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Swedish music is big in the United States these days, with bands like the Hives, Sahara Hotnights and Division of Laura Lee storming onto the charts with their brash, flashy brand of garage rock. Now comes the latest Swedish import, Nåid, and they're . . . oh, wait. They're not garage rock. Actually, they're not even a band; Nåid is just one guy, Martin Landqvist, and the fact that his biggest claim to fame is co-producing the last album by a-ha (remember them?) should give you a clue as to what type of music he favors. Yep, Nåid is dance pop all the way, a mix of throwback new wave/synth textures and forward-thinking house beats. The words "Sweden" and "dance pop" might cast your mind back to your "Dancin' Queen" days, but thankfully, Nåid's music bears as little resemblance to ABBA—or a-ha—as it does to Howlin' Pelle Almqvist's rock histrionics.
The most obvious point of reference for Landqvist's work is not ABBA but the Norwegian electronica duo Röyksopp, since both artists share a Scandinavian pedigree and a penchant for melodic dance tracks with house beats so understated you almost forget they're there. But where Röyksopp's music has a decidedly experimental, trip-hoppy edge to it, Landqvist is content to keep within far catchier territory—or at least that's where he spends most of his time on Waking Up, his sophomore album, which is finally introducing Nåid to American audiences a mere seven years after his European debut. God, what is wrong with the American music industry? Just because Nåid's first album was mostly tracks with titles like "Blastjarnan" and "Zeidao", we're not allowed to hear it? And Landqvist has to sing everything in English to finally get his stuff released over here? But I digress . . .
Despite the long, arduous journey Landqvist's music took to reach American shores, most of Waking Up is fairly innocuous stuff; songs like the title track and "Turn On (City Lights)" have the earnest, squeaky-clean pop hooks and subdued dance grooves of bygone blue-eyed soul acts like Bryan Ferry or Style Council, the latter of whom Landqvist cites as a major influence. Most of it works, but it's hard to get excited about music with tones this muted and influences this obvious. Another influence, intentional or otherwise, might be Seal, another purveyor of dance pop that's so polished it manages the neat trick of being soulful and soulless all at once.
At first shine, the best tracks on Waking Up are the first four, all of which have just enough to rhythmic oomph to work on the dance floor. Besides "Waking Up" and "Turn On (City Lights)", Landqvist gives up a little breakbeat action and a melancholy vocoder on "Stars" and, on the album's uptempo highlight, a very fine piece of dream house with "Eternal Life". The album shifts gears after that and actually starts to get more interesting, trying a slow funk groove on for size on "Shout it Out" and pulling it off thanks to Peter Fors' funky slap bass and Landqvist's dreamy, echoing vocals and synths. "ICBA" gives a fair-to-middling nod toward spiky electro-pop, while the closing track "Yukawa 5 AM" seems to be striving for BT territory with its mix of restless breakbeats, shamelessly pretty, arpeggiated synths and the angelic vocals of Icelandic nymphette-du-jour Hanne Juul. The rest of the album's second half is made up of ballads: "Better Day" gets really Sealesque with creeping strings and plenty of melodramatic soul stirrings; "This Could Be Our First Day" is practically a Nik Kershaw anthem in its prettyboy earnestness; "So Free", the most effective of the lot, weaves a web of dreamy synths over a slow, shuffling beat as Landqvist channels Paul Weller.
The fact that I just summed up this entire album in a single paragraph gives you a clue as to how slight Nåid's music is, but ultimately this is actually an asset as much as it is a handicap. In these days of overproduced, multi-layered dance pop, where any idiot with ProTools and a Roland 808 can churn out one 64-track epic of pumping synth riffs and percussion loops after another, there's something refreshingly clean and old-fashioned about Martin Landqvist's airy production style and wide-eyed songwriting. Even the album's length, running just 10 modestly-timed tracks, feels more 1980s than 21st century. And in this case, that kind of ends up being a good thing. Waking Up isn't going to storm the charts or stand the dance music world on its ear, but it is going to provide some happy moments for plenty of fans who like their dance music mellow, moderately soulful, and unpretentious. And 100% ABBA-free, thank you very much.
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text: CindySays: Living longer doesn't mean living better By Cindy Boggs May 25, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- If you were born between 1946 and 1964, you're a Baby Boomer. In 2010, there were 78 million of us and we made up more than a quarter of the U.S. population.Since 1946, there are some positives to report -- medicine has improved, and because of this our life expectancy has been lengthened. However, according to a recent study, the extra years we've been awarded aren't necessarily going to be good ones.The study, published in February in the Journal of the American Medical Association journal Internal Medicine, examined the health status of Baby Boomers relative to the previous generation and showed more Baby Boomers had hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol and were more likely to be obese than their parents' generation. Unfortunately, this dispels the rumor that we are the healthiest and most-active generation.Boomer health bustWest Virginia University School of Medicine conducted the study, and its lead author, Dr. Dana King, chairman of the WVU Department of Family Medicine, was surprised to discover that Boomers weren't as healthy as once believed.King and his team used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey, comparing the results from 1988-94 to the results from 2007-10. They focused on those who ranged in age from 46 to 64 during these periods. When they looked at the two cohorts with regard to overall health, functional limitation, lifestyle habits and prevalence of chronic disease, they found the following distressing statistics:Prevalence of condition / 46-64 years old in 1988-94 (%) / 46-64 years old in 2007-10 (%)Hypertension / 36.4 / 43 High cholesterol / 33.8 / 73.5Diabetes / 12 / 16Obesity / 29.4 / 38.7Use cane / 3 / 7Limitations for daily tasks / 8.8 / 13 No exercise / 17.4 / 52Report health as excellent / 32 / 13 Awareness campaignsThe statistics are alarming, and it seems as if we should know better. Here we are getting sicker during a time when millions of dollars are being spent educating us on how to be healthier. There are countless federal, state and even community-based efforts facilitating physical activity and nutrition programs as well as policy change on many levels that support health. Public health campaigns along with improvements in health screenings would make us think our quality of life should be moving in a positive direction."Medication use has definitely increased," King explained, "so we are propping ourselves up on our canes and our medicines. We are becoming over dependent on medications and surgical solutions rather than creating our own good health."Control your destinyThe rising obesity rate and the chronic disease that accompanies it will continue to outweigh even our best health campaigns and medical therapies. As Baby Boomers inch closer to 70, there will be longer waits at doctor offices, and we will need more and more health-care professionals because of the sheer numbers of people with declining health.More than half of Baby Boomers get no physical activity! We must take control of our weight and lifestyle habits as these choices determine our destiny. Exercising and accepting responsibility for the food and beverages we consume must be on top of the to-do list. Misconception of longer lifeSedentary lifestyles and poor diets carry serious implications with regard to the need for more medical care. King said, "Baby Boomers are living longer, so I think there may be presumptions from that that they are the healthiest generation. But they are not in excellent health while they are waiting around to live two to three years longer. Unfortunately, they may be living longer with a greater burden of chronic disease and more disability. It's not exactly a good public health outcome."Be inspired, start smallDespite the gloomy results of this study, it points out that it's never too late to improve the quality of your life by eating better and moving more. Small changes translate into big rewards. Start with small increments of activity and add time and intensity gradually. Incorporate leisure activities such as gardening; dog walking; or swimming or water exercise, which is easy on joints. Any "go-at-your-own-pace" activity is beneficial to your health and will gradually improve the way you look and feel.Cindy Boggs, wellness presenter and author, is an ACE-certified instructor/trainer. Send your questions about fitness, training or health to firstname.lastname@example.com. Look for her award-winning fitness advice book, "CindySays ... You Can Find Health in Your Hectic World" on her website, www.cindysays.com. 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Lil Jon hosting New Year's Eve party at AJA Channelside
The last time Lil Jon was in town, he was surrounded by ropes and dudes with grills -- not to mention Keri Hilson and Sean Kingston -- during a Super Bowl party at Club Skye.
What better way for Lil Jon (HAWHATT!??!?) to end his 2009 (HAWHATT?!?!?) than by returning to Tampa Bay? (HO-KAAAAAY!!!!)
Lil Jon will serve as host and guest DJ at a New Year's Eve party at AJA Channelside in Tampa, following in the footsteps of such notable AJA party hosts as Kim Kardashian (Memorial Day), Wilmer Valderrama (Labor Day) and Brody Jenner (because he's Brody Freaking Jenner).
Let's hope he brings enough Little Jonathan Wine for all.
Tickets are $50, or $100 for VIP. Click here for the flyer. And click here for ticket details.
-- Jay Cridlin and Dalia Colon, tbt*


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Did you know how long it takes for a new treatment for epilepsy to be tested and approved? The average for neurological drugs is almost 13 years from the first testing in humans to FDA approval and availability at your local pharmacy. Why does it take so long? We understand that testing requires very careful evaluation of safety as well as determination that the treatment is effective. This requires several stages of clinical trials, each lasting several years.
