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US 3130973 A Description (OCR text may contain errors) April 28, 1964 A. c. ZAPOLSKI 3,130,973 SIMULATED sow GAME WITH GAME BOARD HAVING RECESSES FOR SIMULATED FAIRWAYS, SCORECARD, CHANCE MEANS, AND A TOP PLAYING SURFACE 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Oct. 8, 1962 INVENTOR Zlr genil'ne 0. Zapo/s/r/ ATTORNEY A ril 28, 1964 3,130,973 SSES A. C. ZAPOLSKI SIMULATED GOLF GAME WITH GAME BOARD HAVING RECE ED FAIRWAYS, SCORECARD, CHANCE AND A TOP PLAYING SURFACE FOR SIMULAT MEANS Filed Oct. 8, 1962 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 Argenf/ne G. Zapo/s/r/ ATTORNEY April 28, 1964 A. c. ZAPOLSKI SIMULATED GOLF GAME WITH GAME BOARD HAVING RECESSES FOR SIMULATED FAIRWAYS, SCORECARD, CHANCE MEANS, AND A TOP PLAYING SURFACE Filed Oct. 8, 1962 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 FIG. 7 INVENTOR Argenf/ne 0. Zapo/s/r/ ATTORNEY April 8, 1964 A c. ZAPOLSKI $130,973 SIMULATED GOLF-GAMEI WITH GAME BOARD HAVING RECESS ES FOR SIMULATED FAIRWAYS, SCORECARD, CHANCE MEANS, AND A TOP PLAYING SURFACE 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 Filed Oct. 8, 1962 (D) DRIVER 74 (29 WOOD (3) WOOD 300 YDS. 260 YDS. 220 YDS. 280 240 200 II 240 200 I90 II 200" I60" I70" 4 I50" I20" I50" B O B IOO (2) IRON (3) IRON 2|O YDS. 200 YDS. 200 I90 I90 l 80 I80 I 70 I70 I60" I40 I30" (5) IRON (1) IRON A l A no YDS. I5OYDS. I60 :40 I50 I30 |4o I" I no [-761 [0 no I00" (8) IRON (9) IRON (w) WEDGE I YDS. I20 YDS. so was. no 5o |2o I00 40 ||o 9o so |oo so zo so 7o IO PUTTER 2 OR a L STROKES INVENTOR Argen fine CfZapo/sk/ WWW, ATToRNE'i United States Patent SIlViULATED GGLF GAME WITH GAP/IE BOARD HAVENG RECESSES FGR SIMULATED FAIR- WAYS, SQGRECARD, CHANCE fi iEANS, AND A Ti)? PLAYHQG SURFACE Argentine C. Zapolslri, Inglewood, Calif. (342 E. El Segundo Blvd, Hawthorne, Calif.) Filed Get. 8, 1962, Ser. No. 229,115 3 Qlaims. (01. 273134) This invention relates to a simulated golf game apparatus and has for an object to provide an improved simulated golf game apparatus wherein the player may use judgment and discretion in deciding which is the best simulated golf club to use for the particular selected fairway and golf hole so as to reach the putting green in the minimum number of strokes. A further object of this invention is to provide a simulated golf game apparatus wherein there are a number of simulated golf clubs in the form of spinner tops, each golf club spinner top having certain golf club results thereon, and wherein there is provided a gameboard having a plurality of pockets, one for each golf club spinner top, and wherein there is a table of data and golf club results associated with each pocket for the particular spinner top housed in each pocket so that the player may readily observe the data on the gameboard and the data on a selected golf hole placed on the gameboard when deciding what particular club to use for the particular golf hole being played. A further object of this invention is to provide 'a gameboard having a recessed central area wherein a selected simulated golf course fairway hole may be placed for playing the same, along with a recessed playing surface in the gameboard wherein the selected golf club spinner top is played and further wherein a score card is kept for recording the results of the play, and further, in addition, a plurality of markers, one for each of the various players, housed in the recess in the gameboard and adapted to be placed on the simulated golf board field or hole when playing the game. Yet a further object of this invention is to provide a simulated golf game apparatus wherein the gameboard has a recessed surface for receiving and framing a golf course fairway and hole, wherein different golf course fairways and holes with their appropriate course, hazard, distance, and par data thereon, may be housed and framed, and wherein part of the same recessed surface has game instruction data permanently displayed thereon so that the player may have all the necessary data and playing apparatus conveniently and compactly located for playing the game. Still a further object of this invention is to provide a compact portable simulated golf game apparatus wherein a gameboard houses .and receives the various parts of the game, and the gameboard itsef forms part of a compact carrying case, the gameboard being provided with a suitable framing border and a cover hinged and latched thereto with a handle member secured to the latched side of the border for conveniently carrying the gameboard with all the apparatus and data housed therein. With the above and related objects in view, this invention consists in the details of construction and combination of parts, as will be more fully understood from the following description, when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which: FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the simulated golf game apparatus of this invention in the form of a compact carrying case. FIG. 2 is a top plan view in open position illustrating the gameboard and the various component parts. 