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Manchester United may have been handed a transfer boost from the most unlikely of sources; an Italian nightclub.
Vidal showdown
You heard it right, and of course we're talking about Arturo Vidal's well-publicised antics prior to the Juventus vs Roma match. The Chile international was reportedly out late drinking and even got involved in a scuffle, meaning that he's not really the flavour of the month in Turin at the moment.
Now, as a result of his actions, Italian media are claiming that Juventus want showdown talks with the player, which could determine his future at the club and whether or not he remains on the 'unsellable' list.
According to the Daily Express Vidal is no longer deemed indispensable after the incident, and therefore United are lurking with intent ahead of a possible January bid. The Red Devils were hotly linked with a big bid for the playmaker in the summer transfer window, only to be flatly refused in all their advances.
However Louis van Gaal, despite having spent over £150million, remains keen to further bolster his ranks, and the recent quotes from Roma which state Kevin Strootman won't be sold to Old Trafford, mean Vidal may be the most viable option left.
The World Cup star has proven that he is capable at competing at the highest level and, despite concerns over his fitness and off-field behaviour, would certainly improve Van Gaal's midfield.
At the moment Daley Blind is working in a role protecting the back four, but there remains a question over who will partner him in the central position. The injury to Michael Carrick, sustained before the start of the season, has rendered him useless until at least after this international break, whilst Darren Fletcher has his fair share of critics following his return from a lengthy layoff enforced by ulcerative colitis.
Ronaldo move collapses
Meanwhile United fans will finally be forced to come to terms with the fact that Cristiano Ronaldo will not be making a sensational homecoming before he hangs up his boots. Recent rumours have sent the club's supporters into overdrive, suggesting that Ronaldo might be poised to make a world-record return.
However his agent, Jorge Mendes, has now categorically denied the possibility of that happening, stating that it is 'impossible.' The revelations will certainly be a blow to United fans who thought the deal would be feasible, particularly those who had paid to see a plane flown over Madrid's fixture against Villarreal saying 'COME HOME CRISTIANO'.
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OGDEN, Utah – When the 2006 Utah Musical Theatre season opens in early July, Artistic and Managing Director Bruce Cohen hopes audiences will feel right at home.
That's because the company has made a conscious effort to hire talent with ties to Utah. Seven of the eight cast members for each of the first two shows ("Two by Two" and "Dames at Sea") are Utah products, including several alumni of Weber State University's Department of Performing Arts. The casting trend will continue with the company's final show, "Songs for a New World," in August.
"When I took the reins four seasons ago, one of my goals was re-establishing a majority of our hiring and contracting from Utah," Cohen said. "Today we can truly say we've put the Utah back in UMT." Cohen believes the decision to have more Utahns on stage also reflects the community's wishes.
UMT alumnus Robert Anthony Jones, a New York City export, is the exception to the all-Utah cast. Proving no one holds his lack of Utah ties against him, Jones has landed the plum roles of Noah in "Two by Two" and Hennesy in "Dames."
For Roy resident and Weber State University student Paul Cheney, who portrays Shem in "Two by Two" and Dick in "Dames at Sea," the 2006 season marks a homecoming. Cheney returns to UMT following 18 months of active duty in Iraq; he shipped out immediately following the close of the 2004 UMT season.
Although the cast is full of familiar faces, UMT's shows this season highlight discovery and new frontiers.
The first two shows to explore that theme, "Two by Two" and "Dames at Sea," will be presented in repertory. Cohen said audiences liked the repertory production schedule that UMT re-introduced last season. While a repertory format is challenging on its own, the company is taking it a step further this season, staging both shows on the same day three times during the run, including the debut performances July 8. Six cast members appear in both shows.
This marks the second time the company has produced "Dames," having staged it about 10 years ago. The musical is a natural fit in a season with so many Utah cast members, considering the lead characters hail from Centerville, Utah.
The familiar names and faces aren't limited to onstage talent. UMT alumna Linda Kearns is back in 2006, directing "Two by Two." Kearns has directed such UMT hits as "Triumph of Love" (2004) and "The Fantasticks" (2003). Brian Paul Mendoza, who set the dances for last season's "Wicked City Blues," is choreographing all three shows this season, and long-time WSU associate professor Van Tinkham returns to UMT this season to handle set design for the repertory shows.
"We're fortunate to have such close ties to Weber State University's Department of Performing Arts and all its talented students and faculty," Cohen said.
"Two by Two" debuts July 8 at 2 p.m., and "Dames at Sea" opens that evening at 8 p.m. The shows will run Tuesday through Saturday from July 11-29 and Aug. 4-5 in the Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts Allred Theater on the Weber State University Ogden campus. According to Cohen, these productions have plenty of family appeal and are intended for audiences of all ages.
All weekday performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. Matinee performances will be held July 8, 22 and 29, starting at 2 p.m. Saturday evening performances will start at 8 p.m.
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'Once Upon a Time' Recap: Like Father, Like Son
Fairytale Land Foreseeing: The episode opens and we see that Rumplestilskin excitedly enters his house to tell Mila some vey big news. He's been called to the front lines of the Orgre Wars and announces that he leaves for training first thing in the morning. Mila is not too happy to see that Rumple will have to take part in such a brutal war saying, "Just because you're father was a coward, it doesn't mean that you are." But Rumple is thrilled to have this opportunity to change the reputation that he was born into, and lovingly tells Mila that when he returns they can finally start a family.
At the army camp, Rumple is told to guard a cage that contains a "tricky beast" and it only takes 2.5 seconds for Rumple's curiosity to get the better of him. He lifts the sheet and sees that a young girl, with her eyelids sewed shut, is in locked in a cage. This young girl is a seer and she uses the palm of her hands to sense the world around her. Rumple gives the young girl water in exchange for a peek into his future.
The seer predicts, "Your wife will bare you a son but your actions on the battlefield tomorrow will leave him fatherless." To prove that the seer is not spreading lies, she tells Rumple, "Tomorrow when you see the armies ride cows into battle you will know that I speak the truth." That night, the officials announce that they will be headed into the frontlines on horseback the following morning, but that they should "grab a cow" — aka a saddle — to ride on.
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Rumple is devastated and realizes that the only way to avoid leaving his son fatherless is to injure himself instead of facing the ogres the next morning. Rumple takes a giant mallet, clubs his foot, and cries out in anguish.
Rumple hobbles home to see that Mila has already given birth to their son and bestowed a "strong name" upon him—which according to Mila is something that he is going to need now that he has to life with having a coward for a father. It's clear that Mila no longer loves Rumple when she reveals that she wished he would've died in the war rather then return home as a huge embarrassment. She leaves Rumple with Baelfire and promises to never abandon him.
Years later and we see that Rumple, as the dark one, is walking through the forest and has tracked down the same seer that he once met long ago. He has come to the seer in search of his son, and she then spills everything she knows, "This will not be an easy path and it will take many years and require a curse. A curse powerful enough to rip everyone from this land. You will not cast the curse, someone else will. And you will not break the curse someone else will." To gain the rest of the answers, Rumple steals the seer's powers and gains the gift and burden for looking into the future.
To thank him for freeing her, the seer offers Rumple another piece of the puzzle: "You will be reunited with your son and it will come in the most unexpected way. A boy. A young boy will lead you to him but beware Rumplestilskin for that boy is more that he appears. He will lead you to what you seek but there will be a price, the boy will be your undoing." Rumple sneers, "Then I'll just have to kill him."
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Storybrooke Sneakiness: In Storybrooke, a distraught Regina is having some mother/daughter bonding time with Cora, telling her that Emma and Henry have left town with Gold. Eager for his revenge, Hook says that he wants to leave town, track down the now powerless Rumple and kill him. But Cora has a better idea, she suggests that they search for the one weapon that they ultimately need to kill him: his dark one dagger.
Regina enters a hospital room to find Belle—wearing a yellow hospital gown of course—and still completely void of her memories. With one wave of her had, Regina puts Belle to sleep and then uses her magic to fish an index card out from Belle's purse across the room.
Over in the library, the terrible threesome Regina, Cora, and hook are searching the shelves. Regina explains, "Gold wouldn't risk crossing the town line and losing his memory without entrusting the dagger's location to someone. My guess is she hid it in one of her beloved books." But rather than finding a book, they find a map.
