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The only positive about this game was that the Knicks would have won if the game was only 3 quarters long. I am not even sure if the Knicks outplayed the Celtics for the first 3 quarters or if the Celtics had a bet going about how long they could toy with the Knicks before putting them away. Here are my tips for the Knicks going forward:
- On defense everyone gets a guy and you HAVE to stay with that guy unless there is a switch and then BOTH players must switch, NOT just one of the two players. And, when there is a switch at least one of those players should announce his plans to switch out loud.
- If your name is Amare (and sometimes Carmelo) and you are being covered by multiple players that means that MULTIPLE PLAYERS ON YOUR TEAM are open and you should probably try to find one of those open guys.
- When the other team shoots, no matter how pretty the shot is you can't just stare at the ball, you HAVE to find a player on the other team and stand near him (even better if you can try and box him out).
- If Ronny Turiaf or Jarred Jeffries have the ball on offense within 15 feet of the basket and no one is covering them then they are required to shoot the ball even if they think shooting will result in an allergic reaction.
- The fans are no longer allowed to chant M-V-P at STAT until he plays defense for an entire game.
- When you are on offense and you pass the ball to a teammate PLEASE don't then walk over to that teammate and bring your defender with you (I wish I was only talking to Amare).
- Every game a lucky fan should get to sit in Andy Rautins' seat on the bench, wear his uniform and basically pretend to be Rautins. D'Antoni should not be told about this promotion and we will all wait to see how long it takes him to notice.
- Derek Brown should introduce himself to D'Antoni every game at half time.

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This is part of a series of comic strips by Ghostella's Haunted Tomb writer/director Stacie Ponder, posted every Tuesday on AfterEllen.com.
This week, more hilarious old-timey humor as Jocular Japes returns!
Hey, Toosday Toons fans! Stacie has a new fantasy-flavored webcomic
For more info on Stacie Ponder, visit her Final Girl blog and follow her on Twitter.


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When I was growing up, my dad tried -- without success -- to get me interested in golf. I had a set of his hand-me-down clubs, which my uncle borrowed for a weekend in 1978. I never saw the clubs again, and didn't particularly miss them. Not even repeated viewings of "Caddyshack" could spark an interest in me for the allure and charm of golf. Despite that, I've spent a lot of time on a golf course recently. Here's why.
A couple of years ago, I read "The World Without Us," a remarkable book by Alan Weisman that speculates on how quickly nature would reclaim the planet if we were to suddenly disappear. Neither Mr. Weisman nor myself are necessarily rooting for this to happen, but the premise of the book is that nature would hardly miss us if we were gone. Some metals, persistent toxic chemicals, and of course plastics would be long-term markers of humanity's impact, but our cities, suburbs, and farms would pretty much be overtaken and vanish in a span of decades.
After reading the book, I've spent a lot of time walking the former fairways and cart paths of an abandoned golf course near my house. Southerness Golf Club went out of business in 2004. The owners sold the course to the state of Georgia, who folded the course's 155 acres into the adjacent Panola Mountain State Conservation Park. Apart from building restrooms by the parking lot, the state has pretty much left the site alone. It's amazing to see how quickly nature has reclaimed the course.
Southerness had a clubhouse, pro shop, restaurant, bar, cart barn, and yes, a caddyshack. All are boarded up and in some advanced degree of decay and disarray, but I can imagine in its heyday, that the Southerness Golf Club wasn't too much different -- maybe one step down the tax schedule -- from Bushwood, the mythical venue for the "Caddyshack" movie.
It really gets interesting out on the course. After five fallow years, it's still easy to make out the flat, sculptured areas of the tees and greens. It's impossible to tell where the short grass of the fairways ends and the rough begins. Except for a few areas that are mowed, the grass is hip-high, and probably not a good place to wander during tick season.
The depressed ground of the sand traps is also easy to figure out. If you look closely, you can see the bright white of the sand beneath the weeds. Then you'll notice that the weeds that grow out of the sand are different varieties than the ones that grow on the fairways.
The mature yellow pine trees give a rough outline of how the holes were laid out on the course. But they're being joined by fast-growing seedlings that are covering the course in a high-speed re-foresting. Every hundred yards or so, you can see a decaying sign, out-of-bounds stake, or ball washer. A few wooden bridges are already sporting large holes in the surface, and are bordering on being dangerous for passage. This helps reinforce the aura of the place as a potentially great backdrop for a Stephen King movie.
The water holes are a bit overrun and turbid, but many of them have resident ducks. One thing I've never seen on this course is Canada Geese. This is a bit odd, since resident Canada Geese are everywhere in these suburbs, and manicured golf courses are favored habitats. Geese drive golfers and groundskeepers crazy, but they're not to be seen on these abandoned fairways. Once the grass grew tall, apparently the geese lost interest in golf as quickly as I did.
The course is dotted with hundreds of enormous fire ant mounds. They're the color, and some are twice as large, as basketballs. Yes, I admit I've done the "guy thing" and stepped on a mound to watch the ants go into battle stations. Then I did the smart thing and stepped back, and shook a few of them off my shoe.
The course also supports the usual suspects of suburban wildlife: Deer, red-tailed hawks, vultures, and wild turkeys. I wouldn't be surprised if armadillos and coyotes, both of which have moved into the area in recent years, aren't out there as well.
