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December 12, 2007
By Paul Feinberg
At first glance, Upward Bound House doesn't look much different from the many multi-unit apartment complexes in its north-of-Wilshire, Santa Monica neighborhood. There's a man on one side of the building tending to some gardening, he's chatting with another fellow who gives you directions to "David's office." Around the corner, a hopscotch game is painted on a pathway and the executive suite looks like it might have once been where a manager met with prospective tenants.
But the business of Upward Bound House is quite different than its apartment-for-rent neighbors.
"We provide housing and supportive services for homeless families for kids," explains the organizations new executive director David Snow ('00). "We've got a 21-unit apartment building and families live with us for up to a year though it's typically from six to nine months. We provide intensive case management services (for them.)"
Snow's office is casually decorated and his initial demeanor is casual as well. But his passion for his work quickly becomes clear as he explains his work and why he does it.
"The population that we serve, homeless families with kids is a unique subset of the homeless population," he said, pausing to ask a reporter if they have children and noting he and his wife have an 18-month-old son of their own at home. "This population wants what any one wants for their kids. They want a stable environment. They want a future for their kids (and) they want their own future. So, they are motivated and partly because of our case management system and partly because (of) how motivated they are, we're very successful in what we do. We track families for at least a year after they graduate and 95-percent of the families that graduate from our program remain in independent, self-sufficient housing."
Snow describes a three-step process for Upward Bound House families, who must endure a 6-month-waiting period (due to demand) before garnering admittance. The first step is stabilization, which involves linkages to government services, job training skills, life skills training, parenting skills training, and (if necessary) psychological counseling for parents, children and the entire family together.
The second step is saving. Residence at Upward Bound House requires employment. If there are no family members employed when they move in, staff help them find work. There is no rent charged - services are ostensibly free - but families are required to save 75% of their earnings in a bank account the staff helps set up.
The final step is financial management. In addition to the rent-free environment, Upward Bound House helps families set up a budget and learn about money management. Snow says one of the major reasons families become homeless is "because they don't have good financial management skills." Upward Bound House has a food pantry where residents shop for groceries, with the help of an onsite nutritionist. Snow estimates that two-thirds of a family's food budget is supplemented at the pantry. The facility also has a thrift shop, not open to the general public, where resident families can select other household goods donated by the community.
As executive director, Snow heads a 20-member staff of full- and part-time staff. "I'm the general manager, chief fund raiser and the external face of the organization," he said. He is responsible for Upward Bound House's operations, the finances and the overall development and growth of the program, which he considers to be in "growth-mode" at the moment.
Snow did not plan on a career in the non-profit world. Before entering UCLA Anderson, he served as a consultant in Washington, D.C. While at Anderson, he focused on entrepreneurship and "took a lot of (great) classes with Bill Cockrum and Al Osborne and Bob Foster." While still in school, he started a software company and then spent the next couple of years consulting on his own, assisting small to mid-sized companies with fund raising, strategic planning and marketing.
"I had a bit of an epiphany towards the end, where I was working with a logistics and distribution company," he recalled. "And while I found the functional aspects of consulting really gratifying, I wasn't passionate about the product. And I found that there only so much professional gratification you can get out of helping organizations figure out its business issues. You need to be connected to the service and the products."
It was about that time that a board member at Upward Bound House invited Snow to consult with the organization on a pro bono basis. He helped set up the board's strategic retreat, put together a strategic plan and when things went well he was asked to join the board. Six months hence, the board parted ways with its former executive director and asked Snow to step in, first on an interim basis and eventually as the permanent executive director.
Snow admits he's a bit surprised to find himself in his current position. "But when I step back and think about it, I'm running an organization and while it might be in the non-profit world, it's still an organization that needs to make its payroll, that has a mission," he said. "We have a service that we need to provide, it's not a service that we get paid for per se, but we have investors and need to demonstrate a return on the investment to our investors. So all the things from business school (apply in) the non profit world.
"From a professional perspective, it's incredibly challenging and engaging, it draws on my background and from an industry perspective and a service perspective and from a product perspective it's the most gratifying and rewarding thing. I have an 18-month-old and you see in the parents' (clients') eyes, when you're interacting with them, they want the same things that I want for my kid."
As part of the aforementioned growth period Upward Bound House finds itself in, Snow is looking to expand the organization's board of directors. He's considering tapping the Anderson network for new members.
"I'm looking to add what every board needs," he said. "I'm looking for a banker. I'm looking for an accountant. One of the reasons the board selected me at this point in the organization's history (Upward Bound House is currently celebrating its 10-year anniversary) is that the board is responding to the broader, regional community need for more services. So, we're in transition and I think it would be a great opportunity for an Anderson alumnus to get involved in this organization and help it get to that next level."


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Obama to Dems: Chill out
President Barack Obama on Thursday wrapped up his Capitol Hill goodwill tour, telling House Democrats he's got their backs on entitlements.
The president has been open to a number of reforms that irk liberals, such as raising the retirement age of Medicare, means-testing and adopting a more modest inflation calculation, known as chained CPI, for Social Security.
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Obama told the Democrats he won't chase a bad deal and let Republicans entice him into trying for the field goal only to pull the ball away at the last minute time and again.
"I'm not Charlie Brown with a football," Obama said in response to a question on CPI from Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), according to a source in the closed-door meeting.
( Also on POLITICO: Sparks fly at Senate Budget hearing)
"I haven't heard anything from Republicans on revenue, so Keith, you can relax" on CPI, Obama added.
Earlier, Obama told Senate Republicans that he's committed to bipartisanship, but wants the GOP to help out and consider new revenue sources.
"I said to the GOP caucus 'is there not one loophole we can close?'" Obama said in Thursday's meeting with House Democrats, according to a source in the room.
Republican senators leaving their lunch meeting called the discussion polite but lively, featuring discussion of corporate tax reform, regulations, trade policy and the deficit.
"Certainly the push was made for issue of entitlement reform. The president responded with the need for revenues," said Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
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Obama told the Republicans he is willing to bring some fellow Democrats along on entitlement reforms, but he needed members of the GOP to reach out to their base and convince them a "grand bargain" isn't about the president's hope of winning the House next year, said Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.).
"He challenged us to do the same with our base on the revenue side," Flake said. "He mentioned that are some, I guess theories, out there that he's trying to lure everybody in to a trap, if you will, as a way to win back the House. He assured us that he's simply trying to get a budget deal done. So to the extent that our base or others are convinced that the president has nefarious motives, he challenged us to challenge them on that."
( Also on POLITICO: House Democrats on Obama visit)
The president was peppered on a host of other issues as well:
Obama suggested Congress should create a commission to review regulations and recommend which ones should be eliminated, responding to a question from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
He told Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) that he agreed there needed to be a long-term, 75-year fix, to Medicare.


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Oh, I agree that it is confusing. Unfortunately I have no real answers. It seems to me that there are two approaches, either you teach maha/anu/ati like a gradual path starting with maha and ending in ati or you teach Dzogchen and add just about anything you see helpful to that. No one seems to be teaching only Maha or only Anu or only Ati. Then of course the terma cycles (or systems as someone suggested) can contain just about any kind of mix of teachings and practices of the inner tantras. So I don't think Nyingma is very well organized in this way, or maybe it is just perfect. At least for me.Pero wrote:So the practices we do in DC that we consider anuyoga other teachers would consider as atiyoga (like you mentioned the Shitro Khorde Rangdrol)? Is there nothing that other teachers would think of as anuyoga in DC (the only deity practices we have with tsalung, as far as I know, are Mandarava, Vajrapani and Sinhamukha and the latter two have not been taught in my time or perhaps at all)?heart wrote:Other teachers always refer to Anuyoga as specializing in the second and third empowerment practices.Pero wrote:How does anuyoga look like for other teachers?
