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Waves Advance to WCC Title Game With 4-1 Win Over LMU
The Waves will play the winner of LMU vs. Gonzaga at 7 p.m. tomorrow night live on ESPNU.
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STOCKTON, Calif. – The top-seeded Pepperdine baseball team punched its ticket to the WCC Championship game with a thrilling 4-1 win over second-seed LMU on Friday. Aaron Brown gave up just one run in 8.0 innings pitched and Brad Anderson hit a two-run homer in the fourth to power the Waves to the win.
The Lions scored first, striking in the second inning, but were held scoreless the rest of the way as Brown settled in on the mound. Anderson's two-run homer was all the offense Pepperdine would need as they move to 38-16 on the year. The Waves will play the winner of LMU vs. Gonzaga tomorrow night at 7 p.m. in the WCC Championship game after Friday's victory.
"Aaron proved why he was pitcher of the year today," said head coach Steve Rodriguez. "The wind got ahold of a ball early and put us behind, but we didn't let it rattle us and Aaron was amazing. To only give up one run against this LMU team is phenomenal. He even was able to get on base and make some things happen for us and that's why he's one of the best players in not only the conference, but the country."
LMU got on the board when Brice Savage tripled off the wall in centerfield and then was brought home on a sacrifice fly by Tommy Cheek in the second inning.
The Waves would answer in the fourth when Anderson (Yorba Linda, Calif./Esperanza HS) hit his fifth home run of the season, belting a high fly ball over the left-field wall to give Pepperdine the 2-1 lead. Brown (Chatsworth, Calif./Chatsworth HS) led off the inning with a single to score on the home run.
"That's what Brad has been doing all year for us," said Rodriguez. "He comes up in big spots, with runners on and comes through for us. That was big."
The Waves would chase LMU starter Patrick McGrath in the sixth and then load the bases with just one out. After hitting the first batter he saw to fill the bases, LMU reliever Sean Buckle got a strikeout and then a line-out to center to end the threat. The Lions then threatened in the following frame, loading the bases with one out. Pepperdine came up with a huge 6-4-3 double play, though, to end the inning and maintain the one-run lead.
An eighth inning error on a one-hopper to third scored two runs for the Waves to give Pepperdine the 4-1 advantage. Eric Karch (Fresno, Calif./Clovis West HS) came in to close it out, working a scoreless ninth for the second day in a row to record his 13th save of the year.
The win was Brown's 11th as he moves to 11-1 on the season. The junior lefty gave up five hits and one earned run, while striking out seven batters and walking just two in the game. He now has 96 strikeouts and a 2.15 ERA on the year.
"I didn't have the command I usually do early in the game, so it was important for me to try and get ahead of hitters and work from there," said Brown. "Once I did that I was able to get some guys out and get back in rhythm. The main thing today was letting the guys behind me work. Getting that double play in the seventh was huge, it saved us a couple runs and kept us ahead."
The Waves posted 10 hits in the game to score their four runs. Aaron Barnett (Mission Viejo, Calif./Capistrano Valley HS) led the way with a 4-for-4 day. Anderson had the two RBI's on the homer and Manny Jefferson (Lakewood, Calif./Lakewood HS) plated one as well.
David Fletcher was the only Lion to post multiple hits, going 2-for-4 at the plate. McGrath tossed 5.1 innings, giving up nine hits and two earned runs in the start.
Saturday's championship game will be the first for the Waves since the four-team playoff was instituted by the WCC last year. Pepperdine already owns the regular-season title after an 18-9 conference season this year.


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Excerpt from Chapter 1 of Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (footnotes omitted) by David Novak. Copyright © Duke University Press, 2013. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or printed without permission in writing from the publisher.
Chapter 1
Scenes of Liveness and Deadness
Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation
David Novak
(Duke University Press)
US: Jun 2013
There are about forty-five people in here, bathing in the blast of Noise right now: a group of older fans, some college kids already holding CDs they've purchased from the merchandise table, a handful of foreigners (mostly Canadian and American), and a lot of familiar faces among the regulars, local performers, and store and label owners here for the show. These all-Noise concerts usually happen about once a month in Tokyo, in different venues. The livehouse, 20,000v, is set up like any small hole-in-the-wall rock club, a poorly maintained, boxy room in the basement—actually, two floors down in the subbasement—of an anonymous building on the main shopping street in Koenji. It's about a hundred square feet, and there are huge black wooden speaker enclosures chained to the ceiling on either side of the stage; flyers on the walls for both current and past hardcore, scum, punk, and Noise shows; a tiny bar in the back by the toilets selling cups of beer; and a little table near the door where recordings by the evening's performers are sold.
I stand about halfway toward the front of the room, slightly to the side of the stage, in line with one of the huge towers of speakers. MSBR is on stage now, and he is very interesting to watch. His body movements are much more conservative than those of the energetic eighteen-year-old Long Islander Viodre, whose thrashing set preceded MSBR, but his hands are always moving: constantly adjusting pots and faders, starting and stopping sounds, changing them, pushing against pedals, and switching them off and on with the base of his hand. In comparison with tonight's other performers, MSBR's Noise is more multilayered and rhythmic, and he is almost completely still as he sits in the center of an earsplitting whirlwind of sound. He cuts in and out of an analog delay, shuttling through a spacey blur as he shifts out of one timbre and into another, never letting any texture linger for more than five or ten seconds. Everyone is rapt, falling into the steady flow of sound. No one talks; no one could talk if they wanted to… Besides, it costs ¥4,000 (about US$50) to get in, so you can't afford not to get it—you just listen.
Indeed, everything about this audience shows that they already know what they are doing here, as they stand scattered about the floor of the club, now watching the next band, Nord, blasting through the speakers, two huge thickets of incense burning on stage as blue light illuminates the performers from behind. The low-end vibrations are inside my chest, forcing my lungs to compress as I exhale slightly, involuntarily, along with the blasts of sound. Nord is so heavy, pounding deep drum sounds, droning moans with electric clatter over it all, and as the atmosphere intensifies, growing louder, the lights begin to come up—white, glaring spots in my eyes as their set crashes to an end.
Finally, the famous harsh Noise duo Incapacitants takes the stage. It's so loud I can't breathe—they vibrate the air inside my mouth, in the back of my windpipe, as the volume grows and grows. I fear for my eardrums despite the wadded-up balls of wet toilet paper I stuffed in my ears as the set began, and I retreat a few meters to the back of the tiny room where it's slightly—barely—quieter. Two or three others have done the same, but most press closer to the center as Mikawa and Kosakai crash their sounds against us. One Noise musician I recognize is right up in front, directly in front of a speaker, bouncing his head and shoulders back and forth, and occasionally thrusting his arms out in front of his body toward the musicians, vibrating tautly in place.
Mikawa is crushing a contact mic under a bent square of steel, tilting it back and forth to shift the oscillating loops of feedback emerging from his system. Kosakai shakes the mic in his hand in front of his Marshall amp, his entire body rattling and jerking as if he is holding onto part of some powerful being that is trying to escape his grip, as a quaking stream of high-pitched noise spins out of the speakers. Mikawa leans over in front of a smaller Roland amp, each of their heads down on either side of the stage, faces to their tables now, leaning on them, shaking them—or are they being shaken? Kosakai crashes to the floor in a jumble of electronic parts as his table collapses—the lights come up harsh and bright, shining right at us. Suddenly the sound is cut, the lights switch off a second later, and we are left in a strange void of darkness and silence, soon broken by sporadic applause and shouts of approval, as the performers shut off their amps and abruptly stumble off stage, exhausted, tripping over the morass of wires on the floor.
