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How to Increase Google plus. I want to increase the amount of plus and watched on my Google Plus page, can anyone help me? Thanks!!!
Try to engage with other groups and add members in your circle keep sharing the interesting stuff comment on others profile sure you can increase it
It is very simple... Keep interacting will people in your circle, and add more people in your circle. Also some sites provide link sharing services.... but it is not too much effective for your business.
Add a lot of pages that have something to do with your business. Some of them may add you back. This is one way. Depending on your business, try to do a hangout session on an interesting topic. Of course post interesting content on regular basis.This is all I know. It is more difficult than facebook if you ask me.
put your gplus profile link in your website and blog.
Interesting content (people will repost you), the addition of a person/persons with large number of friends in a circle, joining groups.
Do Regular Posting on your Google Plus Page.Follow some theme related pages or peoples. They will follow you back.Tell your customers or friends to +1 on your page.Put Google Plus badget on your websites and blogs.
Well it's like Facebook, you need to engage with everyone in your list. The more people you interact with everyday the more likes you'll received.
Google+ is the most simplest way of generating traffic. For increasing +s on Google plus, you just have to add people to your circles. The more people you have in your circles, the more you get better response.
What do you think about engagement? I don't think that collection of traffic which may not be your target audience even, will help you a lot.
You must go for increasing contacts in your circle for this. Comment and like others post so that they will be interested in looking at your posts. Good fresh and interesting posts will also help.
Google+ is still very beta like. I think the chances of getting a huge presence on your Google+ is very limited due to the nature of how the site works. Of course you can interact with people in your circle and add more people to them but there isn't that booming feature in Google+ to attract users yet.
To increase Google plus you can adopt following points :1 Make your Google+ page discoverable2 Add Badges3 Interact with your audience
What should be improved to make it attractive?
Increase your friends and post show your Google+ profile on blog and website, that is great way to increase your Google plus.
Make good content... ask questions, encourage followers by following them back.
One of the best way for increasing Google plus is by adding more and more people in your circle, keep on interacting with the people in your circle, post interesting comment on the profile of your friends in your circle.
Tips to increase traffic in G+
1. Fill complete profile or page.
2. Create circle.
3. Send targeted messages.
4. Publish interesting, unique content.
5. Host hangouts
6. Connect with people.
7. Share latest updates.
8. List your website link in G+
9. Post images and videos.
It takes time to build traffic flow. Start with simple ones first. Add more and more people in your circle, friends, family and people interested into same niche groups as your website. Then join groups matching your site profile. After than you need to regularly publish interesting content targeting your audience.
First thing is make custom profile. And Follow more people you share update news...


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Adobe surveyed leaders in financial services to gather their top priorities and challenges.
See how RBS increased engagement up to 80% by marketing to specific customer segments.
See how Adobe can help financial services marketers.
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A sharp decrease in market functioning is noted by the Bank of England in its latest Financial Stability Report.
US government bonds were the only primary market — out of 15 — described as 'functioning' in May; eight were described as impaired. The month before, eight were functioning and two were impaired. Highly recommend a closer inspection of the table to the right – though even at a distance, you get the idea.
Commercial property is the biggest headache globally. Indeed, the housing market as a whole makes an appearance in two of the six key risks noted by the Bank:
- Exposure to european sovereign debt;
- A sustained reversal in investor risk appetite;
- Investors divesting Europe, buying Asia;
- Defaulting borrowers, esp. commercial property;


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Will I be able to drink with Lamictal
Hi, and sorry for may English i will try to be clear enough, Thank you for your help!
I have seizures and epilepsy from 15 years old. After changing several drugs, my doctor was prescription me Topamax. I haven`t any seizures 9 years. I was drinking with Topamax a lot and I had normal life. I drinked when I was with friends almost 1(one) bottle Vodka or Whiskey. My dose was 50mg Topax daily. Now I`m 31 years old. In may 2009 year my doctor changed Topamax with Lamictal and after 1(one) month and 1 night hard drinking I had seizure. I am scared that i will receive another seizure if I drink. My life was normal and I be able to drink a lot. Now I am on 300mg Lamictal and I`m scared about drinking, I thought that if I drink more than 500g vodka or whiskey I will receive a seizure. I know that when I had seizure in June 2009 year accumulated quantity of Lamictal was LOW. I know that i passed from Topamax to Lamictal. But my Question is : After I accumulated Lamictal(after 1-2-3 months)will I be able to drink like before when I was with Topamax. Thank you very much for answer!
There are two issues that need to be considered when the question of alcohol use and epilepsy comes up. One is the effect that alcohol could have on the medicines used to control seizures. Alcohol can potentially affect how some seizure medications are metabolized which may result in lower blood levels and breakthrough seizures. The other issue is whether the alcohol itself will cause seizures. Large amounts of alcohol are thought to raise the risk of seizures and may even cause them. Some individuals can have one alcoholic drink without causing problems. Large amounts of alcohol (binge drinking) or frequent use (more than a few times per week) may cause problems.
David M Ficker, MD
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College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati


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Whiskey Creek Hatchery
In May, as the sun makes itself more at home across Oregon, it's the time of year to head outdoors for on-the-water adventures.
If there's a more exciting fishing moment than hooking and fighting a chrome bright chinook salmon fresh from the sea, I surely don't know what it could be. That's especially true on Tillamook Bay where an early morning May flood tides brings a rush of spring chinook – fresh from the ocean – in a rush up the estuary where anglers wait – with baited lines. The fish are special and what many call Oregon's 'premier' salmon. The salmon are prized for their high oil content and rich, buttery taste.
On a recent Saturday morning, over 400 volunteers showed huge heart and commitment to help Oregon's all volunteer fish hatchery called "Whiskey Creek." Located in southern Tillamook County and hugging the shoreline at Netarts Bay, the Whiskey Creek Salmon Hatchery raises more than a quarter million Spring and Fall Chinook salmon each year.
The Tillamook Anglers Association has owned and managed the hatchery since the late 1980's. Memberships and donations keep the operation afloat while the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife supplies the fish.
Whiskey Creek Hatchery is two miles from one of Oregon's finest parklands: Cape Lookout State Park, where there is always something new to do. You may enjoy a beachside stroll or an overnight campout in a yurt or take a hike to the end of Cape Lookout where – this time of year – the gray whale migration north to the Bering Sea is at its peak.
Whiskey Creek Hatchery is on Netarts Bay. Drive to Tillamook and follow the signs to Cape Lookout State Park. The hatchery is two miles north of the park. More information is available from Jerry Dove at 503-812-1572.
about author Grant McOmie
Grant McOmie is a Pacific Northwest broadcast journalist, teacher and author who writes and produces stories and special programs about the people, places, outdoor activities and environmental issues of the Pacific Northwest. A fifth generation Oregon native, Grant's roots run deepest in the central Oregon region near Prineville and Redmond where his family continues to live.
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I will like to help you with the hatchery. And the address and a phone number. thanks
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Fin clipping this year is, as always on the second Saturday of April,April 11th.2015. For more info email or call 503-812-1572


