text: January 8, 2014 SHARE Jim Ross Blogs on WWE Network Jim Ross has posted a new blog where he goes in-depth about the WWE Network and what it means for all involved, including WWE, the wrestlers, and the wrestling fans. Ross noted that the idea of the Network has been around for a long time and even though he's no longer an employee there, he wishes WWE success with this new concept. Here's an excerpt from the blog: "Big day for WWE fans and those that earn a living within WWE. The long awaited announcement regarding the new, WWE Network is set for later today in Las Vegas. This will be a critical day in WWE history, one way or another. More to come after this…. Millions of dollars and thousands of man hours have been invested in the WWE Network to be able to get to this point and to announce the long awaited specifics of what many feel could be a game changer for WWE. Since the days when I was with the company, going back in the 90's, we were actively pursuing buying old, wrestling tape libraries. So the goal of having a WWE channel or network has long been discussed. Even though I am no longer employed by WWE nor do I foresee ever becoming a WWE employee again, I am certainly pulling for their success with the Network concept. The Network will re-introduce some of the great old school memories that many of us long time fans have plus educate an entire demographic of young fans as to the vanishing art form of in ring story telling and extemporaneous speaking. One major key to the success of this Network is the development of NEW programming as it cannot be only about the old, tape libraries. I can see live, interactive programming being produced on a daily basis which, if true, then it provides several talents with opportunities to contribute to the brand and the network. It also provides an opportunity for some talents to essentially reinvent themselves if they can bring something to the table. There's much more to read in this extended editorial by Jim Ross. In addition to WWE Network talk, Ross discusses Matt Morgan leaving the wrestling business, Roman Reigns, WWE & TNA's TV negotiations this year and more. You can read the blog here and be sure to visit WrestleZone tonight at 9:30pm EST for live coverage of WWE's major announcement. SHARE ON FACEBOOK SHARE ON TWITTER Major Star Spotted In Las Vegas, Possible Involvement In Tonight's WWE Network Announcement? WWE Network Officially Announced - WrestleMania Included, Legends House, Monday Night Wars, Plus Release Date & Pricing Information jim rossWWEwwe network Have a news tip? Attended an event and want to send a live report? Submit it now!


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Pinnacle has launched the PCTV Nano stick, a compact USB digital TV tuner designed for those wanting to watch digital TV on their laptops.
Pinnacle claims the ultra-sensitive DVB-T reception technology in the tuner can pick up digital TV even if the signal is weak. It works by plugging in the Nano device to a laptop or PC USB port and picks up TV broadcasts either via the rod antenna Pinnacle supplies as part of the package or through an existing TV aerial.
Fully compatible with PCs running Windows Media Center, the Pinnacle Nano tuner is bundled with a remote control and Pinnacle TV Center Pro software. This offers a timeshift function so viewers can pause and rewind live TV.
Viewers can record TV programmes to the laptop's hard drive and save them in Mpeg 1, Mpeg2 or DivX format. Alternatively, TV programmes can be recorded direct to a DVD. The Pinnacle PCTV Nano Stick also allows users to record free-to-air HDTV programs in Mpeg2 as well as the new Mpeg4 H.264 (AVC) standard.
"Its incredibly 'nano-sized' design makes it the perfect match for today's thin laptops and compact desktops," said Tanguy Leborgne, Pinnacle Systems vice-president of worldwide marketing.
The new Pinnacle PCTV Nano Stick tuner is available from www.amazon.co.uk and is priced at £39.99.
Terratec's Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS FM tuner is a similar USB tuner that offers viewers the chance to view, pause and rewind live digital TV broadcasts. Available from www.terratec.co.uk, the tuner costs £59.99.
A further option is Freecom's DVB-T USB Stick which costs £23 and is available from www.freecom.com
Technical specification of PCTV Nano USB TV tuner
• Digital and analogue TV tuner for notebooks and PCs
• Timeshifting function
• Remote control
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Insider Trader is a column about professions, written by Basil "Euripides" Berntsen, who also writes Gold Capped. If you're looking for general auction house advice, you'll find it in Gold Capped; Insider Trader focuses on specific trade skills.
Glyphs and inscription are getting a serious overhaul in Cataclysm. I read an excellent write-up of the new system on my friend Kraklin's blog and realized that I haven't yet posted an Insider Trader on the new system! This will have an impact on people who make their money with inscription, as well as be a nice quality-of-life change for people who find themselves changing their spec and glyphs a lot.
As soon as the pre-expansion patch 4.0.1 launches, we're no longer going to have to buy glyphs more than once per character. Once you learn a glyph, you will always see it in your spellbook and will be able to switch between your known glyphs with a Dust of Disappearance, made by scribes from the same ink used to craft glyphs. While this won't mean much if you tend to stick with a single set of glyphs, if you change them around a lot, you will find it easier to manage and less expensive. On the live servers, every time you make the change, you often end up paying enormous markups on glyphs -- there can be sporadic supply due to the massive number of auctions that need watching if someone is selling glyphs. After 4.0.1, assuming we know the glyph already, we'll just have to buy a single dust, and every scribe in the auction house will be competing for that business.


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Jun. 25, 2014
Source: Ohio State University news release
Farmers can learn how cover crop blends can improve their income and soil health at a July 8 field day sponsored by Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.
The workshop will also feature information on a joint project with Battelle Memorial Institute researching organic materials that can bind soluble reactive phosphorus and reduce phosphorus runoff from drainage tiles into Ohio waters, said Rafiq Islam. He is the soil, water and bioenergy resources program leader at Ohio State University's South Centers in Piketon.
The project uses an organic-based pellet material made from crop residue developed by Battelle, which is specialized to absorb soluble reactive phosphorus, said Islam, who holds joint appointments with Ohio State University Extension and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center.
OSU Extension, OARDC and South Centers are all part of the college. Battelle is a private, nonprofit applied science and technology development company based in Columbus.
The workshop is being held in conjunction with Battelle and Pike County Soil and Water Conservation District. It will be held from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the OSU South Centers, 1864 Shyville Road, in Piketon. There is no cost to attend the event, which includes dinner. The deadline to register is July 3.
The pellet material, which is being piloted in trials at OSU South Centers using specially designed runoff and leaching field plots, can be a significant economic boost to farmers by reducing the current rates of phosphorus fertilization and improving water quality, Islam said.
The material binds soluble reactive phosphorus, preventing phosphorus from leaching, becoming surface runoff or entering drainage ditches. That way, less of the phosphorus enters waterways, and more is kept on the field, Islam said. "
"This material, when saturated with phosphorus, can then be recycled to use the retained phosphorus back on the field for the crop's benefit," he said.
The workshop will also focus on several cover crop blends to demonstrate how they can benefit growers by reducing operating costs (such as nitrogen fertilization and nutrient recycling), increasing farm income, and building healthier soils, Islam said.
Dave Brandt, a Carroll, Ohio, corn and soybean farmer, will also speak during the workshop. Brandt is nationally known for his work in farming with cover crops, Islam said.
The cover crop discussion will look at about five different varieties of cover crop blends, including mixtures of shorter, medium and taller species to improve soil health and maximize farm benefits, he said.
"Cover crop blends contribute to a lot of diverse quality to organic matter in the soil as residue and will suppress weeds and diseases, and diversify the soil biology," he said. "Cover crops also recycle nutrients and control soil erosion by increasing water infiltration."
Cover crops can also provide an additional source of income if growers choose oilseed radish, Islam said.
"Growers can sell the radishes they produce to farmers markets or ethnic markets," he said, noting that radishes can sell for 99 cents per pound. Diversification of flower-based cover crops in blends can also improve bee pollination and honey production.
For more information on the workshop or to register, contact Charissa McGlothin at 740-289-2071, ext. 132, or email@example.com.


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The Lake Anna Quarter is found above the man made Lake Anna, Virginia which is a reservoir.
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Adler forgoes birthday gifts for charity donations
The actor, who plays mean jock Dave Karofsky in the hit series, serves as spokesperson for children's organisation City Hearts: Kids Say Yes to the Arts, and recently created his own scheme through the initiative.
Max's ABC: Anti-Bullying through City Hearts aims to help youngsters get through hard times, and Adler insisted on generating cash for the cause for his birthday last month (Jan12).
He explains, "This year, for my 26th birthday, I am asking anyone who wishes to give me a gift to please visit www.cityhearts.org and donate what they can to help the kids who truly could use it. That would be the absolute best birthday present for me!
