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SunnComm Technologies, a developer of CD antipiracy technology, said Thursday that it will likely sue a Princeton student who early this week showed how to evade the company's copy protection by pushing a computer's Shift key.
Princeton Ph.D. student John "Alex" Halderman published a paper on his Web site on Monday that gave detailed instructions on how to disarm the SunnComm technology, which aims to block unauthorized CD copying and MP3 ripping. The technology is included on an album by Anthony Hamilton that was recently distributed by BMG Music.
On Thursday, SunnComm CEO Peter Jacobs said the company plans legal action and is considering both criminal and civil suits. He said it may charge the student with maligning the company's reputation and, possibly, with violating copyright law that bans the distribution of tools for breaking through digital piracy safeguards.
"We feel we were the victim of an unannounced agenda and that the company has been wronged," Jacobs said. "I think the agenda is: 'Digital property should belong to everyone on the Internet.' I'm not sure that works in the marketplace."
The cases are already being examined by some intellectual-property lawyers for their potential to test the extremes of a controversial copyright law that block the distribution of information or software that breaks or "circumvents" copy-protection technologies.
Several civil and criminal cases based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act have been filed against people who distributed information or software aimed at breaking through antipiracy locks. In one, Web publisher Eric Corley was banned by a federal judge from publishing software code that helped in the process of copying DVDs.
In a criminal case, Russian company ElcomSoft was cleared of charges that it had distributed software that willfully broke through Adobe Systems' e-book copy protection.
Both of those cases dealt with software or software code, however. The issue in Halderman's case is somewhat different.
In his paper, published on the Princeton Web site on Monday, the student explained that the SunnComm technique relies on installing antipiracy software directly from the protected CD itself. However, this can be prevented by stopping Microsoft Windows' "auto-run" feature. That can be done simply by pushing the Shift key as the CD loads.
If the CD does load and installs the software, Halderman identified the driver file that can be disabled using standard Windows tools. Free-speech activists said the nature of Halderman's instructions--which appeared in an academic paper, used only functions built into every Windows computer, and were not distributed for profit--meant they would not fall under DMCA scrutiny.


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2009-10 Conference Primers: #17 – Summit LeaguePosted by rtmsf on October 20th, 2009
Eli Linton is the RTC correspondent for the Summit League.
Predicted Order of Finish:
- Oakland 22-9 (16-2)
- Oral Roberts 21-10 (15-3)
- South Dakota St. 18-11 (11-7)
- North Dakota St. 14-14 (8-10)
- Southern Utah 13-16 (8-10)
- Western Illinois 13-16 (6-12)
- Centenary 6-23 (2-16)
All-Conference Team:
- Johnathan Jones (G), Sr, Oakland
- Garret Callahan (G), Sr, South Dakota St.
- Dominique Morrison (F), Soph, Oral Roberts
- Jon Avery (F), Sr, IUPUI
- Keith Benson (C), Jr, Oakland
6th Man. Hunter McClintock (G), Fr, Oral Roberts
Impact Newcomer. Larry Wright (G), Jr, Oakland. The junior transfer from St. John's University, should have an immediate impact on the Summit League. Two years ago he led the Red Storm in three-point field goal percentage, and he should be the perfect replacement for Erik Kangas, The Oakland great who set the all-time single season mark last year with 145 threes. Wright's long-range shooting could be the key to Oakland's success.
What You Need to Know. The Summit League is like the little engine that could. Every year, it produces a scrappy team that creates some hype in the NCAA Tournament. Last year Ben Woodside and his rag-tag boys from North Dakota State challenged the defending national champs (Kansas), and just came up short 84-74. This year's Summit League has the potential to produce a similar Cinderella story, with teams like Oakland and Oral Roberts reloading with some really talented players. Watch out for Oral Roberts and their newcomer Damen Bell-Holter (Mr. Alaska 2007, top 50 center prospect on Scout.com) who has the potential to dominate the lesser big men in the conference. Defense is the key to winning the Summit League. Last years champ NDSU held their opponents to 69.1 points per game, and Oral Roberts, in their three straight championships from 2006-08, held their opponents to 62.0, 64.9, and 68.1 points per game.
Predicted Champion. Oral Roberts (NCAA Seed: #14). With all the questions about age and inexperience with the Golden Eagles, it seems that Scott Sutton has the answers with his experience and skill level as a coach. Give him talented players, and his team will always compete. If Oral Roberts clinches another Summit league title, it will be their fourth championship in five years. I think a tough non-conference schedule (at Wake Forest, Missouri, New Mexico, Louisville,and Stanford) will be a trial-by-fire, and help their young freshmen mature quickly. The tough schedule also will help the NCAA Selection Committee give them a more favorable seed, especially if they win a couple of those big games (best bets are at home against New Mexico and Missouri). A #14 seed in the Big Dance will give Oral Roberts the Cinderella tag. A first round win is not out of the question for a Scott Sutton-led ORU squad.

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Frontier announces Alphatrack DAW controller
AlphaTrack includes a 100mm, touch-sensitive, motorized fader which provides true 10-bit resolution for smooth and precise level control. AlphaTrack also has three touch-sensitive encoders, a feature previously found only on high-end gear costing thousands of dollars. These let you adjust track and plug-in parameters while the 32-character backlit display shows detailed feedback in response to your touch. The encoders provide quick control of pans, sends, EQ, plug-ins, and automation.
One of AlphaTrack's greatest innovations is its touch-sensitive jog and shuttle strip. Slide one finger across its surface and your project's timeline scrolls in response. Drop a second finger onto the strip, and now your fingers control the timeline's shuttle speed. Zoom through your project with two fingers, then just lift one finger and slide to quickly set the precise position you want. And you can also just tap on the left or right ends of the strip to navigate through your project's markers!
AlphaTrack also has a set of 22 buttons and 21 LED's, including standard transport controls, per track record, solo, mute, and automation indication, and encoder mode control. When supported by the computer application, a set of buttons can also be customized with user-programmable functions.
AlphaTrack connects to your computer using just a single USB cable. This makes it quite portable, easy to connect, and compatible with laptops since no additional power supply is needed. AlphaTrack's backpanel also includes a footswitch jack for easy punch-in recording.
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Author Notes: Radishes were a vegetable that I snubbed when I was growing up. They would turn up in the family salad at night and I would either swallow them or swath them in salad dressing and hope for the best (mom caught any hiding of food and made us eat it anyway). This recipe changed my mind completely. They stand up to the red onions, lime juice, and avocado and provide a crisp and clean flavor to the creaminess of the avocado. It couldn't have been easier and I didn't have to heat up my kitchen. I served it atop of a toasted piece of bread spread with goat cheese and topped with a sprinkling of salty wild Alaskan salmon. I also enjoyed it straight from the spoon to my mouth. —testkitchenette
Serves: about 3 cups
radishes, finely sliced
cucumber, seeded and finely diced
avocado, diced
red onion, peeled and thinly sliced into half moons
garlic cloves, grated
lime, juiced and zested
salt and pepper to taste
- Combine all ingredients in a bowl and toss to mix ingredients fully. Taste for salt and pepper and correct seasoning if necessary.
- Serve as you wish. I suggest as I described but garnishing a burrito would be lovely or along side grilled poultry, meat, or fish would be great also. Tortilla chips would be a nice vehicle as well.
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Same answer for Malaysia. We cannot expect to ignore the laws of economics for too long. Eventually, there is a price to pay. I can think of a few departments that need to go.
What do you recommend to cure the U.S. debt crisis?
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When it comes to the U.S. debt crisis and upcoming currency crisis there really is no cure for our country.It's up to individual Americans to become educated to the truth so that they can take the necessary steps to protect themselves.The best hope for the U.S. to survive is to allow a much needed second Great Depression to take place.
Bernanke needs to dramatically raise interest rates immediately back up toa level that is higher than the real rate of inflation, so that we at least have deflation during this depression.The U.S. government needs to eliminate Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlement programs. We need to eliminate the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, and other wasteful departments that are doing more harm than good. We need to bring our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. We need to balance the budget and mandate that Congress must always balance its budget. We must return to sound money that is backed by gold. We can go on forever, these are just a few key first steps.


