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Facebook and Google are at war. This is a power struggle like our generation has never seen, except perhaps the one ongoing between Apple and Microsoft. When it comes to social media, for me, Twitter has always played second fiddle to Facebook – and Google Plus isn't even in the band. But there's more at stake than social network popularity, to make this issue sound more like two high school cliques' bickering than it already does; both corporations continue to develop new features that could put them ahead in major industries like shopping, travel, music, movies and news.
Facebook's only power lies in its 800 million members – it's not innovative or multi-useful like Google – and stepping outside that role will lose the faith of those members. Facebook seems to be acutely aware of this fact, and though it toes the line with its recent Spotify, Netflix and Washington Post partnerships it remains within bounds; music, videos and news are seamlessly incorporated into the conversations already taking place within its site, in ways that a "Facebook Documents" application or "Facebook Translate" would not.
Google, on the other hand, should be more worried. Google, as a business, is fun (see Time's history of Google Doodles, including a recent tribute to Jim Henson, to back this up). Most people would consider the features developed by Google over the years to have diverse, convenient and valuable uses. However, Google as a whole is mostly serious. Not quite Charles Schwab serious (pre-"Talk to Chuck" campaign), but serious all the same.
The 1998 company's more popular additions to its top-notch search engine have been Google Maps, Android software, Google Translate, Gmail and the Chrome browser – all just about as sensible and fun as my dad's "driving shoes." In contrast, one could argue that its most notable flop thus far has been its attempt at social networking with Google Plus. Google Plus has not yet served the purposes that Facebook has mastered: being all inclusive, offering information that its users want to know about their closest friends and acquaintances and providing features like photo-sharing to grease the wheels of these interactions.
Google Plus made its biggest mistake by networking through Gmail. Although convenient, since everything was happening under Google's umbrella, Gmail isn't really social. A person can communicate with friends, but also family members, co-workers and strangers, without any crossover between these groups of the information being shared. Google Plus connected users with all these people at once, so they were getting invitations to join from friends – as well as professors, classmates and grandparents. This inevitable lack of separation created an awkward pressure, where Google Plus was more like LinkedIn and Twitter trying to be Facebook all at once.
The anti-trust lawsuit brought by rival businesses against Google in the past week doesn't hold much weight, especially since Google does not charge for the use of its services (something that makes both Facebook and Google exceptional). But this widely-publicized questioning over whether Google can be counted on to produce unbiased, relevant information to users should serve as a warning; the last thing a company, free or otherwise, needs is a faltering of consumer confidence.
Because of its highly addictive nature and ability to wend its way through the minutest intricacies of our lives, it would seem to follow that users would feel more threatened by Facebook than Google. However, there's something about the social networking site that makes it far less Orwellian than the ambitious projects set up by Google – maybe the constant sight of our friends' faces is subconsciously comforting. Or, more likely, it is Facebook's ability to address that fear outright. It's no secret to users that the company's revenue comes from ads; we've noticed them. But targeting these ads more specifically to users through the "likes" feature comes off as more beneficial than creepy, since you get bothered less by marketing that doesn't concern you.
Besides, anything's better than the Farmville days, when real notifications were unfiltered and became peppered with random quiz invites or promotions for games. Facebook learned how to avoid this unwanted media on its site, and rather than harken back to its initial days of mega-simplicity, it is embracing the entrance of select businesses. Will recently-announced partnerships with Spotify, Netflix and Washington Post be good? Probably, since they are addressing these choices, instead of just slipping them in. That is, as long as the industry of journalism isn't doomed, Spotify doesn't become illegal and Netflix doesn't go under from its unpopular split between video streaming and movies-by-mail. But Facebook's involvement should hopefully stave off the impending fates of all three.
There's no way around it: Google is the kid who does your economics homework, but when it comes to a social environment he just doesn't fit in. Where Facebook and Google are powerful, they are highly distinct nonetheless. Facebook is fun, honest and entertaining – everything we ever wanted from a social networking site, and more – and its new features provide more of what we already have come to love. Google would do well to ensure that the features it introduces from here on out are supplementing the work users are already doing with it, instead of trying to be something it's not.
The cutesy search engine needs to realize that, while being an equally-influential and more-innovative entity, it has much to learn from Facebook about respecting and understanding its clientele – especially since the two rivals are so fiscally dependent on users' trust and regard.
Check out our multimedia coverage of the Madison Facebook Hackathon at http://badgerherald.com/news/2011/09/24/video_facebook_hacka.php.


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An invasive species of ant from Argentina and Brazil is killing off other ant species, including the hated red fire ant, in the southern United States, University of Texas researchers say in a recent study published by the journal Biological Invasions.
"Tawny crazy ants" – official name: Nylanderia fulva – were first spotted in a Houston suburb in 2002, and have since wiped out five other ant species in areas of the Texas Gulf coast, the researchers say.
The crazy ant colonies don't seem to have any natural enemies in the Southern states, and traditional poisons don't kill them.
The resulting dominance of the crazy ant is erasing biodiversity at the bottom of the food chain, which will have implications for the entire ecosystem, Ed LeBrun, a researcher at the University of Texas' invasive species research program, said.
"Perhaps the biggest deal is the displacement of the fire ant, which is the 300 pound gorilla in Texas ecosystems these days," he explained. "The whole system has changed around fire ants. Things that can't tolerate fire ants are gone. Many that can have flourished. New things have come in. Now we are going to go through and whack the fire ants and put something in its place that has a very different biology. There are going to be a lot of changes that come from that."
While crazy ants don't sting like fire ants, they're still bothersome to humans.
"When you talk to folks who live in the invaded areas, they tell you they want their fire ants back," LeBrun said. "Fire ants are in many ways very polite. They live in your yard. They form mounds and stay there, and they only interact with you if you step on their mound."
In contrast, crazy ants build mega-colonies inside people's houses and even nest in appliances and houseplants.
"There are videos on YouTube of people sweeping out dustpans full of these ants from their bathroom," LeBrun said. "You have to call pest control operators every three or four months just to keep the infestation under control. It's very expensive."
So far, crazy ants have taken up residence in 21 counties in Texas, 20 counties in Florida, and a few sites in southern Mississippi and southern Louisiana.
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Grab your tinfoil hats! Grab your sunscreen even if it's cloudy, both because you can get sunburned when it's cloudy and because you never know when the sun is going to come out or for how long we're going to be on the run! Grab the latest issue of the New Yorker along with the last one because I don't think you read all of that one yet! Grab some snacks but don't go crazy with it! Grab your face soap and your moisturizer and your coverup and your mascara and your blush, BUT LEAVE THE REST BEHIND BECAUSE WE'RE UNDER ATTACK AND MUST GTFOOOOOOOOOOO!
As if we needed more evidence that our planet has been invaded with space beings and will soon be under attack, footage has just come in from a wedding in India where space beings were so bold as to just legit roll up IN THEIR UFO, Y'ALL. From YouTube:
There is always a special celebration for marriage, even innovative too. Here is a marriage occation where the Bride and Groom came on the venue of marrigage on UFO from sky at Porbadar city, India
Bride and Groom, or SPACE ALIEN BRIDE AND SPACE ALIEN GROOM?!
Why did they take so long to come out of their spaceship? WE'RE WAITING, ALIENS! JUST PUT YOUR ALIEN MIND CONTROL DEVICES INTO OUR EARS AND LET US GO HOME ALREADY! (Via Hypervocal.)


