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WITH Hereford United having at least another three weeks of life, more pressure is being put on Herefordshire Council to "come clean" on what it knew about the club's finances ahead of the ground leases being re-assigned.
The council, as landlord to the ground has ruled out an immediate scrutiny inquiry into the way the leases were re-assigned five years ago.
Cllr Sebastian Bowen, chairman of overview and scrutiny, has said that though such an inquiry is not on the committee's agenda over the foreseeable future, there was scope a hearing "when the dust has settled."
But frustration is festering on the council's "backbenches" as to what the authority – or was told – about the club's finances when it went into negotiation over the leases.
Today, Cllr Jim Knipe, who raised the issue last year, backed a call from Cllr Jim Kenyon, to set up a scrutiny inquiry as soon as possible with the club's fate now effectively lying with the High Court.
"It is important to establish whether a due diligence report was prepared on Hereford United before the leases were amended. If it is proved that no such report was prepared to establish the financial position of the club, then the Council could be negligent in its fiduciary duty to the residents of Herefordshire," said Cllr Knipe.
More needed to be made public about payment plans that were the basis of assurances made to the council by the clubs new owners, he said.
This morning, the High Court gave the club another three weeks of life to arrange a voluntary agreement with its creditors.
Calls for an inquiry into the lease negotiations came in tandem with pressure on the council to release a report into due diligence it carried out on Hereford United ahead of leases being re-assigned five years ago.
The council's Independent group, to which Cllr Knipe belongs, is pushing for the report to be made public amid doubt that it actually exists.
Independent leader Cllr Bob Matthews raised the issue of due diligence when group leaders were given an update on the council and the club last month.
At the time, Cllr Knipe said he was "disappointed and alarmed" that, on the evidence so far, the council failed to carry out carry out a due diligence examination to establish the club's financial position before negotiations over the leases began.
In a statement the council said it carried out the "appropriate level" of due diligence when restructuring the leases - as it would with any existing long term tenant who was not a new entity.
The statement said the council was aware of the situation the club faced as was "endeavouring to help them where possible."
While the council is the landlord of the Edgar Street ground, it does not have any direct control or involvement in the club and its decisions.
Two leases refer to redevelopment of the Meadow End and Blackfriars End and stipulate that any proceeds be re-invested in the ground and its facilities.
The council is considering a request by the new owners for a transfer of those leases to a holding company within their ownership.
Around £65k in rent arrears, business rates and legal fees is owed to the council by the club.
The council has accepted assurances from the new owners that all outstanding monies will be fully re-paid – with an agreement to a written undertaking.
As renegotiated, the leases on the ground continue to be held by the club. If the club folds the leases would revert back to the council.
Assigning the Edgar Street leases – one for 75 years on the ground and terracing to the west, the other for 33 years for the stand and parking area to the east and both dating from 1982 - was one of the last big deals done by the former Hereford City Council.
During the late 1990s, with United facing severe financial problems, the leases were reassigned to property developers in return for a £1m capital injection into the club.
The money was made available through two companies, the BS (Bristol Stadium) Group and Chelverton.
BS and Chelverton took equal ownership of a special purpose company called Formsole Ltd which made the investment and held the leases – as the tenant under both – with the club holding sub-leases.
By August 2001, BS had sold its "loan" to Chelverton which ran into trouble little over a year later when control of the leases passed to Carillion Richardson.
United still owed £1m plus interest to Formsole which stayed solvent when Chelverton went into liquidation.
The reassignment of the leases was supported by Herefordshire Council when it took control of the former city council's affairs.
Getting the leases back was pitched as a political priority when the news broke in April 2010 that then United chairman Graham Turner and vice chairman Joan Fennessy were ready to sell their majority shareholding in the club.
The club began negotiations with Carillion Richardson for the return of the leases almost as soon as the Keyte-Russon takeover was completed in June that year.
That deal was done by December with the club paying £452,000 to secure the return of the leases and settle a £1,069,500 debt to Richardsons Developments, clearing the way for a new single lease and the development opportunities that could bring.
The deal was intended to offer the club security for the next 30 years and ensure future re-entry to the Football League - which requires a 25-year secured tenancy.
It also opened up opportunities for grant funding for any future development - £400,000 in the Conference and £750,000 in the Football League.
The council was ready to allow an extension to the new stadium lease of 250 years once development at either end was underway, with proceeds from the sale of development areas held in a joint escrow account.
That money was intended for the construction of two new stands - one at each end of the ground - and modernisation work on the existing stadium.


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SWINDON Croquet Club enjoyed another close match in their Golf League contest with Cheltenham but slipped to a narrow loss.
In the four doubles games Swindon won two and lost two, then, in the singles competition, Teresa Hill, Elaine Wheeler (2), Bill Marner, Tony Mayer, Garry Douel and Wendy White all won their games for Swindon. Tony Mayer drew another, meaning the scores were locked at 9.5-9.5 going into the final game.
Hill was playing the final game against Rachel Smith from Cheltenham and the scores were level at six hoops each as the contest reached the business end.
The match went down to a golden hoop which, unfortunately for Swindon, Smith took to win the game for her side.

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Shane may be entitled to rejecting my comments, but he is definitely not entitled to editing them. It may be his blog, but it's my content - and my ideas. Misrepresenting my ideas on purpose is a violent act.
I can tell you are confused. You are asking all the wrong questions. The real question is: why did we let this bunch of crazy people drive perl directly to the garbage? You don't care that it's become a joke? Interesting.
You, as member of the perl community, are also responsible for it. Take some resp
Misrepresenting my ideas on purpose is a violent act
Bullshit. You are insulting every victim of true violence, ever.
Why not go all the way and call it rape? chromatic raped you just as much as he was violent to you.
Bullshit. You are insulting every victim of true violence, ever.
Hah. This is probably the funniest comment I've read in a long, long time. Thanks for it, you lightened up my morning.
On a more serious note - go rape yourself
If it is valid, then what it says about my post is also valid about yours, hence rendering your comment invalid.
If it isn't valid, then it can be safely ignored.
Our Perl community leaders have failed us, and it's up to us to grab the bull by its horns.
Why don't you? Put forth a credible proposal and people will follow.
Go ahead.
I will start a programming language eventually; have a few important clients to keep happy at the moment, but I've promised myself I'd do it.
I will not put forth a proposal for the Perl community, though - they are oblivious to anything that doesn't fit their preconceptions - such as my "preposterous idea" that the number of operators in Perl 6 (and IMHO perl 5 too, but primarily Perl 6) should be minimised. Making Perl 6 for mortals is n
Sounds to me like the community and the leaders fit together fine… for good or for ill. All that puzzles me is why you'd care to continue to rail against it to no apparent end (since if that is how the community is, and that is how the leaders are, and the two fit together – then you aren't going to effect any change).
s/the community/what remains of the community/
All that puzzles me is why you'd care to continue to rail against it to no apparent end
Contrarianism, basically - someone has to do it. It usually keeps communities honest - although crying over how much of a troll a particular contrarian is. See Christopher Hitchens, for instance.
So you're doing it for the good of the community. How kind of you.