The moral of the story is simple: While some aspects of nature can be quite fragile, much of it is quite resilient. Our species doesn't really matter much to nature, except when we do irreversible damage. Nature can get along just fine without us. Unfortunately, the reverse isn't true.
NOTE: The History Channel also "borrowed" Weisman's idea, and last year rolled out a series called Life After People. It's re-airing this month.
Peter Dykstra is the former executive producer of CNN's Science, Tech and Weather Unit.


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The piles of folded clothes that covered the dining room table are packed tightly into Joseph's large blue duffel-- along with sunscreen, bug spray, goggles, sneakers, flip flops...
Everything my boy will need for a week at camp.
And next to that duffel is a medium-sized black suitcase packed neatly with dresses, shirts, skirts and "skorts" -- along with no less than six "buddies" from Evan's vast collection of stuffed creatures. Everything she'll need for "Gramma" camp.
Yep, they're both ready.
It's not that late -- only quarter til nine -- but I'm beat. So much traveling lately, and Joseph's baseball games, and work...
I just want to sit down and breathe.
"Kids, why don't you get ready for bed? It's gonna be a long drive tomorrow and we all have to get up early."
Joseph and Evan head upstairs to change, chatting away about what they'll be doing "this time tomorrow."
That's when the phone rings.
I don't recognize the number on caller id and there's no name, so I decide not to answer it. But then, since I'm standing right there I pick it up anyway.
"Hello-- Sandy?" a woman's voice says on the other end.
"Yes... " I say, fully expecting a telemarketer-- who else would call me "Sandy"?
"I'm the program director at Joseph's diabetes camp."
My stomach drops.
And, I'm confused, because this isn't N-- the program director who has been running the camp since before Joseph started going.
"We were looking over Joseph's camp forms and saw that you requested his blood glucose be checked at midnight and 2am... I wanted to clarify our protocol for putting children on the night rounds. We only check those children whose blood glucose is 80 or less before bed time."
"What? Hold on, this isn't what was done last year. I included a letter from Joseph's diabetes physician, it explains why he needs to be checked- "
"Yes, we saw the letter. That's why we're calling. With so many children coming to camp, we can't possibly do anything outside of our protocol."
I start to shake.
This can't be happening. Not the night before.
"But I spoke with the camp doctor last year. Joseph was checked every night... wait, your calling me on a Saturday night -- the NIGHT before camp -- to tell me this! This is insane!"
"I'm sorry, but- "
"I need to speak with the camp doctor."
"All right, I'll go get him."
For two long minutes, I wait-- the phone pressed so hard against my ear it hurts.
When the camp doc finally comes to the phone, he repeats almost verbatim what the program director just said.
"I don't understand-- you agreed last year. He was checked- "
"No, I think you must be mistaken. I probably had him checked the first night, but then we followed our protocol."
"But I have the logs- he was checked!" Suddenly I'm wishing I could find the logs right now, but I can't even think straight. "You met with me in his cabin. You agreed- "
"I'm sorry, but it sounds like your son might be too fragile for camp."
"What?! He is not fragile-- not at all! What are you talking about?"
"The letter from his physician states that he has 'a history of extreme glucose fluctuations overnight' and 'unexpected overnight hypoglycemia which must be detected to prevent seizure activity.'"
"But he's never had a seizure!"
"The letter asks that we treat glucoses less than 100 at midnight and 2am. I'm afraid that isn't our protocol."
"Are you saying that you don't want my son to come to camp because of something he can't help? That even though you have people doing night rounds anyway, you won't let them check my son? And you're telling me this the NIGHT BEFORE camp?"
Then, through tears I tell him what this camp means to Joseph and plead with him to reconsider-- reminding him several times that this wasn't a problem last year.
"If you can agree to follow our protocol, then there won't be a problem."
There's nothing I can do-- not this late! He has to go...
"All right," I say, wanting to fight -- but knowing that if I do, they might not let him come.
"We'll pull back his basal rates, insulin-to-carb ratios and his sensitivity factor even further. We'll make it work," I say, half to myself, as a new plan begins formulating in my brain.
Then, after nearly an hour on the phone, I hang up-- feeling more drained than I have in a very long time.
Moments later I'm leaning back against the kitchen counter, explaining everything to Ryan. "Joseph needs to know about this," I say, torn -- because camp is a place where my son has always felt safe. I don't want to take that away from him.
But he has to know.
"Bud," I say, sitting down with him on the couch, "when you go to camp, they may not check you overnight."
"What do you mean?" he asks looking confused.
"Only if your sugar is 80 or less before bed."
"But that's stupid! What if I have insulin on board and I'm falling fast?"
"Listen, we're pulling everything back. Basals, insulin-to-carb ratios... and you'll eat a snack before bed with no bolus, all right? We need to be careful about stacking... "
I pause a moment to look at his face, to make sure he's with me.
He looks calm. Confident, even.
" ... now, you're probably gonna run high overnight, and will likely wake up on the high side as well, but it's just a week... Bud, I want you to have fun and not worry, okay?"
Suddenly, he takes hold of my shoulders and looks straight into my eyes.
"Mom, it's gonna be fine. We can do this."
So the next morning we bring my boy to diabetes camp for the fifth time.


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Easier collaboration to internationalize UDIGDuring the FOSS4G conference Andrea Antonello and myself we'd the chance to improve Internationalization workflows for users and developers. It was a goal to migrate all User Interface (UI) labels and messages to Transifex translation platform.