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Google is expanding its infrastructure into South America. Today the search giant announced plans to build a $150 million data center in Quilicura, Chile. The facility will be Google's first data center in Latin America, and continues the international expansion of the network powering Google's growing empire of online products.
"Building this data center in Chile is an exciting step for us," Google said in a statement. "As Internet usage in Latin America grows, people are looking for information and entertainment, new business opportunities and better ways to connect with friends and family near and far. We're building this data center to make sure that our users across Latin America and the world have the fastest and most reliable access possible to all of Google's services."
Quilicura is a city of about 125,000 residents that is near Santiago. Google says it chose to build its data center in Chile because it offers a combination of reliable infrastructure, a skilled workforce and a "commitment to transparent and business friendly regulations." In choosing Chile, Google is bucking an industry trend in which data center operators have targeted Brazil as the beachhead for their expansions into the South American market.
Google didn't offer details on its plans for the facility, but said that it will be "built to the same high standards we use around the world." Construction is now beginning, and Google says it plans to start bringing the facility online by the end of 2013. In addition to creating construction jobs, the data center in Chile will employ up to 20 people in a variety of full-time and contractor roles, including computer technicians, engineers and catering and security staff.
The push into Latin America follows a vigorous expansion of Google's infrastructure into the Asia-Pacific region, where it is building new data centers in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Earlier this year the company announced additional phases for its U.S. data centers in Iowa and Oklahoma. Last year Google said began construction of a new data center in Dublin, adding to European infrastructure that includes major facilities in Belgium and Finland.


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Apparently, as with us, John Tortorella wasn't actually impressed with Wade Redden's return from a two-game prucha-ing.
Here's Tortorella's assessment of Redden's first game back, borrowed from our friend Steve Zipay's blog:
"Reds, I thought he had some good shifts, I thought he had some crappy shifts, so it's still, as we go through here…we're frozen here at Christmas, we're not bringing anybody up, but after Christmas, we have some decisions to make along the way."
A seventh defenseman, Torts admitted, "could be in our discussions (after Christmas)".
Boyle's back from his bad back (and his practice skirmish with Dubinsky) tonight, in place of Christensen, who gets the Festivus prucha.
For those who missed the whole Festivus thread, it's down below.
I'll be back with something before the game.