3,130,973 Patented Apr. 28., 1964 FIG. 3 is a sectional view through the gameboard on line 3--3 of FIG. 2. FIGS. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 are views illustrating the various golf course fairways of the game. FIG. 9 is an enlarged fragmentary view of that portion of the gaaneboard with the simulated golf club spinner tops housed in their respective pockets and their appropriate tables of club results adjacent thereto. FIG. 10 is a plan view of the score card. FIG. l l is a perspective view of a typical golf club simulating spinner top. FIG. 12 is a perspective view of a player marker. There is shown at 10 the simulated golf game apparatus as embodied in a compact portable carrying case, including a top 12 hinged at 14 to a border 16 providing a frame for the gameboard 18, as will be observed in FIG. 3, the border 16 extending above the gameboard surface v18. On the side of the border opposite the hinged side, there is provided cooperating latch means 20 for holding the cover 12 in closed position over the border 16 and over the gameboard 18 and all components housed therein or thereon and a carrying handle 21 providing means for readily carrying the compact game apparatus. As will be observed, the gameboard 18 is substantially rectangular, and centrally of this rectangular gameboard 18, there is provided a recessed fairway receiving area 22 on a part of which game instruction data 24 may be permanently displayed. The remaining part of the recessed area 22 provides a housing for receiving a selected golf course fairway and hole 26, others being illustrated in FIGS. 4 to 8, inclusive. It will be noted that each one of the fairways 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 are different in length of fairway, in the hazards illustrated thereon and each one has its own par value thus simulating a real fairway on a real golf course. In addition, other suitable data may be present on each representation of a fairway, including the length of the distance between the tee at one end and the representation of the hole at the other end, with each fair-way suitably marked to represent distance not only to the hole but somewhat beyond. Nine different fairways and holes have been represented hereon, but it is obvious that other particular fairways and golf holes may be provided so as to increase the entire golf course from nine holes to 18 holes, or more if desired. 7 These fairways are preferably represented on somewhat stiff cardboard or plastic that will just fit within the space provided by the framed recessed area 22 and may be in the individual size, as shown at 42 in FIG. 8, or may be a pair of fairways divided by a folded line as at 44. In actual practice, four fairways, 26, 28-, 30 and 32, may be represented on the front and back of a single cardboard with a fold line 44, two of the fairways, 26 and 32, being on one side and the other two being on the opposite side of the same cardboard or other material used to represent the fairways and when folded along the fold line the selected fairway may be placed in the position occupied by the fairway, shown at 26 in the recess 22 in FIG. 2. Each fairway may be made up to represent an existing actual fairway of any real golf course and thus simulate playing on a real golf course and giving the player practice in selecting the most appropriate club for each particular fairway, depending on the distance of the hole 46 from the tee 48 and may be provided with a water hazard such as 50 and is also provided with a representation of the number of the particular hole as at 52, the par for such hole at 54, and an indication of the actual distance between the tee 48 and hole 44, as at 56. Obviously, more than one hazard 50 may be provided along each fairway, as desired, particularly when representing a real golf course fairway. A golf club simulating spinner top 60, as separately 3 illustrated in FIG. ll, has a handle 62, having club identification 64 on the end of the handle and axially aligned with the handle '62 a spinner point 66 at the other end, the club 69 being hexagonal in cross section and thus is provided wit-h six different faces at 68, each bearing a different golf club result as at 70. Each golf club simulating spin top 60 is housed in its own particular pocket 72 recessed into the surface of the golf board -18, and, as illustrated, there are 13 different spinner tops 60, each with its own data of result on each of the six different faces thereof. Adjacent each pocket 72, there is provided a table of the data or results of the particular spinner top 60 housed therein, the table 