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In all the back and forth about Turbine taking over the Codemasters servers and what it means for the players, it just sometimes seems like there's the presumption that the North American players simply weren't as dedicated either to role-playing in general or to getting role-playing supported servers. Neither of these are fair or true assumptions as far as I am concerned. Likewise, I've seen a little of the rather inaccurate attitude (only from a minority) that North American players now have access to "real" role playing as opposed to simply now having access to role-playing supported servers.
Overall, there should be more role-play around everywhere, though, and that's a good thing.
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This is lame. We begged for this at release. Now I have charactrers and friends YEARS established on Landroval.
I believe a well-informed playerbase is one that generates tickets less frequently, and less problematic to deal with. There's no excuse for well, I didn't know...., and for the most part we have a community that generally wants to follow the rules when they're known (See the recent thread about a Hobbit and her name!)
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Apart from pumpkins, the more improbable imports I've noticed in-game are blueberries and sweet muffins; those are as American as Mom and apple pie.
I have a question.
Recently I've reported a name (in server Laurelin) because i think is out of lore. And turbine has closed my ticket answering that this name is not a violation of the turbine names policy, and he was added a link to http://www.lotro.com/support/1033-coc in his answer.
Until here all is OK, but... I've read the name policy in http://www.lotro.com/support/1033-coc and don't say anything of the RP servers name policy.
And my question is: How I can know if Turbine has considered the name I've reported whit both policy rules or only whit the policy in http://www.lotro.com/support/1033-coc ?
My doubt is because he only mentioned the current name policy for all servers, but not has mentioned the name policies showed in this thread.
Sorry if my english is bad.
As a newcomer to RPing, I have a question;
what happens if you die? Because reviving yourself is hardly in character, is it? Must you delete your character altogether? Im confused
Sorry if its a bit morbid :P
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We don't die. We have Morale, not health... when defeated, we have been demoralised by our struggle and the overwhelming odds to the point of being unable to fight any longer.
Being revived is akin to a friendly hand offering support and mustering your will to fight on, retreating is exactly that; fleeing for your life from the scene of battle. Self revives would fall into the category of gathering your will to fight again and pushing on.
Pertty much, this was an important feature of the game mechanic from the get go, so that base is nicely covered for RP already.
P.S. No answer form anyone for my above question? I can't find an answer to it anywhere...
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This would have been great of course had these servers been available when I started playing. I always play on RP servers when avail, however now my choice and my guilds is simple. We either stay on the current server with names like IkILLyou, we roll new toons on the RP server thus losing any money/time invested in current characters, or pay $25.00 a transfer per character, lose Kin House, Personal House, etc. Wish they would offer us a 1 time transfer account wide to the new server for those of us that want a more immersive atmosphere.
In response to bacon being IC, well, there are pigs and lots of boars in-game .
Is this actually being enforced? I'm seeing a ton of OOC chat in /say on Laurelin, and it really kinda bugs me, but I don't know if I should/can report it (partially out of fear that I'll be reprimanded by a GM for frivolous reports).
Check out [url=http://my.lotro.com/user-1174194/]my blog[/url]! Kinda inactive, but there's some good stuff on RP in there. Anti-lore RPers, check it out for raegtiems.
This policy is a great help for roleplayers, I thank Turbine for it; but let's face it: it's not applied, and it can't be as it is.
/trade and /LFF channels are used OOC by 90% of players; with biographies is the same, as Saelie explained.
Wouldn't it be better to have rules more in line with the server's actual reality, but apply them more effectively, giving more attention to reports like Durloss' up above?
i personally feel that the naming policy is too strict and that the practice of forced renames of characters is unacceptable. especially when the names generated by the game automatically end up being less lore appropriate then the original name. i also believe that the rules are too strict and stifle creativity and character development this combined with the limitations of the in game name system to begin with means that players have poor choice when creating names to role play with.
Still no answer given by any offical channel to these quite valid questions, and no formal information regarding this specificity is forthcomming. Can we PLEASE get an answer, since recently I have seen nothing but discontent from virtually every direction regarding names, namee changes, and policy.
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Victim tormented, Abused and Broken; Rise from the ashes and Hunt once again.
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Ok i hawe been read of this roleplay,but i dont get what is the diference when u get a roleplay,what are the benefits,why shoud i play a roleplay,can Admin explain ths,not the rules of violations cos i get the picture,that is what i dont understand,why is roleplay exist if that doesnt make any difference like a regular play????
To answer that question, Bok, you'd need to understand what roleplaying is and why people do it. It's not uique to LotRO, and it's not even unique to -GAMES-.
It's a form of entertainment and enjoyment that you can pursue if you enjoy it, in many different forms, on a wide variety of media. People RP for many reasons, but at the heart of it, it comes back to a simple: becuase they enjoy it.
Take me as an example, if you like: My preferred style of Roleplay is free-form and creative. I tend to gravitate towards written form in forum-based plays, rather than in games. In my mind, ech of my characters exist as fully formed indiiduals with highly detialed lives adn stories, histories, personalities, likes, dislikes, and individual peculiarities, as you might find in any other person you meet or talk to. I enjoy giving htese characters the freedom to live and act and play as they would, and to interract with others who are also so inclined, for the simple enjoyment of telling a story with others... for someone like me, the game is simply a tool that facilitates this form of entertainment I enjoy.
Other RPers prefer more discipline and rule-structure intheir play; characters decisions and choices that must be weighted against a rule system and numbers. People who play DnD, and similar games are a good example of this. They also like to take on and play the character and personalities of their crated characters, but tend to prefer that the elements of gameplay are still in place in some fashion, to keep all players on a certain amount of shared ground.
Most of the RPers who play LotRO tend to fall closer to my end of the spectrum: they want to see the game simply as a platform to interract and enjoy playing the role and personality of their character, with other people who also enjoy this. To be strictly mechanical about it, no, there is no in-game benefit to roel-playing, no game-mechanical advantage, and indeed, many if not most people who play this game for the RP element aren't too concerned about the hard mechanics of the game itself.
This isn't the place for a full dissetation on what Roleplaying is and why people enjoy it, so I won't derail that far, but, if you're genuinely interested in finding out what it's all about, have a look about some of the other threads here, to being with, and then maybe back it up with some more research of your own. I'm not willing to pass judgement on your behalf, but I'd hazard a guess from the tone of your enquiry that you propbably won't find it to be a thing to your taste... even so, I try not to judge people on face value, so, please, I encouage you to look into it further.
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Victim tormented, Abused and Broken; Rise from the ashes and Hunt once again.
And Vengeance Be Thy Oath.
Apologies to zombie post, but three things:
First, the original post should add the "new" world channel to the unrestricted chat list.
Second, it might be nice to know if this policy is going to change in any way as part of the upcoming server reorganization; i.e., will the policy continue?
Third, I'm hoping the reorganization will bring more NA users like me to Laurelin. Can Turbine do something to highlight worlds with this feature in the server reorganization notice?
More about the third ...
I played on Landroval for years, choosing it because it was a "local" RP server according to the launcher list, but I really like this policy and eventually "moved" to Laurelin (i.e., started characters afresh since xfers weren't possible). There has been a steady stream of non-EU people to the server over that time, but it's still harder to find groups than it was on Landroval. I think players on worlds that will close may not know about this policy but would like it, and they may pass up Laurelin because it's tagged EU in the servers list.