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Former Orlando Magic point guard Jameer Nelson signed a one-year, $2.7 million contract on Thursday to play with the Dallas Mavericks.
"I am excited," Nelson said. "It's one of those things that during the process it was fun to go through, but there came a point where I was ready to get it done. From the start, Dallas was on my radar and one of the top teams I was targeting."
Nelson will sign with the Mavericks for their cap-room exception of $2.7 million.
The 10-year veteran was waived from the Magic in a cap saving move. The Magic owe Nelson $2 million this season, making the deal even better for Dallas.


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Diamond Rush
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You play an adventurer on a mighty trek: run away to avoid rock slides, push boulders out of your way, solve the riddles of ancient civilizations, climb the cave walls to reach unexplored places, and more.
The quest takes you through three stunningly beautiful worlds:
The Ancient Khmer Temple of Angkor: Clear brush and overcome boulders on your way to the diamonds, but be mindful of the elusive snakes and other life-threatening obstacles as you continue your quest.
The Bavarian Dungeon: Search every inch of this medieval dungeon full of dangerous spiders and terrifying knights for the hidden treasure chests that contain your riches!
The Snowy Caves of Tibet: This frozen world will be a true challenge. Watch out for stalactites and prehistoric apes lurking around.
In each world, try to collect objects to build up your arsenal: a compass to guide you, a hammer for knocking out enemies, a grapple for grabbing far-off objects, and so on.
In addition to physical strength, you'll also need to be clever enough to solve the puzzles and riddles that lie between you and the enormous treasure.
Grab as many diamonds as you can, but be careful...the blinding light of these beautiful jewels can sometimes hide treacherous conditions.
So, do you have what it takes to be crowned the ultimate explorer?
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i m playing diamond i like that too much but i have an question
can you solve please
1.in which level i got a freezing hammer
2.in which level i got a rope
how to get rope in diamond rush?
Siberia stage 10
Hey for all who want to clear siberia stage 10: bring the monkey on top of all 4 yaki men 1 by 1(it'll follow u) then freeze it wid hammer,it shld drop on the yaki men thus killing them bt 1 by 1.hope dis helps..
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i need the freezing mallet where is it hidden..siberian level 6 n angok wat secret level 3 is driving me nuts,help plis.
Siberia Stage 8
I love this game. The Adventures are just super cool. However, I haven't quite figured out how to open the passage door in Siberia Stage 8. Any Ideas?
freezer hammer
In diamond rush game in which stage ew found the freezer hammer?
Fulfilling all the Secret Stages of Diamond Rush
I really like this game that i spent gargantuan time, yet, i never regret because i have finished all the stages from Angkor to Bavaria to Siberia. It's so amazing to discover the secret labyrinths and sacrifice your life line sometimes just to gain control of your paths and jewels. I would like to thank the creator of this genius and state of the art game. I feel much clever now because of this game.
i like this game
diamond rush soo like game
Siberia Stage 7 - Red Diamonds
Can't find 2 Red Diamonds in Siberia Stage 7, found secret on top part of 3rd ice dragon but it only has 1up bonus. can anyone help?
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GoldLink x BMB - Playah
As you may have deduced from the freaky bars he spit on his last feature, On&On (Remix), GoldLink is a certified Playah. On his latest single, a collaboration with Russian beatsmith BMB, the Virginia buzzmaker emphasizes the point, schooling listeners on his sexual prolificacy as well as his ironclad dedication to the hustle. More striking than the track's subject matter, however, are Link's skills on the mic. Though his partner's beat features one of the most unpredictable rhythm sections I've heard since Ludacris got Stung by Red and Meth in '02, the emcee manages to sound right at home over the left-of-center instrumental backdrop. Has Playah whet your appetite for more? Then keep it locked; this promo cut isn't attached to a larger set, but we'll keep you posted on both collaborators' plans as further details emerge.


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|Informal Consultations of the 44th Session of the Commission on
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New York, May 2000
On Thursday, 11 May, Working Group II met from 3pm to 6pm and, following a G-77/China consultation, from 8:30pm to 10pm. The group heard remarks from Angela King, Special Advisor to the Secretary General on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women, and continued negotiating Section IV of the outcomes document, on further actions and initiatives.
The following covers only text negotiated in the current sessions.
Angela King, Special Advisor to the Secretary General on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women, praised delegates� spirit of collaboration and unity, and highlighted their important contribution to promoting women�s human rights around the world. She noted that women working at the grassroots level have successfully used the Beijing PFA to advance their rights, and emphasized the need to eliminate the gap between what governments have agreed to do and the reality of their actions. She said that Beijing +5 should be a forum for hope and concrete action.
Chair Bhattacharjee reiterated that the progress made on the actions and initiatives document would have an impact. JUSCANZ announced the acceptance of the Republic of Korea into its group.
Actions to be taken at the national level by governments: In 102 (l), on mainstreaming a gender perspective into national immigration and asylum policies, JUSCANZ noted that language on assessing Convention grounds for granting asylum had been agreed and language on extending protection from gender-related persecution had been deleted. She clarified that the reference described the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol, and stated that inclusion of this reference was legally necessary. The G-77/CHINA opposed referring to the Convention, which remains bracketed, but agreed to the proposed deletion. The rest of the paragraph was agreed.
Delegates met in a small working group on 111 (a), on employment for women. Working Group II agreed to their proposal for language on facilitating employment for women through, inter alia: promotion of adequate social protection; simplification of administrative procedures; removal of fiscal obstacles, where appropriate; and other measures such as access to risk capital, credit schemes, micro-credit and other funding facilitating the establishment of micro and small and medium enterprises. Delegates agreed to delete 111(c), on national labor laws giving appropriate protection to women workers, and to address related issues in paragraph 127 (d), under actions to be taken at the national and international level by governments and international institutions.
In 112 (a), on institutional mechanisms working with national machineries and NGOs and strengthening support for gender equality, delegates agreed to a G-77/China proposal to refer to cooperation with civil society, particularly women�s NGOs. JUSCANZ proposed adding a reference to institutional mechanisms at all levels of government. After the G-77/CHINA objected to this phrase, Chair Bhattacharjee suggested removing the reference to government, and the paragraph was agreed. Delegates then agreed to G-77/China formulations of: 112 (d), on considering the establishment of effective commissions or other institutions to promote equal opportunities, and 112 (e), on strengthening efforts to fully implement national action plans developed for the implementation of the POA and, where necessary, adjusting or developing national plans for the future.
In 113 (a), on sex-disaggregated data, delegates agreed to a G-77/China proposal to remove a reference to national statistical offices� services being demand driven, and to a JUSCANZ proposal to include text on formats that are accessible to the public and to policy makers. Delegates disagreed with the use of the word indicators, with the G-77/CHINA preferring substitution of a reference to statistical data. JUSCANZ opposed this option, and it remains bracketed. In 113 (b), on developing national capacity to undertake policy-oriented research and impact studies, delegates agreed to specify that these should be gender-related. The EU proposed moving the text to 126 (a), under national and international actions by governments and international organizations. After the G-77/CHINA opposed, delegates agreed it should remain in its current position.
Actions to be taken at the national level by governments, the private sector, NGOs and other civil society actors: Working Group II agreed to negotiations conducted by a small group on a series of paragraphs related to work. In EU-proposed text merging 111 (b) and 118 (b), on ensuring and safeguarding the rights of women workers, delegates agreed to G-77/China amendments including: reference to protecting and promoting rights, text on removing stereotypical attitudes instead of behavioral barriers, and deletion of reference to unequal treatment of workers� rights. Delegates also agreed to an EU merger of 118 (a), 118 (j) and 128 (g), on policies and programmes to enhance women�s employability, with several G-77/China references, including text specifying access to quality jobs instead of improving the quality of employment. Delegates also agreed to EU text combining 118 (f), 118 (g) and 127 (k), on family friendly policies and services.
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Breaking Dawn, Anyone? More Blockbusters Coming
Going out to the movies this weekend? Of course, the BIG one is "Breaking Dawn" part 1 that opens at midnight, tonight. FYI, people have been lined up at Celebration Cinema since 10 am Thursday to be first-in-line, and theaters around the country are selling out for first showings.


