a minute or so cooldown jog, walked the dog when I got home to finish cooling down. 8.83 miles for the week, not bad!
I've been poking around the Internet to replace some of my older, all-cotton running/workout clothes since I can't even bear to look at them in this weather.. I have no idea how I suffered through wearing so much cotton last summer! Just snagged two Pearl Izumi shirts with matching shorts from eBay for a grand total of $16 shipped, my wallet and running wardrobe are both happy now
I blog now. It's still a work in progress.
Jerry no idea but t could be as lower heel drop might, might encourage mid foot strike.
Jack, fast run!
Woke up at 545 but see that the air index is not too low. So, I slept in. Nephew 1st birthday today and we have a chalet with buffet. Managed to squeeze in 8+ miles.
Planning for some BBQ tmr.
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Easy 2 mile jog at recovery pace (favorite workout of my plan this week lol!) with my boyfriend's doggie. Now going to Congressional Country Club to watch the ATT National golf tournament!
PRs: 5K- 28:16 (5/5/13) 10K- 1:00:13 (10/27/13) 4M- 41:43 (9/7/13) 15K- 1:34:25 (8/17/13) 10M- 1:56:30 (4/6/14) HM- 2:20:16 (4/13/14) Full- 5:55:33 (11/1/15)
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Yep! 'Lovely dress' is the name of this dress by Samantha Pleet. This shows you can still dress like a nun and turn heads! Ideal for spring this dress puts chic in the 60s...Features a Peter pan collar, contrast stitching, bow tie detail, back zipper and is made of raw silk


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The last time I was involved in photography in an even remotely serious way was about 30 years ago. After having a family and a career and never raising a camera with anything in mind other than capturing a memory or two (not that there's anything wrong with that!), this year I re-started a long-dormant photographic journey.
In anticipation of a great European trip that we took in July, I bought my first decent digital camera in March, discovered digital processing in April, and have been lost in this re-discovered passion ever since, taking thousands of images, keeping hundreds, and liking a relative handful. Amazed with, among other things, how quick and easy today's technology makes doing what was enormously difficult and time consuming in years past. But, as ever, the real challenge of photography is learning to see the world photographically. That's a never-ending pursuit that I hope I started to scratch the surface of again this year.
I don't know if I'll continue with photography at the pace I have this year - maybe I will and will look back on this effort in 10 years as the rookie effort it is. Or maybe I'll lose interest and this will serve only as a record of how I spent a lot of time this year. Either way, it's been a stone blast!
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- Category Arts & Photography
Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
196 Pages
- Publish Date Nov 27, 2010
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About the Creator
Back into photography pretty heavily since 2010, after many years away dealing with a career, raising kids, etc. I was pretty into it in the film days from the late '60s (as a kid) through mid-80's (as a young adult) and then sort of missed everything other than family snaps until a few years ago when I discovered digital for real. I shoot mostly with fixed lens compacts (currently Sony RX1, Nikon Coolpix A), and with ILC compacts, but often I use those as if they were fixed lens too. I use a Fuji XE1 for wide work and Olympus OMD for long... I do a lot of street photography, but I like it all, including travel, landscapes, just general family stuff, etc. But if I was forced to name a specialty, I'd have to say street. I publish these books mostly for myself and family and friends in lieu of photo albums and endless slide show nights, but if anyone is interested and wants to buy one, I'm not gonna try to talk you OUT of it!
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BRIDGWATER Tennis Club has appointed a vastly experienced new head coach.
Josh White, who has played to a high national standard as a junior and now plays at county level in senior tennis, has been coaching for over 16 years and over this time has worked with some of the top juniors in the country.
Josh has a level four Senior Performance Coach qualification and enjoys coaching all ages and abilities.
There is a coaching programme run by Josh for children and adults and individual sessions can also be booked with him.
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For more information please check the web site for Bridgwater Lawn Tennis Club or contact the club's answer phone 01278-661078.


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Did you know?
A 'muggle' is the name geocachers give to a non-geocacher. The name comes from the Harry Potter books.
It's all about the thrill of the cache at the eastern Free State farm of Beatrix, which offers geocaching and hiking adventures.
Armed with your GPS and an appreciation of golden views, you start your adventure at a milk can at the front door of a converted barn, which offers comfortable, rustic accommodation. From here you either use your GPS or your penchant for cryptic clues, or both, to find the next clue.
The geocaching challenge is an approx. four-hour adventure on the farm without any marked trail to guide you. Geocaching, for those not familiar with it, is an adventure seeker's treasure hunt, where you are given GPS points and clues to several 'treasure' points along the way.