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That is why just months after it was announced that John Ericsson Middle School 126 pulled out from the depths into becoming a top-ranked school, Principal Marcos Bauch has taken new steps in tackling the obesity epidemic with a state-of-the-art fitness facility in his school.
"We decided to create a fitness room where we can begin to teach students about healthy living, working out, exercise and a balanced diet," Bausch said. "One of the things that came to mind was offering a new dynamic in terms of fitness in the vein of trying to combat childhood obesity, diabetes and asthma and all the things that a lot of our kids in inner-city schools deal with."
The new space, located in a spare classroom on the first floor of the A-ranked middle school, has been kept secret from the students for the last month while Bausch and the staff brought in the new Cybex cardio equipment, free weights set, barbells, Stairmaster and more.
Bausch added that numerous teachers at his school are in fact certified trainers, something he is confident will only add to the fully functional workout facility by getting his students excited about exercise.
"The thinking was to make the school more attractive in terms of offering things for the students," he said. "It will be an offering during the day, an offshoot of the physical education requirement."
M.S. 126 teacher Sonya "The Scholar" Lamonakis has taught for the last 13 years, but she is also a top-ranked professional boxer.
"This is awesome," Lamonakis said, standing in the new gym last week. "A gym like this would cost $100 a month in New York City."
The four-time Gold Gloves Champion and No. 2-ranked professional heavyweight female fighter in the world said she looks forward to getting the kids into the new gym and training them the right way to use the equipment.
"When a child is growing, you don't use heavy amounts of weight because their body is growing so rapidly and you try to do less weight and more reps," she said. "If used correctly this can be very effective. If we instruct the children how to use it, it's going to be a great thing."
Lamonakis has a lot of experience working with children in the gym, as she also runs a charity called Give a Kid a Dream out of Gleason's Gym in DUMBO to help inner-city kids get free training while keeping them up on their grades.
"I want to help them not just as a fighter in the ring, but out of the ring as a complete person," she said. "When your body starts changing and you start feeling better and stronger, kids' personalities change because they get more confident."
It could still be some time before the new gym is up and running, however Bausch said he hopes the new facility would bring additional interest to his school.
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Fifteen credits of Chinese language at or above the 100-level, including CHIN 101, CHIN 102, CHIN 201, CHIN 202, or equivalent courses at the 100 and 200-levels; and at least fifteen credits of courses on Chinese history and/or culture, including WLIT 110, taken in at least two disciplines other than Chinese language. Six of those credits must be at the 100-level or above. All course work should be chosen in consultation with the student's major advisor.
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You can see the listing at Jing's here: http://www.jingteashop.com/pd_traditional_aged.cfmChip wrote:Wow, really, 1983??? I assume it has been reroasted or something, right, ABx?
What does it look like, not like a greener TKY, has to be a darker one???
It apparently has been re-roasted relatively recently, and is definitely not green like a lighter one. Although Jing has it described as being more like a Wuyi, I think it looks a bit more like a baozhong. I have Imperial TC's aged TGY as well, and Jing's is a bit darker in color and more shiny. I would also say that Jing's is a bit more deep and rich than ITC's.
I actually ended up making the 1976 baozhong from Stephane rather than the 60's, but mainly because it was what I grabbed first - these are in the very back of the cupboard to keep me from dipping into them too much The older ones seem to have a deeper, richer, and more complex flavor, although I don't recall the 60's being all that much better than the 76. Perhaps I'll see later.


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Young Lamb from Aragon
Aragon baby lamb
Which area of Spain is it typical?
- Autonomous region: Aragón
The livestock used to make 'Ternasco de Aragon' are sheep of the Rasa Aragonesa, Ojinegra de Teruel and the Roya Bilbilitana Castilian breeds.
The characteristics of the 'Rasa Aragonesa' breed stand out among the rest for the rusticity, yield and excellent quality of they meat. The lambs that are butchered are no older than 90 days, weigh between 18 and 24 kg and are raised under natural conditions. The production process consists of the butchering, airing and preservation phases. These breeds produce tender meat that is light pink in colour with slight intermuscular fattiness, very juicy, consistently firm, with a light texture.
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- Type of product: Meat
- Season: Year-round.
- Origin: The area in which the Rasa Aragonesa, Ojinegra de Teruel and Roya Bilbilitana breeds are raised, butchered and processed covers the entire Aragon, especially the province of Teruel.
- To drink with it: Crianza, reserva or gran reserva wines.
- Where to buy: Young Lamb from Aragon is available at nearly all speciality stores, supermarkets and butcher's shops in the Aragon, as well as in must large stores throughout the peninsula.
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Everyone has their postcard-perfect picture of the Hamptons—an indelible first image of the Atlantic's ferocious waves crashing on East Hampton's Main Beach, or the pastel evanescence of Napeague Bay at sunset. Where else in the world do endless green lawns and box hedges creep so near to the glistening sea? No wonder this landscape has attracted so many generations of artists, from 1891, when American impressionist painter William Merritt Chase started the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art, to the 1950s, when Jackson Pollock and later Willem de Kooning immortalized it in their work.
Secret Spots
Times have changed. These days, instead of donuts and penny candy at Dreesen's, visitors buy $5 ice-cream cones at Scoop du Jour. Places change, perhaps more than people. But if you know your way around this end of Long Island, there are still countless simple pleasures and secret spots to discover.
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With farms being the traditional natural resource of the area, many of the East End's best-kept secrets involve fresh food. East End residents and visitors will go to extremes to track down the best ingredients and produce. Most of these farms have been in the same families for generations, which is what makes them so good.
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Other pretty places to visit include Sag Harbor's Old Whalers' Church, with its grand white facade and prim, peeling pastel interior; Gardinier's Bay in Springs, and the modest wood-frame house and studio on Accabonac Creek where Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock lived and worked.
A hike along Mashomack Preserve's 20 miles of trails circumventing the coastline is a perfect precursor to an indulgent dinner at the nearby Vine Street Café. Pack a picnic from a not-so-secret spot in Sag Harbor: Cavaniola's Gourmet, where you can buy artisan breads and freshly fried potato chips.
In Sag Harbor, Bay Burger bake their own buns and grind their own beef. They even make their own ice cream, in flavors like Cookie Jar, Mud Pie, and Black Cherry. Each pint comes with the perfect tag line: "It's from the Hamptons, so you know it's rich."
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windstoked wrote:Someone should develop a system with tensiometers that can give precise information on forces on the lines and chicken loop. It could have it's own computer to store the data, and even include gps data on speed and height attained. This would make accurate comparison of kites more scientific.
They could also be incorporated into footstraps to compare both impact and shear forces experienced between boards.
Maybe someone is already using these in R and D?
I looked into this quite a while ago. Very interesting and possible but it gets expensive pretty quickly if you want reliable data and it's hard to find a reasonable safe way to recover the cost. I talked to manufacturers and designers back then and they were definitely interested in the results but not willing to invest.