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C-reactive protein testing is not more effective than an educational intervention to decrease antibiotic prescriptions for patients seen for acute cough
Research Activities, April 2012
Combining measurement of blood levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) with use of an accepted clinical algorithm on antibiotic treatment of acute cough illness is no better than the clinical algorithm alone in supporting clinicians to not prescribe antibiotics for acute bronchitis, concludes a new study. Despite evidence from numerous studies and subsequent physician education campaigns that routine antibiotic treatment is not generally called for to treat acute cough illness, 50 to 80 percent of adults seen for acute cough are prescribed antibiotics in the absence of coordinated programs to reduce overuse of antibiotics. This over-prescribing of anitbiotics increases the risk of bacteria developing drug resistance.
Blood levels of CRP, an inflammation-associated protein produced by the liver, can help identify bacterial infections in patients. The researchers tested whether combining data from a point-of-care CRP test and an algorithm, which estimates the probability a patient has pneumonia based on the physical examination, would reduce the inappropriate use of antibiotics in patients with acute cough. They randomly assigned 131 patients seeking emergency department (ED) treatment for an acute cough to either an experimental (CRP-plus-algorithm) or control (algorithm only) group. In both groups, the antibiotic prescription rates were substantially lower than previous year levels. The researchers found no significant difference between the two interventions in antibiotic use (37 percent and 31 percent, respectively). The findings were based on 286 patients seen for acute cough at a large, urban ED with an emergency medicine residency program, of whom 131 were eligible and enrolled in the study. The study was funded in part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HS13915).
More details are in "C-reactive protein testing does not decrease antibiotic use for acute cough illness when compared with a clinical algorithm," by Ralph Gonzales, M.D., M.S.P.H., Eva A. Aagaard, M.D., Carlos A. Camargo, M.D., Dr.P.H., and others in the July 2011 Journal of Emergency Medicine 41(1), pp. 1-7.


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Scott Ross focuses his practice on litigating complex commercial disputes throughout the country. He routinely represents clients from the hotel, hospitality, real estate, entertainment, energy, technology and financial services industries in federal and state courts and arbitration proceedings. Scott has experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of contractual disputes, as well as litigating fraud claims, RICO actions, misappropriation of trade secrets, real estate disputes, copyright and trademark infringements, and business defamation lawsuits.
Before attending law school, Scott studied economics as an undergraduate at Penn State University and worked for nearly three years as a broker and analyst in the weather derivatives industry. As a commercial litigator, Scott leverages his business background to gain a unique perspective and understanding of a clients' business and industry.
Scott graduated cum laude from St. John's University School of Law, where he was the associate managing editor of the St. John's Law Review. During law school, he served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Arthur D. Spatt of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.


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The man behind the encounter, Isaque Bagwan recalls how his life was under threat after killing Manya Surve
The makers of Shootout at Wadala have revealed the first look of one of the characters played by John Abraham. John plays the character of Manya Surve, the first educated Hindu gangster whose reign of terror in the area of Agar Bazaar in Dadar. On 11th January, 1982, Bombay witnessed its first ever police encounter outside Wadala College when police squad led by Isaque Bagwan shot Manya Surve point blank.
Actor Anil Kapoor, will play supercop Isaque Bagwan in Sanjay Gupta's 'Shootout At Wadala', When this reporter had met Bagwan few years ago, he recalled how his life was under treat after he killed Manya Surve. "After killing Manya Surve in an encounter, I used to receive threats from his associate Sheikh Munir who would call the crime branch with bogus names and ask for me. Then one day, he asked me to come to Mumbai Central where he tried to kill me."
And the threats didn't stop there and his family was also under treat. He recalls, "Criminals landed up at my house and told my wife that I had met with an accident near Regal theatre when actually I was out of town. I had gone to Mangalore to arrest some criminals who had escaped from our custody. I had instructed my wife to never open the door to any stranger. So when she saw two people she didn't know, she called my office and was told that I was not in town."