BackgroundIn UDIG several UI labels, dialog titles, and messages are externalized from the core Java code and are stored in properties (*.properties) files. Each file has keys on the left to access messages. The message text is separated from the key by an equal sign, e.g.:
OpenFileDialog.dialogTitle = Open File Dialog
In the origin file, which is named messages.properties the messages for all UI elements are stored in English. To translate UI elements its only required to have a new message properties files for a specific language, e.g. messages_de.properties for German translations. For more details about Java internals have a look at the Java properties files tutorial.
About Transifex
Transifex provides a platform for translation teams to add, modify, and review text strings. Its possible to set up resources in a way that changes in a public accessible Source Code Repository can be pulled. In addition to this translated properties files can be synchronized back into a working copy with a Python based client tool. A client executable for Windows environments is also available (Python isn't required). However, if you don't want to install a tool you can use Transifex' REST API to achieve the same results.
A neat feature is the translation memory for each project. Translators can add words or phrases and can comment the translations. The web front-end looks like this, where you can see suggestions from already translated strings and underlined words already defined in translation memory.
Current State
Transifex projectAfter half an hour sed coding with Andrea a project has been created and configured at Transifex for all UI elements of the current code base. We identified two different type of properties files, plugin.properties and messages.properties. For all bundles we found 110 resources and pushed these and its already available translations:
Origin Resources will be synchronized in a daily manner from our Github repository to keep up-to-date with added, changed or even deleted text strings for UI elements.
Transifex client tool configurationThe client tool needs a configuration on client side. Its a simple text file which should be stored in a .tx folder of your working copy. Its name is config and contains configurations for each resource - where to find it in the workspace and how the resource is accessible from Transifex (project slug and resource slug).
An initial configuration is available right here.
If you're interested to contribute feel free to join a Translation Team. Happy Translating!!


text: AOSIS OpenJournalshttp://email@example.com://www.koedoe.co.za1683-75842071-078XThe Limits to Scarcity: Contesting the politics of allocation Scarcity in the time of over-consumption http://www.koedoe.co.za/index.php/koedoe/article/downloadSuppFile/1089/1019 Lyla Mehta 978-84407-542-3 Earthscan: London and Washington DC; 2010, R400* *Book price at time of review Scarcity in the time of over-consumption Wendy Annecke1 1Cape Research Centre, South African National Parks, South Africa email@example.com PO Box 216, Steenberg 7947, Cape Town, South Africa 1089541http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/koedoe.v54i1.1089 Annecke, W., 2012, 'Scarcity in the time of over-consumption', Koedoe 54(1), Art. #1089, 2 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/koedoe.v54i1.1089 © 2012.The Authors. Licensee: OpenJournals Publishing. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Resource use and the sustainability of resources constitute a significant concern for many scientists and field staff in South African National Parks (SANParks). According to its mission 'to develop, manage and promote a system of national parks that represents biodiversity and heritage assets by applying best practice, environmental justice, benefit sharing and sustainable use', SANParks is committed to sharing the benefits of the areas it protects with the wider society. This wider society, in immediate terms, primarily incorporates tourists and the communities living on park borders. Tourists require access to resources such as roads, water, energy, food and waste facilities, whereas people living on the boundaries of the parks require access to grazing, medicinal and food plants, wood fuel and bush-meat. Consequently, some of the biodiversity resources that SANParks was established to protect, are under severe pressure from 'the wider society' in general. For example many medicinal plants are threatened by over harvesting (both legal and illegal), whilst other resources, such as water, are threatened by pollution, changes in land use and increased demand for these. This book will be of interest to conservationists who are concerned with the ethics and sustainability of resource use, as well as the status of biodiversity health in the parks. The Limits to Scarcity does not provide answers to the difficult issues arising with regard to resource use, but it does provide a different way of thinking about scarcity and why this occurs. In doing so it raises questions about who the primary resource users are, and encourages a shift in perspective about the rights of all users. The Limits to Scarcity is compiled from of a series of papers delivered at a conference on 'Scarcity and the politics of allocation' held at the Institute of Development Studies, at the University of Sussex, in June 2005. The fourteen chapters are divided into three parts with each part preceded by an introduction and commentary by the editor, Leyla Mehta. The guidance she provides is useful for novice readers in the field of scarcity or for readers with limited time. Each chapter explores the notion of scarcity from a different angle and includes how the notion of scarcity is constructed and whose purposes it serves. The three chapters in Part I discuss why scarcity matters, Part II explores the different perspectives of scarcity within economics and Part III investigates the politics of scarcity in case studies of water, energy and food supplies. Authors include well known Nicholas Xenos, Fred Luks and Ben Fine. The latter is better known to most South Africans for his and Zavareh Rustomjee's seminal work on the Minerals-Energy-Complex. The Limits to Scarcity makes an important contribution to resource use debates, particularly in the light of the rampant consumer culture which is seen by most people as the only way out of the on-going global economic woes. Chapter by chapter the book unpacks the dynamics of how resources are allocated in various societies: who has access to what resources, and under what circumstances. The authors are careful to acknowledge the 'biophysical realities of falling groundwater levels, melting icecaps and declining soil fertility' (Mehta 6) whilst they dissect the politics of need and those involved in the access and allocation of resources. The book has chapters of interest to economists (such as that by Fine), engineers (such as that by Lankford) and to philosophers and non-economists (Xenos). For those interested in social justice and equitable societies