74 having the same data and results thereon as shown on the particular spinner top 60 housed in the adjacent pocket 72, together with appropriate identifying data such as 76 corresponding to the data 64 at the end of the handle 62. There are 13 different clubs present, one of which is a driver simulating club, two of which are wood simulating clubs, eight of which are iron simulating clubs, one a wedge simulating club and one a putter simulating club, and each of them has appropriate data, the data on each club being different than the data on each other club. In addition to the identification data at 64, the clubs which are preferably of aluminum and suitably anodized may have different colors for each different club or at least for each different type of club simulated thereby, and the background of each table 74 would be correspondingly covered according to the color of the club simulating spinner top housed adjacent thereto. A player marker 78 provided with a handle 8i) representing a golf ball and provided with a supporting surface 82 is intended to be placed on the selected fairway at the appropriate distance marking thereon, according to the play of the club simulating spinner top. The player marker 78 will preferably be of a different color as to be' more readily identified by each player and they are housed in the recess 84 in the gameboard surface. Adjacent the opposite side of the recessed area 22 there is provided a recess spinner top playing area 86 which may be finished with a suitable smooth plastic so as to supply a good spinning surface for each spinner top 60. It Will be observed that this playing surface area 86 is circular and when the top is spun on this surface, the sides 88 confine the top to the area 86 so when the top stops spinning, it is confined to the area and thus readily located. A last recessed area 90 is provided for receiving score cards 92, suitable supply of which may be kept therein and provided for the various players. In operation, the compact carrying game apparatus illustrated at may be taken anywhere and then opened out. A selected fairway, usually hole No. 1, is' placed in the recessed area 22 alongside the instructions. After observing the particular hazard fairway distance data, and par of the hole on the fairway, the player will observe the tables of data 74 for each of the golf clubs and select whichever club simulating spinner top 60, in his opinion, is b st suited for the particular'fairway. He then removes the particular selected club spinner top 60' from its pocket 72 and plays it on the recessed playing area 86 by spinning the handle between his thumb and one of the fingers. The spinner top 60 then comes to rest on the recessed area 86 and he moves his selected player marker 78 to the appropriate place on the fairway. Each player will play in turn just as on a real golf course until they hole out and keep the record on the golf score card at 92. Each player as he finishes with a spinner will return it to its pocket 72 and the next player similarly makes his own selection. Obviously, different players may disagree as to the most appropriate club for the particular fairway and may select different clubs simulating spinner tops for play, After the first hole has been played, they merely pick up the fairway at 26 and turn it over to play on fairway 28 for hole No. 2 represented at 28, then when this hole is finished by everyone, they pick up the fairway representation, reverse the folding and continue first with fairway 30 for hole No. 3 and then fairway 32 for hole No. 4 and so on. Thus, each player has the opportunity of exercising his own discretion as to which is the most appropriate club according to the fairway condition and the judgment of the various players reveals their skill in playing the golf course game. Real competition is thus provided between different players, thus providing skill in selection of clubs and convenience in the data on the clubs being readily available without actually reading the data on each spinner. The data on the table at 74 is viewed along with the data on the fairway in making the selection. Although this invention has been described in considerable detail, such description is intended as being illustrative rather than limiting, since the invention may be variously embodied, and the scope of the invention is to be determined as claimed. Having thus set forth and disclosed the nature of this invention, what is claimed is: 1. A simulated golf game apparatus comprising a simulated golf course comprising a plurality of golf fair-ways, a gameboard, a recessed surface substantially centrally thereof for receiving and framing a selected fairway of said simulated golf course therein, each fairway of said course depicting a different golf course hole with appropriate course, hazard, distance and par data thereon, a plurality