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Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn Reveal They are Dating
Posted on March 18, 2013
Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods confirmed rumors they are dating today with Facebook posts and photographs. Tiger posted a message on his Facebook page as well as photographs of him and Lindsey. Lindsey and Tiger are both smiling in the photographs. Tiger wore a white Nike shirt and Lindsey wore a light blue top by Under Armour.
Tiger said in his statement, "This season has been great so far and I'm happy with my wins at Torrey and Doral. Something nice that's happened off the course was meeting Lindsey Vonn. Lindsey and I have been friends for some time, but over the last few months we have become very close and are now dating. We thank you for your support and for respecting our privacy. We want to continue our relationship, privately, as an ordinary couple and continue to compete as athletes."
Lindsey also posted a statement on her Facebook page. She wrote, "I guess it wasn't a well-kept secret but yes, I am dating Tiger Woods. Our relationship evolved from a friendship into something more over these past few months and it has made me very happy. I don't plan on addressing this further as I would like to keep that part of my life between us, my family and close friends. Thank you for understanding and your continued support! xo LV"
A USA Today says cites relationship experts who don't think the new couple will last. Dr. Wendy Walsh, author of The 30-Day Love Detox, told USA Today, "Every time he talks to a pretty girl on the golf course, Lindsey is going to hear about it."
It has been about three and a half years since Tiger's string of affairs, which led to his divorce from Elin Nordegren. He has managed to stay out of the tabloids since then.
Photo: Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods
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Contact: Mary Pat Doorley, CVNP, 440-546-5995, 440-343-7355 (cell)
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Brecksville, Ohio - The energetic, four-piece stringband MilkDrive will wrap up this season's Heritage Concert Series when they appear at Happy Days Lodge on Friday, May 3, 2013. The show begins at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. The group's performance is presented by the National Park Service and the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park, celebrating the cultural legacy of the Cuyahoga Valley. This series is made possible thanks to the generous support of 89.7 FM (WKSU), Cable 9 Television, Courtyard by Marriott of Akron/Stow, the Lloyd L. and Louise K. Smith Foundation, and Time Warner Cable.
Admission is $17 adults, $12 Conservancy members, and $5 children ages 3 - 12. General seating. Advance sales are available until 3 p.m. on Friday for that weekend's show by calling 330-657-2909. All students with a current I.D. card will be admitted for the special $12 price.
Jazz-grass band MilkDrive features award-winning instrumentalists Brian Beken on fiddle and lead vocals, Noah Jeffries on guitar and harmony vocals, Dennis Ludiker on mandolin and harmony vocals, and Matt Mefford on double bass. But awards reveal nothing about the Austin, Texas, string band's exhilarating sound. Fueled by equal parts tradition and innovation, MilkDrive delivers a distinctive acoustic experience that crosses genres, geographies, and generations.
Andrew Dansby of the Houston Chronicle calls the MilkDrive repertoire "a virtuosic blast of bluegrassy string-band music." With labels that range from jamgrass and nu-folk to redneck gypsy jazz, the band has built a following that's as funky and friendly as they are. The group plays festivals from coast to coast every year, with stops in between at Colorado's beloved RockyGrass Festival and at home at the Austin City Limits Music Festival.
Happy Days Lodge, located at 500 West Streetsboro Road (State Route 303) in Peninsula 44264, 1 mile west of State Route 8, is a restored Civilian Conservation Corps structure that provides a rustic ambiance for folk and traditional concerts, theater, lectures, and special event rentals. For more information on rentals, call the Conservancy at 330-657-2909 ext. 119.
The Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a nonprofit organization created to engage public support for the park and provide services to enhance public use and enjoyment of the park. For more information about the Conservancy and its membership program, visit www.conservancyforcvnp.org or call 330-657-2909.
CVNP encompasses 33,000 acres along the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. Managed by the National Park Service, CVNP combines cultural, historical, recreational, and natural activities in one setting. For more information visit www.nps.gov/cuva or call 330-657-2752.


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Quantum Rush: New Video of the Tunnel Track
Recently, a big update of the free future racer Quantum Rush Online brought many optimizations and two new race tracks online. Today, the development team published a video of the track with the name "Selenit Tunnel". It allows players a great insight into the thrilling ànd action-packed track design of the game.
As any track in this racing game, the tunnel track "Selenit Tunnel" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz1zogn3nHU) demands excellent driving skills from players. For each track players will need a different racing strategy to win.
The "Selenit Tunnel" is available for tiers 1 to 7 and challenges players especially by blurring the lines between up and down and left and right, when they race at high speed through the narrow tunnels, which are drivable by full 360 degrees.
All participants of a races start at the same height right at the start line, but some of them (chosen at random) start upside-down! From the start of a race players face the challenge to keep the overview of the action on the track.
Players have to keep in mind how the tunnel evolves and find the shortest driving line. Besides that, rotating obstacles move through the tunnels and complicate driving additionally.
Those, who are confident enough can take a shortcut through a second and much narrower tube which comes with even more obstacles!
The bottom line is: Only who keeps a cool head, drives with foresight and finds the booster pads and pickups along the track has a chance to step onto the podium.
At any rate, the Selenit Tunnel is an ingenious racing track with a clear focus not so much on fights but on high-speed racing maneuvers.
We wish you lots of fun with watching the videos and with testing your racing strategies on the track.
By the way: Our developers work very hard on the single player version of Quantum Rush and hope that Quantum Rush: Champions (which was already greenlit on Steam) can be published soon.
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text: Gael Varoquaux a écrit : > Let's keep this on the mailing list, or else, we can switch to French > (not that I mind English). Sorry I made reply without looking at the email > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 03:59:39PM +0100, Xavier Barthelemy wrote: >> So I think you did not understand my problem. It's a problem of >> organizing and cutting by slice of rows in my data. > > > OK, you're telling me you already have interpolated your data, and you > have all the values you need (ie regular grids in the different > directions you are interested in), but you just need to sort them out. > no, I did not interpolate my data, because you cannot. I am looking for sub-critical instabilities in binary instationary miscible compressible viscous fluids. so each numerical experiment is the result of (for some) days or hours of calculus in a high performance parallel computer. >> My data comports 18 values witch depends of 12 parameters. > >> so I have my data like that: >> by rows: >> first the 12 parameters, then the 18 values. > >> each rows represent a numeric experiment. I am doing parameters >> exploration, so each varies independently. But the discretization of the >> space parameters is not "regular": i have refined some for some values >> of the others parameters. > > If you want to do image plot, it will be more easier to have regular > data, that's where interpolation comes in. It looks to me like you want > to have an interpolation function f({P}) -> {V} where {P} is your set of > parameters and {V} your set of values. When you want to plot the cut > along a hyperplane HP, you simply choose a regular grid of this hyper > plane, and apply your interpolation function f on it. That's how I would > do it, if I understand your problem correctly. Yes, you're right, i would do it like that, but I can't. Too much calculus. I am refining some zones in the space parameter independently. > >> so my problem is really what I have (badly i guess) explained: I would >> like to plot 2D (and 3D) graphs. >> Let's suppose that I have X ,Y and Z datas corresponding. knowing that, >> how do you plot Y(X) with Z constant when you have a bunch of three >> columns data? > > In 1D that's really easy: if D is your [X, Y, Z] array, I would do > > X = D[:, 0] > Y = D[:, 1] > Z = D[:, 2] > > # Select all the data for Z = z0 > x = X[Z==z0] > y = Y[Z==z0] > > # Sort, just to make things prettier > y = y[argsort(x)] > x.sort() > > plot(x, y) i will try it. may be i have thought it too complicated. > >> you 'll have to first sort by Z, and then by X. so when you'll plot >> that, for each "X", sequentially sorted, you'll have the different "Y" >> for each "Z" values. consequently you will have the number of different >> Z values plots. > > OK, you want to do this for all values of Z. > >> And my problem now is the generalization with 12 parameters, let's name >> them from A to J. How I'll do if I want to plot F(H)? the same, I will >> sort by each of the 10 parameters and finally by H and I will have a >> family of plots. > > Yes, you can do this in a nice way using an array with fields and the > "order" argument to sort. > >> but now I want to cut (slice) them to have each plot independently, and >> i can plot them by the interfaced gnuplot. > > You can always generalize the cutting method used in my example. If U, V, > W are parameters (similar to Z in the example above), you can define a > mask array: > > mask = (U == u0) & (V == v0) & (W == w0) > > # You dont really need x and y arrays, you could directly go to xy > x = X[mask] > y = Y[mask] > xy = empty(x.shape, dtype=dtype([('x','float'), ('y','float')])) > xy['x'] = x > xy['y'] = y > > xy.sort(order=('x', 'y')) > > then you have in xy['x'] and xy['y'] what you are interested in, if I > understand things right. sounds good > > But I still think you need a regular grid, so either your data already > has that structure, and I don't understand why it has been "shuffled", or > it hasn't, and you'll need interpolating, so why bother sorting? > (selecting might be useful to reduce the amount of points). they are "shuffled" because I did not saved a data-base with the logical links. so if I want the 7th column in function of the 5th, they are "shuffled" thanks for your help, I'll try just now cheers Xavier