Hook uses his handy-dandy pirate skills to track the location of the dagger, but it's clear that Cora does no want him coming with them on their journey. She uses her magic to throw Hook at the wall of books and reveals her plan to her daughter: They are going to find the dagger, use it to control Rumple so that he will kill Snow, Charming, and Emma, and then Henry will fully belong to Regina.
Back in the hospital, Craig — the creepy intruder who drove his car across the Stroybrooke town lines — is telling someone on the phone that he has been discharged from the hospital. However, the overly curious stranger has no intentions of leaving Storybrooke just yet and reveals that he captured Regina performing magic on video.
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Manhattan Mysteries: Rumple, Emma, and Henry have arrived in Manhattan and although they know which building Bae lives in, they have no idea which apartment number it is. Emma rings the number that she believes is Bae's, but rather than inviting them up, Bae escapes their visit by rushing down the fire escape. Rumple uses this opportunity to cash in his deal with Emma: 'That favor you owe me, this is it. Get him to talk to me."
Emma sprints after Bae and when she finally catches him (or rather, smacks into him) she is baffled to see that Bae is actually Neil — aka the only man she's ever loved and Henry's father. Emma is in a full-blown panic thinking that Neil was playing her this whole time and that their relationship was nothing more that a ploy to get her to Storybrooke. However, Neil promises to tell her everything she wants to know as long as they get out of the middle of the street, so a very cautious Neil and mind-blown Emma sit down in a little pub.
Neil tells Emma that he had no idea that she was the savior ("If I did I wouldn't have gone anywhere near you.") but that he later found out when August approached him. The scene flashes back and fans finally get to see what it is that August showed Neil in the box to make him abandon his girlfriend.
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In the box was a typewriter, and there was one short yet very straightforward sentence: "I know you're Baelfire." Neil goes on to tell Emma that he believes it was destiny that brought them together: "Maybe we met for a reason, maybe something good came from us being together." But Emma is quick to guard the truth about Henry so she lies and says, "No. Not that I can think of, just went to jail that's it."
Emma decides to let Neil go and agrees to lie to Rumple and say that he got away. Rumple is not ready to accept defeat so he breaks into his son's apartment in search of clues and to hopefully learn more about him. As soon as they enter the room, Emma is hypnotized by the dream-catcher hanging on the window. It's the same one that Neil stole for her all those years ago and she is in disbelief that he still has it.
Rumple quickly realizes that Emma is hiding the truth from him and just as he was starting to get irate, shouting, "No one breaks deals with me!" Neil/Bae bursts into the room saying to leave her alone. It only takes a few seconds for Rumple to realize that Neil and Emma have a history together. While the tensions are high, Henry emerges from the other room and says the one thing that could make the situation a thousand times worse: he calls Emma "mom."
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A shocked Neil asks how old Henry is and whether or not this is his son. Emma reluctantly says yes and Neil looks like he's about to burst into tear and Henry is so overwhelmed that he dashes out on the fire escape. He tells Emma that she is just like Regina because she lied to him and then tells her that all he wants is to meet his father.
Meanwhile inside, Neil tells Rumple that he only has three minutes to say everything that he has been wanting to say for over 28 years. Rumple reveals that he'd like to take Neil back to Stroybrooke and use his magic to turn back time so can make up for all the years that they lost. To which Neil appropriately snaps, "I don't want to be 14 again are you insane?!" Neil tells Rumple that he wants absolutely nothing to do with him and he should have never abandoned him.
Emma tells Neil that Henry is asking for him and warns her former flame not to break her son's heart. Neil heads out to the fire escape and after a brief introduction, Henry and Neil share a comfortable father/son silence. Rumple is watching with envy as his son and newly discovered grandson are bonding, and he remembers what the seer told him long ago. In order to save his own life, he'll have to kill Henry.
What did you think of this week's episode of Once Upon a Time? Were you surprised to see that Neil is actually Bae? How do you think the seer's prediction is going to pan out? Cast your spell in the comments below!
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May 4, 2013
Mark Roesler, chairman, CEO and founder of CMG Worldwide and 1978 graduate of DePauw University, is the recipient of Indiana University's McKinney School of Law's Distinguished Alumni Award. The highest honor bestowed by the law school's alumni association, the award was presented to Roesler -- who received his law degree from IU in 1982 -- last night in Indianapolis.
CMG is a marketing and management firm that represents more than 200 of the world's most recognizable celebrities, including Babe Ruth, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. Roesler is a recognized authority on the intellectual property rights of celebrities. As the the CBS News program 60 Minutes reported in 2009, "No other agent in the world represents more famous people than Mark Roesler."
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The Orioles say they'd like Nate McLouth back. He played well for the last two months of last year and was the Orioles' best hitter in the playoffs.
Now that he is a free agent, McLouth can sign with any team and the Orioles will likely have competition as they try to retain the 32-year-old lefty hitter.
But maybe one thing they have in their favor is that Baltimore just may be the best place for McLouth. Shouldn't he want to return to the Orioles as well?
McLouth was with the Pirates his entire career until they traded him to Atlanta in June 2009. But McLouth failed with the Braves, batting just .190 in 85 games in 2010 and hitting .228 in 81 games a year later. That led him back to the Pirates for this past season. He was batting just .140 when he was released at the end of May.
Not that he owes them anything for this reason alone, but the Orioles took McLouth off the scrap heap at a time when he probably wasn't wanted by many clubs at all.
But maybe McLouth should want to return to the Orioles because they were the team that helped him finally get his dormant bat going again. Last year, he went from hitting .140 with the Pirates to batting third at one point for the Orioles and starting on a playoff team.
In this mid-September interview, McLouth told me about the two minor league coaches that helped him find new life in his bat.
McLouth hit .268 in 55 O's games and then went 8-for-26 (.308) in the playoffs. He went 7-for-22 in the American League Division Series and tied for third in the AL with five playoff RBIs.
Plus, the Orioles provide opportunity for him. They may well have an opening for him to start in left field. At worst, he would be competing with Nolan Reimold for playing time there and he must realize that Reimold's injury history makes him less than a sure thing.
McLouth was a good fit in the Orioles clubhouse. He seemed well liked and respected and his low-key personality played well on an O's team full of low-key, but very driven and hard-working players.
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Re: Sellers/Reeves Families Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 17:18:08 -0600 From: Carol LeCroy Brewer <email@example.com> Hi Marie & Pat, Sorry, I thought you'd recognize my line by the first names since we appear to be fairly closely related. I am attaching a gedcom file so that you will know who I am. Please contact me to discuss any errors or discrepancies. As I said earlier, the earliest four generations are highly questionable. I think you also list a different father for Elisha Sellers, born abt. 1744. Please let me know your research on his parents and spouse. Carol Brewer ==========
From: Carol LeCroy Brewer <firstname.lastname@example.com> Listed below you'll find my Sellers family. Carol LeCroy (Brewer) daughter of Troy LeCroy & Ruby Lillian Sellers of Tuscaloosa, AL granddaughter of Henry Charles Sellers (1867-1942) & Margaret Loe of Troy, Pike Co. AL g granddaughter of Jackson Daniel Sellers (1849-1906) & Frances Morgan of Pike Co. AL gg granddaughter of Julius S. Sellers (1813-1895) & Elizabeth S. Reeves of Pike Co. AL ggg granddaughter of Matthew Sellers (1768-1849) & Jane Ward of Brunswick Co. NC and Pike Co. AL ggg granddaughter of Jesse Tinton Reeves (1785-~1860) & Martha Murphy. of SC (maybe?) and Pike Co. AL I have photos of Jackson D. Sellers and copies of pages of family information from his Bible which I can share. I also have a photo of Jesse T. Reeves and Martha Murphy as well as a photocopy of William Murphey's (Martha's father's) will. Carol Brewer


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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Utes are expected to secure signatures from four players when the junior college mid-year signing period opens Wednesday.
The projected signees include Orange County (Calif.) Community College offensive lineman Andrew Albers (6-7, 310); Diablo Valley (Calif.) Community College wide receiver Andre Lewis (6-4, 220); Santa Ana (Calif.) Community College defensive back Davion Orphey (6-1, 185); and Arizona Western Community College tight end Greg Reese (6-6, 246).