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Prince Has Died at 57
via pitchfork.com
on 21 April 2016
Following an investigation at his home and recording studio Paisley Park, the Associated Press has confirmed that Prince has died at 57. Prince Rogers Nelson, a truly legendary musician, released 39 albums throughout his career, garnering seven Grammy Awards and earning him a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the hearts of millions of fans. While the death of the beloved artist is shocking, the spirit of Price is surely immortal, living on through his iconic songs, radiant stage presence and enigmatic off-stage demeanor that can only be described as "Prince."
The World's Largest Bicycle Parking Garage
via psfk.com
Snagging the title from Tokyo's Kasai underground station, the Central Train Station in Utrecht, the Netherlands will now house the world's largest bicycle parking garage. It launches with 6,000 spots but will expand to 12,500 by next year. As PSFK points out for context, that's enough room to house every single NYC Citibike and still have room for 2,500 more bikes. The 56,000-square-foot underground will offer free parking for the first 24 hours, and it will also be a hub for sharable bikes from OV-fiets. Surprisingly, as massive as the garage will be, those in Utrecht are already starting to worry that it won't be enough to combat the city's need. See more photos at PSFK.
Yayoi Kusama is Opening a Museum
via dazeddigital.com
Known and adored all over the world, artist Yayoi Kusama is set to open her very own museum in Tokyo. The five-story museum will host a garden, reading room, materials archive and a shop—as well as some of Kusama's most famous and celebrated works. Opening 1 October this year, tickets will cost ¥1,000 ($7) and it's surely to become a much-visited Tokyo institution. Read more at Dazed.
Vegetable By-products Turned Into Waffles and Syrup
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Food designer Chloé Rutzerveld's proposed a new way to confront our global vegetable waste problem (where by-products are tossed rather than used). No, it's not a soup. Rutzerveld has developed a recipe for sweet waffles derived from carrot, beetroot, or celeriac. She's also created a syrup from the juices of those vegetables—through a water reduction process. Thus, these are entirely plant-based waffles (vegan and additive free). To learn more head over to Makezine.
John Lennon's "Imagine" Illustrated by Jean Jullien
via itsnicethat.com
Over 40 years ago, John Lennon released "Imagine" and now, as French artist Jean Jullien says, the song is as important as ever. Jullien has illustrated the lyrics for the first ever picture book set to Lennon's words in order to "inspire a new generation to imagine a world at peace." With a foreword by Yoko Ono, the book was created in collaboration with Amnesty International and will be released on 21 September. Head to It's Nice That to find out more.
50,000 Vinyl Records Digitized for the Internet Archive
via theverge.com
Working from 200,000 physical recordings received through donation, Internet Archive (archive.org) has already digitized 50K vinyl records—many of which hail from before the '50s. The organization is seeking to preserve genres that have received less attention, including yodeling, bluegrass and early blues. The process of digitization is quite complicated and requires landing the correct recording speed. Altogether known as the Great 78 Project, the resulting preservation database allows anyone who visits the site to search and stream from this incredible catalog.
Electronics Sculpted from Biodegradable Materials
via designboom.com
For his thesis project at Holon Institute of Technology, Shay Castel constructed a series of speakers, clocks and lamps from biodegradable materials. Each piece calls into question the amount of time consumers use products—here, allowing them to comfortably dispose of components when their time is up but also encouraging individuals to use what they've acquired while they last. The interior electronic components, however, can stand the test of time while the casing is what's disposable. Altogether, it's a project that challenges ideologies in societies keen on replacing technology the minute something new arrives.
Pantone's Purple Honoring Prince
via refinery29.com
Inspired by Prince's one-of-a-kind Yamaha purple piano, a new standardized custom color has been released by the Pantone Color Institute and the Prince Estate. Instead of a name and numeric value, as is standard for Pantone, the deep, regal color is simply represented by Prince's "Love Symbol #2," which the artist himself used from 1993 to 2000. From the nickname the "Purple One" to his Oscar awarded score for "Purple Rain," Prince and the color purple have become synonymous. This honor from Pantone only further solidifies his legacy as a broad cultural icon.
Creepy Sounds From Twin Peaks Have Been Made Into an Album
via dazeddigital.com
"Twin Peaks: The Return" sound designer Dean Hurley has crafted some incredibly ominous drone noises that have been consistent throughout the series. Released by Sacred Bones, Anthology Resource Vol. 1: △△ gathers all the "rumbling bass, eerie wind, and growling electrical noises" on one album. So if you want to recreate the creepy atmosphere of the Black Lodge and beyond in your own home, head over to Bandcamp where it's available for $5.
Freelancer Achievement Stickers
via newyorker.com
Anybody who has lived (or lives) the freelance life knows that it can be challenging, infuriating and disheartening at times. In order to keep freelancer spirits up, artist Jeremy Nguyen has created a series of achievement sticker illustrations that congratulate workers on everything from sending final drafts to remembering to eat or putting on pants. Take a peep at the New Yorker's Daily Shouts, where they're featured, when you're feeling like you got nothing done.
Folktales Behind Iceland's Natural Formations
via nationalgeographic.com
Dating back to the 12th century, some of Iceland's folktales are more than the average fairytale. In fact, many are still held in such high regard that some recent "construction projects, including a proposed road development through the ancient Gálgahraun lava field, have been halted because the area is believed to be home to elves and dwarves." From Drangey Island to rock formations in Dimmuborgir and beyond, the country's most beautiful natural wonders are said to be home to trolls, ghosts, elves and more—find out more at National Geographic.
Thailand's Bamboo Sports Hall
via highsnobiety.com
Panyaden International School's new 8,417-square-foot sports hall happens to be made entirely from bamboo. The school commissioned Chiangmai Life Architects to construct the center, with a design based on the lotus flower. Inside, it can comfortably fit around 300 people. Elevated balconies allow guests a spectator vantage point. The architects foresee the sports hall to be around for roughly 50 years—and have built it so that it can handle any natural happenstance like strong winds or earthquakes.
Tampon Alternative Flex is Made for Sex
via dezeen.com
SF-based The Flex Company has created a "tampon alternative" that is disposable and leak-free—intended to be used during sex. Born from many people (of all genders) being embarrassed or grossed out or ashamed of menstruation, Flex was created to "spark positive conversations between men and women about the female body." The product is shaped like a curved disc, so it rests against the cervix (gently) and stops menstrual blood—for up to 12 hours. The Flex is hypoallergenic, free of BPA plastic and phthalates, and cannot be felt by partners during sex—but it's not a form of contraception. The company is even offering users their first month free.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Members of the Hemming Plaza committee met Tuesday to draft an ordinance on the push to ban card playing and remove benches from the popular downtown park.
It would change the look of the plaza in front of City Hall for good and move the homeless to another location.
Though many want the homeless gone, some business owners are actually defending them.
"People always talk about the negative parts of it, but to me it's real life out there," business owner Rob Chamblin said.
Downtown bookstore and cafe owner Chamblin doesn't see this as a major problem that calls for a permanent fix in the form of a city law.
At the meeting, more than a dozen residents showed up to voice their concerns, arguing that the suggested restrictions are a violation of human rights.
Committee members disagree, but said they're open to other ideas.
"We have to put some restrictions in this public park so that the rest of the public can use it, not just the people that are hanging out here," City Councilman Don Redman said.
Committee members said they want card playing in Hemming Plaza banned. They also want to remove the benches, trim the trees and allocate money to repair the flower beds.
"If you take the tables out, the benches, it will make the park not a park," Chamblin said. "Not enjoyable by anybody. They should leave the ability to play games."
"I want to know where the litmus test is going to fall. Are we going to take a chart out here and gauge it by how many baths a week somebody takes, maybe the shade of their skin color?" said Robert Mann, who opposes changes to the park. "Who is acceptable and who isn't, who gets to decide?"
But not everyone agrees with Chamblin and Mann.
"They don't just show up and leave," resident Bob Pallais said. "They show up and stay, and that can be a problem."
Pallais sees the issue with the homeless just hanging out. He said some people don't feel safe bringing their families to the park.
"Honestly, what they've got to do is make the downtown area a more comfortable place to visit," Pallais said.
Committee members are hoping the City Council signs off on the law, but some locals say that won't happen without a fight.
"Taking away the chair and tables is totally stupid," resident John Fletcher said. "Homeless people exist. We should be doing something to fix the problem. Thank God we have a decent mayor now that's for the people."
The chair of the committee designed to re-energize Hemming Plaza didn't show up to the meeting. So after some discussion, members decided to schedule another meeting at a later date. It's unclear when that will be, but it will be open to the public.
Robert Mann, publisher of MetroJacksonville.com, said he is up in arms over the proposal.
"It's part of our city. It's part of our culture and heritage. I feel like its part of me," Mann said. "I can remember being here as a toddler and to tell me suddenly that you're going to exclude this group or you're going to exclude that group...is it shade of skin color, is it income, is it how many baths a week they take or maybe a month? And who gets the clip board to go around and check?"
Redman said most of the problem is perception.
"...most of them are probably harmless, not bothering anybody, but they get loud, they get vulgar and you know it's just not something that we can ever build up downtown," said Redman.
Ida Metzger opened an Anti-Stress shop a block from Hemming Plaza. She said people often wander into her business, and she's worried that could happen more often if the plaza is changed.
"If they take the tables away from them, that would leave them with nothing to do; they would kind of wander and not really have anything to do, but aimlessly go into vendors or kind of get in trouble. And it might be bad for them as well as for the city," said Metzger.
Members of the special committee designed to re-energize Hemming Plaza did not make a decision on the proposal Tuesday afternoon. Another meeting is planned to continue the discussion into the proposal.
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My experience studying abroad in Spain:
Out of all my experiences in Spain, the most fulfilling was the applause I received from my students on my last day of teaching. Thanks to the Spain program, I was given the opportunity to teach at El Instituto de Educacion Secundaria Salvador Dali, a combined middle and high school located in Madrid.
For four months I worked with the English professors at Dali in order to plan classes and activities to improve the students' grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and overall confidence in English. Little did I know that I would end up improving my own level of confidence, communication skills in both Spanish and English, and evolve my leadership abilities.
I worked with classes of all levels that ranged from nine to twenty five students, ages twelve to nineteen years old. This made me adapt my lesson plans to use different approaches in each class in hopes for a better understanding of the material. Although instructing classes solo was something I didn't think I would ever be capable of doing, my supervisor and co-workers were so encouraging and helpful that when the time came, I felt comfortable leading the lessons.
As I search for my options after graduation, I now look with a more open mind to the possibilities. My year abroad in Spain, as well as El Instituto Salvador Dali, have allowed me to grow while helping others and have given me an unforgettable experience.


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CSUEB volleyball begins its CCAA schedule this weekend. (Photo: Kelley Cox)
CSUEB volleyball begins CCAA schedule Sept 14
- September 13, 2012 5:00am
After going 5-2 in non-conference play, Cal State East Bay begins its CCAA schedule with two bay area matches. The team takes on San Francisco State on Friday, September 14, before heading up to Sonoma State on Saturday, September 15.
Friday, Sept. 14
@San Francisco State
The Swamp
7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 15
@ Sonoma State
The Wolves' Den
7 p.m.
Read article on CSUEB Athletics Web site.
- © Copyright California State University, East Bay.
California State University, East Bay is the San Francisco East Bay Area's high-access public university of choice. CSUEB serves the region with campuses in Hayward and Concord, a professional development center in Oakland, and an innovative online campus. With an enrollment of more than 14,000, the University offers a nationally recognized freshman year experience, award-winning curriculum, personalized instruction, and expert faculty. Students choose from among more than 100 professionally focused fields of study for which the University confers bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as an Ed.D. in education. Named a "Best in the West" college, as well as a Best Business School, by the influential Princeton Review, Cal State East Bay is among the region's foremost producers of teachers, business professionals and entrepreneurs, public administrators, health professionals, literary and performing artists, and science and math graduates.