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I was 11 when my brother took this Anscochrome slide of Larkspur, California, where I grew up. Around then I might have gone to the twin-towered City Hall at left, either to the Library to satisfy my curiosity about freeways, dinosaurs, coins or, believe it or not, peruse collections of New Yorker cartoons, or to the city offices to bug the clerks for copies of city forms I could adapt for the make-believe city I incorporated our yard into. Alongside is the fire house, where I might take pictures of the trucks. Across the street is St. Patrick's church, where I'd fidget during Mass every Sunday. Our house was a block away, hidden by the trees. Farther along, the steep-gabled building is the old St. Patrick's, where once a week fellow Catholic kids and I on religious instruction release from our public grade school would attend Catechism classes where stern nuns would attempt to drill dogma into our little souls. Below the church, the Ford woody is in the parking lot behind the Rainbow Market (red roof at left), where earlier my father worked for a few years. Down center, the small roof with the flag pole is the then-new Larkspur Post Office building. And then, a 1956 Pontiac.
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You will create a Git repository in SAP Cloud Platform for your project, commit your project files, and then deploy and your app to the cloud. You will be able to access your app from a laptop and your mobile device.
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Create a git repository for your project, add your project files and then deploy your app on SAP Cloud Platform
You will create a Git repository in SAP Cloud Platform for your project, commit your project files, and then deploy and your app to the cloud. You will be able to access your app from a laptop and your mobile device.
Log into SAP Cloud Platform by opening the following URL in a new tab: https://account.hanatrial.ondemand.com
Make sure you are using the Europe (Trial) landscape, and click on your account name to open the cockpit view.
In the left-hand navigation bar, select Repositories > Git Repositories.
Click on New Repository, and enter the following details:
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Repository for Partner Contacts app
Make sure the Create empty commit box is checked, click OK and your repository will be created.
Click on the
te2016 repository link to open the repository overview page.
On the repository overview page, copy the Repository Browser URL and paste it into the field below and click Validate.
On the repository overview page, copy the Git Repository URL:
Open SAP Web IDE in a browser window (or in an existing one), right-click on your
te2016 project folder and select Git > Initialize Local Repository.
An alert box will appear in the upper right corner of your SAP Web IDE window.
Click the Set Remote link in the alert and paste in the Git Repository URL you copied earlier. You can leave the Add configuration for Gerrit unchecked and click OK.
This will initialize your local repository and link it to the Git repository in HCP.
Click on the Git pane icon on the right hand side bar of the SAP Web IDE window.
If your project does not appear in the Git pane, keep the Git pane open and click on the project folder.
To allow SAP Web IDE to see remote branches in the SAP Cloud Platform Git repository, click the Fetch button on the Git pane and log in with your email address and SAP Cloud Platform account password if prompted.
When the Changes Fetched dialog box opens, click OK.
Click the Merge button on the Git pane to merge your local branch to the remote origin/master branch.
When the Merge "master" dialog box opens, make sure the origin/master remote branch is selected and click OK.
At this point your Git repository is set up.
The next steps will commit and push your project files to the repository.
You may select individual files to commit, but to commit all project files, click the Stage All checkbox.
Scroll down in the Git pane and enter a description (required for any commits) like
Initial commit.
Click on the Commit and Push button, and select Remote Branch, from the pop up menu.
This will add your files to the master branch (in other source control systems this is sometimes referred to as the "trunk").
In the Push Changes to a remote branch dialog box, select origin/master, click OK and log in with your SAP Cloud Platform credentials if prompted.
You will see a confirmation alert appear briefly in the top-right corner of the Web IDE window (just below Logout), and you will see the decorations change to the green circles indicating that the files in your project match the versions in the Git repository.
Deploying your app, is very simple.
Right-click on your
te2016 project folder, and select Deploy > Deploy to SAP Cloud Platform.
Log in with your account number, email and password.
In the Deploy Application to SAP Cloud Platform dialog box, confirm that Deploy a new application, and the Activate checkbox are both selected. Click Deploy.
In the Successfully Deployed confirmation dialog, click the Open the active version of the application link to launch your app.
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Baleda in the master list, copy the URL that updates in the browser, paste it into the text field below and click Validate.
Your app, running on SAP Cloud Platform, will open in a new tab.
You can enter the URL in your phone and see it running there as well. Since the URL is fairly long, you can email it to yourself and click the link in your email.
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Last year, she and fellow seniors Dayna Galganski and Lisa MacAllister were members of the university's first women's bowling team, a squad that went on to become the only inaugural program ever to earn a berth in the NCAA Division I women's bowling championship tournament.
"I am extremely honored to have been part of the first team here at Sam Houston and to have a part in making NCAA bowling history," the senior music therapy major from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. "But the best part about being here in Huntsville is the bond I share with my teammates. They are like sisters to me."
A veteran of more than 15 years of international play, Sanchez came to Sam Houston as a transfer from Wichita State.
"This has been a great experience," Sanchez said. "I love my teammates. And the support we've received here has been amazing. They didn't support the bowling team at Wichita State at all. But here, lots of people, even players on the football team come up to us and say 'hey, you'all are really doing well.' It's awesome."
Sanchez credits her mother for her success in bowling.
"My mother is the kind of mom who will put their kids to do every activity they can think of," Sanchez said. "The summer of 1995, when the Domincan Republic opened its new bowling alley, they had a summer camp and my mother enrolled me. I just never left."
Sanchez has been a member of either the Dominican National Youth Team or Adult Team since 2004.
"Aida's passion for bowling along with her dynamic personality definitely have added an important flare to the team and their accomplishments," Sam Houston bowling coach Brad Hagen said. "Aida's empathy toward other team members is an important element in fostering teamwork and a strong attribute that she continues to bring to the table among teammates."
Her fellow seniors echo that sentiment.
"If you miss a spare, Aida is the first person you saying encouraging you the shake it off," McAllister said. "She's always there to uplift everybody."
"Living together and competing together, we seniors have become close," Galganski said. "We've all shared a lot. Hopefully, when the NCAA selections are announced, we'll get to share one more big event."
Following graduation, Sanchez looks to work on a master's degree in a field related to her bachelor's degree in music therapy.
"This summer, I will go to Jamaica to work with the homeless," Sanchez said. "I plan to continue bowling and competing internationally for the Dominican Republic."
As head coach, Hagen is quick to point out how valuable the leadership of his three seniors has been to Sam Houston State women's bowling.
"Dayna, Lisa and Aida all have contributed immensely to development of this program," Hagen said. "They've certainly done their part."
While last year's trip to the NCAA Elite Eight was a highlight, Sanchez points to this year's Track Kat Klash Classic tournament in Huntsville in December as her favorite Bearkat moment.
"The tournament was our first home event ever and all our friends came out to support us," Sanchez said. "Winning the tournament on our home lanes was exciting. And then we got to douse Coach Hagen with a bucket of ice water after the trophy presentation. That was a lot of fun."