of individually identified multi-faced spinner tops, each rep-resenting a different golf club, each spinner top having a spinner handle, a spinner point axially aligned With said handle, and a plurality of flat side faces intermediate said handle and said point, each said' face repre 'senting a different result for the said club, each handle having club identifying indicia thereon, said gameboard having a plurality of top receiving pockets therein, said gameboard having a table of club identificationdata and .results adjacent each pocket duplicating that on the top to be housed therein, a plurality of player markers, said gameboard having a marker receiving recess therein, said spinner top pockets and marker recess being adjacent but spaced from said recessed central surface thereof, a recessed top playing surface located in said gameboard adjacent but spaced from said recessed central area thereof, and a score card receiving recess in said garneboard adjacent said spinner top playing surface. 2. The simulated golf game apparatus of claim 1, a frame border secured about said gameboard and extending above the surface thereof, a cover member hinged to said frame border at one side thereof, latch means on said cover and the opposite side of said frame border for se .curing said game apparatus par-ts therewithin, and a handle member secured to said latched side of said border thereby making a carrying case of said gameboard. 3. The simulated golf game apparatus of claim 1, and game instruction data permanently displayed on at least part of said central recessed surface. References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS D. 84,068 Andrus May 5, 1931 r 596,556 Tyng Jan. 4, 1898 3,101,947 Dzuris Aug. 27, 1963 FOREIGN PATENTS 566,400 France Nov. 22, 1923 314,229 Great Britain June 27, 1929 1,217,557 France Dec. 7, 1959 Patent Citations
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Scosche at 2012 CES: iPhone Cases, Chargers, and Earphones
By Nick Guy
Accessories Editor, iLoungeGoogle+
Published: Monday, January 9, 2012
News Categories: iPod Accessories, CES, iPad Accessories, iPhone Accessories
It looks like Scosche has been busy lately, as the company had plenty of new products to introduce at this year's International CES. Up first is railKASE, the company's aluminum and silicone hybrid case for the iPhone 4 and 4S. The contoured metal frame is designed to offer superior protection and comfort, while the rubber skin helps protect from bumps and scratches. It will be available in the first quarter of this year for $60.
Next up are the company's charging solutions—the reVOLT h2, reVOLT c2, reCOIL II, and reviveLITE III. The reVOLT h2 is a dual USB wall charger offering 2.1A for fast charging of two iPads simultaneously, while the reVOLT c2 packs the two ports into small cigarette lighter adapter-sized body. The reVOLT c2 will be available in the first quarter and will sell for $25, or $35 packed with a cable; pricing and release information for the h2 has yet to be announced.
The reCOIL II is a 2.1A car charger featuring a retractable, three-foot, magnetically locking 30-pin cable, while the reviveLITE III is the latest generation of the company's combination night light and docking charger, with a side 2.1A USB port for charging an iPad.
Finally, the company is showing off a new range of headphones and earphones, including the REALM RH656md on-ear headphones and REALM IDR676md earphones. The RH656md headphones feature 40mm drivers, copper voice coils, neodymium magnets, leather ear cushions, and ported sound chambers. The IDR676md are a new set of earbuds with 11mm drivers. In addition to the claimed audio quality, the buds are unique in that there's a bass level slider on the side of the three button remote and mic. The earbuds are priced at $130 and are expected to ship second quarter of 2012; pricing and availability for the RH656md headphones has yet to be announced.
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Senator: Microsoft, HP using gimmicks to dodge US taxes
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Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are using "loopholes and gimmicks" to avoid paying millions of dollars in U.S. taxes, the chairman of a U.S. Senate subcommittee said Thursday.
Microsoft is shifting a disproportionate amount of its profits to subsidiaries in three low-tax jurisdictions, and HP is using constant short-term loans from its overseas subsidiaries to avoid paying taxes on earnings coming back into the U.S., said Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the investigations subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
"It is highly dubious that some of these practices comply with existing [tax regulations] or existing law," Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said at a subcommittee hearing.