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BATTLE CEMETERY, Moores Mill
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Area over views of the Battle Cemetery: 6676/6677/6678/6679/6680/6681/6682
BATTLE, Josiah D., Sacred to the Memory of Josiah D. Battle. Born September 18th 1811 -
Died January 2nd 1864. I know that my redeemer liveth. No
stone found except: Footstone J.D.B.:6661/6662
BATTLE, Mary E., Sacred to the Memory of Mary E. Battle. Born January 23rd 1817. Died March 25th 1872. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. 6663/Footstone M.E.B.: 6661/6662
BATTLE, Josiah Davis, Sacred to the Memory of Josiah Davis Battle. Born April 11th 1858 - Died April 29th 1882. His faults were few as human faults could be, and his virtues were as many as the sands beneath the sea. 6664/6665/Footstone J.D.B.: 6667
BATTLE, Cullen W., Sacred to the Memory of Cullen W. Battle - Born July 2nd 1854 - Died August 23rd 1854. 6655/backside:6656/Footstone C.W.B.:6660
BATTLE, Lon, Sacred to the Memory of Lon Battle born August 20th 1846 - Died October 19th 1850. Asleep in Jesus. No stone found except the footstone L.B.: 6657/6658/6659
HAMPTON , Mary T. Battle, Front of tomb: Mary T. Battle, Born March 23, 1844 - Joined the Baptist church in Huntsville in 1867, Married Dr. J. P. Hampton Nov. 3, 1868, died May 5, 1884. 6668/6669
Side: I am the resurrection and the life. Back: Thy faults were slight and few as human faults could be; and thy virtues were as many too, as gems beneath the sea. Side: He that believeth in me though he be dead, yet shall he live. Note: The stone of Mary T. Hampton was of fine quality. The rest were old sandstone.
HENDERSON, Ann E., Ann E. Henderson - Born Jun 7, 1807 Was Married to Rev. P. T. Henderson May 28, 1845, and Died December 29, 1882. (stone not found - this survey)
TALIAFERRO, Eliza M., Sacred to the Memory of Eliza M., consort of Dr. E. T. Taliaferro and daughter of J. D. & M. E. Battle. Born March 12, 1849, Fell asleep in Jesus March 2, 1883. There was no death the stars go down to rise upon some fairer shore and bright in Heavens Jeweled crown they shine forever more. 6674C/6674/6671/6672/6673/6675/Footstone not inscribed:6670/6666
A couple of the headstones, that for Josiah D. Battle the father, and Lon Battle, a son, are fallen and are missing with the footstone and grave still found. Likely what has happened is the headstones have fallen and sunken into the grave pits. To find them a probe is needed and lots of patience to probe over a wide area around the footstone. In most cases the stone will be 4 or less inches under the soil, but can be as deep as six inches unless a big tree has fallen and the root ball sucked an impacted stone off into the pit and has covered it. In that case the stone may be as deep as 4 feet underground. To find that it is necessary to have sonar equipment. Also missing from this survey was the stone of Ann E. Henderson. This may have been an unmarked grave from the Madison County Cemetery book Volume I, however it also may be lost below the top of the ground. [CWA 26 Jan 2013]
Census, Oct. 29, 1850
Henderson, P. T., 33 Tenn., School teacher
Henderson, Ann, 42 Rhode Island
Day, Charlot, 18 Va.
Bawgus, Mildred, 16 Ala
Bawgus, Mary, 15 Ala,
Fulks, Cintha, 14 Ala
Anderson. Octavia, 13 Ala
Strong, Georgianna, 12 Ala
True, Keziah, 13 Ala
Bronall, Catherine, 16 Ala
Kelly, Elizabeth, 16 Ala
Kelly, Elizabeth, 14 Ala
Kee, William, 36 Va., Farmer
Kee, Martha, 27 Va.
Kee, Marcell, 4 Ala.
Kee, Saline, 2 Ala.
Census, Oct. 30, 1850
Battle, Josiah D., 38 N.C., Farmer, $12,000. Josiah D, Battle married Mary E. McCrary 20 Dec 1837 (MB-4)
Battle, Mary 33 Ala.
Battle, Margaret 11 Ala.
Battle, Emma 10 Ala.
Battle, Jacob 8 Ala.
Battle, Mary 6 Ala.
Battle, Lucinda 4 Ala.
Battle, Eliza 1 Ala.
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29 June 1998 Vol. 3, No. 26 THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS Math & Time | Games - Learning Kingdom | Fractal Modeling - Shodor MATHEMATICS AND TIME INTERNET RESOURCES FOR HOROLOGY The Science of Time, Timekeepers (Clocks, Watches) and Timekeeping from The Teaching and Learning Center http://www.horology.com/horology/ A site with all kinds of resources for math explorations that involve time. Included are organizations; information sources; timepieces; subjects, issues, and topics in horology; and ways of finding and setting the exact time, including time zones and a time zone converter. You will also find links to a wide variety of WATCH AND CLOCK MUSEUMS: http://www.horology.com/horology/ho-edmus.html \|/ TIME SERVICE DEPARTMENT - U.S. Naval Observatory http://tycho.usNo. navy.mil/time.html An official Web source for the correct time in the United States. To find your local time zone, learn to convert from Universal Time, try directions for putting a clock on your own Web page, and more, see WHAT TIME IS IT? http://tycho.usNo. navy.mil/what.html -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- GAMES FROM THE LEARNING KINGDOM http://www.learningkingdom.com/ For the very young, who want to play with the math they've just begun to learn. - BLANKETY-FIVE SQUARED http://www.LearningKingdom.com/five/ - ELEVEN TIMES http://www.learningkingdom.com/eleven/ Learn to square two-digit numbers that end in five, or quickly multiply two-digit numbers by eleven. See how each trick works by watching step-by-step examples, read why it works, and then test your skill and speed with a challenge. \|/ Also from The Learning Kingdom: Math in the Kingdom (MITK), a Web-based arithmetic tutor that teaches 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade material directly over the Internet for a monthly subscription fee. Take the guided tour or experiment with a 10-day free trial to see if the program meets your child's needs (and whether it will crash your browser). http://www.LearningKingdom.com/math/ -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- FRACTAL MODELING TOOLS - Shodor Education Foundation http://www.shodor.org/master/fractal/curriculum/ Instructional resources and simulation software for generating different kinds of fractals. Lesson plans are available from within the simulations, and a Java version and a simulation running on a remote server are provided for each unit: The Fractal Microscope Mandelbrot and Julia sets, the algorithms used to create them, and the mathematics behind the graphics. The Snowflake Fractal Generator Specify a drawing rule that the computer will use to make curves like the Koch Snowflake. Sierpinski Gasket Model the 'Chaos Game'(a simple, apparently random process with a not-so-random result) and change the rules to make your own fractals. The NCSA-Shodor BRIDGE Project offers three other ways to explore integrating curriculum with interactive media: ChemViz - a quantum chemistry visualization tool SimSurface - a potential energy minimization tool using simulated annealing The Pit and the Pendulum - a quantitative investigation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/Simulations/ For best viewing of this site, a fast connection and a Java-enabled browser are recommended. -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- CHECK OUT OUR WEB SITE: The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/ Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/ Problems of the Week http://mathforum.org/students/ Internet Resources http://mathforum.org/~steve/ Join the Math Forum http://mathforum.org/join.forum.html Send comments to the Math Forum Internet Newsletter editors _o \o_ __| \ / |__ o _ o/ \o/ __|- __/ \__/o \o | o/ o/__/ /\ /| | \ \ / \ / \ /o\ / \ / \ / | / \ / \
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Senate Democrats Push For Reform
By Bill Lambdin
ALBANY - Apart from party affiliation, there may be no more decisive factor in determining how the legislature works than its rules.
Those rules have been softened in the last couple of years, removing some of the absolute power formerly wielded by the Senate Majority Leader, but there is much more Democrats would like to see put into effect.
"Better rules in the legislature will make us more able to solve the problems that we have in the state," said Senator Daniel Squadron (D - Brooklyn/Manhattan). "Getting better rules immediately means that we can immediately start facing the terrible challenges that the state faces."
Democrats today put forward a total of 22 reform points. Among them, equal staff, resources and member item allocations for everyone. In the past the party in power greatly out-grabbed the minority although that had been getting more equal in recent years.
The rule changes would also make it easier to get legislation on the floor for a vote and reconcile differences when the Senate and Assembly passed different versions.
"We are proud of the progress we made," said Senator Liz Krueger (D - Manhattan). "We want to make sure we don't go backwards and so we're urging everyone to pay very, very careful attention to what we do here in the next couple of weeks around rules reform."
Republican senators had advocated some of the reforms the Democrats are now embracing when control of the Senator was reversed in 2009 and 2010.