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FEIRA DE SANTANA, Brazil (AP) — Boisterous protesters backing the Cuban government blocked the Monday screening of a documentary featuring Cuba's best-known dissident, the blogger Yoani Sanchez, who was in attendance after being allowed to leave the communist island for the first time in nearly a decade.
Small groups of protesters met Sanchez when she arrived earlier Monday at two airports in Brazil's northeast. They called her a "mercenary" who was being financed by the CIA and tossed photocopied U.S. dollar bills her way. One protester got close enough to pull her hair.
Sanchez was also met by supporters and throughout the day in Tweets and a blog posting expressed her joy at being in Brazil, the first stop on her 80-day tour of about a dozen nations.
Yet at the evening screening in a museum, about four dozen protesters surrounded her the moment she walked through the door, shouting "Cuba yes! Yankees no!" and forcing security guards to evacuate her to a nearby room.
"I was expecting it, even before leaving Cuba I knew this could happen," Sanchez told The Associated Press minutes later inside the room where she was taken for protection. "It's sad because I've been waiting one year for this, I really wanted to see (the) film."
About an hour after being taken out of the screening room, Sanchez, accompanied by Brazilian Sen. Eduardo Suplicy, went to speak to the crowd, both protesters and supporters.
"After remaining silent for a long time, after living in a society where not speaking up was the option of the majority of my countrymen, after so much silence, one fine day I couldn't take it anymore and I started a blog," she told those gathered, some who cheered, some who booed.
Sanchez stayed with the crowd for about 45 minutes, then left the venue.
Sanchez's ability to leave her homeland was seen as a test of a new Cuba law, announced in October, which eliminated the exit permit that had been required of islanders for five decades.
Cuban authorities can still deny travel in cases of defense and "national security," among other reasons, and some dissidents continue to face restrictions. Still, the exit permit's demise is seen as one of the most significant reforms of President Raul Castro's ongoing plan to refashion some elements of the economy, government and society.
"The immigration reform doesn't have the depth we would have expected but there has been a change," Sanchez told the AP. "Where we haven't seen changes is on the political side, we need to see freedom of association, freedom of speech. Without these the reforms are incomplete."
She added that the reforms with the biggest impact on Cubans' lives have been "on the economic side. Giving unused land to people for production is important, the freedom to buy and sell cars which seems like a small thing is a tremendous change."
Sanchez's Brazil trip was paid through online donations — the Brazilian director of a documentary she appeared in launched the fundraising campaign. The city government of Feira de Santana, where the film was supposed to be screened Monday, paid for her accommodation.
Ted Henken, a professor of Latin American studies at New York's Baruch College who studies social media and civil society in Cuba, is closely involved in arranging Sanchez's U.S. meetings and appearances. He said in an emailed response that the U.S. government "has not contributed one penny to her trip." He said the bulk of the money for the U.S. leg of Sanchez's trip is being funded by universities she'll visit.
"She is not being paid for her appearance by any of these institutions partly because — irony — the embargo prevents it. A small per diem is all that's allowed apart from covering travel and lodging costs," Henken said.
The protests surrounding Sanchez were explored in a weekend article from Veja, Brazil's most influential magazine. It alleged that Cuban diplomats were working with Brazilian leftists and even a member of President Dilma Rousseff's government to organize protests against Sanchez during her stops in the country, where she is expected to stay for a week.
Cuba's Embassy in Brasilia had no comment on Sanchez's trip. The office of Brazil's president didn't respond to requests for comment.
Sanchez's tour includes several stops in the United States, with appearances at universities in New York and other academic programs, visits to Google and Twitter offices and time with family in Florida.
She'll also travel to the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, with potential trips to Argentina and Chile in the works.
On Twitter, Sanchez wrote of her trip that "the minutes are as intense as hours. Everything is beautiful!"
On her blog, Sanchez wrote of fellow Cubans offering support in Havana as she boarded her flight and of Venezuelans on the plane who befriended her but asked that she not put their photos online, to avoid trouble with their own socialist government.
After a layover in Panama, Sanchez began the longest leg of her initial journey. Once in the air heading toward Brazil, she wrote, she felt a "sense of physical and mental decompression. As if I had been submerged for too long without being able to breathe, and now managed to take a gulp of air."
"So far everything is going well," she ended the blog entry. "Brazil has given me the gift of diversity and affection, the possibility to appreciate and tell of so many astonishments."
Associated Press writers Peter Orsi in Havana and Bradley Brooks in Sao Paulo contributed to this report.


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HOUSTON (AP) — Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. dropped nine this week to 1,767.
The Houston-based company said in its weekly report Friday 1,365 rigs were exploring for oil and 394 for gas. Eight were listed as miscellaneous. A year ago there were 1,864 active rigs.
Of the major oil- and gas-producing states, Colorado gained two rigs and Kansas, Pennsylvania and Utah each gained one rig.
Texas lost eight rigs, California lost three, New Mexico lost two and Louisiana and North Dakota each lost one. Alaska, Arkansas, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wyoming were unchanged.
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A Chicago cop has filed a lawsuit against Teresa Giudice and Caroline Manzo and other members of the Real Housewives of New Jersey.
This all stems from the widely reported brawl that took place earlier this year when the RHONJ cast visited the Dominican Republic for a vacation which was being filmed for the Bravo hit show.
Adolfo Arreola (pictured above), an officer with the University of Illinois at Chicago's police department, claims he suffered a broken arm, blurred vision, cuts and bruises after some members of the cast "savagely beat, kicked, punched, scratched, jumped" on him and smashed glass on his head, according to his lawsuit.
His cousin Jason A. Gomez (pictured below) also claims he suffered a broken leg and a torn MCL after he came to Adolfo's defense.
In the lawsuit uncovered by the Chicago Tribune, Adolfo, 42, and his cousin allege that on the early morning of Feb. 23, they and their families were dancing and socializing at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino bar in Punta Cana when Teresa sprayed champagne on Adolfo's mother-in-law and mocked the 53-year-old woman as she tried to wipe the alcohol from her eyes. They allege other cast members stood around her laughing at the incident.
Adolfo states that after that, he confronted Teresa, and was attacked by cast members that included her husband, Joe Giudice, and sons of Caroline – Albie and Chris Manzo. Bravo is named in the lawsuit as well as Albie & Chris's roommate Gregory Bennett. The earlier reports that came out stated Joe was "beating on the guy" and struck a male patron with glass.
However, this is where things get a little tricky as Adolfo acknowledges in the lawsuit that two days after the encounter on Feb. 25, he and his cousin signed an agreement agreeing to drop the matter in exchange for $25,000 apiece as long as they agreed never to sue or talk about the incident publicly.
In fact, the cousins immediately paid $8,000 to their Dominican lawyer though they claim they never cashed their $17,000 cut. Adolfo and Jason are however now claiming they signed that agreement under duress so that they could get their passports back and leave the country. Their lawyer is asking a court to declare the release invalid. It's not clear where the money came from but it might be safe to assume it came from Bravo. It was also reported a while back that the network had no plans to air any of the fight footage.
Adolfo claims he underwent surgery on his right arm and is now undergoing physical therapy. And as for those reports that stated he punched Teresa in the face, Adolfo denies those claims.
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FBI Director Comey testifies on Russia investigation
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) - The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations says agents are investigating any efforts by the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election.
Read more about his testimony.
Director James Comey gave testimony in a hearing about the investigation into Russia hacking claims Monday.
"I can not say more about what we are doing and whose conduct we are examining," Comey said.
Comey was expected to answer a number of questions about the investigation into Russian hacking claims as well as the President's allegations Trump Tower was "wiretapped" by the previous administration.
He assured lawmakers he would brief Congress in a classified setting with more detail.
"We just cannot do our work well or fairly if we start talking about it while we're doing it."
Before the hearing, the president tweeted assertions that any ties to Russia is "FAKE NEWS and everyone knows it."
The House Intelligence Committee hearing is one of several panels expected to be held in Congress.
Admiral Mike Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency also testified, beginning his remarks by stating many of the specifics of their investigations into cyber attacks are still classified.
Both Comey and Rogers asserted there's no evidence of hackers changing votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
"I can promise you we will follow the facts wherever they lead," Comey said.
He also stated leaks from both the NSA and the FBI should be investigated and prosecuted.


