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Editor's Note - Happy Anniversary To Ourselves - Positive Offset
Wow, check it out. The issue you hold in your hands is the first magazine of the 2004 calendar year of Truckin' magazine's 30th Anniversary kick-off celebration. As you will read further on inside this issue, we have some pretty big things planned that will play to our illustrious past, as well as propel us another 30 years into the future. Just like any anniversary, be it a wedding, engagement, birthday, and so on, there is always a tendency to look back at the past. And trust us, as we developed our 30th Anniversary plan, each and every current staff member looked through 30 years of back issues to see what made Truckin' magazine what it is.
Some of our junior staff members weren't even born when the very first issue of Truckin' was published, and then again, most of our seasoned staff were just mere youngsters. It is our senior staff members who have been rewarded with the task of telling our readers their experiences from the '70s, when the rest of us were still just being toted by our parents.
For those of you who are uninformed or new readers who we have added by the thousands since our 25th Anniversary celebration, Truckin' magazine originally began as TRM Publishing by our late founder, Tom McMullen, with the notion that the general buying public would welcome a custom, all-encompassing publication that would focus on the light truck market, but whose focus at the time was clearly aimed at the growing and emerging van craze. In fact, Truckin' magazine was Tom McMullen's second magazine venture, his first being a popular little title called Street Chopper, which originally began as a parts-buying book for his motorcycle business. Just like everything, each magazine evolved. Truckin' magazine eventually became what it is today, and Street Chopper was folded into what would eventually become Hot Bike magazine, but then with another recent emerging craze - chopper motorcycles over the last four years - Street Chopper magazine was reborn.
Tom McMullen was a guy who embraced everything to its fullest and was a very hands-on individual, who certainly didn't mix words and couldn't care less about telling you exactly what he thought of the state of the industry and about you yourself. His attitude is still legendary to those who knew him.
Truckin' magazine has evolved over the years, and with that, it is this regime, including myself, which has taken on the unenviable task of representing Truckin' in helping to celebrate its heritage. We all have a task and a love affair with trucks and SUVs as whole, and clearly understand that while Truckin' magazine is bigger than each and everyone of us, without us, the magazine has no personality and no life. It is this personality of 30 years worth of editorials, by numerous editors and staff members, that we aim to capture. Plus, we also aim to recapture some of its past glory with a quarterly retrospect, as well as some amazing commemorative items that every newsstand buyer and subscriber will receive.
Stay tuned, as the ride has only just begun. Tom McMullen created a magazine for enthusiasts and that is exactly what Truckin' has remained to be. So enjoy the special new section we dedicated to our older readers, which we see as an emerging old/new trend, and Happy Anniversary to ourselves for what promises to be an exciting year ahead.


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The Palestinian leadership late Friday hit out at what it called an Israeli "public relations exercise" aimed at releasing Israel from its obligations.
"Israel is carrying out a public relations exercise to cover up its intransigent attitude and its refusal to apply accords reached (with the Palestinians) as well as international resolutions" concerning the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, said a statement released after the leadership's weekly meeting in Ramallah.
Israel had on Friday stepped up its diplomatic offensive calling on the international community to press for an easing of the Palestinian position on Jerusalem.
The Palestinian leadership called on Israel to apply UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 under which it should withdraw from the Arab territories occupied since 1967.
The Palestinian leadership stressed its rejection of any Israeli sovereignty over east Jerusalem and the city's Muslim and Christian holy places.
It expected support from a meeting in Morocco Monday of the al-Qods (Jerusalem) Committee to be attended by Palestinian President Yasser Arafat -- RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP)
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Residents can pick up for free the new larger Blue Box, a GreenCart and kitchen catcher at two Region truckload events in Halton Hills.

Residents can pick up one tall 22 gallon Blue Box, one GreenCart and kitchen catcher and an information kit. The kit includes one sheet of five complimentary garbage tags, a package of five certified compostable bags to line the kitchen catcher and Blue Box and GreenCart labels.

The truckload event will be held 9 a.m to 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 16, at Acton High School and again on Saturday, March 30, at the Robert C. Austin public works yards on Trafalgar Rd. in Georgetown.

Residents can also pick up the items at the Robert C. Austin public works yards during regular business hours, from March 18 to April 5.


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A TCN special series on Domestic Violence in India and the protection that the new law can offer to abused women.
Part I: Indian women: violence within the four sacred walls
Part II: A step to make a home free from violence
Part III: Stop domestic violence now!: details of the Indian DV law.
Part IV: one year of Domestic Violence Act
Most of the children are abseud at home. by their own relative, sometimes by a parent or siblings. I have also heard cases, where the father abuses the daughter, and mother just ignores it, as it gives her free time. where will the child go for any help? children are conditioned to go to their parents for emotional support. so, the keep going to their father or mother and want to please them as that is what they are told to do. parents telling children to respect elders. Do what they tell. You have to please them in order to get recogonition/acceptance .. this is the basic reason why children do not report that they are being abseud. in fact they don't even know they are being abseud. they only believe that they are still not being able to please his/her abuser. They think it is their fault and blame themselves for it. Good movie suggestion: The Woodsman . If you haven't seen it before, it is a must-see movie.


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Black Hills State University hosted a ribbon cutting dedication for the Tom and Judy Flickema Courtyard Saturday, Sept. 19 after the Swarm Day football game.
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Black Hills State University will host a ribbon cutting for the Tom and Judy Flickema Courtyard Saturday, Sept. 19 immediately after the Swarm Day football game against Mayville State.
A conference room in the newly remodeled David B. Miller Yellow Jacket Student Union on the campus of Black Hills State University has been named in honor of Dr. Clifford and Karen Trump.
As students return to the Black Hills State University campus, they will be welcomed by a cadre of new faculty and staff as well as several major campus improvements.
Steve Hedges (right) Black Hills State University director of dining services presents Trevor Olson, sophomore elementary education major from Spearfish, with a $250 Visa gift card for his suggestion of The Hive in the name the new dining center contest.
Black Hills State University has installed an anemometer above the roof of Woodburn Hall, the highest point on campus, to record wind speeds in an effort to support wind energy possibilities.
Black Hills State University celebrated the Year of Science by breaking ground for a new science building this week.
Black Hills State University will host a groundbreaking celebration for its new science building Thursday, April 23 at 4 p.m. in the tent located at the site of the new building (just west of Jonas Hall).
The Black Hills State University campus is physically transforming with several construction projects underway and plans being made for a new science building.
Black Hills State University will observe its second annual Campus Sustainability Day Wednesday, Oct. 22, events include a webcast and information fair.
Black Hills State University will hold a groundbreaking for the David B. Miller Yellow Jacket Student Union addition Monday, April 28 at 3 p.m.
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About Shankar
An intensely talented South Indian violinist and a pioneer in fusing Indian and Western music, Lakshminarayan Shankar moved to the United States in the late 1960s and consorted with top jazz musicians including Ornette Coleman and John McLaughlin. He went on to form the influential group Shakti in the '60s with McLaughlin. Shankar's playing is a perfect example of why the violin is so well suited to Indian classical music -- with a quivering slide, Shankar can replicate the emotional qualities of the human voice before slipping into a mind-bogglingly fast run through a traditional raga. On his solo albums, Shankar often switches between playing strict classical music and a more progressive Fusion of jazz and other music, calling on like-minded players such as Zakir Hussain and Trilok Gurtu to provide rhythmic backing. Working on projects with players as diverse as Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Bill Laswell and Frank Zappa has also helped promote Shankar's name.