"My goal with Max's ABC is to inspire kids to 'Be Brave Enough to Be Kind' and I know that City Hearts' theatre, dance, photography and other arts programs stimulate these children's creativity, and give them a higher sense of self-esteem and purpose in the community and the world. And when that happens, the thought of bullying others will not even enter their headspace."
Adler has already raised thousands for the charity. In a post on his Twitter.com page, he writes, "$7,320 raised from all over the world for CityHeartsLA. Such fantastic news! Thank you to everyone who contributed!"


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Three E-Books That Are Making the iPad Sing, Just in Time for Summer Reading Season
Technology changes quickly, and sometimes, so does my own mind. In January, I wrote a dismissive column about two e-book titles tailored for the Apple iPad, Alice for the iPad and Why the Net Matters. My main beef was that the apps, which had been lauded by the New York Times as "superbooks," contained more glitz than substance. With its rich multimedia capabilities, the iPad has the potential to transform the experience of reading, but these titles fell so far short of the mark that I feared they'd permanently turn off the growing number of people who would like to read books on this powerful tablet.
In the past few months, however, publishers have introduced at least three new titles that bolster my confidence in the future of iPad e-books. Ironically, only one of the three is by a living author: Al Gore's Our Choice, a book in which the former vice president urges people to take action to combat climate change. The other two are multimedia reworkings of literary classics from the 20th century: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Together, they provide a great survey of the interactive techniques publishers can use to make a book's core textual content much more interesting and memorable. In fact, these three titles are so good that I think the publishing industry can look to them for an early set of best practices for building tablet-based books, which I'll attempt to outline below.
And of course, they're fun to read. With prices ranging from $4.99 for Our Choice to $13.99 for The Waste Land, these books might seem pricey compared to the typical 99-cent mobile game. But they deserve a place in any serious iPad aficionado's app collection.
I'm thinking now that my January column was premature. It's easy to forget that Apple's remarkable tablet device is only 15 months old. It takes time for designers, developers, and publishers to figure out a new platform's strengths—and when it comes to books, they're competing with a medium that's had half a millennium to mature. So I think it's natural that we're only now seeing some real innovation in the category of standalone, "appified" e-books (as distinct from the more conventional static texts that you can easily download and read using Apple's iBooks app or Amazon's Kindle app).
For sheer multimedia richness, Our Choice is the standout among these three e-book apps. The book is littered with "wow" moments right from the opening screen, which shows a spinning Earth, complete with the reader's location as a pulsing blue dot. There are slick videos, arresting full-screen photographs, and extensive narration from Gore himself. One memorable information graphic shows 2,300 years of world population statistics; as you scroll forward through the years by swiping your finger from right to left, the chart's y axis compresses to dramatize the exponential growth since 1800.
Nearly every image, chart, and graphic in the book includes similar interactive elements, and they're all tied together by a long, scrolling ribbon of thumbnails along the bottom of the screen that functions in place of a table of contents. It's a tour de force in interaction design the likes of which I haven't seen since the golden era of CD-ROM edutainment titles in the mid-1990s.
It would be wrong, of course, to focus on the multimedia bells and whistles to the exclusion of the book's message. The app's main text is lifted directly from the print edition of Our Choice, which first appeared in late 2009. It's a solution-oriented sequel to Gore's alarming 2006 film/book/lecture An Inconvenient Truth. The main point is to survey the technology and policy steps governments and their citizens must take soon if we're to have any hope of slowing greenhouse-gas emissions and heading off catastrophic changes in world climate. If the interactive elements actually got in the way of this critical story (as they do in Alice for the iPad and Why the Net Matters) I'd be worried. But in practice, the people who built the app—New York-based Melcher Media and e-book software startup Push Pop Press—made design choices at every point that privileged the message over the medium. There's nothing gratuitous here; every piece of non-textual content drives home the bigger message.
I would say the same thing about The Waste Land, a multimedia-enhanced version of the landmark 1922 poem by T.S. Eliot, except that I'm still not sure what the message is. This is one of those literary masterpieces that I escaped studying in high school and college—which is just as well, since I probably wouldn't have understood it then either. But now that I've perused this edition's extensive footnotes, listened to its audio recordings, flipped through its image gallery, watched video interviews with such literary lions as Seamus Heaney, and taken in the amazing performance of the entire poem by Irish actress Fiona Shaw, I feel that I've at least risen to the level of informed ignorance. (You might say that the app has helped me to sense what I don't know, and thereby escape the dreaded Dunning-Kruger effect.)
The Waste Land is quite a departure for Touch Press, the digital publisher best known for its iPad apps The Elements and Solar System. It has little in common with those heavily illustrated, science-oriented apps beyond its clean, soothing design. Touch Press built the app with help from Faber Digital, the multimedia wing of the London publishing house where Eliot himself was once an editor, which means there's no shortage of interpretive material. Indeed, I can't really imagine a more thorough treatment of a single 434-line poem. In addition to the full text, there are annotations and references for nearly every line, the aforementioned interviews and performances, readings by Alec Guinness, Ted Hughes, and Viggo Mortensen, and even a facsimile of Eliot's original typewritten manuscript with hand-written edits by Ezra Pound.
You might think that layering on this much supplementary material would shroud the work itself. But as Shaw acknowledges in one of her interviews, The Waste Land is a big, portentous, hard-to-decipher poem; for the most part, the extras have been carefully selected to make it more approachable. I think I'm starting to figure out that it's about war, urbanization, mental illness, mythology, and disillusionment. As Shaw puts it, "This man has scraped a rake across the 20th century and gathered a sort of leaf-mold heap of what it was about."
If T.S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein had moved back to America, toked up on amphetamines, and had a love child, it would surely have been Jack Kerouac. The third e-book app I want to recommend today is the new Penguin Books "amplified edition" of On the Road, the thinly fictionalized 1957 travelogue that crystallized the Beat Generation's world view and made Kerouac famous.
At the center of this app, designed by Burbank, CA-based 1K Studios, is the book itself, with a minimal and judicious set of notes that, helpfully, identify the characters—Dean Moriarty is Neal Cassady, Carlo Marx is Allen Ginsberg, etc. But that's nothing you couldn't get from a cheap paperback edition. What justifies this app's $12.99 price tag, as with The Waste Land, are the extensive extras. It's a like a Peter Jackson movie with five DVD bonus discs. The features just keep coming at you in waves: photos from Kerouac's life, video interviews with Carolyn Cassady and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, profiles of the other Beat writers, letters between Kerouac and his publishers, and annotated maps showing the three cross-country trips by Kerouac in 1947, 1949, and 1950 that form the basis of the novel. Most riveting to me, the e-book contains about half an hour of recordings of Kerouac himself reading from the book.
The effect, again, is to contextualize On the Road in a way that would be almost impossible in a print-only edition. I envy the new generation of high school and college students who are likely to have their first encounters with Kerouac and other authors in this format.
If you ask what makes these three iPad titles so successful, I think a few lessons pop out for future e-book designers:
- Start with a decent text; it's hard to make a masterpiece look bad.
- Respect the text. It's the digital era, but these are still books, not movies with liner notes.
- Select extras that reinforce or explain the main message.
- Use design solely to streamline access to the text and the extras. Avoid decoration and chartjunk.
- Think about tasteful new ways to utilize the touch-based tablet interface. (For example: you can fast-forward or rewind through the videos in The Waste Land simply by swiping left or right; there's no fussy time bar.)
- Don't be afraid to charge for value. The best 1990s-era CD-ROMs sold for $30 to $50; the new iPad titles are at least as good.
Smarter people than I will no doubt come up with more ways to make tablet-based books fun and interesting. For now, these three titles should keep your summer from turning into a waste land.
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"Do you want me to turn on the ballgame?"
That query came underscored by the dulcet tones of the wife. It came my way as I was poring over a crossword puzzle.
"No, thanks," I muttered. "I'm not interested."
"Some sports guy you are: Not interested in the World Series!"
She was correct. I'm supposed to live, breathe and eat sports in this job. Yet, despite my strong proclivity to do so, I had zero interest in the World Series.
E.C. Glass has a couple of neat football traditions.
Last weekend, the Hilltoppers played Heritage. At stake was a trophy jug.
When the team plays Jefferson Forest, it is in the Black and Blue Bowl, with a beat up medical kit as the trophy. Aside from being a nod to the physical nature of this particular game, the name also carries the two schools' principal colors: black and blue.