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With Persona 4 Golden just a month or so away from release, Atlus USA has put out another trailer touting the game's new features and enhancements, and proudly trumpeted that it'll be "The Vita's first great RPG".
While I have to say I agree, and that that trailer looks great, I can't help but be a tiny bit disappointed that Atlus is right. Why? Well, the Vita's first great RPG (in English, at least) is pretty much the PS2's last great RPG. And the Vita's other great RPGs are actually PSP RPGs. Much as I love my Vita, that's saying something.
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THE nurse found hanged after taking a hoax call left a note criticising senior
staff at the King Edward VII hospital, it was reported today.
Jacintha Saldanha, 46, was duped by a prank call from two Australian radio DJs
ringing for the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge.
An inquest has heard that the mother-of-two from Bristol, was found in her
nurses' quarters by a colleague and a security guard last Friday.
Three notes were also left in her room and there were also marks on her wrist,
London's Westminster Coroner's Court was told.
The Daily Mirror reports that one of the notes criticises the way she was
treated by senior colleagues at the private hospital.
The paper claims that Jacintha's family have been left "furious" at
the revelation and that her husband, Ben Barboza, is calling for a full
inquiry into her death.
It quotes a source close to the family saying: "One of the letters, which
is the longest, deals with the hospital and is critical in its tone.
"Needless to say, Ben wants a full inquiry into what happened, and he
wants to make sure the truth comes out. Within the letter Jacintha calls
into question some of the treatment she received at the hospital."
Jacintha was found three days after she put through a prank call by Sydney
radio DJs Michael Christian and Mel Greig who posed as The Queen and Prince
Charles asking to be put through to Kate Middleton.
The Duchess was being treated for morning sickness at the King Edward VII's
Hospital where the nurse worked.
Westminster coroner Dr Fiona Wilcox briefly opened her inquest this morning
before adjourning it until March 26 next year.
Detective Chief Inspector James Harman said: "On Friday 7 December Jacintha
Saldanha was found by a colleague and a member of security staff. Sadly she
was found hanging.
"There was also injuries to her wrist.
"The London Ambulance Service was called to the scene. At this time there are
no suspicious circumstances."
DJ name 'on bullets'
By Alex West
THE DJs who made the hoax call to the tragic nurse's hospital were under guard
at a "safe house" last night — after death threats.
Devastated Mel Greig, 30 — who days ago wept on Australian TV as she and her
radio colleague told of their shock at Jacintha's death — was said to have
been bombarded.
One letter to her fellow prankster Michael Christian, 25, warned: "Bullets are
out there with your name on." Cops in Sydney were investigating as it
emerged radio station 2Day FM's phone records may be seized by broadcasting
watchdogs probing the pair's stunt.
The station claims it tried calling the London hospital five times before
airing the joke call. The King Edward VII Hospital says it had no contact.


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Chris Denorfia respects Cincinnati's Scott Rolen as one of the best third basemen in the game.
"He's like a brick wall," Denorfia said late Saturday afternoon of the seven-time Gold Glove winner.
"It seems like Scott has everything covered from the line to short."
But at 4:13 p.m. Saturday, with the sun and shadows playing tricks in the bottom of the ninth of a tie game at Petco Park, Denorfia slashed a sharp grounder — off Aroldis Chapman no less — that somehow shot between Rolen and the third-base line.
As the ball rolled into the left-field corner, Chase Headley raced home from first to give the Padres their 11th walkoff victory of the season and their second straight 4-3 win over the Reds.
With the Giants' extra-inning loss in Colorado, the Padres' victory put them a half-game ahead of San Francisco in the National League West race and knotted Atlanta and the Giants atop the wild-card derby.
The Colorado Rockies are four games behind the Padres with eight to play.
The Padres' win also clinched an edge in the season series against the Reds — which would give the Padres the home-field advantage over Cincinnati in the first round of the playoffs were the Padres to win the West and finish with the same win-loss record as the Reds.
"Every win these last two weeks count extra," said Padres closer Heath Bell. "Every play is huge."
And few bigger than Denorfia's game-winning hit.
"This is a pretty big moment in my career," said Denorfia, who over the past month had gone from starter to bit player while fighting slumps of 2-for-25 and 9-for-60. His decisive blow Saturday was his first RBI since his most recent homer on Aug. 24.
But he admitted that Saturday's shot was not all his doing.
"I feel fortunate that I got it past Rolen," Denorfia said. "Sometimes you have to have luck. The shadows played a role."
Both managers — Bud Black of the Padres and Dusty Baker of the Reds — seemed to agree on that point, although Rolen refused to use the shadows as an excuse.
"I was in the right position, the right spot," Rolen said. "I needed to knock that ball down. I needed to come up with something. I just didn't make the play."
The Padres' win also prevented the Reds from clinching a share of the National League Central title and set up the opportunity to sweep the important three-game series from Cincinnati.
"We're fighting to the end," said second baseman David Eckstein. "There is no quit in this club. I think the fans see that and have really responded to it the last couple days. We're pumped."
After the Reds scored a run off Padres starter Jon Garland in the first inning, the hosts forged leads of 2-1 and 3-1.
A single by Ryan Ludwick and a double by Oscar Salazar, who started in left, put Padres on second and third with one out in the second. Headley singled home Ludwick to tie the game and Salazar scored on Nick Hundley's sacrifice fly.
Will Venable opened the third with his career-high 13th homer — making him 17-for-31 with three RBI and nine runs scored over his past eight starts.
The Reds tied the game with single runs in the fourth (on pitcher Travis Wood's two-out, RBI infield single) and fifth (on Joey Votto's leadoff home run.) It was the 36th homer of the season for the Reds first baseman, who had missed the first game of the series with a sinus infection.
Garland retired the last six batters he faced and Luke Gregerson retired the side in order in the seventh.
But the Padres bullpen worked out of jams in the final two innings.
After Mike Adams loaded the bases with two outs in the eighth, Baker sent left-handed hitter Yonder Alonso up to hit for Wood. Black countered with left-handed reliever Joe Thatcher. Baker then went with right-handed pinch-hitter Miguel Cairo, who popped out to first baseman Adrian Gonzalez to end the inning.
Bell had runners on first and second with one out in the ninth, but retired Rolen and Jonny Gomes on a pair of flies to the outfield.
In addition to not snagging Denorfia's game-winning hit, Rolen was 0-for-5 at the plate, including a double-play grounder and twice stranding runners in scoring position after the Padres had issued intentional walks to Votto.