Is there something we can do to donate this kindness to another community?
Why exactly does it bother you? Are you afraid I might be right in something? If I'm just a lone nut, what difference does it make what I post?
Put forth a credible proposal and people will follow.
Did you mean "Do something worth following"?
Not necessarily. I don't think you have to be able to do better than whoever they're criticising in order for your criticism to be valid. I was getting at the fact that talk about how someone should do something is insubstantial. There needs to be an actual exposition of something better, or at the very least an analytical explanation of exactly what is bad about something, taking second- and further-order effects into account – something, anything, that's constructive on some level
...making the exact same mistake yourself!
Umm, except Aristotle made the exact same mistake (actually, an even "bigger" mistake) on purpose. If you missed that, there's really no point in further discussion.
That makes no difference, on purpose or not. The point is "denigrating serious matters", not "it was on purpose or not."
Wake up, don't allow lwall and friends to lie to you - these guys have been playing us since ~2000... it takes a really big effort to ignore the lack of proper multithreading in perl, its speed or its fugly semantics. And it is an issue. You can continue to ignore it at the peril of your own career.
That makes no difference, on purpose or not. The point is "denigrating serious matters"...
That is the difference, that you were "denegrating", and jdavidb was using hyperbole to give an exaggerated example of the same thing.
...ignore the lack of proper multithreading ...
Did I mention multithreading? Or whether or not I've been ignoring it?
Why? You can either use it or not at all - the context makes no difference. Otherwise, who decides when it can be used? You?
Did I mention multithreading? Or whether or not I've been ignoring it?
No, I'm just making a comment on one of the many issues related to how Perl is stagnated. Interesting that you chose to ignore it instead of gi
Yep. The canary died; abandon the coal mine.
Think about it, kid. Our Perl community leaders have failed us
That's funny; I don't remember voting for them.
That's funny; I don't remember voting for them.
That's what happens with so-called "benevolent" dictatorships.
Let me rephrase it: That's funny, I don't remember them dictating anything to me.
Never mind. You have missed every point of subtlety I've ever tried to make, so let me say it straight out: I can follow any leaders I please and ignore any leaders I want to. Your "our Perl community leaders have failed us" comment makes absolutely no sense to me. You and I share exactly zero leaders.
What you have is some people you want to follow, and they don't want to lead you, and apparently this isn't getting through your head. They are going to Georgia, and you want to go to Massachusetts, and yo


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By Walt Boyes, Editor in Chief
Wireless systems are coming to your plant. Fact is, this is old news. Weve talked about it for a while now. ( See our Field Guide to Industrial Wireless).
You probably already have wireless devices in your plant, because wireless isnt limited to sensor networks. You already have analog wirelesshandi-talkies, maybe some point-to-point analog wireless sensor signals, 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi, cellphones and maybe even some Bluetooth M2M (machine to machine) connections. You may even have one of the newer digital mesh-based wireless sensor networks.
You may have more than one.
The problem now is how to establish policies, procedures and engineering best practices for using wireless systems effectively. This is because there are three completely incompatible, non-interoperable, and potentially interfering standards in the traditional field device space. These are WirelessHART, ISA100.11a and ZigBee PRO.
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The ISA100 standards committee, which was formed to help industrial wireless users, especially those in the process industries, has been deadlocked in a struggle for the control of the ISA100.11a standard (see editorial Not Playin Nice) for three years. One faction wants the adoption of the existing WirelessHART standard (HART 7.1), while another faction wants adoption of a standard that is very close to the Honeywell OneWireless proprietary implementation. These two factions have been in a close-in knife fight for years, with no end in sight. A group of end users on the committee have proposed of the adoption of another standard, ISA100.12, which would be the WirelessHART standard. At this writing, it isnt clear what that will do, other than put two mutually incompatible and non-interoperable standards under the ISA100 umbrella. Another group of ISA100 members has acted to try to do the same for ZigBee PRO, which might wind up as ISA100.13.
Until the standards committee gets off its collective posterior and works something out about interoperability and incompatibility (see sidebar for definitions), it is going to be up to end users to set evaluation criteria and policies and procedures and generate engineering best practices.
What should those criteria and best practices be? One of the anonymous end users who responded to this years Control/ISA100 Wireless Survey put it very bluntly:
ISA and my wireless vendor need to specify what plant wireless surveys I must conduct prior to designing my new wireless network. They must tell me how to do it and provide the tools, or they need to do it for me. They need to develop engineering guidelines so I know how to mount my field instruments and field routers to get a reliable wireless network. ISA needs to develop wireless documentation requirements, such as symbology for P&IDs, network diagrams, ISS sheets, tag naming and others, so I can document my system adequately. When I spec and purchase my instruments, I need to know what factory configuration is required to make sure they will plug in and play when turned on. I dont want to be forced into site configuration. My vendor needs to tell me how to configure wireless devices in my off-line project DCS database, including use on displays, engineering config, use in logic, etc. And finally, I need to understand what are the appropriate SAT & FAT tests required for wireless devices, if any.
It would be nice, of course, if ISA100 would generate this information, but it doesnt seem like thats on the horizon any time soon, although there is a team working on it.
Meanwhile, the benefits of wireless in your plant are still greater than the additional pain and effort you will have to go through to manage three completely incompatible standards.
Interestingly, the three standards, WirelessHART, ZigBee PRO, and ISA100.11a all use the same radio and all are mesh networks. What this means is that it is probably practical to have more than one of them in your plant. A pain, to be sure, but practical.
Why is it going to be practical? It will be possible to use multiple IEEE802.15.4 networks in the same air space because they can be made to not interfere with each other by means of channel-hopping, channel-blanking and other firmware capabilities. This does not mean they will interoperate, and they wont be interchangeable, and theres the pain.
The ISA100 committee expects to release an ISA100.11a standard late this year or early next year. Honeywells global director of wireless, Jeff Becker, announced at the 2008 Honeywell User Group Americas, Our implementation of Honeywell OneWireless is going to be convertible by a firmware upgrade to the final ISA100.11a standard.
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Cal Fire-Butte County stated that the fire was located behind a small market off of Miners Ranch Road.
One individual was transported away from the scene by a Butte County Sheriff's officer, said Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Miranda Bowersox said.
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In the living room, Lindroth's "very American and open and casual attitude" emanates partly from the leaning and overlapping pictures: "We collect paintings of the Bahamas from the late 19th to the early 20th century by notable American artists who passed through here in the winters—but if our daughter, Eliza, draws something, it might land there, too." Adding to the ease is the Sunbrella stripe with which she dressed four 1960s armchairs that came with the house.
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Real trades in the NBA have an impact on our scoring too.
I'll give you an example.
Lets say the Pacers trade Artest to Denver Saturday afternoon.
The Pacers will have played 21 games and the Nuggets, 24 at the time of the deal.
Denver plays Sunday but lets say Artest hasn't reported yet. He has 24 hours I believe so theres nothing to worry about, I hope. So he misses the Nuggets 25th game. They don't play game 26 for another 3 days so he should be in the line up by then.
So here is what happens.
Artest has not played for the Pacers since game 16.