An other thing is that for example Tukdrup Barche Kunsel is considered, even in Chokling Tersar, to be Mahayoga. The leyang, the Trinely Nyingpo, have a development stage that is like a fast Mahayoga. However the ghynkher of that same practice, the concise daily practice, use a instant visualization style. Then of course there is a part of the Tukdrup Barche Kunsel that is a pure Dzogchen teaching, Rigdzin Pema Jugne is just a teaching on Trechö and Tögal as well as a teaching on the six liberations, this empowerment is in the Rinchen Terdzö in the Mengakde section of Atiyoga. So just looking just at one single cycle, that is considered Mahayoga, this distinctions between Mahayoga, Anuyoga and Atiyoga becomes quite difficult to follow.
It seems a bit confusing to me hehe. When I received Thugje Chenpo Munsel Dronme (Pema Lingpa terma) from Gangteng Tulku Rinpoche, he said that it belongs to the Yangti. But I don't think I can see any big difference between it and the other practices in DC. Unfortunately I didn't remember to ask what exactly makes it Yangti when I had the chance recently.


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'The cellist playing on platform 4…'
As Alban Gerhardt brings Bach to Frankfurt Station, Stella Lorenz reports
Frankfurt main station on a weekday evening. Rush hour has just ended, but all is still fairly hectic. Among the crowd, an inconspicuous looking man opens his battered cello case, plugs in a small amplifier and sits down. If there wasn't a television crew hovering around, passers-by would probably take the young man for another street musician. But once Alban Gerhardt starts playing, everyone instantly knows that he's not. This, in fact, is one of the world's leading cellists.
In 2012, Gerhardt played at Berlin main station as a concert experiment, which soon turned into the idea of a mini-tour across Germany. Over two days, he has travelled to six different train stations to play Bach's Cello Suites, Frankfurt being the last.
'My name is Alban Gerhardt. I play the cello. Enjoy!' he says and begins his unusual recital of Suites No. 3 and 4. Except for a few fans who have seen the tiny poster at the station, there aren't many people who actually stop… at first. The longer Gerhardt plays, though, the more people are amazed at this cellist who is so immersed in the music, who has his eyes closed and smiles every time there is an announcement.
There are lots of young people, but also businessmen who interrupt their tight schedule and decide not to run for the train but to appreciate this beautiful sound that is almost surreal in this cold, crowded place. 'I'm trying to take the concert experience out of the concert hall and to the people who normally couldn't afford a concert ticket,' Gerhardt says about his project. 'Besides, there's something about the atmosphere at a train station that makes Bach's music stand out even more.' Due to the surrounding noise, the audience really needs to focus on the sound, and that itself creates an intense involvement.
Besides that quality of sound and the extraordinary context, it is Gerhardt's lack of pretentiousness that makes his performance so outstanding. Always focused but never too intense, he wraps up his listeners in the magic of Bach's music and then, even after an hour of playing in the 10-degree temperatures of the station, stays to chat to his audience. 'It's not as exhausting as I've feared and the reactions of the people are really rewarding,' he tells me. 'It's great to see how people respond to Bach's music.'
When I ask him why he chose Bach for this project, he simply replies: 'Well, it's the cellists' bible and I've noticed that with kids, Bach is most popular, so why shouldn't it be the same with adults who are not as familiar with classical music yet?' Then he adds modestly, 'Anyway, it's a learning experience for me too. I've only played the Third Suite for the fourth time or so today.'
Needless to say, he played it by heart…
Alban Gerhardt will be touring again with 'Bach im Bahnhof' in München, Augsburg, Nürnberg, Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin on 1 and 2 October 2013.
Stella Lorenz is currently studying music at Marburg University, Germany
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Apple IPad
Well, this is the new thing for apple. It's a tablet PC (or if you ask me, it's a giant Ipod Touch ). Anyways, I was thinking of buying it but I want to here some thoughts and opinions first.
Link: http://www.apple.com/ipad/
|2010-01-27, 19:51
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Although it looks nice, I think once the device is jailbroken, this is when the device will reach it's full potential... Not getting one at the moment since I have a iPhone 3GS and also a Macbook Pro laptop, which can do most of the tasks...
However, there are some drawbacks such as no multitasking and printing support. I see no use of the iPad itself, but it can kill devices like the Kindle and the Nook which are black and white and used mainly for reading e-books. The iBooks uses a open ebook format, so hopefully one should be able to put content onto the device... and the iPad does most of the basic tasks of a netbook (office tasks, web browsing, music, etc.) and makes them look obsolete because of the cramped keyboards, trackpads and low resolution, but the iPad is more of a Kindle killer than a Netbook killer... Netbooks in my opinion are pointless devices mainly because of the crippled hardware which doesn't make it that appealing.
Now, I hope Google will come out with some Android tablets to add more to the competition.
|2010-01-27, 21:01
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I'm withholding judgment on the iPad till there is more info on 3rd party support, applications (standard and upcoming), and etc. - excluding those for iPhone on the App Store. Price-wise, it's roughly equivalent to the netbooks, and between these and the Kindle, I see the iPad in the netbook class. The lack of a physical keyboard for web access and quick e-mails isn't a huge problem, but I already use my iPhone for both. Having the larger size is nice for the eye candy, but it means more of a headache for carrying/protecting it.
If you are using a netbook to modify documents, presentations and so on, the lack of a physical (and separate) keyboard can be a problem. Having keys to hit helps a touch typist work better, IMHO, despite the tiny keys on a netbook. Can the "soft" keyboard's size/height be adjusted, or are people stuck with the same size?
Cost-wise, it'll probably damage the Kindle's sales, but I see that as incidental. The iPad is priced higher than the Kindle, so for people who already have a netbook, do not want to carry the iPad or want its functionalities, buying a Kindle makes more sense. If people are considering the iPad for e-books only, that's a bit of a waste, IMHO, of money and its functions.
No comment on the name, though, but... the MTV clip a few years ago about the feminine hygiene product "Apple iPad" might be doing a comeback soon.
|2010-01-27, 23:28
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It's a useless piece of shit.
No physical keyboard without springing $80 for a dock. No multitasking (though iPhone OS 4.0 may change this). No real OS. Doesn't support MKV container format. Only supports AAC audio for h.264 encodes. Cannot decode h.264 above 720p in the main 3.1 profile with more than 8 reference frames. Cannot display rendered softsubs.
$300 netbook + $35 Broadcom HD Accelerator >>>>>>>>>>>>>> iPad.
Apple really failed hard with this. All they did was take an iPod Touch and make it bigger. If they really wanted to make a tablet, they should have gone with a convertible tablet notebook design running actual Snow Leopard, built on one of the ULV Core 2 Duo, perhaps an SU9400, or even a ULV Arrandale, perhaps the Core i5-520UM.
This device though is just plain stupid. It fills a niche that doesn't even exist, a niche that's filled by countless other devices that just do more besides.