Republicans have been considering rules changes but have not announced or taken action so far this legislative session.


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What's Really Going On With Facebook's China Plans
All Things Digital provides more details on Facebook's reported upcoming launch in China. Among other things, the report say Facebook has opted to join their China service with their global network, and not create a independent China-only network:
…Despite its progressively weaker denials, numerous sources said Facebook is preparing to launch in China. Now, the social networking giant is working out the details of a localized Chinese offering and trying to execute them as quickly as is prudent.
Perhaps the most important detail of Facebook's planned China offering is that it will likely be connected to the greater international Facebook community, rather than operated as an independent social network.
While some had advised Facebook to start with a closed Chinese service, sources said the company seems inclined to launch it as a network linked to the rest of the world.
That's not a decision without controversy, due to the strictures of operating within an authoritarian state.
When Facebook users outside China connect with users inside China, sources said they will need to click through a warning that any material visible to Chinese users may also be visible to the Chinese government.
On his blog, the New Yorker's Evan Osnos provides an anecdote about Facebook in China:
With rumors flying that Facebook may try to enter China under a partnership with Baidu, I bumped into a longtime Web executive in Beijing last week and asked what he thought of the prospects: "Facebook might only get in here if it changes its name for China. 'Facebook' won't fly," given its association with the uprisings in the Middle East, he said. "Google wouldn't agree to that, because of the whole don't-be-evil thing. But Facebook? You never know."


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Monitoring and Diagnosis of Multi-Agent Plan: Centralized Approach
Recently, a number of model-based approaches to monitoring and diagnosis of a Multi-Agent Plan (MAP) have been proposed; this fact signifies that the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community is interested in systems where activities are executed simultaneously by various agents. The current paper introduces a centralized approach for plan execution monitoring, where parallel operations are executed by a team of cooperating agents in a partially observable context. Each agent is monitored on-line by seeking all the possible evolutions of the agent both under nominal and faulty behavior and the system estimates the belief state at each time moment.
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The Barking Spider pub is long, narrow and gloomy, even on a summer's day, with only the doorway and two small barred windows yielding to the light. A shaven-headed man in T-shirt and jeans, with cigarette in one hand and helmet in the other, speaks to another in Afrikaans and then leaves. A motorcycle engine growls outside and dies away.
Pictures of racehorses adorn the cream and pink walls, a flatscreen TV plays songs by Oasis and Kylie Minogue, and laminated menus offer English-style pub grub such as a full breakfast or fish and chips. The owners of this modest drinking den in a remote South African village could little have dreamed that their destiny lay here when their daughter was posing on the red carpet and pursuing a career as a model.
Her name was Reeva Steenkamp and she was killed by her boyfriend, the Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, a year ago next week. The Valentine's day tragedy shocked millions who regarded Pistorius, a double amputee dubbed the Blade Runner, as a hero. He claims he mistook 29-year-old Steenkamp for an intruder when he shot four times through a locked bathroom door at his home at 3am, a defence that will be tested in court next month when he stands trial for murder.
The case made global headlines, with Pistorius and Steenkamp portrayed on front pages as a couple in the mould of David and Victoria Beckham. Yet for her parents, Barry and June Steenkamp, life has never been glamorous. Their struggle to make ends meet offers a glimpse of a fragile white middle class that is a world away from that of models, sports stars and fast cars, and rarely features in narratives of South Africa in the outside world.
There are no pictures of Reeva on display at the Barking Spider, where black and white photos of horse races in 1930s South Africa, along with men's and women's toilets labelled "Colts" and "Fillies", speak to Barry's career as a trainer. Likewise there is a wall of silence from most of her family and friends as the world's media return to their doorsteps.
"There's been constant pressure," said Reeva's half-sister Simone, standing behind the wood-strip bar one afternoon this week. "I'll have my head on a block if I say anything."
She estimated that the pub could get anything from 10 to 40 customers a day. Asked if she could confirm that the Steenkamps had bought it using money they were paid for two media interviews, Simone replied hesitantly: "It will all come out in the end. It's all a bunch of hogwash."
Her mother, June, arrived and was more forthright: "The trial is coming up. Every single reporter has been in here. This interview is over. I would like you to leave."
Minutes later two journalists from an Afrikaans newspaper could be seen disappearing into the pub, only to re-emerge almost immediately and beat a hasty retreat.
While many in the community are sympathetic to the Steenkamps, the letters page of the Herald, the local paper in Port Elizabeth and one of the oldest in South Africa, has revealed dissenting voices.
The paper's editor, Heather Robertson, said: "I think the Steenkamps are beginning to be seen as money grabbers living off their daughter's tragedy"
Port Elizabeth, in Eastern Cape province, was founded by British settlers nearly two centuries ago and a statue of Queen Victoria stands near the Herald's office. Car manufacturers such as Ford, General Motors and Volkswagen have plants here. "This is a blue-collar town, a motoring town," Robertson said. "This is the Detroit of South Africa, and Detroit is dead. These aren't flashy people or your wealthy white middle class in Cape Town."
Cash-strapped and feeling hounded by the media after Reeva's death, the Steenkamps moved 12 miles out of town to Greenbushes, a sleepy, traditional village of white smallholder farmers where black workers can be seen riding donkey-drawn carts. It is evocative of another age. "Greenbushes is away from the South African story," Robertson observed.
The tightly knit community has welcomed the Steenkamps. A 65-year-old businessman, who did not wish to be named, said: "We are really putting our arms around them in this area. Barry and June are begging for privacy. They are going through a difficult time and their wounds must heal. I think in a year's time they'll be new people. Once the court case is over, they can start relaxing."
A local man has given Barry a piece of land and built stables so he can go back to training horses, while June has thrown herself into the pub and "got compliments since day one" on the quality of its food. The businessman added: "My son has been doing a lot of work there on electric fences and stuff. One day she came to me and said, he's an angel sent from heaven."
Greenbushes is ideal for the Steenkamps to find peace, the friend said. "It's wonderful to stay here. It's my little paradise. I think there's no other place in South Africa with the crime rate we've got: it's almost nothing. But it would be wonderful to bring the death penalty back. The jails in this country are like hotels. They live like kings."
There could hardly be a sharper contrast with Reeva's career in the humming commercial capital, Johannesburg, where she advertised soft drinks and cars, secured a place on a reality TV show and dated international sportsmen including Pistorius. Yet friends and admirers say she never forgot her roots.
Hagen Engler, a journalist and author who has written of Port Elizabeth's "prosaic, windblown glumness", knew her there and in Johannesburg, where as editor of the South African edition of FHM magazine he put her on the front cover. "Reeva was incredibly down-to-earth," he said. "She was like one of the guys. I remember doing this photo shoot when she had to eat a hamburger and she got tomato ketchup all down her arm and she had a good laugh about it."
As a teenage brunette, Reeva took part in, but didn't win, several talent contests run by the Herald and its sister papers, as well as the Miss Port Elizabeth pageant. Barbara Robertson, a journalist who helped organise the contests, said: "Port Elizabeth girls are very natural and unsophisticated and unspoiled by the ways of the world. Reeva was unpretentious and grew up with very down-to-earth values."
She moved to Johannesburg, dyed her hair blonde and posed for FHM, said Robertson, but she remained true to herself. "The front pages made out she was this brazen blonde with boobs hanging out. She was more than a model. She was Reeva. She had studied law at university. I don't think she was seeking bright lights and fame and fortune. She was spreading her wings. If she got noticed, what's wrong with that? It doesn't make her a celeb-seducer."
Now Robertson is braced for another onslaught of interview requests before the first anniversary of the fatal shooting. "I was hounded by media from all over the world last year. I did pull down the shutters because this is a small town and we look after our own. Port Elizabeth protected them; nobody tells anyone who they are or where to find them."
Media inquiries are directed to a leading criminal lawyer Dup de Bruyn who has agreed to represent the Steenkamps pro bono. "They needed me," he explained. "They were really hounded and needed a buffer. They're very traumatised and, with all these days coming up, everybody's beginning to phone and we're trying to protect them. There are more requests than I can handle."
De Bruyn said he was negotiating with Pistorius's team over settling a civil suit out of court. But one thing that remains uncertain is whether the Steenkamps will leave their remote village pub and head for the capital, Pretoria, to attend South Africa's trial of the century, starting on 3 March. "We haven't made a final decision," De Bruyn said.