There is actually no treasure to speak of, just the satisfaction of finding your way to each point, with views of mountain streams, magnificent rock formations and a rare tritheledontid fossil your reward.
For those who prefer a more straightforward trail, there is the well-marked, fairly challenging 7.5km Mosamane Hiking Trail, which leads you through the grasslands, where secretary birds note your passing, into the crimson and gold sandstone cliffs with their fantastical sculptural formations.
There are ladders and chains to help you negotiate the steep mountain section of the hike, which passes ancient caves called 'Owl's Eyes', so-named because of their appearance. If you enjoy mountain biking, there's also a tough but scenic 16km route that takes you through a different part of the farm to the hiking trail.
And if none of the above appeal to you, simply sit under a tree and soak in the landscape, which is home to a great variety of creatures, including the mosamane, a ground squirrel named in the local Sotho language – and you'll see plenty of these.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Charmaine Gallon
Cell: +27 (0)82 340 9393
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
How to get here
The Mosamane Trail is about 300km from Johannesburg (about three hours' drive) and 230km from Bloemfontein (about two hours' drive). The closest town is Rosendal (10km away) on the R70, which can be accessed via the N5.
Best time to visit
It is a year-round destination, but please note: during summer you can expect maximum temperatures of 32°C with a cool breeze as the sun sets in the evening. 'Summer' can also mean four seasons in one day, with heavy thunder, lightning and showers. The winter climate is more predictable, with maximum temperatures of 20°C and average minimum temperatures of 4°C. Nights in winter can be very cold, so pack warm clothes.
Around the area
The eastern Free State is a wonderful area to explore and includes one of South Africa's favourite tourist towns, Clarens.
What will it cost
Overnight accommodation – R120 per person, per day
Day visitors – R50 per person, per day
Campers (own tents/caravans ) – R75 per person, per day
Administration fee – R35 once off per reservation
Length of stay
Two days.
What to pack
Insect repellent and antihistamine cream for insect bites; light sources and matches (note that there is no electricity); personal toiletries and towels; dishcloths; all eating utensils; all cooking utensils; water bottles; charcoal or braai wood (can also be bought on site); own bedding or sleeping bag; food, snacks and drinks; suntan lotion and lip ice; basic first aid kit and essential medicine; long trousers and hat; GPS (optional); and camera. Note: limited cellphone reception. In case of emergency you can be contacted via the Mosamane cellphone number.
Where to stay
The renovated barn on Beatrix farm accommodates up to 19 people on single beds. It has an ablution block with six toilets, six showers with warm water from a 'donkey' (wood-fire-heated system), an undercover sundowner area and braai facilities. The kitchen has a fridge and gas burner. You can also camp.
What to eat
Bring your own food.


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Data journalism, news apps, open government data. In this age of Anonymous, Wikileaks, and proactive sources publishing freely available data, it is becoming critical that we have journalists and developers working together to make sense of it all and understand how it affects us.
Today there are a growing number of news outlets doing a fantastic job of both publishing data and creating interactions and visualizations to make sense of it. I wanted to showcase a handful of those sites so that people can understand why this type of journalism is important and how it works. And maybe even how to get involved if it's of interest to you.
There is no shortage of people providing data sets today, the only thing to learn is how to narrow it down to the most useful one for you.
Fingal Open Data is doing a nice job in Ireland encouraging councils to open up their data. Their site http://data.fingal.ie/ provides data in CSV, XML and KML formats, and they're currently running a competition for people to build useful apps given the available data.
Additionally in Ireland, sites like Gavin Sheridan's The Story and John Handelaar's Kildare Street are excellent resources for presenting data but also learning more about the types of data available in Ireland
I mentioned The Guardian's Data Blog in a recent post about news developer blogs as a great example of community building. But clearly it is also one of the best sources in the UK for a wide range of freely available data sets. For each set of data they post, they offer a download of the data and recommend that if you do anything with it, you post it to their Flickr group. They often have additional visualizations and comparisons as well.
There are loads of additional resources for finding data, the trick is knowing how to search for the information you need. Sites like ScraperWiki (https://scraperwiki.com/), DataSift (http://datasift.com/), The World Bank (http://data.worldbank.org/), BuzzData (http://buzzdata.com/) and more sites are growing and becoming available to the public for research and data mining.