He will get a zero for games 17-21 while he is with the Pacers
He will then get a zero for games 22-25 because Denver has completed those games before Artest reports. If he reports, passes the physical & is permitted to play his scores will once again count as of game 26.
This goes for any player, I was just using Artest as an example.
There is a flipside to this too.
The player coming to the Pacers from Denver will have already played more games than what the Pacers have played.
The Pacers new player will have played 24 games at the time of the trade.
The Pacers play game 22 on Saturday night. No why the new guy can get to NY in time for our game so he misses our 22 game. Since he is now a member of the Pacers & he didn't play for us in game 22, he will get zeros. Any points he earned while playing for Denver in games 22, 23 & 24 will be wiped out.
The Pacers play game 23 on Wednesday night so the new guy should be in our line up by then, unless its Nena, so the points he scores as a Pacer will replace those he scored as a Nugget.
It is a little on the confusing side so if you've read this twice & are more cinfused now than you were before.... sorry.
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BG EPIC training was introduced at a pilot venue in Elcot Mews on Tuesday evening and will open to the public on Saturday, offering complimentary taster workouts between 10am-2pm.
The concept was designed by Mr Grylls and his personal trainer Natalie Summers and uses specifically designed functional training combinations over a 30 minute group workout.
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"It's about improving balance, coordination, power, aerobic capacity, muscular strength and endurance to deliver a faster lean body but really the best way is just to come and try it once. It needs to be experienced to get it. Above all though, it is fun and effective and short."
Marlborough was chosen as for the test venue because Ms Summers trains in Wiltshire and Mr Grylls, who used to live near Marlborough, aims to visit the centre as often as possible.
He said: "I attended the launch this week with local businesses to talk through the concept and introduced them to a small team of highly skilled trainers that I've recruited to deliver the courses in Marlborough and will be down to train whenever I am down in the area which is quite often."
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YOUNG Rovers fans got the chance to see their heroes up close as the first team trained at Ewood Park yesterday.
Hundreds of supporters packed the lower tier of the Jack Walker Stand to see Gary Bowyer put his players through their paces.
As well as seeing stars including Jordan Rhodes and Grant Hanley train there was a bouncy castle, face painting, stilt walker and balloon modelling.
Adam Leigh, 26, from Shadsworth, said: "It's great to be able to see the team training and also to get the signatures. I managed to get most of the team to sign my shirt. The ones I really wanted were Grant Hanley and Jordan Rhodes and I got both of them.
"It would be great if the club could do this more often. It's a chance for children to meet the players and see them training. A lot of younger fans can't go to games so this really helps."
The squad played an 11-a-side match, and then spent half an hour signing autographs and posing for pictures with the young fans.
Jason Fernandez, 41, from Whalley, was at the open day with his six-year-old son Riley. He said: "It's good the children here can get right up to the players.
"They can see them train and get photographs with them. The kids were all really excited. The club put on plenty of entertainment as well which makes it a good day. They needed to rebuild the relationship with the fans and events like this help."


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He's part of Indiana's bend-and-break defense that is tired of hearing about it, tired of proving every Saturday that it remains the Big Ten's worst unit.
"To a certain extent, it does make you more anxious to get back out there," Murphy said. "We have to be consistent with our play. We have all these ups and downs. It's never that bad. It's never that good. We need to build on that."
On Saturday free-falling Illinois comes to Memorial Stadium with its 18-game Big Ten losing streak, but that's just a sideshow to the main event:
IU (3-5 overall, 1-3 in the Big Ten) wants to win. It HAS to win to keep its slim bowl hopes alive. It needs three wins in its last four games to become bowl eligible. The Illini (3-5, 0-4) would seem the perfect opponent to snap a three-game losing streak.
The Hoosiers got torched by Minnesota for 42 points last Saturday, which was, for those who love silver linings, a 21-point improvement over their previous game at Michigan. And during most of the second half, the defense played to a dominating level, forcing the Gophers into a series of empty possessions. Murphy played a big role with 12 tackles and his first career forced fumble. On Thursday the informatics major was named to the Capital One Academic All-District V Team for the second straight year.
"There were points during the last game where you could see the defense we can be," Murphy said, "and there were points where you could see the defense we don't want to be."
Defensive coordinator Doug Mallory insists that the Hoosiers "are getting closer" even if the numbers such as points allowed (37.8) and total yards allowed (507.5) suggest otherwise.
"When kids give you the kind of effort that we're getting, you have a chance to make strides," Mallory said. "We've got to continue in all phases.
"I don't think we're that far away. We've been very competitive. The offense has given us a chance to win. We've had a chance in every game we've played. It's frustrating for everyone. We'll get this thing flipped sooner or later."
Three of IU's top four tacklers are defensive backs — Murphy, safety Greg Heban and cornerback Tim Bennett.
Yes, that's a problem.
"We need to limit those big plays," Murphy said. "All it takes is one guy out of his gap to cause a problem. It's about guys making plays within the system. It's about tackling and attitude."
Like IU, Illinois runs an uptempo spread offense run by veteran quarterback Nate Scheelhaase, who has thrown for 13 touchdowns against seven interceptions.
The Illini have been effective enough to score 32 points on defensive-minded Wisconsin. Not even No. 4 Ohio State could do that. Last Saturday, they lost a 24-17 overtime heartbreaker at Penn State, which caused coach Tim Beckman to push the positives that the Illini, like the Hoosiers, can make a bowl game with a strong finish. He said his team has "improved by leaps and bounds."
Still, the odds favor the Hoosiers. They are 10-point favorites, and if they also were 10-point favorites against Minnesota, well, nobody wants to dwell on the past.
"At the end of the day, you move forward," Murphy said.
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Faculty member earns journalism award
Muskingum College Assistant Professor of Journalism Dr. Vivian Wagner has received first place honors in a competition held by the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists.
Dr. Wagner received the award in the category of personality profiles for trade publications. Her article, A Voice for Migrant Women, profiled Monica Ramirez, a graduate of the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University, and appeared in the Ohio State Alumni Magazine in November, 2004.
Ramirez is one of the few attorneys in the country who specializes in gender discrimination against farm women. She works with the Migrant Farmworker Justice Project of Florida Legal Services.
Dr. Wagner joined the Muskingum faculty in 2003. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of California at Irvine, her master's degree from The Ohio State University and her doctoral degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In addition to her teaching duties, she is advisor to the college's campus newspaper, The Black and Magenta.
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The shape of the 2012-14 Legislature that will begin its first committee meetings next week took further shape Monday, with leaders of both chambers announcing committee chairmanships and other positions.
Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, named a handful of chairmen and leadership appointments for the full chamber, while House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, unveiled a complete roster of House committees and their members.
Gaetz tapped Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto, R-Fort Myers, as Senate Majority Leader. Benacquisto has moved up through the ranks since her election in 2010; she was named deputy majority leader by former Senate President Mike Haridopolos in 2011.
"Her previous experiences in local government and in the private sector, as well as her reputation for building consensus in the Florida Senate, make Senator Benacquisto a natural choice for this important position," Gaetz said in a statement announcing the appointments.