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Pro football star Michael Vick has written a book that will be out in September, and he is promoting it on the talk and sports show circuits.
True to form, Vick and his handlers continue to offend and incense animal lovers and anyone else, for that matter, who is concerned about the sports/entertainment industry turning a blind eye to criminal brutality by players and other celebrities.
Apologists say that Vick has paid his debt to society by serving time in federal prison — that he should be allowed to get on with his life and his profession.
In truth, Vick served time for the federal charges of conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce for unlawful activities, including dog fighting. And, while dog fighting and death by hanging of some of his dogs were sentencing considerations, he did not serve one day for animal cruelty.
Since then, Vick has never expressed concern for the suffering he caused. Perhaps this is due to lawyerly advice to avoid self-incrimination, or worse, because of a basic void in his moral make-up. What infuriates those of us who rescue abused or abandoned animals is that Vick, despite torturing and killing animals, has never once expressed any remorse about it.
Rather, he talks about letting people down and making mistakes, and so on. He apologizes to the kids who looked up to him and to his family but never approaches anything close to being truly sorry for what he did and allowed to occur at Bad Newz Kennels.
By court order, Vick is barred from owning a dog for three years after his release from prison. With the three years about to expire, he says his kids really want a dog and, therefore, he should be able to have one.
Considering how well he cared for his previous dogs, you can imagine the response that this statement draws from the animal-loving public.
While his eligibility for dog ownership is a matter of law, imagine, if you would, what it would be like reading through a potential dog adoption application from Vick:
Have you had a dog before? "Yes"
If yes, how many? "Lots"
Do you still have a dog(s)? "No"
If you have had dogs in the past, please let us know their current disposition. "Dead or confiscated by federal authorities."
If you no longer have other dogs, please let us know what happened to them. "Some I sold to dog fighters. Some I had my cousin electrocute or shoot. Some I personally strangled, drowned or body-slammed to death."
Why do you want to get a dog at this time? "Because I served my time, and my kids want a dog."
OK, thank you, Michael. We'll get back to you on your application.
So how are the dogs, 22 of which were rescued and brought to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in 2008, doing four years after their arrival?
To begin with, some dogs suffer or have suffered from the effects of a hidden killer circulating through their blood. Babesia gibsoni, spread primarily through blood exchanges in dog fights, is caused by a protozoan parasite that destroys red blood cells. Virtually impossible to cure, its treatment includes debilitating, long-term steroid therapy.3 comments on this story
Lucas, who was Vick's grand champion fighting dog, now battles a bigger opponent — babesia. He is a wonderful dog whose face bears the scars inflicted in the fighting ring. Despite all this, Lucas truly loves people and everyone loves him.
While surviving the fighting ring and the "tender mercies" of Vick and his cohorts, Lucas is struggling with a more lethal foe. It is painful to watch his decline and just another reminder of the actions of an unrepentant dog killer.
Please keep Lucas in your thoughts and prayers — and if you are inclined to ponder whether Vick, who inflicted such pain and suffering on his animals, should ever again have another dog, remember him.
Francis Battista, one of the 22 founders of Best Friends Animal Society in Kanab, is a nationally known animal welfare expert whose articles and letters have appeared in newspapers across the country.


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Monthly Archive: March 2012
MAGMA, a brand new drop tower ride reaching 25 metres high at Paultons Park in Hampshire, opened to the general public today.
Jimmy Godden, famous for running Dreamland in Margate from 1996 to its unfortunate eventual closure in 2003, has died at the age of 67.
It's official – The British theme park season is now well underway! The rides are re-opened, the PR stunts have concluded, and finally millions of visitors will have the chance to have their preliminary rides on new additions such as The Swarm at Thorpe Park, and Nemesis Sub-Terra at Alton Towers.
This weekend, Airgates will be posting Live updates from our live feed for the first time at www.airgates.co.uk/live .
Adventure Island are looking for people who have the (golf) balls to help raise money for The Prostate Cancer charity this weekend.
Alton Towers have looked to a professional rating organisation to look into their upcoming ride, who have deemed it 'too scary' for children with a 12A rating.
LEGO brick fans are celebrating after the opening of the UK's first LEGO themed accommodation in Windsor.
Thorpe Park's latest rollercoaster 'The Swarm' today opened it's airgates to the public for the first time, receiving positive reviews.
Alton Towers have announced their new opening hours for 2012, resulting in closing earlier than previously on select days.
Lightwater Valley have released content from their upcoming television campaign, entitled 'Aftershock'. The comical advert is based around the concept of 'a delayed reaction following a series of awesome ride experiences' after a day out at the Yorkshire-based theme park.
Thorpe Park have released a video showing off their new rollercoaster The Swarm in it's entirety for the first time.


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Setting Out
Crowded into the bottom storage compartment of a fishing boat were 10-year-old Thinh Nguyen and his 15-year-old brother, Thang, along with many other Vietnamese families.
Panic set in when the first big storm wave hit the boat, and nearly flipped it. But eventually everyone sat quietly in the dark just waiting for the next big wave — watching as each one sent water pouring down through the compartment lid. Many started praying.
In the morning, when they spotted the shore, the Nguyen brothers first thought they reached their destination in the Philippines.
Then they heard gunshots.
Local police in a small seaside village in Vinh Chau, a southern province of Vietnam, had spotted the boat. The brothers ended up in jail for a month, eating just one small bowl of rice a day until their mother could pay their bail.
"We found out later that most villagers were very poor and hardcore communist followers. They reported anyone who looked strange to them. So virtually nobody was able to escape — since we were from the city our clothes made it easier for them to spot us," Nguyen says.
The year was 1983, and they were among many who were trying to get out of Vietnam in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The new communist government dealt harshly with those who had supported the government of the South — often sending them to prison or "re-educations camps." Nguyen's father was a colonel in the fallen South Vietnam army (listed as missing in action), so the family had been blacklisted.
"My mom kept telling us that the reason she sent us away was so we would have a good education. We would never be able to go to college with our background if we stayed in Vietnam," Nguyen says. "Also, she was a literature teacher, but she couldn't teach anymore because her romantic literature expertise was viewed as degenerate by the communist regime. She ended up making money by selling bicycle parts. So, freedom to pursue one's desires in life was what she wanted for us."
It took multiple attempts and a lot of bribe money, but she was undeterred — sending her five children out again and again in ones and twos.
Now that Thinh Nguyen is a professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University, where he is able to pursue his many interests including networking and communications, he can say the sacrifice was worth it.
But it took another perilous journey to get him here.
Three years after being imprisoned, Nguyen had another chance at escape. His older brother had already escaped in a separate attempt, so this time he and four other people swam from the shore to a boat that would take them to the Philippines. Nguyen used an inner-tube from an old truck to keep him afloat on the kilometer-long swim.
It was a September night, and the South China Sea was calm. The group safely reached the boat that would take them to the refugee camp in the Philippines, where Nguyen's brother was living. The boat was about 25 meters long and 5 meters wide, with 128 people crowded aboard. More were in the water, yelling for the boat to stop as it pulled away.
"There was really no place to lie down to sleep — I remember sleeping while sitting up," Nguyen says. "The boat was so full that from where I sat at the edge of the boat I could reach down and touch the water with my hand."
After losing some of the drinking water to a storm and having trouble with the engine, the mood on the boat was pretty dismal — until the fifth day, when an American merchant ship stopped and gave them some food and water and directed them to the Philippines.
The next day, the elated passengers reached the island of El Nido in the Philippines, the first stop on their way to the refugee camp. In their exuberance many jumped out of the boat to swim to shore, but as they got closer their emotions turned again to panic when they saw knives in the hands of the islanders. It turned out the knives were just to cut down coconuts, and eventually the confusion was sorted out.
"That story gives you some insight into the psychology of the boat people," Nguyen says. "Many of the refugees were afraid of pirates and the like. So it was not surprising that people were very nervous seeing the local people with knives."
Yet Nguyen would not describe the whole experience as scary or even challenging. For a 13-year-old, it was an adventure. "But tell me to do it again, and I would say, 'No!'" he laughs. "Now I understand the consequences — one big wave and you're gone."
Finding a Home
At the camp Nguyen was reunited with his older brother, who had arrived several months earlier. Reaching the Philippines
meant freedom for all the refugees, but for two teenagers living in the camp without parents, the experience had even further
meaning — freedom, for sure, but also becoming self-reliant.