Did you know that you can improve this timeline? The biggest roadblock in testing new treatments is finding patients willing to participate in clinical trials. It's not easy to find patients who are eligible for these studies so the recruitment phase often lasts more than two years for each clinical trial. Testing new treatments usually is done by asking patients who have many seizures and have already tried many drugs to enroll with the opportunity to receive either the new treatment added onto current therapy or a placebo added onto current therapy. Most studies are brief, lasting only three to four months, after which all patients are offered the new treatment. Therefore, people who received the placebo initially can have a new therapy after this brief introductory phase.
Why does it take so long to find people who are having many seizures when there are millions of people with epilepsy? Clinical trials must be limited to people with specific types of seizures, minimum frequency of seizures (usually at least four partial-onset seizures per month), and be in excellent health. In addition, patients must be willing to visit the study center frequently during the follow-up period for free care. Not every doctor can and enroll patients into every clinical trial, so people willing to participate in studies must be referred to the doctor in their area who is conducting the clinical trial. Although patients are followed by the study doctor for the duration of the clinical trial, they return to their own doctor at the conclusion of the study.
What can you do to help speed the development of new treatments for epilepsy? Enrolling in a clinical trial for which you are eligible might provide you with improved seizure control and certainly will help others when we understand the usefulness of a new treatment. The first place to look for a clinical trial is on our website at http://my.epilepsy.com/clinical_trials where you can find studies being conducted in your area. A video in which I interview Dr. Morrell provides a description of a clinical trial of the RNS Neurostimulator may be seen at http://my.epilepsy.com/node/976507 . This brain stimulating device is being tested with adults who have frequent partial-onset seizures at 29 centers across the
Success! Retigabine is an example of a new antiepileptic drug that has been tested in clinical trials since 1997 over the years: Enough testing has been completed with retigabine to be ready to request approval by the FDA. Almost 1600 patients participated in these studies over the years. It will take another year before we take a being is in your pharmacy, if approved as expected.
I am excited to see another antiepileptic drug move toward approval so the epilepsy community will have another treatment for seizures. I also am pleased to see that two companies (Valeant and Glaxo Smith Kline) will share in developing this compound to make it available around the world. I look forward to additional epilepsy treatments (drugs and brain stimulating devices) being approved in the near future. We need even more therapies to help those who have not yet achieved seizure control.
Wishing everyone "freedom from seizures" as soon as possible,
Joyce Cramer
President, Epilepsy Therapy Project


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Wed, 23 February 2011
Hello. Jonathan Marks here. I know from experience that radio stations are notorious for not saying thank you to their listeners. But this isn't a radio station. It's a media archive, made just for fun, because I believe there are so many great media stories that we're quickly forgetting.
We're just coming up to the first anniversary of this audio vault and it looks like we're doing to break the 35,000 downloads mark. This is perfect proof that the long-tail works. What also amazes me is that this content is time-warp material which covers a golden age of international broadcasting, the last 60 years of the last century. Thanks for the comments that you have left, either on this site or on my Facebook profile. I don't post a direct email address here because of horrific problems with spambots. Once again
and remember comments are always welcome! I really have enjoyed the conversations so far.
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 8:38pm CEST
Fri, 18 February 2011
Most of this week' s edition of Media Network was narrated from the island of Barbados in the sunny Caribbean. It contains quite a lot off off-air recordings made by plugging a Sony ICF2010 into the professional Walkman WDM6 that I used to carry everywhere (and still own, although there are better recorders now with Flash memory). I think this programme is a good example of armchair radio listening, taking you to places on the dial you wouldn't normally visit. Its pure theatre of the mind. I just love those long URL's. Forgive us. 15 years ago, URL's were still new to us.
Direct download: MN.wk20.1996.Barbados.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 10:18pm CEST
Mon, 14 February 2011
This edition of Media Network includes a feature about a guy in the North-West of the UK who had contact with hundreds of Dutch Mediumwave pirates. Hans Bakhuizen discusses satellite delivered DAB. 15 years later still nothing has happened. This is partly because the cost of the satellite delivered radios proved prohibited. Manufacturers were also not interested in building the chipset. Veronica also plans to rebroadcast the Dutch programme from Deutsche Welle in Cologne. That happened - but not for long.
Direct download: MN.18.10.1995.MWpirates.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 8:11pm CEST
Sat, 12 February 2011
Amazing how history repeats itself in international broadcasting.
At the start of December 1995 we reported that BBC World Service has to cut back by 5.5 million pounds in 1996. Interview with Caroline Thompson, then with the BBC WS management. 10 languages were threatened at that time. BBC has also been testing a mediumwave transmitter in Slovakia.
We also reported from a field to the East of Quito in the antenna farm of HCJB. Jonathan Marks attended a conference of local broadcasters in Ecuador and took a side trip to meet those behind a station he'd heard in Europe from the early 1970's. They were also testing a 26 MHz antenna. There are two weather problems - either winds or lack of rain. HCJB also build 100 kW shortwave transmitters as well as small FM transmitters. The site has now been dismantled as reported by HCJB on their blog in 2009.
Direct download: MN.07.12.1995.HCJB.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 8:25pm CEST
Wed, 9 February 2011
This is what was news in April 2000 - We had quite a few e-mails reacting to our comments on this show that we believe Digital Audio Broadcasting DAB to be so seriously in trouble that it will probably have to be re-launched in a different form. With less than 10,000 receivers in use across the entire continent and no portable set yet on the horizon, this 10 year old technology needs a rapid re-think. David Aldridge in Northampton agrees with our correspondent Bob Tomalski that DAB lacks a focused publicity campaign and no-one will get excited about an 800 dollar radio.
We reviewed the ICOM ICR-75 receiver. The ICOM ICR-75 first appeared in North America towards the end of 1999. This is a tabletop receiver for the serious listener. At a price of 610 pounds sterling in the UK, 780 dollars in Canada, or 1775 dollars in Australia, that's before the options have been selected, you're not going to be interested in such a set unless you take the hobby of digging weak stations out of the noise quite seriously.
Bryan Clark has some interesting catches from a DXpedition.
Direct download: MN.wk07.2000.IcomIC75.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 10:33pm CEST
Wed, 9 February 2011
This programme comes from a park bench in the Vondelpark, Amsterdam - I was testing out a new Minidisc recorder and it was a boiling hot summers day. Diana and I discussed the success of CNN Interactive with the then boss of the Interactive department in Atlanta, there was news of a Radio Veronica revival broadcast, and a parody on QSLing phone conversations. 12 years on, the memories have apparently not faded. Radioday.nl is still attracting crowds each November- this year's reunion is set for Saturday November 12th 2011.
In the UK, a discussion had also started about how much of the UK licence fee should be devoted to serving the interests of non-payers living abroad. The BBC made an attempt to offer Internet access in 1994 with its Networking club set up by the Educational branch of this vast organisation. They quickly discovered that answering queries about modems and problems with operating systems wasn't really their core business. So it was taken over by a commercial company in November 1995. So it is interesting that the BBC Online is about to try it all again but this time going further by launching free Internet access. The Jupiter communications research group has been predicting that free Net access in Europe is imminent, but the major European Internet service providers like AOL Europe and T-Online are not convinced that advertising and electronic commerce can cover the cost of telephone calls. Likewise, the grey area between public and private partnerships raises its head again. There will be some major questions about unfair competition down the bumpy Internet superhighway ahead no doubt.
Direct download: MN.VeronicaCNN.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 10:18pm CEST
Wed, 9 February 2011
We talk to Herman van Wijk of Digitag who explains what's right and wrong with the future of Digital television. We also talk about the long running Delta Radio project which planned to move offshore. They wanted 2 antennas of 400 metres to broadcast on Long Wave 171 kHz from the North Sea. The cost was estimate at 12 million dollars. BBC was planning to cut its domestic radio channels by 10%...hey what's new?
Direct download: MN.digitalTV.wk30.1998.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 6:56pm CEST
Wed, 9 February 2011
This edition of the programme looked at the work in the garden of Radio Netherlands, the Radio Netherlands Training Centre founded as a joint venture at the end of the sixties by Philips and Radio Netherlands. The electronics company in the south of the Netherlands at that time made a lot of broadcast equipment - and outfitted many of the Radio Netherlands studios. But they quickly got out of that side of things, although I still find some Philips studio mixers in various states of repair during my travels in Africa.
Direct download: MN.RNTC.wk14.2000.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 3:51pm CEST
Wed, 9 February 2011
We talk of propagation and desert islands. There's also a profile of broadcasting in Tonga. Mike Bird appears twice and chooses the kind of music he'd like to take with him on a DXpedition.Martin Allard, is a Project Consultant to UNESCO. Writing in the newsletter of AMARC, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters. He outlines some of the problems facing stations in the Pacific.
We stay in the Pacific for today's main feature, following up on several letters. Peter Williamson from London, Ontario Canada, Kurt Gruber from Hamburg and Stefan Hoekstra in San Francisco California are just some of the people who want us to discuss more aspects of the ionosphere and how its affects reception of signals between 3 and 30 MHz.