Sen. Tom Lee of Brandon will serve as Republican whip. As expected, Gaetz also announced that Sen. Joe Negron, R-Palm City, will chair the Senate Appropriations Committee after spending time as the upper chamber's point man on Medicaid and health-care spending.
Sen. Jack Latvala, R-St. Petersburg, will chair the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee; Gaetz and Weatherford have both indicated they are focused on overhauling the state's ethics and campaign finance laws. Sen. John Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, will remain chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Gaetz announced.
In the House, Weatherford appointments included Rep. Jimmy Patronis, R-Panama City, to chair the Economic Affairs Committee; Rep. Marlene O'Toole, R-Lady Lake, to chair the Education Committee; Rep. Richard Corcoran, R-Trinity, to chair the Health and Human Services Committee; Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, to lead the Judiciary Committee; and Rep. Doug Holder, R-Sarasota, to head the Regulatory Affairs Committee.
Corcoran, expected to take over as speaker in 2016, will also lead a select committee looking into the implementation of the new federal health-care law. Rep. Steve Crisafulli, a Merritt Island Republican recently tapped to become speaker in 2014, will head up the State Affairs Committee.
Weatherford had already named Rep. Seth McKeel, R-Lakeland, as appropriations chairman. Subcommittee chairs include Rep. Matt Hudson, R-Naples, for Health Care Appropriations; Rep. Erik Fresen, R-Miami, for Education Appropriations; and Rep. Ed Hooper, R-Clearwater, for Transportation and Economic Development Appropriations.
"With input from members, I have made committee and subcommittee assignments that align your talents and experience with the policy needs of our state," Weatherford wrote in a memo to House members.
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August 2011
One-Off Mini-Episode of Doctor Who!
A special Announcment from the BBC.
A special, one-off mini-episode of Doctor Who starring Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith will be shown on BBC Three this Autumn.
BBC America on Cablevision
BBC America is coming to Cablevision, the New York area cable service provider, just in time for this weekend's new episode.
BBC America - Channel 101
BBC America HD - Channel 770
We Review Torchwood: Miracle Day - Ep. 5 "Categories of Life" in the Latest Hitchhiker's Guide to British Sci-Fi
If you are following the new Torchwood series, Miracle Day, we review episode 5, 'Categories of Life' in the latest episode of Hitchhiker's Guide to British Sci-Fi. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast and join us each Sunday as we review each new episode after it is transmitted on the BBC. We will be reviewing 'The Middle Men' this Sunday. Let us know what you think of this episode or the new series as a whole so far by joining in on our live recording.
Also this weekend, on Saturday it is our seasonal Doctor Who: Podshock / Gallifreyan Embassy Meet Up. We hope you can join us on Second Life for it.
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BBC Press Office confirms UK return date. WARNING: Possible Spoilers
Today (Aug 16th) the BBC Press Office has released a press pack for the remainder of this series. The return date will be the same as the US Aug. 27.
With the press pack there is a video (that is already posted on this website) and an introduction from Steven Moffat.
You can get the content here:
BBC Press Office - Doctor Who Press Pack
Steven Moffat on the Second Part of the Doctor Who 2011 Series
Doctor Who returns on Saturday, 27 August 2011 both on the BBC in the UK and BBC America in the USA. Executive Producer and Lead Writer for the series, Steven Moffat had the following to say about the resumption of the 2011 series in the latest from the BBC Press Office. Some may consider some of this to be a little "spoilery" — so be warned if you rather not know any details about the upcoming episodes for 2011.
What do you think of the Doctor's long coat in the promo image?
How do you rate Torchwood: Miracle Day - Ep 6 'The Middle Men'? (5=Fantastic)
Doctor Who Prequel to 'Let's Kill Hitler' [VIDEO]
I'm not sure how long this will remain watchable but enjoy while it does.
DVD Reissues
I have been buying the classic series DVD's since they started releasing them back in 2000. I have all of the US releases. There are still several that have not been released yet but now they're starting to reissue a few such as "The Five Doctors", "Talons of Weng Chiang", "Carnival of Monsters", and "Resurrection of the Daleks." What is the point? These DVD's have been available for years. There are still a few I'm waiting on some such as "Nightmare of Eden," "Face of Evil," "Invasion of the Dionsaurs" and "Mind of Evil." Frustrating for a collector such as myself.


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He is a decent basketball coach good offensive coordinator but a terrible head coach IMO need to have a 2 way mind to be a great head coach. How he used that Knicks roster was criminal terrible use of personal much like Obie.
Having Gasol chuck 3s and long 2s all game is a terrible way to use a great post player just another example of his refusal to change.


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About the Philosophy Department
Located in the historic frame building called The Maples, the Department of Philosophy offers a program of study leading to a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The major offers students a diverse set of courses, representing the full spectrum of philosophical inquiry. Philosophy is a discipline devoted to rigorous reflection on human nature, culture, and the world. It has a long history, beginning with the Ancient Greeks, that is the foundation of philosophical education. Areas covered in the curriculum include environmental and medical ethics, ethical theory, existentialism, social and political philosophy, logic, phenomenology, feminist philosophy, Hinduism and Buddhism, philosophy of language, aesthetics, philosophy of science, and the history of philosophy. The curriculum is organized so that advanced courses will prepare those students who wish to continue studying philosophy in graduate school.


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Come join in the Rumble in the Jungle!
Glenn Elston, creator of The Wind in the Willows, Melbourne and Sydney's best-loved family production, now presents an exciting new adventure Jungle Book: The Next Chapter, inspired by the Jungle Book stories.
'Great hysterical fun, on stage magic... a great morning's fun' 3MBS radio
'Great hysterical fun, thoroughly recommended!' 3MBS
A hilarious, energetic musical adventure inspired by the Jungle Book stories. Designed for kids aged 5 to 10, its affordable fun for the whole family!
Great larger than life projected visuals and sing-along tunes invite you to join in the action when Baloo and Mowgli meet again several years after Mowgli left the jungle. They recall Mowglis exciting escapades growing up in the jungle with all the other animals Bagheera, Kaa, Shere Kahn and the monkeys. In this 'next chapter' Baloo has a surprise for Mowgli he wants to live in the city and become a Bear Star. But Mowgli has a surprise for Baloo too
All new original songs tell the story, including Bear Star, What Sort Of Animal Are You, Cheeky Monkey, Im A Happy Wolf, Jungle Law, Rumble In The Jungle, The Jackals Dinner Song and Jungle In The City. Buy the CD so the kids can learn the songs!
DATES: Media and booking requests: elston at bigpond dot com NB This production contains original songs and is in no way based on the Disney animated movie. © 2011 Glenn Elston
Saturday 31 March at 11am and 2pm
Monday 2 to Thursday 5 April at 11am
Saturday 7 April at 11am and 2pm
Tuesday 10 to Friday 13 April at 11am
Saturday 14 April at 11am and 2pm
VENUE: Athenaeum Theatre, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne
PRICES: single tickets $25, group of four ticket $90, Festival participants $18
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Media and booking requests: elston at bigpond dot com
NB This production contains original songs and is in no way based on the Disney animated movie.