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Noise is about liveness and deadness, both in performance and in the technologically mediated sound of recordings. Live Noise performances can produce extraordinarily powerful embodiments of sound that help audiences imagine a community of Noise listeners, both locally and as a global "scene." How can we understand these experiences of sound as part of Noise's circulatory context? Listeners most often encounter Noise through individual experiences with recordings, and even the liveness of Noise concerts is geared toward isolated receptions of sound. The feedback loop between liveness and deadness, then, is about the co-constitutive relationship between performance and media in the lives of listeners. But this loop runs parallel to another kind of feedback—between making sound and feeling its effects. Liveness is about the connections between performance and embodiment, which transform passing moments into repeatable encounters of listening. Deadness, in turn, helps remote listeners recognize their affective experiences with recordings as a new aesthetics of sound and listening in the reception of Noise.
In this chapter, I illustrate Noise's liveness and deadness in several different contexts of experience. I describe liveness in the places of Noise performance, in the embodied practices of Japanese Noisicians—particularly the legendary Incapacitants—and in the affective experiences of individual listeners. Liveness is further embedded in Noise through the production and circulation of media. Noise recordings were foundational in the growth of performance networks, especially in North America. Noise is embedded in techniques of production that aestheticize its overwhelming sound into recorded qualities of loudness and harshness. Finally— although, of course, there is no end to this loop—the sonic values of deadness in Japanese "harsh" Noise recordings become a poetic resource for listeners, who reanimate the scene of live Noise performance. The density of the experiential relationship between recordings and live performance in Noise follows from the displacement of musical communities and scenes in circulation. Where is the real place of Noise? What do the sensations of liveness and deadness mean to different Noisicians and listeners? What kinds of emotions are produced in the sensational liveness of Noise? How are recordings woven into translocal receptions, especially for those far from any accessible live scene? How does recorded media help listeners connect their isolated listening to social performance?
Ethnographers often privilege live performance in narratives of musical culture. For many researchers, live music is where authentic musical experiences happen, and performances represent sites of dialogue and interactivity that stand in stark contrast to the displacements of recorded media. Thomas Turino attributes an especially heightened musical sociality to "participatory performances," especially flexible, improvised gatherings (jam sessions, sing-alongs, etc.) where the collective "doing" of music is stressed over the "end product that results from the activity" (Turino 2008:28). Live music evokes an immediate—and apparently unmediated—experience that is musically authentic, culturally distinct, and sometimes politically resistant. Amateur performance is the foundational source of continuous, collective sociomusical knowledge, and its transmissions may contain the remnants of a traditional oral "music culture." Recordings, on the other hand, rationalize music beyond the productive space of social relations into separate forms of "studio art" that are passively consumed.
The experiential binaries of this scenario do not offer much to redeem the participatory experience of mediated listening or justify the centrality of recordings in everyday musical life. Musical circulation becomes a mediated kulturkreis: live performance stands at the bull's-eye of creative production, but its social force is gradually diffused through waves of technological mediation. At best, recordings become disembodied placeholders for authentic culture. At worst, they are a virtual dead end that dislocates people from the living realities of music. Certainly, the physically and temporally immediate context of performance gives live music a deep social presence and a sense of "here and now" in face-to-face interaction. But social experiences of live music can be profoundly individuated and often depend on embodied knowledge acquired through personal experiences with recordings. Just as performance is not always productive of social co-presence, "dead" recordings do not necessarily separate listening communities into atomized consumers.
Recordings and performances constantly overlap in perceptual space but spin out into different contexts. In his influential book Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Society (1999), Philip Auslander showed that contemporary live performance depends on the integration of technological media to create its cultural presence. Meanwhile, liveness is inscribed in studio production techniques that sonically represent the copresent space of musical communities in recordings (Meintjes 2003; Porcello 2005). Media, then, are not just the remote end product reflecting the original context of musical production. Recordings make sense of music for listeners, and constitute different socialities of performance and musical community. And just as online virtual worlds do not need to correlate to offline contexts to become real places, recordings do not have to connect "back" to performance practices to actualize musical experiences (Boellstorff 2008).
It is important to recognize that liveness is not a natural by-product of live performance. Liveness is not simply the transcendent feeling of "being there" at an exceptional concert among an appreciative audience. It is an affective relationship between embodied experiences of the "real" world and individual "virtual" encounters with technological media. As Jane Feuer (1983) argues in her work on live television, liveness cultivates a feeling of immediacy and interaction with televisual events. Liveness helps viewers actualize the extreme fragmentation of space inherent in broadcasting and allows them to share the experience of a media event even as it happens somewhere else. In this, liveness is both a technique of media production and a social habitus that naturalizes technological mediation through embodied practices of reception (Couldry 2004).
In bringing these relationships of musical place, performance, and media to the surface, the subjects of Noise put a great deal of stress on "the scene." The context of the local music scene has been central to historical imaginaries of independent music and exerts a powerful hold on its publics (Bennett and Peterson 2004; Kruse 1993). For scattered listeners who do not share face-to-face interactions, the idea of the scene can evoke a "diasporic," even "tribal" network of participants, which can bring musical sociality into a globally mediated context. The notion of the scene was especially useful in complicating earlier notions of musical sub-cultures that imagined alternative social identities through art, fashion, and language (Hebdige 1979). Will Straw (1991) used the term to describe the social construction of local communities in decentralizing practices of circulation. In his useful formulation, a scene is not a physical site or network but a fluid and flexible mode of performance that helps listeners navigate the industrial contexts of music production. Yet music scenes sometimes boil down the essence of a local community to a singular authentic site, where unmediated social relations are musically enacted. This is not to deny the symbolic power of the scene. The very idea is deeply motivating for fans who imagine, listen for, seek out, read about, talk about, and poetically conjure an original space of liveness, which appears to somehow transcend its own mediated networks.
But in Noise, deadness makes the scene live. Its listeners perform musical worlds through recordings: they repeat their sonic experiences, or put them on pause; they turn sociality up or down, or shut it off; they trigger individual memories and imagine impossible continuities between disparate places and times. But they also bring a sonic imaginary into cultural circulations, which extends beyond their own private audition. They conjure places across the globe, possibilities buried in the past, and feelings beyond social representation. Listeners slowly connect their own private sensory knowledge to the broader discourses of Noise, and more—they feel these sounds and emplace them in their own lives in ways that create new worlds of experience. And, as I will show, they can use these experiences of recordings to enliven the place of performance, by feeding their isolated listening into the scene.
Feeing the Space of the Livehouse
In Japan, a small music club is called a "livehouse" (raibuhausu), a Japanese neologism that describes a site in which raibu ("live," meaning live musical performances) take place. In many ways, livehouses set the tone of music scenes in Japanese cities. The spatial fit between a livehouse and an audience is very important to the affect of liveness, because the feel of any performance is affected by the size of the venue. Noise is almost always performed in a relatively small livehouse, and occasionally (but rarely) in outdoor concerts or multipurpose art spaces. Because organizers take a personal risk in paying the venue for tickets in advance, attendance is important and carefully managed. In several years of fieldwork, I rarely saw a local Noise "live" sell out, but neither were the tiny places much less than full: with occasional exceptions, Japanese Noise audiences vary from around twenty to fifty attendees. Most livehouses of this size are not dedicated to a single kind of music but accommodate many different fringe music audiences. As a result, Japanese livehouses become "big tents" for a diverse range of overlapping underground scenes.