Microsoft and HP are not alone in massaging the U.S. tax law, Levin said, but a long-term subcommittee investigation has focused on the two companies. Efforts by corporations to lower their U.S. tax burden may not be illegal in many cases, but the practices of HP and Microsoft raise "serious questions," he said.
Many multinational corporations based in the U.S. "use complex structures, dubious transactions, and legal fictions to shift the profits from those products overseas, avoiding the taxes to help support our security, stability and productivity," Levin added.
Representatives of both companies defended their tax practices, saying they comply with U.S. law. Senator Tom Coburn, a Republican from Oklahoma, blamed Congress for a complicated tax code full of legal loopholes and for a high corporate tax rate.
"Tax avoidance is not illegal," he said. "There's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing immoral with that. It's the system that Congress has set up."
Coburn called for Congress to overhaul and simplify the tax code.
Levin, however, questioned the efforts of Microsoft and HP. In Microsoft's case, the company charges three foreign subsidiaries large licensing fees to sell its products. In 2011, two of those subsidiaries, in the low-tax jurisdictions of Ireland and Singapore, paid about US$4 billion for those licenses, then sold products worth $12 billion, even though U.S. tax law requires the subsidiaries to pay fair prices for the transfer of assets, Levin said.
That allowed Microsoft to move $8 billion in profits offshore and out of U.S. tax jurisdiction, he said.
Microsoft also sells licenses to its subsidiary in Puerto Rico, which then sells the distribution rights of Microsoft products back to the U.S. parent company at a profit, Levin said. Last year, 47 percent of the U.S. sales of Microsoft products were shifted to Puerto Rico, he alleged.
In 2011, Microsoft assigned about 55 percent of its profits to the subsidiaries in Ireland, Singapore and Puerto Rico, said Stephen Shay, a tax law professor at Harvard University. Shay and two other tax experts also questioned the Microsoft and HP methods.
HP uses a different mechanism to avoid U.S. taxes, Levin said. U.S. tax law requires companies to pay U.S. taxes on foreign profits sent back to the U.S., but there's an exception for short-term loans. In recent years, HP subsidiaries in Belgium and the Cayman Islands have provided a near-constant stream of short-term loans to HP in the U.S. to pay for a variety of expenses, including U.S. payroll and shareholder dividends, Levin said.
In response to repeated questions from Levin, Bill Sample, Microsoft's corporate vice president for worldwide tax, and Lester Ezrati, HP's senior vice president and tax director, both acknowledged that their companies considered the tax implications when setting up the programs in question.
But both also stressed they were operating within the current U.S. tax code.
"Microsoft complies with the tax rules in each jurisdiction in which it operates and pays billions of dollars each year in total taxes, including U.S. federal, state, and local taxes and foreign taxes," Sample said.
Microsoft's overseas subsidiaries help fund the company's research and development efforts, and their profits are a reward for taking that risk, Sample said. Microsoft's sales overseas are growing faster than its U.S. sales, he added.
Levin questioned how a Microsoft subsidiary was taking a substantial risk in supporting the parent company's R&D. "It's all Microsoft money, isn't it?" he said.
Ezrati noted that HP employs about 80,000 people, or about a quarter of its workforce, in the U.S. and paid about $10.3 billion in U.S. salaries in 2011.
Levin questioned the HP loan program, suggesting it was highly coordinated to avoid U.S. taxes. HP has staggered the dates on which the financial quarters of the two subsidiaries end to avoid tax penalties and keep the cash flowing in, he said.
The short-term loans from HP's Belgium and Cayman Island subsidiaries are legal and amounted to a "modest" amount of the company's cash flow in recent years, Ezrati said. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service and auditor Ernst & Young have reviewed the loan program, he added.
"HP takes seriously its obligations to accurately follow accounting principles and pay the taxes it owes," he said.
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Toby I think you make some good points, to be honest. From his perspective as a veteran in his last days who has just lost a critical playoff game, he was likely feeling really disappointed and probably didn't feel like blowing sunshine up everyone's butt. I guess it is what it is. But I expect the Sens won't just roll over and die.