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Glenn Elston – Writer and Director
Paul Norton – Musical Director and Composer
Sue-Ellen Shook – Choreographer
Tim Bright – Visuals and Technical Manager
Benedict Kazlauskas – Baloo the Bear
Callan Lewis – The Jackal / Swing Performer
Glenn Elston – Writer and Director
Jungle Book The Next Chapter is the fourth family production written, directed and produced by Glenn Elston. It follows Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Toad's Birthday Party and his legendary outdoor production of The Wind in the Willows.
Whilst all his productions have some songs, Jungle Book The Next Chapter is his first to fully explore story telling through music and heralds an exciting new era of family entertainment for him.
Glenn pioneered outdoor theatre in Australia, creating a summer tradition across the country. He has directed A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing The Musical and Richard III Unhinged. He has also been involved in producing many artists including Sir George Martin, Marianne Faithfull, David Strassman, Ross Noble, Barry Humphries, Circus Archaos and many more. Glenn's cabaret credits include "Two-Up" staring Wendy Stapleton and Glenn Shorrock. He is Artistic Director of the Australian Shakespeare Company, a member of the development committee of the Koori Heritage Trust of Victoria and co-producer of Walking With Spirits, an indigenous festival in the Northern Territory.
Paul Norton – Musical Director and Composer
Paul formed the Melbourne band The Runners, who were signed to Mushroom Records, and toured constantly from 1981 to 1985. Following that he released his first solo single Stuck On You which reached No 2 on the Australian charts followed by Under A Southern Sky which he performed for Australia Day at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
He was Musical Director and wrote the score for Much Ado About Nothing (Australian Shakespeare Company) and the finale for Certified Male.
2006 saw Paul tour Australia with The Countdown Spectacular, featuring 27 of Australia's top rock acts of the 70's and 80's performing to 100,000 people nationwide.
Sue-Ellen Shook – Choreographer
Sue-Ellen has a long list of credits as a dancer including Starlight Express, A Chorus Line, A Midsummer Night's Dream, the role of Baby Doll in Baz Luhrman's Moulin Rouge, and has choreographed for the Australian Shakespeare Company including A Midsummer's Night's Dream.
Tim Bright – Visuals and Technical Manager
Tim divides his time between working as a technician, production manager and new media artist. Tim's love of systems, logic and design have created a versatile set of skills which are uniquely applicable to the performing arts.
Tim has designed sound for numerous theatre productions, toured internationally as a production manager, designed lighting for burlesque and theatre, and since 2010 has staged full scale hybrid theatre works of his own design, which infuse real time data with traditional theatre techniques to create audio visual spectacles.
Tim has degrees in Digital Media and Theatre Production.
Benedict Kazlauskas – Baloo the Bear
Benedict's professional theatre credits include the world premiere cast of Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dames (Berlin), Roman Polanski's Dance of the Vampires (Stuttgart), The Vienna State Opera Ballet, and most recently The Phantom of the Opera (Stuttgart and Australasian tour) and The Wind in the Willows with the Australian Shakespeare Company. In the Australian premiere of The Light in the Piazza he played the role of Giusseppe Naccarelli at Star City, Sydney. Benedict recently played Sir Malcolm Reid and Narrated the Australian Shakespeare's Production of Lady Chatterley's Lover. He is also currently performing the Australian premiere show Arthaus at The Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Andrew Bongiorno – Mowgli
Andrew first appeared in a leading role on stage when he was twelve years old and consequently was recognized as "best under sixteen actor" at the Theatre Guild Awards. By sixteen he had started work in TV and by seventeen was named by the Shakespearean Globe Centre as "Young Shakespearean Artist of the Year" for two consecutive years. At eighteen he was nominated for a "Young Australian of the Year" award for his achievements in the arts. After finishing his degree at WAAPA, he went on to do his first film work which was well received at the infamous "Tropicana Film Festival" held in Sydney, Melbourne and New York. By the age of twenty four he received his first "Greenroom" award.
Andrew has worked for many respected Australian and international directors, writers and actors all over Australia and in the UK. When living in London Andrew appeared as a lead in an English TV pilot, on stage in London's west end and on UK TV channel ITV2.
Recent work in Melbourne includes Much Ado About Nothing, ABC's Bed of Roses, Channel 10's Rush, the internationally award winning Australian TV drama Satisfaction on Foxtel's Showtime channel, The Red and The Black, new Australian feature film The Cup, and The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Australian Shakespeare Company.
Callan Lewis – The Jackal / Swing Performer
Callan graduated in 2004 from the University of Ballarat Arts Academy, with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Theatre Performance.
Whilst at the Arts Academy, Callan performed in Merrily We Roll Along, 42nd Street, Anthony Crowley's The Wild Blue, Kiss Me Kate and wrote and performed his one man cabaret show Cal Wars - Confessions of a Former Geek.
Callan's professional theatre credits include Orlando with Opera Australia, Rainbow Fish - Live for Creative Edge Events, Captain Feathersword in the Australian tours of The Captain Feathersword Show and Dorothy The Dinosaur's Dance Party for the Wiggles Touring Shows, the host of Skippy's Outback Adventure, Blinky Bill's Sing-along, The AFL Mascot Manor Show for Entertainment Store, Beauty and The Beast and The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Alpha Theatrical Productions and The Wind in the Willows with the Australian Shakespeare Company.
Callan's television credits include Neighbours, Riot or Revolution and most recently as a US Marine on the Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks mini-series The Pacific for HBO Network.
© 2011 Glenn Elston
When I go to a kids show I realise that short though this review may be, its possibly the most important I compose this year. It records one of the few productions of children's theatre, actually good children's theatre, around at holiday time.
If we don't habituate our kids to live theatre now, then we may as well kiss the theatre arts goodnight.
Glenn Elston, Artistic Director of the Australian Shakespeare Company (responsible each summer for 'The Wind in the Willows' in the Botanic Gardens) has written and directed 'Jungle Book The Concert Show', playing till Sunday week at the Athenaeum Theatre, Collins Street, and I was there this morning along with hundreds of excited children and their mothers or grandmas, and I think I enjoyed the show just as much as the rest of the audience.
Using Kipling's model, Glenn has put an older Baloo the Bear (Benedict Kazlauskas) and a grown up Mowgli (Andrew Bongiorno) and a most villainous Jackal in Callan Lewis back in the Jungle, but Baloo wants out and movie star fame, and Mowgli wants back in away from the city's strife and Jackal just wants any left overs.
With song and projection they take us back to early days and adventure and recall some of the other characters; Shere Khan the Tiger, Bagheera the Panther, etc. The songs say it mostly, "What Sort of Animal Are You?", "Cheeky Monkey", "Bear Star", "Elephant Dance" (with on-stage help from audience children), "Jungle in the City" and more.
There was great hysterical fun, on stage magic, plenty of audience participation and sing-a-long, all helped by good musical direction from Paul Norton, choreography by Sue-Ellen Shook, visual and technical direction from Tim Bright.
Do go and take the kids and grandkids – a great morning's fun; thoroughly recommended!