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November 29, 2012 at 6:58 am #18227
I Need to move the nav buttons for the content slider to above the content, instead of below. Can someone point me where I nee to go?
Thank you.November 29, 2012 at 7:06 pm #98674
There are a number of options and combinations available. Do you have a page you can show, or be more specific about your back end settings from the drop down menu:
a) Which Slideshow do you want to use?
b) Slideshow Layout on Single Pages
Please let us know the choices you've made for the select boxes asking those questions if you don't have a url.
NickNovember 30, 2012 at 5:48 pm #98675
Thanks Nick. The content slider at the boto of this page is the example…
I'd like to try placing the nav circles on top of the content instead of underneath. But want to be sure I can change it back if we don't like it.
Thank you!November 30, 2012 at 6:48 pm #98676
Please add this to your custom.css file or to Quick CSS located in the backend Choices > Theme Options > Styling … on the bottom of the page
.contentSlideControlls {
display: inline-block;
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
.content_slider.autoslide_true.autoslidedelay__12 {
top: 30px;
It needs to get adjusted, but if you want to move the controls to the top, its as easy as that. To change it back, just remove the above css. :)
NickNovember 30, 2012 at 8:43 pm #98677
Works great… thanks Nick!November 30, 2012 at 8:48 pm #98678
Although… it is cutting off the bottom of the content within that slide. Take a look. I tried a few CSS mods to correct this, with no luck. Can you help?
Also, the controls are still on the bottom in Firefox.
Thanks!November 30, 2012 at 11:19 pm #98680
Please try the following. However I would consder limiting each slide to a max number of lines. A few of the slides look like essays and seem a bit out of place with the flow.
.content_slider.autoslide_true.autoslidedelay__12 {
min-height: 200px;
overflow: visible !important;
.content_slider {
overflow: visible;
NickDecember 1, 2012 at 9:10 am #98681
I missed the part of the css not working on FF that you wrote above.. I am going to quickly look at IE and Safari as well, and whether this approach makes sense as opposed to modifying the avia.js file which generates the slider.December 3, 2012 at 3:07 am #98682
Thanks but no, this doesn't work either. I noticing too, that it's not responsive… when these number (nav) breaks to multiple lines and slide copy just overlaps it.
I realize this is an unusual use for this. but if you can help me get this to work, I'd appreciate it very much.
Thanks NickDecember 3, 2012 at 7:14 pm #98683
I took a long look at this, and besides using CSS a rebuilding of large parts of the slider code would be required to get the end result you seek.
I used the following CSS on your site and there was no breaking of the responsive theme, though there was minor cutoffs on some of the slides yet the slides were working. All that it needs is some height!
.contentSlideControlls {
position: absolute;
top: -1px;
.inner_slide_container {
top: 50px;
NickDecember 4, 2012 at 8:30 am #98684
Thanks for taking stabs at this Nick. I really appreciate it. It is kindof crazy what we're trying to do. Is there a possibility to change these to just a simple Previous/Next buttons instead of the numbers?December 5, 2012 at 2:52 am #98685
It would require a significant investment of time. It would be much easier to spend $5 or $8 on a new slider plugin that has the functionality you want from the get-go than trying to hack this slider.
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – How would you feel if you found out you gave the US government cash that should be in your pocket? The feds say in Florida alone they are holding $67 million they owe people– maybe you –simply because you haven't asked for it back, and time is running out.
The money was collected by the IRS as taxes, and would have been refunded to taxpayers if a proper return had been filed. Unfortunately, thousands of people who didn't make enough to file a return may lose the money, because taxes were collected anyway.
No return, no refund.
The feds say more than 70 thousand people failed to file, and that makes the median refund about $650. Some will get less, others more.
You have 3 years to file; the money the IRS wants to refund comes from the 2008 tax year alone. If you're owed anything, and want it back, you must file a 2008 return by Midnight, April 17th.
No return, and the government gets to keep the money and spend it, a little gift from unsuspecting taxpayers.
If you believe you're owed money, and didn't file, you can download a 2008 1040 EZ return here, and submit it to the IRS.
Not everyone can use that simple form, so here's a link to the standard 1040.
If you're missing some of the forms you need, you can get them from your employer or from the IRS. Those forms might include form W-2, 1098, 1099 or 5498 for 2008.
Taxpayers can get a free transcript showing information from these year-end documents by ordering it on IRS.gov, filing Form 4506-T, or by calling 800-908-9946.


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Ghaziabad, Dec 22 (IANS) Four youth were arrested on Tuesday for transporting cow meat in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad town. The incident occurred near Sikandarpur area.
The residents of Sikanderpur noticed four men transporting the fresh cow flesh in a car near Bhopura. Those arrested have been identified as Sonu, Usman, Asif and Haidar Ali, police said.
"We have suspended the area police post in charge for laxity in duty. The arrested youth have been sent to judicial custody," said Ajay Pal, the SSP in-charge.
Meanwhile, angry locals took to the streets to protest the killing of a cow by the four men, causing a traffic jam on the Ghaziabad-Wazirabad road.


text: News Mud, Sweat & Fear unfortunately cancelled 23rd February 2017 — by ae-office23rd February 2017 ae-office We sincerely regret to inform you that the Mud, Sweat & Fear: Last of the Human Race event on the 1st of April has been cancelled.Apocalypse Events is a family run company with a small team behind our immersive events. Our events manager has suffered a serious accident and we are unable to run an event of this scale without her. This was a hard decision for us to make but feel it is the best course of action as we only ever want to provide the best experiences possible.We deeply apologise to all our customers for not only this disappointing news but also for the inconvenience.You will of course receive a full refund.If you booked directly with Apocalypse Events on either on this site, the Ultimate Recreation site or the event site, your refund will be processed immediately and returned to the account of purchase. If you have not received a refund or have any questions, please call us immediately on 0330 333 8085If you purchased your ticket through The Nuts Challenge or Action Days Out, please fill out this form to be repaid into your chosen account.Sincerely,The Apocalypse Events team.


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Thursday, August 12, 2004
At Last I Have Arrived
Every little girl growing up in America dreams of this moment.
Posted by Rivka at 8/12/2004 09:53:00 PM
Politics, HIV, health care, psychology, baseball, feminism, et cetera.
"Psychologists have a duty to be fair and respectful of otters." - noble charge from a student paper.
I'm a psychologist working in HIV research and treatment in the inner city. Don't talk to me about "compassionate conservatism."


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Very nice idea Richard "cycle of renewal" or perhaps just to forget some memories whether good or bad because they are a source of hope and misery. The planting metaphor is in a way like giving birth to new life. But the birth of a child is also a constant reminder of the memories of the past. So the plant metaphor makes you forget because it is renewal. I agree.
The planting is of a rudder, useless without something to control, a broken walkie talkie, which doesn't communicate, and a spoon, which I am not sure about.


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While Phoenix Wright may never fail to rev our collective fanboy motors, when it comes to adventure games, Hotel Dusk: Room 215 has been garnering more and more excitement -- and even the reviewers who find fault with the title can't help but gush over the story.
GameSpot -- 82%: "One of the really neat things about Hotel Dusk is how the plot plays out. It's not often that you can praise fiction in games these days, but Hotel Dusk is a clever, stylish, well-spun detective novel hiding inside a DS cart ... It helps that the solutions for puzzles aren't often troublesome. All the puzzles are designed specifically with the realities of this hotel in mind, so you won't find yourself with any obscenely weird objectives or "tie the cell phone to the cat" moments, nor are you likely to find yourself glued to a walk-through for the bulk of the game ... [t]hat Hotel Dusk mostly manages to avoid falling back on ridiculous item hunts and completely illogical puzzle solutions to progress is a godsend, simply because it lets the storytelling drive the game, and the gameplay rarely distracts you from the mystery."
eToychest -- 90%: "Stylistically, Hotel Dusk marries pencil sketched characters and water colored backdrops with traditional polygonal environments in a manner that should be jarring, but instead feels both unique and altogether perfect. The characters themselves are distinct and very expressive, each displaying mannerisms reflecting their attitude regarding a particular line of questioning. Ask Louie about his past, and he'll clam up and try not to make eye contact, or sweet talk Iris to see her beam like a schoolgirl. Most every game has characters, Hotel Dusk has personalities."
GamePro --75%: "Hotel Dusk probably won't appeal to every DS gamer, as it requires a degree of patience and thoughtfulness that only the aged (and insane) are capable of. But anyone looking for a cerebral and deliberate challenge should definitely check out this cool and unique title; just be patient with it, and don't let its minor faults discourage you from plumbing its depths."