as well as those involved in development and the poverty industry, there is plenty of significant content over which to ponder. What is most disturbing about this book is the evidence demonstrating how all-pervasive neo-Malthusian economics has become, even in 'development thinking'. In the first chapter, Mehta provides a historical overview about the legacy of and approaches to normalizing the 'scarcity postulate'. This overview sets the tone for the rest of the book by demonstrating that scarcity is not necessarily a natural or universal concept. She offers the chapters that follow as evidence for her argument as well as her challenge to the inertia evident in much mainstream thinking and economics. The ensuing chapters provide ample evidence that there is enough water, energy and food for everyone in the world (FAO 2000 in Hilyard 2010:152). One has only to visit the landfill sites and the dump pickers industry in South Africa to observe the magnitude of waste generated by society, but, as Raynor (p. xviii) argues, scarcity has become a rationale for the inequitable allocation of resources: it constitutes a gate-keeping mechanism. Fine (p. 82) follows this up by asking uncomfortable questions about the manner in which a society chooses to rank one person's welfare over another; their criteria for selecting one group of users who are able to access resources easily and use them intensely, whilst another group may have only minimal access to the same resources. I would suggest that feminists have become adept at conducting analyses that evaluate access to, control over and benefits from resources, and that feminist literature could contribute to this debate and perhaps shift its dynamics. In Dipak Gyawali and Ajaya Dixit's Chapter 13, scarcity is highlighted as a modern concept driven by technological choices to meet specific socio-political needs (p. 234). The authors quote Helena Norberg-Hodge who worked in Laddakh when there was no word for 'poor' in that region, but on returning some ten years later, they found her former translator pleading poverty and that his country desired a western notion of development. He and his countrymen (and women) had fallen victim to the notion of wealth that emanates from material goods. There are chapters on soil fertility in Africa, agriculture and hunger, and two chapters for those involved in the water sector and the shared responses to its scarcity. The editor, Mehta, has herself worked extensively on issues around water scarcity and is well known in this field. Bruce Lankford argues, in Chapter 11, that water scarcity should not only be understood as 'volumetric imbalance to be dealt with by saving, storing and delivering more water' but suggests a framework for supply, demand and shared responses. He highlights how the natural and social scarcity of water can be exacerbated by people and institutions that are not designed to react to the rapidly occurring variations in water scarcity, in time and space, and provides a table comparing approaches for managing the dynamic supply of water in sub-catchment areas. From this he draws a number of conclusions, that provide persuasive arguments for the adoption of his composite and complex framework. In Chapter 12, Jasveen Jairath re-examines the meaning and explanations of water scarcity and critiques what he calls the 'conceptual weakness and politics' of Integrated Water Resource Management. He highlights the importance of historical conditions, suggests the kind of questions that should be asked when bringing the weak and the strong together at a table, and points out that the democratic governance of water is seldom achieved. Whilst the concept of scarcity itself is thoroughly unpacked, the book is weak on recommendations about how mainstream and pervasive thinking might be changed from valuing over-consumption to valuing sufficiency. Xenos argues that historically the time for appealing to the morals and ethics of a society appears to be over. Such appeals did not, for example, win the friends and support that President Carter had hoped for in 1979. Likewise, in South Africa, appealing to the adherence to ex-President Mandela's values has worn thin. The question is what could provide the impetus for change? Whilst none of the authors define the term 'enough', some point to individuals and communities that have described it for themselves: the Amish and Po Chi-I are mentioned in this regard. I particularly like the words of Po Chi-I, the retired mandarin who wrote poetry, from about 850 AD, (in Thompson 2010): What I shall need are a very few things. A single rug to warm me through the winter; One meal to last me the whole day. It does not matter that my house is rather small; One cannot sleep in more than one room! It does not matter that I have not many horses; One cannot ride two horses at once! (p. 131) There are typing errors throughout the book including the sub-title of a book in the Science in Society Series: Participation and Exalusion in Nuclear Decision-making. Mehta herself thanks the Science and Society Programme – this name is an unlikely change from the series name and there are various other errors that should have been noticed and corrected. Nonetheless, these issues should not detract from a provocative and worthwhile book.


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Bradley urges students to use Princeton as step to lifetime of integrity
Drawing on experiences from his undergraduate days at Princeton through his U.S. Senate tenure and his run for the presidency, Bill Bradley emphasized the values of honesty and honor in the keynote address of the University's first "Assembly on Integrity" on Sunday, Sept. 21.
Speaking to students who gathered on the lawn and in bleachers on Cannon Green in the evening darkness, Bradley urged them to use the signing of Princeton's Honor Code as the starting point for making the right decisions when faced with inevitable ethical quandaries throughout their lives.
"Honor and integrity are more than the single rule 'Don't steal.' They might start there, but their application has much greater breadth. As you go through life, I promise you, you'll be tested often," he said.
Princeton students -- reacting to reports of increasing Internet plagiarism and widespread corporate scandals -- created the assembly to encourage their peers to rededicate themselves to the principles of the University's honor system. For many years in the past, Princeton freshmen gathered for an honor assembly in the fall. Seeking to give the old tradition a broader audience, the new integrity assembly was open to all students, as well as faculty, staff and local community members.
In introductory remarks, President Shirley M. Tilghman noted, "It is critically important that we take full responsibility for our own ideas and that, when we draw on the ideas of others, we give credit where credit is due. As a close-knit residential community of students, faculty and staff, it is essential that honesty pervade our relationships with one another."