The energetic, "packed" feeling of public space in Japanese cities creates a famously dense, focused ambience, and this affect follows through to the feel of its performance sites. In his study of Japanese hip-hop, Ian Condry describes the deeply social context of the genba, the "actual place" of live music where cultural production is "made real" in affective experience (Condry 2006). This sense of place is crucial for creating local social identifications for global genres like hip-hop, which are often constructed through recordings produced elsewhere. The focused attention of listening in an enclosed space helps construct the boundaries of a local audience as well as a separation from the general public. In Japanese cities, small livehouses sometimes occupy basements or higher floors of office buildings with little overflow into the outside world, rather than in street-level zones set aside for entertainment. The "actual place" of local performance is clearly delineated from ordinary life: you are either in or out.
Foreign performers are often impressed (and sometimes confused) by the close attention Japanese audiences give to performers. Many have commented on the intensity of livehouse spaces, despite the fact that audiences were not necessarily any larger than at home. One Chicago-based musician who frequently performs in Japanese venues described this atmosphere in terms of the density of feeling in the small rooms: "In a way, playing in Japan feels pretty good as a musician, because the place is always packed—there might only be fifteen people, but it's packed—and you sort of feel like, 'Wow, there's a scene happening here!' I mean, it's not much when you look at how many people live in Tokyo, or when you go to see a basic rock show in a bigger livehouse. But there is a feeling of some sort of connection with a scene, even though it's small… because everyone is stuffed into the same place, whether it's a big place or a small place, people are always stuffed in." In a Japanese livehouse, even a small audience can occupy the space in a way that feels crowded, creating the feel of the scene, just as the crowd creates the feel of the city. The liveness of these moments promises the continuity of sociality beyond the walls of the livehouse, feeding back into the everyday lives of the listeners. Liveness is created simply by being in these special spaces, where people return over and over again to embody the scene. Livehouses conjure and narrate musical worlds through this experience of repetition, which depends on the longevity of local performance spaces.
Local clubs are crucial in many histories of popular music, and are sometimes viewed as the actual source of new musical styles. Although there have been few clubs dedicated exclusively to Noise, there are some especially significant spots. For example, since the late 1980s, the live-house Bears has been an important site for Noise, hard-core, experimental music, and extreme rock and has almost singlehandedly enabled the survival of underground music in Osaka. The tiny club, located in the back streets of the Namba district, is owned and managed by Boredoms guitarist Yamamoto Seiichi, who tirelessly accommodates an endless series of extreme performances, from teenage newcomers to the classic "old school" Noise of its annual Noise May Day. Other clubs in Osaka, many of them larger and better equipped, have come and gone over the years. In the meantime, Bears has slowly become famous as a center for Japan's experimental rock, punk, and Noise. "Even if the building got burnt down," says Yamamoto, "we would continue it in a shack" (Yamamoto 1998). Bears' reputation was crucial for spreading the word about Osaka's Noise boom in the 1990s, through musicians' stories about the club and compilation recordings (such as the Japan Overseas cd Bears Are Not Real).
But livehouses do not often generate this distinctive sociality by being distinctive in themselves. The music scene that travels best is produced in anonymous spaces, where liveness can be reassembled and remembered in many different environments. Many livehouses deliberately cultivate a neutral, temporary state of occupancy. Unadorned black-painted rooms situate the audience between two blocks of speakers; the PA reamplifies the onstage equipment in a sonic field that emulates a gigantic home stereo system. In Japan, when people temporarily invest their energy in a particular spot, that place is described as a tamariba: a "haunt" or "hangout" that is both a space of gathering and a transitional cultural formation, like a temporary social club. A tamariba creates a point of occupancy between place and event and between public and private sociality. This is the liminal liveness of a waiting room, the feeling of standing in the crowd at a food stall or newspaper stand, or a gathering of acquaintances on a street corner.
The sensibility of liveness can be developed only through the repetitions of personal experience. Liveness helps audiences "realize" an undistinguished performance space as a chosen site of heightened activity. When people assemble in livehouses, they briefly inhabit what Hakim Bey calls a "Temporary Autonomous Zone," which "liberates an area (of land, of time, of imagination) and then dissolves itself to re-form elsewhere" (Bey 1991:100). Liveness is the affective context of these momentary "uprisings" that violate historical social narratives with unique moments of experience: although they cannot happen every day, over time they "give shape and meaning to the entirety of a life." These repetitive but special encounters with music become a kind of circulatory placemaking. Liveness leads people from the heightened musical space of the livehouse to isolated moments of quotidian listening and back again.
Performing Liveness: "You Won't Be Able to Tell What's What"
Performers become immersed in Noise through an emotional sensibility that connects their individual performances to overwhelming experiences of sound. In thinking about the virtuosity of live Noise performance, I unwillingly drag one particular memory to the surface: the moment I attempted to scream together with the Hijokaidan vocalist Hiroshige Junko in an open session at the No Music Festival in London, Ontario. Someone had suggested that we improvise briefly as a pair; Junko agreed, but I had forgotten my instruments and gear. I foolishly decided that I would just grab a microphone, seized with the idea that it would be great just to scream along with the famous Noise screamer. But I was struck dumb a few milliseconds later, when Junko opened her mouth and emitted an amazingly earsplitting sound. Instantly overcome, I tried my best to make some kind of noise: after all, I thought, how hard can it be to just scream? But I could hardly hear myself at all. My weak, undifferentiated sounds underscored the intensity of her volume; the pure harshness of her timbral focus; the mix of constancy and deliberation with the shocking sense of being overwhelmed and out of control. In other words, I was experiencing the deep affective consciousness of Noise's liveness, so apparent in Junko's incredible scream. Her screaming, I knew in a sudden flash—and then with a wave of nausea and humiliation, as I became conscious that we had just begun our "collaboration"—wasn't just screaming, and Noise wasn't just "making noise."
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Hours after the rally, the Election Commission (EC) sought a report from the district authorities. By late evening, the EC had issued a notice to the BJPs Faizabad candidate, Lallu Singh, for displaying the religious portraits. Influencing voters of a particular caste or community through such means are violation of the Representation of the People Act and Model Code of Conduct, said UP Chief Electoral Officer Umesh Sinha.
Addressing the crowd, Modi said, This is the land of Lord Ram where people believed that pran jaye par vachan na jaye (one can lose his life but cannot break a promise). Stating that the Congresss maa-beta government had not kept its promise to provide 10 crore jobs, he said, Ram ki bhoomi me aise logon ko maaf kiya jata hai kya Ram ki dharti par vachan ko toda jata hai kya (In the land of Ram, can you forgive people who break their promises Can you break promises in Rams land)
Promising to tell the truth in Ram bhoomi, Modi said he would fight corruption. I got the strength to make such a promise because I belong to a poor family and have seen how the children cry when food is not cooked in their house I am chief minister of Gujarat for the fourth time and there is happiness in Gujarat. But my mother travelled in an autorickshaw to cast her vote. These are our values, he said.
Stating that Mahatma Gandhi had advocated a Ram Rajya, Modi said, Sarvajan hitay, sarvajan sukhay (happiness and well-being to all) was the mantra for the country, but vote bank politics ruined the nation. Divisive politics wasted 60 years of the country. Now a politics of unity is required that can unite people from different castes and religions.