I've asked often since the reorg was announced if EU players see any significant lag since Laurelin moved to the US post-CodeMasters. They haven't, and I hope when Laurelin moves back to a (hopefully new state-of-the-art) data center in the EU, I won't see any additional lag either.
I've also noticed some oddities in the launcher server list names, like "Anduin [DE]" versus "Maiar [EU-DE]" versus "Belegaer [EU-DE-RP]" versus "Estel [FR-RP]". Is Anduin a German language server in the US? Is Estel not labelled EU because of broader distribution of French speakers across more timezones? And tangentially, no Spanish-speaking servers at all, let alone an RP one?
Could Laurelin be relisted as "EN-RP" and the notice about server reorganizations include a description of it as the global English-speaking roleplay-supported world versus Landroval's RE?
It would also be nice if mousing over a server in the launcher gave a tooltip description including a link to this policy and/or selecting a server replaced the notices text below the list with a longer description of the server, also including a link to this policy.
This is probably a really, really, stupid question, but can you RP outside the listed forums? (I'm on Evernight) I have a huge IC (in character) story and everything for my main account, and I don't want to have to rp a different character because I can't on the server I'm on. Thank you!
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Hey, BlueGhostsofSeaside!
You can RP on any server that you are on. The reason there are RP and RP Encouraged servers is so that people have a better chance of finding RP partners on these servers. I started out in Dwarrowdelf and had some RPing experiences there, but moved to Landroval, where it was easier to find RP because it was singled out for that. Hopefully you can find some people who would like to RP with you on Evernight. But if you can't, Laurelin or Landroval would love to have you!
It would have been wise if this was stickied from the start on the forums of the RP Supported Worlds: Laurelin, Belegaer, and Estel, though alas, Estel is now no more. And though it is a sad event for all closing servers, for my part, I feel most pity and understanding in heart and mind for Estel, as for them their choice seems hard indeed: to go to Laurelin for a server which though unlike in language, is kindred in spirit and understanding due to the rp community, or go to the French non RP remaining world due to their language and leave behind the more immersive environment that the additional rules contribute to and be separated from kindred spirits.
But I stray.
As it is said in Middle-earth, need brooks no delay but late is better than never. Shall we then not think for days ahead? This thread would serve better for ready knowledge on the forums of the two now RP Supported Worlds.
* Promote this post to a web page like the quick-start guides and the community guidelines above. Summarize the policy and link to it from this sticky and add stickies in each RP server's forums, as Errenor suggests above. That would also make it easier to link to it from the launcher or the transfer utility. Hint, hint.
* The general naming policy link in the article above results in a redirect loop for me; maybe that policy should also be "promoted" to a web page, too.
* Include the new /world channel in the non-restricted chat channel list.
* Remove Estel. *sigh* I feel for the FR-RP community since RP is so language-dependent.
* A nice-to-have for me would be making LFF a non-restricted channel since it usually involves meta-language to help people specify exactly what they need.
* Trade as restricted is less cumbersome because linking items includes game names, but maybe that could get permanently relaxed too.
* Tangentially, it would also be nice if LFF, Trade, and Advice became global channels since their use regionally is pretty low.
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so i know it's already been metioned but the more i think about it, it could be really fun to have the "First Annual Paug Awards 2007" by the end of the year. it could be our annual new years bash here at the paug. maybe the mods would want to be the judges or everyone could just submit votes. and some categories could be:-Best/Worst Post-Most Posts-Funniest Posts-Longest Post-Biggest Post Whore-Most Time Logged In-Best Links-Best/Worst Pics Posted-Best/Worst Poll-Most/Best Threads Started-Best Seeder-Best Newbie-Most Violent Hazing-Most Donation$-Most Emoticon User-Best/Worst Screen Name-Best Ideas for Paug Awards thoughts, suggestions, comments??
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don't forget the biggest douche award.
Honestly though, this whole post whoring thing is getting to be a little ridiculous. But does having a higher post count make a cooler pauger?
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I really don't understand how one could claim it's not practical. Even just downloading a group of recommended mods is more useful than having to download them individually because it saves time. Steam Workshop essentially does this, and it's very practical.
Let's say a friend has made a load order and you want to play with the same load order. It's a lot easier and far more practical to have a button that would download all the mods in the load order, then have to do it individually. Even if you still needed to know about modding (like if it isn't able to do everything for you), this still makes the task considerably faster and easier. Can you give me a reason why that isn't practical? And how is it more practical to go to each mod individually to download them in such a case?
Or another good example. The STEP guide. How is it not practical to have a button that would download all the mods you need? All it's doing is saving time. If you can go a step further and make it so it is able to do more than just download the mods where it's a one-click install, then it's even more practical.
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Bills affecting Southeastern North Carolina were debated last week as the General Assembly faced a critical deadline Thursday for non-revenue bills to pass their originating chamber and make their way to the other side
Property insurance rate-making reform. Terminal groins. Outdoor smoking bans. Clean water. Insurance coverage for children with autism.
These are just a few of the topics of bills affecting Southeastern North Carolina that were debated last week as the General Assembly faced a critical deadline Thursday for non-revenue bills to pass their originating chamber and make their way to the other side.
Those getting approval in the House include a bill sponsored by Rep. Paul Tine, D-Dare, to glean more information about how disaster modeling is used in setting insurance rates that coastal homeowners, particularly those living on the barrier islands, are tired of seeing spike.
"This bill is about bringing better information to the rate-making process and giving all the citizens of North Carolina more transparency," Tine said. "By requiring two models instead of one, and competitive historical data, we should have more fair and accurate rates. When the Department of Insurance publishes the rate in each territory for the amount consumers are paying, maybe we all will stop finger-pointing and start working on a system that works better for everyone."
Making its way through the Senate, to the chagrin of environmental groups, was Sen. Bill Rabon�s Coastal Policy Reform Act of 2013, which would allow unlimited terminal groins along the coast and cut into a 2011 law that limits these structures and requires local governments to seek approval by voter referendum of any bonds sold to pay for building a terminal groin. That taxpayer protection piece may be central to the debate as the bill moves forward to the House.
A terminal groin is a long wall or hardened structure that extends out toward the ocean, with the principal purpose of minimizing and controlling down-drift sediment losses and beach erosion by catching shifting sand along the shoreline. But such structures raise environmental concerns and are not fail proof, opponents say.
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Rabon could not be reached for comment.
Among bills biting the dust was an effort to limit municipalities from implementing outdoor smoking bans such as those established by Wrightsville Beach.
Autism coverage
Included in the thumbs-up category was a bill that would mandate insurance coverage of children with autism up to $36,000 in services for people 23 years of age and younger.
According to testimony at a recent legislative hearing, Camp Lejeune and Fort Bragg have the highest rates of children with autism living on the bases than any others in the country; however, the military has slowed sending families here with a child with autism due to the lack of service providers.
This bill should help military families covered by TRICARE because requiring other private insurance carriers to offer these services will open up the state to more providers that have the ability to diagnose and treat autism, said David Laxton, director of communications for the Autism Society of North Carolina.