In his address, Bradley stressed that issues of integrity have arisen in every field he has chosen since graduating from Princeton in 1965. The Rhodes Scholar played professional basketball for the New York Knicks, represented New Jersey for 18 years in the Senate, unsuccessfully challenged Al Gore for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000, and has been a published author and a businessman.
"You'll need your moral compass long after you've signed your last honor pledge at Princeton. It takes a lifetime to build a reputation and only one false step to call it into doubt," Bradley said.
Under Princeton's honor system, established by undergraduates in 1893, students assume full responsibility for honesty in written examinations. Upon entering the University, they must agree in writing to abide by the condition of the honor system. On examinations, which are not supervised by faculty, students must write and sign a pledge that they have not violated the Honor Code. Students also are asked to abide by other academic regulations designed to safeguard the integrity of scholarship on out-of-class exercises such as term papers, laboratory reports and problem sets on which they sign a similar pledge.
"Princeton hopes that your experience will contribute to your intellectual growth and also provide you with the experience of how it feels to be a part of an honorable community," he said. "Over time, only you can make the larger and more personal ethical decisions. It is my hope that you will make them in a way that will allow you to sleep very well every night."
Bradley's address was preceded by remarks from senior Liz Biney-Amissah and John Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild '24 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, who has served as a faculty adviser to the Undergraduate Honor Committee.
Biney-Amissah, who is majoring in molecular biology, told her peers, "To know that the work is your own, whether it's a problem set, a lab report, a paper or a project, should be the most gratifying and genuine feeling you should have. It is your responsibility to use all of your capabilities to complete the assigned task with the utmost honesty, truth and candor."
Fleming noted that the need for academic integrity should go without saying, but that the student-initiated assembly was useful in the current environment. Explaining that his task was to provide remarks that were "profound yet light-hearted, wise, amusing, elegant (and) grave," Fleming offered sound advice to Princeton students: "Integrity is an excellent thing. You should all have it. If perchance you lack it, you should get it as soon as possible."
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Grainger Hill PAC; Field Controls' Shop for Life; National Service Recognition Day
Chandelier restoration under way
Harold Dale of Kinston was on hand over the weekend to watch the beginning of a process to restore the chandeliers in the Grainger Hill Performing Arts Center.
Dale's grandson, Layton Edmondson, is working to have the chandeliers restored to their original condition. He is lowering each, one by one, as part of the meticulous process.
Historic Grainger Hill Performing Arts Center is at 300 Park Ave.
Field Controls prepares for Shop for Life
Randy Hood with CDS Networks and Services of Kinston has presented Jenny Daughety, chairwoman of Field Controls� 2013 Shop for Life, with a Samsung Galaxy tablet and case.
The tablet and case, valued at $300, will be the prize of a drawing to be held at the Shop for Life vendor shopping event sponsored by Field Controls. This year�s event will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 11 at the Woodmen Community Center. Each $5 ticket purchased will be entered into the drawing.
Shop for Life benefits Lenoir County Relay for Life. Tickets can be purchased by calling 252-208-7333 or 252-208-7321.
Mayor proclaims National Service Recognition Day
Kinston Mayor BJ Murphy recognized April 9 in Kinston as National Service Recognition Day. He presented a proclamation to representatives of the Lenoir/Greene Counties Foster Grandparent Program.
Accepting the proclamation were Rebecca Warren, Foster Grandparent Program director; and foster grandparents Addie Uzzell, Swanie Ellis, Patricia Dunn and Laura Cotton.
The program is funded through the Corporation for National and Community Service, and has 72 volunteers contributing more than 76,000 hours of service each year.


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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Fox News has been caught flashing up a subliminal image of presidential candidate John McCain during its TV intro sequence in what appears to be a deliberate, criminal, and underhanded propaganda ploy.
Blink and you'll miss it, but the image of a smiling John McCain and his wife Cindy is sure to register in your subconscious as it flashes up behind the logo of Fox 5 News, a Fox News affiliate.
Neo-Cons are obviously denying reality again by claiming the image is accidental, but this isn't a "bleed image" from a roll of Kodak, it's state of the art digital editing. It is impossible for an image to be placed there unless its done deliberately.
"I think you people are getting ahead of yourselves," claims one debunker, "the fox guy working the computer prolly just got lazy and used a clip from a previous show, calm down. There are such things as lazy people."
If he merely used a clip from a previous show then why on earth does the McCain image flash up for only a matter of milliseconds? If the image was inserted for a genuine reason then why would it appear for less time than the conscious mind could register it?
The story following the intro is not about John McCain, so that excuse is out of the window too. Again – the image flashes up too quickly to be recognized consciously.
The fact that Fox News is engaging in this stunt may be unsurprising to some, but the most disturbing aspect of using subliminal advertising is that it has been proven successful.
James Vicary's infamous 1957 claim that he could get New Jersey movie-goers to buy more popcorn and drink coca-cola by flashing the words "Drink Coca-Cola" and "Hungry? Eat popcorn" for 1/3000 of a second at five-second intervals during a film is the subject of much controversy. Vicary asserted that sales of popcorn and Coke in that New Jersey theater increased 57.8 percent and 18.1 percent respectively, but the accuracy of the results has long been disputed.