While he avoided any reference to Ram Temple, several other speakers, including Lalu Singh and Vinay Katiyar, said the BJP would build the temple in Ayodhya.
Modi also targeted the state government on the law and order issue. Goondagardi should be checked. Around 5,000 people were killed in the one year of thebaap-beta government. Yeh hatya ka karobaar band hona chahiye, he said.


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By exploring the possibility of going private, Dell appears to hope that it can finally fix the problems that have led to a 40 percent plunge in stock price over the last five years.
There is one problem, however: Going private may not be all that easy — or help out the company in the end.
The effort is under way, people briefed on the matter have confirmed, with Dell talking with private equity firms and exploring obtaining bank financing. It is unclear how long it will take to reach a completed deal, though reports have suggested it may take nearly two months.
But a leveraged buyout of a company as big as Dell would be no small feat, and it would be dependent on overcoming hurdles specific to the private equity industry and the company itself.
As of Friday, before Bloomberg News reported the discussions with private equity, the company was valued at about $18.9 billion, based on a stock price of $10.88. Applying a 31 percent takeover premium, which was the average paid for high technology LBOs last year according to Thomson Reuters, would lead to a potential deal being valued at about $24.8 billion.
Of course, Dell's stock has moved higher since, closing up more than 7 percent at $13.17 Tuesday.
Many private equity executives, and the advisers who clamor for their business, have been longing for the return of bigger buyouts. No private equity deal has come close to the deals struck during the height of the credit boom that ended in 2007; a Dell takeover would be the biggest since the $25 billion takeover of Hilton Hotels in July of 2007.
To date, no leveraged buyout since the financial crisis of 2008 has topped the $7.2 billion that Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and others paid for the Samson Investment Co. a year and a half ago. And many advisers say that it is hard to consider completing a deal above $10 billion.
Then there is the matter of debt financing. A Dell transaction is likely to require at least $16 billion from bank loans and junk bond sales, a seemingly daunting amount.
That said, some dealmakers think the money is there for the taking, pointing to the hunger of investors for debt that yields even a few percentage points more than Treasury bonds. The co-head of JPMorgan Chase's global debt capital markets, Jim Casey, told CNBC in October that his firm could raise $15 billion to $25 billion in noninvestment-grade debt for a single transaction.
Then there is the matter of Dell itself. Helping would-be buyers is the fact that the company's founder, Michael Dell, controls a nearly 16 percent stake. That represents at least $3 billion worth of stock that he could contribute to a deal.
And the company also had about $11.3 billion in cash and short-term investments on its balance sheet as of Nov. 2. That's a big pile of money that could go toward paying off any debt taken on in an LBO.
But in its most recent annual report, Dell said that only about 10 to 20 percent of its cash pile was held in the United States, meaning the company would take a potentially big tax hit if it were to bring that money back onshore. Because of that, analysts at Goldman Sachs estimated in December that the return on an LBO could be as low as 8 percent. Avoiding the tax man could bolster that return to 31 percent.
That may be less of a problem, according to investor Wilbur Ross, who told CNBC on Tuesday that the company could sell eurodollar bonds, which may avoid incurring a steep tax charge.
Dell also had almost $5 billion in long-term debt as of Nov. 2. That means the newly private company would be highly indebted, though analysts at the ISI Group and Mizuho point out that the company has respectable cash flow, generating about $3.7 billion in cash from operations during that time.
The bigger question for the company is whether going private would solve any of the issues it has faced for years. Its traditional business of making and selling personal computers has become less and less profitable, and Dell has already been trying to move into the more lucrative and stable market of providing hardware and software services for corporations. That is not something that requires Dell to be private, however.
And there is also the question of whether a newly private Dell, forced to spend much of its revenue on paying down its debt, would have money to invest in its business or pay for new acquisitions. Last year alone, the company struck 10 deals, including the $2.4 billion purchase of Quest Software.
Ross said on CNBC that he believed the chances of a deal coming together were about 50-50. But there is still a lot of work and finagling that needs to be done to get to that point.
Michael J. De La Merced,
The New York Times


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For Immediate Release: March 31, 2014
"Early Years are the Learning Years" highlights the critical role educators play in caring for children
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Association for the Education of Young Children's (NAEYC) Week of the Young Child™ (April 6-12, 2014) draws attention to how a high-quality early childhood experience the first few years of life set a child's path for success in school and in life and offers tips for parents to be sure they're choosing high-quality program.
"Week of the Young Child™ reinforces that the early years (birth through age 8) are critical learning years, and qualified early childhood professionals accelerate how our children learn, develop, build the skills to get along with others, and succeed in school and life," said Rhian Evans Allvin, NAEYC's Executive Director. "An NAEYC accredited program offers a safe, nurturing, and stimulating environment during the early years with specially skilled and knowledgeable staff and professionals can ensure children have the most positive learning experience possible."
NAEYC offers the following tips parents can use when selecting a safe, nurturing and stimulating learning environment for their children.
For infants, a high-quality program means:
- Group size is limited to no more than eight babies, with at least one teacher for every three children.
- Each infant is assigned to a primary caregiver, allowing for strong bonds to form and so each teacher can get to know a few babies and families very well.
- Teachers show warmth and support to infants throughout the day; they make eye contact and talk to them about what is going on.
- Teachers are alert to babies' cues; they hold infants or move them to a new place or position, giving babies variety in what they can look at and do.
- Teachers pay close attention and talk and sing with children during routines such as diapering, feeding, and dressing.
- Teachers follow standards for health and safety, including proper hand washing to limit the spread of infectious disease.
- Teachers can see and hear infants at all times.
- Teachers welcome parents to drop by the home or center at any time.
For toddlers, a high-quality program means:
- Children remain with a primary teacher over time so they can form strong relationships.
- The teacher learns to respond to the toddler's individual temperament, needs, and cues, and builds a strong relationship communication with the child's family.
- Teachers recognize that toddlers are not yet able to communicate all of their needs through language; they promptly respond to children's cries or other signs of distress.
- Teachers set good examples for children by treating others with kindness and respect; they encourage toddlers' language skills so children can express their wants and needs with words.
- The physical space and activities allow all children to participate. For example, a child with a physical disability eats at the same table as other children.
- Teachers frequently read to toddlers, sing to toddlers (in English and children's home languages), do finger-plays, and act out simple stories as children actively participate.
- Teachers engage toddlers in everyday routines such as eating, toileting, and dressing so children can learn new skills and better control their own behavior.
- Children have many opportunities for safe, active, large-muscle play both indoors and outdoors.
- Parents are always welcome in the home or center.
- Teachers have training in child development or early education specific to the toddler age group.
For preschoolers ages 3 to 5, a high-quality program means:
- Children follow their own individual developmental patterns, which may vary greatly from child to child.
- Children feel safe and secure in their environment.
- Children have activities and materials that offer just enough challenge—they are neither so easy that they are boring nor so difficult that they lead to frustration.
- Children can connect what they learn with past experiences and current interests.
- Children have opportunities to explore and play.
To find a NAEYC accredited center or school and for more tips for choosing a high-quality early childhood education program go to http://families.naeyc.org
NAEYC's mission is to serve and act on behalf of the needs, rights and well-being of all young children with primary focus on the provision of educational and developmental services and resources. Founded in 1926, the National Association for the Education of Young Children is the largest and most influential advocate for high-quality early care and education in the United States. Learn more at www.naeyc.org
Founded in 1926, the National Association for the Education of Young Children is the largest and most influential advocate for high-quality early care and education in the United States.