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Two late homers derail Shields' solid effort
Lough impresses after callup, provides Royals' lone RBI
OAKLAND -- James Shields hasn't been giving up much lately. But he hasn't been getting much support either.
That pattern prevailed again on Friday night as Shields and the Royals lost to the Oakland Athletics, 2-1, in front of 14,602 fans at O.co Coliseum.
Adam Rosales' leadoff home run off Shields in the eighth inning snapped a 1-1 tie. He sent a 1-1 pitch soaring over the left-field wall. The other run against Shields also came on a homer, by Josh Donaldson in the seventh.
In his last three starts, Shields has given up only five runs but the Royals have scored just four runs in those games. As a result, they've lost all three times with Shields getting a no-decision and two losses.
"He's pitched great," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "Every time he steps on the mound, he competes his heart out. It's just one of those games where we can't give him much support."
Shields came out of this game, his ninth start, with a glossy ERA of 2.45 but with a record of just 2-4. He has not pitched fewer than six innings this year. He's gone seven once, eight on four occasions and nine once. This was his second complete-game loss.
Afterward, he wasn't moaning about lack of support, just his own shortcomings.
"It was just a case of me not doing my job. Bottom line. I don't really care what the score of the game is, I just didn't get the job done at the end," Shields said. "It's a tough loss right there, a real tough loss."
He had a shutout going through six innings with the A's getting just four singles.
However, Donaldson opened the A's seventh with a home run to left field, connecting on a 3-1 count to create a 1-1 tie. Just prior to that pitch, Shields had started a delivery and was stopped by the plate umpire.
"I was in the middle of my windup and he called timeout and I felt it was a little too late," Shields said.
Stopping and then restarting, Shields threw an inside fastball to Donaldson.
"I wanted to go a little more in but I left it over the plate and he put a good swing on it," Shields said. "The other pitch [to Rosales] was a slider that kind of backed up a little bit."
Shields was miffed enough by the Donaldson development that he proceeded to strike out the next three batters and finished with nine K's.
"With those type of pitchers, you have to hang with them," said A's manager Bob Melvin. "It's difficult once they get into a rhythm, and he was in a rhythm. You hope he makes a couple of mistakes, and the only pitches I saw that he threw over the plate were the two that were hit for home runs."
Meanwhile, the Royals couldn't get anything percolating against right-hander Jarrod Parker. He went seven innings, giving up just one run on four hits. Sean Doolittle and Grant Balfour each added a scoreless inning.
"We ran into a guy that had good stuff today," the Royals' Billy Butler said. "Slider was working, changeup was working, he was locating his fastball."
Shields had been matched against former All-Stars in seven of his nine starts this year but Parker was definitely not one of them. He came into the game with a 2-5 record and a bloated 6.86 ERA.
"He was probably just due for a good one," Butler said.
David Lough, just called up to replace injured Jarrod Dyson, was quick to make a good impression.
In the third inning, after Salvador Perez had doubled off Parker, Lough dropped a looper just over shortstop into left field to get Perez home.
"It was kind of pushing toward the outfield and the way the shortstop Rosales was running for it, I could tell it was going to get down," Lough said.
He hustled his way to a double, sliding in just ahead of Coco Crisp's throw.
"It was just a shallow fly ball," Lough said. "When I came around first base, I thought I had a chance at two. He wasn't really to it yet and so I just kind of busted to second, slid inside the bag and was safe."
Then Lough showed off his defensive skills. When Brandon Moss lined a hit to right field to open the A's fourth, Lough swooped over and fired to shortstop Alcides Escobar to nail Moss stretching.
"The ball kind of got in the lights a little bit and once it came down, I just expected he was going to go for two -- it was in the gap -- and I just turned and made a good throw," Lough said.
That came even though Lough hadn't played right field this season with Triple-A Omaha.
"Like I tell everybody: It's just all grass out there," he said.
Along with everyone else in the Royals' clubhouse, Lough was sympathetic toward the unrewarded Shields.
"I mean, it's kind of heartbreaking," Lough said. "Our offense just didn't click but we all know what we're capable of doing."
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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PhysX Performance Update: City of Villainsby Ryan Smith on 9/7/2006 6:00 AM EST
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shank15217 - Saturday, September 16, 2006 - linkAll this review shows is how good the AGEIA software engine is capable of using a second core to it's full advantage. Infact their goals are slightly two sided. Its true the hardware is probably a magnitude faster than cpus but cpus are reaching 4 core and beyond with shared caches and very wide busses. Unless AGEIA puts their hardware implementation on a PCI Express / HTX slot its not gonna outrun even a 4 core core 2 duo or an athlon 64 for that matter. Reply
Vergil - Monday, September 11, 2006 - linkAgeia's PPU should be integrated with the motherboard to for maximum results ladies and gentz
Can you imagine having the raw horsepower of a motherboard with a local GPU thats powerful as a 7800 GTX? Local components work better with any CPU(meaning have a better data transfer/flow rate) than any serial bus. Motherboard bus speeds(PCI/AGP/PCIe) limit the performance of most video & other cards(even the high end ones) to some degree. However, PCI-e is the next best thing without having it on the die with the CPU. But with chipsets that help with physics, it has to catch it BEFORE it hits the CPU, which is why there is a major performance hits to City of Villians. The CPU has to collect all of the data before everything else gets it providing thats its not integrated. Then it has th elaborious task of dealing with data it isnt prepared to use. Reply
soulshagga - Saturday, September 09, 2006 - linkThe author obviously hasn't written a physics engine before.
The problem is n! in complexity -- the reason being is each entity interacts with each other. You can't just blindly update n entities independently of each other (consider collision detection for instance).
I won't elaborate here because it is beyond the scope of this article, not to mention these forum posts, but just think about what would happen if you just blindly update the physical attributes of n entities... you would lose information. If you don't get what I'm saying, don't worry about it -- just take my word for it. :)
Please, don't make bold statements like that if you are unsure.
Thanks. Reply
ojingoh - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linksorry for the confusion -- i see you in fact did run the game unacellerated, thanks for that Reply
ojingoh - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkwhat i meant by the minimum physics -- this card does physical calculations, not just particles. things like collisions and deformations etc. Reply
ojingoh - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linki have an issue with your review. your testing doesnt include screenshots of the things tested.
There's no question that a PhysX card will give better performance in City of Villains at the highest settings, and at times that difference can be pretty sizable. But as we found out, using a slightly lower quality physics mode will result in graphics similar to the highest mode where the PhysX card shines, but at performance levels nearly equal to the PhysX card just by using a dual-core CPU.
please explain "slightly lower quality physics mode" -- what setting was this? 75%? 50%? without screenshots it's hard to identify what you claim. the slider states "up to" implying that some frames will have the maximum but some have far less. is it hard to tell the diffrence between 500 and 1000 particles? what would be a reasonable number of particles?
also you exclude any test showing what happens when you have the card installed but run the game at minimum phisics, i think in cov it's 100 particles (idk if this is the case, this is also not tested.) Reply
Regs - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkDual core actually helps physics processing? I guess this is only in games that support dual core. Reply