However, a 2006 New Scientist investigation concluded that "Researchers have shown that if the conditions are right, subliminal advertising to promote a brand can be made to work."
23-millisecond subliminal messages for "Lipton Ice" resulted in 80% of subjects choosing Lipton Ice Tea over other drinks brands in an experiment conducted by Johan Karremans at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
An investigation needs to be conducted into how the image appeared during the Fox News intro sequence and if a deliberate motivation to engage in mass public deception is found, authorities should consider revoking Fox 5's broadcast license or at least handing out a gargantuan fine.
The use of subliminal advertising in the UK, Australia and the US is a criminal offence.
It is the mandate of the FCC to clamp down on such an egregious attempt to sway public opinion by means of subliminal psychological influence, especially when the brand being pushed is not merely a soft drink, but a presidential candidate.
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Egypt president to visit Iran, a first in decades
Morsi to attend Non-Alignment Movement summit in Tehran, possibly marking a thaw in relations after years of enmity
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi will attend a summit in Iran later this month, a presidential official said on Saturday, the first such trip for an Egyptian leader since relations with Tehran deteriorated decades ago.
The visit could mark a thaw between the two countries after years of enmity, especially since Egypt signed its 1979 peace treaty with Israel and Iran underwent its Islamic revolution. Under Morsi's predecessor Hosni Mubarak, Egypt, predominantly Sunni Muslim, sided with Saudi Arabia and other Sunni-dominated Arab states in trying to isolate Shiite-led Iran.
The official said that Morsi will visit Tehran on Aug. 30 on his way back from China to attend the Non-Aligned Movement Summit, where Egypt will transfer the movement's rotating leadership to Iran. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not yet authorized to make the announcement.
The trip is no surprise — it came days after Morsi included Iran in a proposal for a contact group to mediate an end to Syria's escalating civil war. The proposal for the group, which includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, was made at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca.
The idea was welcomed by Iran's state-run Press TV, and a leading member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said that Tehran's acceptance of the proposal was a sign Egypt was beginning to regain some of the diplomatic and strategic clout it once held in the region.
After the fall of Egypt's longtime strongman Hosni Mubarak in a popular uprising last year, officials have expressed no desire to maintain Mubarak's staunch anti-Iranian stance.
Last July, former Egyptian foreign minister Nabil Elaraby, who also heads the Arab League, delivered a conciliatory message to the Islamic Republic, saying "Iran is not an enemy," and noted that post-Mubarak Egypt would seek to open a new page with every country in the world, including Iran.
Any normalization, however, would have to be based on careful calculations.
Majority Sunni Egypt has its own suspicions of Iran on both religious and political grounds. The country's ultraconservative Salafis consider Shiites heretics and enemies, and for more than three decades under Mubarak, state-run media fed the public stories of Iranian plots to weaken the Egyptian state.
However, many Egyptians sympathize with Iran's Islamic revolution and consider Tehran's defiance of the United States a model to follow, while others seek a foreign policy at the very least more independent of Washington.
A new understanding with Iran would be a big shake-up for the region, which has been sharply split between Tehran's camp — which includes Syria and Islamic militias Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, and a US-backed group led by Saudi Arabia and rich Gulf nations.
But of the two camps, so far it's clear Morsi has focused on courting Saudi Arabia. He visited it twice, once just after he won the presidency, and a second time during the Islamic summit. In an attempt to assuage fears of the Arab uprisings by oil monarchs, he vowed that Egypt does not want to "export its revolution". He has also asserted commitment to the security of Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies, a thinly veiled reference to the tension between them and Iran.
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Justin Goldman necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 110 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
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I'm Justin Goldman, the co-founder of Three Screen Games. This is my second company. We are focused on producing online games that soon will be able to be played interchangeably between the three main screens: PC, Mobile & TV.
The company is named Three Screen Games and only investors & business relationships will ever know or hear about this name. Our users will only know the name of the games they are playing. It's like the game Monopoly which is the brand that is advertised to the consumers while the name of the company, Parker Brothers, isn't in the spotlight. So the logo for Three Screen Games will appear on our business cards and on our corporate site and should exude cutting edge professionalism. It's not meant to be marketed to consumers. The first game we are releasing is targeted towards sports fans and it's a hybrid of fantasy sports & sports betting. Future games may or may not be centered on sports. Our focus will always be on producing social internet games. We are preparing for the eventual convergence of the Three Screens and will base future games around this.
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Small form-factor PC specialist Shuttle has rolled out one of its compact boxes, this time equipped with Intel's X38 gamer-oriented chipset to allow it to take a 45nm processor and a pair of graphics cards.
Shuttle's XPC SX38P2: ready for 'Penryn'
The XPC SX38P2 incorporates a 450W power supply unit to keep all the components ticking over, including up to three hard drives. The motherboard will take any Intel Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad or Core 2 Duo desktop processor, and there's room in the barebones unit for up to 8GB of 800MHz DDR 2 memory, overclockable to 1066MHz.
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Britney Spears isn't the only diva deserving of her very own Las Vegas residency. While Brit is locked up for two years in Sin City for her Piece of Me show, word has it that Katy Perry, who looked incredibly bored at Brit's opening gig, is eyeing her own residency.
The Las Vegas Sun reports that bosses at Caesars Entertainment spoke to the 'ROAR' singer about tackling her own mini-residency at the Axis at Planet Hollywood when Brit Brit is on break.