"If you have more insurers covering the families you'll have more people coming here to provide those services," he said.
Legislators were busy during the week, working well into the night to pass or fail the dozens of bills before them. They spoke to a wide range of topics, including several with a big local impact but that made little noise.
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Rep. Rick Catlin, R-New Hanover, shepherded a bill that allows utility authorities rate flexibility, such as when negotiating with a coastal municipality to build a freshwater barrier to saltwater intrusion and to mitigate problems with well fields in the northern part of New Hanover County where ponds and wetlands are drying.
"It's important economically and health wise that we protect the water resources we have because water is going to be the new gold," Catlin said.
He also successfully sponsored a bill aimed at informing well water users what is tested for and what is not. "There are people right now that have been drinking contaminated water," he said.
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Some of the biggest topics before the N.C. General Assembly have yet to come up. Not sensitive to the deadline are the state budget, tax reform, which could affect film incentives, and other measures of local importance such as a bill to study alternatives to increasing tolls on coastal ferries.
"Our biggest issues will be the budget and economy and tax bills, and a lot of that work is being done in the Senate first and coming over next week," said Rep. Frank Iler, R-Brunswick.
Iler said a bill he sponsored with Rep. Susi Hamilton, D-New Hanover, to curtail sex trafficking is one of his top priorities moving forward. The House bill failed to meet deadline, but Sen. Thom Goolsby, R-New Hanover, successfully passed a similar bill in the Senate that both Hamilton and Iler said they will team up to strengthen as it crosses to the House.
Iler also was successful in passing a measure that would give Brunswick and Dare counties the ability to act on boats that have been abandoned more than 30 days.
Rep. Ted Davis has had some early success with bills. His measure to change procedures dealing with custody cases that involve deployed military men and women has already been signed into law by Gov. Pat McCrory. He also was successful in moving a bill to the Senate that says those serving on a grand jury cannot be called to serve again for six months.
A bill of his that hasn't moved deals with clarifying who has the hiring and firing authority for the State Ports Authority's executive director � the SPA board or the Department of Transportation.
"(DOT) and the (SPA) board are trying to work that out. If we can't work it out, that (bill) could move forward," Davis said.
He said that bill is not subject to the crossover deadline, nor is his effort to keep funding level for Cape Fear Community College's Marine Technology program, which McCrory proposed cutting roughly in half. The latter will be dealt with in the budget-making process, Davis said.
Other local bills moving along sponsored by the local delegation include a controversial measure filed by Goolsby to repeal the Racial Justice Act as one means of lifting the de facto moratorium on the death penalty, stalled by legal tangles since 2007. The Racial Justice Act allows certain statistical data to be presented in cases to determine if racial profiling lead to a death penalty sentence. If found to be the case, the law allows a judge to commute a sentence to life in prison without parole. But Goolsby argues it unnecessarily clogs the system with legal challenges.
But not making deadline were several of Goolsby's so-called "sunshine" bills aimed at providing government accountability and supporting open meetings and records by establishing penalties for noncompliance.
Goolsby also took up the fight against efforts to allow electronic filing of public notices by governmental bodies as opposed to newspaper filings, which proponents argued would save taxpayer dollars. Several bills to move toward electronic filings of public notices failed to make deadline over concerns that not all members of the public have easy access to computers. It's unclear if the issue will pop up later in the session as it was among the most hotly debated this week.
"I am always for public notice, and by that I mean published in a newspaper of general circulation. My past votes demonstrate my belief," Goolsby said.


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The long standing legal battle between Infinium Labs and HardOCP took a turn in the enthusiast website's favor yesterday when the judge presiding over the deposition asked Infinium labs to produce documents relating to the company's business dealings in Texas, and all of the financial details relating to investors. The ruling yesterday is a strong sign that HardOCP will get what they want: a suit executed in HardOCP's home state of Texas, if it goes that far. Infinium Labs had attempted to maintain that they did not have a business presence in Texas, but that appears to be unraveling. More importantly, the court ordered Infinium to produce documentation relating to the state of the Phantom console at the time of the article in question. The company has until the end of this month to produce these documents and the company's board minutes. More information is mirrored here.
The legal battles started when Infinium threatened a defamation suit months after HardOCP wrote an article claiming that Infinium's "Phantom" gaming console was just thata phantom. By all reasonable appearances, the console was what we like to call "vaporware," but Infinium's new CEO, Timothy Roberts, claimed that the article was false and that it was written to damage their reputation. Roberts argued that HardOCP's article cost them venture capital, and seriously harmed their business. To be sure, Infinium is apparently almost out of cash, and one wonders if they will continue to expend financial resources battling this relatively innocuous issue rather than the company's real problems.


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UK employers sharpen job axe
But industry still begging for science skills
Employers expect a dismal time ahead in the jobs market because of a rise in redundancies accompanied by a downturn in recruitment.
According to the latest Labour Market Outlook survey, 29 per cent of businesses expect to hire new staff before the end of September – that's half as many compared to the same period in 2004 when firms upped employee numbers by 58 per cent.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) carried out the survey of 1,221 UK employees in partnership with accountanting firm KPMG. It found that 27 per cent of employers planned to lay off staff before October, while 22 per cent said they intended to sack workers between April and the end of June next year.
However, the picture is not quite as gloomy for employees as last winter when 38 per cent of businesses declared they would cut back on recruitment amid fears about the global credit crisis and an economic downturn.
"The jobs market has been one of the few bright spots in the UK economy, but cracks are appearing in the face of an increasingly uncertain economic outlook," said CIPD chief economist John Philpott.
"Even if we avoid the scale of jobs fallout suffered in previous downturns, the era of the candidate's recruitment market is already over, with people in work becoming increasingly anxious that their P45 might soon be on its way."
More than a quarter (26 per cent) of companies said they expected to be left with a decreased workforce this autumn.
Employees lucky enough to stay in work will see only a modest increase in pay. Employers looking at pay reviews in the third quarter expect to award their staff an average raise of 3.7 per cent, or 3.9 per cent after bonus payments have been taken into account.
"Companies are now reacting to deteriorating market conditions. With sales slowing and input costs rising, but scope to raise prices limited by weakening demand, finances are under pressure," said KPMG chief economist Andrew Smith.
"It looks as if employment costs, the main area over which businesses retain control, are taking the strain with employers seeking both to keep a lid on pay settlements and, in increasing numbers, planning for redundancies. The labour market is suddenly looking a lot less resilient."
Science to keep wolves at bay
Meanwhile, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said today that Blighty's brightest kids should be required to study three separate science courses in secondary school to offset a shortage of employees in that sector.
The government has agreed that from next month all 14-year-olds achieving a Level 6 score in national SATs tests will be entitled to study a triple science GCSE course, covering chemistry, biology and physics.
However, the CBI has argued that the 250,000 (roughly 40 per cent) kids attaining the required SATs standard should be automatically opted-in for the three science subjects.
"Young people are missing out," said CBI director general Richard Lambert. "They are doing better than ever in science tests at 14, but hardly any are going on to study Triple science GCSE, despite the opportunities and learning it offers.
"We need to create an environment in schools that reflects the importance of science, and the value of studying it. We also need to send an unambiguous message to young people who are good at science that science as a career can be fascinating and worthwhile, and will reward you well."