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This R2-D2 may just have the projection that you need to use your mobile devices more conveniently.
We all agree that projection keyboards look cool, and we can all forgive the awkward usage and non-tactile feel because it just screams sci-fi. But do you know what can make it even better? Well, how about adding a more memorable sci-fi element to it? That is just what Imp's R2-D2 virtual keyboard does, and it will hopefully make your projection keyboard a look a bit more at home to use.
It connects to any device via Bluetooth 3.0, so it has that standard effective use distance of 10 meters. Compatible OS are Windows 7/8, Mac OS X, iOS and Android 4.0+. It has an internal 660mAh Li-ion battery, which charges via micro USB. Unfortunately though, it doesn't come with pre-recorded holographic projections of lost data, and no, don't even get your hopes up of finding a distress call from a certain alien princess.
Shipping starts for the R2-D2 Virtual Keyboard on August, and it will be available with an estimated price of about $330.
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On July, 3rd I posted a blog entitled "Retire or Support the Kids?" of which this is a follow up blog. Before you accuse me of not liking kids, remember I'm a loving father and grandfather, and my kids mean the world to me. But just like you, at sometime I too would like to retire or start taking it easier (not to worry- I'm not going anywhere!) and it's my job to keep you informed of the ramification of your monetary actions- so, let's talk…
In my July 3, 2012 blog, I talked about how taking on the financial obligations of your children may put off your retirement because of the depletion of your retirement funds, or the addition of loan payments which will add to your monthly and annual expenses. I recently learned (yes, I learn something new every day!) how a default or slow payment schedule can have an effect on your Social Security payments. According to Government data compiled by The Treasury Department, a growing number of retirees Social Security checks are being leined upon by the Federal Government of those that have signed for student loans for their kids and have gotten behind in their payments. From January through August of this year, roughly 115,000 retiree's checks have been reduced due to late payments. That's nearly twice the amount in 2011, and our loving bureaucrats have vowed to up the amount in 2013 to try to bring in as much as they can, regardless of the financial situation of the parents.
The amount varies, but can be as much as a 15% haircut, which may be vital to the retiree if their income is close to their expenses. The point I am making? Be sure, if you plan to co-sign or be responsible for your kid's loans that if you become fully responsible it won't have an effect on your day-to-day living and lifestyle.
One of my favorite sayings about our loving children is "they move out, but they never leave." To some extent, thank goodness! And as they said in Hill Street Blues, "be careful out there."
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"Everything's funny as long as it's happening to someone else!"
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A second Brimfield man has been arrested and charged with having sexual contact with a 12-year-old girl in December, in an incident police say is related to alleged, ongoing sexual assaults on the same child by another Brimfield man.
Raymond C. Leasure, 27, of 3610 Duffield Road, was arrested Monday and charged with one count each of gross sexual imposition, a third-degree felony, and failure to report a crime, a fourth-degree misdemeanor.
Brimfield Police Chief David Oliver said Leasure's arrest is related to the case of Dustin T. Hayes, 20, who was arrested Jan. 3 and charged with raping the girl over a three-month span late last year.
Oliver said the alleged rapes occurred at Leasure's residence. At least once on or about Dec. 1, Leasure also allegedly exposed himself to the girl and had sexual contact with her, he said.
Leasure also is charged with failing to report Hayes' alleged crimes even though he knew what was going on between Hayes and the girl, Oliver said. Arraigned Tuesday in Portage County Municipal Court in Ravenna, Leasure was ordered held in the Portage County jail on 10 percent of $100,000 bond. A condition of his bond is no contact with the alleged victim.
Hayes, with a last known address of 1463 Cherrywood Road, was indicted Jan. 11 by a Portage County grand jury on seven counts of rape, all first-degree felonies. He allegedly committed the crimes between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2012, according to his indictment. Each charge carries a potential penalty of three to 11 years in prison and sex offender registration.
Leasure also faces trial in Portage County Common Pleas Court in April on charges of receiving stolen property and possessing drug abuse instruments. Brimfield police investigating alleged prostitution at Leasure's residence allegedly found a backpack full of tools, a set of keys and a credit card reported stolen by their owner, as well as hypodermic syringes used to inject drugs, in his possession on Aug. 27, 2012.
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The Edge Of Emptiness
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Book by: Preh Rahim
Chapter 12 (v.1)
Part 12
Three days had been passed but pari had not gone to hospital. Hayyam tried his best to call her but she neither received his call nor did she call him back. It was worrying hayyam even more.
On 4th day, he thought if she did not come, he would go to her home to talk to her but when he came out of his cabin, he saw her in her cabin. He seemed to be happy and moved to her cabin with glint in his eyes but also he was worried.
Pari was writing something on a file when he knocked the door and without getting her answer he went inside.
Hayyam: pari where were you? I mean why did you not come for 3 days?
Pari: yes sir everything was okay; I was just suffering of fever that's why I could not come. (She said without looking at him)
Hayyam: are you fine now? If you want, you can have leave for few days! (He seemed to be worried about her)
Pari: no sir thanks but I am fine now! (Hayyam wanted to ask her but he could not dare). At last he dared to ask her
Hayyam: pari look at me (he asked her to pay him attention and she looked to him); pari I had asked you something 3 days back, what did you decide? (He was looking at her with all emotions and she was looking here and there in accordance to avoid him). Pari you know I don't like when you don't pay me attention so please don't try to annoy me! (He was still saying her that in polite way but with firm tone).
Pari: do you think it is suitable place to discuss that? (She looked back to him and asked him to go anywhere else to talk about that)
Hayyam: okay then come with me. (He held her hand and made her to walk with him).
They went in a restaurant. Hayyam asked her about tea but she didn't reply; hayyam looked at her and she was getting nervous. He avoided her gesture and ordered for two cups of tea. He then turned to pari,
Hayyam: Pari now tell me please; I have been waiting keenly for your answer since 4 days; now I can't wait any more!
Pari: sir before I could say; I want to tell you about my past then you decide that either you will marry me or not!
Hayyam: pari I had told you before too that I am not interested in your past; I want to make you my present and my future; that's it! (He said her being serious that time)
Pari: you are not interested but I am…..i am interested to tell you everything before start of my new life. (She urged to tell him)
Hayyam: that means you are ready to marry me….isn't it? (He said in excitement, holding her hand and she was jerked)
Pari: sir but first listen to me what I intend to say? (She tried to tell him but he didn't)
Hayyam: no pari that's all, I just wanted your answer…. (He interrupted in her talk). Will you marry me?
Pari: sir please! First listen to me then you decide; please don't get hurry; you would regret then!
Hayyam: no I am sure I won't regret by marrying you and forget about the past; you just tell me that will you marry me or not?
Pari: but sir……..
Hayyam: just yes or no? (He interrupted again and asked her answer in either yes or no)
Pari: yes I will…. (She said while observing his eagerness to get back answer. He held her hand and thanked her).
Hayyam: thanks pari….i promise you that I won't let you get hurt ever in my life. I will stand by you in all circumstances and don't think about past; it was just a past not your present. Whatever there was, I don't need to know which could create rift between us. I am just concerned with your present and intend to make you my future too! Thanks (she smiled to hear that but somehow she was getting worried that whenever he got the truth, he would not be able to tolerate that).