Perry reportedly played a secret show for some high rollers and met with officials. A VP with access to such info said, "We would love it if we could welcome Katy to the new Planet Hollywood theater … She told us she loved the theater and seeing Britney perform there on opening night. We have a number of stars in our sights and expect to announce future performers in the next two months."
The Caesars execs were impressed with Perry's perf at the private show and they have her squarely in their sites. One exec said, "It would be another big hit at Planet Hollywood if it can be worked out before or around her upcoming global tour. Katy impressed all of us with her personality and professionalism. She loved being part of our Caesars family for the New Year. Hopefully it can continue."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A military hearing on sexual assault accusations against three U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen has been postponed because the alleged victim says she is too fatigued to testify.
The woman said she was tired at the start of the Saturday morning hearing at the Washington Navy Yard. The hearing will resume Sunday to give the woman a chance to recuperate from a week of difficult cross-examination.
The woman, who is now a senior at the academy, also has noted her fatigue on the past two days.
The hearing is being held to determine whether the three former football players will face a court-martial.
The woman allegedly was sexually assaulted at an April 2012 party after a night of heavy drinking. She says she doesn't remember having sex with the men.
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Morning Five: 07.22.11 EditionPosted by jstevrtc on July 22nd, 2011
- In Andy Katz's latest update on the David Salinas situation, he reports that the University of Houston has found nothing that would suggest any compliance problems regarding their basketball program and the late investment advisor. Sticking to his guns, he also repeats that the NCAA has not launched a formal investigation into the matter because it lacks the evidence to do so right now (perhaps the corpus of the departed, the coaches talking to the media about their squandered money, and the federal investigation aren't enough). Because we know people are being called about this — indeed, Katz notes as much in his article — as we alluded to in yesterday's M5, maybe this is the difference between a formal and informal inquiry. When the NCAA calls and you're on the other end of the phone, though, it probably feels formal enough. Also, do they have to ask the same questions a seond time when they investigation goes from informal to formal?
- Remember Tony Mitchell? He was a top Class of 2010 prospect who initially signed with Missouri, but, after an investigation into his high school transcripts, it was found that he had attended an unaccredited prep school for a year on the advice of an AAU coach. Ruled ineligible at Missouri, he's been at North Texas attempting to fulfill his academic obligations and get back on the court. SI's Luke Winn spent some time with Mitchell in Riga, Latvia during the latter's service on the USA squad that just finished fifth in the FIBA U19 World Championships. The entire article is great, but the part that really got our attention was when Winn showed, through tempo-free stats gathered at the U19 tournament, how Mitchell compared pretty darn favorably to the best player in the competition, Lithuania's Jonas Valanciunas…who just got taken 5th in the NBA Draft.
- What is it with basketball, the state of Texas, and Ponzi schemes? Totally unrelated to the Salinas matter, a San Antonio businessman pleaded guilty yesterday and could face up to eight years in the big house due to his involvement in a false investment scheme once led by Travis Correll — a former Southeastern Conference referee! Correll is already in prison on a nine-year stretch and gets to pay $29 million in restitution when he gets out.
- The July evaluation period(s) — big opportunity for previously unseen prospects, or teeming, swarming cesspool of corruption? Maybe that's taking it a little too far, but one has to admit that in the past it's always seemingly been these summer recruiting periods where so much naughtiness happens. John Wall says his life would be drastically different if he hadn't had the July eval period to show his stuff. Everyone knows it needs an overhaul, but getting rid of it entirely might not be the way to go. Change is coming, though, and that right soon. What results may be a paradigm in which the traveling recruiting analysts become some very important (and therefore popular and probably very rich) dudes. Interesting stuff from the Washington Post, including takes from the likes of Messrs. Pastner, Calipari, and Izzo.
- Excellent and difficult question by CBS Sports' Jeff Goodman: on the list of college basketball's great accomplishments, where does Butler making consecutive title games rank? Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Boeheim both had pretty high praise, as you'd expect. We're not going to tell you where Mr. Goodman listed it, so you'll have click on the above link to find that out, but one thing we're wondering is…what about next season? If Butler doesn't have another great Tournament run (Bulldog fans, we're not saying it won't happen, this is a hypothetical), you know there will be people who will say that Brad Stevens should have cashed in and switched jobs when the gettin' was good. If you hear such things, after you've rolled your eyes, please do it again on our behalf.


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Jerrabomberra – In partnership with the Children's Bioethics Development Board of the Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital, the Melbourne Chinatown Precinct Association had a charity dinner to raise money for the community. The Children's Bioethics Development Board aids families with advice and compassion. They help families that are going through hard times and guide them in the right direction with medical opinions and ethical decisions. Figuring out what to do when a child is ill can be a difficult decision for parents, especially when problems arise spontaneously.
Tran Siu Melbourne arrived to corroborate with the two groups' fundraisers. While Tran Siu in Melbourne for the dinner, stars like Justin Bieber and Peter Collina also attended to lend a helping hand. The night was glamorous and showcased the Harvard KROKS, an a capella group of twelve undergraduate singers. The group was created in 1946 and offer a joyful atmosphere for every gathering. The Harvard KROKS have also performed for celebrities like Julia Roberts and Elizabeth Taylor. The fundraising dinner honored the late Mr. Don Parsons ASPD, a long-term member of the Children's Bioethics Centre. The Children's Bioethics Centre has also received support from Royal Children's Hospital Development Board.