Direct download: MN.tongapropagation.wk8.2000.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 3:35pm CEST
Wed, 9 February 2011
This programme looks at Kerbango, the Internet radio that (with hindight) never was.At the last count there were three devices promised on the world market to allow you to listen to internet audio on a separate stand alone device. A few days ago (in Feb 2000), a California based company, calling itself Kerbango, showed the prototype of a special radio to be launched in a few months and which is styled a bit like a valve radio of the 1950's. We asked Marc Auerbach, who's Vice President of Marketing, why their approach is different.
Clement Stokes of Springfield,Durban in South Africa is a regular listener to this programme via the relay on SAFM on their domestic service. Two weeks ago he heard us mention that today we'd be testing one of the new Worldspace receivers. He is particularly curious because he sees the radio advertised in a hi-fi shop not far from his house, although he points out only one South African broadcaster is so far participating in the scheme. The question is simple, does the performance justify the price of more than US $300 . So we explain our findings on the Hitachi KH-WS1, one of four radios on the market in Southern and West Africa designed to pick up the proprietary Worldspace radio system. I still have the radio on my window sill, but the Worldspace feed is dead. Rather expensive FM radio!.
Direct download: MN.kerbango.wk7.2000.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 3:19pm CEST
Mon, 7 February 2011
We started this week's edition by looking at how Western countries are trying to get signals into Serbia now that the authorities have silenced independent radio stations in their country. On Thursday and Friday of the previous week press briefings at NATO headquarters created quite a bit of confusion in the media. It was first suggested that NATO was planning to destroy Serbian radio and television. In fact, NATO air-raids early on in the campaign had already severely damaged or destroyed domestic TV and radio transmitting masts. But the position was clarified in a briefing on Friday April 9th when NATO spokesman Jamie Shay said that whatever NATO feelings about Serb television, TV transmitters are not a main target. However, Serbian military communications facilities are often co-located with TV transmitters, as in many East European countries, so bombing may well have had a secondary effect.
On Thursday the 8th April 1999 NATO started its own radio and TV transmissions to Serbia and Kosovo from a fleet of specially modified Lockheed EC130E aircraft. The 193rd is normally based at Harrisburg International Airport in Middletown, Pennsylvania, USA where 1100 people have been trained in the mission of psychological warfare. This part of the US Air National Guard reportedly had an annual budget of $35 million dollars, and these flying broadcast platforms have been deployed in previous conflicts in Grenada, Haiti, The Gulf, Somalia and most recently in Bosnia. The programme also looks at what's next for UN Radio. People forget that in 1984, UN Radio was producing a total of 2,000 hours of programmes a year in 25 languages. Some 750 hours were transmitted on short-wave, including a number of SSB feeder frequencies aimed at stations willing to take and rebroadcast items in their own programmes. One of the more unusual outlets among these was a transmission from UN Radio in Geneva, Switzerland, on Fridays only in Russian on a frequency of 14500 kHz USB intended for Radio Moscow.
Direct download: MN.15.04.1999.Serbia.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 7:40pm CEST
Sat, 5 February 2011
Flashback to a news show in January 1999 when the capture of Chris Carey in New Zealand were the radio headlines and Lou Josephs explained how Command Audio was planning to bring Internet radio to the home. We explain the difference between UTC and GMT and the leap second. It seems that some of the Millennium countdown clocks are running too slow. We also talked to Swatch who had a strange idea to make the time metric with the Swatch Beat! We review the World Radio TV Handbook for 1999. Deutsche Welle's monitoring station has collected and published a CD of interval signals, including a number from Southern Africa. Brian Clarke talks about the rescue of the BBC World Service on mediumwave in Auckland. The station had an ingenious system of delaying the feed from London and speeding it up slightly, so as to squeeze in some commercials each hour. And the station with a strange name from Azerbaijan. Harald Kuhl reports about a new Peace Station in Ecuador.
Jonathan also reported on a short revival of Kootwijk Radio on the ham bands as part of bit of fun following the closure of facility for maritime communications.
Direct download: MN.14.01.1999Swatch.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 8:23pm CEST


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COLLEGE FOOTBALL; Grand Opening, and Then a Loss
By BILL PENNINGTON
Published: September 12, 2004
West Point officials noted the debut of Coach Bobby Ross on Saturday with skydivers, fireworks, exploding cannons and six Apache helicopters in a thunderous pregame flyover.
Four thousand United States Military Academy cadets also marched into 80-year-old Michie Stadium, amplifying the charged atmosphere of an Army football game on the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
But the plight of Army football, shaped across seven successive losing seasons, is not easily reversed. The pageantry and commemoration were inspirational, and the presence of a new, proven coach brought about concerted effort from the Army team, but not a new result.
Louisville, a team on the verge of a top-25 ranking, was too big and fast for its hosts, scoring early and often to trample Ross's Black Knights, 52-21. The defeat was Army's 16th in a row and extended a streak of losses in season-opening games to eight.
There were things Army did well -- gang-tackling on defense and executing at least two big plays on offense that led to touchdowns -- but there were many more things Army did poorly. Ross, who has stressed discipline, ball control and special teams, watched his Black Knights commit 10 penalties, hold the ball for not much more than a third of the game and have a punt blocked near their own goal line.
Louisville (2-0), meanwhile, played with the aplomb of a team that recognized its advantages. The Cardinals' offensive line outweighed Army's defensive line by an average of 59 pounds a man, and Louisville's two top running backs were bigger than any Army linebacker. The combination led to 230 yards rushing for Louisville, a 24-0 second-quarter lead and scores like tailback Michael Bush's two 12-yard touchdown runs. He simply overpowered Army defenders into the end zone.
''Well, we knew they were good,'' Ross said. ''If we played Louisville 10 times, it might take a perfect game from us to beat them. I am not pleased with the result, but there are some good things to build on.
''We will get better, I promise you that.''
Ross acknowledged that he had wanted to win the symbolically important first game of what he hoped would be a new era for Army football. He specifically mentioned wanting to win for the Army troops fighting abroad.
''I get their e-mails, and we were all thinking of them,'' he said. ''But I was proud to be a part of West Point football on a day like today.''
While much of the focus Saturday was on the new things about the Army football program -- new uniforms, a new offensive system and a new fan festival outside the stadium -- the anniversary of Sept. 11 was notably observed in this military setting. There was a 10-minute halftime ceremony during which prayers were read while the West Point band provided music. Dozens of New York City firefighters, police officers and academy cadets unfurled an American flag that covered the playing surface. Earlier, the traditional parade of cadets on the academy plain was halted to observe a moment of silence.
Louisville quarterback Stefan LeFors completed 18 of 24 passes for 270 yards with a touchdown, and his mobility in the pocket exasperated a confused Army secondary. The freshman Brian Brohm replaced LeFors for several series in the first half -- Louisville is experimenting with a two-quarterback system -- and the Cardinals' attack hardly missed a beat.
Army quarterback Reggie Nevels threw for 126 yards on 9-for-19 passing and connected with Bruce Brown for a 60-yard third-quarter touchdown. Running back Carlton Jones, who had 93 rushing yards on 13 carries, scored Army's first touchdown on an 18-yard run.
But Army, which plays at Houston next week, never cut the Louisville lead to less than 17 points after that.
Photo: Louisville's Lionel Gates getting past Army's Greg Washington, left, and Jonathan Lewis to score. (Photo by Jim McKnight/Associated Press)


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A Study of the Human Resource and Training Needs for the Development of Social Work in Viet Nam
Author: UNICEF Viet Nam\2005\Prof. Richard Hugman PhD
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The research that is reported here was conducted in 2005 through a project sponsored by MOLISA, working together with CPFC and MOET, and supported by UNICEF.


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Strategic Partnership Between Coherix, Inc. and MSI-Viking Gage, LLC
April 02, 2014 --
Ann Arbor, Michigan (PRWEB) April 02, 2014
Coherix, Inc., a leading 3D vision company serving the electronics, semiconductor and automotive industries has entered into a strategic partnership with MSI-Viking Gage, a multinational company dedicated to the design of precision test and measuring equipment; and comprehensive testing services for a wide variety of vehicle components. Through this partnership, Coherix is providing measurement solutions to complement MSI-Vikings metrology expertise. MSI-Viking Gage and Coherix share a common goal of providing added value to their customers with new technology and measurement techniques that improve manufacturing processes and diagnose potential problems.
Dwight Carlson, CEO of Coherix stated, MSI-Viking Gage is a highly respected leader in sales and services in advanced metrology. We are proud to be associated with a company like MSI-Viking Gage. Coherix has redefined 3D metrology with its five platform technologies and an in-depth knowledge of non-contact measurement. Combining that with MSI-Viking Gages knowledge of measurement systems, the result is a dynamic measurement and problem solving resource for the manufacturing industry.
Dan Carter, Vice President of MSI-Viking Gage, explains the unique benefits of the partnership. MSI-Viking Gage has a tradition of introducing advanced metrology solutions to enhance our customers manufacturing processes. Our partnership with Coherix brings added capabilities of high definition, full surface 3D areal measurements which greatly complements our other offerings in precision measurement.