Hayyam: so should I bring my parents at your home tomorrow? (He smirked and asked her. Pari looked another side and nodded him as yes)
Hayyam: pari (he made her to face him)
Pari: hmm
Hayyam: I love you and thank you very much
Next day hayyam's parents went to pari's home to ask about her proposal from her bua. She accepted pleasantly. She also didn't bother to tell about pari's past to hayyam's parents and when they asked about her parents, she said that her mother had died when she was of 10 years and 2 years back, her father was also died; since then she had been taking care of her.
Hayyam's parents were of liberal mind, they had liked pari so they didn't want anything more to know. Everything had been finalized
Marium: so congratulations my dear son (she said while having sweet to hayyam and he smiled looking at his mom. When she turned to bua) so I think that we must fix their engagement soon, what do you suggest? (She asked from bua)
Bua: yes as you consider better; I don't have any objection! (She said looking at pari)
Ali Hassan: I think we must arrange that on our wedding anniversary! We have arranged a fantastic party and it would be even worthy to engage them on that day! What do you think hayyam?
Hayyam: yes dad whatever you consider better; well this will be great. But we must ask from bua, (he then turned to bua) bua next week we have arranged a party at our home; I have invited all my relatives and friends and that would be great that we arrange engagement ceremony also on that day; is it al right?
Bua: yes my child it's great, if you all are agreed, we are okay with that. (She smiled)
Marium: okay then it is final that next week, you both are going to have engagement; congratulations to both of you, my child! (She cupped face of pari and kissed on her forehead. Hayyam smiled while looking at pari but she was not smiling, she was looking down on floor).
Pari was looking outside from her window towards moon at midnight; she was thinking about the dream which she usually was having all nights. She was lost that how much hayyam loved her but what when he would get the truth what would he do! She was gazing at moon when her phone rang
Pari: hello
Hayyam: hello miss! How are you? Why are you still waking? (He smirked and asked her in teasing tone)
Pari: I can also ask that question to you that why you were waking. (She asked in same tone)
Hayyam: not bad; you have learnt better to argue even more! Well were you waiting for my call?
Pari: no not at all sir I was just busy in my work, that's why I didn't sleep!
Hayyam: oh really? (He smirked)
Pari: yes of course. (She said trying to avoid his teasing tone)
Hayyam: okay mam no problem; soon you shall be waiting for my call only! (She was smiling). Pari can I ask you one question? (She said him yes). Pari do you love me? (He asked her in slow and patient tone but there was silence from another side and that silence could easily be guessed by hayyam that still she was not in love with him; he sighed). After a few minutes he said, I know pari you don't but I am sure that you will in love too with me very soon, I promise you that! (He said in husky voice and smirked). Okay now stop shying and go to sleep, if your so.called work in which you were busy would have been over. (She smiled and said okay).
Pari was happy that she was having such a lovely family in her life but on another side she was worried that she had not told hayyam about her, about her parents. She was also worried that she was going to marry but her family was unaware of that; yes her family, her real family was not her bua and Ali abbas but there was another family!
She wanted to ask them but she was afraid that she might be ruined again; she decided to keep her past hidden in her life ahead; neither would she tell about that to hayyam nor to anyone else, she promised herself and slept.
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Utah State football: Ags' coach Gary Andersen doesn't cotton to moral wins
MJB Tooele, UTOct. 9, 2012 3:02 p.m.
Although I'm a USU alum, I haven't been to many games up in Logan. Have they been able to fill the stadium every game? I think that it would be wise to sell out the stadium for ALL games if they want to talk about expanding the stadium and moving forward as part of the MWC. If they can't even fill it up, why would they want to try to add more seats to leave empty? It's not a good scene to other teams that would want to make a 1 for 1 deal (not just talking about BYU).
BYUSU Zion, UTOct. 7, 2012 3:42 p.m.
@ Y Grad/ Y Dad
I agree 100%
If BYU keeps wanting 2-1 games maybe next year when USU joins the MWC they may have a problem scheduling games with BYU.
Y Grad / Y Dad Richland, WAOct. 7, 2012 12:45 p.m.
I too think it is time to make Utah State THE rivalry game in November, one and one. They have been in BYU's corner in so many ways. They are our partner, our friend and our worthy opponent.
(re)Build the rivalry from the ground up, emphasize the positives and let this become the most emotiaonally powerful athletic event in the state every year.
It would be an honor to be part of such a rivalry. Make it happen.
dnay Salt Lake City, UTOct. 6, 2012 3:49 p.m.
I would like to see Anderson stay, I'm a BYU fan but I also really like the Aggies, I love that they're doing well, and it scares the he..... out of me to play them. Given that I still don't see Anderson staying, a lot of coaches leave even when there under contract. When he has a big school come calling and offering him a multi million dollar deal, I don't see him staying with all the stress those guys go through without a big pay day in his future. You'd like to think he would but I don't see it!
Professor Reno Reno/Washoe, NVOct. 6, 2012 3:33 p.m.
I am interested to know if BYU had to pay USU extra to do the 2-1 deal. If so, it would be through money games like these two that USU was able to give Coach Andersen a raise and contract extension in the first place.
"Incentives included, it could pay him up to $765,000 annually, incentives included...But in Logan, that's a king's ransom."
While I realize you're trying to make a joke, the fact is $765,000 a year is more than the salary of 99% of Americans. To compare it to the even more ridiculous salaries of other coaches in the state to try an make a point is just in bad taste.
FYI Taylorsville, UTOct. 6, 2012 11:17 a.m.
"Is that why BYU beat usu in Logan last year?"
If you are talking football, last year's game was in Provo. In fact in the last 4 years, only one game has been in Logan.
4601 Salt Lake City, UTOct. 6, 2012 11:04 a.m.
Go Big Blue!!!
Is that why BYU beat usu in Logan last year? usu brags about basketball success when games are played in Logan. Why the double standard? If BYU plays football in Logan, usu should equalize the income that results from playing in a smaller stadium.
Kralon HUNTINGTON BEACH, CAOct. 6, 2012 10:15 a.m.
As a BYU fan, I would agree with Go Big Blue, the home field advantage is real and most statistic junkies peg it around 2.5 to 3 points. That would put this year's game of BYU and USU at a draw which is about right.
I think USU's defense did well against a mediocre offense and BYU's defense did even better against a good offense. So, I think that overall BYU is a slightly better team.
With Coach Andersen in charge I think USU will be competitive every year, so a 1 and 1 in late November might be a great thing and could turn into a more civil rivalry than the one BYU had with the UofU. Hopefully USU's success can translate into a bigger stadium and better TV exposure for USU to help even out the money.
But, at this point, I wouldn't schedule it past 2018!
Go Big Blue!!! Bountiful, UTOct. 6, 2012 8:44 a.m.
The edge I'd give the y both last year and this year is home field advantage. I want the games to continue but would clearly support droping the y if they demand more than a 1 and 1.
Things have changed in Logan. We expect USU to win. It hurts when they don't. Andersen has the Aggies moving forward and we love him for it.
Go Big Blue!!!
thebigsamoan Richmond, VAOct. 6, 2012 6:47 a.m.
I'm no expert in scheduling or what all are involve in it and I don't blame Coach Anderson for not wanting to play 2 for 1 schedules with BYU or anyone else for that matter. However, I think the sure way to accomplish that is to win, especially at the other one's house. Until that is accomplished, (as of now 17 straight in Provo for the Cougars) it's still a barrier. On the other hand, BYU is hardly at the position to just dictate scheduling terms being that they are now independent and struggles to fill their schedule every year now. I say play the Aggies 1 for 1 if that's what they want. I know it's a big cut in revnues to both schools but then I don't think money should be a priority to either program. The fans simply want to see their team play in front of their home crowd because of the psychological edge it gives them.