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DORAL, Fla., March 13 (UPI) -- Nick Watney's 5-under-par 67 rallied him to his third PGA Tour championship Sunday, a two-stroke triumph in the WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral Golf Resort.
Watney, who entered the day behind third-round leader Dustin Johnson, ended at 16-under 272. He avoided a playoff when Johnson missed an eagle by just 5 feet with his approach shot on the 18th hole.
Watney grabbed the lead with a sizzling stretch in which he carded four birdies and a bogey, beginning with No. 8.
Johnson, meanwhile, had trouble putting Sunday and managed only a 1-under 71 in the final round, falling into second place at minus-14.
Anders Hansen (67) and Francesco Molinari (69) ended in a third-place tie at 13-under-par 275 on the TPC Blue Monster at Doral.


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Most Canadians say: Let war resisters stay
War resisters -former U. S. soldiers who have come to this country because they refuse to fight in the Iraq war -should be allowed to stay in Canada. This is an opinion shared by a majority of Canadians and a majority of our Members of Parliament. So why won't the Harper government listen?
Canadians have been asked more than once about this question: in a poll conducted by Strategic Communications last August, 64 per cent of Ontarians said they favoured allowing war resisters to settle in Canada with their families. Even 54 per cent of those who self-identified as voting Conservative federally were in favour of such a motion.
Just last month these results were confirmed in a nation-wide poll conducted by Angus Reid: 64 per cent of Canadians said they would agree with giving these ex-soldiers from the U. S. the opportunity to remain in Canada as permanent residents.
Results varied somewhat across the country, but even where support is lowest (Alberta 52 per cent) there is a majority in favour of letting them stay.
It is high time Harper's minority Conservatives listened to Canadians.
A motion passed in the House of Commons on June 3 called for the government to make provisions to allow war resisters to become permanent residents in Canada and to halt all current removal or deportation proceedings against those already here. The Conservative government is refusing to respect the will of Parliament and still attempting to deport Iraq War Resisters.
The most immediate case before us is that of Corey Glass, who was to leave Canada today -- Thursday, July 10.
Last week there was a certain amount of confusion created by a news report claiming Glass had been 'discharged' from the military and was free to return to the U. S.
The fact is, however, Glass has not received an official discharge paper from the Army -known as a DD 214. He has not gone through the normal discharge process, so under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, he could still be charged with desertion and punished by imprisonment and a Bad Conduct discharge, equivalent to a felony conviction.
As a member of the Individual Ready Reserve, Glass could still be recalled to active duty, possibly in Iraq, at any time until July 2010 and be forced to serve past that date, through the "stop loss" program.
Often described as the "back-door draft", stop-loss legislation allows the U. S. military to unilaterally extend soldiers' contracts for an indefinite period of time (in one case, for over 25 years), even after they have already completed their required tour of duty. Many other resisters in Canada also face a fate similar to Glass's if the Harper government continues to ignore Parliament and the majority of Canadians.
A recent federal court decision ordered the Immigration and Refugee Board to hold a new hearing for another resister, Joshua Key. This ruling makes it clear that the IRB erred in excluding evidence about Geneva Convention and other human rights violations by the U. S. military, which form the basis of many resisters' cases.
Federal Court Justice Robert Barnes ruled that "Officially condoned military misconduct falling well short of a war crime may support a claim to refugee protection." In light of this new ruling, it is now more critical than ever that Minister of Immigration Diane Finley and Prime Minister Harper immediately cease any removal proceedings already underway against U. S. Iraq war resisters.
In 2005, when he was leader of the Opposition, Harper was sure that the government must to listen to a parliamentary majority when it votes on a resolution in Commons, saying "the Prime Minister has the moral responsibility to respect the will of the House... Will the Prime Minister respect this vote?"
Now that he is Prime Minister, Harper would do well to take heed of his own words.
-- DAVID HEAP David Heap teaches linguistics
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Attorney Danielle Davidian's hopes of bearing a child began to fade as she neared 40 -- a dream deferred by career and love's hits and misses.
Three years ago, Davidian, now 43, turned to Dr. Mark Surrey, of the Southern California Reproductive Center, and a process known as ovum cryo-preservation -- egg freezing.
"When I turned 40, it hit me," Davidian said. "I'm running out of time here, and I better do something. I wanted options."
Ovum cryo-preservation places a woman's eggs in a state of suspended animation. It involves a series of hormonal injections to stimulate egg production.
Matured eggs are then retrieved about one month later in an outpatient procedure. They are sent to a laboratory, where they are placed in a deep freeze -- minus 340-degrees fahrenheit.
The eggs can, potentially, stay in that state forever, said Surrey.
Once thawed, the eggs are fertilized. Viability can be checked, and not all eggs will work, but experts said frozen eggs offer a chance that might not otherwise exist.
One of Davidian's eggs was fertilized and implanted about two weeks ago. She found out Monday night that she is not pregnant, but told NBC4 she would try the process again.
Insurance rarely covers egg freezing, which costs about $15,000 per round.
Click the video above to watch Dr. Surrey explain the process.
Additional Information:
- If ethical beliefs permit, one benefit to freezing eggs and fertilizing them outside the womb is that genetic testing can be done. Testing cannot be done in the womb.
- The younger you are, the better.
- An embryoscope does a real-time analysis of the embryo's development before it is implanted. Doctors can choose the healthiest embryo.


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See our previous posts on Mother's Day ideas for scrapbookers to make here, here, here and here. Also, scroll to the bottom for a tutorial!
Better Homes and Gardens has some crafty gift ideas to make for Mother's Day posted here. I really like this idea for eco-friendly photo wall art. The photos are suspended from wire and hung across a repurposed emptied out frame. See photo below.
Nicole Snow has a detailed tutorial up at the Salt Lake City Scrapbooking Examiner on how to make a Mother's Day album. The tutorial is in 3 parts: Part 1, 2 and 3. One of Nicole's photos is shown below.
Kit 'n Kaboodles recently welcomed Amy Wilhelms to their Design Team. She started off the month making a last minute Mother's Day Gift with their May Kit. She shared her instructions below. Also, see one photo below.
scraps of patterned paper
Mod Podge
embellishments of choice
acrylic paint (optional)
Add photos to your album, and you're done! This took under an hour to make (less drying time for the Mod Podge of course) and will make a great Mother's Day gift. If you decide to make one, post it here so we can see what you've come up with!


