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Last week was packed with news about shirtless hunks. New movie stills of the shirtless 'Magic Mike' cast got released, Jay Byars showed off his abs as a new 'Survivor: One World' cast member, and Rob Gronkowski and Zak Bagans made us fall in love with their killer bods.
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The War of the Worlds. The book will be arranged as a "cinematic platformer" and be developed for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.
The game will have gamers playing an unknown everyman struggling to escape the Martian invasion of London and rescue his family. The everyman will be forced into having to outsmart an army of tripods and other alien war machines through a bleak, destroyed landscape.
"As a developer, we are extremely fortunate to have access to this beloved franchise," said Mike Mika, Head of Development with Other Ocean Interactive. "The team and I are huge fans of the original rotoscoped cinematic platformers of early PC gaming. This is a dream project for everyone on the team. Having the ability to approach the game in a completely retro way and pay homage to one of our favorite periods in gaming is more than we could ask for."
The game will be shown off at E3, and is due to be released on XBLA and PSN this Summer 2011.
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Similarity Detection in Source Code Using Data Mining Techniques
With the advent of the Internet, the great big world has but shrunk into a single global village. Resources, millions of them, are just a click away from any user, wherever one may be present physically. With this great luxury also come the shades of grey too. Plagiarism is one such, which is being rampant in the present days to a very high degree. In this paper, the authors present a study of three techniques, Jaccard Similarity (JS), Cosine Similarity (CS) and Jaccard Similarity with Shingles, with respect to source code plagiarism and compare the various results obtained.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Legislators in one of the 12 Brazilian cities due to host matches at the 2014 soccer World Cup have announced they will investigate allegations of overbilling for upgrading the stadium belonging to Atletico Paranaense.
Authorities in Curitiba, which is scheduled to host four World Cup games in the Arena da Baixada stadium, said they also wanted to know why construction of new bus lanes had been stopped.
"Public money that is being invested has to leave a legacy for the population, not go down the drain because of bad management," said Fabio Camargo, the state deputy leading the inquiry in the Parana state legislature.
Local news reports said a company owned by the son of Atletico Paranaense's president won the contract to provide 43,981 seats for the stadium, even though his estimate was 13 percent above that of a rival bidder.
Last week, the state auditing office decided to investigate allegations that public money was being used to fund the overhaul of the privately owned stadium.
This is the first parliamentary investigation into World Cup spending, though more are expected to follow.
Costs have risen significantly at some venues and at least four stadiums are expected to be white elephants, according to the Brazilian government's own auditing office. Several high-profile infrastructure projects are either behind schedule or have been scaled back or shelved.
Parliamentary inquiries are common in Brazil. Their findings do not lead directly to prosecutions but they can be passed to an attorney general who can decide whether to bring charges.
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Eschalon: Book II - 35-50 Hours Long
Basilisk Games tweets that Eschalon: Book II is "big" and "first time through on difficult mode will take most players 35-50 hours depending on how much you choose to explore". That should make it quite a bit longer than the first game.
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That is the kinda news that makes me happy. 2 more weeks and then we can play this game. Iam excited.
35-50 hours on difficult mode, and 10 hours on medium? Just kidding.
I never played the first but I love what I see so far - options on type of RPG experience (food/water, save differences, etc.), weather that affects things, all the little things I loved about the older games. It is on the top of my list for new games this summer.
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Cosplay is self-made and crown is the work of a friend. A note on the design, the CD cover isn't very specific as to how the bottom of the outfit looks like so I studied several fanarts/cosplayers to decide on what to do. Luckily, I found that amazing stripped fabric for the pants and I went with puffy pants (and sleeves). Also, I am wearing golden contacts in this picture even though they don't show much.
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- So far, I have to say it is one of my favorites to wear. Very comfortable albeit slightly hot for Texas weather. If you are wondering about "Delic" and "Hibiya" and why you haven't seen them in the anime or the novels, the reason is because they are both designs for CD covers. Izaya's song is Subarashii Hibi (Hibi + Izaya = Hibiya) and Shizuo's design comes from the Shizuo version of Psychedelic Dreams. The Japanese fandom has taken these versions and given them their own personalities… sort of like alternate versions of Izaya and Shizuo.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. An inexpensive photolithography process has been discovered that enables nanocrystalline "porous" silicon to be stabilized for chip making without significant loss of the material's photoemissive qualities.
With the process' discovery, manufacturers could choose the specific surface chemistry for select areas of porous silicon chips, allowing silicon to selectively respond to specific environmental cues. The resulting capability would enable designers to create selective chemical sensors, according to Jillian Buriak, a chemist at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.).
The procedure can be used to integrate light-emitting devices with silicon chips and may also find uses in new types of drug-delivery systems.
"This reaction only works on nanocrystalline silicon it belongs to this whole field of nanotechnology where properties such as color and reactivity can depend on size," Buriak said. "By cutting a material down to the nanoscale, you can change its properties. Now we can stabilize the surface of a porous silicon wafer for specific applications, since untreated porous silicon disintegrates too quickly to be useful in many environments."
Working with doctoral candidate Michael Stewart, Buriak also demonstrated for the first time specific mechanisms by which nanocrystals of porous silicon measuring billionths of a meter in diameter actually work to emit light.
Porous silicon became a hot research topic over a decade ago, when reseachers found that a standard silicon wafer, when deeply etched with hydrofluoric acid, would take on unusual physical properties. Etching produces an array of silicon columns only nanometers in diameter, to which hydrogen atoms a residue of the process are attached.
The actual material was accidentally discovered as a by-product at Bell Labs in the 1950s but was avoided until 1990, when Leigh Canham at the Defense Evaluation Research Agency in England discovered that porous silicon could absorb light, as well as emit light when "pumped" by ultraviolet light. That subsequently led to the discovery that porous silicon layers could also emit light when stimulated by an electrical current. The efficient emission of light is something that pure crystals of silicon cannot do, at least at any efficiency level that might lead to practical devices.
The discovery of porous silicon's light-absorbing and -emitting properties prompted researchers to attempt to use light to internally transmit data inside chips, instead of encoding data in electron streams or depending on external gallium arsenide chips to translate electricity into light. However, porous silicon proved to be too unstable to be commercialized, since many normal environmental chemicals such as oxygen and humidity corrode the porous silicon, thereby nixing its light-absorption and -emitting capabilities.
"Left untreated, porous silicon is too fragile to hold up in the presence of oxygen and water molecules, which interact with the surface of porous silicon to create a glass-like coating that disrupts its photoluminescent properties," Buriak said.
In 1999 Buriak reported developing a wet-chemistry methodology for functionalizing the entire surface of a porous silicon wafer, but her latest report shows how to employ an inexpensive photolithography step. This latest method allows researchers not only to stabilize the surface, but also to custom-tailor different parts of it to have different responses to specific chemical cues. This capability paves the way for use of the material as sensors.
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By simply shining moderately intense white light from a tungsten source onto the porous silicon surface for 30 to 60 minutes, the photons cause porous silicon's electrons to jump to a higher energy level, leaving a positively charged hole behind. If the chamber is filled with alkynes chemical compounds that contain hydrogen and carbon the holes react with the chemicals to form a carbon-silicon bond that stabilizes the surface.
"This is a very clean, very practical reaction that allows us to stabilize the surface without the need for special equipment," said Buriak.
One of the major benefits of this technique, compared with her previous wet-chemistry approach, is that masks can be used to pattern the stabilizing coat in different ways, on different parts of the chip.
"This method can be exploited to develop new types of sensing devices for example, if you need a device that responds in a very specific way, you can functionalize the surface of porous silicon to sense and bond only to specific sites," Buriak said.
In the lab, Buriak demonstrated how the porous silicon chips can be patterned into defined areas that prompt specific chemical reactions on different parts of the chip, enabling the integration of light-emitting devices on silicon chips for applications in optoelectronics and bioanalysis. Test chips show specific "readouts" on a chip, changing color in the presence of specific molecules.