Coherix is a privately held, global supplier of high-speed, high-definition, 3D visualization and inspection solutions designed to improve the management of manufacturing processes. Headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI the company has technical centers in Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Coherix products are being utilized around the world at companies such as Intel, Amkor, BorgWarner, Ford, Honda, Allison Transmission, Chrysler, General Motors, Micron, Infineon, John Deere, Volvo Technology Transfer and Aisin among others.
MSI-Viking Gage is a sales and service organization dedicated to provide advanced metrology solutions to the transportation and advanced manufacturing engineering industries. Their in-house service, repair, modification and calibration capabilities range from full mechanical, electrical, to fabrication parts and assembly. With facilities strategically located in their territory, they can provide comprehensive services within a short distance of their customers.
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Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Module code: EN1050
Module co-ordinator: Professor Sarah Knight
In this module, you'll develop your knowledge of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, analysing them within their social and political contexts, taking account of early modern staging methods, theatrical conditions, and composition and printing practices. You will become familiar with different dramatic genres and consider questions of class, gender, race, and education. You will also learn more about how early modern drama developed between the late 1580s and the 1620s.
Topics covered
You will read at least seven plays for this module. Four of these will be selected by your tutor from the following pairs of set texts:
- Marlowe, The Jew of Malta
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
- Marlowe, Edward II
Shakespeare, Richard III
- Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
Shakespeare, The Tempest
- Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
The other texts will include at least two more plays by Shakespeare and at least one more play by a contemporary author.
- 10 hours of lectures
- 10 hours of seminars
- 3 hours of practicals/workshops
- 177 hours of guided independent study
The assessment for this module consists of:
- Review of a theatrical production or film version of a Renaissance play, 1,500 words (30%)
- Exam, 2 ½ hours (70%)


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Big domino falls: WVU reportedly to Big 12
The Big East continues to be raided by other BCS football conferences, with multiple national reports Tuesday stating that West Virginia is headed to the Big 12 as soon as Missouri leaves for the SEC, leaving the Big East with five football schools.
For weeks, there has been speculation that West Virginia or Louisville would be the top choice for the Big 12 as it seeks a replacement for Missouri, and CBSSports.com and ESPN.com reported Tuesday that West Virginia has emerged as the Big 12's choice. Since the start of football season, the Big East has now lost Pittsburgh and Syracuse to the ACC, with West Virginia now joining TCU in the Big 12, gutting the Big East of many of its top programs.
What does it mean for USF? Two questions remain: Will the Big 12 stay at 10 teams or seek two more schools in expansion, and if the latter, can USF convince the conference to expand into Florida? And, absent that, which of the teams the Big East has been courting can still be convinced to join as football members now that the conference's top program in recent years is leaving?
CBS Sports reported that Big East commissioner John Marinatto met this weekend with officials from Boise State, Navy, Houston, SMU and Central Florida; Air Force has also been discussed as an expansion candidate. The site also reported that the western schools are lobbying for the Big East to pursue BYU to replace West Virginia as a 12th member of the league. Big East schools last week voted to raise the football exit fee from $5 million to $10 million, but the higher fee isn't triggered until a new school is committed to join the league.
Losing West Virginia is a serious blow to the Big East's hopes of continuing as an automatic-qualifying BCS league, though a new lineup bolstered by Boise State and BYU could still have the national rankings to keep such status, though at the sacrifice of any reasonable geographic borders.
The Sporting News' Mike DeCourcy on Monday reported that "there is some quiet buzz ... that the Big 12 might be interested in invading the South to select USF" if it expanded to 12 teams.


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Odyssey Dance Theatre's THRILLER Set for Spencer Theater, 10/18
Bucket-loads of humor fill Odyssey Dance Theatre's 15-dance work called "Thriller," taking center stage Friday at 8 p.m. at the Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts. Yes, there's heavy sloshings of horror too, but the bulk of this generously blended classical and jazz dance extravaganza is just pure fun! The clever, well-crafted dances effectively spoof famous horror flicks and our favorite archetypal creeps: the knife-slicing Lorena Bobbitt, blood-sucking vampires, tap dancing skeletons, crafty Salem Witches, a lovestruck Frankenstein, graveyard ghouls, terrible children of the corn, the Hunchback, vengeful Jason and more.
This is indeed a captivating performance with huge appeal for both adults and children. However, because some of the content may be a bit edgy, the Spencer recommends parents not bring easily frightened children. (As a general rule, children aged four or younger are not permitted to evening performances.)
Directed by Derryl Yeager, a former Ballet West Principal and a television, stage and film veteran (credits range from Broadway's "A Chorus Line" and "CATS" to the film "Staying Alive" and TV hit "Moonlighting), this Utah-based troupe is admired for both its thematic dances, athletic versatility and its theatrical skills.
The company's 20 professional dancers perform everything from jazz, ballet, tap, modern, ballroom and hip-hop, allowing for very high entertainment amid the program's utterly cool choreography.
The show's title piece features the entire company dressed as graveyard ghouls dancing to the 1982 multi-Grammy winning hit pop piece "Thriller" by Michael Jackson.
Thereafter, the spooks arrive in droves, dancing to works of daunting intensity and absolute hilarity. The action in each piece is made quire apparent via the show's titles like "Curse of the Mummy," "Frankenstein & Frankenstein," "Jason Jam," "Lost Boys," "Sugarplum's Finale," "Salem's Mass," "Dem Bones" and "River of Blood Dance" among others in the elaborately teched theatrical spectacular.
What's utterly cool about the 8 p.m. Friday, October 18 performance of Odyssey Dance Theatre's "Thriller" is that it'll include 10 to14 student dancers, all from the greater Ruidoso area, who auditioned the same morning of the show to appear in the final number.
Also, post performance, all patrons are invited to a 'Monster Mash' in the Spencer lobby. Costumes are welcome! The lobby is elaborately decorated with spooks to encourage party-goers to twist and dance the night away.
The high-energy performance as well as workshop and auditions are sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tickets to the 8 p.m. Friday, October 18 performance of "Thriller" are just $59 & $56. Call the Spencer Theater Box Office at 575.336.4800 or go online to www.spencertheater.com for information and tickets.


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After being issued with a red card during the Potters' pre-season win over FC Dallas on Saturday, the defender will be allowed to serve his suspension in their next friendly
|Stoke City are 3/1 with BetVictor to be the worst-disciplined Premier League team
Manager Mark Hughes had feared that his player would serve his suspension in the Premier League but he will instead miss Stoke's final USA tour match against Philadelphia Union on Tuesday.
"Stoke City can confirm that defender Andy Wilkinson will serve an immediate one-match suspension following his dismissal in Saturday's 1-0 pre-season friendly victory against FC Dallas," read a statement on the club's website.
"The news, which has been confirmed by the Football Association, ensures that Wilkinson is available for selection for the 2013-14 curtain raiser against Liverpool at Anfield."
Wilkinson featured on 24 occasions in all competitions last season as Stoke secured a 13th-place finish in the Premier League.


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London copper was steady on Friday and set to log a second week of gains after recent data fuelled hope that Chinese and US economies have finally turned a corner, but the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States drained liquidity.
Chinese and US factories returned to growth last month, bringing better news for the world economy, business surveys showed on Thursday, although the euro zone economy is on course for its deepest downturn since early 2009.
US manufacturing grew at its quickest in five months while China's vast manufacturing sector expanded for the first time in 13 months, the latest purchasing managers' indexes showed.
"We got a positive PMI number and we'll see a slight rebound from here but I don't think copper prices can explode, as they are not fundamentally supported," Judy Zhu, an analyst with Standard Chartered in Shanghai, said.
"Hedge funds and commodity trading houses are trying to stay neutral. Lots of them think next year will be another range bound year and another difficult year for investors to make money."
Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange slipped 0.51 per cent to $US7675.75 a tonne by 0306 GMT, after small gains in the previous session. Prices were set to close the week up 1.4 per cent, but anaemic global growth has kept them more than 8 per cent below a high of $US8422 hit in September.
China is the world's top copper consumer, accounting for 40 per cent of demand last year. But weak domestic demand is expected to push its stockpiles beyond this month's record high above 1 million tonnes.
The most-traded February copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange slipped 0.75 per cent to 55,620 yuan ($US8900) a tonne.
Copper drifted at odds with Asian sharemarkets, where factory figures put shares on course for a weekly gain of more than 2 per cent, their best in two months. A positive euro lent support, standing up more than 1 per cent from last Friday's close, on optimism that a funding deal will be agreed by Monday for debt-choked Greece.
A weaker US dollar makes commodities priced in the greenback cheaper for holders of other currencies.
Credit Suisse has upgraded its tactical view on commodities to positive, it said in a note on Friday. "We think the sector could see further moderate gains toward year-end. Leading indicators show that economic growth has bottomed. This is positive for cyclical assets like commodities," it said.
Still, volumes were modest after Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, with copper trading around 1300 lots and turnover of other metals less than 100 lots.
Next week, the copper industry will make deals in Shanghai during Asia Copper Week, as Chinese buyers hammer out terms with Chile's Codelco and BHP Billiton, among others, for 2013 term shipments and processing fees.