But of course it's Apple, so they'll still sell a bajillion of them.
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The advantage of using a mobile OS is that it have less overhead compared to a full OS. With a full OS, it's obviously going to use more resources and require more power, thus is why netbooks require bigger batteries just to get around the same battery life. ARM is very power efficient and it's more ideal than X86 processors for embedded devices like this.
I think netbooks are stupid because it's hardware limitations like the small keyboard and touchpad. Netbooks are just underpowered miniture notebooks and pretty much a smaller device like a smartphone can do most of the tasks of a netbook can do. Not to mention, there are laptops that are more powerful at the same price point as a netbook, so I see no point of a netbook really. Like it or not, the future is about mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, etc where we store the information in the cloud, which is why there are things like Android and Chrome out there. Not everyone needs a full OS just to browse on the go.
|2010-01-27, 23:51
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It's about niches. I don't know a single person out of all my friends who would get an iPad and have it do anything but collect dust.
This device is trying to be both a smartphone and a laptop, but it can't do half of what either of those can do, and having both a smartphone and a laptop gives you a lot more options than anything this gives you.
Also, regarding video, you should use proper terminology. It's not converting, it's transcoding. When you transcode from one lossy format to another lossy format you experience a significant generational degradation of quality.
Maybe some people will get some use out of this thing, but personally I don't see how it replaces or even supplements anything.
I have much more interest in ARM-based smartbooks with full hardware keyboards running actual OSes such as Ubuntu. I have many complaints with the netbook platform, and I think that by yanking the x86 processor in favor of a power-efficient ARM setup (Tegra 2, kthx) to get much more battery life without heavy 6-cell batteries, while still having all the flexibility and power of a full-blown Linux OS.
To me the smartbook is the best of all worlds. It is the obvious evolution of the netbook, throwing out redesigned old laptop x86 processors in favor of super-efficient ARM SoCs, but you still retain the benefit of the device behaving almost entirely like a tiny laptop. That's what really bothers me about both smartphones and tablets like this--they just can't do what I need them to do.
I don't want to have to transcode my video and suffer quality losses, not to mention unless I'm rocking an i7 desktop, transcoding isn't exactly fast. When you're sitting there transcoding multiple series, you're looking at hours if not days of processing.
The iPad is not a netbook killer. It's not even in the same niche. I'm not even sure what niche it's in, but what I do know is it is impossible to touch-type on a keyboard that doesn't actually have physical buttons. And seriously, modern netbooks aren't the eee PC 701. Most of them have keyboards that are just as comfortable to type on as a larger laptop's.
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your calling this new device a niche?
i said the same thing for iPhone... boy i was sooo wrong.
iPhone is now synonymous with smart phones.
I wouldn't bet against excellent apple marketing and its hardware/software departments... everything they've touch turned to gold. They ain't the same Apple inc of the 90s...
|2010-01-28, 00:30
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I'm saying this device doesn't fill any specific niche. For the life of me I can't think of something the iPad can do that a number of other devices cannot do better, faster and cheaper.
So I'm finding myself wondering, what's the point of this thing?
I suppose that if I can't figure out what the iPad is for, I am definitely not the target audience.
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I'm not saying the iPad will end up being one of the "forgotten" Apple products like the Apple TV, but I kind of doubt that it's going to be as popular as the iPhone either. The iPhone had significant advantages compared to the devices most people were using and very few disadvantages. The iPad, from what I can see, has quite a few compromises.
I basically fall into the same category as Synaesthetic when it comes to the iPad. I cannot see a scenario in which I would use the iPad in which I couldn't do the task just as well with my friends Asus 1008HE netbook, which is cheaper. I can think of scenarios where I'd find the Asus' capabilities quite useful.
The way I see it, the main appeal of this device is mainly to people looking at something like the Kindle but whom want better web browsing capabilities, not netbook users. So yeah, that explains the lack of appeal to people like Synaesthetic and I right there. I also suspect it'll be more popular after a couple price cuts.
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|2010-01-28, 03:16
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I'd rather just buy a Macbook Pro instead of this..
Because of it's half/half functions I don't like it.. I like reading ebooks, yes great but the thing is bigger than your average ereader... I'd like to watch movies, but when doing that I'd like to have other pc functions as well such as chat and game and set it down so a group can watch allong.. The only thing I can compliment about is its flatness and size, the rest sounds like your bmacbook just made out with your ereader and spawned some retarded half functioning machine
As a student that uses pc's all the time it is rather useless, why if having a laptop, would you buy this if not to smear in people's face that you got a gadget
|2010-01-28, 04:13
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Personally, I'm underwhelmed by the thing... but then its a bit early. Ya'll keep saying wait til its jailbroken..... why is it "in jail" in the first place and there is that "bricking" antic Apple has pulled.
|2010-01-28, 07:31
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I can see some practical uses for the iPad, but in all honesty, I suspect many, if not most, of the initial adopters will just want it for the "cool" and "flash" factors. You know, take it to the cafe, flash it around, and watch Apple groupies drool over its coolness while its owner pretend it is really nothing special?
Some possible uses, IMHO, would be by new parents using it to connect to those baby monitors remotely, architects and construction managers using it to show clients the plans/blueprints on site, and so on. You can do that with a laptop or a small monitor, but having something light, thin and easier to hold is better. The presentation by Steve Jobs just has it looking like a giant iPhone-like electronic device, and for those functions, I'd rather use a laptop or a smartphone instead of carrying around another piece of hardware. I myself wouldn't buy the iPad for doing that kind of "work".
|2010-01-28, 13:40
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As it is now, I don't see the iPad competing strongly in the e-reader space. Why? It doesn't have an eInk display. That's the whole point of an e-reader; the eInk displays are much, much easier on the eyes--and also on battery life. When this little gadget was announced, I was really surprised and disappointed in Apple that they did not put a Pixel Qi hybrid display in it.
I have very little interest in a slate like the iPad, but I have a lot of interest in an e-reader because of the display. Reading on a standard LCD screen gets tiring, but I can read off an eInk display just as if I were reading off a piece of paper. That's the whole point, and the iPad's lack of a Pixel Qi display just kills it dead.
Speaking of niches, when netbooks first came out, they tried to make a niche for themselves (a cheap web browser) but ended up shoehorned into a totally different niche which was previously filled by old, used laptops. The cheap knockaround computer niche.
Most of the people I know who own netbooks (myself included) pick a netbook because they need a cheap computer that can do basic productivity tasks and communication. Really, I don't see why people come down on netbooks so hard; for the average user, they're a hell of a lot more practical than two-ton budget notebooks, and cheaper to boot. If you're looking for someone to attack, attack Intel for purposely making the Atom CPU slower than necessary and not playing nice with nvidia.
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This is what the iPad needs to beat. Tegra 2. Pixel Qi display. Full 1080p playback. Has USB ports. Has expandable memory. Runs Android, so with adroit hackery, putting other Linux distros on it shouldn't be impossible...
Yes, I know it's not out yet, but damn... it's nice.
|2010-01-28, 14:50
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From the FSF, a comment on the underlying DRM issues:
The iPad has some lovely uses.... but replacing a personal computer isn't one of them.