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Even though this car has a four-cylinder engine, the driving experience is not all that different than our recently departed V-6-powered Four Seasons Q5, in that it handles more like a sedan than like a tall crossover. It's missing the $3000 MMI Navigation package, but that's the price you pay for keeping the cost below $40,000, which is pretty darn good for an upscale crossover. One other thing you sacrifice when you forgo the nav package is the radio on/off switch located on the center console, a feature I really like. On the plus side, the transmission in this Q5 has two extra gears.
In cold weather like we've been experiencing, I was happy to see that this Q5 has heated seats, and I think, after a year with our Q5, that I'm finally attuned to the somewhat counterintuitive seat heater controls. I think the confusion stems from the fact that in most cars – make that, in every other car I've driven– the seat heater and the climate control buttons are discrete units, but in this (and other Audis), they are controlled by the same dials.
– Amy Skogstrom, Managing Editor
Excuse me, where's the tradeoff? I'm sure the Q5 2.0T's smaller engine shows in zero-to-sixty or quarter-mile times, but this engine is so well-suited to this application that it is undoubtedly the best engine for virtually every Q5 buyer. At 211 hp, the 2.0T is down 59 hp on the normally aspirated V-6, but the smaller engine actually produces an additional 15 lb-ft of torque, at 258 lb-ft. Audi also throws in the excellent eight-speed automatic transmission with the 2.0T, while V-6 buyers are left with the (still very competent) six-speed automatic. As you'd expect, you'll reap the benefits at the gas pump, as the 2.0T is rated at 20/27 mpg compared to 18/23 mpg. Perhaps the only time I'd really want that 3.2-liter V-6 is if I were using the Q5's impressive towing capacity, which is pegged at 4400 pounds regardless of which engine you choose.
A Q5 2.0T sells at a $3000 discount to a comparable Q5 3.2, but you can stretch the margin even wider if you're willing to forgo some superfluous options. Our 2.0T rang in with a $7000 discount over our V-6-powered Four Seasons Audi Q5. The only option I really missed was Audi's $3000 navigation system, which enlarges the infotainment screen and moves the rotary controller from the center stack to the center console, right where your hand naturally falls.
– Eric Tingwall, Associate Editor
Can you believe this price? Like a fire sale, I tell you. I concur with spending the extra dough for the iPod cable and interface, and for heated seats (we are in the middle of a sub-zero period this week, so hard to deny seat heaters, and oh-by-the-way what about a steering wheel heater??). But I'm missing the nav. To add the nav and still keep it under $40,000, I'd give up the gorgeous quartz grey metallic paint job.
– Jean Jennings
For sure, this is the Q5 model to get. I was very pleased to see the as-tested price of $38,000, because in so many of these so-called "entry-luxury" compact crossovers, including the V-6-powered Q5, the sticker prices can so easily creep up to and beyond the $50,000 mark. There was nothing about this example that remotely felt like a "stripper," either, unless you count the lack of a navigation system, which I do not. This Q5 had satellite radio, an excellent Bluetooth interface, and toasty hot heated seats.
I first drove the Q5 in July 2008 in Valencia, Spain, and Audi of America admitted at that time that they hoped to bring the 2.0T model here, but first we'd have to make do with the more expensive V-6 model and its older, six-speed automatic transmission. They did let us drive a 2.0T model, though, and it was immediately evident that they needed to bring that model to America. It took them a year and a half after the V-6 model's debut to do it, but it's finally here, and I for one would take this smooth and refined turbo four and its smooth and refined and precise eight-speed automatic over the V-6 any day. Doing so also gets you 20 mpg city and 27 mpg highway versus the V-6 model's 18/23 mpg.
I was quite pleased that I had the Q5 over the weekend in early December when Michigan got slammed by its first big snowstorm. In addition to Quattro all-wheel drive, I had a set of Michelin Latitude Alpin snow tires at my disposal, thanks to Audi of America having the good sense to install them on our Q5 test car. I felt pretty invincible, and the Q5 scrambled up my extremely steep, snow- and ice-covered driveway with ease. Hurray for Quattro, and hurray for snow tires.
– Joe DeMatio, Deputy Editor
This is definitely the Q5 to get. No, it's not quick — 4090 pounds is about all Audi's excellent four-cylinder can handle. But frankly, who cares? If you really want to go fast, take that $7000 you've saved over the six-cylinder Q5 and buy an old Camaro.
With this powertrain, the little crossover can still keep up with traffic and never feels strained thanks partly to the efforts of the eight-speed automatic. It's otherwise just as quiet and just as pleasant to drive as models equipped with the 3.2-liter V-6. And its interior, which is very nice for $45,000 or even $50,000, becomes a real treat when the price dips to $38,000. And its fuel economy, even with the standard four-wheel-drive, beats that of most competitors, including the four-cylinder Acura RDX.
My single complaint with the Q5 has nothing to do with the engine but rather with the steering, which remains extremely artificial in its effort. Between about 5 mph and 15 mph, it becomes significantly heavier — a real annoyance in parking lots.
– David Zenlea, Assistant Editor
Is there anything Volkswagen's turbocharged 2.0-liter I-4 can't do? It blends performance and poise in the GTI, allows the Audi TTS to pack a verifiable wallop, and essentially perfects the Q5 package.
As my colleagues have noted, this is indeed the best engine choice presently available in a North American-spec Q5. Not only is the 2.0T more affordable and more fuel efficient, it also feels much more suitable to this application. The 3.2-liter V-6 is a great engine, but it almost overwhelms the small crossover with power. The 2.0T doesn't, but still provides plenty of grunt to hustle all 4090 pounds around. Unless you're counting spark plug wires or measure your existence on horsepower ratings alone, you won't miss the V-6.
Joe DeMatio noted that this model lacks navigation — no matter, but it does relocate the MMI controller. On vehicles equipped with navigation, the rotary controller, along with source buttons and a volume control, are on the center console, surrounding the shift gate. On Q5s without, those same controls are mounted on the center stack. I miss the center console location, but audio and menu controls placed on the steering wheel almost make reaching for the MMI redundant.
– Evan McCausland, Web Producer
2011 Audi Q5 2.0T
Base price (with destination): $36,075
Price as tested: $38,000
Standard Equipment:
2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine
8-speed automatic transmission
Quattro all-wheel drive
Electronic stability program
4-wheel disc brakes with ABS
18-inch alloy wheels
Trailer hitch pre-wiring
Tire pressure monitoring system
Three-zone climate control
12-way power front seats
Leather seating surfaces
Tilt/telescoping steering column
Leather-wrapped steering wheel
Heated outside mirrors
Rain-sensing wipers
60/40-split rear seat
Audi concert radio with in-dash CD player
Sirius satellite radio
Options on this vehicle:
Quartz gray metallic — $475
Heated front seats — $450
Audi music interface with iPod cable — $300
Key options not on vehicle:
Navigation package — $3000
Panorama sunroof — $1450
Bluetooth and HomeLink — $700
Rear side airbags — $350
Fuel economy: 20/27/22 mpg (city/hwy/combined)
Size: 2.0L turbocharged I-4
Horsepower: 211 hp @ 4300-6000 rpm
Torque: 258 lb-ft @ 1500-4200 rpm
Drive: Four-wheel
Transmission: 8-speed automatic
Curb weight: 4090 lb
Wheels/tires: 18-inch alloy wheels, 235/60R18 Michelin Latitude Alpin tires
Competitors: Acura RDX, Mercedes-Benz GLK, BMW X3, Lincoln MKX, Cadillac SRX