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Adidas Debuts adiZero Sonic 3 Running Shoe TV Spot (w/ Robert Griffin III) (Video)
Adidas officially debuted their new adiZero Sonic 3 TV spot on Wednesday (April 18), featuring top NFL Draft prospect and Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III (see below). In the clip, he is seen training in the versatile and lightweight running shoe, which will be available exclusively through Dick's Sporting Goods.
Designed to be lightweight with enough support and traction for speed drills and weight training, the show is touted as "the athlete's ultimate running shoe for year-round workouts."
"The first thing that comes to mind when you put on the adizero Sonic is how light it is," Griffin III said in a statement. "It gives you a lot of support so you can run long distances, but you can use it multiple ways. It has support so you can lift in it and stay comfortable during a full day's workout."
The commercial, which was partially shot at Baylor's Floyd Casey Stadium where Griffin III set or tied more than 50 school records, looks at how the heavy weight of pressure and heat of the spotlight are shattered by what lightweight adizero shoes deliver.
"The adizero Sonic 3 was built for the high school athlete with a faster, more aggressive look," said Mikal Peveto, director of running for adidas America. "This is the ultimate go-fast shoe that runners, football players and baseball players alike will use to break records to get to the next level."
The adiZero Sonic 3 was built with speed in mind. It features the brand's adiPrene+ midsole technology for "responsive cushioning with each stride", a stitchless SprintWeb that provides "superior support to ensure your foot stays in place without extra weight," and air mesh to "offer maximum breathability and comfort."
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Thanks for the update on Stateroom #1001 on the Sun.
On our 9 day So Carribbean on the Pearl we had a forward Penthouse Suite #9500 and understand the wind and the need for clothing rather than observing the oceanviews in the buff.
We will be on the NCL Sun for 11 days from San Francisco down the US and Mexican Coast next year and have booked the cruise this week. It was great to have a review from a passenger already in that suite. So thank you for the input. We will have to watch for falling beer bottles, and debris from above, and hopeful no major flying insects that time of the year. If the skys are clear and we feel water, then we know Chef Ken warned us of passengers spitting down on us. I think we can take anything, because its a cruise. We love to cruise and enjoy the seas, but we want to be careful so we don't blow away, or get burned up from cigarette butts flying our way. I will remember to bring one of those giant TEXAS sized bug swatters, and I will make sure that Mary has her cash locked up.
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Starting a business is an appealing idea for many women, but do you have what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur? This session helps you explore the advantages and challenges of being self-employed. It will also provide you with answers to frequently asked questions including: What is a business plan? How do I register my business name? Do I require any licenses or permits? How do I finance my idea? A Business Advisor from the Women's Enterprise Centre will guide you through the session.
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Writer John Squires recently conducted an interview with actor/dentist George Hardy. George has recently garnered new found stardom from the hit documentary Best Worst Movie which chronicles, in part, his involvement with the cult classic Troll 2.
In this FreddyInSpace.com interview George Hardy confirms rumors of a sequel to Troll 2 only hinted at in the documentary. George also confirms in the interview that he will have a role written by Rossella Drudi, as an owner of a hamburger meat packing company in the new Italian production set to start filming this Summer.
George also discusses with John his roles in the upcoming films Junk and Ghost Shark as well as sharing other insights not included in the documentary or any other interviews.
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Tobii Pro supplies eye tracking-based solutions for testing and analysis purposes. Tobii's solutions are used to develop and enhance product design and interface by giants like Google, Microsoft, Unilever and Sony. Eye tracking is also used by researchers in a variety of academic disciplines. If you want to work with innovative, market-leading products, we may have just the job for you!
We're looking for a skilled developer with experience in video pipelines especially Media Foundation.
Our most important software product, Tobii Pro Lab used by universities, researchers and commercial actors around the globe is constantly developed and enhanced. We need you to be part of the product team! The product is used to design, conduct and analyze experiments centered around – but not limited to - eye tracking. Our customers bet their academic career or next marketing campaign on insights gained from our software, so we need to offer a very high quality product handling high volumes of data with microsecond timing resolution and precision.
We're in it for the long haul. We do not take short cuts that may cause problems down the road. Clean and clear code and solutions is key, as we will maintain the code base for years to come. We are market leaders in our field and intend to strengthen our position even further.
The desktop product team is split in several scrum teams located in Stockholm and Kiev. The main language is English. Some travel is required, or at least desired.
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Washington, May 31 (ANI): Oprah Winfrey received a Doctor of Laws degree from America's prestigious Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday.
The talk show host wore a traditional cap and gown as she took to the stage to deliver a speech to graduates, Contactmusic reported.
"Oh my goodness. I'm at Harvard! Not too many girls from rural Mississippi have made it all the way here to Cambridge," Winfrey declared.
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Get an overview of this hotelSuburban motel with free breakfast and restaurant
Popular property highlights
Situated in the suburbs, this motel is within 2 mi (3 km) of Coco Key Water Resort, Moorestown Mall, and Garden State Discovery Museum. Laurel Acres Park is 2.9 mi (4.6 km) away.
Property Features
Along with a restaurant, this motel has a coffee shop/café and coffee/tea in a common area. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a meeting room, laundry facilities, and a 24-hour front desk.
Room Amenities
All 80 rooms provide conveniences like refrigerators and coffee makers, plus free WiFi and TVs with cable channels. Other amenities available to guests include free local calls, hair dryers, and safes.
Guest Highlights
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Super 8 Mount Laurel
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Dining options at the motel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. Event facilities measuring 400 square feet (37 square meters) include a meeting room. This business-friendly motel also offers coffee/tea in a common area, laundry facilities, and ATM/banking services. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 80
- Number of floors - 4
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- Free breakfast
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- Free WiFi
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- One meeting room
- RV, bus, truck parking
- Restaurant
- Free self parking
- Free RV, bus, truck parking
- Year Built 2010
- Conference space size (feet) - 400
- Conference space size (meters) - 37
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Television in common areas
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
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- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
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Free self parking, RV, bus, truck parking, Free RV, bus, truck parking
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- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
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- Shower only
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A complimentary continental breakfast is served each morning between 6 AM and 9 AM.
Super 8 Mount Laurel has a restaurant on site.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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Minimum check-in age is 21
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JPEG workflow (same as RAW?)
I posted this in the Sony forum , but now it seems more a Photoshop workflow issue...
I should know this, but well, I don't. After 3-4 years of using Pentax and now Nikon DSLRs, and shooting only in RAW, the Sony HX9V is my first pocket camera. I'm not sure how to process jpeg images.
My DSLR workflow is RAW > Bridge > capture editing > Photoshop CS4 > crop & output editing and save as psd file. I've never upscaled anything, always worked from larger to smaller and everything stayed in 300ppi.
Using that post-processing software I'm looking for any guidance on improving the best-so-far workflow I've come up with:
1. JPEG > Bridge > Camera RAW at full size (16MB @ 72ppi).
2. Edit > Open in Photoshop using 8-bit 240ppi > then reduce dimensions or crop, edit, sharpen > save at maximum quality (12) for prints
And if I want to email/post on the web, reduce to 96ppi and reduce dimensions to around 700x500 pixels.
There must be hundreds of ways to go on this, but I'd appreciate any input on what works best for them. Thanks...