Letters from his mother would remind them they needed to study and prepare for their life in the U.S. So, with no school available at the camp, Nguyen spent much of his six months there studying physics and calculus on his own.
Although many refugees were stuck in camp for years, the two brothers were able to get out relatively quickly and traveled to Seattle, Wash., where their brother and sister were already living.
"I remember feeling very happy and excited," he says of arriving in the U.S. "My first thought was everything was so clean and green."
Initially they all lived with a friend of their family, but when his older sister turned 18 they moved into an apartment in a housing project.
"We also received government checks for a few months, but my older brother hated it, so he got a job while going to school. In my sophomore through senior years in high school, I had different part-time jobs — dishwasher, newspaper delivery, assembly line, programmer, typist — while going to school, and worked full-time in the summers," he says.
And even though his mother was far away, she still had a strong influence on the family. Through letters she would remind them of the sacrifices she made to make sure that they would take advantage of the life she was able to provide for them, urging them to study hard to be successful. Nguyen had no trouble with high school and went on to the University of Washington, where he studied physics and math.
"Somehow, it just worked," he says of growing up essentially without parents. "I never really thought about it."
Finally, when Nguyen was out of high school and in his second year of college his mother was able to escape with his youngest brother and join them in Seattle. At that time Nguyen switched his major to computer engineering, which was more practical for supporting his family. But after completing his degree and working three years at Intel Corporation, he realized that his family was fairly well settled in their lives and he no longer needed to be a breadwinner.
"I thought what the heck, I should do something I like," he says.
A Career that Fit
His love of science led him to look for an area that was theoretically driven but had a practical application. He settled on electrical engineering and specialized in signal processing and transmission, receiving his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science at University of California, Berkeley.
Now, at OSU, his research encompasses information representation, processing, and transmission — the processes involved in streaming a movie to TV. His undergraduate courses focus on the mathematical underpinnings of signal processing, communication and networking; and his graduate courses on information theory, a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering. He also advises several graduate students whose projects range from implementation to theory.
"I'm curious about what information is, fundamentally, and how to represent it. Deep down, I really like something that is theory driven," he says.
Although he has accomplished much in his career, his achievements like Best Paper awards stay turned over on his bookshelf rather the hung on the wall.
"I'm just doing what I like. Maybe someday I will do something I'm really proud of. That's what keeps me going," he says.
His biggest lesson in life, however, was self-reliance, which he now tries to instill in his three children, as well as his students.
"I encourage my students to constantly learn new ideas, to be independent and in the end do it your way," he says.
All of his siblings were able to achieve the success they were hoping for when they embarked on their journey to the U.S. And although they are spread across the country from Florida to California, Nguyen describes them as "very close" and every year they get together for a family reunion.
In 2006, Nguyen returned to Vietnam and saw what his life could have been — he witnessed the daily struggles of his childhood friends and relatives and the lack of opportunities there.
"I really feel blessed and thankful to America, and grateful to all the people who helped my family escape and who contributed to our lives in America. It still amazes me that four of us kids living in a housing project without our parents, turned out okay. We all finished college. My two younger brothers are medical doctors and my older brother and sister have electrical engineering degrees. I am probably more optimistic than an average person, but I think America is still a land of opportunities," he says.
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Mar 07, 2013, 06:00 ET from ICAP Patent Brokerage
MENLO PARK, Calif., March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ICAP Patent Brokerage announces for auction a targeted advertising IP package from iCall, Inc., including personalized profiles compiled via VoIP (voice of Internet protocol) network data, and sending targeted advertisements based on such profiles. This lot will be included in the 18th ICAP Ocean Tomo IP Auction on March 20, 2013, at the Rosewood Sand Hill Hotel in Menlo Park, California.
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"We are excited to be offering this VoIP targeted advertising tool to our global base of buyers. This IP package is highly relevant to companies involved in providing telecommunication and advertising services, with applications for gaming, web browsing, and mobile devices," says Dean Becker, CEO of ICAP Patent Brokerage.
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This IP package provides a solution to the market demand for more accurate targeted advertisements to VoIP consumers. The portfolio for sale includes techniques for providing advertisements to customers based on VoIP network user profiles. A user's profile is created using data collected from that user's call history such as the date, time, and geographic location of the user or information pulled through speech recognition during a VoIP conversation. This data is then analyzed to generate a unique profile, and then a service provider can present targeted advertisements – relevant products, weather forecast information, public transportation information, and local news – based on each user's profile. Therefore, service providers can offer appropriate and effective advertisements to consumers delivered in real-time.
See this technical description of the VoIP targeted advertising IP sales offering.
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Sir Jonathan Paul Ive (who prefers to go by "Jony"), senior vice president of design at Apple Inc., recently sat down with
USA Today
for an interview before the launch of the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. Ive was joined by Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering.
Ive joined Apple's design team in 1992 while Federighi was employed at Jobs' NeXT venture in 1994, but went to Apple when it acquired NeXT. He left in 1999 but returned a decade later.
The two are a solid team working behind the scenes on each Apple device, marrying hardware and software in a new way never seen before at Apple until iOS 7.
During the
USA Today
interview, Ive and Federighi talked a lot about
the new iPhones
(which are being released today), but made one point real clear: they're not out to release "new"; they're out to release "better," and they're not worried about what the competition is doing.
According to Ive and Federighi, many competitors are trying to release the next big thing with a spec sheet full of new features packed into one device. But
Apple's super team that is Ive and Federighi
feel it's more important to perfect certain features rather than roll out a ton of half-brewed ones.
"Look at the camera space, companies are chasing megapixels but the pictures often look horrible because of their tiny sensors," said Federighi. "My family cares about taking a good picture, not a megapixel count. We carry that through to all the decisions we make about our phone. What experience is it going to deliver? Not what number will it allow us to put on a spec sheet."
Ive agreed.
"That is exactly it," said Ive. "It's just easier to talk about product attributes that you can measure with a number. Focus on price, screen size, that's easy. But there's a more difficult path, and that's to make better products, ones where maybe you can't measure their value empirically.
"This is terribly important and at the heart of what we do. We care about how to design the inside of something you'll never see, because we think it's the right thing to do."
Ive and Federighi say Apple sells more than just devices with the latest specs, but also a philosophy that each and every detail will be carefully examined. Take the iPhone 5S' new fingerprint scanner, for example.
"This right here is what I love about Apple, this incredibly sophisticated powerful technology that you're almost not aware of, it absolutely blows me away," said Ive. "You can't get this without working cross-functionally."
Ive also made it clear that Apple isn't worried about what the competition is up to.
"We, and the people who buy our products, steer us," said Ive. "It's certainly not other corporations at all, and we've shown that for a long time.
"I would love, love, love to show you what we are working on now, but I'd lose my job."
One major complaint against Apple is that it isn't innovating the way it did when Jobs was around. Instead of introducing the next big thing, like the iPhone was in 2007 and the iPad was in 2010, there are concerns surrounding the fact that Apple has only tweaked its pre-existing devices since the death of Jobs in 2011.
"I've been here for years, and the way we're working is the same," said Ive. "Nothing's changed in terms of that. We're trying to solve problems in terms of future products that are incredibly complex, whose resolutions have no precedent. And then sometimes there are a lot of people who talk about stuff who aren't at Apple anymore, so that's a self-selecting group."
"People come here for the values that are evident in every product we build," added Federighi. "When we make decisions, it's not a battle of people trying to break us out of our value system. We all want to double down on these values, whose aim is to make things simpler, more focused. Those are spoken and unspoken mantras in all the discussions we have. You can call that Steve's legacy, but it's Apple
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So there I am on a Monday morning sitting on the subway with my blog due in an hour. Even though I had one written and edited, I couldn't help but stress out and decide last minute to scrap the whole thing. As you can imagine I am now that guy sweating next to you at 8am muttering to himself about the "choice of the people" and something about Mad Men and their suits. Clearly this is not the ideal way to start a week.
I had written a blog about the Avengers and how comparable super heroes can be to our lives. I went into detail about how each character represented another aspect of our life and that painting yourself green and wearing a tattered shirt to a movie was totally fine. After the greatness of Sunday night television though, it was really hard to sit down and publish that kind of a story. Here is a brief sample in case you interested, "Played by Hugh Jackman in the X-men series, Wolverine was the first character I thought of as someone who I could see myself wanting to be. Here was a hero who could sense danger from miles away and could heal himself within minutes. He's tough, he's strong, and he has razor-sharp claws in case someone pissed him off. On the down side though, he lost his memory, his brother is his biggest enemy, and he spends most of his life smoking cigars trying to find out who exactly replaced his bones with metal." While I admit it was not the worst thing I had ever written, how can I compete with mad men! It's just that good.