The CBI claimed that some schools lack the specialist science teachers needed to deliver triple science. As a result, the employers' group reckoned the government would have to phase in the policy. "But we hope that by 2013 all schools should have enough specialist teachers to operate it," it said.
According to the CBI findings, only seven per cent of 16-year-olds currently take three science GCSEs. The vast majority study single or double science courses because of limited resources at many state-funded schools, while the number of specialist science teachers has halved over the past 20 years. These make for two worrying trends the CBI wants the government to overcome. ®


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Even though the fall off the "fiscal cliff" was more like a bungee jump, the U.S. economy has yet to step back from the precipice.
Last week's deal to raise some taxes failed to address the national debt, which hit its limit before the New Year's Eve champagne was served, or the budget deficit that continues to add to that debt.
In fact, the deal adds $4 trillion to the budget deficit problem, the Congressional Budget Office estimated. White House Budget Director Jeff Zients, however, said the CBO estimate was wrong because it used the wrong baseline. Zients said the measure actually reduces the deficit by $737 billion.
Nevertheless, Republicans are smarting over the deal, which represents the first time the GOP has supported an increase in taxes since 1991 (technically, it wasn't a hike on families with income of more than $450,000 and individuals earning more than $400,000; it was a return to previous tax rates). And though President Barack Obama warned lawmakers not to make a spectacle over raising the debt ceiling (the last time the bruhaha resulted in a hit to the U.S. credit rating), Tea Party adherents and other conservative Republicans likely are gearing up for a new confrontation.
"I think we all recognize this law is just one step in the broader effort to strengthen our economy and broaden opportunity for everybody," Obama said after the House finally voted New Year's Day.
Obama, who signed the law by autopen Wednesday, had wanted a grand plan, one that would raise tax rates on the wealthy, reform the tax code, deal with the debt ceiling and cut spending, in part by reforming entitlements -- another touchy subject.
"Unfortunately, there just wasn't enough support or time for that kind of large agreement in a lame-duck session of Congress," he said.
It remains to be seen whether the 113th Congress will be more functional than its predecessor and deal with the issues, but the first salvos already have been fired.
"The president may not want to have a fight about government spending over the next few months, but it's the fight he is going to have, because it's a debate the country needs," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., warned in an op-ed piece for Yahoo! published Thursday.
"For the sake of our future, the president must show up to this debate early and convince his party to do something that neither he nor they have been willing to do until now."
And McConnell warned he will not be a party to future tax increases.
"Predictably, the president is already claiming that his tax hike on the 'rich' isn't enough," McConnell wrote. "I have news for him: The moment that he and virtually every elected Democrat in Washington signed off on the terms of the current arrangement, it was the last word on taxes. That debate is over."
The Tea Party Express also expressed its dissatisfaction with the agreement.
"At some point we're going to have to come together and do what's right for America, but do the Democrats have a mandate to go and just do whatever and just spend into oblivion? No," Tea Party Express head Amy Kremer told CNN. "And that's evident because the Republicans still control the House."
Voters are less than satisfied as well. A Rasmussen Reports poll of 1,000 likely voters conducted Wednesday indicated voters were evenly split at 46 percent on the deal -- although those who were dissatisfied had stronger feelings than those who approved. The margin of error was pegged at 3 percentage points.
And a Gallup poll of 1,026 adults taken Thursday indicated 43 percent approved of the deal, 45 percent disapproved and 12 percent had no opinion. Among Republicans 27 percent approved and 65 percent disapproved while Democrats felt the opposite: 67 percent approved and 23 percent disapproved. Among independents, 39 percent approved and 46 percent disapproved. The margin of error was 4 percentage points.
The problem, of course, is demographics.
Baby boomers, the first generation to have paid into Social Security and Medicare their entire working lives, are hitting their golden years, straining the systems that protected their parents and grandparents. On the other end, the sluggish economy has thrust more people into poverty, straining programs like food stamps and Medicaid.
Former Sen. Alan Simpson and former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles -- who together headed a commission that proposed tax and spending reforms rejected by both parties --lamented the New Year's Day deal as a missed opportunity to have done something truly significant in getting the nation's finances in order.
University of Maryland economist Peter Morici warned the agreement will just make sluggish growth last that much longer. He said gross domestic product is likely to grow just 2 percent this year while a growth rate of 4 percent to 5 percent is needed to spur the kind of job growth that would reduce the unemployment rate to 6 percent in three to four years.
Morici said the administration has little interest in "substantially curbing healthcare spending and retirement benefits," and he warned the U.S. credit rating could take another hit.
AARP was quick to praise the deal, saying it protects Medicare and retirement savings but at the same time recognized the respite is temporary.
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who heads the House Budget Committee, signaled the fight has just begun. In his annual note to taxpayers, Ryan, Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate, said "sensible entitlement reforms and pro-growth tax reforms are the solution" to what he sees as out-of-control spending, the result of not having a budget for more than three years.
"Our debt and deficits are growing largely because of poor economic growth and out-of-control spending, which is why I have continued to call for reforms to our tax code and our nation's health and retirement programs," said Ryan, who has proposed turning Medicare into a voucher system that provides seniors with a set amount to use to purchase health insurance privately.
"The federal government doesn't need more tax money from the families and businesses in our local communities. What the federal government needs to do is stop spending too much."
The positions of Ryan and McConnell set up the coming fight over the so-called sequester, the draconian spending cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011 and just delayed for two months by last week's deal.
"As I've demonstrated throughout the past several weeks, I am very open to compromise," Obama said after the "fiscal cliff" deal was reached. "I agree with Democrats and Republicans that the aging population and the rising cost of healthcare makes Medicare the biggest contributor to our deficit. I believe we've got to find ways to reform that program without hurting seniors who count on it to survive. And I believe that there's further unnecessary spending in government that we can eliminate.
"But we can't simply cut our way to prosperity. Cutting spending has to go hand-in-hand with further reforms to our tax code so that the wealthiest corporations and individuals can't take advantage of loopholes and deductions that aren't available to most Americans. And we can't keep cutting things like basic research and new technology and still expect to succeed in a 21st century economy. So we're going to have to continue to move forward in deficit reduction, but we have to do it in a balanced way, making sure that we are growing even as we get a handle on our spending."


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From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy
ELYRIA, Ohio -- After looking for him to no avail at his Ohio bus tour stop this morning, McCain found Joe the Plumber in Sandusky this afternoon and then brought him along to Lorain Community College as well. Although both the candidate and his new traveling companion made mostly the same remarks at each stop, Joe added one key line.
"Get out there and vote; it's very important," Joe said, after extolling the virtues of being well informed. "You get out here and get the American people back in charge of our government. Hold politicians' feet to the fire when they mess up. That's what we're out here to do. All right? Smaller government, you know? As far as everyone else here, well, that's the question and go ask them to vote for a real American, John McCain."
At the first stop, Joe had simply encouraged the crowd to vote without telling them to support McCain. But before a much smaller crowd at the college, Joe was a bit more specific.
During his introduction, McCain also had many a kind word for Joe, who has become something of a mascot for his campaign.