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Kei Kamara has been spending some time across the Atlantic this week, but not in his native Sierra Leone.
Sporting Kansas City have confirmed to MLSsoccer.com that the forward is in England for a week-long training stint with Premier League side Stoke City, who visited Livestrong Sporting Park this past summer for an exhibition match.
READ: Full list of MLS players training in Europe this offseason
Kamara, who did not play in the 1-1 draw against the Potters in August, will be back in Kansas City this weekend for a screening of his film, Kei, and an auction benefitting his Schools for Salone charity.
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Woke up at seven in the morning, went to the communal showers at the campgrounds, finally succeeded in showering by 9:30. Did I mention camping was a terrible idea? Although I had marked down Portugal. The Man as my likely first set of the day, the intense heat at the campgrounds had me headed for any shade I could find at the festival. I decided to hit up Rx Bandits on Sputnik's recommendation and was presently surprised – despite the rather small showing thanks to the early (12:30) set time, the band played their hearts out on the Outdoor Stage, causing a number of passerby to question who they were. The guitar dueling between Matt Embree and Steve Choi was a particular highlight, the group making a good case for a later time slot next year with a high-energy set that leaned heavily on the group's newest album Mandala.
Portugal. The Man predictably tore it up over at the Gobi stage shortly after two, playing to a crowd that was already spilling far out of the tent by 2:30. The band was expansive and appropriately psychedelic in the desert heat, with frontman John Gourley leading the way with memorable guitar lines and a confident vocal performance that the crowd took to immediately. The best received were those off The Satanic Satanist, particularly the sing-a-longs of "The Sun" and "People Say," and the feedback-drenched jam session that they closed with set the bar quite high for the rest of the Gobi's performers.
Making the choice between Camera Obscura and Girls wasn't too difficult, as I'd seen the Scottish indie-popsters a few times before, and the hipster hype building up behind Girls' live show was impossible to resist. They took to the Gobi around 3:30, frontman Christopher Owens' long mane concealing most of his face. They launched into an enjoyable, if rather expected, set that was more than passable but lacked any extra oomph. Their fuzzy cover of "All I Have To Do Is Dream," however, saved the show from being just another Pitchfork lovefest.
Saturday was hipster day, without a doubt – following Girls I trekked to the Mojave tent to check out Beach House, a band I swore I wouldn't see but which I was convinced to go to anyways so I could convince my friend how boring they'd be live. I wasn't exactly wrong, as the duo put on a set that was perfectly appropriate for the siesta timeslot they were in, but they put on a near-flawless performance, with only a few howls from the monitors interrupting their dreamy indie pop. But it was impossible to enjoy even crowd pleasers like "Norway" and "Zebra" as you would at a normal rock concert, when a quarter of the tent was sitting on the grass or entirely passed out.
Following Beach House I checked out Australian DJ Dirty South at the Sahara tent for a few minutes, just managing to catch his fantastic remix of Miike Snow's "Silvia" before running over to the Gobi to see the Raveonettes. The Danish fuzz-pop duo were a bit late coming on, explaining that they almost didn't make it due to the flight situation in Europe, and that they'd be performing without the aid of any their normal touring band. I should have expected what came next then, a throwback to some of the Raveonettes' earliest tunes with nary a power-pop gem from their latest, In and Out of Control. The crowd seemed unsure of what to do when the two spent most of the time wailing on their guitars and distortion pedals, creating a wave of dissonant sound that would've seemed more at home at a My Bloody Valentine concert.
It was refreshing, then, to relax to the down tempo electro of buzz band the XX over at the packed Outdoor Stage. The three-piece British group performed fairly faithful renditions of tunes from their debut, not really moving the crowd but never really intending to either. In fact, the most exciting part of the set was when singer Romy Croft exclaimed that a fire had broken out over by the main stage and everyone turned wide-eyed with their cell phones ready – of course, everyone found out later that had merely been the work of Coheed and Cambria's ridiculous stage show. The xx show was the first concert when I fully realized the power of Coachella's sound systems, something I'd really be punished with later on that night. Lying down on the grass during the xx, I could literally feel my head vibrate from the subwoofers arrayed out over the field. There's a good chance I lost several frequencies from my hearing that weekend.
I caught a bit of Hot Chip's immense set following the xx at the Outdoor Stage as I grabbed some dinner, but the dance-punk group have never really interested me and I soon made my way to the DJ set being put on by Kaskade at the Sahara. Along the way I heard a bit of Corinne Bailey Rae's set at the Gobi, which was surprisingly lively and rocking at a time when most of the concertgoers were traveling one way or the other. The Sahara tent was filled to the brim and more so, as tens of thousands of visitors with eyes the size of quarters prepared for an evening of top-billed DJs.
It was a little ridiculous just how widespread "party favors" were throughout the weekend, but Saturday night was the peak of everything – walking around past sunset it was easy to guess that perhaps 75% or more of the attendees were enhancing their experience with plenty of ecstasy, ketamine, and various hallucinogens. No more so was this apparent than at the Sahara, where set times were separated by as little as five minutes (no need for set up with a DJ) and the audience was one crackling mass of people, all hyped on an incredible amount of energy, music, and schizophrenic visuals and moving as one to every dropped beat. It was easy to see the DJs feed off them in turn – from Kaskade's hard-hitting set to David Guetta's throbbing house (when he dropped "Sexy Bitch," absolute pandemonium set in) to Major Lazer's dancehall-influenced dance music over at the Mojave, the south side of the festival transformed itself seamlessly into a colossal rave. Describing these DJ sets is pointless – like Coachella itself, it's an experience you have to be there for, filthy music and constant dropped beats combining with the addicting positive vibes of the crowd and the masterful ways each DJ directed it.
I pulled myself away to catch the end of Muse's performance, who concluded their spectacle of a show on the main stage with a thunderous, nearly ten-minute-long "Knights of Cydonia." Following that it was an eager wait for everyone at the main stage for the Saturday headliner, Dutch DJ and producer Tiesto. Thoughts from other acts that I had missed that others in my group had seen: some disgust at MGMT's 9:00 set at the Outdoor Stage, where the band resolutely refused to play "Kids" to the crowd's dismay and seemed intent on pushing their newest album; Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros performing a respectable set before the xx that seemed eternally hazy with pot smoke; and Faith No More's frontman Mike Patton destroying the main stage with impressive vocal range and an energy that belied the band's age and ended up with Patton crowd-surfing.
As with Jay-Z, I hardly considered myself a Tiesto fan before he took the stage to a mountainous image of his head on the video screens, but yet another astounding headlining performance converted me. It's difficult to tell whether it was the combination of the 50,000+ people who all packed in front of the main stage, overflowing onto the festival grounds and Outdoor Stage area; the dizzying light shows and intense lasers that Tiesto's crew put on; the sense that every single person attending was having the time of their life; or just Tiesto himself, who quickly proved why he had been elected as the best DJ in the world two years in a row. Every beat he dropped renewed the crowd with even more vigor, and the scene of seeing what was an entire mass of people jumping up and down as one or reaching to the sky or singing along to the ubiquitous remix of Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Heads Will Roll" was mind-blowing. Highlights included his collaboration with Tegan & Sara on "Feel It In My Bones," crowd favorite "Adagio for Strings," and relentless closer "Everything." It was a concert that no one seemed wanted to end, and needless to say, it was nearly impossible to fall asleep with the entire campgrounds still raving after that. Sunday morning was not going to be fun.


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CLEVELAND ECRM recently added a new application to the MarketGate software that drives its Efficient Program Planning Sessions conference events. The new Scorecard software allows ECRM MarketGate premium subscribers to easily develop questionnaires and various types of survey tools for a variety of critical business functions, such as global sourcing, customer and employee research, internal and external benchmarking, and more.
"This dynamic tool provides the ability to generate questionnaires to assess internal or external suppliers or as a survey tool to assess personnel or service performances," said Charles Walsh, director sourcing and sustainability, ECRM.
Walsh said MarketGate Scorecards is customizable and provides a way to select or create questions, assign or create values or measurements as a means to identify opportunities, assess capabilities and/or performance on people, companies, products or resources. He said quick and efficient emailing and reporting applications are provided to assist in sending, collecting and evaluating the results.
Originally developed at the suggestion of attendees of its European Sourcing events, explained ECRM CEO Charlie Bowlus, ECRM initially used Scorecard internally to help facilitate global sourcing for multinational retailers.
"Buyers from companies such as Ahold, Tesco and Asda told us of the tedious process they used in vetting new suppliers using Excel-based programs to document suppliers' capabilities, capacity and social and ethical practices," he said. "At their direction, we developed a Web-based application that provided a way to query several suppliers and then compare results in a variety of formats. The software has an option to attach points to answers so that a composite 'score' can help compare one supplier to another."
Since then, the technology has been made available to a broader range of users, including, retailers and suppliers, as well as government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and others for a variety of purposes that include collecting, quantifying and qualifying information important to a company's business.
ECRM has bundled Scorecard software with other MarketGate applications, Contact Manager and Product Catalog, to provide companies of all types with a Global Sourcing suite of applications that can be a "game-changer" in how they source, added Anne-Laure Borde, VP of ECRM's International team.
ECRM has used the internal Scorecard to facilitate supplier reviews for other multinationals such as A.S. Watsons, Ahold, Carrefour, Lloyds Pharmacy and Walmart. It has also been used domestically for many retailers in the United States who have used ECRM to coordinate exclusive supplier reviews.
"ECRM's Scorecard software is a fantastic way to reach suppliers worldwide to capture specific feedback in a very short period of time," said Nick Truswell, senior buying manager, Lloyds Pharmacy. "My whole team can access and share this knowledge all in one place. Without ECRM's Scorecard software, finding this information would take me months and it all can be done here with just a few clicks of a button!"
ECRM has also used the Scorecard software to help retailers such as Sam's Club and Food Lion find minority- and woman-owned suppliers as part of those companies' diversity initiatives.
"The scorecard application is a valuable tool to help accelerate attainment of diversity objectives for companies of all types," said Thom Randle, VP strategic alliances at ECRM. "The application is beneficial in classifying both existing and prospective suppliers, including those that may not be certified as minority- or women-owned. Once classified, the process can help connect the supplier to the appropriate certification organization through links on our Diversity Portal."
Scorecard software also may be used for a variety of purposes beyond sourcing, explained Kurt Repola, chief architect engineer at ECRM.
"The application may be used to survey customers, associates or others, as well as report cards for your performance," Repola said. "We had others use it as RFP, or to measure and compare service providers and even law firms. We are using the software this year to facilitate our personal review process. All associates in a department are measured in the same manner and using the Web application helps us keep reviews updated on an ongoing basis."
Since its inception in 1994, ECRM has held more than 600 of its EPPS events all over the world, including 50 conferences in 2009 alone.