As my old friend Barry White used to croon, "Too much of anything isn't good for you, baby."
OK. Barry White and I were not friends. The late, great baritone, in fact, had no idea of my existence.
But the line from Barry White's classic, "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe," rings true enough.
At least it does when it comes to sports.
The good thing about sports is that you're never 100% sure of an outcome.
The bad thing about sports is the exact same thing.
Take the state of baseball. Going into the season, I expected the Giants and Yankees to return to the World Series. At a minimum, I expected them to make the playoffs.
Neither did.
How many of you expected the Pirates and Indians would catch the playoffs from places other than the field of play? If you're like me, your expectations were wrong.
Virginia is for lovers.
Or, so stated the old advertising slogan.
Virginia is also for smart folk. The Commonwealth has one of the finest portfolios of colleges and universities in the nation, if not the world. I believe that Virginia is the top dog when it comes to secondary education opportunities.
In my job I have the opportunity to chat with some of our local high school athletes. Invariably, the topic that comes up when talking with seniors is their future plans.
Here are a couple of items for your consideration. I wanted to share them, but I couldn't stretch any of them into a full column's length.
Consider it housecleaning for the old noggin.
While I must confess to having never heard of Diana Nyad prior to last week, I am startled by her accomplishments.
"So, your new lady friend is a Wiccan, huh?"
Those words were spoken to me many years ago.
At the time, I lived in Richmond. At the time, my next door neighbor was a musician: as laid back as they come. He was a pleasant fellow, cut from the stereotypical cloth of the 1960's style hippie.
He had wandered over my way after the woman who would become the wife had just departed my abode, asking his nonsensical question.
"What are you talking about, Cory?" I asked.
Serious topics merit serious action. And discussion.
Lately, things seem to be getting fired up about the Washington Redskins.
The debate isn't whether the team has the right pieces in place to make the playoffs (it does).
Nor is it about whether last year's sensation, RG III, will be pushed into action prematurely (I certainly hope not).
The controversy is over the team's name. Now, this issue erupts every so often. Now, on the cusp of the season, it has arisen once more.
My summer is over.
At least, my summer as it relates to Major League Baseball is done.
I blame Neal Huntington and Clint Hurdle. They are the general manager and manager (respectively) of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
With my Cubbies swirling the drain, I have been pulling for the Pittsburghers to take the NL Central. Of course, any of the other teams in that division are preferable to the hated Cardinals of St. Louis.
It would appear that the Steroids Era is back from the grave.
But absent the fun that came with it.
The Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun seems to be the latest Major League ball player who couldn't resist steroids' siren call.
These days, big-name players are getting hit with big-time penalties. Braun will sit out a 65-game stint, making him useless to the Brewers for the rest of the season.
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Heroes of War Collection: Volume 2 DVD
Starring C.V. France, Elizabeth Allan, Leslie Banks, Frank Lawton, Basil Sydney, Mervyn Johns, Valerie Taylor, Edward Rigby, Marie Lohr, Harry Fowler, C.V. France, David Farrar, Patricia Hayes, Thora Hird, John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews, Liam Redmond, Peter Arne, Diane Clare, Richard Leech, Cecil Parker, Michael Hordern, Leslie Phillips, Bryan Forbes, Patrick Allen, Alfie Bass, M.E. Clifton-James, Vera Day, Marius Goring, James Hayter, Sid James, Duncan Lamont, Victor Maddern, Frederick Jaeger, John Le Mesurier
Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Triple bill of WWII movies. Classic wartime propaganda thriller, 'Went the Day Well?' (1942), is based on Graham Greene's short story, 'The Lieutenant Died Last'.
A platoon of German paratroopers plan to place a signalling device in an English village in preparation for an upcoming invasion.
Disguised as British troops, all goes according to plan until vigilant local postmistress Mrs Collins (Muriel George) has her suspicions aroused by some clues left by the Germans.
Unfortunately, respected villager Oliver Wilsford (Leslie Banks), the man who she informs of her suspicions, is actually a fifth columnist in league with the enemy.
With the Germans now aware that the game is up, they quickly revert to their back-up plan and take the entire village hostage.
As they try to maintain an appearance of normality in the village, the Germans soon find themselves beset by the heroic attempts of the villagers to raise the alarm to the outside world. 'Ice Cold in Alex' (1958), starring John Mills, takes place after the fall of Tobruk.
Two English Army officers and two nurses drive an ambulance through occupied North Africa to Alexandria.
They pick up a South African officer and more than once avoid capture and death whilst crossing the German lines and minefields laid on the way.
However, as the South African officer begins to undermine their confidence, they come to suspect him of being a German spy. 'I Was Monty's Double' (1958) is based on a true story documented in the book by M.E.
Clifton-James. In an effort to confuse the Nazis, an actor (played by M.E.
Clifton-James himself) is forced to play Field Marshal Montgomery and is strategically positioned to cover the real man's tracks.
- Format: DVD
- Region: 2
- Certification: (PG)
- Catalogue number: OPTD1972
- Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
- Release date: 11/10/2010
- Genre: War
- Colour: B/W
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Earnings Disappoint At Nokia And Ericsson
Published: October 20, 2006
The Nokia Corporation, the cellphone maker, disappointed the market Thursday with a 4 percent slide in third-quarter earnings as low-priced phones continued to drive sales in emerging markets.
Its Swedish rival Ericsson also posted third-quarter results below expectations, but wooed investors with a positive outlook for the remainder of the year.
Nokia said net profit was 845 million euros ($1.06 billion), compared with 881 million euros in the period a year ago. Analysts polled by the Swedish research firm SME Direkt had forecast a net profit of 879 million euros ($1.1 billion).
In Helsinki, Nokia shares closed down 3.6 percent, at 15.36 euros ($19.29).
Sales rose 20 percent, to 10.1 billion euros ($12.7 billion), with both cellphones and multimedia handsets showing strong growth. Nokia sold 88.5 million mobile handsets in the period -- a third more than in 2005. The research group IDC said Nokia remained in the No. 1 slot for the quarter, with a 35 percent market share, compared with 32 percent a year ago.
But the closely watched average selling price of Nokia phones slumped to 93 euros ($117), down from 102 euros in the second quarter, reflecting a higher proportion of low-end phones sold in emerging markets.
Ericsson said on Thursday that third-quarter profit rose 17 percent, helped by strong results at its co-owned handset maker, Sony Ericsson.
Net income in the quarter was 6.23 billion kronor ($844 million), compared with 5.31 billion kronor in the period a year earlier, but below analysts' forecasts. Sales rose 12 percent, to 40.8 billion kronor. Profit margins fell slightly as the company's services business, with historically lower margins, made up a bigger share of its operations.
Ericsson's chief executive, Carl-Henric Svanberg, said the integration of Marconi, which the company bought for $2.1 billion in January, was largely complete. Ericsson, which is based in Stockholm, took charges totaling 2.9 billion kronor related to restructuring at Marconi and a career change program for employees in Sweden.
The company also posted a one-time gain of 3 billion kronor related to the sale of a defense business to Saab.
Shares of Ericsson rose 0.45 kronor, to 27.05 kronor in Stockholm.


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Sculptor Chosen For MLK Statue At State Capitol
The governor's office said Monday that Andy Davis, who is based in Henry County, has been selected to make the statue that will stand in the northeast quadrant of the Capitol grounds overlooking the newly built Liberty Plaza.
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Wed., August 28, 2013 2:01pm
Freedom Rings At Stone Mountain
Dozens of people trekked to the top of Stone Mountain Wednesday afternoon to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Stone Mountain was one of the places Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. mentioned by name in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech that day.
Thu., April 4, 2013 10:22am
45th Anniversary Of King Assassination
Thursday marks the 45th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. In his hometown of Atlanta a wreath will be laid outside the church he once led. Church leaders are also challenging youth to 50 days of nonviolence.
Mon., September 26, 2011 7:21am
MLK Estate Sues TV Anchor
The estate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has filed a federal lawsuit against a television news anchor in Mississippi claiming that he has documents taken from the slain civil rights leader by a former employee, the anchor's mother.
Mon., January 17, 2011 2:55am
Atlanta Honors Native Son MLK
On this day commemorating the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr, thousands gathered in an Atlanta church where the civil rights activist preached his message of nonviolence. Political leaders said the teachings were especially relevant in light of the recent shooting rampage in Arizona.