It's no coincidence that a lot of my news app examples have shown up in prior blog posts – there are some organizations who are very seriously ahead of the pack in terms of understanding how news and technology work together. On one hand I am delighted to have bright minds like these folks paving the way! On the other hand, it makes me a little depressed when I realize that Ireland is nowhere near this level of thinking.
NPR's StateImpact (http://stateimpact.npr.org/) is a collaboration among NPR and local public radio stations in eight pilot states to examine public policy issues in depth. They provide explanatory, data-driven stories focused on how people's lives are affected by government decisions.
The New York Times definitely has a well-respected team of interactive news developers and infographic designers. However it's not always very easy to find them on their site. The Multimedia page is the best resource I've found for taking a look at cool interactive apps and images they create, but Small labs Inc has also put together a nice collection here: http://www.smallmeans.com/new-york-times-infographics/
The Chicago Tribune has some of the busiest & best news app builders in the United States today and they are constantly kicking out new, interesting information in nice visual formats. Check out their site which has apps in many areas including community, schools, business, politics and more.
ProPublica creates not only fantastic interactive news applications like Dollars for Docs (which I referenced in my Quantified Self talk on skin problems), they also create excellent reusable tools like DocDiver that allow readers to work with the ProPublica reporters.
To learn more about data journalism, here are a few useful sites to check out and blogs to follow:
The Data Journalism Handbook: a work-in-progress coordinated by the European Journalism Centre & the Open Knowledge Foundation launched at the Mozilla Festival in London on November 5th 2011.
Data Journalism Blog: http://www.datajournalismblog.com/
Hacks/Hackers: http://hackshackers.com A grassroots journalism organization on a mission to create a network of journalists and technologists who rethink the future of news and information.
ProPublica's Dan Nguyen's Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/doc-dollars-guides-collecting-the-data – a great introduction to how to grab data that is in maybe less-than-optimal formats.
Also from Dan Nguyen, The Bastards Book of Ruby http://ruby.bastardsbook.com/ – an introduction to programming and its practical uses for journalists, researchers, scientists, analysts and anyone else who needs to make sense of data.
At the Society of News Design conference earlier this year, I went to some excellent talks by newsroom app developers who recommended that if you are thinking of going into this area, you need to know either Ruby on Rails or Django/Python, as those seem to be the dominant requested skills for news apps. I also liked this article recently on Poynter about using Backbone to create data news apps: http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/digital-strategies/147605/how-journalists-can-use-backbone-to-create-data-driven-projects/. You don't need to know everything, just pick one and start creating projects.
And lastly, from the perfect timing department, here's Matt Stiles, who is a data journalist from NPR, talking very recently about best practices in building news apps:
Data Best Practices from StateImpact on Vimeo.


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A translation of the blog of the Japanese prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama. By alumna Bianca Ceralvo.
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text: A(lbert) B(enjamin) Simpson (1843-1919), evangelist, founder of the Christian & Missionary Alliance. Simpson was born on Prince Edward Island, the son of Scottish Presbyterian parents. Undergoing a conversion experience at age 15, he entered Knox College (Toronto) in 1861 and became a Presbyterian minister, leading a prestigious church in Hamilton, Ontario. Sensing a wider calling, Simpson moved to a church in Louisville, Kentucky in 1874. There he came into contact with the teachings of the Holiness movement, underwent an experience of sanctification and came to believe that the ministry of the Holy Spirit held the key to power and blessing in the lives of individual Christians. By the time he moved to a church in New York City in 1879, Simpson was increasingly influenced by dispensationalist interpretations of the Bible as well as a burden to help the missionary movement and reach the unchurched urban masses. Shortly after opening the independent Gospel Tabernacle in 1881, Simpson underwent an experience of divine healing and became an outspoken proponent of that burgeoning movement. Attracting a growing number of followers and a network of ministerial associates, Simpson touted a "fourfold Gospel" of Christ as "Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer, and Coming King," combining ardor for revivalism, missions, pietistic holiness, and prophecy. In the late 1880s he created the Christian Alliance and the Evangelical Missionary Alliance to promote his vision, two groups which officially merged and became the Christian & Missionary Alliance (CMA) in 1897. In the following two decades the unofficial "denomination" continued to move forward despite losing a large percentage of its leadership and supporters to the emerging Pentecostal movement. In 1974 the CMA recognized that it had become a full-fledged denomination. Today the group claims over 400,000 members within the United States, supports over 800 full-time missionaries, and claims a worldwide membership of some three million people in forty different nations. For further reading see Bernie A. Van De Walle, The Heart of the Gospel: A.B. Simpson, The Fourfold Gospel, and Late Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Theology (Pickwick, 2009).