PrinceGaz - Friday, September 08, 2006 - linkI imagine that most games which have support for offloading work to the PhysX card will also support offloading the same work to a seperate "software-physics" thread. If they've already made the effort to seperate the physics work from the main application so it can be sent to the PhysX card, it should be trivial to run that work in a second (or multiple) threads. Therefore games that make use of the PhysX card will most likely also be able to use a dual-core processor to good effect, as is the case with CoV. Reply
Calin - Friday, September 08, 2006 - linkI assume more games support dual cores than PPU right now (and the trend probably favours the dual cores rather than the PPU)
Anyway, a dual core will help with short processor-intensive (even if very short) tasks that appear "out of the blue" - antivirus, some operating system tasks/schedules/other activities Reply
Missing Ghost - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkAs soon as there is a PCIe 1x/4x version available, I will buy it. Reply
stepz - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkI don't really care for the PPU, but it would be really interesting to see what quad-cores or AMD's 4x4 would do with city of villains. Can the PPU keep its ground and does the game scale to 4 cores. You can emulate the 4x4 platform with 2xx Opterons. Reply
Ryan Smith - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkCoV only has 2 worker threads(basically broken up in to a renderer and a physics thread), so more cores wouldn't directly help. Reply
PrinceGaz - Friday, September 08, 2006 - linkThat's a shame because I was wondering the same thing about quad-core processors and whether they can match or even exceed the throughput of the PhysX card. After all quad-core processors should be available this time next year and will be commonplace by 2008.
The application should ideally branch off as many physics-threads as there are cores available, so on a dual-core system I would like to see two physics threads (rather than just one) in addition to the main game thread, thus ensuring all spare CPU power can be used for physics work. Having only two threads in total each performing different types of work will usually result in one of the cores being partially idle.
I personally see the PhysX card as a short-lived product because CPU power is set to rise dramatically in coming years now the focus is on ever more cores (doubling every couple of years or so); there'll be so much CPU power available to easily multi-threaded tasks like physics that there will be no need for a dedicated physics processor chip in any form. Reply
Gilhooley - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkIt would be nice with more of a "real world" test. Today when people are playing games online, they usally have: the game, teamspeak, game scanner, browsers for forum game/clan info and perhaps a torrent client running.
Myself I noticed a huge diffence in min fps with a dualcore vs single just with game and teamspeak - just as you tested in a earlier article. So, the question is, witch HW takes the biggest hit in a "real world" situation? Reply
bespoke - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkMaybe if DirectX 10 has a physics API that the AGEIA's PhysX card can hook into, we'll see games that can use the card well. Otherwise no one is going to buy a card that only works for a few games that go out of their way to support a 3rd party API that results in a small frame rate increase. Reply
poohbear - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkhhhmmhmmmmmm should i upgrade to a new x1900xt w/ 256mb ram for $280 or buy ageia's ppu for $280? really tough decision. wtf does ageia think they are selling @ that price point? Reply
DigitalFreak - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkThese companies always target people with more money than sense. Reply
Kwincy - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkI don't think they're targeting people with more money than sense, it's just like all new products introduced, they're recouping all their R&D costs to bring the product to the market. Once they either do that, or people stop buying or don't buy this PPU at all, you'll see prices go down. It always happens, unless a competing product comes out for a better value.
yyrkoon - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkGoing from no PPU, to using one seems to be about the difference possible of switching from onboard audio, to a dedicated audio card (not very much of a difference). Less than 6 FPS min on a low end (Conroe ?) CPU, just doesnt seem to be worth the additional $250.
Now, since there is no standards for PPUs, I think this makes it even worse. I bet GPU manufactuers will end up winning the race in this arena. Reply
Christobevii3 - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkIf they could make the card accelerate other things too it would be cool. Imagine if like batch conversions in photoshop could use some of the processing power... Reply
Calin - Friday, September 08, 2006 - linkMMX and its successors were used to accelerate the hell out of many photoshop plug-ins (P4 in its worst days was faster running the optimised routines than Athlon64, and in many cases it was faster by a big amount).
I think the video cards could be better at offloading this kind of calculation - maybe even more optimised routines will come soon (in many cases, graphic professionals use top-of-the-line cards, or even workstation-builds like NVidia Quadro and ATI FireGL) Reply
Calin - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkUsing Ageia PPU gives you about 35% or more extra performance in CoV, or 6fps. Using a dedicated sound card instead of a lowly integrated sound will give you 6fps in benchmarks of the Quake3 or so engines, for a 5% or so difference in frame rate. For just this purpose, PPU is better than a dedicated sound card (even if more expensive) Reply
DerekWilson - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkI can find a more expensive audio solution for you :-)
But this is true -- percent difference is what we need to look at here. Reply
Calin - Friday, September 08, 2006 - linkYou could find a more expensive audio solution certainly - but I don't think you would be able to reduce the frame rate as compared to a $200 Creative 7.1 Channel Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS (the price from Anandtech's own RealTime Pricing).
Anyway, thanks for the article - nice written, and interesting. Thumbs up! Reply
Marlin1975 - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkHow abotu trying the PhysX on a board that has intergrated graphics? Would it help those stuck with pos intel onboard or even the better Ati/Nvidia onboard graphics? Onboard usually covers 2d ok and has some 3d, but maybe with a little help onboard can move up with little cost. (cost as in when the PhysX comes down to the real world in pricing)? Reply
Lonyo - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkAlso, for less than the price of a PPU you can get a 7900GT.
If you want to try and suggest a PPU is better than a 7900GT as an upgrade, well, hmm. Reply
PrinceGaz - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkIf a game is totally GPU limited (as is usually the case with onboard graphics), then a physics-card will make no difference whatsoever to performance.
The PhysX card offloads work from the CPU, it does not offload any work from the GPU, so the PhysX card will not help people using onboard/slow graphics solutions. Reply
Calin - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkAlso, a physics card "creates" more debris, which is not only physics intensive to compute (paths and so on), but GPU intensive to render.
Anyway, integrated graphics usually reduce the quality and resolution of possible gaming - using the money for the physics card for a new (or additional) graphic card would be the cheapest solution to fast, quality gaming. Not to mention you could get multimonitor capabilities in the price, maybe DVI and so on. Reply
DerekWilson - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkThis is quite true ... if you don't have a gpu that can handle what you are already throwing at it, a PhysX card won't do much. Sure it'll take off some CPU load, but chances are you aren't cpu limited. And if you tried turning up the debris settings you'd just be adding to the load on the GPU. Which could cause some performance decrease.
We will keep this in mind for future tests and try to address the issue later. For now, it's safe to assume that you'll need at least a midrange quality graphics board to gain anything from PhysX. Reply
yyrkoon - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - linkI think you'd have to be insane to think that running a game on a system with onboard video is going to do well in a Physics intensive game . . . Reply
Lonyo - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - link£107 for an X2 3800+ or £187 for a PhysX accelerator.
I think I made the right choice upgrading from a single core to dual core.
It's nice to see there are some improvements, but money is almost always better spent elsewhere, like with the Killer NIC. Reply