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Grammy-award winning singer Nelly Furtado and Matchbox Twenty will play Caesars Windsor early in the new year, the casino announced Monday morning.
Canadian singer-songwriter Furtado will hit the Colosseum Stage on Saturday Jan. 26 at 9 p.m. She has won two Grammy Awards, 10 Juno Awards, three Much Music Video Awards and has earned a star on Canada's Walk of Fame. Tickets start at $40 and go on sale at noon on Friday, Nov. 16.
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This model is called the Dragon. It's got two dart projectiles that shoot up to 15 feet, delivering a charge of 150,000 volts. The stun gun also has an LED light built in so you can see what you're tasing at night. It runs $299–$50 cheaper than the competition, according to the company.
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Thanks for attending the 2013 Digital Ethics Symposium! Proceedings and papers will be published to this site soon. We'll see you in 2014! The Center for Digital Ethics & Policy is pleased to announce the date of our Third Annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics. This year's symposium will take place on Friday, October 4, 2013 on Loyola University Chicago's Water Tower Campus. The keynote speaker will be Douglas Rushkoff, technology journalist, theorist and author of "Present Shock." Additional information on featured speakers can be found here.
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Friday, October 4, 2013
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Keynote Speaker: Douglas Rushkoff, Technology Journalist, Theorist & Author of "Present Shock"
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Mariarosaria Taddeo, University of Warwick
Mia Consalvo, Concordia University
Bernhard Debatin, Ohio University
Robert Cavalier, Carnegie Mellon University
Jim Brady, Editor-in-Chief of Digital First Media
Marty Stock, CEO, Cavalry Agency
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By Werner Ruotsalainen updated on 06/18/2013
I've been working on updating the iPhone 4S-specific version of my camcorder enhancer tool for some hours (earlier, dedicated article HERE).
It's still far from being finished but, should you
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2, know iOS programming and
3, have clearly understood how my previous iPhone 3GS / 4 camera enhancer tools (see for example THIS and, particularly, THIS) worked, how the objects interacted etc,
you can start using it right away with some work, even with some wired-in parameters (without a GUI). I still don't know when I'll release the finished version: I've been very busy lately so I can't promise anything. Hopefully next week. Or later. Or the next month. Dunno.
What has been implemented?
First, compared to the iPhone 4 / 3G S-specific version, I've added a bunch of settable parameters to the Advanced view's engine (but not to the graphical interface – yet). There have been no changes to the Simple View yet – I still need to decide what the most important parameters are. That is, for the time being, use the Advanced View. It already allows for setting up and storing any number (settable via RootViewController.NR_OF_ENTRIES) of records you can freely rename to show what custom settings you store in them. Backing up and restoring these records is already implemented.
Basically, I let for setting every single parameter you can set, including Binned, ImageStabilizationMethod (you'll want to set it to 0, should you want to give a try to using the entire sensor surface) and a bunch of other parameters. NOTE: not all pre-defined dictionaries (coming with iOS 5.1.1) contain all these key/value pairs by default. For example, the default AVCaptureSessionPresetHigh doesn't contain the MinFrameRate / MaxFrameRate / Binned etc. entries, while for example AVCaptureSessionPreset1280x720 does. (I've also listed these at the bottom of MyDataWrapper.h. BTW, speaking of MyDataWrapper, its implementation file, MyDataWrapper.m, already has the 4S-specific values in the -(id)init method.) I still need to add empty string checking to the writeDataToSystemFile method in SystemPlistContentWrapper.m and just don't store entries that are empty. (I assume users don't enter anything for values they don't want to be created. This is a change from the pre-iOS5, iPhone 3GS / 4 times, when I have stored everything back in the system plist as those entries were common to all ArrayOfHardwareCameraItems entries.)
Please don't forget that you can't use this app without modifying it. You're free to do it; again, I only release the sources for people that do know iOS programming and need the tool as soon as possible, way before I release my official version. About 50-60% of the new, 4S-specific engine is ready – now, it "only" takes some additional, depending on non-foreseeable problems, 4-16 hours to properly get ready, test and, for Cydia, pack and release the entire app.
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Can Eric Eikenberg right the Charlie Crist campaign?
That job came with a nice, likable boss, but a guy so obsessed with raising money for a U.S. Senate race he may not have noticed his administration was going off track. As his state sank deeper into a morass of record housing foreclosures and 11 percent unemployment, Crist cheerfully hosted events touting "Hispanic Heritage Month" or "Small Business Month."
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Paffett, who started from second on the grid, made a faultless start to immediately take the lead from his younger Mercedes team-mate Christian Vietoris who made a sluggish getaway from pole.
The Brit then began to stretch his legs ahead of the young German, however, it was the Audi of Mike Rockenfeller who was the HWA man's main threat as the Phoenix -run car, who was running sixth in the opening stages, pitted out of sync early in the race and rejoined behind the 2005 champion after the first round of stops.
The pair then ran nose to tail until the final few laps where Paffett eventually opened over a six-second gap to claim his first win since Brands Hatch last year.
Rockenfeller's second place means the German now leads the championship on the same 59 points as Spengler but assumes the top spot on count back with an earlier victory.
Pole-sitter Vietoris completed the rostrum after pulling off a late move on Robert Wickens, who at one stage looked as though he may conjure a race-winning drive with another alternative strategy.
Wickens began the race on the standard tyre and pitted on lap 4 for the option rubber, but his race was ultimately compromised by Audi's Rockenfeller sailing past the Canadian who in the end had to settle for fourth.
Jamie Green delivered his best result in Audi colours thus far in fifth position while Mercedes rookie Dani Juncadella finished sixth, putting manners on defending champion Spengler for the position on his way to a career best finish in the DTM.
Despite starting from 18th Mattias Ekstrom managed to salvage some points in eighth which nearly became seventh but for a mere two-hundredths of a second as the Audi narrowly lost out in drag race to the line with Spengler's BMW.
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In recent months, the safety of a class of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), the COX-2 inhibitors (including Vioxx®, Celebrex®, and Bextra®), has been called into question. Typically used for arthritis and other inflammatory diseases, the COX-2 inhibitors provide an alternative for patients who suffer gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding and other complications from older nonselective NSAIDs.
Results of three recent studies of COX-2 inhibitors supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HS10881) have ramifications for other drugs and pharmaceutical policies. They found that Medicaid prior-authorization plans may reduce unnecessary use of certain costly drugs, that newly marketed drugs may prompt physicians to enthusiastically prescribe them to a wider swath of patients, and that claims databases can be combined with survey data to decrease confounding in drug safety studies. The studies, led by Sebastian Schneeweiss, M.D., Michael Fischer, M.D., and Daniel Solomon, M.D., M.P.H., of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, are briefly summarized here.
Fischer, M.A., Schneeweiss, S., Avorn, J., and Solomon, D.H. (2004, November). "Medicaid prior-authorization programs and the use of cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors." New England Journal of Medicine 352, pp. 2187-2194.
The popularity and cost of selective COX-2 inhibitors have imposed financial stress on many prescription drug insurance programs, including State Medicaid programs, whose mandate is to cover the medical expenses of the poor. In an attempt to control medication costs, many States have implemented prior authorization requirements for COX-2 inhibitors, according to this study. The programs allow use of COX-2 inhibitors by patients who meet high-risk criteria (for example, GI bleeding from nonselective NSAIDs) while reducing use by others, thus targeting the use of these expensive agents to appropriate patients. The researchers' earlier work indicated substantial overuse of these medications among patients at low risk for complications from traditional NSAIDs.
In this study, the researchers used data from State Medicaid programs for 1999 through 2003 to calculate the proportion of NSAID use accounted for by COX-2 inhibitors, and they evaluated the effect of 22 State prior authorization programs on the use of these drugs (before Vioxx was withdrawn from the market). By 2001, COX-2 inhibitors accounted for half of all NSAID doses covered by State Medicaid programs. However, this proportion varied widely by 2003, from a low of 11 percent in some States to a high of 70 percent in others.
The implementation of prior authorization requirements for COX-2 inhibitors reduced the proportion of NSAID doses made up by COX-2 inhibitors by 15 percent. This corresponded to a decrease of $10.28 in spending per NSAID prescription. With nearly 18 million NSAID prescriptions covered by Medicaid in 2003, this decrease can be projected to an annual reduction in spending of $185 million. Determining whether these reductions are clinically appropriate will have important implications for the development of
rational drug-reimbursement policies.
Schneeweiss, S., Glynn, R.J., Avorn, J., and Solomon, D.H. (2005). "A Medicare database review found that physician preferences increasingly outweighed patient characteristics as determinants of first-time prescriptions for COX-2 inhibitors." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 58, pp. 98-102.
The rapid diffusion of COX-2 inhibitors led to prescribing of these drugs even to patients who lacked a clear indication for their use (GI bleeding from traditional NSAIDs), according to this study. First-time COX-2 inhibitor prescribing was somewhat dependent on patient factors in the first quarter of marketing. However, the proportional influence of physician preferences increased substantially over the following 2 years. Rapid adoption of new drugs after market introduction may prompt doctors to enthusiastically prescribe them even for patients without a clear indication, suggest the researchers.
They examined data on 37,957 Medicare beneficiaries who were enrolled in the Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly in Pennsylvania. All patients had started using nonselective NSAIDs or selective COX-2 inhibitors between January 1, 1999, and December 31, 2000, had no prior NSAID use, and had full prescription drug coverage. The researchers quantified the amount of variation in first-time COX-2 prescribing that could be explained by predictors of GI toxicity, other patient characteristics, or physician preferences.
COX-2 inhibitors were adopted as the preferred NSAID by 55 percent of physicians within 6 months after they were marketed. In new NSAID users, COX-2 prescribing was twice as dependent on physician prescribing preferences (60 percent) as on the combined predictors of GI toxicity (3 percent) and other patient factors (30 percent). The ratio of COX-2 prescribing explained by physician preferences over patient factors increased from 2 to more than 10 over a 24-month period.
Schneeweiss, S., Glynn, R.J., Tsai, E.H., and others (2005, January). "Adjusting for unmeasured confounders in pharmacoepidemiologic claims data using external information: The example of COX-2 inhibitors and myocardial infarction." Epidemiology 16(1), pp. 17-24.
Rare adverse drug effects usually show up only after a medication has been used widely. Large databases, such as Medicare claims data, which reflect routine practice for large and representative populations, are often the best source of data to analyze the incidence of such adverse effects. However, these datasets often don't measure such confounding factors as use of over-the-counter medications (for example, aspirin), body mass index, or smoking status. Not accounting for these factors could lead to underestimates of problems caused by certain medications, caution the investigators.
They used Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey data on 8,785 elderly men and women to assess the association between use of COX-2 inhibitors and five potential confounders not measured in Medicare claims data: body mass index, aspirin use, smoking, income, and educational attainment. Users of COX-2 inhibitors were less likely to be smokers than users of other NSAIDs (8 vs. 10 percent), while the prevalence of obesity was comparable (24 percent). Aspirin use was also balanced among all drug categories. Failure to adjust for these potential confounders (that are independently associated with heart attack) led to a small underestimation of the association between COX-2 inhibitors and heart attack.
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This Audi LeMans Prototype Apparently Crashed At Sebring This Week
Practice for some upcoming race at Sebring International Raceway apparently reduced this Audi racecar to a heap of scrap metal. Ouch.
Practice for some upcoming race at Sebring International Raceway apparently reduced this Audi racecar to a heap of scrap metal. Ouch.
Say, Volkswagen. That's a nice-looking wagon you've got there. Any chance you want to bring it over to America so we can all enjoy it too?
Attention, people of Europe! See the big yellow truck in that photo? The 2014 Corvette Convertible is inside, and it's on its way to the Geneva Motor Show.
If you're into racing, you've no doubt dreamed about doing a few hot laps around the Nürburgring. Maybe you've been lucky enough to actually go there and live to tell the tale. But if you haven't, there's one thing you need to know about the 'Ring: it's really, really hard.
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A funny thing happened to the al-Qaida terrorist network over the last decade or so. While the so-called "War on Terror" waged by America and her allies has been extremely costly in dollars as well as lives, it has largely resulted in the cleaning of al-Qaida's clock. Today they're generally considered a shadow of…
The last couple years have been a bit rough for Spyker, the Dutch supercar manufacturer that tried but failed to rescue Saab and lost a ton of money in the process. Now Spyker says they spent 2012 restructuring its debt and improving its finances, and they're poised to make a "resurgence" with a news sportscar concept…
Subaru first started bringing the WRX to the U.S. back when I was in high school. God, I wanted one so badly. It had a turbo engine! It had all-wheel-drive! It had a stick shift! It could give BMW and Audi a run for their money at a fraction of the cost! That car was a true game changer.
The last-ever Corvette C6 rolled off the assembly line at Bowling Green this week. They made 215,100 of them since 2005. It will be missed. Its Chevrolet Cobalt-inspired interior will not. Meanwhile, the plant is prepping for bigger and better things.
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New Yorkers heading home for the holidays or just prepping for a sexy night on the couch with their old friend DVR probably missed Nicki Minaj perform in Times Square on Friday night, capping off her week-long promotional tour across the Big Apple. Taking the same style of lip-synching she brought to Today's studio hours earlier, Minaj celebrated the release of Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded with a live rendition of three tracks, backed by a fleet of dancers who served more to spotlight their master's lack of pants and tendency to break into a range of accents mid-song. Sadly Roman was nowhere to be found, as aggressive, masculine alter-egos likely don't mix well with Midwestern tourists on their way to a pre-Mamma Mia stop at the Olive Garden.
Kicking things off with"Starships," Nicki led the public dance party with booming chants more than actual singing, as her amalgam of cliche pop tropes played loudly to the eager outdoor crowd. While a good booty shake takes a lot of concentration, she was careful to change choice lyrics to something Nokia's board of directors would be more comfortable with ("check who you want, check who you like"), although that didn't stop her faithful barbz from filling in the blanks themselves. The performance may have been brief, but it gave those who don't suffer from claustrophobia the opportunity to hear new Roman Reloaded track "Right By My Side" live, as well as revel in the glory of "Super Bass" almost a year after the fact. Literally stopping traffic is a fitting way to end a week of heavy album promotion, sure, but we hope Nicki hasn't abandoned her trend of crazy public exorcisms all together. Stay true to yourself, Nick! All it takes is one bad decision and you'll soon be performing at discount superstore before 8 p.m.