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Strong voices from the Arctic
Close your eyes and think of the Arctic: what do you see? We're willing to bet you're seeing a picture of a barren white landscape, with maybe an iceberg or two, and a polar bear. In this issue of The Circle, we are inviting you to look closer into your mental picture of the Arctic, and to see the people who inhabit the landscape. People are present here, and they are often intimately affected by changes being triggered in their environments by people living far away.
Who are the people living in the Arctic? How are their lives influenced by the dramatic changes occurring in the region, as temperatures reach record high levels, the sea ice is melting with an alarming speed, and countries and companies compete for access to the wealth of arctic resources? How do people of the North cope with and adapt to these changes, and what is the role of traditional knowledge in these processes today? Is it possible to find a way forward to ensure a balance between resource exploitation on the one hand, and conservation of the Arctic's unique and vulnerable natural values on the other? How do the arctic peoples themselves contribute to these processes?
These are some of the questions we asked in this issue of The Circle, which focuses on arctic peoples, or human response to arctic change.
As always, we have asked for contributions from some of the key people involved in analysing and trying to understand these issues. But most importantly, we have invited people who live in the Arctic to share their perspectives; people from a variety of countries, backgrounds, cultures and professions – from the student/fisherman in Norway to Indigenous leaders and the Premier of Greenland.
According to the Arctic Council, around four million people live in the Arctic. These people are spread out over one sixth of the Earth's landmass and cover 24 time zones, and include over thirty different Indigenous peoples and dozens of languages.
With such a population diversity, we did not expect anything else than a diversity of opinion in terms of what the challenges and solutions are.
But some important trends emerge. The people in today's Arctic are living through some of the most dramatic changes the region has ever experienced. They are in many ways living on the margins of the rest of the world, in terms of geography, but sometimes also in terms of access to resources, decision-making and human development. But as the world is turning its attention to the Arctic and its possibilities and its challenges, the peoples of the North have strong opinions. They want to be included in the discussions and they demand to be listened to. After all, these are the people who can call the Arctic their home.


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The Indian government seems to be hell-bent on resolving its Current Account Deficit (CAD) and is doing so by seemingly waging war on gold.
What is also clear is that the draconian regulations placed upon bullion traders, the raising of duties and taxes and the pressure put on gold traders by placing them under investigation demonstrates just how serious the Finance Ministry are in reducing gold imports and therefore correcting the deficit.
You might be forgiven for thinking that gold is viewed as single-handedly responsible for the economic failure of India, rather than poor policy decisions that are resulting in weak economic output and high inflation. In short, it begs the question whether gold is being held as the scapegoat. It does also beg the question about the massive reduction in the value of gold held by rural Indians as a result of this campaign.
In short, how does the size of the CAD compare to the reduction in value of gold held by Indians as a result of the negative sentiment it has generated in the global bullion market? Best estimates only are possible.
Well, Indians privately own an estimated 18,000 tonnes of gold, plus 557 tonnes of official holdings held by the Reserve Bank of India.
The campaign against gold can be traced to mid-January 2013 when the import duty on dore bars/ores was raised from 2% to 5% and duty on market bars raised from 4% to 6%. Back then gold was trading at $1,692 and has since fallen to $1,200 — a decline of 29%. That would suggest that India's privately and publicly held gold has fallen from $1,010 billion to $716 billion — a decline of $294 billion.
The difficult bit now is to estimate how much of the 29% fall in gold prices can be attributed to the world's largest gold market shuttering imports. Well we plump for about one third, so Indians are about $100 billion poorer as a result of this policy. And the size of the CAD ? Well it's currently running at $20 billion a quarter — in other words a deficit of $80 billion per annum. A case of robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Meanwhile rural Indians are left with the uncomfortable feeling that the government wants them out of gold and into either the (falling) rupee or perhaps the stock market. If there was ever a time to own, it is when the government tells you otherwise. As a PR exercise, this rivals Gordon Brown's selling off more than half of the U.K.'s gold reserves — now there's a U.K. to India export that London might relish. Any jobs going at the RBI?