Traders see Chinese buyers and smelters with a stronger hand this year, given slowing demand and rising supply. Chinese copper smelters want to increase treatment and refining charges (TC/RC) for 2013 raw material concentrate term imports by about a quarter from this year.
In term talks this year, Chile's Codelco has offered Japanese copper customers a 2013 term premium of $85 a tonne, down 9 percent from its 2012 premium, reflecting a slowdown in demand in Japan and the global economy.


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According to the Ancient database, every 20 or 30 years the sea around Atlantis gets unseasonably warm. Previously the Ancients either strengthened the shield or submerged the city deep enough not to be affected by the massive storm that is created.
Kolya: Say goodbye to Dr. Weir.
Sheppard: This city has a self-destruct button. You hurt her, I'll activate it. Nobody'll get Atlantis.
Kolya: Even if it exists, Major, you need at least two senior personnel to activate it.
He's not sure he believes it exists but somehow Kolya knows it requires two codes to activate the self destruct? How?
Beckett: (to Ford) Neither one of us are real pilots.
It is revealed in "Hot Zone" that Lt. Ford does not possess the necessary gene to use Lantean technology thus it is completely moot whether he is a good pilot or a bad one as he couldn't have flown the Jumper. It may seem strange, seeing as Doctor McKay received the gene artificially in the episode "Hide and Seek and is apparently permanent, however it is revealed later that not every one who receives the gene innoculation actually have it activated.
The Menarians were first mentioned in "Underground". Sgt. Bates' team had initiated a trade agreement with them off screen during the episode.
When Sheppard and Ford are asking the Menarian leader for shelter during the storm, the table at which they sit holds two very distinctive candlestick holders. In "Underground", at the feast, the exact same candlestick holders are present, emphasizing the alliance between the Menarians and the Genii.
Throughout this episode and the next, Beckett's Puddle Jumper bears a grey "J2" sign on the front of the flight console facing the window, obviously designating it as Jumper 2. However, outside of these two episodes, this sign and any others for different Jumpers are not present.
Teyla and Dr. Beckett are wearing their shoulder patches while they are on the mainland helping the Athosians. This is only the second time since "Rising (2)" that we see team members wearing their patches outside of Atlantis; the first being in "Home".
Goof: After Sheppard has picked up the Genii communicator from the dead soldier, he uses it to communicate with Kolya, however Kolya continues to use the radio Sheppard left in the C-4 container.
When the Genii first come through the Atlantis gate disguised as Athosians you can clearly see that there is one other woman in the group apart from Sora. You never see this woman again for the rest of the episode or during "The Eye".
Goof: When Commander Kolya is interrupted from training his troops, he tosses Sora's solid-colored staff to the other guy, and gives Sora the striped staff, but then in the next scene she has her staff back.
Goof: Since Dr. Weir had heard the plan to use lightning to power the shields once before, it seems odd that she asked if the city could handle the shock the second time McKay explained the plan.
Sheppard: I'm not finished yet!
Kolya: Neither am I. Say good-bye to Dr. Weir.
Sheppard: The city has a self-destruct button. If you hurt her, I'll activate it. Nobody'll get Atlantis.
Kolya: Even if it exists, Major, you need at least two senior personnel to activate it. And I'm about to take one of them out of the equation.
Sheppard: Kolya!
Weir: The wraith are slowly waking. Soon, this entire galaxy will be embroiled in a war the likes of which our generations have never seen.
Kolya: A war that you expedited.
Weir: Disagreements like ours will no longer matter. The only thing of any consequence will be how prepared we are and what defense we are able to mount.
Weir: What did they do to you?
McKay: I tried to keep my mouth shut, I tried, I just, I couldn't-
Sora: Where's Teyla Emmagan?
Weir: You know Teyla?
Sora: Is she here, in the city?
Weir: No, she isn't. You must be Sora. I read the Genii mission report. I'm sorry about your father.
Sora: He'll be avenged.
Weir: Teyla didn't kill him.
Sora: No. She left him to die.
Weir: She had no choice-
Sora: Are you finished?
Weir: We start investigating evacuation plans, both on the mainland and off-world somewhere.
Sheppard: You know McKay will come up with something. He's just setting himself up to be a hero.
Weir: Yeah, well maybe Rodney is, but Dr. Zelenka, he seemed genuinely concerned.
Sheppard: Come on, guys, this city's been around for a long time.
Zelenka: Storm surge is inevitable.
McKay: Not to mention the fact that by moving over a landmass just before hitting us, the likelihood of tornadoes and electrical activity is greatly increased.
Sheppard: This is Atlantis. They've got to be able to handle that... Right?
McKay: No.
Weir: Why not?!
McKay: The people who built this city knew they had a forcefield capable of holding back anything Mother Nature or, for that matter, the Wraith, could throw at them. Without that protection, Atlantis is remarkably fragile.
Sheppard: So my orders are to come up with a friendly planet that wouldn't mind putting us up for a night?
McKay: I was once almost struck by lightning.
Zelenka: Lightning? (Inspired by a thought, he turns around to face Rodney just as Rodney jumps to his feet, obviously struck by the same thought.)
McKay: This planet is basically the same size as Earth. Now, hurricanes on Earth never get as big as this bad boy because once they hit the shore, the brakes get put on. Without as much landmass to slow it down here, it's just, uh, gaining momentum.
Zelenka: Both of them are.
McKay: Yes.
Weir: Both of them?
Sheppard: Let me tell you what you did wrong here, Kolya. A, you lost two of your men. B, you damaged the switch before I could separate the grounding rods, which I'm sure you're going to get an earful from McKay for. And C, you lost all of what little credibility you had with me.
Kolya: You believe your people, who are not even of this galaxy, are closer to the Ancients than we are. Your arrogance is astounding.
Kolya: Your offer is very generous, Major.
Sheppard: Yes, it is.
Kolya: However, Dr. McKay recently shared with me there's a plan in action to save the city.
Sheppard: He did?
Kolya: This is Commander Kolya.
Sheppard: Kolya. That's a hard name to pronounce. Is that a first name?
Kolya: What's the meaning of this?
Weir: I honestly have no idea.
McKay: It's a radio. The arrow points to the talk button.
Kolya: You have a plan, don't you?
McKay: I've got lots of plans about lots of things.
Kolya: I'm interested in a plan you have to save the city.
McKay: I never said anything about saving anything.
Kolya: Not yet.
Weir: How do we know that you won't kill us once we give you what you need?
Kolya: You don't.
Kolya: Just so we're clear. I know you're lying.
Weir: Which supplies did you have in mind?
Kolya: All of your stores of the C4 explosive, all of your medical supplies, the Wraith data device you stole from my people, and one of your ships.
McKay: Is that all?
Kolya: No.
Ford: You heard him!
Beckett: Take a look outside, hotshot. We're not flying through this.
Ford: McKay and Weir were taken hostage, Doc. I'm not just going to sit here and do nothing.
Beckett: Neither one of us are real pilots. If it was a bad idea an hour ago, it's an idiotic one now.
Sheppard: I'm here.
McKay: I told you to contact me when you go to the first one, Major.
Sheppard: I am at the first one, Rodney.
McKay: Oh, sorry. I've already done mine.
Sheppard: Oh, great. Good for you.
Weir: Me, too.
Sheppard: Good for everyone.
McKay: Where are you now?
Sheppard: I'm at the damn grounding station.
McKay: No no no, not you.
Weir: I'm in the transporter.
McKay: There you are.
Weir: There I am.
Sheppard: Glad everybody's having such a good time.
Teyla: (waiting in the Jumper to leave for Atlantis) We are ready.
Beckett: I think it's best if we wait it out. We're safe as long as we're in here. We've got rations, and we have plenty of water.
Ford: Yeah, especially outside!
(Carson looks round to Teyla, who looks at the storm raging outside the front windscreen)
Teyla: (looking at the storm outside)Very well. I hope you're right, Doctor. We will not have a chance to change our minds if you are wrong.
Beckett: It'll be cozy.
McKay: There are dozens, possibly hundreds of lightning rods placed strategically around the city.
Sheppard: Wait a second.
McKay: What?
Sheppard: Why?
McKay: Why what?
Doran: (drunkenly, pointing at the goblet) I'm finally at the point where I don't mind the taste of it.
Smeadon: I was raised on this brew; burned away whatever taste sense I had.
Weir: So the city would survive?
McKay: Mm, I'd give us a better than 90%...
Zelenka: ...70...
McKay: ...80% chance.
Weir: Okay, so we should still evacuate.
McKay: Yes, but not just because of Zelempka's pessimism.
Zelenka: Zelenka.
Zelenka: It's an ingenious plan, really.
McKay: I'm inclined to agree.
McKay: What is the one thing keeping us from having a shield?
Weir: Uh, that would...
McKay: Power. And what does a mega storm from hell have lots of?
Weir: Power.
McKay: In the form of...
Weir: You want to build a windmill?
McKay: ...electricity.
Zelenka: You know, in Czech Republic, we don't have to deal with hurricanes.
McKay: We don't get that many in Canada either. Once, they were called "Hazel."
Zelenka: Hazel?
McKay: Hmm. Forty years ago.