(edit: no, haven't purchased one yet... assessing if there's some reason to. MY *wife* might find one useful but she's rather attached to the notion of real physical keyboards)
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|2010-01-28, 14:56
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Replacing other slates isn't one of them, either. As I just mentioned, the Notion Ink slate is pretty much better on every aspect--plus, running Android and whatnot, it's nice and open.
Yes it's not out yet but neither is the iPad (2 more months).
|2010-01-28, 17:24
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Windows 7 Sins with DRM and other stuff, so there's no surprise there. Buyers should vote with their wallet if they want or not want to buy a device. Simple as that. Also, if you want to jailbreak your device like I usually do, no company should have the right to say no... Not to mention, other closed devices like the Wii, PSP and PS3 also got hacked to run homebrew, although Nintendo and Sony doesn't want you to do so.
I do see some purposes it can make... A slate tablet can be used to manage computers via VNC and SSHing on the go and some other stuff. iPad is probably like Chrome OS, a device that interact with the cloud and it seems these days it's gearing towards like that with cloud services like Google Docs, Amazon S5 or Rackspace, etc.
Yes, the device needs to be more open like the Google Android, which is a perfect example of a open device. Once issue with the Android however is the usual privacy issues with Google.
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Its not "FUD" if they're simply listing the DRM "features" of a device and objecting to them. Buyers should have that information to decide whether they think the crippling is worth it or not.
And.... you say no company should have the right to prevent you from jailbreaking. I agree with you but hey... its currently *illegal* to do so thanks to DRM laws and they can brick you at will should they feel like it.
The google issues and cloud computing privacy issues are generalized problems with all communications and computing trends so iPad is no different in that regard.
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Well, like I said... the thing is an e-reader with extensive multimedia capabilities. And I actually do think from a sheer "cool" standpoint it's hard to beat the iPad. The problem for me comes with the fact that's it's in the saem price range as quite a few devices I would find more versitle.
Nice find on the Pixel Qi display there, that does look like an interesting bit of tech. I suspect that Apple didn't go with it because of the viewing angles... I do hear it's the weakness of the tech and Apple actually bothered to throw an IPS panel in the iPad, which gets great viewing angles but isn't exactly cheap.
I can't say the backlit screen is as big a deal for me as some of the other compromises, but then again, I read PDF files of academic journal articles on both my home computer and my Inspiron 1501 all the time so maybe I'm just used to it. The *software* solution to the problem would be to just put light text on a dark background but I suspect many would balk at reading an ebook that way.
Also, to tell the truth, I think that the idea of ebooks on the iPhone or similar device makes more sense to me than using the iPad for them. A smartphone is pocketable and can be operated with one hand while on a crowded bus. iPad... not so much.
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I want to cook eggs and I want to know the amount of oil that I have to add for 4 eggs. The eggs' weight is about 75-80gr.
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6How are you cooking them? What kind of pan? Most people don't measure for something like this; usually it takes a thin coating, and if they stick, it wasn't enough. But it depends! – Cascabel♦ Dec 5 '11 at 21:59
This question is meaningless without details; it's possible to cook eggs without any oil. Closing. – Aaronut Mar 2 '12 at 0:06
Assuming you are talking about fried eggs, use a non-stick pan, and use just enough fat to coat the pan. If you're using an oil, don't measure, just use a few drops, and make sure to spread it thinly on the pan. You could also use cooking spray. The key is having a really, really slick non-stick pan. No pan with any kind of texture will do.
For scrambled, the same is true, but I'd suggest using butter, and just a little more than you need. For 4 eggs, I'd use about a teaspoon of butter. Of course, I also add whipping cream to my scrambled, do it over a double-boiler, and often finish with a small amount of melted butter on top as it is. Here, you want to really keep the eggs moving to keep from sticking.
If you're talking about another cooking method, please be a little more specific.
if you are using olive oil, use little. Perhaps a half spoon, at any rate enough to grease all the bottom of the pan but not enough to make a puddle. If you use too much it will make bubbles at the edges of your eggs and spatter everywhere, but mostly on your hands and shirt.
Where frying eggs is concerned, an important element, almost as essential as how much oil you use, is that the pan is heated and the oil is at the right temperature. Be sure to heat the pan and oil to a point where (1) the oil becomes very fluid and there is just a negligible amount on the bottom of the pan to swirl around freely and (2) the oil should spit if you flick some water in it.
I have a 12" anodyzed pan and it only needs about two teaspoons vegetable oil. If it's the kind of thing that concerns you, I find you can get away with less when you use peanut or sesame oil.


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Katie Holmes Interview About Broadway Play
Katie Holmes on Box Wine and "Unbelievable" Life Moments
Katie Holmes headed out of her NYC apartment yesterday and reported to her Broadway theater to put in an evening's work on the stage. She appeared in the latest showing of Dead Accounts, her play which opened in previews Monday. Katie's Broadway reviews are quite good so far. The production officially opens Nov. 29, and Katie's been doing press to chat up the project. Katie talked to The New York Times about pressures of the play and her real life, as well as what she has in common with her character, Lorna. Katie said:
- On her character's drinking box wine: "I still think of myself as Midwestern . . . I mean, I've had box wine. It's good. And it's a lot easier to open."
- On her family's guidance: "I have these moments where what's going on in my life is unbelievable, and you have to tell everyone to figure out how to respond. My siblings and I are always on the phone saying: 'Oh my God, what do you think? What does Mom think? What does Dad think?' And then you act accordingly."
- On her Midwestern work ethic: "I'm like Lorna in that my values guide me in an instinctual way, like, 'That feels weird' or 'I better send a thank you.' Also, the Midwestern work ethic: you do what you do, and you don't talk about it. You don't say, 'Oh, I'm a doctor.' You won't have many friends if you do that. And when you're in the entertainment business where you're applauded for so many things . . . you can easily fall into thinking, 'Wow, I'm really something.' But I believe in putting your head down and doing the work."


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Welcome to this week's Arcane Brilliance, the weekly mage column that insists that tragic teleportation accident that left you with a polearm instead of an actual arm does not entitle you to a refund.
Yeah, I should have known better than to start a multi-part leveling guide during a PTR cycle.
Barring more huge news, we'll come back to the leveling guide next week, but this week we need to discuss the fact that Deep Freeze is awesome. Don't believe me? Stop reading this right now. Download the PTR client. Transfer your mage over. Spec Frost. Go find a training dummy. Use Deep Freeze on it. Giggle. Then come back here, because holy crap.
Here's how the spell works currently on the PTR:
Deep Freeze: This spell now deals a large amount of damage to targets permanently immune to stuns.
The base damage is 1469 to 1741. The spellpower coefficient appears to be rock solid, something in the neighborhood of 2-2.5. It doesn't currently benefit from Ice Shards or get an increased crit chance from Shatter, but I expect both of those things to change before this goes live. When it hits the PTR, it'll be the single most powerful damage-dealing spell Frost mages have.
It'll be like a Pyroblast made of ice. Only better.
For those of you with a short attention span, here's the tl;dr version:
After patch 3.3 hits, in a raiding spell rotation, you will use Deep Freeze every time it's off cooldown, and you will see a substantial DPS increase because of it. Read on for the longer, more text-intensive version.
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Welcome to this week's Arcane Brilliance, the weekly mage column that insists that tragic teleportation accident that left you with a polearm instead of an actual arm does not entitle you to a refund.