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Taylor-made performance propels Souths over Penrith
A stellar performance from dropped origin star, Dave Taylor has helped Souths defeat Penrith 38 points to 12 in front of 13,096 fans at ANZ Stadium.
It was a cautious opening from two sides at opposing ends of the ladder but both missing origin stars. It would be small errors which would gift teams chances.
A penalty in possession gave Souths the ball and they used it to full effect.
The Panther chasers tried to pressure halfback Reynolds but he stepped and weaved before sending Dave Taylor over the opening points.
Taylor turned provided for the next try, swatting away defenders like flies before offloading to Farrell who in turn sent Nathan Merritt away for the first try of his brace.
Penrith weren't just going to roll over, it was a good hole run by Clint Newton which produced their first try. It was the spectacular though that leveled the score when Lachlan Coote tapped the ball to himself to touchdown.
Much like throughout the half, disappointment from the Panthers bore a result for the Rabbitohs.
Coote kicked out on the full then a late penalty allowed Reynolds to step up and give South Sydney a slender 14-12 lead at the break.
Momentum was with Penrith early in the resumption but it didn't produce any points to the delight of South Sydney. They also went close when Taylor showed his acrobatic skills catching a bomb but Luke being within the ten produced red lights.
He wouldn;t be denied the second time though, Taylor playing halfback threw a textbook cut-out pass to Everingham to quell the gallant resolve of Penrith. South Sydney were sensing an opportunity to increase their for and against.
They attacked in waves and whilst Merritt was denied initially following a great run. It was simple for Nathan Peats to dive over. Peats got his brace when Dylan Farrell captured a bomb and flicked it back for him to pounce upon.
David Simmons had a late consolation try chalked off due to a "driver" tactic from Etu Uaisele but this afternoon belonged to South Sydney who finished with a flurry as Nathan Merritt used Inspector Gadget arms to not separate his shoulder and score.
Reynolds piloted it over to complete a perfect afternoon with the boot and a dominating performance from South Sydney, 38 points to 12.
Match Details
South Sydney Rabbitohs 38 defeated Penrith Panthers 12
National Rugby League - Round 17 - Sunday July 1, 2012 3:00pm
Venue: ANZ Stadium
Referee: Gerard Sutton and Steve Lyons
Video Referee: Paul Simpkins
Touch Judges: Grant Atkins and Jason Walsh
Crowd: 13,096
Halftime: South Sydney Rabbitohs 14 Penrith Panthers 12
Leagueunlimited.com players of the match:
3 Points - Dave Taylor (1 Try)
2 Points - Adam Reynolds (5 Conversions, 1 Penalty Goal)
1 Point - Nathan Peats (2 Tries)
South Sydney Rabbitohs (38)
Tries: Nathan Merritt (2), Dave Taylor, Nathan Peats (2), Andrew Everingham
Conversions: Adam Reynolds (6/6)
Penalty Goals: Adam Reynolds (1/1)
Penrith Panthers (12)
Tries: Clint Newton, Lachlan Coote
Conversions: Lachlan Coote (2/2)
LeagueUnlimited.com Live Commentary Welcome to sunny albeit chilly ANZ Stadium where South Sydney, will host the erratic Penrith side.
South Sydney: They welcome back Dave Taylor in 18 and Sam Burgess in 19. This moves Ben Lowe to the bench with Scott Geddes and George Burgess out of the side.
Penrith: Geoff Daniela is out, replaced by Josh Mansour. Harry Siejka was dropped back to Toyota Cup and Travis Burns takes his place at halfback.
The Rabbitohs have thrashed the ladder leading Panthers 46-16 in the Toyota Cup curtainraiser.
The imperial march is sounding through ANZ, signalling the arrival of the Panthers to the field. Followed shortly by Glory Glory to loud cheers for the home side.
Penrith are kicking off and here we go!
4 min: First penalty after four minutes. Panthers caught offside.
5 min: Rabbitohs shifting it from left to right. They run it on last with Farrell who is almost over but decides to flick it to his winger although it goes over the sideline.
7 min: Silly from the Panthers. They had the Rabbitohs pinned deep in their own area but concede an unnecessary penalty. Souths get a piggyback out from their own end.
11 min: Thee quick darts from Penrith are finding space behind the markers and it pays dividends with a penalty.
15 min: Penrith on the attack here after John Sutton is almost caught with the ball on last.
15 min: Mansour penalised for not playing the ball properly.
18 min: TRY
Brilliant work by Adam Reynolds there. He was pressured on last, stepped found space and drew his man before sending Dave Taylor in for a try in his 100th NRL game. Reynolds puts the icing on the cake with the conversion.
South Sydney Rabbitohs 6-0
24 min: TRY
Some good hands in a short piece of land. Dave Taylor bursts through two defenders offloads to Farrell who finds Nathan Merritt who strolls in for a TRY! Reynolds sneaks it just inside the goalposts for the conversion.
South Sydney Rabbitohs 12-0
28 min: Souths are dominating and will get a full set at the Panthers line, after Clint Newton takes out a chaser.
VIDEO REFEREE: Checking if Sam Burgess has slammed the ball down for a TRY.
29 min: NO TRY. Burgess lost it, trying to slam the ball down.
31 min: TRY
A good break from Kevin Kingston who avoided Burgess and steamed downfield. In attack, Clint Newton runs a good line to streamroll his way over. Coote from out wide, converts.
South Sydney Rabbitohs 12-6
33 min: It's a dislocated shoulder for Austin, he won't be back. Arana Taumata comes on in #17.
34 min: Crafty work on last by Penrith. They bomb it high and recover the ball, keeping it alive before Uaisele kicks for himself. Panthers will have a full set, after Taylor put a foot on the line trying to recover the kick.
36 min: Penalty against Souths for holding on too long.
VIDEO REFEREE: Lachlan Coote might have produced a circus trick to even the scores.
38 min: TRY
A deliberate kick on fourth tackle for Lachlan Coote finds the fullback who taps it for himself to touchdown! Coote converts his own try.
12 all
39 min: All the momentum and Lachlan Coote looking for a deep kick, kicks it out on the full.
40 min: Reynolds kicks for Everingham, finds him and he almost scores but the play breaks down. Lucky for Souths, it was offside and Souths opt for goal.
40 min: PENALTY GOAL
Reynolds makes no mistake and Souths will take a lead into halftime.
South Sydney Rabbitohs 14-12
Both sides have made their way back out for the second half. South Sydney will kick-off.
Farrell puts boot to ball and here we go again!
46 min: Good pressure by Penrith on last, forces Reynolds to kick out on the full.
47 min: Penrith were doing well but one disappointment begets another. Souths receiving a relieving penalty.
VIDEO REFEREE: Checking for a Dave Taylor try.. checking offside.
50 min: NO TRY. Isaac Luke was within the ten when Dave Taylor took the ball.
51 min: After a delay to tend to Corrigan, Penrith put it high on last and trap Everingham in goal.
52 min: Early tackle kick again from Penrith forces Hunt to force the ball again. Drop out.
54 min: Acrobatics from Josh Mansour almost gets him the try after some hot potato football but he dropped it.
54 min: Brilliant offload from Taylor to Everingham finds him into space but he's rounded up. Next tackle, Souths try to throw it wide but it's forward.
56 min: Clint Newton tries to play the ball too fast and knocks on.
57 min: John Sutton shows it and goes himself. Penalty to Souths for holding down.
59 min: TRY
Taylor turned halfback this time instead of steamrolling people sending Andrew Everingham in for the TRY after two successive penalties. Straight as an arrow is Reynolds with his conversion.
South Sydney Rabbitohs 20-12
63 min: Panthers fail to get to their kick on last, knocking it on.
65 min: TRY
South Sydney can sense blood in the water now. A lovely ball to Merritt almost sends the fullback over but he's held. Next tackle, Luke to Peats.. TRY. Reynolds with the conversion.
South Sydney Rabbitohs 26-12
69 min: Penrith forcing a pass that wasn't on, knocking it on. Souths scrum.
71 min: TRY
Reynolds puts the kick into the no mans land finding Farrell who flicks it back for Peats to dive over for a brace. Reynolds converts.
South Sydney Rabbitohs 32-12
VIDEO REFEREE: Seeing if David Simmons has scored despite Hunt's attention.
74 min: NO TRY! Justin Hunt did just enough to hold up David Simmons. It will be compounded with a penalty for Uaisele being a driver.
76 min: To add to his brace, Nathan Peats puts up the bomb and gets a result. A knock on from Taumata.
VIDEO REFEREE: Checking if Nathan Merritt has scored.
78 min: TRY
That was some Inspector Gadget style arm movements from Nathan Merritt. He spied a gap and accelerated through it although he was caught, he used his rubber arm to get it down. Reynolds is peter perfect this afternoon with his conversions.
South Sydney Rabbitohs 38-12
80 min: Late penalty for crowding and Souths will finish with the ball.