© 2011 Glenn Elston
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A ruling from Maryland's highest court calls into question a state law that requires some people to register as sex offenders for crimes committed decades ago.
Monday's ruling means one man will have his name removed from the sex offender database. Other offenders may also be able to challenge their inclusion as a result.
Maryland first created a sex offender registry database in 1995, and more than 8,300 people are now registered in the database. Lawmakers strengthened sex offender laws in 2009 and 2010.
The man having his name removed committed his crime in the early 1980s, before the creation of the database, but pleaded guilty in 2006 after it was in place. Six of the seven judges on Maryland's highest court agreed he should not have his name included.


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- Establish consistent routines at bedtime and awakening times
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Infante back in lineup after resting sore back
CLEVELAND -- Second baseman Omar Infante's balky back was feeling better on Saturday, so he was in the Royals' starting lineup against the Indians.
"He feels good right now, but if he goes out and starts to stiffen up, we might make an adjustment, but I don't see that happening," manager Ned Yost said before the game.
Rookie Christian Colon filled in for Infante on Friday night and went 3-for-4 with a triple, two doubles, three runs and an RBI.
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Nine Hoosiers average at least 11 minutes a game, with Cody Zeller leading at 28.8. Those minutes will get divided even more when senior forward Derek Elston returns from a knee injury, and freshman forwards Peter Jurkin and Hanner Perea finish their NCAA-mandated suspensions for receiving impermissible benefits during recruiting.
Elston figures to return in late December. After losing their appeals, Jurkin and Perea will be eligible for the Dec. 15 Crossroads Classic game against Butler. The NCAA appeals committee announced on Friday that the nine-game suspensions would stand based on travel ball coach and A-HOPE founder Mark Adams' access and involvement with the men's basketball program. Adams was ruled a booster because of $185 in donations from 1986 to '92 to the IU Varsity Club.
Crean didn't comment on the ruling, but he did tweet that, "The attitude, humble spirit, personalities and ability to deal with adversity that Hanner and Peter have astounds me daily. 2 special people."
As far as juggling the playing time for his players, Crean said, "We keep trying to stress to these guys that it's not the quantity of your minutes, it's the quality of your play. If the quality of your play is high, you're going to be happy. If you're looking for quantity of minutes, we're probably not a good program right now … we've got too many guys."
Top-ranked Indiana (5-0) has enough quality depth for two teams. Six players have started at least once, and at full strength it could be seven. Crean expects maximum effort and production, and has no problem pulling guys if they don't deliver.
Senior forward Christian Watford knows all about that. He didn't start Sam Houston State (Will Sheehey did) and then got replaced by Sheehey in overtime of the Hoosiers' win over Georgetown
"Christian played a lot of minutes, and then all of a sudden I had Will in there defensively," Crean said about the Georgetown game. "Christian went right back in put himself right where he left off after an extended period of time of being out. That's a sign of a mature team. That's a sign of a team that is going to continue to get better and better."
IU wants to wear down opponents with its push-the-pace offense and aggressive defense, and depth is crucial. The key — the level of play can't drop off when Crean uses his bench.
"We really want to keep improving that quality of play," he said. "It's easy to talk about, but it's a whole other thing for them to believe in it and have the maturity to do it."
The Hoosiers have shown plenty of maturity in handling the pressure of their national ranking. All five of their victories have come by double digits. While they remain among the nation's highest-scoring teams (86.2 points), it's their improved defense that has been the most impressive. They hold opponents to 57.0 points on 36.4 percent shooting, 29.4 percent from three-point range.
Last year those defensive numbers were 66.4 points, 42.6 percent overall and 34.9 on threes.
"We've got a lot of guys being asked to do a lot of things that maybe they won't be asked to do down the road when it comes to defensive reasons," Crean said, "but (defense) was where we had to make our greatest improvement.
"As we get deeper and that helps our length and inside play, it's going to allow us to do even more and take more chances defensively. Right now they're trying to do a good job of keeping their man in front, doing the things that are needed defensively so that we can get some easy baskets."
IU has won 32 consecutive home games in the month of November, a streak that started in 2001. It has won 21 of its last 22 games at Assembly Hall, and 10 straight.
Ball State comes in 2-1 after a 68-48 home loss to Indiana State. The Cardinals are led by 6-8, 245-pound forward Majok Majok, who averages 14.3 points and 10.3 rebounds.
They have two other double figure scorers in guards Jesse Berry (12.0 points) and Jauwan Scaife (11.3). Zach Fields, a 6-10, 269-pound center, averages 5.7 points and 6.0 rebounds.
Ball State shoots just 28.9 percent from three-point range.
Sunday's game is a tune-up for Tuesday night's Big Ten-ACC Challenge battle with No. 9 North Carolina at Assembly Hall.
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The Indiana Fever don't know when, or if, Tamika Catchings will return this season.
Hardnosed D: Tammy Sutton-Brown (left) of the Fever cuts off a drive by Yolanda Griffith, who finished 1-for-14 from the field. - Rob Goebel / The Star
Fever at Chicago
8 p.m. Tuesday, ESPN2
On Sunday night, they showed they can soldier on without their injured star.
"We're back to the grassroots of how we started the season," Fever guard Tully Bevilaqua said.
The Fever pestered and flustered Sacramento, employing the kind of defense that has been a Monarchs trademark -- and a Fever feature. The Fever clinched a berth in the WNBA playoffs with a 63-55 victory at Conseco Fieldhouse.
The Monarchs (16-11) shot a season-worst 30 percent and scored the fewest points by a Fever opponent this season. The Monarchs had 10 turnovers in the second quarter, allowing the Fever to build a 40-23 halftime lead.
Tamika Whitmore came off the bench to lead the Fever (18-11) with 16 points. Tan White added 14.
The Fever shot 50 percent in the first half but 28 percent thereafter. So the offense wasn't responsible for ending a skid of seven losses in eight games. It was kneepad-to-kneepad defense.
"When we play like that, we're a good basketball team," Fever coach Brian Winters said. "We certainly showed a lot of resolve tonight."
The Fever didn't arrive in Indianapolis until past noon Sunday after Saturday night's 84-59 loss at Connecticut. Caffeinated beverages must have been served on the flight.
"From the start, we got after it," White said. "We kind of shook them and got them out of their rhythm."
The Monarchs crept within 60-55 and had a chance to get closer, but Ticha Penicheiro's errant pass with 34 seconds left effectively stopped their rally.
Monarchs forward Nicole Powell shot 1-of-14 for four points, nine less than her team-leading average. Yolanda Griffith, the Monarchs' 37-year-old center, scored 11.
The Monarchs have reached the past two WNBA Finals. Griffith blasted her teammates, and the officials, in a profanity-laced tirade afterward.
"It's ridiculous. This isn't basketball, it's football," Griffith said.
The Fever, with five games to play, are dueling Connecticut (16-12) for No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference. The Nos. 2 and 3 seeds open a best-of-three series Aug. 23 or 24 at the home of the No. 3 seed. Games 2 and 3, if necessary, will be at the No. 2 seed.