Sat., October 9, 2010 12:04am
MLK Site Marks 30th Year
One of Atlanta's most popular tourist destinations is marking a major milestone this weekend. The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site is commemorating its 30th anniversary on Sunday with a community celebration that is free and open to the public.
Thu., September 2, 2010 4:21am
SCLC Control Dispute Ruled On By Judge
After nearly a year of dispute, control of the SCLC will be given to a group that includes the son of Martin Luther King, Jr.


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Mysterious family secrets lie hidden....
Archelologist Jonas Biggs has been hired to do the dig at Andersonville Prison, the worst POW camp during the Civil War. He has taken along his niece, Savannah Biggs, the only child of his twin brother, John. As the past is uncovered, the Biggs family get much more than they bargained for. Savannah is the only female born since before the war. She wears a Celtic cross given to her by her father, who received it from his father. It has been handed down for generations. At the dig, a second cross, which is a mirror image of Savannah's, is unearthed. A skeleton is discovered at the deadline. What do these two finds have in common and who is behind the mysterious things that keep happening to the family? What terrible secrets are hidden in the finds, and will they be uncovered?
©2009 Yvonne Mason (P)2011 Brook Forest Voices
"Great Civil War History-Mystery"
I think once was enough for me.
It's not a typical mystery thriller with a current or on-going murder spree. This tells the story in current time, unravelling the mysteries at an archeological dig; and then back in time, as the events were happening at Andersonville.
... Weeelll, she was a little toooo sloooow to listen too. She had such a slow southern drawl that you could lose track of the story line as she was getting to the end of a sentence. The story would have been just as powerful, just as suspenceful if she had stepped up the pace a bit ... y'all.
Not extreme, but it made me look up some factual info on the actual Andersonville and read more about the Civil War in general.
Strong women have always wanted to contribute to military service any way they could, even if it meant disguising themselves to do it. I think they were brave precursors to the WACS & WAVES of WWII.
"Interesting History, Predictable Story"
While I enjoyed some of the historical details about the Andersonville Camp and the lives of the Civil War Soldiers, many of the contemporary elements (including the mystery) felt incredibly telegraphed. It was easy to guess the elements of the mystery, and the dialogue was exposition heavy at points.
There were some great details and moments described during the Civil War portions of the book, and the author clearly knows how to set a stage. That said, the mystery elements just didn't work for me personally.
"Good Story, Bad Narrator"
This is a well-researched story that works well for fans of the time period (Civil War). However, the narrator sounds like she's reading to a kindergarten class and it's just too hard to get past. Ok, I'm not a southerner, but do all people of the old south speak so slowly they sound lobotomized? And do all southern women have to sound like little girls?
I'd say read this book rather than listen to this version.
"Secrets live forever"
This book offered me a real unsanatized version of what Prisioners os war endured dung the civil war. The modern story was nicely dispersed between the horrors of the past.
The psychological impact that secrets have upon families and how fear and shame impact people of all ages.
The narrator seemed As if she was a
It inspired me to do more detailed Internet research into Pow camps and the civil war. Especially regardig the camp and characters in the book.
I think this is an excellent story and is well worth the price even though I was not impressed at all with the narration.
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Search is on for latest revolution in engines
The race to come up with Britain's smartest motoring breakthrough is entering its final lap. The deadline for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders' award for automotive innovation — sponsored by GKN and supported by The Times — is midnight on September 12.
The award, in its fifth year, was created to recognise British-born technologies that will make an impression on the motor industry for decades to come.
Last year's winner was Ford's smaller-but-more-powerful, fuel-efficient, one litre EcoBoost engine. It was created at the group's Dunton research and design centre in Essex and already features in 100,000 cars around the world. The winner in 2012 was the Yorkshire-based Optare bus company, which developed electric buses that are becoming more prominent on city streets. Runners-up…


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When it comes to matters of sexual health, Britain has something to learn from Brazil, according to Professor Hazel Barrett. Yes, Brazil, where a footballer with a keen eye for goals could go to a motel room with three prostitutes without, apparently, noticing that they were all men.
While Ronaldo's escapade hit the headlines worldwide, HIVAids would appear to be yesterday's news. The blanket coverage that the disease attracted in the 1980s is a distant memory, and the assumption has long been that, in the UK at least, it's confined to the gay community and those who inject hard drugs.
"That's not true, here or in Brazil," says Barrett, who has won the Geographical Association's 2008 Award for Excellence for her work on Aids. "The difference is that the Brazilian government has recognised the problem at an early stage, and targeted those most at risk. It has become the first country in the developing world to offer anti-retroviral therapy free of charge, as well as putting in place a clean-needle scheme."
And the UK? "We have the drugs here, but they're not targeted at those who need them most, because many of them don't have access to the health service."
Even more important, she says, they're not getting the advice they need. "Although the drugs can slow down the effects, they can't stop the spread. Infection acquired through heterosexual sex is now exceeding other sources."
So who are the people that need to be alerted in language they can understand? Illegal immigrants, for the most part, she says, from sub-Saharan Africa, where the epidemic continues to cut a swath. Barrett has observed its effects at close hand in the course of many years of research.
What concerns her is that the British government has yet to address steeply rising rates among heterosexuals. "It's high time that we had a new Aids-awareness campaign targeted at those most at risk of spreading it," she says. "It's a sensitive issue because of perceptions of neo-colonialism, and fear of whipping up anti-immigrant feeling."
And surely it's difficult to devise a campaign aimed at those who may have no legal right to be here in the first place?
"We have to get real," she insists. "These people don't live in a bubble. We have to find imaginative ways of getting the message across through word of mouth. Plays and stories are the traditional ways in Africa. They could be staged in church halls, community centres or schools. If we don't do something, we're putting all our young people at risk. There's a reservoir of infection here that could spread all too easily through the wider population."
It's a grim thought, on a bright summer's day outside the cafe attached to Coventry's stunningly redeveloped art gallery. Barrett is based at the university next door, where she is head of geography, the environment and disaster management. She hardly seems affected by the fierce midday sun beating down on us. But then, if you spend lengthy and frequent spells in Africa, the temperature in the English West Midlands hardly feels tropical.
Wary of white people
Her department's research on the spread of infection in the UK started 20 miles up the road in Birmingham. "One of my master's students, Betselot Mulungeta, comes from Ethiopia and understands the nuances of language and custom," she explains. "We needed a sensitive insider who is trusted by a community that is likely to be wary of white people like me going in and asking questions. But we'll work together on producing a couple of papers based on his research."
Barrett is working on her third book, to be published next year, on the importance of health in the developing world. She likes to place her department's output, if possible, in publications that are likely to be read not just by academics but also by teachers, NGOs and policy-makers.
But what's the point of lobbying for a targeted campaign on Aids, I ask, when African men have such a bad reputation when it comes to using condoms?
"You only have to look at the teenage pregnancy rates in this country to realise they're not the only ones," she replies."You also have to try to understand why they're not using condoms. I remember talking to a man who was sleeping around in Zambia, quite possibly infecting at least a dozen women. 'If I change my behaviour,' he told me, 'people will suspect that I have Aids, and I shall be ostracised.'"
She adds: "There are such things as female condoms, and they're regarded as quite safe. Indeed, they're now being promoted in Africa."
They may provide a glimmer of hope for the women, or rather girls, with whom she spent some time in Freetown, Sierra Leone. "They were aged from 12 upwards, and they were sex workers," she recalls.
"Some had been sex slaves in the rebel armies involved in the civil war. Others had been orphaned by Aids. They lived in a community, overseen by a madam who counted them out and counted them back, looked after their children and cooked them food. For those girls, this was the only family they had.
"We assumed that they were taking risks with their health, and their children's wellbeing, because they didn't know any better. In fact, they had knowledge, but there were other constraints upon them. Men's reluctance to pay for sex with a condom was one. Their clients' distaste for lactating women was another.
"I remember being with an 18-year-old whose baby was crying. 'I can't afford to feed her,' she said. And when I pointed out that she should be breast-feeding, she surprised me by saying: 'I know. But if I go out to work and I start leaking, then men don't want me.'"
Small wonder that Barrett sometimes arrives home in rural Warwickshire and counts her blessings. "You have to stand back and take stock," she muses. "You think to yourself: 'This is dreadful, but it's happening and I mustn't turn away from it.' You can't judge people in these circumstances. Occasionally, you think: 'But for the luck of the draw, or the grace of God, that could be me.'"