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The results of several studies are encouraging (J Clin Psychiatry, 2003; 64: 338; J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol, 2002; 12: 205-19). In one, those who completed a six-month trial reduced symptoms by up to 66 per cent, and decreased the need for medications by more than 50 per cent (J Clin Psychiatry, 2001; 62: 936-44).
Truehope says thousands of individuals with bipolar disorder and other mental disorders have been helped by Empowerplus and is actively fighting to lift the ban. However, none of the studies is placebo-controlled, so all fall short of the 'gold standard' for medical trials.
Scientists at the Pfeiffer Center, while acknowledging that Empowerplus is useful in some cases of bipolar disorder, also warn that a scattergun approach may be unhelpful because not all biochemical imbalances are caused by deficiencies. Indeed, many involve overloads of certain nutrients, and careless supplementation can make some people worse. Elevated copper, for example, is associated with paranoia (Intern Rev Neurobiol, 1972; Suppl 1: 141-85), excess phenylalanine (in the form of aspartame) can worsen depression (Biol Psychiatry, 1993; 34: 13-7) and excess levels of vanadium may be a factor in the disorder (Nutr Health, 1984; 3: 79-85; Psychol Med, 1981; 11: 249-56). Empowerplus contains all three. Yet, even with this caveat in mind, the Canadian government's response to the supplement, which has clearly helped some individuals, seems heavy-handed.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Attorneys for Gov. Nikki Haley and Attorney General Alan Wilson say a lawsuit filed by a legally married gay couple living in South Carolina has no merit.
State attorneys say in court papers filed Thursday that South Carolina does not have to recognize the couple's marriage, which happened last year in Washington, D.C.
Earlier this year, Highway Patrol Trooper Katherine Bradacs and Tracie Goodwin sued Haley and Wilson to have the state's ban on gay marriage overturned. Their suit said a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision shows that states cannot outlaw same sex marriages because they do not approve of them morally.
South Carolina passed a law banning same-sex marriage in 1996, with voters passing a similar constitutional amendment in 2006 with 78 percent of the vote.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a story April 8 about illnesses aboard a Princess cruise ship sailing to ports in California, The Associated Press reported erroneously the final destination of the cruise. The cruise ends in Los Angeles, not Santa Barbara.
A corrected version of the story is below:
3 dozen possibly ill with Norovirus on cruise ship
37 passengers ill with suspected Norovirus while onboard Crown Princess ship in California
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Officials say more than three dozen people are possibly ill with the highly contagious Norovirus while onboard a cruise ship sailing to ports in California.
Princess Cruises spokeswoman Karen Candy says about 37 passengers on the Crown Princess reported being sick while the ship was in San Francisco on Monday.
Candy said Tuesday that cruise officials believe the cause of the illness is the Norovirus. That family of viruses is spread person-to-person and causes flu-like symptoms including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramping.
Candy says the ship's staff began intense disinfecting of surfaces, and all sick passengers are being encouraged to remain in their rooms.
The Crown Princess is on a seven-day California cruise that began in Los Angeles on Saturday and ends in Los Angeles.


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PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- The Northeast-10 Conference has selected Pace University women's swimming graduate Kaitlyn Lynch and men swimming seniors Dogus Akay and Derek Slayton to be a part of its winter all-academic team.
Lynch appears on the NE-10 all-academic team for the third time in her collegiate career, and began in 2012 and 2013. She concluded one of the top female swimming season performances in 2013-14 as she was selected as NE-10 Female Swimmer of the Year, which marks the first major swimming and diving award in program history.
In the classroom, she posted a 3.68 undergrad GPA in applied psychology and human relations and currently has a 3.3 in the graduate program of public safety and homeland security.
Akay earned three individual podium finishes at the Northeast-10 Conference Championships. He won the 200 individual medley with a time of 1:52.61 and finished third in the 200 freestyle and 200 backstroke. Additionally, earlier this season, he set the Setters record in the 400 individual. Akay currently has a 3.41 GPA as a biology major.
Slayton finished second in both the 100 and 200-breaststroke at the Northeast-10 Conference Championships with times of 56.44 and 2:04.42. Both marks were school records. Slayton currently has a 3.42 GPA as a computer science major.
To be eligible for selection to the Northeast-10 Academic All-Conference Teams, a student-athlete must have met and/or exceeded the following minimum requirements: participated in at least half of the team's competitions and been either a starter or significant contributor, achieved a 3.30 cumulative grade-point average on a 4.0 scale and completed at least one academic year at his/her current institution.


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There was no mistaking the aroma in the air at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a tour stop during the 2012 International Biomass Conference & Expo, held April 16-19 in Denver, Colo.
The smell was coming from rows of large blue bags of Iowa cornstover, feedstock for NREL's pilot biorefinery in Golden, Colo.
NREL was the highlight for many tour attendees, as it offered a chance to see the latest breakthroughs in bioenergy. One of the lab's lead researchers in biomass gasification explained NREL's latest efforts with a fluidized bed gasification process that can be effective and economical on a commercial scale. The two-step process features a fluidized bed reaction with a specially designed catalyst, followed by thermal cracking.
Although the catalyst isn't the most efficient, it is cheap and great at cracking tars, according to the researchers. The catalyst will lose less than five percent of its surface area after roughly 100 hours of operation, making it a key cog in the development of NREL's biopower gasification process. The catalyst was dust brushed with nickel, and cost $100 per kilo, as opposed to the standard $1,000 per kilo.
Along with the tour of the gasification work being done at the lab, guests saw the Integrated Biorefinery Research Facility. The building is specifically designed for solar energy usage, greater energy efficiency, and the demonstration of an enzymatic catalysis process used to make liquid biofuels.
The tour also stopped at Community Power Corp.'s modular biomass system in Littleton, Colo. Attendees held woody biomass in their hands before watching it disappear up a conveyor belt and into the BioMax system, as CPC calls it. The process is fully automated and can produce 25 to 100 kilowatts of power. The system includes a feeding conveyor belt, a gasifier, a heat exchanger, filter, and a V8 Chevrolet engine used as part of the genset. "People wanted power to make things, to do things with," said Robb Walt, president of CPC. "We need to make small big enough to count," he said.
One modular unit is being used in Fort Carson, Colo., and six more have been ordered. The system is designed in a series of containers, one of which houses an automated control and monitoring system that provides progress reports in real time. The system is made with special wiring plugs designed specifically for relocation.
The stop at emissions monitoring systems developer Cisco, Englewood, Colo., highlighted the importance of a user friendly data and emissions monitoring system. The tour guests witnessed the manufacturing and design process for Cisco's fully enclosed, temperature controlled emissions monitoring systems. At the time of the tour, the company was working on a unit for Peru, along with others in North America.
Cisco not only develops enclosed emissions monitoring analyzers, but also a software package that Melissa Cooper, senior software specialist, said was developed by and for its clients. "A lot of features (of the software used to monitor emissions) are based on plant personnel feedback," she said. "That makes the software highly customizable." In one instance, plant operators viewing the current emissions data had to shout numbers to each other in order to record the data. Cisco was able to fix the problem and simplify the process by designing a software user face system featuring large numbers and color-coded alarms.
Tour attendees were curious about Cisco's perspective on the Maximum Achievable Control Technology rules. Sarah Gray, a senior environmental scientist, summed it up. "We just don't know," she said.


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Bill McCarthy has loved playing racquetball for 30 years. The Green resident took his love for the game to new heights this past summer when he competed in the Senior Olympic Games held in Cleveland.
Bill McCarthy has loved playing racquetball for 30 years. The Green resident took his love for the game to new heights this past summer when he competed in the Senior Olympic Games held in Cleveland.
"I began playing racquetball in college 30 years ago," McCarthy said. "My roommate in college got me started and I have been playing ever since. I normally play two or three times a week down at the Hall of Fame Fitness Center for between two to three hours. Normally, I split this between singles and doubles play. There is a group of us from work that go down there and I have also met others while playing."
This summer he decided to play in the Senior Olympics because it was being held in Cleveland. This event is held every two years at different cities around the nation.
"I try to play in some sort of national level event every few years," McCarthy said. "And to qualify for the Senior Olympics you had to qualify in a state competition the year before. I was able to do this and qualified for the (Senior) Olympics. The Olympic competition was held down at Baldwin Wallace College."
To be eligible for the Senior Olympics you must be at least 50 years old. McCarthy was 51 when he made his initial qualification and 52 this past summer when he competed at Baldwin Wallace.
"I competed in both the singles and doubles event," McCarthy said. The singles were run on the Olympic format while the doubles were a round robin competition. I played in what is called 'pool play' where there were three sets of teams. We lost all our games in this but then I competed in the playoffs to win a seat in the bracket. Eventually I ended up playing seven games. In the doubles the winners were determined by total points."
When all the dust had cleared McCarthy ended up winning the singles. In the doubles he and his teammate Doug Moore finished second, loosing out on top honors by two points.
"Winning first place was pretty good," McCarthy said. "I beat Mark Bianchi who was from Oklahoma."
Taking first- and second-place in the Senior Olympics is still quite an accomplishment. But for McCarthy it is all part of the game.
"I really love the game," he said. "I get a good workout and it is fun to play. Playing doubles is also a good social event. And I enjoy the strategy involved in both singles and doubles."