Zelenka: That's interesting.
McKay: Not really.
Zelenka: No, not really.
Sheppard: Well, I got a green light from Smeadon and the Manarians. I'm not sure how pleased they'll be if we get stuck there, though. That's not going to happen, right?
McKay: Of course it's not. We can always 'gate off to another planet.
Sheppard: Comforting. Thank you.
Sheppard: (about staying with the people on another planet) One night; two tops. We'll bring our own blankets.
Sheppard: One day you're gonna run across a problem and you're gonna need our help. (to Ford) Isn't that right, Lieutenant?
Ford: Yes sir. We've got lots of ships and weapons we can ... help with. (He nonchalantly but pointedly lays his rifle on the table)
Smeadon: You're telling me we can either be your friends or ...
Sheppard: I much prefer 'friends'.
Sheppard: I know it's a lot to ask, but... I'm asking.
Smeadon: What do you offer in return?
Sheppard: I guess we'd owe you one.
Smeadon: One what?
Sheppard: A favor.
Beckett: (trudging over the mainland) I don't really have the right boots for this. I just meant to come out here and inoculate some wee babies.
Weir: You just said the Ancients experienced these storms every twenty to thirty years. Atlantis must have some sort of precautions put in place.
McKay: In the past, the Ancients have been protected by the shield or submerged deep enough in the water not to be affected.
Sheppard: Okay, strike those options. What else have we got?
Weir: (into the radio) Major, this is Weir. We didn't copy that. You're breaking up.
Sheppard: (into the radio) I said there's ... (static) ... ermanence headed right ... (static) ... the weather forecasting.
Weir: (to the tech sitting at the control panel) Did he just say 'weather forecasting'?!
Sheppard: That can't be a storm; it stretches across the whole horizon.
Teyla: I've never seen something like that from so high.
Sheppard: I've seen a lot of things from this altitude, but nothing like that.
Kolya: What are you doing here?
McKay: From my understanding I'm being held hostage
Kolya: I mean here in Atlantis. Why did some of you stay behind?
McKay: Oh... Tie some loose ends.
Kolya: Like what?
McKay: You know, make sure everyone got out okay.
Kolya: Isn't that the work of someone less important?
McKay: You'd think so, wouldn't you!
McKay: You're right! If only we had a magical tool that could slow down time. I foolishly left mine on Earth. Did you bring yours?
Zelenka: You know, you're not pleasant when you're like this, McKay.
McKay: I'm always like this.
Zelenka: My point exactly.
Guard #1: Bacon.
Guard #2: The one thing you wish you had brought with you is bacon?
Guard #1: It's the food that makes other food worth eating.
Guard #2: You wish you brought bacon to another galaxy?!?
Weir: How were you able to bypass the shield?
Koyla: With the time-tested combination of strong drink and a weak mind.
Weir: The city can handle that?
McKay: Yes. Theoretically.
Sheppard: Like 'dinosaurs turned into birds' theoretically or theory of relativity theoretically?
McKay (looks confused): What? Um, somewhere between.
Beckett: Crops can be replaced and homes rebuilt. People can't.
Weir: Alright, what's the plan?
McKay: From my calculations we have just under twelve hours until the storm hits, so, uh, we plan to have a plan by then.
Teyla: Yes, go. I will stay behind and give the hunters more time.
Ford: I'll stay with you.
Beckett: Okay, I get the point. We'll wait.
Sheppard: McKay will come up with something.
McKay: I will try, but despite what you all may think, I am not Superman.
Sheppard: Was anyone seriously thinking that?
(everyone shakes their heads)
Ford: No, sir.
Zelenka: Never.
Koyla: You killed two of my men.
Sheppard: I guess we're even!
Koyla: I don't like 'even'.
Ford: How could something as big as Atlantis just sink?
Sheppard: I'm sure the passengers on the Titanic were asking themselves the same question.
McKay: Yes, well, let's not.
McKay: Now that, for reasons too boring to get into, means that hurricanes are more likely to form.
Zelenka: Right, like El Niño. The ocean...
McKay:(interrupting) Like I said, too boring to go into.
McKay: (explaining why Sheppard has to take the farthest grounding stations) I need to get done quickly so I can start working on the subroutines, and Elizabeth was complaining about her knee the other day so...
Sheppard: Wait, whoa, w-wait a second. Are these things even close to a transporter?
McKay: Uh, yes, Elizabeth's is.
Sheppard: And mine?
McKay: Uh, it's a brisk walk away.
Sheppard: And by 'brisk' you mean... far?
McKay: And, by 'walk' I mean 'run'.
The high-backed chairs seen around the table in the scene where Sheppard and Ford are asking Cowen for a place to stay during the storm were formerly in the Stargate SG-1 episode "The Other Side".
-David Nykl was nominated for a Leo Award for Best Supporting Performance by a Male in a Dramatic Series for his performance in this episode.
-This episode was nominated for a Leo Award for Best Overall Sound in a Dramatic Series.
Torri Higginson (Doctor Weir) co-starred in Stephen King's Storm of the Century, which contains similar elements as this episode. Both take place during terrible storms and each has a villain who takes the community hostage and claims he'll leave if they give him what he wants.
The plot of this episode has some similarities to that of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Invasive Procedures", in which Colm Meaney (Cowen) also appeared.
Jodie Graham (Genii Soldier) would later play SG-25 Leader in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Uninvited."
Steve Archer (Generator Room Guard) would later play the Ori Commander in the Stargate SG-1 episodes "The Quest Part 1" and "The Quest Part 2".
Cory Monteith (Genii Private) would later play Young Mitchell in the Stargate SG-1 episode "200".
Conan Graham, (Genii Soldier) previously played NID Man in the Stargate SG-1episode "Touchstone."
Michael Puttonen (Smeadon) previously played the Simian on the Stargate SG-1 episode "Prisoners."
International Airdates:
-This episode aired in Canada on September 20, 2004 on The Movie Network and Movie Central.
-This episode aired in the UK on December 14, 2004 on Sky One.
-This episode aired in Australia on May 19, 2005 on Channel 7.
-Syndication Premiere: November 26-27, 2005
Ford: How could something as big as Atlantis just sink?
Sheppard: I'm sure the passengers on the Titanic were asking themselves the same question.
RMS Titanic (also SS Titanic) was the second of a trio of superliners intended to dominate the transatlantic travel business. Owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard, Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of its launching. During Titanic's maiden voyage, it struck an iceberg at 11:40 PM (ship's time) on Sunday evening April 14, 1912, and sank two hours and forty minutes later at 2:20 AM Monday morning.
The part where Sheppard shouts "Kolya!" into the communicator is just like in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan when Admiral Kirk shouts "Khan!" into a communicator.
McKay: I will try, but despite what you all may think, I'm not Superman.
He referred, of course, to the iconic superhero published by DC Comics.
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zattoo complains of no flash player installed, but flash is installed
Hello all,
Usual applies that if I have missed a thread is my searching please redirect me.
I am trying to get zattoo player running on my desktop. I am running Unbuntu gusty gibbon 64 bit. The error occurs when starting up zattoo. Zattoo complains that I have not installed flash player which I have. I search for libflashplayer.so as I plan to make a soft link to /usr/lib/zattoo/ in the hope that this will sort out any problems but I can't find libflashplayer.so. I know npviewer.bin is some sort of wrapper to allow 32bit software like flash to run in a 64 bit environment so I have a look in
$ ls /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/
reveling that there is only the real player plugin? Looking though the other directories within /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/ reveals nothing either.
So first question
Am I going about solving this question of zattoo complaining about no flash being installed in the correct way? If not could you please suggest another plan of attack.
second question
If this is the correct method to resolve this zattoo problem where do I find libflashplayer.so or equivalent on my system.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
but zattoo comes as a pre-compiled binary which you just install in the correct part of your system so must be 32 bit already.
Use the "file" command on the binary to tell if it is a 32bit or 64bit program.
If it is a 64 bit binary, look at the output of "nspluginwrapper -l" which lists the plugins.
You might try "nspluginwrapper -a" for auto-discovery. Other than that, try the README files for nspluginwrapper and your program. Sometimes a plugin is installed in the wrong location and a README file will indicate where the program expects to find it. Simply copying the plugin might fix the problem.
If anyone knows the answer to this let me know and I'll experiment with it. Thanks again jschiwa I think you have put me on the correct path.
You could try "lsof | grep zatto" after starting the program. It may have the directory where it expects plugings open.
You could also run strace and look for a line similar to:
read(17, "[/usr/lib/browser-plugins/libfla"..., 4096) = 565
This example is from running:
strace konqueror www.youtube.com 2>trace
Had a bit of a hunt and found this in an error log file
$ more Data/logs/zattoo.errlog
$getlibs /usr/bin/zatto_player
EDIT: I can see it's complaining because the libs are 64 bit but I thought that getlibs was ment to sort all of these things out?
SuSE is a bi-arch distribution. Look in your package manager for 32 bit versions of the packages supplying these libaries. The 64 bit version also has 32 bit versions of many programs and the libraries they need. They are supplied in separate packages from the 64 bit versions. The 32bit libraries will be installed under /usr/lib, and the 64 bit in /usr/lib64.