It's official, mages. This change, along with the others coming in the same patch, means one thing: patch 3.3 gives mages 3 distinct and wholly competitive raiding trees. I say we all get together after work, go out, have some drinks, and then set a warlock or two on fire in celebration. I mean freeze them solid. Then set them on fire. Or whatever works. I'm flexible.
Let's look at each of the major frost tree changes in turn.
Frozen Core
This change was interesting at first, but testing has revealed it to be fairly useless. It's a great idea; getting Ice Lance involved in a PvE rotation is something I think we'd all love to see. The problem is that this particular method of accomplishing that only resulted in an almost insignificant DPS increase at best. In fact, as I'm writing this, a new build is hitting the PTR that appears to have removed the change entirely. Oh Ice Lance Shatter combos...we hardly knew ye.
I hope Blizzard hasn't given up on this idea entirely. Ice Lance is a fun spell. There has to be a way to involve it in a PvE rotation without upsetting PvP balance (such as it is). My personal favorite is the idea that the cast-time reduction to Frostbolt could be shortened, but apply to more than one cast. Don't yank this just because it didn't work immediately. You aren't Fox, Blizzard. This isn't Firefly. Or Dollhouse. As far as I am aware, Joss Whedon has never had anything to do with Ice Lance. Give this one a little room to grow. Tinker with it a little more. See how it pans out. It's the Public Test Realm, for crying out loud. Test it a bit.
Glyph of Eternal Water
This hasn't changed since the last time we discussed it. It's still completely awesome. You take this glyph, you get a permanent water elemental. His Waterbolts have had their mana cost reduced so drastically that he should be able to cast pretty much indefinitely in a raid environment. The trade-off is that he can no longer cast Freeze, a spell that had extremely limited raid utility anyway. PvP mages will avoid this glyph's phone calls (I know several of you guys suggested in the comments last week that you'd take this for PvP anyway, but I think you're crazy), while raiding mages will invite it over for dinner and then try to make out with it during Glee.
Having a perpetually casting pet out all the time is a rock-solid DPS increase. It's been a couple of weeks since we heard about this, but I'm still peeing down my own leg in anticipation, pretty much all the time. It's like my own personal Glyph of Eternal Water. Get it? Ha! Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
Deep Freeze
Hey, remember when we first heard about this spell? Remember how I was so excited about it when I first tried it out in the Wrath beta? And then they took away the damage component, and I got angry and resentful? And then I devoted an entire column to whining about it? And then today happened and I wrote the first part of this column? What a fun year that was.
Well, now the damage component is back and better than ever. Combined with the DPS increase of a permanent water elemental, this change brings Frost to where it belongs: right along-side Arcane and Fire. If you are a raiding mage, you can now choose the spec you like best, play it well, and do just fine. A patch ago, top raiding guilds had fire mages and really no other kind.
Not any more. Frost mages can raid. Arcane mages can raid. We have flexibility in how we spec, and perhaps more than ever before, we can play the way we enjoy playing, instead of playing the one "best" spec. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria.
Anyway, this is the way this will work:
Your new Frost spec will look something like this:
Frost 18/0/53
This will probably change, because I can't see Blizzard leaving Enduring Winter as is. The only useful component to the talent after getting the Glyph of Eternal Water is the replenishment buff, and one point (33% per Frostbolt cast) is enough to keep that up constantly. The other two would be essentially wasted. That gives you one point for Deep Freeze and one for whatever. If Blizzard tweaks Enduring Winter to make those other two talent points necessary again, the point for Deep Freeze will have to come from somewhere else. We'll have to wait and see.
Your rotation will function as normal, with the exception that when Fingers of Frost procs, you'll now be using one of the charges on Deep Freeze instead of a second Frostbolt. Assuming Deep Freeze ultimately is affected by both Ice Shards and Shatter, It'll be more than twice as powerful as a Frostbolt in that scenario. That's sexy.
Oh, and one more thing: with your new permanent water elemental, you'll never need to blow a Cold Snap on re-summoning him. That frees Cold Snap up for other things, like a fresh Icy Veins or another Deep Freeze. This should result in another, minor DPS increase for most Frost mages.
So, on a scale of "meh" to "peeing down your leg," how excited are you for the new and improved frost mage? My bladder has already betrayed my level of enthusiasm. Where do you rate?
Every week Arcane Brilliance teleports you inside the wonderful world of mages and then hurls a Fireball in your face. Check out our recent two-part look at what Cataclysm will mean to Mages, or our ongoing series of mage leveling guides. Until next week, keep the Mage-train a-rollin'.


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I left my home in Holland
Headed for the Antwerp Bay
Cos I've got a team to ride for
And there's a job to be done today
So I'm just ridin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the peleton roll away
Ooo, I'm ridin' on the dock of the bay
Waistin' time
Holy godfather in heaven. That was hectic. Yesterdays Antswerpse Havenpijl was one of the crazier bike races I have participated in to date.
I am not sure what the term 'Havenpijl' refers to but in 'Lovelock's Thesaurus' it is the foremost antonym for 'scenic' or 'beautiful'. Doesn't matter what Roget thinks, my mind is set. This place sucks.
Well, to be fair, we only saw the docks of Antwerp, we bypassed the real city so if anyone from the Antwerp tourist commission is reading please don't sue me for libel.
The course snaked along the docks with the appetising odours wafting from the buffet of chemical factories lining the course providing motivation for everyone to finish the race as soon as possible. To keep the riders nervous and twitchy were a number of obstacles; there were some cobbles and some nice gutters that I became well acquainted with. The rails of death, however, provided the most drama. A number of times when we would swing round a corner to be greeted with train lines in the road, running parallel with our path of travel.
I would come sweeping round these 90 bends, everyone leaned over, flying, bumping, shoving their way to the front before the inevitable split in the cross winds, and I would look up and see people on the exit of the turn changing direction and bunny hopping all over the place. My first reaction was to crap my dacks. My next reaction was to wonder what obstacle was coming up. In between reaction one and reaction two I would see a big nasty looking train line just ready to swallow my front wheel. Then reaction four was to wonder who decided to race us over this road? I mean, it's not even a road, it's just a path for effin big trucks and effin trains to get effin big containers off effin big ships to the effin big factories. And we are effin racing here? What are they, effin nuts?!?!
Luckily in between reactions two and four was an autonomous bunny hop that saved my hide. But then ten minutes later, another set of lines. Oh god. And the steak knives that completed the package got delivered in the form of MORE rail lines, running at a 45 degree angle across the road that we were heading down, with a tailwind, at 50k/h plus. So I was thinking that
Looks like nothings gonna change
Everything still remains the same
I can't do what the DS tells me to do
So I guess I'll miss the break away to,
Sittin' here not breakin my bones
And this hunger won't leave me along
It's 100 miles I rode
And I'm glad to leave this dock and go home,
Now, I was ridin' on the dock of the bay
The peleton has now rolled away
Oooo-wee, just ridin' on the dock of the bay
Waistin' time
Maybe reaction five should have been giving the race organisors a bollocking for such a ridiculous course.
I suppose (apart from apologising to Otis for butchering his song) I should be thankful that it was dry, and, no one crashed. In addition, the wind was really blowing so the racing was good and hard and certainly good prep for the 1.1 Race that we have tomorrow: GP Stad Zottegem.
I'll check back in with some more news as it comes to hand...