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Love/Hate thing about arguing with my grandmother
02-12-2012, 02:54 PM (This post was last modified: 02-12-2012 02:57 PM by Percepticon.)
Love/Hate thing about arguing with my grandmother
I'm not at all close to my paternal grandmother but somehow feel obliged to make an effort to retain some small semblance of a relationship with her. She's in her 80's, lives alone in rural Indiana but has 5 sons, 4 of whom live close enough to her, has been a Southern Baptist since before she was conceived...aside from her overall ignorance and the crazy-stupid ideas she has, she's a good person in general.
Where our communication goes, the pattern seems to be this: I write a letter consisting of neutral topics that we might both enjoy. She sends a letter barely acknowledging my letter, and talking about how my sexuality and my choice of (non)religion is wrong, and what I should do about it. I reply, politely yet firmly explaining that this is who I am, she is who she is, we'll always disagree on this, so instead of discussing these things, let's talk about other things we can both enjoy discussing, which are plentiful. She doesn't reply. After awhile, I start over, writing a letter that doesn't include the hot-button issues. My last letter, several months ago, was a response to her letter, and in it this time I did very plainly but politely ask her to stop sending me messages about changing my sexuality and (non)religion, and invited her again to topics of mutual enjoyment. No response.
About a month ago, I wrote again. I updated her on what's new at work, how my cat-kids are, Sandy and the devastation and the heartwarming ways everyone is helping everyone else, my mom's new job and how happy I am for her, how I hate the earlier nightfall and would be out looking at the stars more often if I lived in a rural area...ya' know, just talking....
So we'll see what, if anything, comes back. I think my last letter (from months ago) was unmistakably clear in saying, "please, stop this" so that if again she continues on with it, any further effort on my part would constitute insanity, "doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting a different result."
And yet, there's a part of me that also wants her to write another oppositional letter, so I can refute her again. More insanity. I refuse to speak to her by phone most of the time because I get annoyed the moment she brings up religion & end up wanting to hang up anyway. That actually was initiated before I was an atheist, when I called her in 2009 to say Happy Thanksgiving and she asked if I'd changed my mind about liking girls (as if it were so simple!). "No ma'am," I replied. "Well, when you're about to die, you'll wish you had."
Christmas is coming, which means I'll probably get a Christmas card from her sometime just before or just after the New Year. It's sick that I simultaneously anticipate and dread her letter.
RE: Love/Hate thing about arguing with my grandmother
Well, it's hard to blame someone who's been so indoctrinated, but it's rather sad that she won't drop the issue of irreligion. A family member should care more about your well-being in the present, rather than whatever they think a soul is.
-summum ius, summa iniuria.-M. T. Cicero
-I will show you fear in a handful of dust.-T.S. Eliot
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RE: Love/Hate thing about arguing with my grandmother
Yeah, it's funny how often she'd dive into her agenda without even a "hello, how are you?"
Love/Hate thing about arguing with my grandmother
Sorry to hear about that. Can't believe how Christianity can do that to people. I went to therapy about some of this. My therapist said to set ground rules with my mom. No talking about politics, sex or religion.
RE: Love/Hate thing about arguing with my grandmother
Actually, I'm not even sure if it's just Xianity, it's sometimes just a generational and/or age thing. It's difficult for a lot of people, esp, in their seventies and eighties to accept the world of today. And maybe they shouldn't have to. Plus, some people just love telling others how to be and how to live their lives. And you have them in all ages, walks of lives and religious persuasions, unfortunately.
I say let it slide and don't let it bother you. Water off a duck's back. If I paid attention to all the stupid things people said... there wouldn't be enough booze in the world...
I must admit this bit "she asked if I'd changed my mind about liking girls (as if it were so simple!). "No ma'am," I replied. "Well, when you're about to die, you'll wish you had." made me giggle
"E se non passa la tristezza con altri occhi la guarderò."
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Through profound pain comes profound knowledge.
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03-12-2012, 01:23 PM (This post was last modified: 03-12-2012 01:35 PM by cconti.)
RE: Love/Hate thing about arguing with my grandmother
I am very sorry to hear that. I am always sorry when honest, decent people want to do the right thing and other people, whom should know better, make it a painful experience for them.
in your case, it sounds like you would like to keep your relationship with your Grandma. I say that because the easiest thing to do would be to send her one last letter that pretty much told her how hard you have worked at being decent and a loving granson/daughter, that you love her, but that she isn't going to receive anymore letters from you until she writes to you herself without mentioning religion or sexuality or sin in general.
As it is, it may be time for you to either keep writing and simply disregard her responses (I would find it hard to do without raising my blood pressure each time), or send her one last missive explaining the aforementioned and then just sit back and if she writes (and she is civil) great; if not, you just have to come to terms with the fact you no longer have a grandmother (one could argue you never really did) and go on with your life.
At 80, she is not going to be around much more, and it sure would be nice if before she goes she made a conciliatory gesture, but something tells me the odds of that are slim and this is stressful enough for you to seek the counsel of perfect strangers, which means that it is important to you and that it hurts. The natural response to doing something hurtful is to stop doing it.
I know it can be upsetting and that you'll likely regret it a bit once she is gone, but you have to remember that she is the one being unreasonable and rude here, not you.
You are the one with the offering of love, you are the one taking the time to write (I assume actual letters, not emails), you are the one making an effort. She is sitting there, doing nothing, thinking of you only in the most despicable terms, yet you are the one suffering because of it.
It is simply not fair and you should stop doing it. I think it's time to tell her you have had enough, that there is no excuse for what she is doing and that unless she behaves with a modicum of civility (it would be nice if she could sprinkle some familial love with it) you'll no longer make the effort to correspond with her.
Some may think it harsh, but I think her behavior is way out of line.
In fact, you may want to end the letter with a quote from John 8:1 - 11:
"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."
Let's see if the book she apparently treasures more than her own kin can teach her a lesson in humility.
RE: Love/Hate thing about arguing with my grandmother
A letter came from my grandmother today. It was much shorter than the ones in which she discusses religion. She didn't talk about God, faith, the bible, or religion at all.
She talked about the weather (there's always the weather, right?) and the work she needed to do and that people were expecting earthquakes on 12-21-12, and how they live on a fault line so she wasn't sure. She wrote it on the 18th and didn't mention Christmas at all. I'm guessing she thinks atheists don't celebrate Christmas.
I actually feel a little sorry for her, reading this letter. Maybe religion is the only exciting thing in her life, and she feels at a loss not talking about it. When I write back I'll ask her some questions to maybe draw her out a little, engage her some.
Anyway, that's the update.
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