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We haven't seen too many players this year, regardless of position, more impressive than Encino (Calif.) Crespi two way standout E.J. Woods. Woods committed back in the summer to UCLA and said he's still solid with the Bruins but he will take his visits.
Woods, 6-0, 195 pounds has had a very good season at both running back and safety for the Celts this year. He has rushed for 614 yards and eight touchdowns including 133 yards and a score in his teams 48-26 upset win over a very good Mater Dei, Santa Ana squad last weekend.
Woods was recruited to play safety and he could very well be the top safety prospect in the West region. He's a big hitter with excellent range and it's his ability to cover as well as play the run that seperates him from other defensive backs.
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As we mentioned, Woods gave UCLA an early commitment but will take his official visits and has already taken one a month ago.
"I visited Washington last month when they hosted Oregon," Woods said. "I had a good time and I think the coaches are coming by for a home visit next week. I'm also going to visit Colorado, Arizona State, UCLA and my last visit will be either USC or Arizona.
"I'm still a solid commitment to UCLA but if Coach Dorrell is let go, then I'm going to open things up. No matter what, I'm going to give UCLA the last shot and if there is a coaching change, I'm going to get to know the new staff before I would ever rule them out.
"Colorado was at my school today and I'm going to set up a visit there after our season is over. Same thing with ASU. USC hasn't offered yet but has been talking to me and told me they liked me so we'll see what happens. If they offer, great, if not, that's fine too. If I don't visit there, I'm going to visit Arizona.
"Right now, my main focus is on our CIF semi-final game this weekend. It's a big one for us and we're all really excited because Servite is a strong team and their coach, Troy Thomas used to coach here at Crespi. I can't wait, our team is playing well and I'm excited to have the opportunity to play for a CIF championship if we can win this one."


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The mystery of the illogical logic gate
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It's midnight, you haven't found the bug yet, and in the morning the government contractor is visiting to see the prototype, but the logic isn't acting logically.
The Project
My first engineering job was when I was in college working for a famous professor who was a leading error detection and correction theorist. He had a contract for a government agency to build 5 error correction processors. These single board prototypes used a mix of complex LSI components and a few scattered logic gates. The processor was micro-coded in PROM and implemented Galois field arithmetic (Lots of shifting and XOR-ing to create finite field adding and subtracting. It was interesting stuff for an undergraduate engineer) to detect and correct errors in communications channels.
The Problem
We had 4 of the 5 prototypes working and the government program manager was visiting the next day to review the operation of all the prototypes. I had 8 hours (if I worked all night since it was already midnight) to get the last device working. It was making a maddening error. Just about 99% of the operations worked fine, but some data patterns failed- always on the same instructions, so I knew it wasnt noise, clocking or power issues. The trouble was that the errors wouldnt show up until many cycles in the process. How could I figure out which operation started the error?
The Process
We were smart enough to design-in signature analysis as a part of the final test process. Signature analysis breaks all loops in the design (for example the address counter just steps thru the micro-instruction PROM) to create a tree of data pattern at each test node. A Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) circuit in a digital probe compresses the probed data pattern into a 16-bit result, so that on the hundred or so test points we had a unique digital signature for each probe location (except for the few all zero or all one patterns). By comparing the failing board to a known good board we could determine which circuit was failing. (Since the processing loop was now broken, the error didnt propagate from one processing cycle to the next. It would be easier to track down.
The Culprit
After probing around on the board for several minutes I was able to track errors at the edge of the tree back to the first failing node on the error filed limb. The output was failing the signature test, but all the inputs were OK. The failing device was a four-input AND gate (remember 7400 TTL?). Figure 1, below shows the failing device.
Figure 1: Failing Four-input AND Gate
The Analysis
Well the solution seemed pretty simple- the gate must be bad. I pulled the part out of the socket and put a new one in. I reran the test, but the same error came up! The signature was the same as on the previous part. What was going on?
In order to look at the gate more closely I put the board in a single step mode and looked at some data patterns on the AND gate using a logic analyzer. Since there were only 16 combinations I was able to step thru several cycles and observe the inputs and outputs. Everything worked fine- the AND gate created a high when all inputs were high. But one combination was wrong. When all the inputs were low the output was high too! What was going on? There couldnt be two devices that failed in just the same way could there?
The Answer(Spoiler Alert think for a minute and see if you can figure out what was wrong...)
After considering for a bit I decided to get all the data so I probed all the pins on the device, even power and ground just to be complete. What do you think I found? The power pin on the device was unconnected! When did that mean? After thinking a bit about what I learned in my TTL logic design class I figured it out. When at least one input to the gate was high, the device was drawing enough power thru the input that the device would operate OK and the output would be correct. If all inputs were low however the device would power off and the output would float high and be incorrect! (If I had used an oscilloscope earlier in the debugging process and treated the problem as a possible analog issue instead of a purely digital one I probably would have found the bug sooner, but at that time I was a digital only designer and hadnt crossed over to the dark side yet). I connected power to the device and reran the test. It worked! It was 2AM so I put the now working board with the others, left a note on the door for my professor and went home. Plenty of time to get some sleep before the project leader showed up at 9AM. Unfortunately I was so excited about fixing that bug I couldnt sleep.
Warren Miller has over 30 years of experience in the electronics industry working in product planning, applications, marketing and engineering. He has worked for AMD, Actel, Anvet, Marshal, MMI and Velogix. Warren is President of Wavefront Marketing, a technical marketing consulting company, serving the semiconductor, IP and EDA markets.