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Rosh Hashanah starts Wednesday, and we're confronted with a question so old it might as well be part of the tradition -- what to make? But just because the predicament is age-old, doesn't mean the menu has to be.
Here are 12 fresh and festive ways to usher in the sweetness of the New Year -- from honey-kissed short ribs to the perfect applesauce cake.
Applesauce Cake with Caramel Glaze by merrill
Short Ribs with Beer and Buckwheat Honey by merrill
Sweet Potatoes Anna with Prunes by mrsp
Apples Baked in Cider by sally
Cool Rise Challah by Bria
Chicken with Figs, Wine, and Honey by eatboutique
Rustic French Honey Cake by thirschfeld
Savory Noodle Kugel by thirschfeld
Arugula, Pear, and Goat Cheese Salad with Pomegranate Vinaigrette by brigidc
Crispy Delicata Rings with Currant, Fennel, and Apple Relish by ChezSuzanne
The Perfect Apple Cake by Becky
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Computer Science ColloquiumIm Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums, das von den Instituten des Fachbereichs Informatik, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung (ADV) sowie der Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) abgehalten wird, spricht
Prof. Indranil Sen Gupta
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpurüber das Thema:
Logic synthesis on memristor crossbarZeit: Tue 26.9.2017, 10:00, 60 Minuten
Ort: S2 054
ZusammenfassungResearch in the area of memristors and their applications have picked up in recent years, with the emergence of interesting application areas like non-volatile resistive memory design, neuromorphic computing, in-memory computing, etc. This talk will largely focus on the use of memristive systems in logic design. In particular, the memristor crossbar architecture will be considered as the target platform for logic implementation. Some of the logic design approaches, as well as some of the challenges in implementing them on the crossbar shall be discussed.
VortragenderIndranil Sengupta obtained his B.Tech., M.Tech. and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Calcutta in the years 1983, 1985 and 1990 respectively. He joined Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, as a faculty member in 1988, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, where he is presently a Full Professor. He had been the former Heads of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and School of Information Technology. He has over 29 years of teaching and research experience, guided 20 PhD students and published over 180 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences. He has served as the Program Chair / General Chair in several International Conferences in the areas of VLSI design, reversible computing, and information security. His research interests include VLSI design and test, reversible and quantum computing, and network security. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Einladender: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Wille
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The lazy typist creation date was 2009. so it's 7 years old. Thelazytypist.com is a membership site for affiliate marketing. It doesn't seem that the owner has done too much advertising on it but looking further into the site the value is around $5000 estimated at that rate which includes the membership site. I contacted the owner of the site and asked to do this review on the premise that he let me login to his back office and see what exactly what he is offering.
The Thelazytypist.com has quite an extensive back office with approximately 30 pages plus the seven basic pages in the headquarters. The site is simple and to the point. It is easy to read and understand the concept of the site. Navigation is great and overall it provides a lot of useful information in it's training area.
The back office starts off with step by step training regarding affiliate work from home and how to achieve the most money by following these certain techniques.
What I like about The Lazy Typist is the instructions are precise and easy to follow and basically anyone with basic common sense can read, understand and follow the program. I also appreciate the many bonus gifts provided as an extra bonus. These gifts include marketing software such as article marketing, full training guide ebooks and step by step videos which make the member understand the concept of the business very effectively.
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Been there, done that, designed the T shirt - a creative challenge promoting the conference or company message. Teams are provided with a plain white T shirt for each person.
The challenge is to come up with an imaginative, creative and unique design which will promote themselves, a product or the company. They will need to reach a consensus of opinion, and humour will naturally be well rewarded.
A fun and interesting way to get across key messages and a chance to see your colleagues in a new light!
Learning and development outcomes
Time will be of the essence, so it is essential that each team works as one to collaborate on their ideas and utilise the skills and strengths of each individual in the team. When the production stage is reached, a range of printing materials is made available together with advice and assistance from our own team of expert designers. Once all the shirts are completed, and if time allows, a catwalk fashion show can be staged where teams parade creations and display their messages. T-Shirt Masterpiece is a fantastic way to engage your people in your conference themes.


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When the time comes to open our hearts and our wallets for children, one of the first places that comes to mind is Doernbecher Children's Hospital. Thanks to our Corporate Matching Program, last year more than $14,000 was donated to Doernbecher, recognized as one of America's leading pediatric treatment and research hospitals.
Sharing with our community is a privilege earned by success.
As part of Subaru's 2014 Share the Love Event, Dick Hannah Subaru raised more than $10,270 for the Vancouver Police Activities League, the organization chosen by Subaru employees as the local beneficiary. PAL also uses an 8-passenger van donated by Dick Hannah Dealerships to transport kids to / from activities.
The Boys and Girls Club of Southwest Washington received nearly $4,000 in employee and company matching donations during our 2014 Holiday Giving Campaign.
It started in 2007 during a brainstorming session of Dick Hannah associates. The newly formed Green Task Force was coming up with ideas to tangibly impact our community and the environment. Among the many green initiatives bantered about came the notion to plant trees. Yes. Real trees.
In partnership with the National Arbor Day Foundation, Dick Hannah Dealerships has planted more than 193,633 trees in the Pacific Northwest-one for every car sold.
With its roots firmly planted in the local community since 1949, and believing that environmental stewardship is the right thing to embrace, Dick Hannah Dealerships continues to focus on the future.
One tree at a time.
Hundreds of kids in Southwest Washington were cozier last winter thanks to the efforts of Dick Hannah Dealerships and our employees. Believing that all children deserve to be warm, dozens of new coats were purchased and more than $3,200 was donated to the Salvation Army Coats for Kids program last year.
As Captain David Davis of the Salvation Army said, "Need takes no holiday and need knows no season." We emphatically agree.
In order for children to learn, they need proper and adequate supplies. Nearly $10,000 was raised by our Subaru location during their second annual Tools for Schools initiative. Hundreds of children now have access to paper, pens, pencils, crayons and more so they can succeed in school.
Passion for one's community extends beyond people. Our furry friends also need help.
From sponsoring holes in golf tournaments, donating items to silent auction fundraisers and supporting events such as the Humane Society's "Walk Run for the Animals" and Adopt-a-Pet programs, Dick Hannah Dealerships believes that caring for animals is part of what makes us good people.
Max thinks so, too.
For a sixth consecutive year, Dick Hannah Dealerships is rewarding local high school students for academic success.
By improving their GPA by .5 from the first semester to the second, or attaining a 3.5 GPA overall for the school year, students who register are entered into a random drawing for the grand prize - one of eight new cars or $15,000.
Kids achieve when grown-ups believe.
Since the early 1990s, Dick Hannah Dealerships has sponsored on-site blood drives with the American Red Cross.
As of March 2015, 1275 units of blood have been collected. Since each unit saves three lives, more than 3,825 lives have been saved in our community because Dick Hannah employees believe in giving of themselves. Literally.
There's no greater compliment than having your friends and neighbors in the local community select you as the best. For the fourth consecutive year, readers of The Columbian newspaper voted Dick Hannah Dealerships as having the Best Auto Buying Experience in Clark County. Awwwww. We're blushing.
There's nothing more heartwarming than putting the smile on the face of a child facing the challenges of a life-threatening illness. In partnership with Fox 12 Oregon television and 105.1 the Buzz radio, Dick Hannah Dealerships helped raise $702,000 for the Children's Cancer Association through their 2015 Valentine's Day for CCA radiothon.