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THE SCENE of a Palm Beach County School Bus that crashed head on with a pick up truck Thursday afternoon, killing one student.
Palm Beach Post LOXAHATCHEE -- A bus carrying high school students from a Belle Glade school overturned Thursday, killing a 14-year-old girl, officials said. Two other students, the bus driver and the driver of the other vehicle were also injured.
The student died when the school bus collided with a pickup truck at an intersection in Loxahatchee, according to Diane Carhart, spokeswoman the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office. The student's identity wasn't released, and Carhart wouldn't confirm whether she was on the bus or in the pickup.
Two students from the bus, along with its driver, were taken to a hospital, and the driver of the pickup truck was airlifted to a trauma unit, she said.
The bus was carrying eight or nine students when deputies believe it ran a stop sign and hit the black Dodge pickup, officials said. The bus rolled over several times and landed on its side in the grass.
The bus was carrying students from West Tech, an alternative high school in Belle Glade, The Palm Beach Post reported in its online edition.
Loxahatchee is 16 miles west of West Palm Beach and 23 miles east of Belle Glade.
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coming back, a wave of them, saying "If you squint, I kind of hit my milestones, and now I need $5 million." And the funds just don't have that collective capacity to support all of them.
X: But at the very same time, you have the first-generation accelerators scaling up—you have 130 companies a year coming out of Y Combinator alone, not to mention TechStars and 500 Startups. And you've got new incubators popping up in verticals like cleantech and media and healthcare. So there are even more startups in the pipeline. Is it a reality for these companies that not all of them will make it past the seed stage?
MG: Absolutely. The way we think about our portfolio construction is that we expect half of them not to graduate. Our orientation around a seed is, it's an experiment. Experiments can be successful or they can fail. You should be perfectly willing to walk away. Our Series A's and B's are real investments. We are building a company.
You started by talking about the proliferation of all these incubators. Groups like Y Combinator have become such a beacon for the better seed talent that they will probably have better success rates for their graduates. In New York now, somebody told me this week that there are 25 incubators in Manhattan alone. Three years ago there were none. There is a little bit of adverse selection. My sense is that those guys are seeing lower quality commercial opportunities. Y Combinator has a three- or four-year head start, has a record of success, has incredible sponsorship. Those cohorts that graduate there will be on average, much stronger companies.
X: Now you're even seeing some specialized, vertical accelerators like Rock Health and Greenstart and Turner MediaCamp.
MG: And Blueprint Health in New York. I have met with all of their companies, and they are all smart people, but even in that small group they start to look like derivatives of one another. And what's hard, I think, for any of us in our position, is when you look at those and ask "Can that be a $100 million business?" More often than, you conclude that it's just not going after a massive market opportunity.
X: There are only a certain number of $100 million markets out there.
MG: Right. Some of these are very compelling—you can see that they could quite comfortably build a $10 million or $20 million business and be marginally profitable. But that's probably worth $20 million. If it doesn't have the explosive, uncapped market opportunity you just never make a [venture] return on it.
X: Do you think there will be some kind of correction in the number of accelerators?
MG: Oh, absolutely. New York can't sustain 25 accelerators. The truism is that every year a couple of dozen great companies get created. If you explode the top of the funnel you still have your couple dozen at the bottom. So maybe it's a more vibrant process, but it just means greater failure to get that same couple of dozen companies.
X: That's a sad way to look at it. There are so many talented people pouring their hearts into these startups.
MG: There will be pain and disruption. But it's really temporary. Getting people into the system and giving them a taste of that is incredibly powerful for society. They will go off and do it again or join others that are consolidating, and at least that way we have retained the best minds in the innovation economy.
The only thing that may mitigate against some of the dramatic contraction of some of these incubators is if they are state-sponsored. You have states trying to build these ecosystems and put in uneconomic dollars to sustain it. For example, Bloomberg has made a huge push in Manhattan. If it becomes clear in the next two years that many of these companies are not going to be viable, I don't think he turns that off. It's part of a larger agenda for what he's trying to do in Manhattan. So you may see them sustained a little bit longer than their useful lives because of the state support. But any of them that are sponsored by business or private sector, I think they will back off pretty quickly like they did in 2000-2001. Think of all the incubators that burst on the scene and disappeared very quickly.
X: It was a different style of incubator then.
MG: Yeah, you brought legal and accounting—you brought in services that were, frankly, less value-add. We fixed that model. Having free legal advice didn't make a company. You needed great product vision and technical skills. Incubators now are much more focused on those elements. You don't even see a general counsel or an accounting firm in these places.
X: So there's a place for incubators—just not as many.
MG: Yeah. I think the other observation is that as the tide goes out—and the tide is clearly going out—the secondary and tertiary markets suffer disproportionately. So incubator in…these cities with great intellectual bases but not great venture bases, I think those get washed out very quickly. So it may be more sustained in the Valley or Boston or New York because there is a history there. But other cities that put up their obligatory incubator space, that could wash out pretty quickly.
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Indians commence search for skipper
Indians commence search for skipper
CLEVELAND -- In the week since the Indians announced that manager Eric Wedge had been relieved of his duties, general manager Mark Shapiro and assistant GM Chris Antonetti have been in touch with their contacts throughout the game to put together a preliminary list of managerial candidates. "We've got the phone bills to prove it," Shapiro said Wednesday. The Indians have entered this process with a firm idea of what sort of attributes they'd like their next skipper to possess, but an open mind about who that guy might be.
Money, Shapiro said, is not an issue. That might come as a surprise, given the Indians' recent and drastic cost-cutting measures, and the fact that they are still on the hook to pay Wedge around $1.3 million next year. "I can't foresee a scenario where we won't have the resources to get the right guy," Shapiro said. Major League managerial experience -- or lack thereof -- also doesn't appear to be an issue, provided the candidate fits the Indians' framework for a firm fit. "Obviously, [the candidate must be] a good communicator, internally and externally," Shapiro said. "Somebody who can effectively demonstrate good awareness and the ability to communicate across a broad spectrum of players, cultures and personalities. And then being an effective communicator to our market, as well." The Indians also want to find a candidate who has a good idea of the type of coaching staff he'll need to be successful. One knock on Wedge was that he had a staff dominated by ex-catchers. Shapiro said he'd like to find "somebody who has the ability to build a diverse staff -- and by that I mean a different set of backgrounds, complementary backgrounds with different skill sets and talents." In surveying the Major League landscape for a candidate who fits those traits, Shapiro and Antonetti have compiled an initial list of about 30 possibilities. That list will be whittled down next week, when the Indians' front office conducts player evaluation meetings in Goodyear, Ariz., and Shapiro and Antonetti initiate phone interviews with eight to 10 candidates. Shapiro's plan, as laid out to reporters, is to use the phone interviews to narrow that list of eight to 10 candidates down to a list of three to five guys who will be invited to Progressive Field for a more formal, in-person interview. And the interview will extend to the local media, as Shapiro plans to make each of those final candidates available to the press. "It's an opportunity for us to observe," Shapiro said, "which is a positive and a plus." Shapiro's goal is to select the Indians' next manager by the end of the month, with an official announcement following the conclusion of the World Series. Teams are discouraged from making major news announcements during the Fall Classic. While the interview process will eventually be made public, it is, for now, shrouded in secrecy. Shapiro said he will neither confirm nor deny any names who have been bandied about as possibilities for the position. For now, all Shapiro would reveal is that one of the eight to 10 candidates is an internal one. It's believed that Triple-A Columbus manager Torey Lovullo will get an interview, but that's not confirmed. It also remains doubtful that the Indians will fill this vacancy from within. As far as outside candidates are concerned, ESPN.com reported over the weekend that Red Sox pitching coach John Farrell -- a popular choice among fans and the media -- has pulled himself out of the running for the job. That report, however, has not been confirmed, and it could be that Farrell is merely trying to avoid any further public discussion about his future while the Red Sox are in the playoffs. Shapiro said the Indians are considering several candidates whose teams are in the postseason. That could obviously affect the timetable he discussed with reporters, but he said it's a flexible outlook. "We'll either go to them [on an off-day during the playoffs] or work around that and delay it five days," Shapiro said. "There's no business we have to do that says, 'We have to have the guy in here by this time.'" Shapiro said he pulled out a job description for Major League manager that he and former GM John Hart drew up in the early 2000s, and he's applied the Indians' current situation to it. The Tribe's situation now places a heavy emphasis on bringing in a leader who knows how to develop young, emerging talent and also a manager who is adept at handling a bullpen (given the Tribe's struggles in that area in three out of the past four years) and selecting a pitching coach. "I would certainly like that manager to have some defined thoughts about managing the bullpen," Shapiro said. "What's most important is he has his job description for that pitching coach and what he thinks describes and outlines an impact pitching coach, and he has candidates in mind to fill that position." As Shapiro said at the time of Wedge's dismissal, the new guy might share some similarities with the old guy. The Indians aren't looking to make drastic changes in the way they do their business. "It's a leadership position," Shapiro said. "Our philosophies as an organization are the same. Because it's a leadership position, some of the attributes will be identical [to Wedge], some will be complementary. But every single individual is going to have his own set of strengths and his own set of limitations." And while Wedge's popularity among fans was at a low point and his dismissal was viewed by many as an olive branch offered to a frustrated fan base, Shapiro said he's not looking to bring in a candidate strictly because of his popularity. "I'm not looking for short-term popularity," Shapiro said. "I'm looking for a guy to come in here and lead this organization effectively and maximize our chance of winning ballgames. I've said it before. A popular decision in December or January is very often your downfall in July or August."
Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Kindle Library Ebooks & the Law of Unintended Consequences
There's an interesting twist in how Amazon and OverDrive pulled off the technical details. OverDrive's partner libraries are offering Kindle support but they didn't have to buy any new ebooks. Instead, they are able to lend titles that they had already purchased as Epub and PDF. If a library bought a title and if Amazon have that title in their store then the library's patrons can check out the ebook and read it on a Kindle.
Did you catch that second condition? I'm pointing it out because it is critically important to the library ebook market. That could be how Amazon will affect the market.
A library can only lend a Kindle ebook if Amazon already sell it.
Put yourself in the place of a librarian who is looking to buy more ebooks. If you had to choose between 2 titles, and only one was available for the Kindle, which would you choose? I would think for economic reasons alone that a librarian would chose the title that could be read on the Kindle over one that could not. It's a better value for the library to support as many readers as possible.
I suspect that as time goes on that we will see Kindle availability having an effect on library ebook sales. That might not be important now, but imagine what will happen when ebooks grow to be a larger part of the overall market. A title that is not available on the Kindle won't get the same exposure in a library as one that is available. Readers won't find it, so they won't read it. That means they won't be as likely to talk about the title and they won't be as likely to buy their own copy.
And if they're not buying that title then they're not buying that title. Some other book is being purchased, possibly one that is available on the Kindle. I might be overstating the effect, but I know that I will try a book at my library before I run the risk of buying it. I think the same is true for a lot of people.
What effect do you think Amazon will have on library ebooks? I'd particularly want to hear what librarians have to say about my idea.
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Hear, O Israel, the LORD is our God; the LORD is one
THE SHEMA is the central prayer in the Jewish prayerbook (Siddur) and is often the first section of Scripture that a Jewish child learns. During its recitation in the synagogue, Orthodox Jews pronounce each word very carefully and cover their eyes with their right hand. Many Jews recite the Shema at least twice daily: once in the morning and once in the evening. Parts of the Shema are written on a small scroll which is then rolled up and put inside a mezuzah.
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The Shema is actually more than just the famous six words Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad, but is composed of three parts linked together into a unity:
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This statement marks the declaration that LORD our God is One. Interestingly, the word echad in Hebrew can imply a unity in diversity (the word for one and only one, i.e., unique, is more often rendered as yachid). For example, in Exodus 26:6 the various parts of the Tabernacle (mishkan) are to be constructed so that "it shall be one (echad) tabernacle," and Ezekiel spoke of two "sticks" (representing fragmented Israel) as being reunited into one: "and they shall be one (echad) stick in My hand" (Ezek. 37:19). Moses also used echad in Genesis 2:24 when he wrote, "And they (husband and wife) will become one flesh (basar echad)."
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Treasury Ready to Raise 2010 Forecast
Israel's economy will grow by 3.0%-3.5% in 2010, barring any new long-term major global economic crises. In the second half of the year growth could even hit 4.0% or 5.0%. The country's debt-to-GDP ratio rose by only around 1.0% in 2009 and is expected to do the same next year, while the annual average unemployment is expected to drop to 7.4%.
These relatively rosy figures are part of the Finance Ministry's reevaluation of its forecast for next year, based on the most recent data.
The treasury's official growth forecast for 2010, issued a few months ago, is for 2.5% growth. Now it's debating whether to make the new optimism official, in order to reflect the unexpectedly high growth figures for the last quarter of 2009 - the analysts say it will reach 4.0%, the best quarter since the first quarter of 2008 and one of the best since the start of the crisis in the developed nations began - or to leave the numbers as they are.
In the third quarter of 2009 growth reached 2.2%, compared to 1.0 percent for the preceding quarter and -3.2% for the first quarter of the year.
Finance ministry officials expect the budget deficit for 2009 to fall to 5.1%-5.2%, below the 6.0% target figure, and they are already saying that next year it will be under 5.0%, compared to the 5.5% target.
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Johannesburg - The cars of Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye and Themba Tshabalala did not collide with each other, the Protea Magistrate's Court heard on Monday.Accident reconstruction expert Renier Balt told the court the two Mini Coopers overturned as a result of oversteering and did not have contact with each other."There was no transfer of paint," Balt said.Maarohanye and Tshabalala face charges of murder, attempted murder and driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.They were allegedly drag racing when one of their Minis ploughed into a group of schoolchildren in Protea North, Soweto, on March 8 2010.Four children were killed in the accident and two injured.Balt said the two cars were in good condition before the accident.The blue Mini was travelling at 109km/h and the silver grey Mini at 112km/h.He said there were six friction marks at the accident scene, three from the blue Mini and three from the silver grey Mini.From the marks, he was able to determine the speed at which the two cars were travelling.Unfair Earlier, it was contended in court that investigations in the case were improper and unfair.Defence lawyer Ike Motloung submitted that the police had kept urine samples in a locker for 10 days before they were sent to a laboratory.He said a cellphone allegedly used to take a video of the cars racing was sent to a corner shop, instead of a police support centre, to open the footage.Former Protea police station commander Moses Segapo was also "choosy" in taking statements.Motloung said Segapo first listened to what was being said and if he did not like what he heard, he did not take a statement.Segapo earlier told the court he had listened to a statement by two boys who were allegedly in the cars that ploughed into the children.Segapo said this was so he could have a better understanding of what was being said before he wrote it down.He said he could not obtain a statement from the boys because he suspected they had been coached on what to say.Motloung put it to him that the manner in which he obtained statements was incorrect.Motloung continued to represent Maarohanye on Monday.In August, he told the court his client had financial problems and that he could not proceed under such circumstances.It was not immediately known why Motloung changed his mind about representing Maarohanye.The trial continues on Tuesday.
Our Goverment Justice system should make an example of them........
Goverment Justice system - Contradiction in terms....
@ Born to fish - touche!
They were driving just over 100....would have been nice to know the speedlimit on the road as well, but its nowhere in the article...how can i compare apples and oranges :P
Built up residential area. My common sense tells me the speed limit is 60km/h, same as in almost all other built up residential areas?
if you have been following the story dude, it was reported countless times that they were drag racing in a 60km/hr zone. but then perhaps you are right; since they are talking about speed they should put in the context.
Everybody watch this trial! We can expect a travesty of Justice - something not uncommon in South Africa.
Why do you say that? The guys arrested and in front of a judge and is producing a "dog ate my homework" defense. His lawyer knows he is in a no-win spot. They have hundreds of eye witnesses to what happened... they just have no way of disproving the FACTS.
@GT, true words, only you left out one crucial point. He is a celebrity and unforgivably celebs do get preference in sa......
Darwinian - The mess usually happens before things get to court. In this case the public anger and the cold facts far outweighed the status of the accused.
The main problem is that the NPA seems to insist on murder charges in these cases, which is grandstanding. To prove murder you need to prove intent... this is VERY hard in this case. Criminal negligence, yes, intent, no.
I expect to see a guilty verdict, but on a lesser charge.
Hang the bastards
My goodness when willl the victims and the families get closure. this case has gone on for too long now.
Must have lost it quite badly to get that Cooper S to oversteer
How on earth does one "lose it" at those speeds? And with those cars too!! Did they get their licences out of a lucky packet???
The so called expert should not express an opinion as if it is a conclusive fact. interpretation of the results of an investigation with non factual evidence subjective.
Add alcohol to the mix and drugs and anything is posible! for all we know one of the children ran out infront of the dragging cars and they swirft out and dont rememeber it...
I new the silver grey mini would have won...pay up boys, pay up
THIS is not a joke. Shame on you!!!!!!!!
If you rich, famous, or have political connections, you get off lightly. Seems to be the norm in SA, and many other countries in the world. The average man on the street, will be behind bars, for a long long time by now.
who has got off?
Fek you okes go off on tagents.
Everbody, you forget that the the great Julius aka Tokyo went to visit them in jail aftr the accident to give JUJU suport. Malemas influence will see a shabir shaik type of outcome
Locck the fools up for ever ...why is it taking so long
If this was me, snorting tik, shooting up mayonnaise, drinking battery acid, racing my car, killing children.... I probably would've been locked away a long time ago......
I wonder why all tag of war regarding this case. At the end Jub Jub and whatever his name is drove recklessly and killed innocent school children. The judge must just sentence them for life in prison since SA do not have death penalty. This tag of war investigation which is now regarded is being improper and unfair will end up seeing the two accused being acquitted reason being due to LACK OF EVIDENCE. We have seen that happening. What is proper and fair is to get this guys right where they belong in JAIL FOR LIFE.
Tinted windows so dark that they can't see through clearly, seats reclined so far back they can hardly see over the steering wheel and finally the mental capacity to control a vehicle. It is a common sight, assuming that you can see in the vehicle that the driver is almost lying down.