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I WOULD like to say a huge thank-you to all volunteers who over the Christmas period gave their time and effort to make Christmas Day and Boxing Day a much happier time for a lot of people who are lonely, homeless or whatever reason.
The wonderful people of St Michael Le Belfrey had prepared a tasty three-course meal on Christmas Day for anyone wanting to share this glorious day with others. The effort that went in was considerable and these people also did the same on Boxing Day with again a very lovely hot meal and presents.
I know the people at Carebears in St Saviour Gate also did a Christmas meal for homeless and lonely people on Christmas Day and these too gave their time to make sure a brighter day was had.
Thank you so very much for your selfless dedication on these days and all the other days throughout the year that you offer up your time and company so others in a less fortunate position can and do feel part of something.
Sean Atkinson, Gillygate, York.


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Hairspray (2007), Channel Nine, 9.10pm
AS BALTIMORE housewife Edna Turnblad, John Travolta isn't a particularly believable woman, but he's a wonderful mother. As with The Producers, Hairspray is the glossy movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical adaptation of the cult film, proving that when it comes to good material Hollywood really knows how to get that stone to bleed. John Waters' 1988 low-budget original, with cross-dresser Divine as the oversized matriarch of a working-class family, was his usual spiky valentine to his beloved home town of Baltimore. Set in the early '60s, the revised story follows Tracy Turnblad (an impressive Nikki Blonsky), the high-school outcast who dances up a storm. Adam Shankman's film is a broad plea for understanding, featuring the most overly art-directed Civil Rights march you'll ever see, but the Motown-inspired pop songs are little more than energetic and Christopher Walken and Michelle Pfeiffer are underused.
Above the Law (1988), GO!, 9.30pm
THE very first Steven Seagal movie - it's a kind of cinematic patient zero for the subsequent infection - is much like the rest: a rogue lawman won't back down when threatened by crooks; it co-stars Pam Grier and Sharon Stone, who should have had their own buddy flick.
Swordfish (2001), Movie Extra (pay TV), 8.30pm
SOMETIMES the measure of a movie star is what they can pull off on camera. In Swordfish, a digitally themed action flick, Hugh Jackman proved his worth to Hollywood by playing a computer hacker who breaks into a well-protected US government databank with the kind of keyboard moves more commonly seen at an Andre Rieu concert. Slamming the buttons and racing through imaginary code, he turns the labyrinthine and mundane into florid drama. The scene is overblown and the finale generally is, too. John Travolta and Halle Berry's rogue US government operatives hire Jackman's paroled coder to assist them in their plans, which involves securing private funding so they can go freelance and target terrorists without government approval. It's an ends-justify-the-means philosophy that the movie shares, with a restrained opening soon giving way to much gunfire and explosions.
Motorway Patrol, Channel Seven, 7.30pm
HYPERACTIVE commentary and a relentless barrage of mundane misdemeanours dilute any sound message of road safety that might be gleaned from this dull traffic-incident show. How it has any entertainment value beyond satisfying a desire for watching confused drivers reprimanded by police is unfathomable. Tonight, a drunk and drugged motorist tries to evade police, dodgy registration calls are made, and a couple of suspicious-looking blokes are questioned beside a classic Ford Falcon Futura model. Yawn.
SCU: Serious Crash Unit, Channel Seven, 8pm
TURNING the car-crash attraction factor up a notch from the previous bumper-car show is this similarly base slice of programming, which features, as its title suggests, actual smashes. The first unwitting star of tonight's horror shows is a mother of three whose car collides with a truck after veering into the wrong lane. Forensic investigators deconstruct the accident, but their undoubtedly interesting work is sidelined by a visual assault of car wrecks with hyperactive commentary.
Psychic TV, TV4ME, late
WITH her tumbling raven locks and beguiling smile, actor Jordana Ashkenazi (Underbelly) is a seductive host of this bizarre home-shopping channel. Live from the mystic call centre, she pushes fortunes and communion with the dead. The ladies who profess a hotline to the ethereal world come in all shapes and sizes, every one a kindly aunt administering tarot and sympathy to the broken-hearted over the phone. As a strange human experiment, the spectacle is intriguing, if mind-numbingly formulaic.