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text: It is not something anyone would probably like to admit. If you are on Lindsay Lohan's sex list you probably don't want to call attention to yourself by saying anything. Would you want to be known as someone she had sex with? In an interview with Los Angeles Magazine, James says that he never had sex with Lindsay Lohan and that if he did he would admit it. He says that she hit on him plenty of times but he has always turned her down because every time she hit on him she was messed up and it was strange and he just felt sorry for her. So, for the record James would like you to know that although he has probably had sex with every other person in Hollywood and college campuses and in New York, Lindsay Lohan is not one of those people. I think we can all rest better at night knowing Lindsay's list of possible victims has been reduced by one. Just a million other people to ask now.


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THE funeral of a former Pendle mayor will take place today.
Alan Evans, who died at the age of 90, was mayor of Nelson in the 1970s before taking on the same role for Pendle in the 80s.
He was first elected as a councillor in 1963 and spent almost 30 years in public office.
Mr Evans was also a governor at the old Nelson Grammar School and Walton High School, as well as at Nelson and Colne College.
His funeral cortege leaves the family home in Leeds Road, Nelson, at 1pm, with the funeral scheduled for 1.40pm at Burnley Crematorium.
This will be followed by a memorial service at 2.45pm at Christ Church, in Carr Road, Nelson.


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My ancestors who came from the small towns of Irsch, Oberzerf and Serrig in Kreis Saarburg, Rhineland, were peasant farmers or craftsmen. In the mid-19th century they left these villages and immigrated to the woodlands of Calumet County, Wisconsin to search for a better life. By means of this blog, take the opportunity to look into their houses, explore their villages, understand their daily labors and customs, and see how the lure of a new life in America called to them.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
The Village Church of Serrig at Kirten
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- Anonymous3:06 PM
Dear Kathy, my great grandfather, Mathias Wagner was also born in Serrig Kreis Saarburg on March 14, 1834 to Peter Wagner, born 1808, and his unknown spouse. Peter immigrated to Cincinnati Ohio arriving 19 Aug 1836 abord the ship Palestine. His son, Mathias immigrated to Cincinnati Ohio arriving 25 Nov 1854 abord the ship Catherine with his two sisters Anna born 1829 and Elizabeth born 1831. My problem is that I cannot find anything about them beyond what I have said above. You can reach me through my e-mail, email@example.com Thank youReplyDelete
Thanks for your comment. Lucky you - a family name like Peter Wagner - almost as common as my Johann Meier. Where do you start when so many people have the same name. I understand your problem. You didn't say if you have searched the records of the Catholic Church in Serrig which are on microfilm at the LDS Library. I think that might give you what you want so that would be where to start. There is also an index at http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/wgff/trier/Familienbuecher/ReplyDelete
Good luck and if I think of anything else, I will get back in touch. Kathy


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Art and Art History 211. Arts of the Western Tradition (Enhanced)
Arts of the Western Tradition provides an in-depth examination of Western visual culture from prehistoric to 20th-century productions and approaches them from interdisciplinary and multi-theoretical perspectives. Arth 211 is designed for students seeking greater academic challenge in the field of art history than is available in the standard introductory Arth 111 course (see above). Students will approach the material on several levels: through lecture classes held jointly with Arth 111; through a 90-minute weekly discussion section based on a seminar model and including student-led discussions and seminal readings in the field, and through a spring trip to New York City led by both faculty and students, and intended to emphasize the significance of the study of original works of art and architecture. Because of the advanced nature of this course, an additional half credit is offered.


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Simon's Town Sunrises
where the sun sets behind us
de johan horak
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Inspiring sunrises at the beautiful Simon's Town, a coastal village, near Cape Town. Home of the author and photographer Johan Horak and his dog Gino. Together they walk early in the morning to find their daily inspiration.
This book shares various sunrises from our morning walks. Included with each photo is one or two inspirational sunrise quotes from famous people.
Looking at the images and reading the quotes will take you on a journey through a lovely part of the world. And it may just inspire you wakeup earlier and have fun.
Características y detalles
- Categoría Viajes
Cuadrado pequeño, 18×18 cm
20 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación nov. 02, 2012
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I like to chop wood and carry water. And I do that taking lots of photos with my cell phone. And most times my dog is with me. When I am not walking around in nature I list Cape Town holiday homes on our website http://capeholidays.info and make these available to holidaymakers who plan to spend a fraction of their time in our lovely area. I am spoiled being in Cape Town and love every moment promoting it through my social networks on Twitter @CapeHolidays, Facebook CapeHolidays and at Google+ as JohanHorak. I have fun every moment and take nothing serious. Or I try my utmost.
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"Iron Man 3" was the heavy-lifter at theaters with a debut outside the U.S. that overshadowed a gang of mercenary bodybuilders in a sleepy pre-summer weekend at the domestic box office.
The Marvel Studios superhero sequel starring Robert Downey Jr. got a head-start on its domestic launch next Friday with a $195.3 million opening in 42 overseas markets, distributor Disney reported Sunday.
That topped the $185.1 million start for Marvel's "The Avengers," which opened in 39 markets over the same weekend last year a week ahead of its record-breaking domestic debut of $207.4 million.
"You don't know that you could ever repeat the kind of experience we had a year ago, and here the Marvel team brought together another incredible movie," said Dave Hollis, head of distribution for Disney. "We've had this as a pattern for Marvel films to kind of let momentum internationally help signal to the domestic audience that the film is coming, something big is coming."
Director Michael Bay's true-crime tale "Pain & Gain" muscled into first-place domestically with a $20 million debut.
The Paramount release starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie knocked off Tom Cruise's sci-fi adventure "Oblivion" after a week in the No. 1 spot. Universal's "Oblivion" slipped to second-place with $17.4 million, raising its domestic total to $64.7 million.
Lionsgate's all-star nuptial comedy "The Big Wedding" tanked at No. 4 with just $7.5 million. The ensemble cast includes Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Robin Williams, Susan Sarandon and Katherine Heigl, but the movie was almost universally trashed by critics and held little interest for audiences.
Paramount, which distributed the earlier "Iron Man" movies and still has a financial stake in the comic-book flicks after Disney bought Marvel, had a small-scale success with "Pain & Gain."
A passion project for Bay, who has made Paramount a fortune with his "Transformers" franchise, "Pain & Gain" was shot for a modest $26 million, spare change compared to the director's usual budgets.
The movie has the director taking a breather from his usual sci-fi action spectacles for a story based on a kidnapping-extortion caper carried out by bodybuilders in the 1990s. Yet "Pain & Gain" still has Bay's usual visual flair, and the reviews generally were better than what he's used to.
"With that kind of budget, to open to $20 million the first weekend is a very strong opening," said Don Harris, Paramount's head of distribution. "You see what a director really in his prime, at the top of his game, can do with a small budget, what he can make a movie look like."
"Oblivion" was down a fairly steep 53 percent from the movie's $37.1 million domestic debut the previous weekend.
Overseas, "Oblivion" took in $12.8 million to lift its international haul to $134.1 million and worldwide total to just under $200 million.