Employees volunteered by staffing the phone bank at a ridiculously early hour of the morning. In addition, Dick Hannah Dealerships donated a new car as a raffle prize that generated $87,500 from the sale of 3,500 raffle tickets.
Wishes can come true. Believe it.
Thanks to the generosity of Dick Hannah Dealerships employees, the local Meals on Wheel program received $4,125 to provide meals and companionship to senior citizens in our community. Hot noon meals are delivered by volunteers each weekday to homebound seniors. At an average cost of $3 per meal, this donation provided 1,375 hot meals last year.
We've all been there. First the glance. The double take. The long adoring gaze. Then that indescribable tingle we feel down to the tips of our toes. You've been searching for just the right one. The one you envision spending the rest of your life with. This is it. You've found it. Your new car! At Dick Hannah Dealerships we know just how you feel when the right one comes along. And we do everything in our power to make sure your ideal match fits your budget and your garage. After all, when it comes to finding your perfect car, you don't need a second look.


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Freshman Brenton Braddock ran for four touchdowns and Matt
O'Connell threw two scoring passes to lead St. Thomas to a 48-17
win over St. Norbert in the NCAA Division III playoffs Saturday in
O'Shaughnessy Stadium.
The No. 3 Tommies (11-0) advance to the second round and will be host at noon Nov. 24 to Elmhurst (10-1), which went on the road to knock off undefeated Coe 27-24 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The win pushed St. Thomas to 5-0 all-time in NCAA first-round playoff games, including the last four years under Coach Glenn Caruso. The Tommies have won 14 games in a row in O'Shaughnessy and have a 31-2 home record in the Caruso era. It also was UST's 15th consecutive win in the month of November dating back through 2008.
St. Thomas started slow against St. Norbert and was shut out in the first quarter for only the second time this year – and the second week in a row – but ran off 27 points in the second quarter to lead 27-0 at halftime.
The Tommies took advantage of excellent field position on their first three touchdown drives, which started at their 48, at midfield and at the St. Norbert 33, the latter after a fumble recovery.
Braddock ran for three touchdowns in the quarter – from 4, 1 and 5 yards – and O'Connell hit Logan Marks in the end zone from 10 yards out for the tight end's sixth touchdown reception of the season. The third Braddock touchdown came with 18 seconds left in the half – the ninth time in 15 games that St. Thomas has scored in the closing two minutes.
O'Connell capped a second half opening drive with a one-yard touchdown pass to Allen and a 34-0 lead. The Green Knights broke the shutout with a touchdown and a field goal, but Braddock ran untouched for an 82-yard touchdown – the Tommies' longest run from scrimmage this year – and a 41-10 lead. He finished with 166 yards.
After St. Norbert hit an 80-yard touchdown pass from James Tringali to Austin Williams, the Tommies closed the scoring on a nine-yard run by backup quarterback Kyler Anderson.
St. Thomas racked up 536 yards of offense and held St. Norbert to 228 yards, including only nine net rushing yards. The Tommies' rushing defense ranks in the top 10 in Division III, allowing less than 70 yards a game, and also recorded five sacks and broke up 10 passes.
St. Norbert converted its first third-down try but went 0-for-12 on third-down conversions the rest of the game.
Box: Box score:
Braddock's four scores lift Tommies
|St. Norbert (8-3)
|No. 4 St. Thomas (11-0)
Freshman Brenton Braddock ran for four touchdowns and Matt
O'Connell threw two scoring passes to lead St. Thomas to a 48-17
win over St. Norbert in the NCAA Division III playoffs Saturday in
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Penn State Pullers place high in international tractor event
Penn State Pullers place high in international tractor event
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A team of students from Penn State's colleges of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering recently placed fifth overall in the International Quarter Scale Tractor Competition, sponsored by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
The students were members of the Penn State Pullers club, a group dedicated to designing and building their own garden tractor-sized tractors.
During the event, which was held in early June in Peoria, Ill., each team was judged based on a written design report, team presentation, design excellence, maneuverability and tractor pulling capacity.
This year, the Pullers were led by team captain Nathan Chess, of Hadley, who recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in agricultural systems management.
"We placed fifth out of 29 -- there were very strong teams there this year, and overall we were pleased with our performance," Chess said. "Our tractor now has been competitive with the best, and we have developed our program into something people respect at the competition.
"They all expect Penn State to bring a strong tractor."
The team encountered an unexpected challenge at the event.
"During the competition, we did not pass the brake test in the first round," said Jude Liu, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, the Pullers' faculty adviser. "Our team members had to redesign and repair the brake system and its components to solve the problems in a very limited time."
It was a stressful situation, Chess conceded. "But our team came together, and we prevailed."
Over the next year, the Pullers will need to continue to improve in order to reach Liu's goal of seeing the team finish in the top three.
Some of the group's improvements from last year included advances on safety and ergonomics, speed controls, lower center of gravity, stronger chassis and appearance.
This year's tractor's appearance was in memory of ag engineering alumnus George E. Logue Sr., Chess noted.
"He was a great influence and donor to our program," he said. "We had a decal made for this tractor to show our appreciation for all that he had done for our team."


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ATLANTIC BEACH � After nearly two years of sitting unused, Carteret County�s largest hotel is close to welcoming guests again.
ATLANTIC BEACH � After nearly two years of sitting unused, Carteret County�s largest hotel is close to welcoming guests again.
The former Sheraton Atlantic Beach property is scheduled to reopen this summer as Double Tree by Hilton Oceanfront.
Marty Matfess, executive vice president of Newport Group Inc. of Augusta, Ga., said the anticipated opening date is June 1.
�We want to be open the earliest part of the summer as possible,� he said in a recent phone interview.
Newport Group acquired the Atlantic Beach property for $4.56 million during a foreclosure sale in December.
Newport Group is a real estate development and management firm that specializes in hotel investments and operations. It owns and operates hotels across the Southeastern United States, including the Double Tree by Hilton Riverfront in New Bern.
Matfess said inside renovations are being completed, and the oceanfront hotel in Atlantic Beach will open with the same number of rooms, banquet facilities and with the oceanfront bar and grill on site.
The hotel closed for renovations in September 2011 following damage from Hurricane Irene and never reopened.
Carol Lohr, executive director of the Crystal Coast Tourism Development Bureau, said the reopening will fill a void of nearly two years.
�It will be a tremendous asset to have the hotel back open,� she said.
The closure has meant a reduction in hotel rooms in the county, as well as the loss of well-used banquet facilities.
Lohr said they have been able to accommodate meetings and events such as weddings at the Crystal Coast Civic Center and at other properties around the county, but there have been some that have had to locate outside of the county.
�We�ll have to work hard to get those back,� she said.
Lohr said having the hotel and banquet facilities back open will also be a benefit to the surrounding businesses.
Contact Daily News reporter Jannette Pippin at 910-382-2557 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The extended deadline for proposals for AN's series on funding is July 1.
Securing grants, fellowships and other forms of funding is a major part of anthropology education, research, programming and more. This has become even more challenging as budget cuts are impacting funding sources.