When Catchings went out with an injured plantar fascia in a July 20 loss to Detroit, she was projected to be out two to three weeks. Three weeks will have passed by the Fever's game Saturday at Detroit. Winters said there is no timetable for Catchings' return, and no certainty she will return at all.
"We have to be prepared for that fact," he said.
For one night, they were.
"We're a very resilient team," Whitmore said.
Tickets for the Fever's first playoff game can be purchased at the Conseco Fieldhouse box office or at FeverBasketball .com. . . . The Fever are 11-4 at home and 8-5 against the Western Conference. . . . The Fever have shot an aggregate .346 over the past four games. . . . The Monarchs have lost five in a row at Indiana. They had been 10-0 when holding opponents under 70 points. . . . Fever center Tammy Sutton-Brown, wearing a protective mask, had eight points and six rebounds in 29 minutes.


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After Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" won the Grammy for best pop duo/group performance, he revealed that Kimbra wasn't his first, or even his second, choice for the song.
He had already gone through two female singers for the track and was waiting on another vocalist when "she called out."
"I built so much expectation with that vocalist that I was feeling a little crushed," he said backstage after collecting the Grammy.
It came down to Kimbra to sing on the song that was recorded in her apartment. It was last year's biggest hit.
As for the unnamed singer, Gotye said she makes wonderful music on her own and "shouldn't be mad."
Gotye also won the Grammy for best alternative music album for "Making Mirrors."
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Alumni Success Story
A Profile in Compatibility
You have a document on your iPad you need to edit on your Android phone. Or a video on your flash drive you need to send to someone else's PC. Or a music file over here that absolutely has to be over there.
Welcome to Tech World. And consider the story of two American University grads who continue to bring some much-needed order to this digital jungle while inspiring other young entrepreneurs.
For Donald and Claire Hykes Leka, their four AU degrees—two apiece—are a source of pride. You could also say they're a source of Glide.
Glide: TransMedia's computer operating system that seeks to tame the multi-platform, multi-format world of file sharing—moving documents, pictures, videos and music seamlessly across technical borders. And Glide: the subject of a new book the Lekas have co-written to recount the birth and growth and increasing impact of an entrepreneurial techie's vision, rendered with a storyteller's eye for detail.
Say the word "Glide" and you think "smooth." You think "hassle-free." However, that wasn't the state of tech world when Donald Leka first started looking at it as an AU grad and Kogod-trained MBA in the late 1990s.
It was quite a different time.
"There was no Dropbox, no SkyDrive, no Google Drive," Donald Leka recalls. "Ninety-five percent of people had their files on a PC. There was a lot less to connect."
And now, when seemingly everyone has an assortment of devices and when gigabytes of data reside instantly available in "the cloud"—how does all the data and information move around? And how can you deal with it when it gets where it's going?
Glide OS is how. When "everything is everywhere," in Donald's words, Glide lets "everywhere" talk to, send to, and receive from "everywhere else." Donald refers to it as "cross-platform compatibility."
You might apply that same phrase to the Lekas.
Donald, the founder, chairman, and CEO of TransMedia Corporation, had a wide-ranging curiosity and interest in technology from a young age. He recalls learning about the world by watching Walter Cronkite.
Claire meanwhile was several years younger; her own inspiration came from watching Cronkite's successor, Dan Rather.
That's what "planted the seeds," she recalls—the first stirrings of a journalist's career. When the time came to apply to college, she visited AU and "fell in love with it." The size of the place—"not too big"—was an attraction. So were the School of Communication's well-known, well-respected programs in communication and journalism. She could hardly have picked a more eventful time to learn her craft at SOC.
"A lot of major world events were happening my sophomore year at AU, in 1989— including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square massacre. Those events really influenced me and inspired me to seek the truth and report it."
There was experience to be gained closer to home, too.
"Since AU is based in the 'Journalism Capital of the World,'" she recalls, "I was able to attend Capitol Hill hearings, Supreme Court arguments, events at The National Press Club…"
She graduated with a major in communication, but soon returned to SOC for a Master's in broadcast journalism. Her first job was as a part-timer in Hagerstown, Md., covering Rotary Club meetings and house fires. Other jobs soon followed—as a business reporter, business anchor, and correspondent—for Reuters and CNN, NBC News, and CBS News—covering everything from the stock market crash and the Great Recession to the Virginia Tech massacre to the 2012 presidential race. In that time Claire has remained an active member of the SOC Alumni Mentoring Program, building on the impact of her SOC degrees.
Donald's AU degree, in international relations, also had an impact—as did his Albanian roots. Albania was, in 1990, just emerging from decades as a closed society when Donald was invited by the Ministry of Health to help supply the beleaguered nation with Hepatitis B vaccine, and then a computer and phone system for the ministry. These were among the first commercial transactions between the two long-estranged countries. With the end of the Cold War, Donald co-founded a foundation, funded in part by George Soros and by the U.S. Agency for International Development, to bring additional technical assistance to Albania and other Eastern European nations.
Meanwhile, his appetite for all things tech was growing. And, he says, he "really started to understand format and bit rate issues…really started to understand issues of compatibility." In this still largely dialup world, getting information from one device to another was "a real headache."
Donald thought, "If we could build an engine that could just do it…"
Now, more than a decade and several updates later Glide has garnered more than 3,000,000 users around the world.
The timing is right for a big step forward, Donald believes—so many different kinds of files, so many different kinds of devices. Most people, he says "don't care" which platforms they're on at any given time. They simply want them to work together.
"We're at a real 'pain point' for most users. Before, we were solving a mostly theoretical problem. Now, it solves a real 'pain point' for most people. It's the difference between 'This is interesting' and 'I need this!'"
And with public concern increasing over the secret collection of personal data—by the government, or even by online companies—Donald sees people wanting greater control of their own data, all their own data, with "one login, one search box, one system to manage all your devices and services." He thinks Glide is positioned just far enough ahead of the demand curve, and ready to ride the wave.
If he's right, Claire will have had a key role, too. She signed on with TransMedia in 2010 to guide the company's public-relations efforts and its expanding presence on social media. And the couple has collaborated on a book, Cloud Computing: The Glide OS Story, targeted to other young entrepreneurs, and to anyone interested in cross-platform and cloud computing.
Teaming two strong-willed people on a complicated writing project took work, they both concede: some deep breathing, some counting from one to 10—even, says Claire, that old kindergarten standby, "Take your turn." Donald sees the contrasting styles—he the techie, she the humanizer, the storyteller—as a definite plus: "There's good resistance there."
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Law enforcement officers surrounded the Best Western motel in Ukiah Wednesday afternoon and at least one suspect was arrested, but it has yet to be confirmed if the incident was related to the search for a man suspected of shooting at a Mendocino County Sheriff's Deputy Monday night.
Nearby businesses and officers were evacuated as MCSO deputies, California Highway Patrol officers and other law enforcement personnel surrounded the motel at 555 South Orchard Avenue. S. Orchard Ave. was closed to traffic between East Gobbi Street and Kings Court while the motel was searched.
A woman was seen being led away in handcuffs by a MCSO deputy, but law enforcement have yet to reveal who the woman was. Shortly after 5 p.m., MCSO Sheriff Tom Allman confirmed that deputies were in a standoff with an armed suspect, but would not reveal who the suspect was.