The Pens haven't been all that great at closing a series at home in recent years, for what it's worth. But then again they have been playing a much calmer and more focused game with Vokoun in net as opposed to Fleury and reducing some (but not all) stupid habits, maybe that trend for us will change this year. I guess we'll see.


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Hmmm...I'm curious too. Have heard great things from a couple guys at the Wellington.
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WWWAs if the universe wasn't mind blowing enough, these recent discoveries outlined here, remind us of our infancy in it and its spectacular splendor, forming a more profound appreciation of just how little we know.
WWWAn unknown object has started sending out radio waves, and these emission are like nothing ever seen before, not fitting the pattern of supernova emissions which get brighter over weeks, then fade away over months while its spectrum continually changes—this source hasn't changed its brightness over the course of a year, and its spectrum is steady—most astoundingly, the source is traveling four times the speed of light. This flies in the face of Einstein's Theory of Relativity which says nothing travels faster than light, making it difficult to understand how a discovery of this magnitude never made it to media headlines. It seems radio waves can travel faster than light, as one scientist, John Singleton, has proven with his device that actually does, pictured here.
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Manitoba hopes it has the right mix in the pool when the 2012 Under-16 National Water Polo Club Championships makes waves in Winnipeg this weekend.
The provincial entry is one of 11 teams in the Canadian championship, joining entries from B.C., Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan at the Pan Am Pool. Action starts Friday and runs through Monday.
While water polo hot springs like B.C. and Quebec have multiple clubs in the event, Manitoba has had to amalgamate its pool of talent into one group, using players from Winnipeg clubs Bushido and Neptunes, plus the club in Selkirk. That's made for an interesting dynamic over the last few months, some say, as the new faces have had to blend in right away.
"At the very beginning, I wasn't sure how it was going to go," said Hanika Nakagawa, who plays with Bushido. "But everyone came together right away. I was kind of surprised."
Nakagawa, 15, is a rising star in the local waters. This will be her third Under-16 championship. The Winnipeg product has also appeared provincially in two Under-18 club championships, the latest coming earlier this month when Manitoba finished ninth out of 11 teams.
"This is exciting, playing a national at home is a new experience for all of us," added 15-year-old Natalie Blouin. "I'm not sure if there is any advantage or anything like that. We might be a little more confident playing in our own pool."
The women's Under-16 team is one of four clubs within the provincial system, joining the men's Under-16 club and the two Under-18 groups.
The man who oversees all of this is head coach Michael Reid, who returned to Manitoba water polo last fall after a six-year hiatus in Europe. Because he wears four different coaching hats, Reid will be in Victoria to monitor the men's club championship this weekend, so Bushido coach Heather Carson will oversee the women's operation.
Reid said the championships are a big moment for players looking to become the next Serena Bredin. The national team goaltender is from Winnipeg and spent her younger years with Bushido.
"For this tournament, there will definitely be coaches looking for kids for the developmental system, to ease them into the national program," Reid said. "If we get a couple athletes identified for that, that will be a success for me."
That process is well underway. Reid said the national program has already identified Nakagawa and Blouin, thanks to their participation at the under-18 championships.
On top of that, the head coach also says the players could make an impression on NCAA schools with a strong showing, following in the wake of Winnipeggers Breda Vosters and Shae Fournier -- two national junior players who have earned respective scholarships at the University of California and Indiana through the sport.
But those progressions are still years away for the under-16 team. Right now, Reid would be pleased to have the event serve as a showcase for water polo in his hometown and possibly whet the appetite of some younger players to give the sport a go. Water polo participation numbers, especially those in the 10-14 age range, trend towards the shallow end, he says, and an influx of youth at the club-levels is badly needed.
"At this point I'm not really worried about winning medals -- though that would be great," Reid said. "I'm hoping to change the culture a bit; to have water polo be an option for kids."
Manitoba's first match is against Storm Blue (Vancouver) at 6:15 p.m. The tournament gets underway at 9 o'clock Friday morning.