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" Genre: Folk - Irish Folk / Artist: Saw Doctors / Audio CD released 2005-10-17 at Shamtown "
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I thought it was about time I done a review on the Saw Doctors newest album "The Cure".
A lot of you may not have heard of this band, and I shall tell you a brief bit about them before I go on to mention the album.
The Saw Doctors are an classed as an Irish rock band although they have a varied mixture of songs ranging from rock, slow ballads, rock and roll, and deliver you through all good well thought out songs.
They originated from Galway in West Ireland firstly playing at bars such as Tis Coli where they were first noticed.
The Irish bars are different to the English ones as there is a small table at the right hand corner of the pub for the different acts to perform, being bands, fiddle playing or any other.
Their names are :
Davy Carton - Vocals, Guitar
Leo Moran - Guitar, Vocals
Fran Breen- Drums
Anthony Thistlewaite - Bass guitar, Harmonica
They are one of the most popular groups in Ireland and have done around fifteen albums with a few being hits compilations.
This Album was made in 2005 and reached the top ten in Irelands album charts.
The songs on the album are as follows :
Out for a smoke
Medium paced song about somebody who wishes that he could turn back the clock and do things all over again to try and get them right.
Last summer in New York
Fast paced track about somebody who is last out of his friends to be in New York and thinking about going home.
Good lyrics and well paced song.
Stars over Cloughanover
This is a slowish but happy song about somebody walking home at night looking at the stars and doesn't want to be anywhere else as he loves it there.
This has a good slow beat and rythum to the song.
If only
A track about somebody who wants to tell his feelings to somebody of how he feels for her but never done it.
A medium paced track with a good story behind the song.
Wisdom of youth
Medium paced song about growing up and the things that you realize.
One of the longest tracks of the album and one of the best written.
A song about someone who likes a girl but behind his back she talks about him and can't even look him in the face when he speaks to her as she knows that he does.
Me without you
A medium paced song about looking at somebody else, seeing them alone and imagining himself to be like that without his wife.
Going home
A song about somebody looking forward to going home at Christmas and seeing all the frost like he used to remember the place, and waiting for the moment to see his family again.
Your guitar
Good fast paced song with a lot of Guitar music ! This is a track about loving the sound of your guitar.
Funny World
A song about all of what happens when you think about what people want to do with their lives.
Another medium paced song with good instrumentals for the background.
I'll say goodnight
Slow paced song about somebody knowing that he has met someone good and wants to spend the rest of his life waking up to her every morning.
Well thought out lyrics.
All in all I thought that this was their best album they have ever made, all of the songs are very well written, sung, and the instrumentals are marvelous. I found this was a great mixture of slow, fast and a lot thought provoking songs.
Tracks like "Last summer in New York" I liked as it was a good fast paced track with a good beat, and others like "I'll say goodnight" and "Stars over Cloughanover" were thought provoking songs with slow thought out lyrics and easy to follow songs.
The length of the tracks is very good with the average being four minutes long.
The instrumentals are a big part of the band and the guitar is a big feature in some songs more than others. There are quite a lot of mixtures for every song weather it be drums and guitar, or harmonica alone.
The Cover of the CD just simply has the band standing in a field, not all jazzed up as it didn't need to be.
The CD itself has a good printing of The Cure title with The Saw Doctors overlapping it.
You can visit their website at : sawdoctors.com
If you do have the chance to listen to this great band then this album would be the perfect choice as this was my first Saw Doctors album that I had listened to. I do have a few more to my collection now though !
Hope you have all enjoyed this as much as I have the album,
Disc #1 Tracklisting
1 Out For A Smoke
2 Last Summer In New York
3 Addicted
4 Stars Over Cloughanover
5 If Only
6 Wisdom Of Youth
7 Vulnerable
8 Me Without You
9 Going Home
10 Your Guitar
11 Funny World
12 I'll Say Goodnight


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I am learning strings..and I came across this prototype for the strncpy function..can someone please explain..
char *strncpy(char *to_string, const char *from_string, int size);
I understand most of it..except..why is strncpy of type pointer to a character?? and what does const (??) char*from_string mean??
Why is it a constant? Is it cos it doesn't change? would I type in const??
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Reiki: from stress to relaxation to a healthier life
Article by John Nye is a Reiki practitioner based in Surbiton, Surrey
Pressure and stress
Pressure is a part of human life – and often a productive one. Pressure gives us an edge that makes us perform. It can lead to innovation. Many of our earliest inventions such as tools and language may have come from the pressure to survive in a hostile environment. Having to meet deadlines can make us take shortcuts that then become more efficient ways of doing things.
But too much pressure can make it difficult for us to cope. It ceases to give us a 'buzz' and becomes a burden. Where pressure led to innovation, it now leads to poor decisions. This is stress.
Stress can be brought on in all sorts of ways – the death of a close relative, a divorce, a move of home, work or just the pace of modern living. Some of these are relatively short-term and once we have got through them we can operate normally again. Others are much longer lasting and there's no let-up, possibly for years.
Manifestations of stress
Stress can manifest itself in many ways, for example: Grumbling stomach upsets or backaches · Continual tiredness and the inability to recover from the week at the weekend · Irritability · Poor sleeping patterns · Feeling 'down' ·
Getting things out of proportion
Most people will probably have experienced these as minor symptoms at some time or other – perhaps before an examination, flying or a dental appointment. For others, the symptoms can develop into full-blown clinical depression, resulting in the loss of jobs and the break-up of relationships.
Extent of stress
Stress is now a major problem for modern society – not just for individuals. The Health & Safety Executive estimates that around 13 million working days are lost through stress-related illnesses and that a third of new sickness reports result from work-related stress. Each stress-related illness results in, on average, about 31 days absence from work. Add to this sickness that comes from stress that is not work-related and you can see just how widespread the problem is. And many more people try to deny or hide the fact that they are under stress because they see it as merely 'lack of moral fibre' not a real illness. Somehow it's acceptable to be ill with a bad back but not stress.
So why is stress becoming more common?
We now live in a 24-hour society disconnected from the natural rhythms of nature and, simply, our bodies are not designed for this. For most of us who live in cities it never truly gets dark and light pollution means we never get to see the stars. Our exercise is taken in a gym rather than the open air – even if we have a dog we can pay someone to walk it for us. The technology of mobile phones, laptops, email and the Internet means that it is never possible to get away from work completely. Either we convince ourselves that we are indispensable or are so fearful for our jobs that we go along with this.
It is only in the last hundred years or so that the majority of the world's population has come to live in cities. Our evolution took place in an agrarian environment where each season required giving our attention to different tasks. But now, instead of the opportunity rest and renewal afforded in the darker months, we are expected to be as productive in winter as in summer, contrary to our bodily rhythms. So it's perhaps no wonder that the Health & Safety Executive report that one in five people say their jobs are either very or extremely stressful and that over half a million people reported that they had experienced workplace stress to such a level that it had made them ill. (Remember too that these are likely to be underestimates because of our society's attitude to mental health.)
So, what can we do about it?
This is where Reiki comes in. Reiki is a form of hands-on healing developed by a lay Buddhist monk called Mikao Usui in Japan in the early 20th century – though it may be even older than that and was merely re-discovered by Usui. Reiki is Japanese for the universal life-force energy – the energy that drives the whole of creation, whether originating from a deity or not. Unlike much in the modern world, a Reiki treatment is wonderfully simple and non-invasive. The 'recipient' stays fully clothed lying on a couch or sitting in a chair whilst the 'therapist' places their hands in a sequence of positions on or above the 'recipient's' body. In dong so the 'therapist' is opening a channel through which the universal life-force energy passes into the 'recipient'.
I have deliberately put the words 'therapist' and 'recipient' in inverted commas. What actually happens is that the 'recipient' is drawing energy into them with the 'therapist' acting as a channel and nothing more. So with a Reiki treatment you act as your own healer. More importantly, you are now directly in contact with all that is, with the force of nature, the universal life-force energy iself. And by so doing the disconnection we talked about earlier has been removed.
Everyone experiences a Reiki treatment differently but a common theme that emerges is one of relaxation. Over 95% of my clients report that they feel more relaxed after a treatment than before and, of those that do not, not one has ever said that they feel more stressed. So having Reiki treatments on a regular basis is an ideal therapy to combat stress. Even more good news Because of its simplicity Reiki is very easy to learn. It takes only a weekend (on what is known as a 1st Degree course) for you to be able to treat yourself, friends, family and other living things. Daily self-treatment is a wonderful way to remove stress and, once you know how, you can treat yourself any time, anywhere – on the train, at your desk, in bed first thing in the morning or last thing at night. A further course (2nd Degree) teaches you, amongst other things, how to send Reiki backwards and forwards in time for your own healing. The 1st Degree course also teaches you
5 principles for living a healthier life.
Just for today, I will live the attitude of gratitude. · Just for today, I will not worry. · Just for today, I will not anger. · Just for today, I will do my work honestly (be true to myself). · Just for today, I will show love and respect for the whole of creation.
By focusing on the here and now and on the positives in life rather than the negatives, these principles also combat stress. Let's face it, when was the last time worrying or getting angry made you happy? Most likely, it stressed you out.
So Reiki = Less stress = A healthier you
A simple equation. But think about it. Stress prays on your mind making it more difficult to cope with the challenges of everyday life. It eats away at your immune system. It gives you sleepless nights. And remember, to some degree, this is happening to all of us, all the time (so it's nothing to be ashamed about). Finding a means of relaxing makes you more able to cope with pressure and, in turn, strengthens your immune system, meaning you are less likely to get ill and will recover more quickly if you do.
With benefits like these, what do you have to lose by trying (and even learning) Reiki?
John Nye is a Reiki practitioner based in Surbiton, Surrey. John can be contacted on 020 8287 6550, 07710 306 460 or visit the website – http://www.reikijohn.co.uk/
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Saturday, December 04, 2010
Fourth man indicted in Somali terrorism case
By Greg Moran , UNION-TRIBUNE
SAN DIEGO — A federal grand jury in San Diego indicted a fourth man on Friday for conspiring to aid the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab by helping send money to the militia group.
Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud, 35, of Anaheim was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and money laundering.
The indictment was handed up on Nov. 19 but not unsealed until Friday afternoon, when Mohamud appeared in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Jan M. Adler and pleaded not guilty.
He remains in federal jail downtown without bail pending a Dec. 7 hearing. Federal prosecutors want him detained because they said he is a flight risk and a danger to the community.
The indictment said Mohamud was involved with three San Diego men who were indicted in October on the same charges of conspiring to provide help to al-Shabaab. They are Issa Doreh, 54, Basaaly Saeed Moalin, 33, and Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud, 38. They have pleaded not guilty.
Those three had a court hearing Friday at which a lawyer for Mohamud indicated federal authorities are still probing links between the San Diego Somali immigrant community and al-Shabaab.
Mahir Sherif told U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller that he has been told the government has been subpoenaing people from the Somali community to testify before a grand jury. Outside of court, Assistant U.S Attorney William Cole, one of the prosecutors on the case, declined to comment on Sherif's statement.
The indictment against the three men alleged that Moalin raised money on behalf of an al-Shabaab military leader, and then coordinated fundraising and money transfers with Mohamud and Doreh. The charges are built in large part on FBI wiretap recordings of phone calls of the defendants. Cole told Miller there are some 1,200 such recordings that will be turned over to the defense, though about 120 of them are material to the case, he estimated.
Prosecutors will also turn over electronic and paper records from a money transfer business that they allege was used to ship the money.
The indictment unsealed Friday against Ahmed Mohamud alleges that in one call in December 2007 Moalin told him that money was needed for "the young men who are firing the bullets." In a July 2008 phone call, the two said they would "lay low" and then "proceed with financial support under the 'pretense' of helping the poor," according to the indictment.
Cole said he did not know if Ahmed Mohamud was related to Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud.
Federal prosecutors have also charged a woman, Nima Yusuf, 24, with providing support to al-Shabaab by sending at least $800 to fighters in the militia and allegedly agreeing to help recruit one man in San Diego. She has pleaded not guilty.
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A Wicklow Town Councillor has called for a No vote in the Children's Referendum.
Independent Cllr Pat Kavanagh said she is concerned if the referendum is passed the State might move too early to forcibly remove children from families for adoption.
Speaking to RTÉ, Cllr Kavanagh, who has fostered a number of teenagers and who was a social care worker for 16 years, said fostering costs the State a lot of money and she is concerned there is an element of cost-cutting about the proposal.
She also said adoption has ongoing consequences in that children will lose contact with their parents but also with siblings and grandparents, as extended family will have no right of access to an adopted child in the long-term.
The vote takes place on 10 November.