If a SuSE package doesn't supply a needed library, a good place to look is at the http://rpm.pbone.net website. In the advanced search, you can filter the search for your distro & version. For each package, the dependent files are listed and each one is a link to a package that can install it.
Another place to look at, especially for media related programs, is the Packman repository.
Starting with SuSE 10.3, you can select "Community Repositories" in YaST2 to easily add non-SuSE repositories such as Packman, NVidia, ATI, VLC, etal.
I wonder if you manually copied files for the plugin to /usr/lib/ instead of /usr/lib64?
If I remember correctly, with SuSE 10.2, the 32bit version of Firefox was installed by default. With 10.3, the 64 bit version was installed instead.
The "find" command can tell you whether you have an elf32 or elf64 library or program.
Thansk but this box is not os SUSE but on Unbuntu gusty gibbon (see first post).
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The merits of live streaming
No matter who you talk to these days, they are likely to have a family member or close friend somewhere on the mainland. Chances are they keep in touch given the convenience of the social media. Technology has literally eliminated distance as a barrier to social interaction.
For as long as I can remember, members of my family have lived out west. Letters, phone calls and occasional visits have been the means whereby we've been able to maintain a semblance of former family relationships and at least stay informed on substantive family matters.
Initially when family was young and everybody's day was taken fully with making a living and trying to meet the challenges of raising a family and getting a home, there was definitely less concentration on and even less involvement in the lives of family that had moved away.
Alas, the passage of time changes everything. Children grow, get educated, move out of the family home and get on with their careers. Adults come of age where life changing events are not only possible but are also very likely to occur.
It's an era when we have time to think, to remember and to recall events from back in earlier times. It seems that nature will prompt a reawakening of old friendships, and the need for getting closer to absentee family members scattered across the country. It's been my experience to have realized that transition in my later years and I have to admit that it leaves a very real and very pressing urge to follow through.
I take the time to pen this observation because my siblings have spent a whole lifetime in both Alberta and British Columbia. They've raised their families there and have done their utmost to maintain ties with family here in Newfoundland. However try as you will there is so much that cannot be shared between families and all because of distances.
There are the events that get celebrated during early years like special birthdays, school graduations, achievement recognitions, yes, and even engagements later on that will not be shared with family back home. Parents and grandparents are always a little saddened by knowing about but not being part of these significant milestones in children's lives.
Unfortunately death is an inevitable event that we have no control over. In March 2014 after a brief illness, my sister in Kelowna, B.C., passed away. She had lived to be 90 years of age and we were very thankful to have had her for all those years. As one might expect, the family back home wished to have been able to attend her burial service and inurnment but because of age and health reasons that was not possible. We each mourned her passing in our own private thoughts and outward behaviour. Morale remained very low and not a lot was being said or done. We just wished all would be over soon.
There was a surprise awaiting us. Actually it was in the last hour preceding the funeral service that word came through from Springfield Funeral Home in Kelowna informing us that the funeral service would be live streamed and it would be available to all her family and friends here in Newfoundland. We went into action immediately and spread the word of the good news; we were going to be part of her final ceremony after all.
The reception was beyond fabulous. The resolution was perfect and audio left nothing to be desired. They even went so far as to tell the guests at her service that they could all stand, face the camera and wave a hand to acknowledge her family and friends watching back home. I just can't find the words to say how pleased we were and the satisfaction we got from that gesture of Springfield Funeral Homes providing such a service.
It is because there are so many families here in Newfoundland and Labrador with family spread all across Canada (and elsewhere in the world for that matter). Events like this are happening to families all over, there is no good reason why they should not have the option to participate is such a ceremony as our family did. We really did feel that we were a part of her burial service.
Live streaming could be a standard in service available to all families when a similar circumstance occurs and funeral homes should be encouraged to provide same. Live streaming can fill an urgent and strong emotional need.
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- The PC Magazine 2007 Upgrade Guide
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Before You Buy...
Before you yank out your credit card and start buying hardware, perform a system assessment to make sure that your system is actually worth upgrading. Often upgrading the system you have can prove to be a headache, and it may not be worth the effort. We like to operate by the "PC Magazine Rule of Four," which goes like this: If you find yourself with a desktop that is four years old or more, or you're going to replace four or more components, it's time to get a new system.
There is a similar timetable involved when you are dealing with laptops. After about a year you should look into upgrading your RAM if you are not at 1GB already. Two years in, your battery should be starting to give out, and if you need a new hard drive, it's time to replace the laptop.
Recently, we received an e-mail from a reader looking to upgrade the memory on his older Pentium 4 system, which was still running on an Intel 850 chipset. That particular chipset supports only RDRAM, which current motherboards no longer use. Since the biggest RDRAM modules still available are 512MB RIMMsand PC1066 versions cost $205 apiecewe suggested that it was time to move on. The $400 it would take this user to upgrade his RDRAM would nearly cover the combined cost of a new motherboard, CPU, and memory. Though that combination would still make for an entry-level system, it would almost certainly outperform his RDRAM-based system.
Different usage models, however, necessitate different upgrade cycles. A light-duty office system may crank along for years, while a high-end gaming system may need a twice-yearly refresh. It all depends on your needs, your patience level, and your budget.


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Taco Bell robber found hiding in dumpster
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Officers found the suspect who robbed an Amarillo Taco Bell hiding in a nearby dumpster.
Just after 5 p.m., Amarillo police officers were sent to Taco Bell on Ross on a report that a man in a red shirt was inside the restaurant threatening people with a gun.
Responding officers saw a man matching that description running west from the location.
Officers began searching the alley near 25th and Ross, and saw a man stand up and look out of a dumpster. They took him into custody.
Officers searched the man and saw that he was carrying a .45 caliber handgun and a fixed blade knife.
Officers also found a quantity of cash in his sock.
The officers took the man back to the store, and learned he robbed the store.
The suspect entered the store, threatened the employees behind the counter, and took the money from the register.
The suspect, Mario Felix Mencias, 29, was booked into the Potter County Detention Center for aggravated robbery.


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This week's column is a bit longer than normal, as we have a lot to cover. Have you ever seen an email in your inbox that looks like this one?
- Date: Thursday, November 9, 2000
To: You
From: Someone you've never heard of
Subject: I was looking at your site
Dear site owner,
I was looking at your web site and think we should link to each other. If you are interested, please add the following code to your HTML:
[Insert HTML gibberish here.]
As amazing as it seems, the above link request letter, or variants thereof, land in my inbox every single day. The only part I added was the last line, StupidCompany.com, because it's accurate.
A link request sent via email should include several elements. Collectively, all of them serve two key purposes: They let the receiver know you took the time to look at his or her site, and they make it as easy as possible for the receiver to make a decision whether or not to link.
Here are the 12 things that your link request should contain, followed by the reasons why. Although these may seem simple once you read them, 99 out of 100 link requests that I get do not contain any of them. While in certain cases there are also other elements, for this week's column, let's focus on those below.
- A subject line that follows any stated directions given on the site you want to link to yours. On many sites that have collections of links to other sites, for example, the About.com guides, the editor in charge of the links section often states that when asking for a link, you should follow certain directions. One of these is typically a special subject line, like:
Subject: LINK SUBMISSION
If you have not taken the time to look at the recipient's site carefully, and you do not follow the link request directions, don't be surprised if you never hear from the recipient again.
- The site owner's name. It seems simple, but take the time to look through the site where you want the link, and find the site owner's name. Address this person immediately in your email, so he or she knows you're not a spammer.
In the above link request I received, it was immediately obvious that this person had never been to my site even though the email indicated otherwise. If this person really had been to my site, my name is the first thing he or she would have seen, and he or she would also have known I don't offer a links page.
- Your name. Again, it's just common courtesy. The person requesting a link is a human being and so are you. A first line like "Hello, Mr. Ward. My name is John Smith" tells me that at least this person has taken the time to find out who was running my web site and is nice enough to tell me who he or she is. It also shows me that he or she didn't send that same email to 4,000 other people, unless by some bizarre coincidence their names were all "Mr. Ward."
- The home page URL for the site. "I have been spending some time looking at your site at http://[insert their URL]."
By now I see that you know my name, my site name, and URL. You obviously are not lying to me or spamming me.
Don't show fake sincerity or imply friendship when, in fact, you've never met me. Be professional, courteous, and to the point. I really get turned off by email from people who act like we are buddies.
- Your site's name and home page URL. "I am contacting you about my site, called 'SiteName,' which is located at http://www.SiteName.com."
- The exact URL on their site where you think the link is a fit. "With regard to your links section at…[insert exact URL of their links area/section]."
- A paragraph that describes your site and why you feel it's linkworthy. "I would like to submit for your consideration my site, which I feel is a nice match for your collection of links. My site is…"
- The exact URL from your site you want them to link to. "Since I have a splash page that has some large images, you may prefer to use this URL for linking: http://www.SiteName.com/home2.html."
- A valid email address and response to any requests made to that address. "If you would like to contact me about this, please feel free to reach me at my personal email address below." (Put your email address.)