A quick look at Manitoba's entry in the 2012 Under-16 National Water Polo Club Championships at the Pan Am Pool this weekend:
Emily Egan (Neptunes), Devyn Smith (Bushido), Nadia Daza-Carias (Bushido), Andréa Rondeau-Brown (Neptunes), Gio Wickett (Selkirk), Sheila Jensen (Bushido), Natalie Blouin (Bushido), Annika Armstrong (Bushido), Stephanie Borlase (Neptunes), Ana-Marie Grabovac (Neptunes), Annie McIntyre (Bushido), Amy McIntyre (Bushido), Hanika Nakagawa (Bushido)
Friday, Manitoba vs. Pacific Storm Blue (Vancouver), 6:15 p.m.
Saturday, Manitoba vs. Pacific Storm White (Vancouver), 10:20 a.m.
NOTE: The top two clubs in each of the four divisions qualify for the playoffs. Quarter-finals start Saturday (3 p.m). Semifinals are at 2 p.m. and 3:20 p.m. Sunday, with the gold medal game scheduled to go at 1:20 p.m. Monday. Placement, consolation, and the bronze medal game take place in the morning hours the final two days of competition. For a full schedule, visit www.waterpolo.ca.
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Google last week tweeted another of their algorithm Weather Reports. While it's supposed to only affect less than 1 percent of searches, the results could be more impactful than that small number suggests.
Given 11.9 billion searches were conducted on Google last month, that 1 percent could represent an impact on millions of searches and thousands of sites. Google's Weather Report may not have announced a major algorithmic shift, but it it isn't something we should overlook.
Occupy Wall Street is protesting the impact of 1 percent. Indigenous people in the United States - Native Americans - represent less than 1 percent of the country's population. Remove either of those two groups from the population and the impact would be far more significant than numbers would suggest.
So while the number is small, we really should be watching to see if the impact is much larger than this tweet implies. The video below offers an interesting insight in to the Google process.
"When you align Google's interests with users' interests as we have aligned, good things happen," one senior engineer states. But, as the medical spelling correction example used in the video does not cover, what happens when giving what Google feels is the correct response actually details the wrong information? Hey, it was less than 1 percent whose lives were threatened.
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Political convo on Twitter is more opinionated, more negative. Diff from that in blogs or lamestream media, sez new study by Pew. Like duh!
But it will take more than 140 characters to really explore the results of "Twitter and the Campaign: How Social Media Users Have Treated the Presidential Candidates." The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism analyzed campaign coverage — more than 20 million tweets, online discourse and old-school news articles — between May 2 and Nov. 27. The report comes out Thursday.
"We are learning something new from this, something broader than we knew before," says the Project's director, Tom Rosenstiel. "For years, what the traditional media called 'public discourse' was actually fairly limited. It was really closer to official discourse. Today, because of these new platforms, we know a good deal more about public discourse. And it seems to vary depending on the technology. We use each form of social media differently."
So-called social media, Rosenstiel says, "is more complex and also less monolithic than is captured in the way we generally talk about it. Twitter is a different kind of discourse, when it comes to politics at least, than we see on blogs. And yet we find social-networking systems like Facebook as different in some other third way."
He says of social media avenues that "we tend to lump them all together in the language we use." But, he adds, "I am not sure we have the right language yet. For instance, we know from our weekly tracking of blogs that many bloggers write as activists who have made up their minds. We see something different, more open, more fluid, in the Twitter data and in the tweets themselves."
What Twitter Tells Us
For most of the Republican candidates, the report revealed, Twitter has proved to be a rough arena. Negative-opinioned tweets — concerning nearly all the hopefuls — outnumbered positive tweets by at least 2 to 1. Negative evaluations of President Obama, meanwhile, outclocked positive evaluations 3 to 1.
Of course, it's a challenge to present fair and balanced assessments of political candidates at any length, but Twitter's size limitations present special, well, limitations.
One Republican candidate, according to the report, has received better treatment on Twitter than anybody else: Ron Paul. "Fully 55 percent of the assertions about Paul on Twitter have been positive while only 15 percent have been negative — a 40-point differential," the Project explains in a press release. "While Paul trails significantly in the polls, and has received less coverage in news outlets than every Republican candidate except Rick Santorum, he is something of a social media phenomenon."