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text: Johannesburg - With fewer than 70 days to go before matric final exams, school governing bodies and the education department are bracing themselves for a possible shutdown of schools on Monday."It is a national disaster," said Jaco Deacon of the Federation of Governing Bodies of SA Schools (Fedsas).Contacted for comment, education department spokesperson Granville Whittle said: "It's probably close to what will happen."Two more teachers' unions will strike as part of a broader rejection by 1.3 million public service employees of the government's offer of a 7% wage increase and R700 housing allowance.Figures submitted to the education department showed that between 70% to 90% of schools reported stayaways in eight provinces, with Western Cape showing the least effect at around 5%.On Thursday the National Professional Teachers' Organisation of SA (Naptosa), which represents 42 000 employees, said it would strike on Friday and Monday, and the SA Onderwys Unie (SA Teachers Union), which represents 28 000 people, on Monday.They would join the SA Democratic Teachers' Union, which has 245 000 members, who are already striking. There are about 400 000 "active" teachers registered with the SA Council of Educators.Schools had not been declared closed for Monday, by mid Friday afternoon.Call for interventionA mass march was planned for next Thursday as public servants push for an 8.6% wage increase and R1 000 housing allowance they say will help them keep up with rising costs.Said Deacon: "Our plea is to the department of education and district officers to immediately intervene."Principals were not allowed to close schools without an instruction from the provincial head of department. They have to wait for an immediate threat before they can do so."Adults can deal with intimidation, but what about a Grade R child, or, a child of six or seven? They look up to these people."Many parents have opted to keep their children out of school until the matter is resolved.In the meantime, following a security cluster meeting on Friday, security would be stepped up at public facilities, including schools.A much "firmer" stance against unions would be observed at schools from Monday, but more details were not immediately available.A statement issued by the education department said it would deduct the days lost from teachers' salaries in the next pay run, which is September 15 for most teachers.Inflammatory statementsMeanwhile, provincial education MECs and Education Minister Angie Motshekga planned to have separate meetings with union leaders to discuss their concerns."We want the unions to rein in these members that make themselves guilty. And certainly it is not all members of the unions," said Whittle, who had earlier issued a statement commending Naptosa's call for no violence and intimidation by its members.He said the department was especially concerned about inflammatory statements made by regional or local union leaders which were encouraging people to disrupt schools.The department would rely on principals' professional judgement if they wanted to close schools, but they needed to contact their circuit manager if they chose to do so."We are aware that it has been a difficult time for school principals over the last couple of days because of high levels of intimidation that we have seen... Our approach has been from the word go, safety first."Matriculants, who also lost schooling when holidays were extended for the 2010 World Cup, were trying to form study groups and use study aids.The department would work with the SABC to continue radio programmes aimed at Grade 12s.At the beginning of the year President Jacob Zuma said he was concerned that the matric pass rate dropped to 60.7% for 2009 from 62.5% in 2008.


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19.1 Million Votes Cast As Campaigning And Alliances Kick Off All-star Game MLB.com Final Vote Sponsored By Firestone
Yu Darvish and Chipper Jones hold slim leads after 42 hours of online voting; Races wide open as nine candidates already have surpassed one million votes
Jul 03, 2012, 10:34 ET from MLB.com
NEW YORK, July 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Baseball fans have begun the 2012 All-Star Game MLB.com Final Vote Sponsored by Firestone (#FinalVote) where they left off after breaking records across the board during balloting for the elected starters – a record-setting start – by casting 19.1 million online votes for the 10 candidates. That mark was 13.7% higher than last year through 42 hours.
With more than two days of online voting remaining until balloting closes at 4 p.m. (EDT) on Thursday, July 5, both races for the final spot on the American League and National League All-Star rosters are wide open as nine of the 10 candidates already have surpassed one million votes. As the annual creative campaigns and Club alliances take shape, here are the current standings:
American League
- Yu Darvish (TEX) - #VoteYu (A2)
- Jake Peavy (CWS) - #TakeJake (A5)
- Jason Hammel (BAL) - #VoteHammel (A4)
- Ernesto Frieri (LAA) - #VoteFrieri (A3)
- Jonathan Broxton (KC) - #VoteBroxton (A1)
National League
- Chipper Jones (ATL) - #VoteChipper (N5)
- David Freese (STL) - #FreesePlease (N2)
- Bryce Harper (WSH) - #BryceIn12 (N3)
- Aaron Hill (ARI) - #FinHillVote (N4)
- Michael Bourn (ATL) - #VoteBourn (N1)
Fans also can use their mobile phones to vote at MLB.com/vote or via text message. To receive the All-Star Game MLB.com Final Vote Sponsored by Firestone mobile ballot, text the word "VOTE" to 89269. To vote for a specific player, fans can text the choice to 89269. EXAMPLE: Text "A3" to vote for AL Player 3 or "N3" to vote for NL Player 3. Msg&Data Rates May Apply. Mobile voting in Canada also is available and fans should text their choices to 101010. Std rates may apply.
Baseball fans have cast over 300 million online votes since the All-Star Game Final Vote program's inception in 2002. In recognition of this milepost, MLB.com is giving eligible voters a 14-day free trial of MLB.TV from July 6-20, 2012. Fans will receive an e-mail notifying them of the instructions for redeeming this All-Star Final Vote offer.
The 83rd All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports; in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS; and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. Pregame ceremonies will begin at 7:30 p.m. (EDT)/6:30 p.m. (CDT). ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide exclusive national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network, MLB.com and Sirius XM also will provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com or royals.com/asg.
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Heaven. Not too heavy on the Jasmine, so you can brew it strong. Perfectly subtle and demure white, just the way it should be. Significantly diminished aroma on resteepings, unfortunately, and the aroma that remains overpowers the especially subtle flavors that normally come out of a silver needle after the first cup. A bit pricey, though, I want to find a cheaper Jasmine.
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Cable101, that was harsh...and a tad arrogant don't cha think? I will stand toe to toe with you in a Survivor trivia game anytime, and I have a memory disorder!! I have put S9 and S10, along with four episodes of S11 to poetry. My love and devotion for the show is no lesser or greater than anyone's, but one thing it is not...is questionable. I would elaborate, but I've got nothing to prove.
You say you tend to not be swayed by editing anymore, fine, but are you aware that, though perhaps not swayed...you're totally obsessed with it?
When a player steps up and knocks a target out after three attempts...when in actuality they made ten attempts...that's a "no big deal" editing job that probably would never be noticed because nobody cares. But when it's thirty, that presents a skewed impression of that player's challange performance. Plain and simple. If some Survivor fans don't appreciate it, they don't have to appreciate it. But they also don't have to have their comprehension skills questioned either. :mmm