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Meteor, Universal, 8.30pm
THE Walking Dead's Michael Rooker is suitably scary as a psycho cop determined to hunt down and kill his former partner's spunky blonde daughter. He even has that distinctive Merle drawl (which might actually just be Rooker's native Alabama drawl). What does this have to do with meteors? Not much. We are indeed in imminent danger from a rogue asteroid, but that end of things is being handled by Jason Alexander, Christopher Lloyd, Stacy Keach, Marla Sokoloff and Ernie Hudson, among others. The fact that Meteor is crammed with actors you know and (mostly) love from very different places helps make this two-part mini-series perfect popcorn-munching holiday viewing. It doesn't hurt that the acting, directing, script and special effects are a cut above those of the average sci-fi telemovie. The fact that it was written by a guy who spent 12 years writing wrestling scripts for the WWE is somehow perfect.
Murdoch Mysteries, 13th Street, 7.30pm
A FINE episode of the genteel police procedural set in 1890s Canada. Tonight everyone in Toronto has been reading Bram Stoker's new novel, Dracula, and a murder at a girls' school starts a vampire panic. The goofy Constable Crabtree (Jonny Harris), now a bit too over-the-top, believes vampires could be behind it, but Detective Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) isn't buying. Again, the story grows out of the rapid progress of 19th-century science, and there is a poignancy in the portrayal of a world in which great strides have been made but important developments remain just out of reach.
Kylie Minogue: Aphrodite Les Folies, Fox8, 10pm
Kylie's spectacular concert in London on the last night of her Aphrodite world tour.
Celebrity Wife Swap USA, LifeStyle You, 7.30pm
A five-episode marathon beginning with the one in which Gary Busey and Ted Haggard trade spouses.
Treme, Showcase, 8.40pm
Season finale.


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Hot Links: The Kardashians Wish You a Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Plus, Minka Kelly plays with her pup and Amanda Seyfried showcases her hidden talents.
-Faye Brennan
Happy St. Patrick's Day from celebland! The Kardashian ladies will pinch you if you're not wearing green! (Celebuzz)
Minka Kelly spends more time with her puppy on the set of Charlie's Angels than actually working. (Celebuzz)
Josh Radnor of How I Met Your Mother talks about how New York women are more alluring. (The Frisky)
Did you know that Amanda Seyfried could sing… AND play guitar! (Buzznet)
Forget Facebook! Here are the 5 social media sites you should be using. (CollegeCandy)
Uh oh! Is Lindsay Lohan drinking again? (Popeater)
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Last week VMware introduced its latest weapon in the battle for cloud domination: the VMware vCloud Integration Manager. According to the company, the new tool should be battle ready and operational in the first quarter of 2012, and it'll be priced on a usage-based subscription model familiar to vCloud Service Providers.
VMware vCloud Integration Manager is designed to help service providers automate the delivery and operations of VMware vCloud Director-based clouds. It will allow service providers to quickly create and deploy cloud service offerings, as well as help them scale to meet customer demand in a reliable, repeatable, and cost-effective manner.
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VMware said vCloud Integration Manager will be tightly integrated with VMware vCloud Director, VMware vSphere, VMware vShield Edge, and VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager to automate and accelerate the provisioning and delivery of infrastructure and associated services.
It will also include a Web-based portal to streamline and automate service plan, customer lifecycle, and reseller management. Service providers will be able to standardize product configuration and delivery, manage customer lifecycles from sign-up to decommission, and reduce the time and overhead involved in transacting with resellers.
"In production at service providers, Integration Manager will mostly be driven through API calls from the service provider's customer portal or CRM systems. These are typically the 'systems of record' for customer data and product orders, with Integration Manager doing the detailed provisioning work," writes Mathew Lodge, senior director of cloud services at VMware. "Integration Manager is also important for VMware's reseller partners, many of whom are looking to add cloud services to their portfolios in order to be able to sell complete hybrid clouds (combinations of public and private clouds)."
Long established as the dominant player in the server virtualization market, VMware's ESX hypervisor platform and vSphere solution have made it the industry's 800-pound gorilla, with everyone else forced to play catch-up in features and functionality. As a result, most enterprise organizations have settled on VMware as the de facto standard for their server virtualization implementations. Since server virtualization is a major foundational component of cloud computing, most of these enterprise organizations have also been using VMware technology for their private cloud initiatives.
However, a large number of public cloud service providers have yet to bestow their blessing on VMware. In fact, many of these companies have turned to open source or less expensive framework solutions built on top of Xen, KVM, or Microsoft Hyper-V technologies. That reality has probably given VMware executives fits, and it's more than likely one of the leading reasons for VMware's creation of vCloud Integration Manager.