The November 2011 issue of Anthropology News will feature a thematic series on funding. This will offer anthropologists the opportunity to share advice, insight and success stories on how to fund projects, from short-term individual research to long-term projects by organizational partnerships, and other issues related to funding. Essays in this series may include—but are not limited to—practical guidance from both recipients and reviewers, advice for presenting anthropology to non-anthropology proposal reviewers, recommendations for implementing funded projects, and suggestions for how to create projects that both appeal to funding agencies and are true to anthropological research.
To participate, email a 300-word abstract and 50–100-word biosketch to AN Managing Editor Amy Goldenberg. We welcome proposals for In Focus commentaries, Teaching Strategies articles, Field Notes pieces, photo essays, news stories and interviews. Proposals for photo essays should also include up to five high resolution photographs (tiff or jpg), each with a caption and credit. Multimedia submissions are encouraged for online publication. Final contributions for print AN will be 1,100–1,300 words in length for commentaries and shorter for other contribution types. More flexible word counts will be available for content published on the new AN website.
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BioShock welcomes you to Rapture. A city where opportunity awaits those brave enough to grasp it. A city where the artist need not fear the censor. Where the scientist is not bound by petty morality. Where the great are not held back by the weak.
Set in an alternate 1960, BioShock places you in the middle of an underwater utopia gone badly wrong. With a provocative and intelligent storyline, this is a game that is alternately beautiful, thrilling, funny, frightening and always involving. An experience that makes you think while you play.
- Award-winning - BioShock has won numerous game of the year
What's New in BioShock
- Improves stability
- Adds support for additional game controllers
- Fixes a number of minor issues
Requirements for BioShock
- Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
- Minimum 1.4GHz Intel Processor
- Minimum 1.5GB RAM
- Minimum 128MB graphics card
- 8GB free harddrive space
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|Oracle Call Interface Programmer's Guide
Release 9.0.1
Part Number A89857-01
More OCI Relational Functions, 93 of 97
Converts a Universal
ROWID to character extended (base 64) representation.
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ROWID descriptor which is allocated by
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Pointer to the buffer where the character representaion is stored after successful execution of this call.
Pointer to the output buffer length. Before execution, the buffer length contains the size of outbfp. After execution it contains the number of bytes converted.
In the event of truncation during conversion, outbfp contains the length required to make conversion successful. An error is also returned.
An error handle you can pass to
OCIErrorGet() for diagnostic information in the event of an error.
After this conversion, the
ROWID in character format can be bound with the
OCIBindByPos() or
OCIBindByName() calls, and used to query a row at the given
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A report released by the UN's Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on September 2nd provides a bleak outlook for Somalians facing famine and disease. According to the Somalia Food Security Nutritional Analysis Unit, all regions in the southern area of the country may soon face famine as the situation continues to worsen.
The UN report comes nearly two months after Antonio Guterres, head of the UN refugee agency, described the problems as the "worst humanitarian disaster in the world." Mr. Guterres appealed for world support to alleviate the suffering of people in the region after visiting the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, which was home to more than 380,000 displaced refugees as of July, with thousands more showing up each week. Thousands more are crossing the border into Ethiopia each day, many having walked for several days. The UN estimates that up to 50% of children arriving at the camps are malnourished.
The famine is largely the result of the worst drought in Somalia in sixty years, with conditions further exacerbated by violence and political strife within the country. Relief efforts by the Somali government, the UN, and other aid groups have been complicated, and sometimes made impossible, by civil war within the nation and restricted access to some of the hardest hit areas. The al-Shabab militia, an armed Somali Islamist rebel organization with ties to al-Qaeda, has forced out many western aid organizations and blocked routes of displaced travelers seeking relief in the capital city, Mogadishu. "It is safe to say that many people are going to die as a result of little or no access [for aid groups]," says Eric James of the American Refugee Committee.
Over 12 million people throughout the Horn of Africa are affected by the drought and in need of assistance.
The leader of al-Shabab has announced, however, that the organization will continue to launch attacks on government troops and foreign peacekeepers and continue to constrain movement of those seeking to flee areas under the group's control. Al-Shabab has also ignored pleas from Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohammed Ali to stop engaging in conflicts with regional clans in central Somalia, where a recent clash resulted in at least thirty deaths with another 100 injured.
Further complicating relief efforts by Western organizations looking to help in the area is the US government's classification of al-Shabab as a terrorist group in 2008. Such a classification makes it a crime to provide material assistance to the group, which aid officials claim has a chilling effect on relief organizations who are fearful of legal trouble resulting from aid money finding its way into al-Shabab hands.


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Prospects for passing new farm bill reviewed at National Dairy Producers Conference.
Source: National Milk Producers Federation news release
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. – The benefits of adopting the Dairy Security Act (DSA) as part of the next farm bill will be obvious to farmers and policy makers as Congress begins assembling new agricultural policy this spring, according to speakers here at the National Dairy Producers Conference.
During a two-hour-long session Monday reviewing the prospects of the farm bill in general – and the outlook for the Dairy Security Act in particular – panelists agreed that the risk management approach embodied in the Dairy Security Act provides a cost-effective safety net for farmers.
University of Minnesota economist Marin Bozic, who participated in the discussion in Indianapolis, reported that farmers who enroll in the DSA will find that the program "works as catastrophic risk insurance. It reduces extreme margin risk, as it pays you the most when you need it the most."
He said that farmers will likely view the risk of not enrolling in the program as far greater than being part of it. Regarding concerns that milk production growth could be restricted by the DSA's market stabilization component, Bozic told the crowd that producers using the three-month rolling base will experience milk production growth over the long term similar to if they were not part of the program.
Bozic is one of a group of Midwestern university professors who have performed a detailed analysis of how the DSA program performs for farms of various sizes, under various economic conditions. The analytical tool he reviewed has been developed to help farmers determine how best to participate in the DSA, once it becomes law.
One of the other academics, John Newton, described how an independent economic model of DSA can serve as a tool for farmers to help them make decisions regarding participation on the proposed DSA. Newton, an Ohio State University doctoral candidate, said that DSA works for farmers, whether small or large, and regardless of whether the model is merely a yearly analysis or a cumulative revenue report over a period of years.
Monday's findings by the agricultural economists about the effectiveness of the DSA will bolster the case on Capitol Hill that the measure needs to be part of the next farm bill, according to NMPF's Chief Executive.
"We've spent the past three years working within the industry, and with members of Congress, developing a program that meets the needs of America's dairy farmers in the 21st century," said Jerry Kozak, president and CEO of NMPF, which organized the National Dairy Producers Conference. "The evidence continues to demonstrate that the DSA is both good policy, and good politics."
Kozak said that competing approaches to the DSA, either featuring no market stabilization element, or exempting all but the largest farms from market stabilization, are both overly costly, and politically unacceptable.
"Any proposal featuring margin insurance alone, such as the Goodlatte-Scott amendment, which severely limits the amount of milk that farmers can insure, will hamper the growth of their operations. Beyond that, it's a prescription for lower milk prices and higher government costs, which will scuttle the whole economic basis for margin insurance in the future," he said.
By the same token, "any approach that attempts to drive a wedge between farmers of differing sizes by exempting large numbers of farmers from the market stabilization program is divisive and wrong. In addition, it would dramatically increase the cost of the overall farm bill. The industry has moved beyond the regional divisiveness of past dairy policies and Congress needs to do so as well," he said.
Proposed Ohio Fertilizer Legislation -- Nutrient Certification Requirement
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