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Major Section: BOOKS
This topic is entirely optional. It describes how to use makefiles to assist
in the automation of the certification of collections of ACL2 books. We
assume here a familiarity with Unix/Linux
make. We also assume that you
are using GNU
make rather than some other flavor of
ACL2's regression suite is run using
Makefiles that include
books/Makefile-generic. You can look at existing
Makefiles to
understand how to create your own
Makefiles. Here are the seven steps to
follow to create a
Makefile for a directory that contains books to be
certified, and certify them using that
Makefile. Below these steps we
conclude with discussion of other capabilties provided by
1. Include the file
books/Makefile-generic. For example, if you look at
books/misc/Makefile then you'll see that it starts with this line:
include ../Makefile-genericNote that
../ should be replaced by the appropriate path to
books/Makefile-generic. AND PLEASE NOTE: This
include line should
precede the lines mentioned below.
2. Define the
ACL2 variable. For example, file
books/arithmetic-3/pass1/Makefile starts as follows.
include ../../Makefile-generic ACL2 = ../../../saved_acl2Note that you will need to provide the appropriate path to your ACL2 executable.
3. (Optional; usually skipped.) Set the
INHIBIT variable if you want to
see more than the summary output. For example, if you want to see the same
output as you would normally see at the terminal, put this line in your
Makefile after the
include and
ACL2 lines.
INHIBIT = (assign inhibit-output-lst (list (quote proof-tree)))For other values to use for
INHIBIT, see set-inhibit-output-lst and see
the original setting of
INHIBIT in
4. Specify the books to be certified. If every file with extension
is a book that you want to certify, you can skip this step. Otherwise, put a
line in your
Makefile after the ones above that specifies the books to be
certified. The following example, from
books/finite-set-theory/osets/Makefile, should make this clear.
BOOKS = computed-hints fast instance map membership outer primitives \ quantify set-order sets sort
5. Create
.acl2 files for books that are to be certified in other than
the initial ACL2 world (see portcullis). For example, if you look in
books/arithmetic/equalities.acl2 you will see
defpkg forms followed
by a
certify-book command, because it was determined that
forms were necessary in the certification world in order to certify the
equalities book. In general, for each
<book-name>.lisp whose
certification requires a non-initial certification world, you will need a
<book-name>.acl2 file that ends with the appropriate
certify-book command. Of course, you can also use
.acl2 files with
initial certification worlds, for example if you want to pass optional
arguments to
You also have the option of creating a file
cert.acl2 that has a special
role. When file
<book-name>.lisp is certified, if there is no file
<book-name>.acl2 but there is a file
cert.acl2, then
will be used as
<book-name>.acl2 would have been used, as described in
the preceding paragraph, except that the appropriate
command will be generated automatically -- no
certify-book command
should occur in
It is actually allowed to put raw lisp forms in a
.acl2 file (presumably
preceded by
:q or
(value :q) and followed by
(lp)). But this is
not recommended; we make no guarantees about certification performed any time
after raw Lisp has been entered in the ACL2 session.
6. Run the following command:
make dependenciesThis will generate dependency information. If you try it in
the result should agree with what you find in
books/misc/Makefile. If
you run this in the directory you are developing, you will want to insert the
output at the end of your
7. Run
make. This will generate a
<book-name>.out file for each
<book-name>.lisp file being certified, which is the result of redirecting
ACL2's standard output. Note that
make will stop at the first failure,
but you can use
make -i to force make to continue past failures. You can
also use the
-j option to speed things up if you have a multi-core
That concludes the basic instructions for creating a
Makefile in a
directory including books. Here are some other capabilities offered by
Subdirectory support. There is support for the case that there are no
books in the current directory, but there are subdirectories that include
books (or themselves have no books but contain subdirectories with books,
etc.) For example, file
books/arithmetic-3/Makefile has the following
DIRS = pass1 bind-free floor-mod include ../Makefile-subdirsThis indicates that we are to run
make in subdirectories
bind-free/, and
floor-mod of the current directory
books/arithmetic-3/). Use
Makefile-psubdirs instead of
Makefile-subdirs if certitification of a book in a subdirectory never
depends on certification of a book in a different subdirectory, because then
-j option can allow subdirectories to be processed in
Cleaning up. We note that there is a
clean target. Thus,
make cleanwill remove all
.cert files, files resulting from compilation, and other
``junk''; see the full list under ``
clean:'' in
Compilation support. Finally,
books/Makefile-generic provides
support for compiling books that are already certified. For example, suppose
that you have certified books in GCL, resulting in compiled files with the
.o extension. Now suppose you would like to compile the books for
Allegro Common Lisp, whose compiled files have the
.fasl extension. The
following command will work if you have included
in your
make faslIn general, the compiled file extension for a Lisp supported by ACL2 will be a target name for building compiled files for all your books (after certifying the books, if not already up-to-date on certification).


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Columnist Otis Gardner recaps the vice presidential debate
Thursday night as the VP debate was drawing to a close, I opened my laptop with the intent to write this column. I have no doubt everybody is getting a bit tired of constant political mantras running 24/7. I know I am.
But that�s the way it is every four years, and this particular election is so extraordinarily important so it can�t be ignored. As a conservative, I view the November outcome as nothing short of do or die for the country.
To people like me, the Obama train is headed nowhere but off the cliff. My conclusion isn�t some big epiphany but merely recognition that his brand of socialist nonsense has never worked anywhere. History screams it.
And such historical facts create my biggest mystery of this election cycle. I can�t imagine what a decision tree branch looks like that convinces liberals to stay a course that�s so obviously leading nowhere.
I believe most of them have the best of intentions and doubt any truly wish harm to the country. But in the face of a pile of evidence to the contrary, they seem like lemmings, almost zombie-like in their march into a sea of red ink.
It�s perplexing to say the least, but it appears to me the current model of Democrats have built their messaging toward the lowest common denominator. I hope they�re making a huge miscalculation of their constituency�s intelligence.
Any decent pool player in the country can sight down a cue at debt, welfare and unemployment trajectories and instantly see where they�re headed. It�s not rocket science. It�s not even science. It�s merely chalking up some common sense.
Regarding the debate, I was generally underwhelmed. I know Ryan is razor-sharp and presents his thought chains with beginnings, middles and ends. In this debate, because of time constraints and interruptions, many links got lost in the hubbub.
Biden, on the other hand, has never been burdened with organization. According to him, everything Ryan and Romney say is a lie and that pretty much sums it up. When�s lunch?
According to the vice president, the country is on the right course domestically. Foreign relations are also on track. The Obama administration always tells the truth and we conservatives hate old and sick people.
You can�t get much simpler than that, and �simple� very well describes the track of the debate. I�ll leave it to voters to decide which way they want to go and have every confidence that good sense will bubble out of all the political froth.
I�ve tried to imagine my thoughts on the morning-after if Obama wins. Confronting that outcome shuts down my imagination.
If we get into another four years of this guy we�ll be so far down the hole they�ll have to pipe sunshine to us. But we all know how President Obama hates pipe so that�s not an option.
I wish Romney and the country well in November but of course that�s redundant.
Otis Gardner�s column appears here weekly. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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"Pretty much my career choices were civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or chemical engineering," he said, adding that he chose "dirt and water compared to all the other hard stuff."