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1058: Old-Timers
Title text: You were on the internet before I was born? Well, so was I.
Ok, definitions you need to understand this one.
A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is an online service based on microcomputers running appropriate software. They were the precursors to modern day online forums.
The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) is a non-profit genomics research institute founded by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D. in October 2006.
So, the girl on the right is at most 5 1/2 years old.
The title text is another common retort from "old timers" that they have been doing X since before the younger person was born. In this case, the girl was "on the Internet" before she was born, at least in the form of her parents' genetic sequences.
- [A man with a neck beard types away at his computer screen.]
- Neckbeard: (typing) Whatever, noob. I've been on the internet since the BBS days.
- Screen: Wrong.
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- [A girl with buns on her head kneels on her chair, typing at a laptop on a table.]
- Buns: (typing) Before I was born, a lab took egg and sperm samples from my parents and sequenced the DNA.
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- [Neckbeard sits at his desk, reading his screen.]
- Buns: (from the screen) They emailed the genome to the Venter Institute, where they synthesized the genome and implanted it into sperm and eggs which became me.
- [Buns still typing on the laptop.]
- Buns: So, no. - You've looked at the internet. - I've been there.
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Wouldn't the heat from the servers have thawed the egg and killed her early? Davidy22[talk] 13:44, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
- What? That... What? The egg isn't actually sent through the internet, if that's what you mean. The information from the parents' genes was taken from their proteins, encoded in digital format on the computer at the lab, sent to another lab, then re-encoded into protein format to be implanted in an egg. In that context, the egg was an entirely separate part of the process. If you mean the egg would have been thawed by the people at the Venter institute holding the egg up next to the servers, unprotected, while they implanted the synthesized genome (or the people at the lab doing the same thing with the unfertilized egg while sequencing the DNA), that's... well, simply not how that works. As for "killed her early": I'm not sure of a good way to start asking what you mean by that. As opposed to killing her at the intended time? As opposed to killing the unfertilized egg before they could sequence the DNA? Or even killing the physical egg while it was somehow being transported via the internet? JET73L (talk) 11:07, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
To me the title text seems to be referencing something completely different, as it seems to be coming from Neckbeard, to Buns, saying that he was on the internet before he was born as well, possibly in the form of pornography while his mother was pregnant. Just my idea. Tyman2651 (talk) 20:43, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
- I was thinking along those lines, except maybe the conception was on the Internet. lol 22.214.171.124 21:26, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
I cringe when I see her sit like that. 188.8.131.52 16:44, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Another important part of the joke is that BBSes have nothing to do with the Internet. While there were some that morphed into ISPs, e.g. Prodigy and AOL, mostly they were self contained and reached peak popularity after the modern internet was created. --Rhmcoff (talk) 04:25, 28 May 2017 (UTC)


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Did you know?
The annual Jazz on the Lake, held every September, is the largest free event on Johannesburg's annual entertainment calendar.
South African jazz has a way of getting under your skin. Its distinctive voice tells the story of a century of collaboration and conversation between African musicians and artists from across the globe. It is dynamic, unexpected and yet familiar in the way it constantly re-interprets the genre from a South African perspective.
African-American jazz began reaching South Africa in the early 20th century. The influence and popularity of ragtime and dixieland music lead to the development of a uniquely South African musical form called marabi. This mixed American sounds with African cyclical harmonies and a trance-like rhythm. It took the country by storm and, with the onset of swing, the music became progressively more complex.
Kwela, a musical style that made the pennywhistle an indispensible part of its sound, was followed by the sleek, sophisticated rhythms of mbaqanga, a genre that combines guitar and bass with brass.
These sounds evolved with the influence of the many South African jazz musicians who lived in exile during the apartheid-era. By its nature, jazz doesn't stick to the rules. Those who first performed this mainly improvised musical style were rule breakers. Trumpeter, composer and vocalist, Hugh Masekela, is one of South Africa's jazz giants. He started his music career playing with the Jazz Epistles band in the 1950s. When he returned from exile to South Africa in 1990, his country-wide tour won him passionate new fans, ensuring that he is as much in demand at home as abroad.
Another South African jazz giant, pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, was influenced by the avant-garde music of the 1960s. When he slipped back into South Africa in the 1970s to record his masterpiece, 'Manenberg', he earned his place among South Africa's greatest musicians.
Caiphus Semenya was another exile who carved a name for himself as one of South Africa's most highly regarded jazz musicians. While in the USA, Semenya worked with Masekela, Makeba and Jonas Gwangwa. He composed music for the movie, 'The Color Purple'.
Miriam Makeba started her music career as lead vocalist with the Manhattan Brothers in 1954. Her beautiful voice earned her a place in the jazz musical 'King Kong'. She recorded two of her most beloved songs – 'The Click Song' and 'Pata Pata' – while in exile in America. She returned to South Africa in the 1980s, as popular as ever. She died in 2008, but her music and influence live on.
Today, South African jazz is more popular than ever. It is continuously revitalised by talented young musicians, a mix of graduates from tertiary institutions and community-based jazz education programmes, who are engaging with their music and their context in innovative ways and winning fans in the process.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Cape Town International Jazz Festival
Tel: +27 (0)21 671 0506
Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival
Tel: +27 (0)11 833 6323
Email: email@example.com
Best time to visit
August for the Joy of Jazz Festival in Johannesburg and March for the Cape Town International Jazz Festival. There are, however, live jazz performances happening in most urban areas across the country every day of the year.
What will it cost
Price will depend on who is performing and where. Expect to pay anything from R40 to R600 per person.
What to pack
Your dancing shoes – South Africans love to boogie during live jazz shows.
What's happening
There are two major annual jazz events on the South African calendar: the Joy of Jazz festival in Johannesburg in August and the Cape Town International Jazz Festival in March. There are also numerous smaller jazz and music festivals held across the country, while live jazz venues abound in all of South Africa's main cities and towns.
Best buys
A huge variety of South African jazz, both contemporary and traditional, can be found in music retail stores around the country.


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Ithaca College's Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival Forms Partnership with Thailand's Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
ITHACA, NY — The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) — a Bangkok-based alliance of more than 90 nongovernmental organizations dedicated to defending the rights of trafficked persons and migrants — has formed a partnership with Ithaca College's Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival in order to discover ways to represent trafficked persons and migrants from a human rights–based perspective.
"FLEFF and GAATW are interested in discovering the ways in which digital art can visualize and engage viewers in experiencing the complexities of migration, human trafficking and labor issues," said Patricia Zimmermann, a codirector of FLEFF. "Embodying how trafficked people's identities and experiences can be fragmented and pigeon-holed by authorities and policy makers is very much in keeping with FLEFF's mission of providing a vibrant space for dialogs that embrace public health, civil war and other global 21st-century concerns."
"A person can simultaneously be a refugee, a worker, a trafficked person, a family breadwinner, a community leader and an undocumented migrant," said Julie Ham, program coordinator for GAATW. "Yet policies created to help one identity may end up endangering another identity, such as when repatriation policies for trafficked persons endanger refugees trying to escape conflict and abuse. This partnership with FLEFF will enable us to explore how art practices can address the fragmentation and limitation of people's identities in anti‐trafficking and migration policies."
"Anti‐trafficking campaigns often rely on victimization narratives that leave structural barriers, such as racial discrimination and restrictive migration policies, unchallenged," added Tom Shevory, also a codirector of FLEFF. "Within the framework of our GAATW partnership, we aim to use digital media as a platform to promote the recognition of trafficked persons' rights, strengths and power. How, for example, may the bodies that are smuggled past political checkpoints be represented in ways that educate viewers about the geopolitical structures that depend on slavery-like practices and conditions?"
"Checkpoints," in fact, will be the programming stream of FLEFF 2011, which will take place at Ithaca College and Cinemapolis April 11 to 18. In addition to a weeklong offering of feature films, forums, labs, panel discussions, for-credit labs on new media design and silent film/live music presentations, FLEFF 2011 will feature "Trafficked Identities." Curated by Sharon Lin Tay and Dale Hudson, this digital art exhibition will give artists the opportunity to explore safety standards for migrant workers, the human rights threats posed by an increasingly global market and other issues central to GAATW's mission.
A call for entries for "Trafficked Identities" will be issued in January 2011. The winning entry will be awarded a $250 cash prize.
For more information on FLEFF, visit www.ithaca.edu/fleff.
More information on GAATW is available at http://www.gaatw.org.
Launched in 1997 as an outreach project from Cornell University's Center for the Environment at Cornell University, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival was moved permanently to Ithaca College in 2005. It is housed in the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies as a program to link intellectual inquiry and debate to larger global issues.