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WEST COVINA >> A fledgling electric car company wants to expand into the United States by establishing its hub in the auto mall, but ongoing legal problems with the property may delay or even kill the deal.
Genesis Motors Corp., whose cars are currently only sold in China, hopes to lease the litigation-entangled property that controversial developer Ziad Alhassen won back in September in a federal bankruptcy auction. The company's cars are manufactured in the Shandong Province. It has offices in Hong Kong and Los Angeles.
The company — which sells electric cars, motorcycles and ATVs — aims to begin operating in West Covina as early as January or February if the parties can agree on the terms soon, according to Genesis' CEO Curtis Newman.
"We're going to put an electric vehicle superstore there in West Covina," he said. "It is basically the hub for us. Logistically, it is just perfect."
The location could house its corporate center and its dealership, he said.
Newman claims the cars will offer a new technology that allows 190 miles at 40 miles per hour on one charge with a 10 kilowatt battery. The company's website lists up to 350 miles on a single charge. The cars cost between $14,000 and $35,000, he said.
"On a single charge, we can get up to 70 to 80 percent greater efficiency out of the battery pack," he said.
Newman's plans could come to fruition if West Covina manages to overturn Alhassen's purchase.
Since the auction's end, the city's legal representatives from Squire Sanders have filed two appeals to try to reverse the purchase. Alhassen owned the three dealership properties — once housing Ford, Hummer and Chevrolet franchises — for decades before losing them when another one of his companies, Hassen Imports Partnership, went bankrupt.
West Covina listed a $5 million obligation to Squire Sanders on its 2012 Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule submitted to the Department of Finance.
A U.S. District Court judge granted a temporary stay last month that halted the finalization of the $16 million purchase by Dighton. The stay remains in place and will likely continue until the end of November at the latest, as both sides will not submit their final documents until Nov. 20, according to a hearing Wednesday in Judge Christina Snyder's court.
"I understand there are time restraints, I'm not trying to drag this out," Snyder said. "I'm trying to find a very expeditious way to decide this."
Both sides will submit a 25-page opening brief to Snyder by Nov. 13, followed by 15-page responses due Nov. 20.
"I think it makes sense because I'm sure none of you wants to be writing a reply brief and cooking a turkey at the same time," she said.
Bankruptcy trustee Howard Ehrenberg argued Dighton and the estate could suffer losses if the stay continues. Dighton's financing remains in place until December, according to Snyder.
Dighton was the only qualified bidder on the property.
"Dighton does have the ability to cancel this escrow at any time," Ehrenberg said. "We could be in a situation where we could lose the sale."
Susan Montgomery, Dighton's attorney, said the delay not only costs Dighton money, but it could cause problems with the deal with Genesis Motors. No lease between the two parties has been presented.
"If they don't want to wait around, they can go to any place in Southern California to negotiate and we will lose out," she said.
Newman, however, said he is willing to fight for the property. He originally tried to bid on to purchase the property, but did not qualify.
"I've been all over L.A., I've literally combed the entire area from San Pedro to the Valley, all the way out to San Bernardino," Newman said. "I couldn't find anything else better."
Both Ehrenberg and Montgomery argued that the city should post a bond to cover the costs of the delay. The judge declined to rule on a bond before receiving more information.
Stephen Owens, the attorney for Squire Sanders, pointed to Newman's plans as a reason why the city is trying to enforce past covenants against Alhassen. The property should only be used for a dealership, while Newman has expressed a desire to assembly ATVs and motorcycles on site. The entire operation could create between 50-150 jobs, Newman said.
The city does not want dealer to sell motorcycles, ATVs, scooters or battery packs in that area, Owens said. The city is strict about the use of the properties in the auto-mall.
"Frankly prior to the filing of that declaration, we only had what we thought were well-founded concerns, and now they have been confirmed," Owens said of the plans. "If there were a lease, it wouldn't be in conformity with the appropriate city ordinances and our covenants."
Montgomery noted that once a lease is agreed to, the city still has the right to deny the zoning. Dighton purchasing the property does not extinguish that right, she said.