She was brought up in a small bungalow in rural Essex by parents who left school at 14 with no qualifications. Both are now in their 80s, and immensely proud to have produced a professor.
Do they worry about her spending so much of her life in Africa?
"My mother does. I have to ring her regularly to prove that I'm still alive," she smiles. "But they both know that I've been fascinated by the place since childhood."
Exotic stamps
Where did this interest stem from? "School, I suppose, and - this sounds really naff - Sunday school and stamp collecting. Those pictures on the stamps seemed quite exotic in the days before colour television."
Along with a colleague from the politics department, Barrett is doing some research among recent British settlers in the Gambia.
"Around 3,000 British nationals have registered with the high commission," she says. "They're buying villas along a narrow coastal strip where they've enjoyed holidays. You don't have to travel more than half a mile inland and you're into abject poverty, but they never go there."
And how have Gambians taken this invasion? "They're very welcoming, although there are sometimes clashes with Muslim sensibilities. Some of the middle-aged women think they're Shirley Valentine.
"Very few have any idea of the health issues in the tropics. Some haven't even got health insurance. If you saw the state of the hospital, you'd think they were mad."
Ignorance about matters of health, sexual or otherwise, would seem to apply to UK immigrants in Africa just as much as to African immigrants in the UK.
Curriculum vitae
Age: 52
Job: Head of geography, the environment and disaster management at Coventry University
Before that: Lecturer in development geography at Derby University
Likes: springtime and chocolate - "fair trade and organic, of course"
Dislikes: spam emails and loud music - especially karaoke
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There is currently a huge trend going on right now across the county where families create seasonal "bucket lists" of things to do together. To create your own "Summer List", sit down with your family members and brainstorm a list of activities that you would like to accomplish this summer. Lists can be as simple as a handwritten checklist on a chalkboard to a fancy print out. There are many free "Summer List" printables available online if you want to follow a pre-made list. In my family, we sat down and created a list together and I typed the list on a Word document using clipart images. I printed out the list, cut it into squares, and tacked it to a large cork board. After accomplishing each task, we would take a picture and print it out. The picture would then be placed over the task to "check" it off the list. By the end of the summer, we had a beautiful cork board filled with family memories!
1. Home Stories A to Z 2. Funky Polkadot Giraffe 3. Sweet & Lovely Crafts 4. Motherhood on a Dime 5. Love Stiched 6. Tatertots & Jello


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Recently the 'Charities Registration Board' withdrew Greenpeace from the list of New Zealand Charities, thus denying them their Taxfree status including the right for those demented souls who support them, deductibility for donations, when they ruled Greenpeace was involved in political activity and therefor was not a "charity".
There is a skirmish at present in The Beltway, following an appeal by Greenpeace and we all wait to see whether the Registration Board has the cajones to stand by what seemed a sound fact based position.
For me, Greenpeace should pay tax and 39% seems a very fair rate.
I guess if the Board stand firm, Wed Wussel will need to make that entirely predictable call.
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To say that the Greenpeace are non political is a farce.
The Green party are in reality the New Zealand Branch of Greenpeace International. Its member are drawn from the white, very well educated, middle class, often financially independent, latte drinkers whose anthem is Kumbaya.
And they are very rich, as they can afford some of the most sophisticated communication equipment in the world, along with a fleet of ships, and now aircraft.
- November 29, 2012 at 11:36 AM
The Marxist elite have always been rich - by keeping the peasants dirt poor.
- November 29, 2012 at 5:26 PM
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Weiland aims to seize opportunity with Astros
Boasting 95-mph fastball, righty looks to win rotation job in camp
By Brian McTaggart / MLB.com
Fast-forward one week, when Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington called Weiland and told him he had been traded to Houston, a mere 150 miles from Austin. Turns out the state of Texas was going to be his new home year-round. A change of scenery had also come with a world of opportunity.
Weiland, acquired by the Astros on Dec. 14 along with Jed Lowrie in exchange for pitcher Mark Melancon, finds himself among a group of promising young arms trying to crack the Astros' rotation. He brings a 6-foot-4 frame, a live right arm and the experience of having been thrown in the pennant-race fire last September for the Red Sox.
"The more I looked into [the trade] and everything that's going on here, the more exciting it became to be a part of it," Weiland said.
What's going on in Houston is a massive rebuilding project, in which there are few veterans players around to block talented youngsters from winning jobs at the Major League level. The Astros would love for Weiland, 25, to seize that opportunity this spring.
"First of all, he's a bright kid and a real competitor," Houston general manager Jeff Luhnow said. "I saw him when he was an amateur at Notre Dame. He's got a good arm. I talked to a lot of people in the Boston system before and after we made the trade, and [the Red Sox] had no choice to bring him up last year. It might have been a little bit premature, but he's very close to being ready. For us, it was a great opportunity to get a young arm like that, that can be a starter and be a part of our future plans."
Weiland, a former closer at Notre Dame, has electric stuff that includes a 95-mph fastball that has been his go-to pitch. Weiland uses the fastball to get early outs, and last year he added a cutter to go along with his curve and change. The cutter helped him against lefties, who batted only .202 against him last year in Triple-A.
"I worked with Kyle the first day I came in," Astros pitching coach Doug Brocail said. "I got to see some pretty impressive stuff. He pitches downhill, has a good leverage point. The ball moves a little more than I thought it would off a guy that throws so hard. It was good stuff."
Drafted by the Red Sox in the third round of the 2008 First-Year Player Draft, Weiland made a steady rise through Boston's farm system. He spent most of last year at Triple-A Pawtucket, going 8-10 with a 3.58 ERA in 24 starts. Weiland became the first Red Sox pitcher in history to get ejected in his Major League debut when he was tossed after hitting Vladimir Guerrero on July 10 after benches had been warned.
With the Red Sox's rotation in tatters last September -- Clay Buchholz and Daisuke Matsuzaka didn't pitch after June, Erik Bedard was hurt in July and Josh Beckett sprained his right ankle in early September -- Weiland was called up again and started three games. He lost all three as Boston blew a nine-game lead in the American League Wild Card race in an epic collapse.
Weiland was 0-3 with a 7.66 ERA in seven games (five starts) for the Red Sox last year, including going 0-2 with a 9.26 ERA in three September starts.
"It was a good feeling to get the ball and know that they trusted you to pitch well and give them a chance to win," Weiland said. "I think that was a big confidence booster. At the same time, I think I stepped out of my element a little bit and tried to be somebody I wasn't instead of the pitcher I was all year in Triple-A. It's a mistake that's easily made."
It was a big stage that was full of pressure. Perhaps it was too much pressure for a 24-year-old who had made his Major League debut only two months earlier.
"Obviously, things could have gone better," Weiland said. "But it was definitely a learning process, and I couldn't have learned more while I was up there. I'll take everything I learned and go from there."
Working on the back fields at Osceola County Stadium, Weiland is a long way from the intense glare of a pennant race. The Astros aren't expected to contend in the National League this season, a year that will be more about development of players and setting the foundation for the future than wins and losses.
In many ways, Houston is the perfect situation for Weiland, both on the field and off.
"It's exciting to be part of something new," he said. "I know when you're rebuilding, it's a process and it doesn't happen overnight, so I can't look at last season like, 'Oh, wow, I'm going to a team that lost 106 games.' I know there's a lot of exciting things gone on and a lot of exciting guys here and a lot of talent. It will be a competitive spring."
Brian McTaggart is reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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International Capital flows and National Creditworthiness: Examining Australia's Current Account
This paper examines the optimality of international capital flows to a persistent net importer of capital, Australia, during its post-capital-controls period 1984-1948. This paper also dicusses the main implications arising from measures of optimal capital flows, and compares them with the implications arising from the key concepts used in the determination of national creditworthiness.
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DEAR CAROLYN: How do I break the news to my friend that I have been seeing her (recent) ex-boyfriend? I'm prepared to lose the friendship, but I want to minimize how hurt she gets, if possible. I guess I'm thinking specifically of altering the timeline, so there's more distance between when they broke up and when we started dating.
DEAR ANONYMOUS: You and he have already taken the action that hurts your friend, so there's no altering history to cover your backsides. There's only consideration of how much of the truth she needs and supplying it accordingly.
Without the details, I can only guess at that magic quantity. However, most in her position need only the fact of your dating.