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Bachelor Pad: The Best And Worst Thing To Happen To My Television Lately
Crushable has created a monster. I had to start watching The Bachelorette so I'd be able to recap it every week, and I'll be damned if I didn't get addicted to it. I foolishly tricked myself into thinking that I could watch it without caring about it, but fast forward to the present and I can recite back every bachelor's name and when and why he was eliminated. And now come to find out that they take the rejects from those shows and throw them onto another show called Bachelor Pad where the guy to girl ratio is equal and let them compete for love and money? Be still my beating heart!
So that's the attitude that I went into the premiere of the new season of Bachelor Pad with, and I was not disappointed. This season, there are fifteen contestants from previous seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette and six fans of the show…except really five, because two of them, Erica and Brittany, are 22-year old twins competing as one person. Yeah, it's that kind of show. Everyone has to pick a teammate right off the bat, and the two of you compete together in challenges to try to stay in the game. If you win, you get immunity, and if you lose, you each get one automatic vote. Interestingly, people aren't lumped together as couples, though, so even if one person gets voted off, the other person can technically still stay, as long as they don't get the most votes as well.
The first challenge was bracing yourself inside a heart shaped container as it tipped more and more horizontally until couples fell out one by one. Erica Rose (from Lorenzo's season) and her partner Nick (from Ashley's season) were the first to fall, and the winners were David, an MMA fighter who's a fan of the show and his partner Brittany, who's one half of the set of twins I mentioned before. They all got to go on a date together to some sort of amusement park with roller coasters and a Ferris wheel. And yes, I do mean all of them — when you win with the twins, you get to go on a date with both of them. Just another weird twist in this oddly brilliant show.
The first episode was pretty much just a mish-mash of people getting to know each other and pairing up. Some highlights: Ed, the winner of Jillian's season, is a sloppy drunk, Kalon is just as sheisty as we all thought during Emily's season, Nick is an idiot who got his fellow fan Chris eliminated by revealing his plan to eliminate Erica Rose, and I've already been disappointed by the first girl eliminated. She was a 24-year old fan named Paige who ended up paired with Reid, also from Jillian's season, and the two of them actually had a good spark. BUT NO MORE! It was squashed by the cruel Bachelor Pad gods, and now all I'm left with is an addiction to another trashy ABC show.
First. World. Problems.
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Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith is donating $100,000 to help the survivors of the movie-theater shooting in Colorado pay for medical expenses.
Smith didn't know any of the victims of the July 20 shooting in Aurora, which left 12 people dead and 58 injured. But the news hit home because he says his oldest son Peyton was at a similar midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Returns" in Charlotte that same night.
Smith said the thought of losing one of his family members was frightening and was moved to do something to help.
"I can't imagine getting someone severely injured, one, and then, two, trying to figure out how to pay for it," Smith said after arriving for the start of the Panthers training camp.
Smith made the donation to the city of Aurora, which will distribute the funds to the victims.
Smith is involved in a number of charitable organizations across the country, many of which go unnoticed.
But he says he made the donation public by having his agent send out a press release because he wanted to challenge others in high-profile positions to use their platform to step up and help contribute to the cause.
"Economic times are tough right now and (my family) has the means to do it," Smith said. "We have a chance to lead and hopefully other people will see that. People get prideful and say, 'Hey, this guy did that. Why don't I do more?' … I don't think it's a publicity job, I think it's a chance for people to think about what are you here for? Are you here to store up your treasures or are you going to give it to people who are obviously in need?"
Smith arrived at training camp on Friday with a new beard and a hat that read "I love my life."1 comment on this story
"I do love my life," Smith said. "All of the people that are going through some of the things they're going through, sometimes you need a perspective."
STEELERS SIGN BROWN: The Steelers signed wide receiver Antonio Brown to a five-year extension that will keep him in Pittsburgh through 2017. Brown, voted Pittsburgh's most valuable player by teammates last season, was entering the final season of the three-year contract he signed when he was drafted out of Central Michigan in 2010. He would have been eligible for restricted free agency after this season.


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One of the hard parts about summer cooking is keeping the food light. While I love pulled pork, big steaks, and juicy hamburgers I can only take so much heavy food. This sous vide beef salad with figs is a nice alternative to some of the heavier meals while still giving me my beef fix.
The beef is cooked sous vide and then quickly grilled. The salad consists of some mixed greens, including radicchio for some bitterness. I topped it with chopped up figs for sweetness and some sunflower seeds for crunch. Here I used a light lemon vinaigrette to dress it but you can use any dressing you like.
It is a nice, quick salad to put together and the sous vide beef adds some heft to it without making it too heavy. Here I used a sirloin steak but you can use any cut of beef you like, or even use sous vide chicken or turkey on it.
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Preheat the water bath to 131°F (55°C).
Salt and pepper the steaks then sprinkle with the cumin and dried thyme. Add to the sous vide pouches and then seal and place in the water bath. Cook the steaks for 3 to 10 hours.
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Combine the lemon juice and garlic in a bowl, add some salt and pepper and let sit for a few minutes. Slowly whisk in olive oil until the mixture thickens.
Take the sous vide beef out of the pouches and pat dry. Sear it on a very hot grill for 1 to 2 minutes per side.
Cut the sous vide beef into strips or bite sized pieces.
Add some of the lettuce to two individual bowls. Top with the sous vide beef, the figs, and the sunflowers. Dress with the vinaigrette and serve.
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Sterling gray is an awesome color for a F 150!
I love this color because it gives off a black hue at times, looking at the hood when driving in the rain. I think it is more like a charcoal gray. Anyone else with a gray truck know what I am talking about?
No idea what you're talking about. But I love my 2010 F150 FX4 sterling gray!!!!!
I don't know what you are talking about either but I love my 12 Sterling Gray truck.
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The food is okay but the service is terrible. It's not the least bit Irish, so don't go there expecting it to be an Irish pub. They do half-priced burgers on Tuesdays, which is why we went tonight.
We sat for about 10 minutes with no one approaching us and watched two more groups get seated. A guy approached the group a few tables away, a girl approached the one in the booth directly behind us, and we were ignored. My husband caught the girl as she walked past and told her we were seated first and hadn't been greeted yet. She said she would find out who our server should be. The discussion with the hostess happened within earshot of our table. Apparently the hostess didn't tell anyone whose table it was, so the one serving the people behind us rolled her eyes and ended up being our server.
We waited for about 15 minutes before our order came out on a tray with the food for the people behind, despite our order being entered several minutes before theirs. That explains why my fries were lukewarm. The food was brought by someone other than our server, who tried to escape like she had dropped a bomb. We managed to ask for condiments and silverware, though. We saw our waitress once for the rest of our meal, when she asked how we liked our food and filled my husband's water. Lucky for us the couple behind us accosted the hostess to get their bill, and when the waitress appeared we got ours at the same time.
This the second time we've been for the half-priced burgers, and the second time we've gotten bad service. While the burgers are tasty it doesn't make up for the severe lack of service.
POS bar with only overweight dudes everytime I have been there. Good luck.
The food is so great here! However, that's where it stops! Service is very poor. The management, if there is any, is very poor and it shows.
Skip it. Food isn't good. Waitstaff is not attentive. Overpriced.
Nice place inside. Been there three times. Home chips are good. Brie appetizer is good. We've had three entrees and all were really bad. Corned beef and cabbage. Oh man! They served me a pile of deli meat on overcooked cabbage. Not at all what I expected. For the price I was charged, I was expecting real cooked corned beef and cabbage not something thrown together from the deli counter. Gave them a second chance. Unfortunately, the french dip sandwich was MUCH worse. Au jus tasted like it came from a can. The little bit of meat was dry and crumbly. Sorry but it was really, really bad. Husband's pizza was awful, too. In this area, you HAVE to cook great food if you want to continue serving food. There are just too many great restaurants to choose from.
Oh, by the way, the entire time we were there tonight, not one smile, not one thank you from the staff.
Two beers, home chip appetizer, an individual pizza and a french dip sandwich with 3 tablespoons of french onion soup for a side cost us $38.73 before the tip.
And we were so very excited to get a neighborhood pub. It will only be snacks and beer for us from now on.
Excellent decor, less than acceptable service. Understandably, the bartender was alone. They would do well to have a more experienced tender flying solo. Frankly, I would be very surprised if the management knew their employees (if they are employees) were on a review page giving lip service to customers. Maybe is a little more indicative of their service and attitude than I normally give reviews credit for. Place has great potential.