J.T. Malasri ended up at the university as well, on the student side of the desks, gaining a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering with a minor in psychology before heading down Central Avenue for a Master of Science in civil engineering.
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Malasri is currently involved with the Urban Land Institute as the Young Leaders Chair, part of the management committee. The ULI is a facilitator for best land-use practices, and its members include developers, finance specialists, contractors, municipality representatives and engineers, among others associated with the real estate industry. As part of Young Leaders, he said, his role is "to promote what ULI is doing to younger people and getting younger people involved and engaged in the city."
There were no more than seven young leaders when Malasri became involved, and the division now has 16 members. To see the next generation of real estate professionals grow into civic leaders, Malasri also created the Mentor Protege Program to align those with experience and wisdom to be shared with up-and-coming professionals.
"Henry Turley was gracious enough to be mentor for our group," he said, and was part of several events, including a bike tour of the Main Street to Main Street Multi-Modal Connector Project, which will carry joggers, walkers and cyclists over the Harahan Bridge, across the Mississippi River and into Arkansas.
It's not just the interstate travel that gets him excited but, as an engineer, the improvement of the streets and streetscapes of South Main.
Though his father is a teacher, Malasri doesn't see such a path in his near future, but possibly something he'll venture into when he's older, closer to retirement age – when his years of experience might mean something to a younger generation. Until then, he'll work to get his peer group, and younger, interested in joining the effort to better Memphis both ideologically and physically.
At 29 years old, Malasri sees now as the best time to get involved in a leadership role to help his community sustain the enthusiasm and growth he's seen over the past few years. He gets frustrated when he hears Memphians complain, he said, and thinks they should instead work to make the city a better place.
"In the past few years, a lot of younger people are getting well along in their careers where they're starting to become the decision-makers and are getting put in more prominent positions," he said. "It's really refreshing to be involved with people who are passionate about making Memphis a better place.
"Being involved and trying to take the lead in a lot of these things, I think people see your enthusiasm and see you're passionate, and it gives them hope. And that's what I'm hoping to do is to influence my friends and the future generations that Memphis and Shelby County can be a lot more than what it is right now."
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Build relationships, not links. If you're in the business of link acquisition and looking for a new mantra, or a way to be great at your job, there it is.
Building relationships is a new beast to tame. It's not about trying to influence machines – it's about trying to influence people. Every human is a kaleidoscope of attitudes, behaviors, and emotions.
Empathy – immersing oneself in the prospect's world – is an asset for fostering trust, negotiating exchanges, and building lasting relationships.
Here's how tapping in to the study of human behavior can help us better understand people's actions and build stronger ties in a post-Penguin/Panda world.
1. Man (and Woman) is a Perpetually Dissatisfied Animal
Time warp back to philosophy class. Karl Marx's theory of production and consumption says, "When basic needs have been met, this leads to the creation of new needs."
Every prospect you contact has a need, something they want or they don't know they can have – yet. The first step for building relationships is identifying why the person that you're trying to foster a connection with would benefit from a relationship with you.
Robert Cialdini, author of "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion", identifies six key principles of persuasion. The very first principle is reciprocity: "People tend to return a favor". The idea is that when someone makes an effort to do something for us, our moral fabric tends to make us feel obliged to do something in return.
If your client sells shoes and you approach a fashion blogger with a free pair to review, their conscience (and their shoe addiction) will make them happy to review.
Not only does your offer have to be creative when you approach a prospect, it has to relate to how they can achieve a goal.
This may mean having to re-evaluate your link acquisition strategy with your clients, to identify the collateral you can exchange with prospects, whether free samples and trials, exclusive offers, or expertise.
2. Personality Can Tell us a Lot About What Motivates People
The extinct practice of paying for links is now frowned upon by most SEOs, bloggers, and search engines alike. Since Google's Penguin/Panda updates, outreach solely based on "link building" significantly reduces your response rates and terminates your chances of being considered on an A-list blog.
Now you have to work harder to learn more about who you're contacting and what you can offer each other in the long-term. There's a lot more involved than just evaluating the keyword relevancy or pagerank value of a site.
The secret to relationships lies in knowing people's underlying interests, needs, and values. That's what helps you determine what motivates them and how you can help each other in the future.
Every one of your prospects is a potential ally. And empathy is the way you will step into their world, and understand what drives their behavior and how you can influence it.
Fortunately (for marketers), you can tell a lot about a person by what they post online. They leave an entire trail of digital footprints for you to follow, from their "About" page, their blog posts, their LinkedIn profile, to what kind of stuff they post on Twitter and Facebook. Your detective work is all laid out for you. It just takes a few extra clicks and a little curiosity.
3. Identify Relevant "Currencies"; Theirs and Yours
MindTools' Influence Model talks about using "relevant currencies" in order to influence people. The model was actually developed for a work setting, but it's incredible how these principles can be applied to relationship building. The idea is to establish what the most meaningful "currency" is to the person you are reaching out to.
The five currencies below can be great sources of inspiration when you're negotiating an exchange:
- Inspiration-related currencies. People who value these currencies want to find meaning in what they're doing. To appeal to these people, approach them with a cause, something that will lead to a greater good.
- Task-related currencies. Task-related currencies are often highly valued where supplies and resources may be scarce. Offer them your client's expertise on a topic that's relevant to their site that they haven't covered yet.
- Position-related currencies. People who value this currency focus on recognition, reputation, and visibility. Create content relevant to their interests that make an active attempt to engage them, either directly through the content or through social channels.
- Relationship-related currencies. People who value relationships want to belong. These people want to feel connected on a personal level, with you or the organization you're representing. Show them that they aren't just a means to an end and involve them in various initiatives.
- Personal-related currencies. These currencies relate to the other person on a personal level. You should give courtesy and gratitude for the help you receive. It's as simple as writing "Thank You" follow up emails, sharing a person's blog post, and making it a habit of acknowledging people for their efforts.
4. The Medium is the Message
From email to Google+, Facebook to face-to-face, each of these communication channels has their own unique characteristics, much like the people who use them.
Marshall McLuhan stated that the medium through which we choose to communicate holds as much value than the message itself. One contact might like IM, another might always be on Twitter – it's good to know where people want to be reached.
5. Influence is Give and Take
In Francisco Dao's article Networking is for Losers, he makes a key point that sums up how you should approach building relationships; a road to quality versus a shooting slope to quantity:
"A few strong relationships can open far more doors than a thousand evenings of glad handing and networking."
With that, keep in mind these six steps for building fruitful and lasting relationships. See if getting to know the person behind the email address might be worth the time and the nurturing.
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Robert Frank is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author and a leading authority on the American wealthy. He joined CNBC in May 2012 as a reporter and editor and is host of "Secret Lives of the Super Rich."
Prior to CNBC, Frank worked at The Wall Street Journal for 18 years, serving as a foreign correspondent in London and Singapore, and later covering Wall Street and corporate scandals. For eight years, he was the paper's Wealth Reporter, covering the lives, culture and economy of the new rich.
Frank is the author of two books: "Richistan," a New York Times best-seller, and "The High-Beta Rich," released in 2011. His blog, The Wealth Report, was named by Time magazine as one of America's most influential financial blogs.