What your friendship needs, meanwhile, is for her to hear it first from you (though that might spell the end regardless).
If she asks when it started, please use this truth instead: "Any time is too close to your breakup, isn't it?" Meaning, admit fault out of integrity and skip the details out of compassion.
If she insists, then she assumes the risk of knowing all — like signing a pain waiver. Honor that with the truth.
DEAR CAROLYN: My husband's sister conducted a two-year affair, and her marriage ended. Sister blames Ex for the failure of their marriage, refuses to admit to the affair (even after moving in with her lover), stalks Ex's dates and otherwise harasses Ex, continually cancels her days with her children and disparages her own children to Ex.
Because Ex has always acted like a brother to my husband, and because we want to be a source of stability for the children, we remain close to Ex.
We also believe Sister's behavior indicates a need for help, but she refuses therapy.
Sister tries to disrupt our time with Ex and children, screaming and crying that our relationship with Ex is "preventing her from moving on with her life." Now she is using social media to tell everyone we have supported Ex's "planned scheme to cut her off from friends and family."
We have never disclosed her affair to anyone. I don't know if revealing some details would sound alarms to others who may also encourage her to seek help. Any advice? Ex's lawyer has all of the details, but Ex, and we, is concerned about taking any steps that would expose the details to the kids.
Balancing Defense and Blame
DEAR BALANCING: You use "defense" in your signature, but Sister's instability clears your name of her charges. She and the kids are far more at risk than your reputation is.
Enlisting others is a good idea, to help Sister get help. The affair is but one detail of many in her public cry for help, so you can sound the alarm without it.
Please also urge Ex to add a good family therapist to his roster of professionals. Continue updating the lawyer, yes, but a mental-health professional is the one you want making the call on how best to protect these kids.
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Kit for $1200 (7D, 18-135IS, 430exII with flash bracket and coiled TTL cord. 7D and lens on the left, 430exII and cord seen on the T3, bracket not shown.
7D has shutter count of 54 per the menu, 50K on the 40D per EOSinfo - unknown on the T3.
Also have 40D with grip, T3, 50 1.8, 18-55II, sigma 18-125, tamron 75-300, yongnuo YN565ex - all this I might try to trade on craigslist for other gear, but if it strikes your fancy, get in touch. Mostly interested in selling the 7D kit here though.
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its not fair that to recharge the lab you must wait 709 plus hours. and how come seems like ever other thing on the critial case you must spend 400 bucks on the patient. how can one build up some meds and upgrade. Please fix this. i enjoy playing however how can i when my lab is zero and has over 709 hours to recharge. and cant keep enough meds. please come up with either more mini games to do to earn money or to recharge the lab.
Rob Sommerville 2436 cured patients thus far even with all the hiccups this game has had and is still enduring on a daily basis....fix these please and compensate those of us who have spent money on getting things for the game only to have them break down and be rendered useless.


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As far as DA2 goes, perception might play a role in the disappointment, as it's only natural to expect a sequel to be similar to its predecessor. However, for me personally, it's not the fact that DA2 is different that bothers truly me; Invisible War taught me the lesson long ago that not all changes should be hated in a sequel, and that an open mind can allow one to enjoy a variety of gameplay experiences. What has caused my complaints about DA2 has been an objective look at what these changes are, and I have judged the game purely as its own entity. A lot of the changes in DA2 do not feel like improvements, they feel like a step in the wrong direction, leaving the underwhelming feeling that DA2 is not a new experience, but a watered-down version of a previous experience. Redundancy is not innovation. These changes that have been made have not been implemented from a creative or artistic standpoint to make the game better, but from a financial standpoint. I know that I am an idealist, but I still understand the need to for a game to be financially successful. However, any design decisions that go beyond the need to be financially secure, or changes that are openly created purely for the sake of creating larger profit margins, are really hard to stomach and clearly do not add any depth to a game.


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IDC forecast: Mostly cloudy with mobile chaos
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – IT vendors need to embrace mobile devices and cloud services as the platform for the next 20 years if they are to survive, according to analysts from International Data Corp. Coping with an increasing diversity of mobile devices will be one of the top challenges, they said at the annual IDC Directions event here.
Mobile devices and cloud services represent a third major platform, following mainframes and PCs, said Frank Gens, an IDC chief analyst. As with the shift to PCs in 1986 some are debating whether the new platforms including social networks and analytics are powerful and secure enough, and risk missing the shift.
"A critical mass of people is realizing its time to stop arguing and start bringing these technologies into the center of what they are doing," Gens said.
In an indication of the shift, IDC predicts more than 400 million smartphones will ship in 2011, surpassing about 380 million desktop and notebook PCs for the first time. It also forecasts as many as 1.3 million Apple iOS and Google Android apps will be available by the end of the year, compared to about 75,000 PC applications.
"Some portion of these apps are 'Angry Birds' games or fart generators, but the number of mobile enterprise apps are probably in the high hundreds of thousands," said Gens.
As many as 80 percent of enterprise apps developed in 2011 will be for so-called cloud services delivered over the network, IDC estimates. By 2014, about 30 percent of all business apps used will be via the cloud, it believes.
The predictions came one day after Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest IT company, rolled out its strategy which included plans for new cloud services, more mobile devices and new business analytics offerings.
Amazon.com and Microsoft have already rolled out service-based platforms, and IBM and Oracle will follow in the near future, Gens predicted. The rise in digital stored data from about 1.8 Zettabytes in 2011 to more than 7 ZBytes in 2014 will force a new generation of real-time data analytics systems beyond today's relational databases, he added.


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Bears' night spoiled by A&M comebackNov. 16, 2010
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No. 23 running back Jay Finley leaps into the end zone for the score against Texas A&M Saturday at Floyd Casey Stadium. Finley finished with three touchdowns and 169 yards as the Bears fell to the Aggies, 42-30.
By Chris Derrett
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Baylor's 30-21 halftime lead over Texas A&M Saturday evaporated as the Bears were shutout in the second half, ultimately falling 42-30.
Senior running back Jay Finley rushed for 172 yards, becoming the seventh Bear to reach 1,000 yards in a single season, but his and the rest of the team's 503 yards of total offense were not enough.
"We're not blind. I looked in the crowd, I saw thousands of people up there, and we really wanted to bring this one home," senior Byron Landor said.
While everything seemed to work for the Bears in the first half, a reversal of fortune and a revived Texas A&M offense led to the final score.
Coach Art Briles said the momentum shifted toward the Aggies just before halftime.
With Baylor ahead 30-21 and five seconds left in the half, Aaron Jones' 41-yard field goal was blocked and scooped up by Texas A&M's Terrance Frederick. Fortunately for Baylor, redshirt freshman Brody Trahan stopped Frederick one yard short of the goal line.
Unfortunately for Briles' squad, it was a sign of things to come in the second half.
Jones missed two more field goals, one with Baylor holding a 30-21 lead and another when his team faced a 35-30 deficit.
"It was certainly not a highlight of the night," Briles said about his special teams unit. "We have got to get better. We have got to get better in a hurry."
The missed field goals were the only times the Bears came close to the red zone in the second half; the two drives leading to the misses lasted a combined 26 plays and five minutes. They accounted for 127 yards, 10 fewer than Baylor's entire second half offensive total.
Coming away with no points after such long drives, Briles said Monday, was impossible to swallow watching on film.
"It's something that you don't attempt to swallow because you might regurgitate it. So you just go ahead and dry heave and move on," he said.
In the other second-half drives, two punts and two turnovers told the rest of the story on a disappointing night for the green and gold faithful.
The Aggies took the lead for good after a Baylor punt deep in its own territory and a kick-catch interference call brought the ball to the 27-yard line. Two Cyrus Grey rushes later, Texas A&M was ahead.
"I don't know what it was. We knew we were going to have to come in and dink and dunk with coverage they were going to play against us. We moved the ball at times in the second half, but we just couldn't punch it in," sophomore quarterback Robert Griffin III said.
Early in the game, Texas A&M gave Baylor opportunities to build a commanding lead. The Aggies started with a three-and-out, leading to Jones' only field goal of the game, and the ensuing Aggie drive stalled on a fourth-and-5 inside Baylor territory.
Meanwhile Griffin and Finley kept their legs churning, combining for 126 rush yards in the first quarter. Griffin ignited the crowd for Baylor's second score, a 71-yard dash up the middle that gave his team a 10-0 advantage.