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• Though Gingrich reaped higher positive polling numbers in November, he experienced only "minimal improvement" in the tone of the coverage of him and his campaign.
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The Project refers to its survey — winnowed from news stories, editorials and a wide range of commentaries — as "research of tone," offering "a comprehensive, quantitative analysis of whether the messages Americans receive about a candidate in the news media are positive, negative or neutral."
These days all the media, old-school and new-school, "interact with each other constantly," Rosenstiel says. "One day, it may be a joke on a comedy show that goes viral and flows through social media. The next day it might be a video from a traditional newspaper editorial board interviewing Herman Cain. On the third day it might be a tweet from a celebrity. And depending on what you follow, the next tweet you see may be a professor at a panel at an Ivy League university."
So, as citizens in an evolving democracy, what can we learn from the survey — about our system and about how to improve it? "The key, I think, is understanding these new forms of discourse," says Rosenstiel. "We need to know how they really operate, not how we guess or imagine they are. We shouldn't overpraise them as something they are not. We shouldn't oversimplify them or lump them together."
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Had Menlo Park supported the theatre, perhaps Mr. Crittenden wouldn't have had terminate the Landmark lease
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Jim, you and me both.
We can't play into this guy's hands. He shouldn't call the shots.
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I agree. Thanks for keeping these facts in the public domain. I agree with the most recent city council decision and hope the owner will be able to find an option that benefits himself and our community.
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The Baltimore City Council is considering condemning and purchasing the building that was home to Uncle Lee's Szechuan Restaurant.
Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke introduced legislation on Monday for the city to condemn, purchase and then sell the building near 3313 Greenmount Ave. that was once a popular place to eat before games at the old Memorial Stadium.
Clarke said the city should to take control of the property because its owner has no interest in improving the building's deteriorated state.
"I've had enough," Clarke said.
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Resonance and reversibility of vibrational relaxation of HF in high temperature Ar bath gas
The Boltzmann averaged rate constants for total vibrational relaxation of in collisions with Ar are computed in the range of temperatures between 100 and 1500 K. The computed rate constants overestimate the experimental measurements at high temperatures by a large factor. It is concluded that the deviation between theory and experiment cannot be explained by inaccuracy of the PES or dynamical approximations made. It is shown that increasing initial rotational energy enhances a resonant character of the vibrational energy transfer to a great extent. An assumption is made that total vibrational relaxation of at high temperatures is determined by competition between vibrational relaxation to a resonant level vibrational excitation from the resonant level, and purely rotational relaxation of It is demonstrated that at high temperatures the latter process can be significantly slower than vibrationally inelastic transitions and rotational relaxation of may in fact be a rate-limiting stage of vibrational relaxation.
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As part of Glasgow UNESCO City of Music family day, a special percussion event is to be hosted by Children's Classical Concert's Owen and Olly at the Royal Concert Hall.
Two youngsters dressed up in their favourite costumes to publicise the event on Saturday, and Olly said: "The Glasgow UNESCO City of Music family day will give people a great introduction to the world of percussion.
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LAWAS: The front landing gear of a MASwings Twin Otter (DHC6) aircraft broke off upon landing at Lawas Airport about 3.30pm yesterday.
All 16 passengers and two crew – pilot and co-pilot – were lucky to escape unscathed as their aircraft skidded to a stop a short distance from the river at the end of the runway.
According to one of the passengers, the plane stopped just 5metres short of the river.
Fine weather was reported at the time of the incident.
The MH3516 aircraft, belonging to Malaysia Airlines' subsidiary MASwings took off from Miri Airport at 2.45pm.
MASwings ,in a statement emailed from Kuching yesterday evening, said that following the incident, the Lawas terminal was temporarily closed to traffic to facilitate investigation.
"The aircraft is being guarded by MAB airport security and police.
MASwings meanwhile is sending an investigation and recovery team from Kota Kinabalu by land to remove the aircraft from the site. For the time being, Lawas Airport is closed for all flight operations until the airfield is cleared," the statement added.
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