- Your phone number. "Or, if you prefer, you can also call me at this phone number: [put your phone number]."
And, if you are seeking a link on a site where a reciprocal link is required, also include:
- Confirmation that you have added a link to their site. "I have already placed a link to your site."
- The URL on your site where they can see the link to their site "that you can see at http://www.SiteName.com/links.html.
Below is a sample of what a full link-request email would look like. A link request similar to this is being used to successfully build many new links for eNature.com.
- Date: Thursday, November 9, 2000
To: (Address withheld for ClickZ article as a courtesy)
From: email@example.com
Subject: Link Submission
My name is Eric Ward, and I am contacting you regarding your Birding site at http://www.millcomm.com/ekblad/Index.htm.
I'm working with eNature.com to announce and link a new section on their site called "The Bird Audio Database." eNature is located at http://www.enature.com, and the new bird audio section is located at http://www.enature.com/audio/audio_home.asp.
Per the link request instructions on your site, I would like to request a link to our bird audio section in your Links to Birding Web Sites section at http://www.millcomm.com/ekblad/Link-Gen.htm.
Please let me know if the above provides you with the information you need to review and consider our new section for linking. I can be reached via email at email@example.com, or, if you'd like to talk about this by phone, my direct number is (865) 637-2438.
I have also subscribed to your e-newsletter and look forward to receiving it.
Best wishes,
Eric Ward, for eNature.com
Any webmaster or site manager who receives the above email can tell immediately many crucial things about me and my link request:
- I took the time to actually look at Bob's site. How else could I call it by name?
- I took the time to find out who runs the site.
- I reviewed the site for appropriateness. How else would I have known he had a "bird links" area?
- I followed any link-request instructions. How else would I have known to put "Link Submission" in the subject line?
- I didn't send that same email to 25,000 people.
- I value Bob's time by making it easy for him to know just what URL I wanted linked, and where.
- I respect the site content by subscribing to the site's newsletter.
- I looked at more than just the home page.
- I am not afraid to put my phone number in the email; spammers don't do that.
There are many more subtle points to this exercise, and many additional things I might need or have to include (HTML link code, button logo, reciprocal link, etc.), but these are not right for every scenario, so let's keep things as simple as possible for now.
The bottom line is that by recognizing the individuals on the receiving end of your link requests, and showing them so, you immediately move out of the spam realm in their minds. When I receive link letters, I look for telltale signs that I was not singled out individually. If I spot an obvious bulk link seeker, I delete it immediately.
Yes, this means you cannot automate this process, and, yes, this means you have to create and send each link request one at a time. As you should. Sometimes each site takes an entire three clicks and two minutes. Big deal. This is a lifelong link you're seeking.
Until next time, I remain, the Link Mensch.
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WPI Students Sing on Paul Winter Consort's Grammy-winning Album
WORCESTER, MA — Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
student singers are featured on a CD that won a Grammy Award
Sunday, Feb. 13. The WPI Festival Chorus, which also includes
alumni and faculty, was invited last year by New Age musician Paul
Winter to sing on a track of his latest album, "Miho: Journey to
the Mountain." This CD, which features the WPI student singers
listed below, won the Grammy for "Best New Age Album" at the 53rd
Grammy Awards ceremony, broadcast on CBS.
Winter recorded the song "Remembering" (track 19) last spring on
the WPI campus. WPI choral director John Delorey describes the song
as a "quiet, yet joyful composition, with the chorus singing a
serene tune, accompanied by cello, piano, and Paul Winter on
soprano saxophone." In the CD liner notes, all of the WPI Festival
Chorus members are listed individually and named collectively as
the "Chorus of Worcester Polytechnic Institute."
"This is such an exciting time for all of the singers," said
Delorey, after the Grammy win was announced. "The Grammy Award puts
into perspective all of the time and effort we have put into the
WPI choral program over the past 10 years. Now, the students can't
wait to go back to New York City this fall to sing again with Paul,
and to hopefully have him perform with WPI students at Mechanics
Hall soon thereafter."
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Notre Dame, as expected, fires Weis as football coach
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Charlie Weis arrived at Notre Dame flashing Super Bowls rings and talking about outscheming opponents. He leaves one of college football's most prestigious programs without even matching the record of the two men who were fired before him. Athletic director Jack Swarbrick announced the decision to fire Weis on Monday, saying in a news release: "We have great expectations for our football program, and we have not been able to meet those expectations" "As an alumnus, Charlie understands those goals and expectations better than most, and he's as disappointed as anyone that we have not achieved the desired results." Swarbrick said he recommended to university president the Rev. John Jenkins on Sunday night that Weis be let go with six years left on his contract. Weis finishes with a 35-27 record in five seasons, among the worst of any Fighting Irish coach.Assistant head coach Rob Ianello will step in for Weis until a new coach is hired. The Fighting Irish (6-6) are eligible to play in a bowl game, but Swarbrick has said he wants to hear from the players before deciding if Notre Dame will go to a minor postseason game. Following a 6-2 start this season, Notre Dame's losing streak began with the second upset by Navy in three years. Then came losses to Pittsburgh and to Connecticut in double overtime on senior day in South Bend. By the time the Irish lost their season-finale to Stanford on Saturday, it seemed inevitable Weis would be gone. Speculation about possible replacements for Weis has been rampant for weeks. Among the top names mentioned, Florida's Urban Meyer and Oklahoma's Bob Stoops already have said they plan to stay where they are. Speaking on a conference call Monday, Stoops said: "I'm going to be at Oklahoma next year, so I can't be at two places at once." Cincinnati's Brian Kelly has also been mentioned, along with Stanford's Jim Harbaugh and TCU's Gary Patterson. A brash offensive coordinator with the NFL champion New England Patriots when he was hired, Weis raised Irish expectations with back-to-back appearances in BCS bowl games in his first two seasons. Since then, though, Notre Dame has gone 16-21 - the most losses by the Irish in a three-year span. Weis' record is worse than his two predecessors, Tyrone Willingham and Bob Davie, who also were fired. Notre Dame is now looking to hire its fifth coach this decade. Weis received a new 10-year contract midway through his first season, shortly after a thriller against top-ranked USC that ended in a 34-31 Notre Dame loss. Even though the Irish fell short, playing even with Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush and the mighty Trojans had the Notre Dame faithful hopeful they had found a coach capable of returning the program to its past glories. The Fighting Irish have won eight AP national titles, more than any other school, but none since 1988. But the USC loss turned out to be the highlight of Weis' tenure. Because it began so promisingly, Weis' final three seasons in South Bend were especially painful for the legion of Fighting Irish supporters nationwide. Weis came to Notre Dame brimming with confidence after serving as offensive coordinator for the three-time Super Bowl champion Patriots. The first two seasons under Weis produced more victories (19) than any other Notre Dame coach, including the greats such as Knute Rockne, Frank Leahy and Ara Parseghian. Both seasons, though, ended with BCS bowl losses. Asked about his start at the time, Weis said: "I really haven't done anything yet." And his best days at Notre Dame were already behind him. "There were a lot of expectations he didn't live up to. He admitted to that," said former Notre Dame wide receiver David Grimes, who played four seasons for Weis and was on campus working out Monday. "But it's sad to see." With Brady Quinn, Jeff Samardzija and other key players gone in 2007, the Irish started 0-5 for the first time in school history. They finished 3-9, leaving Weis one loss shy of matching Davie's school record of 16 losses in his first three seasons. Most shocking, though, was the fact the Irish finished last in the NCAA in total offense just three years after Weis said at his introductory news conference that when it comes to X's and O's "we have the greatest advantage." The past two seasons the Irish have collapsed in November. They got off to a 5-2 start before going 1-4 down the stretch a year ago. This year they ended the season with four tough losses. "I'm disappointed," former Notre Dame player Asaph Schwapp said. "It's definitely sad to see. I loved being coached by him." Notre Dame fans who celebrated Weis' cockiness when he was winning grew tired of his Jersey attitude when the Irish started losing, with many calling him arrogant. His biggest failure, however, was his team's inability to play good defense. The Irish never finished higher than 39th in the country in total defense and gave up big play after big play. Weis appeared to know his firing was imminent, saying a day after the loss to Connecticut on Nov. 21 that he would have a hard time arguing against his dismissal "because 6-5 is not good enough" - an echo of his words when he took the job. Overall, Weis' teams lost six games by 26 points or more. That's the same number Willingham had in three seasons. Davie only had one such loss and Lou Holtz, the last coach to bring a national title to South Bend, didn't have any. Weis had a pair of 38-0 losses to Michigan and USC. Whoever replaces Weis will be charged with ending the longest title drought in school history.
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Allied High Tech Names Smith Executive Vice President
March 13, 2001
Robert E. Smith has been named executive vice president of Allied High Tech Products, Inc. In addition to serving on the company's board of directors, he will be responsible for strategic planning, enterprise development and corporate operations. He is a graduate of Pepperdine University and the Advanced Management College at Stanford University.
For additional information, call (310) 635-2466, fax (310) 762- 6808 or visit http://www.alliedhightech.com.
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