"I knew coming into the game we were going to have the run the ball whether it was with me or with Jay. I think we both did a good job of running the ball effectively. I was prepared for that," Griffin said.
Texas A&M helped Baylor again with a fumble on its own 26-yard line, which the Bears turned into a 17-7 lead on Finley's 1-yard dive up the middle.
Another Baylor special teams blunder led to Texas A&M pulling to within 24-14, as junior Coryell Judie returned the ensuing kickoff 84 yards for his second touchdown return in as many games.
Finley later scored on another 1-yarder, giving his team a 24-14 advantage, but his biggest run of the night was yet to come. Midway through the second quarter he burst through a hole for 69 yard and a 30-14 Baylor advantage following Jones' missed extra point.
From that point, Baylor would not score again, and Jones would not see another of his kicks sail through the uprights.
"It hurts bad. Speechless, honestly. For me and the seniors, that's something we took a lot of pride in. We wanted to go 2-2 against these guys, and we didn't. It hurts," senior safety Tim Atchison said.
Baylor has one final chance for a home win on Saturday against Oklahoma.
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On Saturday, September 29th, a team of NHLPA staff participated in the second annual Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer (RHCC) tournament, which is the largest road hockey fundraising event of its kind. From dawn-to-dusk, over 650 thirty minute games were played and approximately 39,000 shots were fired on net. Now that's a lot of hockey!
Over 50 celebrities came out to the tournament including several NHLPA members (P.K. Subban, Matt Frattin, Jake Gardiner, David Clarkson, and Michael Del Zotto). Team NHLPA raised over $12,000 and donated signed memorabilia to the event's silent auction. Though we didn't win, we've been told we had the coolest hockey sticks by far.
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MUNICH, Germany Infineon has combined an MCU with RF circuitry required to address several ISM frequency bands on a single chip. The devices aim at replacing infrared-based remote controls, but beyond that they enable applications in a broad range of wireless industrial controls.
The 'SmartLEWIS' product family integrates RF and logic function blocks on a single chip, reducing the board space required to implement wireless controls. The RF part includes an ASK/FSK multi-band transmitter for all sub 1GHz ISM bands. The chip also includes an 8051 microcontroller enhanced with a choice of specific embedded mixed-signal peripherals.
An important application field is remote controls, the company said. Radio-based devices could overcome the disadvantage of line-of-sight communication, which characterize the infrared-based remote controls in widespread use today. In addition, RF-based applications benefit from an extended range of more than 50 meters, compared to only a few meters for IR technology.
Besides remote controls, the device also could address other price sensitive markets such as wireless sensor markets, security sensors, or automatic meter reading, explained Rolf Hertel, head of marketing for Infineon's Wireless Control and Radar activities.
In order to enable industrial control applications, there is a 10-bit ADC integrated which interfaces to analog sensors, for instance to measure pressure, humidity or temperature. An integrated low-frequency receiver enables wireless wake-up in battery-operated applications. In order to enable the implementation of security systems, AES data encryption is supported via a library stored in an on-chip ROM.
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(Science: protein) A dumbbell shaped 150 kD sulphated glycoprotein that is found in all basement membranes. It binds to laminin, forming a very stable 1:1 complex (KD = 10nM) and almost all laminin preparations contain entactin. The N terminal globular domain can self aggregate, whilst the C terminal globular domain binds to the short arm of laminin and to collagen iV. The connecting rod has 5-6 eGF type cysteine rich repeats, one of which has an RGD sequence for cellular interaction.
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Snoop Lion is far from the first celebrity to switch it up
They say it's lonely at the top, but for artists, sometimes it's just boring. For Calvin Broadus, better known as rapper Snoop Dogg, the genre that brought worldwide fame and success for close to two decades had grown tiresome. So in July, Snoop announced he was giving up the pimptastic, money-chasing culture of the rap game, changing his name to Snoop Lion and starting a new career recording and performing family-friendly reggae music. Will Tampa's concert fans embrace the Doggfather's new persona? We won't know until Snoop Dogg, Lion or otherwise steps on stage at the Forum Saturday to headline Wild 94.1's Last Damn Show 14. But until then, maybe we can get a peek into Snoop's future by examining these five other cases of celebrity switcheroos, and how they turned out. Garth Brooks becomes Chris Gaines – Forget country music, Garth Brooks is one of the most successful names in any genre of music, sitting at number three on the list of all-time top-selling artists behind only the Beatles and Elvis. But forget country music is exactly what Brooks did in 1999, when he decided to grow (or possibly glue on) a very creepy soul patch, and put out a rock album under the name Chris Gaines. The outcome: Perhaps embarrassed that the album only went double platinum (actually a disappointment in the heyday of huge CD sales), he never recorded another studio album again. Michael Jordan switches to baseball – Michael Jordan was the greatest basketball player of all time, who mesmerized fans with the seemingly impossible things he did on the court (and above it). He shocked the world when he retired from the NBA in the prime of his career and joined the Birmingham Barons minor league baseball team. The outcome: Jordan struck out as a baseball player, literally. He batted just .202, and bobbled some easy balls as a right fielder. The real winners were his Barons teammates who, thanks to Jordan, got a fancy new $300,000 team bus.David Bowie becomes Ziggy Stardust – Today David Bowie is regarded as one of the most influential rock musicians of all time, but in the early 1970s he was a minor blip on the radar, known mostly for having scored a novelty hit with 1969's "Space Oddity." That all changed when Bowie introduced a harder-edged sound, and a way, way softer look. He started wearing makeup and dresses and performing as the androgynous Martian, Ziggy Stardust. The outcome: Bowie, who was prettier than most women, became a massive rock star. Lil' Wayne records a rock album – In 2009, Lil' Wayne was in all likelihood the most popular rapper on the planet, so of course he wanted to record a full-length rock album. Music critics let out a collective "wow, this is really happening," and "Rebirth," featuring Wayne "singing" in auto-tune over guitar riffs was released. The outcome: Bad reviews, but decent sales. The fact that Wayne could recover from the karaoke meets high school garage band ridiculousness of songs such as "Prom Date" is a testament to his skill as a rapper. Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes governor – In the movie "Commando," action star Arnold Schwarzenegger impales a man against a boiler with a steam pipe, before telling his enemy to "let off some steam." In 2003, the people of California elected that man governor of their state. The outcome: Schwarzenneger succeeded in having the coolest governor nickname ever (the governator), but failed to get California's deficit under control by the time he left office (roughly $25 billion).
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Saturday, February 09, 2013
It's the Washington Monument Ploy
For you youngsters, the "Washington Monument Ploy" is the threat of government officials that if they don't get all the money they want, they will "have" to close the Washington Monument to save money. It's been used so often that it's become a standing joke.
The Obama administration is using a version of the Washington Monument Ploy to get its way on sequestration. Half of the money due to be sequestered is supposed to come from the Pentagon budget, the other half from domestic discretionary spending. Team Obama wants to raise taxes instead of cutting spending so it is trying to panic Republicans in congress with the threat that cutting the military budget by 5% we will "gut" the military. Obama Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has been all over the media predicting apocalypse for the armed services if the sequester goes through. Note that the other government agencies have been very quiet. The reason? Republicans, traditional supporters of the military are the focus of this effort to get them to panic. The Democrats can be counted on to vote for tax increases.
The latest version of this scam is the Navy delaying the refueling of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln. Refueling a nuclear powered carrier is a 4 year process carried out after carrier is 25 years old and half of its useful life is over. The Navy budgeted $92 million for this in 2012. The Defense Department budget proposal for 2013 is over $613 billion. The Navy could refuel all its carriers once a year every year without making an appreciable dent in its budget. A few days ago it was announced that the scheduled deployment of the carrier Harry S. Truman to the Middle East would be delayed. All this, of course, was blamed on the sequester.
The Obama administration is playing games with the military in an effort to stampede Republicans, especially those in militarily sensitive states like Virginia, into caving on tax increases. I hope they stick to their guns, and don't fall for this oldest of ploys.