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SSX has established itself as the go-to gaming series for snowboarding enthusiasts ever since the franchise first sent players to the slopes in 2000.
Now, in its first console outing since 2007's SSX Blur for the Wii, the series is reinventing itself with its PS3 and 360 debut.
"It's been a long time since SSX has been out," brand communications boss Duke Indrasigamany tells MCV.
"There's a lot of old school fans out there. Hopefully we're opening a new generation of gamers' eyes to a series that really dominated on PSone and PS2.
"We want to deliver the best SSX experience that has been made. We've got a high bar to compete against, as Tricky is a real fan favourite, and SSX 3 was great too, but I think because there hasn't been a game like this in so long, it's very unfamiliar to many consumers."
Players can step into the boots of franchise favourites Elise, Kaori and Mac, as well as a range of new boarders including real life snowboarding star Travis Rice. They have to hit the slopes of nine of the most extreme mountain regions ever seen in an SSX title, constructed using real NASA data.
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Players are able to traverse the wide open landscapes in adrenaline-fuelled races in 'Race It' and rack up gravity-defying tricks in 'Trick It'. Then there's the 'Survive It' mode, which pits players against the elements in a bid to tackle some of the most dangerous slopes in the world.
Wing suits will help gamers glide across the more dangerous jumps, but they will also have to battle against avalanches, blizzards, dark routes lit only by torches and forests that present snowboarders with the danger of smashing into a tree at high speed.
With new players, slopes and online features, the SSX franchise returns with a bang in March. Expect it to be one of EA's most exciting new releases of this year's first quarter.
Also, those who pre-order the title will receive exclusive in-game content including extra snowboards, character attributes and SSX?series mainstay Eddie Wachowski.


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Cabela's Inc. has renewed a variable funding facility with Royal Bank of Canada for an additional three years and the commitment under the variable funding facility has increased from $350 million to $500 million.
RBC, Best Buy and Future Shop are partnering to offer a redemption option in Canada that provides clients access to more than 90,000 merchandise and electronic items, through the RBC Rewards online channel.
Cabela's announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, World's Foremost Bank, has entered into a $411.7 million commitment with Royal Bank of Canada under an outstanding series of variable funding notes issued by Cabela's Credit Card Master Note Trust.


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