Instead of boring you with a long paragraph on what a good Monday morning blog should be, I have decided to leave you with a very easy poll: Of the following theories on relativity, which would you most enjoy studying? Max Planck's general theory published in 1906 or Einstein's study of Mass-energy equivalence? Just kidding. With my stop quickly approaching I have decided to save the thought provoking questions for another week and leave you with this: of the following events that happened this weekend which was your favorite?
The Avengers
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Hi Norm,
Antoine Hébert, born about 1621 married Geneviève LeFranc, born about 1613,
about 1648. They had the following children:
Jean, born about 1649 (Census of 1671 22 yrs.)
Jean, born about 1653 married about 1676 Marie-Anne Doucet (Pierre &
Henriette Pelletret). He died before Census of 1707.
Catherine, born about 1656, married about 1673 Jacques Le Blanc (Daniel &
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Heart Function
Over the past decade, probiotics have been increasingly studied for potential benefits for blood lipid metabolism. It is thought that probiotic bacteria and their metabolites can interact with genes, affecting the expression of proteins involved in the regulation of blood lipid levels. In addition, increased overall inflammation due to imbalances in intestinal flora may also adversely affect heart health. But researchers believe that probiotics may shore up heart health by normalizing intestinal flora and thereby impacting the expression of inflammatory cytokines and other chemicals related to inflammation.
An interesting Brazilian study led by Annelise Costanza of Federal Fluminense University (Niteroi, Brazil) looked at the impact of supplementation with the probiotic yeast Saccharomyces boulardii in heart-failure patients.(5) The placebo-controlled trial was conducted on 20 outpatients who had experienced heart failure (NYHA class II or III, signifying moderate heart failure) with a left ventricular ejection fraction < 50%. These subjects were asked to consume 1000 mg per day of S. boulardii, or a placebo, for three months. Drug treatments for heart failure were left unchanged.
Supplementation with the yeast probiotic was found to significantly improve total cholesterol, uric acid levels, left atrial diameter, and left ventricular ejection fraction. Furthermore, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), a marker of inflammation, was reduced compared to placebo. Thus, supplementation was found to improve heart function, to favorably affect total cholesterol levels, and to reduce inflammation, all important factors for heart health.
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Marta I. Rendon, MD Unanimously Elected President of the Skin of Color Society at the Annual 2013 American Academy of Dermatology Meeting
Mar 06, 2013, 16:20 ET from Skin and Cancer Associates
BOCA RATON, Fla., March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Marta Rendon was unanimously elected as the President of the Skin of Color Society by her medical colleagues at the annual 2013 American Academy of Dermatology meeting.
The Skin of Color Society is a professional dermatologic organization dedicated to promoting awareness of and excellence within a specific area of dermatology. Skin of Color is defined by the Society as individuals who are of Asian, Hispanic/Latino, African, Native American and Pacific Island descent. The Skin of Color Society is committed to the education of health care providers and the general public on dermatologic health issues related to skin of color.
For over 25 years Dr. Rendon has been dedicated to treating various skin conditions such as hyperpigmentation, melasma and other unique challenges posed by treating skin of color patients. As a Board and Founding Member of the Skin of Color Society since its inception in 2001, Dr. Rendon, a Board Certified dermatologist of Latin American heritage was a natural choice to lead the organization and further its mission.
Additionally, while attending the AAD annual meeting, Dr. Rendon co-chaired the Women's Dermatologic Society Annual luncheon for a second time. Over 400 people participated in celebrating women in dermatology with a theme of "40 Fabulous Women" in honor of the Women's Dermatology Society's 40th Anniversary. She also trained other Physicians on Dermatological procedures at the AAD "Cosmetic Procedures in Darker Racial Ethnic Groups."
Dr. Rendon has over 25 years of experience in dermatology, aesthetic medicine and research. She is internationally recognized as a renowned authority on cosmetic dermatology, especially in the area of skin pigmentation.
About Dr. Rendon and the Rendon Center for Dermatology and Aesthetic Medicine
Dr. Marta Rendon, world-renowned, board-certified dermatologist, is the founder of the Rendon Center for Dermatology & Aesthetic Medicine, Boca Raton, FL. The Rendon Center offers services ranging from anti-aging, to cancer removal. Dr. Rendon and her team of world-class, board-certified dermatologists provide unparalleled aesthetic and dermatologic treatment, cutting-edge technology and advanced techniques to provide their patients the best results possible. Contact us today at 561.750.0544 or visit: www.drrendon.com to learn more!
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Edwin Poots wants Stormont Executive to decide on health cuts
Edwin Poots is set to propose drastic health service cuts to his Executive colleagues today - but washed his hands of making the final decision.
Instead, the health minister has said the Executive as a whole should make the call on where the axe falls.
As his department plunges deeper into a funding crisis, the DUP is believed to have proposed cuts to services such as out-of-hours doctors, emergency departments, social work, childcare, and care for the elderly.
A plan to appoint specialist nurses for cancer treatments could also be put on hold.
The chief medical officer, Dr Michael McBride, has voiced "profound concerns" about the impact of cuts on services.
Mr Poots' plan will go both to the Executive and the health committee.
He described it as "what is required if we are to live within the budget that is proposed".
Last night, Mr Poots said that he did not feel he could make decisions for his own department alone because of their controversial nature.
Mr Poots explained his reluctance was because of a series of recent cases where Stormont ministers faced legal action over their decisions. "We have had a number of court cases where ministers have been tested in terms of taking controversial decisions, and it is very clear where a minister can identify that where a decision is particularly controversial they will need to go back to the Executive," he said.
Earlier Mr Poots and Sinn Fein Education Minister John O'Dowd clashed in a 45-minute tit-for-tat row over funding.
Both denied their parties had been responsible for a £40m allocation from the June Monitoring Round being halved to £20m.
Mr Poots insisted that Sinn Fein cut it, but Mr O'Dowd claimed that it was the DUP. Mr Poots contradicted this and said Mr O'Dowd was "wrong". In an extraordinary showdown on the BBC's Nolan Show, the two men blamed each other's party for the crisis.
Mr O'Dowd also accused Mr Poots of "mismanagement" of the health budget. Mr Poots responded saying it is "a matter of believing one or other side".
"The fact of life is that there was £40m put in there originally by the DUP. Whenever the negotiations with Sinn Fein had completed there was £20m," he said.
"One can be very clear the DUP set out to get £40m, they didn't insist they cut money to their own department by half."
Earlier, Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt had called for the Executive to be recalled as the crisis deepens.
Health Minister Edwin Poots has threatened to resign rather than implement cuts which he claims would "destroy our health service".
He got just £20m in the June Monitoring Round of surplus cash, and has now claimed Sinn Fein were responsible for halving the £40m that health had originally been due to get.
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Digital Realty Schedules Second Quarter 2014 Earnings Release and Conference Call
Jun 16, 2014, 16:15 ET from Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center and colocation solutions, announced today that it will release its financial results for the second quarter 2014 after the market closes on Tuesday, July 29, 2014. The company will host a conference call to discuss these results at 5:30 p.m. EDT / 2:30 p.m. PDT on Tuesday, July 29, 2014.
To participate in the live call, investors are invited to dial +1 (877) 870-4263 (for domestic callers) or +1 (412) 317-0790 (for international callers) at least five minutes prior to start time. A live webcast of the call will be available via the Investors section of Digital Realty's website at http://investor.digitalrealty.com.
Telephone and webcast replays will be available through August 29, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. EDT / 6:00 a.m. PDT. The telephone replay may be accessed by dialing +1 (877) 344-7529 (for domestic callers) or +1 (412) 317-0088 (for international callers) and using the conference ID# 10047665. The webcast replay may be accessed on Digital Realty's website one hour after the live call has concluded.