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text: Honey Lights The Moon by Darius Greene published on 2012-08-31T00:54:40Z Honest days, forgive our scorn. Genre Lunarcore Comment by Darius Greene @corona-australis: So very kind of you Corona! 2013/08/08 01:37:14 +0000 Comment by Corona_Australis love that voice 2013/08/07 21:18:51 +0000 Comment by Darius Greene Ha, thanks! It is actually on my bandcamp though, http://dariusgreene.bandcamp.com/album/fantasias-nocturnes 2013/05/09 14:21:09 +0000 Comment by silent wings @stalkingpanda: It's arousing, and i'm not even a homosexual. 2012/12/07 00:17:46 +0000 Comment by silent wings Magical. I LOVE how you sing "Honey Lights...the moon at night" and how this one effect comes in afterwards. How you sing "honey lights" in particular, sounds perfect. 2012/12/07 00:15:48 +0000 Comment by silent wings This calms me. Love the experimentation/glitchwork of course. I like your singing a lot. 2012/12/07 00:13:59 +0000 Comment by Darius Greene @jasna-ilic: ah, thank you so much! 2012/10/02 22:10:06 +0000 Comment by Jasna Ilic beautifully haunting track 2012/10/02 22:02:52 +0000 Comment by rav132 Great song. 2012/09/18 09:22:02 +0000 Comment by Darius Greene @johnny-minstrel: Thanks Johnny 2012/09/14 16:40:23 +0000 Comment by Johnny Minstrel You sweet lunatic you...absolutely beautiful! 2012/09/14 16:22:03 +0000 Comment by MementoAeterna I just love this line, "honey pulls the blanket night / and snuffs the candle out of the sigh" ...among others! Oh this honey-laden song, dream-flight through such beautiful star-dusted corners of the night... 2012/09/12 06:02:50 +0000 Comment by Atuin beautiful work darry. i feel sorry for everyone who doesnt feel this. 2012/09/11 16:31:09 +0000 Comment by HanJan Love how the cacophony at the beginning got resolved into something that is more melodic now. The harp was a nice touch. As always, I love your use of rhythm and drums. Always eccentric. Always bloody cool. 2012/09/07 19:48:07 +0000 Comment by Darius Greene @stephenrandall-1: I figured but still, even heavy compliments leave me a bit lost for replies. Thanks much Stephen! 2012/09/05 03:23:00 +0000 Comment by Darius Greene @sunny-gicz: Thank you Sunny!! Not a bad thing I suppose 2012/09/05 03:22:16 +0000 Comment by itneverhappened Really cool sound mangling. Seems to fit the track perfectly. My first experience with lunarcore, but I like it! 2012/09/03 23:29:31 +0000 Comment by StephenRandall @dariusgreene: Oh, I didn't mean that in a heavy way - it was my dumb way of saying that your writing is genius!! 2012/09/02 22:00:45 +0000 Comment by Sunny & Gabe really pretty...almost reminds me of something on mellon collie 2012/09/02 20:21:08 +0000 Comment by Darius Greene @stephenrandall-1: Thanks Stephen, not really sure what to say to that. We all do what we do, making anyone feel insecure isn't in my cards. I'll gladly share any production notions or anything I can. Again, thanks much! 2012/09/02 06:23:26 +0000 Comment by Darius Greene @diana-harmon-garnand: Thanks Diana!! :) 2012/09/02 06:18:21 +0000 Comment by Diana Love Honest days, forgive our scorn. (Indeed. And thank goodness for Luna.) 2012/09/02 05:10:08 +0000 Comment by Darius Greene @ohsowhy: That's my job, you found me out. Not always in it, sometimes just on it, wandering about. It get's lonely but it's quiet 2012/09/01 03:17:48 +0000 Comment by pretzels malone @dariusgreene: what a way to leave a room. 2012/09/01 02:39:47 +0000 Comment by pretzels malone that bass tone is very fine. 2012/09/01 02:38:40 +0000 Comment by pretzels malone absolutely amazing at how smooth and peaceful you've made this sound, while each part seems to be odd timed and fairly chaotic. 2012/09/01 02:38:08 +0000 Comment by Darius Greene @tom-blotter: Well that alone is one of the best comments I could ask for, not sure how to reply to all this except to say thanks so very much! 2012/09/01 01:02:48 +0000 Comment by freddiehangoler I'm out of superlatives. the only one word that comes to my mind is genius. 2012/08/31 22:06:30 +0000 Comment by Tom Blotter Absolutely weird and beautiful. It's weirdiful. I love it!!! 2012/08/31 21:59:06 +0000 Comment by Tom Blotter So I'm sitting here with my fingers frozen on the keyboard trying to think of a comment worthy of this song's greatness ... 2012/08/31 21:57:47 +0000


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British singing star, Rita Ora, is more used to spending her Christmas break curled up in front of the fire with a glass of mulled wine than tanning on the beach but this year she took to the skies and flew all the way to the Middle East to enjoy her vacation away from home.
The songstress tweeted pictures of herself enjoying the sunshine in a tiny black bikini on the Nasimi Beach from the idyllic shores of the Palm Islands in Dubai.
Rita joked with fans that she was looking for some traditional holiday turkey in a variety of places in the glitzy emirate but wasn't having much luck. However, she did find Santa Claus to get her in the festive spirit thousands of miles away from her house in the UK.
The 22-year-old singer is set to take to the Dubai stage at the Sandance Festival on the beach for New Year's Eve but it looks like she's taking it easy before getting back to work.
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In the spirit of the holiday season, Governor Terry Branstad showed mercy this week on two fowl creatures. Bob and Rose escaped capital punishment after the governor pardoned the wild inmates.
Lucky turkeys Rose and Bob get to spend the rest of their days at Living History Farms after the governor rewarded them with clemency during a ceremony at Terrace Hill. The pardons are part of a yearly Thanksgiving tradition by Iowa's governor.
Below are some views of the Branstad family and the lucky birds. Happy Thanksgiving!
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By the year 2020, there will be more people over the age of 65 than children under the age of five on the planet – for the first time in human history. This poses serious challenges for societies and states throughout the world: How do they meet the needs of the growing number of elderly, possible frail individuals? How will the aging population live, what sort of help will they require, and who will provide it?
There are also academic challenges for people interested in studying new global approaches to aging. One of these people is Dr. Andrew Scharlach, who is Kleiner Professor of Aging at the Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services at the University of California, Berkeley. In early June, he visited SFI in Copenhagen. Together with SFI's Tine Rostgaard, he hosted a lecture meeting on new approaches to long term care for the elderly in a comparative perspective.
Dr. Scharlach's research focus is aging in place, both in American and international contexts. Moreover, he shares an interest in impact evaluation research with SFI and other institutions. "One of our goals is to examine the sustainability of various community models for older adults and determine whether or not in the long run they do allow people to age in place", Dr. Scarlach explains.
Virtual villages
One of the American initiatives studied by Dr. Scharlach's team is the so-called Virtual Villages –a new community model in the US, in which older adults in a neighbourhood get together and create an organisation, funded by their own membership fees, which then pays for the care and service they need.
"I'm interested in the Village model because of the civic and social engagement aspect of it, the way in which it allows or encourages the elderly themselves to have ownership of their support systems, and the social capital potential that comes from that", explains Dr. Scharlach.
"Aging in place not only means staying in your own home as long as possible – we look at it now as aging in community. The question is not only whether you receive the services and support you need. We're also focused on how you engage in the community around you as you grow older – that is, are you still part of the community?"
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The study of such Villages poses a methodological challenge.
"These facilities tend to have few resources and little bureaucracy and administration, and since research demands a certain amount of rigor and documentation, it becomes a challenge to take our research methods and translate them into something viable in a system as relatively unstructured as this", says Dr. Scharlach. The research team have a number of variables with which to assess the effectiveness of the Virtual Villages.
"We look at both short and long term indicators. The short term involve capacity building, both individually and in the community. We examine people's knowledge and use of various services, their local engagement and participation, and we look at the availability and cost of the services. And in the longer term we look at the health outcomes for the individuals – for how long do people continue to live in their homes? It's also interesting to look at the social demographic of these organisations – do they match the characteristics of the area they're located in or is it only a select few who join?"
Control and comparison
Impact evaluation studies demand the establishment of a control group with which to compare findings. This is another challenge for Dr. Scharlach's team.
"Because these communities are new and still recruiting, they are reluctant to turn people away arbitrarily for research purposes, so it becomes impossible for us to establish a randomized control group. Instead, we now look to senior centres to find a comparison group – like the members of the Virtual Villages, people in these centres tend to be well informed and relatively active in the community. We then have to control statistically for various factors to compare the two groups – a bit of an artificial way of going about it, but do-able."
"The challenges are not unique to this area, but they are substantial. It's really the difference between doing research in an artificial setting and doing research in a real environment", concludes Dr. Scharlach.