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Dragonwell is one of the finest of the green teas. This organic Dragonwell is one that I can't seem to keep in my pantry, I love it in the afternoon and early evening. It is smooth, bright and uplifting. I usually get 2-3 brews off the leaves when I am concentrating on a project, it is magic.
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Impacts could be much greater near estuaries, lagoons and river mouths
By Summit Voice
SUMMIT COUNTY — When it comes to sea level rise, not many countries have as much to lose as the Netherlands, so it should be no surprise that Dutch researchers are closely tracking the impacts of coastal erosion.
In one of the latest studies, scientists from UNESCO, the Technical University of Delft and Deltares say the effects of coastline erosion as a result of rising sea-level rise in the vicinity of inlets, such as river estuaries, have been dramatically underestimated.
Using a new model that incorporates input specific to coastal inlets like river estuaries and lagoons, the researchers found that most existing models show only about 25 to 50 percent of the coastal erosion that will occur as the climate warms and sea level continues to rise.
These places are affected by other factors, such as changes in rainfall due to climate change, and certain compensating effects (basin infilling). The other processes that occur in the vicinity of inlets are of at least equal importance and coastline change in these areas as a result of rising sea levels has until now been strongly underestimated.
Until now, science has lacked a model that takes all these effects into account in the calculations of a coastline's future development, even though a demand for this existed among engineers, coastal managers and planners.
The new model was in turn applied to four different and representative coastal areas in Vietnam and Australia, where testing showed that it's possible to get a more accurate picture of impending changes, contributing to coastal management and planning in practice.
The research has been published in the Sept. 2 online edition of Nature Climate Change.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422857.post2545961339119747533..comments2017-02-12T20:28:12.844-05:00Comments on Biblical Evidence for Catholicism: David T. King and William Webster: Out-of-Context or Hyper-Selective Quotations from the Fathers on Authority: IntroductionDave Armstronghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422857.post-67633368792437897392013-11-10T19:31:52.411-05:002013-11-10T19:31:52.411-05:00Basil talks about plenty of issues with regard to ...Basil talks about plenty of issues with regard to tradition: not just customs. The next entry will be devoted to him.Dave Armstronghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422857.post-32959411759163448992013-11-10T19:29:18.259-05:002013-11-10T19:29:18.259-05:00Dave, you may not recall that Mr. Sponburg recentl...Dave, you may not recall that Mr. Sponburg recently posted a specific observation that Webster had made, to which I responded. Webster said, according to Mr. Sponburg, that Basil appealed to tradition only to support "liturgical customs" but not to establish any doctrine.

I pointed out that, for Catholics, there is no liturgical custom that does not embody or reflect a teaching. Therefore, Webster's dichotomizing "liturgical custom" and "dogma" as two exclusive, non-overlapping categories does not hold for us.

It would be absurd, after all, for Webster to ask Catholics to treat liturgical customs as meaningless, but they would in fact be meaningless if they were not the visible expression of some idea; i.e., doctrine.

Liturgy is the primary vehicle of sacred tradition. We cannot exclude liturgy in assessing the doctrinal content of tradition, as Webster does.Adomnanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422857.post-42092159806875694552013-11-09T21:23:10.030-05:002013-11-09T21:23:10.030-05:00Likely will in due course if they massively distor...Likely will in due course if they massively distort it like they did with St. Cyril (today's entry).Dave Armstronghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422857.post-59730730947219141732013-11-09T20:52:38.212-05:002013-11-09T20:52:38.212-05:00Please address Webster's claims about Basil...Please address Webster's claims about Basil's understanding of tradition.Ken Sponburghttps://email@example.com


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The Supreme Court decided not to touch a 2010 state Court of Appeals ruling that the Department of Public Safety must release complaints against its law enforcement officers.
The Court of Appeals had rejected the agency's argument that the complaints were confidential personnel records and therefore not subject to the Inspection of Public Records Act.
Sarah Welsh, executive director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, said the Supreme Court's decision reaffirmed the public's right to know and to hold public officials accountable.
"The Court of Appeals opinion is now good law, and we can refer to it when people request similar documents in the future," she said in a statement.
The Department of Public Safety went to the Supreme Court after losing in the Court of Appeals.
The high court considered written and oral arguments in the case before deciding unanimously last week not to revisit the Court of Appeals ruling.
That settled a dispute that arose in 2006 when Charles Cox, a former captain with the state Motor Transportation Police Division who had been fired the previous year, sought complaints made by citizens against a patrolman.
Cox had been fired in part for making a racist comment about the patrolman, who was black.
When Cox was denied the records he sued in federal court, claiming he was fired in retaliation for exercising his right to free speech. A federal court ruled against Cox's civil rights claim but forwarded the public records issue to state court.
A state district court in Santa Fe ruled that the citizen complaints should be kept confidential; the Court of Appeals reversed that ruling.
— This article appeared on page C1 of the Albuquerque Journal
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Deputy head of World Bank stresses importance of law for equityListen /
Law matters as a tool for achieving equity, according to the legal Vice-President of the World Bank, Anne-Marie Leroy.
Speaking at the 7th session of the World Urban Forum in the Colombian city of Medellín, she said that law shapes our cities, the land use, the institutions and the finance.
She said that law is a tool but policy comes first.
"You must get your policy right first. Law is a tool that will help you achieve equitable cities, for instance, setting rights through public services and enforce those rights and help people to have them enforced."
She also said that the rule of law does not only apply to States, it also applies to cities.
"It is also law that will allow people to have their property rights recognized, have their economic activity respected, enforced and protected by the court. "
Anne-Marie Leroy pointed out that cities generate more than 80 per cent of the world 's GDP
Emma Reverter, United Nations, Medellín, Colombia.
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We will be leaving for a month in Jamaica on the 29th of January and as usual we will be staying at Roots Bamboo Cabins for the first two weeks. We then plan to explore the Hope Wharf area for 3 or 4 days then return to Roots.. Has anyone been there and can you give us any tips on accomodations. We would like the cabin type of accomodations near the beach.This is my 42 or so trip to Jamaica and am interested in looking a little further into the island.Anywhere up past Bluefields is what we are looking for. Thankyou, Barry
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