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My first impression when I walked down the hall to my session was absolute amazement. There was a table with coffee, tea and dairy free creamer options. Oh my goodness, I was on cloud nine that day. I think I made about 5 different coffee drinks just to enjoy all the vanilla, chocolate and plain options I had! I guess even as adults we love having our treat options!
The next session I sat in on was Savvy Recipe Development with Karen Morgan of Blackbird Bakery. Karen spoke about a lot of things that I had already discovered in my own baking adventures. Being a trained chef and baker, I have experimented a lot with different products and techniques. The biggest take home information I got and wanted to share with all of you is to master the basics. I could not agree with this more. If you have a great foundation for the basics, then you can start to experiment and create new recipes! Karen talked about guar gum versus xanthan gum, which I really liked hearing about since I don't know much about guar gum. I've always used xanthan gum, but now I'm excited to start playing with guar gum. I learned that it's higher in fiber and keeps baked goods moist for longer than xanthan gum. Sounds like a perfect gluten free baking product to me! I also wanted to share that agar agar is a great alternative to either guar gum or xanthan gum. It's always great to have options to play around with in the kitchen. Another key piece that I share on my site and Karen shared as well is to use some kind of acid like vinegar in your gluten free baking to help keep the leaveners (baking soda and baking powder) working. A new piece of information I learned though is that not all store bought buttermilks are gluten free. I make my own since we are dairy free here, but please be sure to read your labels carefully.
My third session of choice was {how to} Maximize Your Brand Partnerships with Ann Lee, Director of Nutritional Services from Schar and Lauren Lucille Vassar of The Celiac Diva. I like to think I'm doing ok with this (hello Bob's Red Mill!). I LOVED this presentation. These two seriously love working together and you could feel the energy they shared with working together for a common cause. My take home here was that when looking for a brand to partner with, you have to have a common ground that you work for and you have to be passionate about that product. Be willing to offer suggestions on how to work together as well.
Next came lunch. I wish I had pictures to share because they put together the most amazing spread from salads to sandwiches to gourmet foods- all the way to desserts. It was a feast fest. Not only was the food amazing, the company was equally incredible. Everyone was so incredibly kind and willing to introduce themselves to chat. I met some incredible people during this time that I can already tell will turn into lifelong friendships.
The forth session I sat in on was Food Photography Made Simple with Cara Lyons. Cara was incredibly sweet and gave honest simple answers to making better food pictures. She offered personal experience and product suggestions that she uses and loves. I loved her suggestion of painting boards from a local hardware store for basic backgrounds. This session definitely motivated me to work more on my photography!
Last, but not least, was the session on How to Grow Your Blog Though Social Media with Melissa Jennings from Stockpiling Moms and Suzanne Florek founder of Salty Fig. I found this session extremely insightful since I'm not the best at all aspects of social media. They shared so many tips and tricks for maximizing your site exposure. They mentioned asking a question at the end of every blog post to get feedback and create some conversation. I know I do this some, but it depends on the topic I'm discussing. Adding social media buttons to your header and the end of your posts was a great tip too so people can connect with you more on many levels.
The keynote speaker to close the evening was Cybele Pascal of Allergen-Free Cuisine. She spoke with heart and really focused on how we, as a community, are here for each other. We all have a common need to learn more about allergen free cooking to nourish ourselves and/or a loved one.
All in all, the sessions were extraordinarily informative and, again, the speakers were extremely giving with their information. I really enjoyed feeling so close to the dietary restricted community! We enjoyed a happy hour after the conference that included treats and drinks along with goodie bags to take away with us. This was an incredible event and I feel extremely honored to have represented Bob's Red Mill!


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Inkscape sponsoring LGM attendance
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Interested in meeting up with fellow Inkscapers? Thanks to generous donations to the project, we are able to provide funds to reimburse five developers up to $500 each for attendance at the Libre Graphics Meeting in Leipzig in April.
Anyone in the AUTHORS file as of Feb 19th, 2014 is eligible to apply. To register, please email Tavmjong Bah, our coordinator for the event, by March 6th to get on the list. He'll let you know what position you are in the list. Then, register for the conference, enjoy your time, and save your receipts. Afterwards email copies of the receipts to Tav, who will forward them along to SFC for reimbursement. A maximum of $500 US each will be reimbursed to five attendees for travel, hotel room, and food.
Note that the LGM meeting may also give partial reimbursements, so if your total costs exceed $500 they may be able to help.
In addition, the board is sponsoring Tavmjong Bah to attend both LGM as a speaker and as our event coordinator, and the co-located SVG Working Group Meeting. Tav will be representing Inkscape's interests at the SVG meeting, and will be working with them on features including mesh gradients, hatched fills, and auto-flowed text.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Inkscape in the past. Your funding has made these sponsorships possible. We've found these face-to-face meetings invaluable both for sharing ideas and as general inspiration for advancement of the project.


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Roger Goodell's tough-guy reign over the most popular sport in American history is being challenged. What began as a noble cause is now a legal embarrassment for the NFL commissioner.
Gregg Williams' infamous audiotape in which he graphically instructs Saints players to target body parts demanded exposure and severe punishment. Goodell didn't just drop a hammer in the name of player safety; what he did was unprecedented.
On Friday, a three-person arbitration panel said Goodell went too far with the player suspensions. A not-so-subtle reality check for Lord Roger's sovereignty over the kingdom he's supposed to protect.
Not only that, the panel's ruling could ripple its way into the current lockout of NFL referees. As in, get a deal done before player safety becomes another huge issue after a full slate of Sunday NFL games officiated by college and high school replacements.
Goodell can't have it both ways: get tough on coaches, team officials and players who threaten livelihoods and health in the form of bounties, and yet so be so dismissive about the ones who actually ensure safety between the lines.
For a league that just donated $30 million to medical research, it's ridiculous the NFL is the only major sport to not employee full-time referees. For Goodell, it's hypocritical to say he'll do everything in his power to protect players in the form of bounty penalties, then allow unqualified officials to determine what's a legal hit on the field. Or what player might need medical attention immediately.
As an employee of the league, Goodell could be carrying out the wishes of ownership in not making a deal with the referees' union. It could be ego—the commissioner has successfully bargained his fair share of authority in dealings with the players' union.
We know it can't be economics, or quality of the way games have been called in recent years. Just ask the players.
There were no major gaffes in Wednesday's Dallas Cowboys-New York Giants opener, but as former NFL director of officials Mike Pereira told FoxSports.com (via CNN.com), "One game doesn't make a week, but it was definitely a good start. We'll all know more come Tuesday morning."
Goodell needs to reclaim credibility on the issue of player safety. The panel's ruling on the suspensions of Jonathan Vilma, Scott Fujita, Will Smith and Anthony Hargrove strongly suggests an abuse of power by the commissioner.
Without full-time and fully trained NFL referees, you start to wonder if Goodell's hubris got the better of his intentions.
A deal by Week 2 with those referees could get the commissioner back on point when it comes to protecting the game and its combatants.