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GIL ROSE: It's no mistake that a lot of early electronic music grew up in fiscally sound, academic environments, and/or in Europe. Even Koussevitzsky at the Boston Symphony, who was at the forefront of commissioning new music and new works, had no experience with that kind of technology stuff. In his defense, it was a little bit before his time.
FRANK J. OTERI: But it's interesting that Stokowski, who was of the same generation, used a theremin to double bass lines with the Philadelphia Orchestra in standard repertoire pieces, which was along the same lines as playing a Bach piece on the piano, playing a work for an earlier version of an instrument on a later version.
GIL ROSE: But it shows you what leadership can do. Stokowski is a great example, much better than Koussevizsky. It shows you leadership, not just leadership on the technological front, but leadership in youth concerts and in experimental music. One stubborn person can make a big difference.
FRANK J. OTERI: I'd like to play Luddite for a minute…
GIL ROSE: What?
TOD MACHOVER: Luddite, anti-technology…
FRANK J. OTERI: And I'm saying this as a fan of technology, as a fan of this music, but I want to turn it around to give voice to the dissenting opinion and talk about music in the future. Is there a place in the future for musical works that do not involve technology on any level?
GIL ROSE: There's space in the future for every kind of music because Pandora's box has been opened up. That's one of the truisms of our musical culture. There are a lot of sources for inspiration. Sometimes you'll have somebody playing an indigenous instrument who's electrified it. And there's other places where people will go in a whole different direction. I can tell you that after having basically conducted and produced a very technologically heavy concert, I really wanted to do something with rocks and sticks.
RAY KURZWEIL: There was a beautiful concert with bamboo flute by an Indian master just last night at MIT… But to respond, there are two connotations of the Luddite challenge: one is employment, which is how the Luddite movement started and the other is technology as an assault on pure, traditional forms, and certainly we see that in music. And sometimes people resent technology as not being consistent with the purity of certain traditions. The Luddite movement started around 1800 in the textile industry in England with these weavers whose families of many generations had enjoyed these livelihoods from a certain guild and craft of weaving which had been turned over on its head by these new automated machines. And it seemed clear to the Luddites that soon employment would be enjoyed by just a small elite because one person could do the work of ten or twenty and the machines were getting more sophisticated, so pretty soon there would be almost no employment. And ironically, employment actually increased and wages went up and there was actually a period of prosperity, which is the main reason why the Luddite movement died along with some violent oppression. A reason for the increase in employment was that new industries were created to create the machines and also it's human nature. We didn't create the same number of shirts with a smaller number of workers. Now that the common man and woman could have a well-made shirt, people didn't want just one shirt, they wanted a whole wardrobe, etc., etc. And if you look at the whole sweep of automation in the last couple hundred years we have actually ten times as many jobs today as we did a hundred and twenty years ago, both on a per capita basis and on an absolute basis. And what we tend to do is automate jobs at the bottom of the skill ladder and create new jobs on the top of the skill ladder, so the whole skill ladder moves up. And we've seen that in music. There was a lot of controversy, which I was a part of too, with synthesizers and the union and others. With synthesizers, one person could do the work of ten or twenty, particularly in commercial music where people were used to blowing a trumpet and getting gigs for television commercials, and now they were using synthesizers. This was back in the 1980s. And it's true. Certain types of gigs, certain kinds of performances were being automated. However, the advent of this technology made music more exciting, particularly in the popular world. A group of three or four musicians could make a much richer, a more complex sound. One musician with a synthesizer could create an interesting soundtrack for movies, so they would actually hire a live musician with a synthesizer rather than using recorded music, which had been the practice up to that time in industrial films and government films and so on. And there actually are more musical opportunities and you can actually measure that economically in terms of financial statistics. Musicians are better off. There's a lot more excitement in the world of music and there's more economic activity as a result. As for the cultural challenge, that's a challenge that exists not just in the world of technology but anytime you have change and there are guardians of the old values and sometimes that gets tense. Sometimes you see that in the world of politics in terms of reactionary forces that resist modernity, change. Sometimes violently, usually not in the world of music but there are guardians of the old traditions and sometimes there's a resistance to new forms and that's another aspect of the Luddite issue. Overall, I think, I agree with what you said, that there'll be room for continued traditions and that the new doesn't extinguish the old it just provides new options and new alternatives, new ways to express ourselves. Music's always using the most advanced technology in at least some of the forms. That was true in Beethoven's day. In the 18th century they used the wood-making crafts and in the 19th century the metal working industries. Then we used analog electronics and now we have the full gamut of digital signal processing to expand, not to replace, the old modalities.
TOD MACHOVER: For the last several years in particular, and I think partly because of being here at the media lab at MIT, I've gotten increasingly concerned that, as much as I am interested in technology and love technology, I think technology for the past five years or so, maybe a little longer, has had such a momentum and a tendency to capture the public imagination and grow so fast that in many ways, certain times technology has a tendency to outstrip what we know how to do with it and what we want to do with it and I think it's had a certain momentum just to come up with advancements for the sake of not just for the markets but for the kind of imaginative sense effective of just doing better. And so I've been sort of screaming that especially in the technological context, since we're in the middle of it here, one of the most important things to remember is what it is you want to get done, what it is you want to express, what it is you want to do and then you feel that you're looking and that's obvious. But I think technology has had such a momentum of its own, it's sometimes hard to remember that. And I think that in the last couple of weeks, about the only positive thing that's happened so far is that it has shaken so many of us to just simply think back on what we're here for and what the important things are and I find myself looking for any kind of wisdom that I can find anywhere, how to view what's going on or how to just go day by day in such a confusing situation. People will need a certain kind of escapism just to get through things, but art for entertainment's sake is not going to mean much to people for a while now. And I think technology for it's own sake, because it's cool, is not going to mean anything to people right now. On the other hand, sharing with each other what each of us considers important and worth doing and what art is really for is really important and I think that's got to be healthy for the field. It's hard for me to imagine it, and frankly, so many things are in question now that what technology is going to have to do with our lives period is probably a bit more of a question than it was six months ago or four months ago or three weeks ago. Ray often makes the point about technology changing exponentially. Things aren't just changing, change is changing and it's hard to imagine. And we're involved in a really major struggle right now about the future versus the past in our culture and, obviously, in the world. So these are big issues that are going to get played out and we've unleashed big forces that none of us can predict. I would imagine that Ray's description of the future is probably going to happen. I'll put words in his mouth, Ray's contention is that once you start putting intelligence in machines that you're enabled to do things that you couldn't do before and that the sophistication of these machines grows very, very fast and it builds… So I think that to imagine that the core parts of our culture are not going to involve more and more sophisticated technology is naïve. I think it will. And I think probably we're going to want to find ways to incorporate those ideas into our forms of expression because that reflects our experience most. So I think orchestras probably really should be thinking of ways of embracing the technological world and leading in the technology world and helping to create new art forms in their midst rather than outside it. And obviously you can always make great art and great thoughts, all you need is a mind and a heart, you know what I mean. It's not the tools that do it, but I think these tools are here to stay.
RAY KURZWEIL: Well, I think the threshold we're on now are not cybernetic geniuses but we are creating machines that have narrow intelligence. We have a program on our Web site called Aaron, which is a cybernetic artist that actually creates good quality art and every painting is different. The creator of it, Hal Cohen, who has worked on this for thirty years, has joked that he's going to be the first artist that'll able to have a posthumous exhibition of original work, because the system keeps creating original paintings and they have a particular style but every painting is different 'cause human artists have a recognizable style as well. So he has embodied this program with his understanding of visual art. Clearly, we can do similar things in music and there have been experiments like EMI, David Cope's experiments in musical intelligence, which are beginning to do some similar things, in my mind, not for broad works, it's very actually convincing for brief snippets of music, but not the sort of full musical expression of music that makes sense over a period of time. But I do think we can create sophisticated systems today that have narrow intelligence that can work collaboratively and interactively with human musicians and I know, Tod, you've experimented with this concept. And I think that's really exciting, to have a system that has narrow A.I., that understands something about music, that can anticipate what the musician is doing and then can kind of fill in. Once it's programmed it can actually think faster than humans, so it could very quickly finish a walking bass line or fill in a rhythmic pattern, do things more quickly than a human performer could do and interact with a human performer. And that's a threshold we're on. I mean, thirty years from now we'll have non-biological intelligence, in my mind, operating on human levels, and they'll be creating music and everything else, but right now I think it's a tool that can really amplify human intelligence and I think what we really need more of are people who really understand something about technology and understand music and have the artistic insight to use these tools. Because to some extent there are two different worlds and we need more of a bridge between the whole idea of artistic expression, which is communicating emotion from a performer to the audience and understanding what the technology can do, which I think is a lot. We need the people who can form that bridge.