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Digital Realty Trust, Inc. focuses on delivering customer-driven data center solutions by providing secure, reliable and cost-effective facilities that meet each customer's unique data center needs. Digital Realty's customers include domestic and international companies across multiple industry verticals ranging from financial services, cloud and information technology services, to manufacturing, energy, health care and consumer products. Digital Realty's 131 properties, including 13 properties held as investments in unconsolidated joint ventures, comprised approximately 24.5 million square feet as of March 31, 2014, including approximately 1.3 million square feet of space under active development and 1.4 million square feet of space held for future development. Digital Realty's portfolio is located in 33 markets throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Additional information about Digital Realty is included in the Company Overview, which is available on the Investors page of Digital Realty's website at www.digitalrealty.com. The Company Overview is updated periodically, and may disclose material information and updates. To receive e-mail alerts when the Company Overview is updated, please visit the Investors page of Digital Realty's website.
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Cuba, Japan clash for Pool A supremacy
Traditional powers have already advanced, but are mindful of future seeding
By Jason Coskrey / Special to MLB.com
FUKUOKA, Japan -- Cuba and Japan may have already qualified for the second round of the 2013 World Baseball Classic, but that doesn't take the shine off a matchup many fans have been waiting for since the pools were announced.
Games between the baseball powers are special affairs, and Wednesday's contest at 5 a.m. ET comes with the top spot in Pool A up for grabs. The Pool A winner is awarded the advantage of facing the Pool B runner-up -- the Kingdom of the Netherlands -- when the next round begins on Friday at Tokyo Dome.
That's the goal fueling Cuba, which seeks to put itself in the best possible position to reach the final round at San Francisco's AT&T Park.
"The most important thing is not Japan," Cuban manager Victor Mesa said through a translator after his team's 12-0 win over China on Tuesday. "Japan is second. Most important is who goes to San Francisco. I am hoping we can go to San Francisco. Of course, in order to do that, we have to compete against Japan."
Japan expected to be in this position all along, and it will balance trying to win the group with its preparations for the second round.
"We're going to use guys who have yet to pitch, as we planned," Japan manager Koji Yamamoto said. "We don't know who we are facing in the second round, and while we're aware of that, we're going to play as hard we can."
The two-time defending champions haven't been at their best thus far in the Classic. Japan needed an eighth-inning rally to defeat a gritty Brazilian team on the opening night of the tournament, and it was held in check by China early in its second game.
Cuba also had trouble putting Brazil away, but it flexed its muscle in a win over China that was called in the seventh due to the tournament's mercy rule.
"What can I say about Cuba?" China manager John McLaren said. "Should be a good game between them and Japan. They're a powerful club, always have been. They're a baseball factory, and I wish them the best of luck."
McLaren wasn't the only one interested in the matchup.
"I know [from] playing against Japan, they're a very good ballclub," Brazil manager Barry Larkin said. "Cuba's a very good ballclub. Different styles, certainly, but two very good ballclubs. It will be interesting to see, when they do play each other, how the game comes out."
Japan will send left-hander Kenji Otonari to the mound. Otonari, a member of Nippon Professional Baseball's Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, will be making his Classic debut in his home park.
Mesa and the Cubans will counter with a lefty of their own, Wilber Perez.
"Cuba has more power," McLaren said. "I think that's the biggest difference that I see. I think Japan and Cuba are very aggressive, they hit-and-run, put the game in motion. To me, it's going to come down to pitching, which the game has always been about. It should be a very good game, and I'm looking forward to watching it."
Jason Coskrey is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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What better way to celebrate an engagement than with a romantic dinner date?
Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg were inseparable at N.Y.C hot spot Beauty and Essex the day after announcing their engagement.
They arrived Thursday at around 10:15 p.m. and McCarthy was proudly sporting her new sparkler.
"She looked stunning and was wearing a navy blue jump suit," said an onlooker.
The couple were extremely lovey-dovey. She placed her feet in his lap the entire evening and they were deep in conversation throughout the night.
"They looked extremely happy and in love. They were kissing and whispering to each other all night," said the source.
Wahlberg and McCarthy started dating last summer. This will be the second marriage for both.


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Can you use a SIM card from a different phone in an iphone
I have a blackberry at the moment but I'm just wondering If I could use my SIM card from this phone if I brought an iphone? If not now can I get around this as the current SIM card is on a contract
- Asked by Aimee C
2 Answers from the Community
Best Answer:
Should be able to somehow...
• Firstly, the iPhone you have needs to be either unlocked or a locked device that's able to work on your current carrier's network.
• If you phone your current carrier and ask for a pay monthly/pay as you go (depending on what you're on now) "nano sim". They are smaller than the micro and standard sim, and they should post you one. Which you then insert into the iPhone and phone the carrier to switch your phone number to this new nano sim from your current sim (takes around 24 hours).
• If you want to sometimes go back to the Blackberry or another phone, then also ask your carrier for a nano sim adaptor (basically a small piece of plastic the size of a micro or standard sim that holds the nano sim within it).
That's it really.
- Answered by James S
- 17-Oct-2012
Hi Aimee, I went into my local provider shop and asked them to do a swap ie my contract onto my micro sim (iphone 4s) and they transferred my Blackberry contract into iPhone one so may be worth you going to your local store
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AF: University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, USA
AU: Census of Marine Life - Maine
As a High School science teacher it is my responsibility to present curriculum, to create enthusiasm for science, and to instill a passion and love for science in my students. Through a research experience as an ARMADA master teacher my passion and enthusiasm for the ocean was rekindled in the Gulf of Maine. Topics I had taught for years came alive in front of my eyes, and I was able to experience science to its fullest. I brought home many photographs, valuable information, and new enthusiasm to my students. I began a program called S.A.N.D. (Students As Nature Directors). In this program my students teach 3rd graders about the oceans and its many wonders. Also, I have incorporated hands-on research based projects. The research experience has enabled my students to become more scientifically literate and capable of sharing scientific knowledge with others. This presentation will show how research/teacher partnerships benefit students as well as teachers and how my students and district have benefited from my experience as an ARMADA master teacher. Author: Debra Slade-Redden Author #2: Lew Incze
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About Company
Molecular Devices designs, engineers, and commercializes scientific instruments, software, and reagents for a wide range of bioanalyses to support basic life sciences research, drug discovery and development, and biotest and bioassay design.
With headquarters in Silicon Valley and regional as well as country offices around the world, we are dedicated to supporting and enriching the research efforts of the international BioResearch, BioPharma, and BioTesting communities.
Although we produce our corporate website in English, we maintain Business Overview sections in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. In addition, our offices in Japan and China maintain local language websites that are independent from the corporate site.
Founded in 1983, Molecular Devices introduced its first Microplate Reader in 1987 and since then has continued to broaden its offerings of bioanalytical systems for life science and drug discovery research through a combination of internal R&D and strategic acquisitions.
Molecular Devices provides one of the widest ranges of bioanalytical systems for life science and drug discovery research available from a single supplier. Our systems are built on proprietary technology platforms that deliver high performance, flexibility, and reliability. Some of our key patented technologies are listed below. For more information about any of these technologies, please contact us directly.


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Are you a book hoarder? There's a word for that
How many books is too many books? What makes you a book hoarder? What do you do when you have too many?
Frank Rose had a tsundoku problem. After he retired several years ago from his job as a state employee, he accelerated his purchases. Two years ago, he told the Friends of the Arden-Dimick Library in Sacramento, Calif., that he'd donate his books when he died, the Sacramento Bee reports. By this summer, his collection had grown to 13,000 volumes.
Finally, this month, Rose, 85, decided he didn't want to wait any longer. Library volunteers this week began packing the books — 500 boxes worth. It was the biggest donation in the library's history.
A library official told the Bee that "we're glad he didn't have to die to give it to us."
"I bought all of them, so that I could read them when I retired," Rose says in a video posted by the newspaper on YouTube.
Writer and critic Rachel Kramer Bussel approached her tsundoku problem differently.
"I wish I could honestly answer 'there's no such thing as too many books,' but as I learned from experience, that's not true," she wrote for the Toast. She hired a trash removal service to "cart away hundreds of books — read and unread, purchased lovingly or attained at book parties or conferences" from the two-bedroom apartment where she'd lived for 13 years.
"The most heartbreaking part was seeing anthologies I'd edited, with my name right there on the cover, being swept away into giant garbage cans." That's a fairly hard-core way to deal with your tsundoku problem. I'll never throw a book with my name on the cover into a trash can — among other things, it seems like bad writer karma.
"Lest you think I'm too awful a person to have let so many books find their way into a New York City dump, I will tell you that I tried to let my books go gently in the months preceding my move," Bussel wrote. "I donated hundreds to bookstores the Strand and Housing Works."