Frank holds a bachelor's degree in literature from State University of New York at Binghamton. He lives in New York with his wife and two daughters.
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Cables and connectors are usually only noticed when they fail. At their best, they can add nothing electrically to a system or a circuit but, at their worst, they can degrade amplitude and phase performance. Recent developments in these interconnection components have been aimed at making them as electrically "invisible" as possible, with low loss and the best possible impedance match to a 50-Ohm system.
For example, coaxial cable assembly supplier Electronic Assembly Manufacturing, Inc. (EAM) recently announced that it was offering high-performance flexible cable assemblies for applications through 20 GHz (see figure). Based on T-Flex cables from Times Microwave Systems, a 3-ft.-long assembly built with 0.141-in.-diameter cable and SMA male connectors exhibits 1.35:1 VSWR from 45 MHz to 18 GHz. The 50-Ohm flexible cable assemblies, with stable attenuation and phase characteristics over time, meet all MIL-C-17 requirements. The cables feature polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) dielectric with silver-plated copper tape and braid shield and fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) jacket. The cables can be terminated with a variety of connectors, including SMA, BNC, 7/16, SMP, and TNC connectors.
Response Microwave is now offering its TESTCABLZ family of cable assemblies for production test applications through 18 GHz. The flexible cable assemblies include 0.163-in.-outside-diameter or 0.104-in.-outside-diameter cables with choice of male and/or female SMA, push-on SMA, Type N, TNC, BNC, MCX, or SMC connectors in straight and right-angle configurations. The typical attenuation is 0.30 dB/ft. with maximum VSWR of 1.20:1 and RF leakage of -110 dB. The cables have an FEP jacket over silver-plated copper with PTFE dielectric and silver-plated copper-clad steel center conductor.
Dynawave recently added low-loss bulk cables to its product lines, covering applications from DC to 65 GHz. According to the firm's Vice President and General Manager, Bob Thiele, "By adding bulk cable to our product line, Dynawave continues to expand its capabilities to the RF and microwave market. Our customers will appreciate the opportunity to work with one trusted source that can offer them a broad range of electrically matched cables and connectors for their most demanding applications."
Crystek Corp., a company perhaps better known for its crystal oscillators, introduced a line of low-loss flexible coaxial cable assemblies with stainless-steel solder-clamp construction. The LL142 series cables offer a minimum bend radius of 0.8 in. with better than 110 dB shielding effectiveness (SE) and attenuation of 0.36 dB/ft. at 18 GHz. The cable assemblies are available with SMA, Type N, and TNC connectors.
Micro-Coax weighed in with its new UTi- FLEX MCJ185A space-grade cable for applications through 32.3 GHz. The lightweight cable is rated for operating temperatures of -200 to +150C and is validated to the full qualification requirements of MIL-DTL-M17. The cables, with 0.08 dB insertion loss at 1 GHz and only 0.5 dB insertion loss at 32 GHz, are low outgassing and radiation-resistance cables that have passed the full qualification requirements of MIL-DTL-39012. They weigh only 12.4 g/ft.


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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia -- Goran Dragic scored 18 points to lead host Slovenia to a 78-69 upset victory over defending champion Spain on Thursday night in the European basketball championship.
Dragic, a guard for the Phoenix Suns, also had six rebounds, seven assists and two steals and scored the last four points of the game in Celje.
"Everything worked out," Dragic said. "We had nothing to lose and we deserved to win."
Spain is trying to become the first team to win three consecutive European titles since Yugoslavia in the 1970s.
Bostjan Nachbar, who finished with 14 points, made two free throws to put Slovenia up 74-69 with 1:12 left. Jose Calderon missed on Spain's next possession and Dragic made a layup and hit a jumper to send his team to its second win in two games. Spain is 1-1.
Marc Gasol had 17 points for Spain.
In Ljubljana, France got 17 points from Nicolas Batum and 16 from Tony Parker in crushing Britain 88-65 to bounce back from an opening loss to Germany.
Greece beat Russia 80-71 to stay perfect after two games. Russia, bronze medalist two years ago, is in deep trouble after two straight losses.
Lithuania rebounded from an opening loss to Serbia by beating Macedonia 75-67. Macedonia upset Lithuania on its own soil two years ago to reach the semifinals but is winless like Russia.
Another European power in trouble is Turkey, which also dropped its second straight.
Pietro Aradori scored 23 points to lead Italy past Turkey, 90-75.
Alessandro Gentile added 20 points, and Nicolo Melli had 14 points and 10 rebounds in Italy's second consecutive victory. Turkey, silver medalist at the 2010 worlds at home, is in danger of failing to qualify for the second round.
Also, Serbia beat Bosnia-Herzegovina 77-67, and the Czech Republic edged Poland 69-68 on Lubos Barton's 3-pointer with four seconds remaining.
In Ljubljana, Belgium beat Germany 77-73 in overtime.
Germany's Lucca Steiger hit a 3-pointer with 17 seconds left to send the game into overtime.
Heiko Schaffartzik made two free throws to bring Germany within one in overtime but then missed two more after Sacha Massot had made one for Belgium. Schaffartzik tried to get Germany to rebound the ball on his second attempt, but Tibor Pleiss missed the tip-in and Roel Moors made two free throws to secure Belgium's victory.
In Celje, Maciej Lampe made two free throws to leave Poland up by two and eight seconds on the clock but Barton nailed the 3-pointer to seal the Czechs' victory. NBA forward Jan Vesely led the Czechs with 23 points and 14 rebounds.
Slovenian riot police had to step in to end clashes between Serbian and Bosnian fans before the game in Jesenice. Serbia took early command and led by as many as 25 before cruising home for its second victory behind Stefan Markovic's 15 points. Nemanja Bjelica had seven points and 11 rebounds. Nihad Djedovic had 17 points and Mirza Teletovic added 16 for the winless Bosnians.
Earlier, Ante Tomic made a layup with nine seconds remaining to give Croatia a 77-76 victory over Georgia.
Also, Ukraine and Latvia won their second games in two days. Ukraine beat Israel 74-67 behind 17 points from Sergii Gladir, while Latvia edged Montenegro 73-72 on a jumper by Kristaps Janicenoks with 6 seconds left.
Finland also won its second straight, beating Sweden 81-60.


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Digitise your sports performance and team management processes
Screenshots of SAP Sports One being used by a sports team to digitalize sports performance management
Screenshots of SAP Sports One being used by a sports team to digitalize sports performance management
Screenshots of SAP Sports One being used by a sports team to digitalize sports performance management
SAP Sports One
Take professional sports team management to a new level. Available for soccer, ice hockey, basketball, handball, skiing, and rugby, SAP Sports One software helps clubs and organisations digitalize sports performance management by coordinating all administrative, training and team management, scouting, and medical processes.
- Cloud deployment
- Integrated platform for all sports data
- Deeper insights into your team
- Improved collaboration with mobile apps
- Secure and sustainable data
Key Benefits
Get a unified view of your performance data
Manage and integrate all your data from various sources in SAP Sports One. Get insights about your players and your team with real-time analytics.
Empower users with intuitive functionality
Access your data at any time and from anywhere using cloud-based solutions. Role-based interfaces and mobile apps help improve collaboration.