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With Chris Thompson -- last week's No. 1 player in our Florida State power rankings -- gone for the season, the Seminoles need others to step up on offense. If Saturday was any indication, that won't be a concern.
Florida State's offense racked up five touchdowns in a dominant win over Duke, and had it not been for four fumbles, it might have been a lot more.
So, with a bye week finally at hand, here's how the power rankings stack up after nine games. (Last week's ranks in parentheses.)
1. Bjoern Werner, DE (2)
Florida State finished without a sack against Duke -- its first sack-free game since 2009 -- but that doesn't mean Duke's quarterbacks were comfortable in the pocket. Werner helped lead the charge, finishing with 3 tackles, including one for a loss, and a QB hurry.


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Google Summer of Code Application
maven-osgi (http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2007#maven-osgi)
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The OSGi standard is undergoing its rebirth. Being thrown in the attic for some years it is now a hot topic all over, following its adoption in Websphere and future Spring support. There's a joke amongst the developers saying, that OSGi is a Phoenix implemented by Phoelix.
Maven, on its way to become a de facto build and project management tool, tries to improve the development process not only on conceptual level, but also in each practical aspect. Thus, it has to respond to the growth of the OSGi community by providing efficient solution to build/manage OSGi bundles.
Work to be done
As far as I can gauge, the project involves two parts
creation of a Maven plugin to build OSGi bundles (jar files having special header clauses in their META-INF/MANIFEST.MF). An existing solution from the Felix project might be used as a base
- integration of the OSGi specifics inside the Maven compile process. Roughly said, OSGi bundles are allowed to reference only a "declared" part of the classpath when compiling, and Maven has to perform sanity checks for undeclared class usage.
- maven-osgi-plugin
- version of maven eclipse compiler that integrates with the delivered maven-osgi-plugin
- tutorial, explaining how Maven and OSGi work together
- plugin documentation for maven-osgi-plugin
- javadoc accompanying the produced code
- I hope the deadlines are not too ambitious. My wish is to finish a working version of the Maven + OSGi integration as early as possible and have several weeks at the end of the summer for feedback (from the mentor and the community).
14 May
Familiarize myself with the project and community specifics
28 May
Initial version of maven-osgi-plugin
18 June
Initial version of eclipse compiler integration
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stabilization of the code and documentation
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deadline defined in GSOC terms
Student info
- Student in University Of Sofia, major "Software technologies". Working full-time as a Java Developer, with more than 3 years of commercial experience. My Maven powers are (sadly) limited to Maven1. I've no hands-on experience with M2, except for the usual home-tweaking.
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Report: iOS 5.1.1 on More Than 12% of iOS Devices after First Week
Report: iOS 5.1.1 on More Than 12% of iOS Devices after First Week
On Monday, May 7, Apple released the latest version of its mobile software, iOS 5.1.1. The release represented a sigh of relief for iOS device users, as Apple had finally patched some security features of earlier iOS versions.
The most important fix addressed an issue surrounding Mobile Safari. More specifically, users were susceptible to a potential attacker deceiving them and directing them to a malicious site, among other serious vulnerabilities. This presented a tremendous threat to iOS 5.1 users, as security experts believe that users could have unwittingly supplied private information, their Apple ID, or even credit card information to attackers. Other fixes with the upgrade simply increased usability of the device. Experts warn that it is imperative to upgrade your device as soon as you have a chance.
Here at Chitika Insights our team was interested in seeing just how adamant iOS users were in their quest for secure browsing. We combed through tens of millions of ad impressions across our network, looking for devices that were utilizing any sort of iOS based software. From there we refined our results by breaking out iOS 5.1.1 devices and took a 24-hour rolling average in order to determine usage rates. Our data paints an interesting picture.
According to our network data, Apple users (being the early adopters that they are) heeded experts' warnings. Our network started to demonstrate a spike in iOS 5.1.1 traffic around 5:00 PM EST on May 7, trending upward to a high of 12.3% of all iOS traffic by May 10. This preliminary report shows a somewhat rapid pace of adoption, a trend that should persist, given the popularity of the iPad and iPhone devices.
However, in comparison to an earlier study done by Chitika Insights, the iOS 5.1.1 release showed a somewhat less enthused consumer in terms of adoption rate. We attribute this primarily to the fact that the iOS 5.1 release had a number of user interface upgrades, which could be perceived as more exciting compared to the more recent release of iOS 5.1.1, which dealt primarily with the aforementioned security update.


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A Pennsylvania state senator is suing the NCAA in Commonwealth Court over its use of the $60 million fine that Penn State is paying for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.
Sen. Jake Corman sued the NCAA Friday, saying his goal is "to ensure that Pennsylvania funds are appropriately and lawfully spent for commonwealth purposes."
The latest legal action comes two days after Gov. Tom Corbett filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA over the sanctions.
Corman is a Republican who represents State College, home to Penn State's main campus. He's chairman of the Appropriations Committee, which directs state budget spending.
His lawsuit says the state gives Penn State so much money every year that "it would be impossible for the payments to be derived solely from non-commonwealth funds."
An NCAA spokeswoman offered no immediate comment late Friday.
Sandusky was convicted in June of sexual abuse of children.


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A Beethoven movement that was lost in 1799 is to be performed for the first time in more than 200 years.
The piece will premiere in the English city of Manchester on Thursday, after it was carefully pieced together from early drafts.
According to the BBC, Beethoven wrote the slow movement for his string quartet Opus 18 Number Two, and then discarded it to compose another version in 1800.
It was discovered and reconstructed by Barry Cooper, a professor of music at the University of Manchester.
The BBC said Cooper – one of the world's leading Beethoven experts – "reassembled the surviving sketches, filling in any gaps himself".
Although preliminary sketches from Beethoven's notebooks survived for all 74 bars of the string quartet piece, half of the bars were written for just one instrument.
Cooper told the BBC he completed the missing instrument parts himself:
You've got a pretty good idea of what the music is like. The movement will certainly be strikingly similar to what Beethoven wrote. Obviously it can't possibly be exactly the same.
The original slow movement of Beethoven's Quartet in G, Op 18 no 2, was written when he was 28 years old, for his Bohemian patron, Prince Lobkowicz, reports The Guardian.
It was only his second string quartet and, when he had completed a group of six such works – the Op 18 quartets – he went back to the two first and revised them substantially in 1800, discarding the whole of the second movement of the quartet in G.
The completed movement will be performed by the university's resident string quartet Quatuor Danel at the Martin Harris Centre in Manchester on Thursday.