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We can't decide which part of this story makes us shiver the most: the fact that teenagers were hawking Xbox 360's in a parking lot or that they were doing so in Alaska. Either way it was a dumb decision, since those precious Xboxen were stolen right from them at gunpoint.
A man who was described as bald and wearing bluejeans and a blue hooded sweatshirt walked up to the van, opened its sliding door and pulled a gun out, police said. The man ordered the teen to open the van's rear door. Another man, described as having dark curly hair, opened the door and took four of the Xboxs.
The poor, 14-year-old kid in the car managed to hide a single remaining Xbox under his feet. We're sure when his other four teenage friends returned, they graciously let him keep his.


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The Australian dollar made a sharp reversal in late European trading today after flat local data and a fall commodity prices.
At 7.06pm (GMT) the Australian dollar was trading at US77.37c after hitting an intraday high of US78.34c earlier in the day.
The latest NAB business conditions survey slipped from 5 down to 4 today bringing into question the recovery of the Australian economy after the mining boom.
Also pressuring the Aussie dollar today was the wild volatility in the oil price with major swings between highs and lows before settling lower later in the day.
Most were expecting some type of pullback in the oil price after recovering from the selloff a few days ago with the higher price expected to entice US shale producers to pick up production again.
"If you were to take the fundamental pieces of the puzzle, they really don't compare with the latest two days of pickup in prices," said Harry Tchilinguirian, global head of commodity strategy at BNP Paribas
"Should we really be at $43 on a WTI basis because the closer we get to $45 mark with a curve that is in contango in the case of WTI, the more you're going to throw a lifeline to US shale producers." He added.


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Veteran Kazakh leader Nursultan Nazarbayev won Sunday's early presidential election with an overwhelming 95.5 per cent of the vote, the Central Election Commission said on Monday, citing first official results.
By winning an election devoid of any challenge, Mr. Nazarbayev has secured another five years in charge of his oil-producing Central Asian state of 16.4 million people, where the echo of popular revolutions in the Arab world is almost inaudible.
"You've given me carte blanche to continue the course of economic, political and social reforms," Mr. Nazarbayev said in an address to his compatriots when he visited the headquarters of his Nur Otan ruling party early this morning.
Mr. Nazarbayev, 70, has made stability his main motto in the predominantly Muslim nation, where he has overseen market reforms and more than $120-billion in foreign investment during more than two decades in power.
But he is challenged by critics at home and rapped by the West for his authoritarian methods. Kazakhstan has never held an election judged free or fair by international monitors.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, chaired last year by Kazakhstan, has stationed more than 300 observers across the country and identified pre-election concerns about transparency of the vote and media freedom.
Its election monitoring arm will deliver its findings later on Monday.
Mr. Nazarbayev's landslide re-election does nothing to answer the question cited by many investors as the biggest political risk in Kazakhstan: who will eventually succeed him?
The president, who has built warm ties with giant neighbours Russia and China, has said he will rule for as long as his health and his people will allow. Some analysts say he could use his next five years in office to groom a pliant successor. In the previous polls in 2005, Mr. Nazarbayev won 91.2 per cent of the vote.
"It is well understood that you win an election not on the day of this election, but much earlier – through your deeds," Mr. Nazarbayev said in comments posted on his official website.
"This means that whatever we have been doing these 20 years has not been in vain. This is ... an exam that we all have passed."
Living standards in Kazakhstan are higher than elsewhere in Central Asia, a volatile region bordering Afghanistan unsettled by poverty, ethnic tensions, radical Islam and the drug trade.
Official turnout was 89.9 per cent in Sunday's election, which Mr. Nazarbayev called almost two years before his term had been due to end after rejecting a proposal for a referendum to extend his reign unchallenged until 2020.
The fragmented opposition, which was left no with time to mobilize its forces, denounced the early election as a farce. One of the three candidates who nominally stood against Mr. Nazarbayev voted for the president.


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By MARIA SANMINIATELLINEW YORK (AP) â¿¿ Quebec's new premier, Pauline Marois, doesn't shy away from the truth about her government's separatist ambitions, and is banking on a policy of transparency and fiscal responsibility to lure foreign investors who might otherwise be worried. It helps that given Marois' slim edge in the legislature â¿¿ she leads a minority government â¿¿ her Parti Quebecois has no chance of passing any legislation calling a referendum on separatism during this mandate. Still, she made clear in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday that breaking away from Canada is a goal. "I say yes, we are sovereigntists ... and we want to explain this project and to convince the population of Quebec," Marois said. But an eventual move in that direction would be open and democratic, and would not come as a surprise, she added. "We will not hide it. We will have a debate, we will discuss that and we will do a referendum if we think the population will agree with more than 50 percent of the vote," said Marois, who was on a three-day visit to New York to court potential investors and attract business opportunities. Quebec has held two referendums to split from Canada, in 1980 and 1995, the last narrowly rejecting independence. A poll done shortly before the province's elections in early September showed support for independence was under 30 percent, but analysts at the time said voters were weary of the Liberals after three terms in office. More pressing right now for Marois, who is the province's first woman premier, is to project an image of a healthy and well-managed economy and establish her government's credibility with the business community in Canada and abroad. "I explain first of all, we will be responsible as a government," said Marois.
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Phosphate fertilizers contain varying amounts of Cd and other heavy metals as contaminants from phosphate rock (PR). To determine whether periodic applications of P fertilizers resulted in measurable accumulations of Cd in soils and in harvested crops, soil and plant tissue samples from nine long-term (> 50 yr) soil fertility experiments in the USA were analyzed for Cd, as well as P and other elements. Annual Cd rates were estimated to range from 0.3 to 1.2 g ha−1 in these experiments. Plant tissues analyzed were corn (Zea mays L.), soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.), and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) leaves or grain, and timothy (Phleum pratense L.) forage. Results from these long-term experiments have shown that plant uptake of Cd contaminants in P fertilizers containing < 10 mg Cd kg−1 is negligible. While the Cd accumulations in soil in these experiments could not be calculated, they would approximate that accumulated in most agricultural soils in the USA at this time. About 70% of the P fertilizers is produced from Florida PR, which contains < 10 mg kg−1 of Cd, as compared with about 10% from the western USA, which contains higher Cd levels. Therefore, adding Cd to soils as a contaminant in P fertilizers at rates ranging from 0.3 to 1.2 g Cd ha−1 does not appear to result in increased Cd levels in plants as a result of long-term P fertilization.Please view the pdf by using the Full Text (PDF) link under 'View' to the left.
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Its that time of year again, when Christmas Lights light the streets, cookies fill our bellys, and Cookin' Soul returns with a dope new mixtape. This year the production team of Cookin' Soul return with a dope new project called Ready For Xmas. The mixtape is a dope collection of some of Biggie's classic tracks reworked with a holiday theme.
The fellas masterfully took Biggie's bars and beautifully blended them together with some Christmas classics for some hip hop with a holiday flare. Cookin' Soul never disappoints, and Ready For Xmas is no different. Check out the new mixtape after the jump and let us know what you think.
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Nani walks out from Mani Ratnam's film! - ABN
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Director Mani Ratnam has got average success in 'Ok Bangaram' movie and he is planning for his next project and is determined to start its shoot in January. Initially, Mani Ratnam wanted to make this movie with Karthi and Dulquer Salmaan and the sources say that Mani picked Nani in place of Dulquer for promoting it in Telugu. Now it is learnt that hero Nani has walked out of Mani Ratnam's movie. Watch the video for more details . .


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