Create a sustainable environment for your data
Protect your data in a cloud-based environment and safeguard sensitive information while being compliant with the new GDPR security standards.
Key Capabilities
Screenshot of SAP Sports One being used by a sports team to analyse and track players' talent development
Screenshot of the training management capabilities of SAP Sports One being used to formulate training plans based on player attributes
Screenshot of player fitness monitoring capabilities within SAP Sports One being used by a sports team to run diagnostic tests to analyse player performance
Team management
- Analyse and track players' talent development and progress
- Consolidate information about players into informative
- Empower players, coaches, and scouts to collaborate on the go with intuitive, secure mobile team communications
Training management
- Make training plans based on player attributes such as availability, skills, and position
- Create training exercise programs and assign them to training sessions for groups or individuals
- Monitor player progress by integrating third-party data tracking solutions
Player fitness
- Run diagnostic tests to analyse player performance and access results quickly using easy-to-read spider charts
- Manage schedules for physiotherapists and medical staff efficiently to keep the team healthy
- Access information on the go using mobile applications
Scouting insights management
- Establish evaluation metrics and scouting catalogue definitions to meet the needs of your sports team
- Create and assign scouting requests, simply and intuitively
- Identify the best player to recruit to your team with advanced scouting search and reporting tools on your mobile device
Performance insights
- Prepare your next game by importing, filtering, and tracking videos of decisive match events
- Optimise your team's match preparation activities to prepare players for the next opponent
- Use a tablet to gain mobile opponent insights to prepare your coach and team for the next match
Technical Information
Take advantage of recent innovations
Learn about new features delivered in the latest release of SAP Sports One.
Maximise the value you get from your software
Follow detailed steps for using SAP Sports One with our comprehensive user guide.
Configure your software
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Keep your software secure
Safeguard your data and ensure that only authorised personnel gain access to information with our security guide.
Transform your business quickly and effectively by taking advantage of our holistic service and support plans, expert consulting services, custom application development, proven best practices, and deep industry and technical knowledge.
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See how customers are succeeding with SAP
Innovating football with digital team management
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Achieving a 360° view of player performance
Find out how FC-Astoria Walldorf gains detailed insights into player performance, enabling more effective match preparation.


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Celebrate the wines of Kentucky this Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Northern Kentucky Wine Festival. With 19 participating wineries, you're sure to fall in love with a wine or two. They will have two city blocks filled with food and craft vendors, music and lots of wine.
Participating wineries include:
Atwood Hill
Black Barn
Cedar Creek
Chrisman Mill
Elk Creek
Equus Run
Generation Hill
Horseshoe Bend
Lovers Leap
Old 502 Winery
Purple Toad
Redman's Farm
Rose Hill Farm
Serendipity Winery
Seven Wells
Verona Winery
WhiteMoon Winery
The Northern Kentucky Wine Festival takes place from 3 until 10 p.m. this Saturday in Covington's Mainstrasse Village. Tickets are $10 and include a souvenir wine glass and four sample tickets. Additional sample tickets may be purchased on-site.
For more information, visit http://www.nkvgga.org or check out the Northern Kentucky Wine Festival's Facebook page. Ages 21 and older please.
If you go, please share which wines you enjoyed the most by commenting on this post. Cheers!
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Recognizing Faculty for Exemplary Educational Contributions
The Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award, formally known as Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP Faculty Excellence Award initiated in 2001, provides an opportunity for Baylor College of Medicine faculty who meet designated standards of quality, quantity and breadth to receive recognition for their sustained (at least four to five years), exemplary educational contributions to the College.
Award Categories
Faculty can receive a Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award in four categories: Teaching and Evaluation, Development of Enduring Educational Materials, Educational Leadership, and Educational Research. To receive an award, a faculty member needs to submit a mini-portfolio presenting evidence of their educational contributions specific to an award category. This mini-portfolio is reviewed by a panel of faculty, similar to an NIH grant-review study section. Those meeting the criteria will receive the award. There is a separate process for Full Professors with different submission requirements.
Review Process
Given the height of the standard and the rigor of the review process, recipients serve as role models of distinguished educators for learners at all levels in the institution. Because the criterion-based review process is designed to focus on applicants' educational contributions and achievements, the chair of the Review Panel will seek input from department chairs or their designees about another important attribute expected of role models, that of consistently behaving in a professional manner toward learners, patients, staff and peers (i.e., professionalism). Once an application is received, the Office of Faculty Development will send a request to the chair of the applicant's department to sign a statement to this effect. Here is the letter that our office will send to your chair.
Academy of Distinguished Educators Membership
Each time a faculty member receives a Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award, the recipient will receive a plaque. More importantly, starting in 2014 the recipient will be eligible for a five-year membership in the Academy of Distinguished Educators. Privileges of membership in this academy will include:
- Participation in annual academy events (e.g., celebration dinner)
- Invitation to serve as mentor to junior faculty and other leadership opportunities
- Direct communication from the Office of Faculty Development about important educational issues and events
- Funding opportunity for an Academy of Distinguished Educators competitive educational mini-grant program. Funds (maximum $5,000 per grant) can be used for equipment, travel and personnel in support of educational projects.


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From the MAKE Flickr pool:
This cute assemble-yourself lamp is available in kit form from the Chinese website GeekCook.net (?) and costs 78 yuan. Mangled translation courtesy of Google:
Impetuous anxiety in this vast land, and we afford to dream of a moment's peace. In the night, lit one for himself only to his own light bar!
Material: 5MM E1 grade basswood splints
1. DIY. Their assembly and their own polishing, painting the color of their choice. Fun.
2. The bottom of a caster, you can get around. Hold on lost.
3. Wheels stainless steel screws, nuts and gasket.
4. Lampholders and wire all passed CE and UL certification.
This sounds like the sort of thing that would be good for Thingiverse — a laserable lamp design that would be compatible with a hardware store socket-and-cord product.


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Last Friday afternoon, the class presented their findings and put on a mock weather broadcast for a room full of excited parents and teachers.
Over the course of the program, the group learned how to build a tornado in a glass jar, how to collect rain with flower petals, and even how to read anemometers, a device used to measure wind speed.
"I wish it could have been longer so the kids could have had more time to work on different things," said St. Stan's Pre-K teacher Alanna O'Donnell. "I think that you see a big difference in the kids from last September and then in June and July."
Classes were each targeted towards different skills, such as writing and creative thinking, to help children as they move on to the next grade.
Along with O'Donnell, the program was facilitated with the help of Mrs. Borenstein's class of kindergarteners going into first grade, as well as Mrs. Magone's class of first graders who are preparing for second grade.
Louis D'Ambrosio's daughter Gabriela and son Billy just completed their first year at St. Stans.
"The whole school is like a family, everything from the faculty to the teachers and the parents, everyone we interact with every single day," said D'Ambrosio. "They have fantastic teachers and we only wish it was longer."
Natasha Diaz lives in the neighborhood and said her children Jorge and Caesar benefited greatly from the Summer Enrichment program.
Even though they missed their friends, she said they would not have rather been anywhere else.
"It was amazing and they just enjoyed it a lot," Diaz said. "They loved this summer and this course, and we would just like there to be more."