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Cast members of the Penn State Centre Stage production of 'Blood at the Root' rehearsed on March 5 at the Penn State Downtown Theatre. 'Blood at the Root', inspired by the story of the Jena Six, was written by Dominique Morisseau. The show will run from March 25 to April 5 at the Penn State Downtown Theatre. For tickets, call 1-800-ARTS-TIX.


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- Released: Jun 13, 1988
- Sound: 8
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Sound — 8
The unsung thrash B-listers b-listering second album, 1988's "Survive" assured the title of their debut "Game Over" was in no way prophetic. Nuclear Assault were a NYC/NJ crossover band balls deep in metal and hardcore's first cacophonous coupling, alongside D.R.I. and in particular the legendary S.O.D. - NA bassist Danny Lilker's side project with his former Anthrax bandmates, Scott Ian and Charlie Benante. It is Lilker's monstrous bass that serves as "Survive"'s engine, driving the moshing madness while taking the occasional showy left turn. Think Geezer Butler on ritalin. Guitarist/lead yelper John Connelly's unique and sonorous vocals delivers NA's metal-with-a-message lyrics; politically, socially and environmentally astute expressions from the same cut-ups that on previous recordings sneezed such snotty fare as "Butt F--k" and "Hang The Pope" in the faces of the PMRC, The Moral Majority and other self-appointed guardians of good taste everywhere. The speedy yet melodious fretwork of lead guitarist Anthony Bramante and the pounding drums of Glenn Evans aides this apocalypse-obsessed band sound like the end of the world.
Lyrics — 8
NA shared the doomsday concerns that permeated popular culture during the Reagan/Bush '80s. As one can gather from their name, nuclear war and a post-radioactive fallout existence occupied much of Connelly's lyrical content. Also top-of-mind however was personal freedom and a disdain for societal mediocrity. During "Brainwashed", Connelly pleads consumers of dumbed-down media "...Why can't you get that garbage out of your head? You'd be better off to read a good book instead...", while in the anti-racism screed "Equal Rights" he proffers "...Maybe hate will never die, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try."
Overall Impression — 8
Highlights include the opening quintet of tunes "Rise From The Ashes", "Brainwashed", "F#", "Survive" and "Fight To Be Free", though classic mosh-pit riffage abounds throughout this Randy Burns-produced pummeling. "Survive" concludes with a just-for-fun cover of Led Zeppelin's "Good Times Bad Times", bringing the otherwise serious proceedings to close with a bit of cheeky relief. While the overall sound may be considered raw by modern standards, "Survive" is still a powerful and exciting document of a musical form that was harder, faster and smarter than most of the confections that were passed off as "metal" during the '80s.


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John Skipp's Fungasm Press Releases "HAUNT" Audiobook!Books/Art/Culture,News Ken W. Hanley
For longtime fans of horror literature, the name "John Skipp" should be no stranger than that of Jack Ketchum or Clive Barker. Having made his name from the writing duo of Skipp and Spector, the author has since branched out to filmmaking (co-helming a segment of TALES OF HALLOWEEN), genre journalism (with FANGORIA's own 'Nightmare Royale') and publishing with his own imprint, Fungasm Press. Now, Skipp and Fungasm are breaking into new territory, offering terror for one's ears with their debut audiobook venture, HAUNT.Read more »
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David Moyes has openly admitted he would love to sign Joleon Lescott in January and bring him back to Everton. This is a must for Lescott.
Joleon Lescott was criticised heavily following his initial move to Manchester City from Everton. He signed for City and became one of their strongest defenders as he helped them secure a dramatic first Premier League title. Now he finds himself out of the side and a move back to Everton could be a terrific idea for the England centre back.
Lescott has been injured for a chunk of this season and he probably expected to go straight back into the City side following his form last year. However, he has started only seven games for the club this season being routinely replaced and over looked for the more uncertain Matija Nastasic.
A move back to Everton would virtually guarantee Lescott a starting place in the side. He would fit in superbly alongside Phil Jagielka and would help the club in their quest for a Champions League place by the end of the season. He would undoubtedly make Everton a harder team to score against.
Playing at Everton could also improve his chances of playing more regularly in an England shirt. Lescott has been a key feature in the international side and it's no coincidence that his starting places for England have slipped along with his starting places for City.
There doesn't seem to be any hostility towards Lescott over the way he left the club, certainly not from the manager. This would make any transition back into the Everton first team effortless and would give him the best chance of winning back the fans who may be more willing to voice their opinions over old matters and issues.
"I've not thought about it but if he was available then I think he'd be someone I would maybe show an interest in. If Joleon wanted to come back, if I thought we needed him, I'd be delighted to have him back, I'd have no problem having Joleon back," Everton boss David Moyes said in the Liverpool Echo.
Lescott has spoken openly about how he expected to be in the recent City teams for matches against Chelsea and Wigan Athletic. He will also be very frustrated because the fragility of the City defence has been exposed this season, especially in the Champions League which is where Lescott could create a much higher profile for himself.
If he doesn't get the nod in the next few games then he is going to start questioning his position at City and if he'd be better off elsewhere. Everton are no certainties to sign him if he does become available but Moyes has left the door open to a return and it's a move which could very well come off in January.
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By: Adrienne Credo, Regular Contributor
I think one of the worst things we can do to ourselves is to linger in self-pity and self-doubt for too long. By letting our minds wander into the darker depths of our mind, we make ourselves much too vulnerable, and we begin to breed negativity. I'm definitely not saying you can never be negative; believe me, I understand that we all have our ups and downs. What I am saying is to not let the negativity get to your head.
At least for me, the onset of self-pity and self-doubt usually comes after a failure. I received an email once that I allowed to seriously affect my demeanor throughout the day. I kept telling myself that I shouldn't let this get to my head and that I shouldn't wallow in this negativity. But by suppressing the negativity, I wasn't allowing myself to feel the way I was feeling. It wasn't healthy for me to bottle this up and say everything was fine when, in my heart, I knew it wasn't. By suppressing the negativity, I only made my demeanor worse throughout the day, because I kept thinking that I shouldn't be sad or mad. I needed to be happy and positive instead.
Once I realized how this email affected me, I allowed myself to feel the emotions rather than suppressing them and slapping a smile on my face. And I have to tell you, IT. FELT. GREAT. The raw emotions I allowed myself to feel lifted the weight on my heart, and I started feeling a lot better about my situation. It was easier to see the good things that came out of the situation after allowing myself be sad for a while. I realized how blessed I was with the opportunity to live out my passion, even if it was just for a little while, not to mention, how blessed I've been to meet some pretty awesome and driven people. My talent is enough. My passion is enough. I am enough. At the end of the day, that's all we can ever hope for.
I think there's a misconception amongst the masses that when we're optimistic about our lives, we aren't allowed to feel negative about anything because it goes against everything we're told about optimism. However, in reality, it's okay to feel the pain so long as we eventually see the brighter side of the situation. We should use every range of emotion in our arsenal to become the best versions of ourselves.
So the next time you find yourself in a not-so-ideal situation that really bums you out, let yourself feel that and let it fuel your positivity. You are enough, because you say so. Go out there with arms wide open and shout into the void "I AM READY!" because that's all we can ever be.
Let's Chat! How do you overcome the negativity in life? When was the last time you allowed yourself to feel your true emotions? Tell us about it here!
About Adrienne
Adrienne is an undergraduate at University of California, Irvine studying Criminology, Law and Society with a minor in International Studies. She is also a passionate photographer (you can check out her work below!). She loves watching TV shows like Chicago PD (shout out to Sophia Bush!) and Law & Order: SVU with her roommates and creates funny videos with her friends. Check out some of her photographs on Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/123906482@N03 Follow Adrienne on Twitter:http://twitter.com/ayjaycee and on Instagram: http://instagram.com/a.credo
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