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Engines — Elizabeth
Ginns Britten, Capt. Ken Kreisler, and Capt. Patrick Sciacca
2004 Engines Preview
|Gasoline: Crusader
While Mercury MerCruiser has no new gasoline inboards or stern drives, the engine manufacturer continues to offer 12 gasoline stern-drive powerplants from 135 hp to 425 hp and seven gasoline inboards from 260 hp to 420 hp.
In addition, MerCruiser's larger engines—the 496 MAG High Output and 496 MAG stern drives, MerCruiser 8.1S High Output, and 8.1S Horizon—can be outfitted with MerCruiser's Digital Throttle and Shift (DTS) system. DTS links the engines and throttles via a single data cable and enables a host of handling benefits via actuator motors that open and close the throttle and operate the shift linkage. The first benefit is reportedly a throttle response time of 0.3 seconds. Another is the elimination of mechanical cables, leaving nothing to stretch or wear out every few seasons. DTS also reduces jerky throttle adjustments.
MerCruiser/Mercury Marine Phone: (920) 929-5040. www.mercurymarine.com.
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This article originally appeared in the December 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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The euro slid as the region's recession deepened more than forecast, while stocks were little changed as global economic concerns overshadowed a drop in US jobless claims and a $US23 billion buyout offer for HJ Heinz Co.
Europe's 17-nation currency depreciated 0.8 per cent versus the dollar at 1:37 p.m. in New York. The S&P 500 was little changed, a day after the US benchmark climbed to the highest since October 2007, while the Stoxx Europe 600 Index slipped 0.2 per cent. German 10-year bund yields dropped three basis points to 1.64 per cent. Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose 0.5 per cent, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index climbed 0.9 per cent after the market reopened following the Lunar New Year holiday.
Gross domestic product in the euro area fell 0.6 per cent in the fourth quarter from the previous three months, the worst performance since the first quarter of 2009. Japanese GDP declined for a third straight quarter, stoking speculation Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will step up efforts to end deflation.
"They're pretty awful figures," said Neil Mellor, a foreign-exchange strategist at Bank of New York Mellon Corp. in London. "It could get a lot worse because the euro has risen a long way since the start of the fourth quarter. While the Japanese are doing what they're doing, you can't refute the fact that people will buy the euro on dips."
European Currencies
Europe's shared currency weakened against all 16 major peers. Earlier reports showed Germany's economy, the largest in Europe, contracted 0.6 per cent last quarter, and French GDP dropped 0.3 per cent. The currencies of euro-area neighbors also declined, with the zloty, Swedish krona and Norwegian krone sliding versus the dollar.
Hungary's forint snapped five days of gains, dropping 0.6 per cent per euro, after data from the statistics office in Budapest showed GDP tumbled the most in three years. Japan's yen was stronger against 15 of 16 major peers.
The Group of 20 nations said that it recognizes global economic growth is still weak, that stronger economic and monetary union is needed in the euro area and Japan and the US need to resolve fiscal uncertainties, according to a draft of a statement prepared for a meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors in Moscow this week.
In the US, fewer Americans than projected filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, Labor Department data showed, while Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and 3G Capital agreed to buy Heinz.
Heinz Jumps
HJ Heinz surged 20 per cent, the most since at least 1980, to $US72.30. Berkshire and 3G will pay $US72.50 a share, compared with yesterday's closing price of $US60.48, according to a statement today. Berkshire will spend about $US12 billion to $US13 billion on the deal for the maker of condiments and Ore-Ida potato snacks, Buffett told CNBC. The deal will also be financed with cash from 3G affiliates, plus the rollover of existing debt, and is valued at about $US28 billion including debt, according to the statement.
Cisco Systems Inc. slipped 1 per cent as the largest maker of computer-networking gear forecast sales this quarter that missed analysts' most optimistic projections. US Airways Group Inc. slipped 6.8 per cent after agreeing to an $US11 billion merger with AMR Corp.'s American Airlines.
About $US145.8 billion of deals have been announced in the US this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That already surpassed the total of $US99.6 billion during the first two months of last year.
'Positive' on M&A
"We're positive on the fact that M&A will continue to move higher," Jeff Morris, the Boston-based head of US equities for Standard Life Investments, said in a phone interview. His firm oversees $US263 billion in assets. "If we can get some clarity in Washington and if the economy continues to grow, I think you'll see more and more companies use M&A."
The S&P 500 closed at the highest level since October 2007 yesterday, and is within 3 per cent of its record reached that month. Jobless claims decreased by 27,000, the most in a month, to 341,000 in the week ended Feb. 9, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The level of filings was lower than any projection in a Bloomberg survey in which the median forecast was 360,000.
US Bonds
US 30-year bonds rose, with the yield six basis points lower at 3.20 per cent, as the euro area's recession supported demand at a $US16 billion auction of the securities.
Two shares fell for every one that gained in the Stoxx 600 as gauges of chemical and telephone companies led losses.
Nestle SA fell 2.3 per cent, the most in four months, after the biggest food company reported the slowest sales growth in three years. Renault SA surged 7.7 per cent as France's second- largest carmaker reported better-than-expected operating profit and eliminated debt in its automotive division.
Anheuser-Busch InBev NV jumped 5.9 per cent in Brussels after agreeing to sell its brewery in Piedras Negras and grant perpetual rights for the Corona and Modelo brands in the US to Constellation Brands Inc. for $US2.9 billion. ABB Ltd., the world's largest maker of power transformers, advanced 5.6 per cent in Zurich after reporting better-than-estimated earnings.
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index was little changed as declines in Europe, the Middle East and Africa offset gains in Asia. Benchmark gauges in Russia, Turkey, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic sank at least 0.4 per cent.
The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index of mainland companies climbed 1.4 per cent on the first day of trading this week. People's Insurance Co., New China Life Insurance Co. and Greentown China Holdings Ltd. rose after MSCI Inc. said it will add the stocks to its China index.
India's Sensex gauge slid 0.6 per cent as a report showed the inflation rate dropped to lowest in more than three years.


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On Aug. 8, Mazie Hahn, 10, and her cousin Ashlyn Peterson, 7, took a minute to pet Duke, the deputy canine of Scott Berg from the Chisago County Sheriff's Office. Duke and Berg had just finished their K9 demonstration at Rush City Park, where a large audience learned how a dog can be used for tracking and sniffing out drugs. Duke was trained specifically to grab and hold.
A nice turnout of folks found plenty of things to see and do at Rush City Community Appreciation Night Aug. 8 at the city park in downtown Rush City. This year's event featured fun activities, free food and cool prizes.
— Photos in above slideshow were taken by Melanie M. Hedberg