The goal of the fundraiser and Children's Bioethics Centre is to empower the youth of the world one good deed at a time. With the help of the donators, a good amount of money was raised for the cause. The famous guests who attended were generous with their contributions at the dinner. The publicity they brought will hopefully help the annual fundraiser to grow even more. This recent dinner celebrated its sixteenth year, with many more to come. The participants of the dinner were proud of the money raised and are excited to see the benefits of the donations to the families and children. Tran Siu Melbourne will hopefully return to the fundraiser in the years to come with other big names in show business to grow the popularity of the event in years to come. If more fundraisers like the Melbourne Chinatown Precinct Association's arise the world will be another step closer to ending the stress associated with the issues that arise with childhood illnesses. The money raised with Tran Siu will improve each life that it touches for years to come.
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About MeGreetings! I am a researcher, scholar, author, and a full professor of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. To learn more about me, please check out the following links:
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Duties of a son, from The Story of Aqhat: To erect a stele for his ancestral gods; to build a family shrine in the sanctuary; to guard his footsteps from earth to underworld; to take his hand when he is drunk; to put his arm over one's shoulder when he is full of wine; to eat a funeral meal in the temple of Ba'al; to offer a sacrifice in the house of El.


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Reflections on a Visit to Haiti
Reflections on a Visit to Haiti
Although I've worked with IPPF/WHR for more than 20 years, last month was the first time I ever accompanied our supporters on an extensive visit to one of our Member Associations. It was my pleasure to travel with Jerry and Diane Cunningham to Haiti, and it was a treat to spend time with them on and off the job.
Although I've worked with IPPF/WHR for more than 20 years, last month was the first time I ever accompanied our supporters on an extensive visit to one of our Member Associations. It was my pleasure to travel with Jerry and Diane Cunningham to Haiti, and it was a treat to spend time with them on and off the job.
In the two years since an earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation, the Cunninghams have provided consistent financial support that has helped see PROFAMIL through the struggle of rebuilding. The destruction left 750,000 women of reproductive age living in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area and 15,000 in the city of Jacmel with limited access to methods of family planning. PROFAMIL has become a source of support not only for critical sexual and reproductive health services, but also assistance for women and girls who have been victims of gender-based violence. Thanks to donors like Jerry and Diane, PROFAMIL has opened new clinic facilities, and its medical teams continue to reach vulnerable people who were displaced.
Jerry and Diane got to visit PROFAMIL's new pre-fabricated clinics and speak with several women who had come for a cervical cancer screening. PROFAMIL implemented a breakthrough screening innovation for detecting precancerous cervical lesions with the naked eye. Unlike the pap smear, which requires a return visit, this visual inspection method allows the provider to detect and treat cervical lesions immediately. It is a particularly useful method in rural and low-resource settings, where making an additional visit can pose a barrier for treatment. The Cunninghams were pleased to observe the outcome of this new initiative, especially since PROFAMIL's ability to train staff on visual inspection methods was made possible by their generous funding.
A highlight of our trip was being allowed to sit in on an Espas Pa Mwen meeting. Espas Pa Mwen is a youth empowerment program for girls that PROFAMIL facilitates as a part of the Haiti Adolescent Girls Network (HAGN). After the earthquake, a coalition of international and Haitian organizations came together to ensure girls' needs would not be overlooked. HAGN is committed to protecting and empowering vulnerable girls, so they may safely navigate the volatile post-earthquake environment and break the cycle of poverty.
At the meeting we attended, a fourteen-year-old girl spoke with genuine feeling about the difference PROFAMIL has made in her life. "This is the only place I ever feel safe," she said. "I can relax and make friends here. I learn things here that I could never learn anywhere else."
HAGN is appreciated not just by the young girls participating, but also by their parents and the community at large. It provides girls with a safe space to spend time with their peers, learn about their rights, and obtain the support of trusted adults. As we walked through the door, the girls greeted us with a welcoming song that left a lasting impression on our hearts long after we left the meeting space.
After a full round of visits on our first day in Haiti, our ride home through bumper-to-bumper traffic caused our driver, Alix, to veer off the main road and onto side streets. The pothole-filled shortcut bumpily moved us through makeshift campsites, and we got a glimpse of Haiti's vibrant street life. Jerry was surprised to learn that the earthquake did not cause the poor condition of the roads, which is one of the ongoing challenges faced in the country.
Our nights in Haiti were no less interesting than our days, thanks to our very gracious and well-travelled host. Morgan regaled us with the most interesting stories of Haitian life and the colorful experiences he'd had on almost every continent. Being world travelers themselves, Jerry and Diane heartily dived into conversation with Morgan, while his wife, Carole, served the most delectable dishes.
We are so fortunate that the Cunninghams' interest in our work contributes vital resources for those in need. Their dedication includes gaining a more intimate understanding of how our shared vision—a world where every single individual has access to quality reproductive health care—can be realized throughout the region. The visit was successful in providing an up-close look at the challenges PROFAMIL faces and the critical difference donor support makes in vulnerable communities.


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To commit some piece of information into one's or someone else's long-term memory, especially through intense repetition. How many times do I have to pound it into your head? Do not drive my car unless I give you permission first! I've just been trying to pound these formulas into my head for the big test tomorrow!


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Day 1 - Data Center Conference 2009
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This week I am blogging from beautiful Caesars Palace hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada to report on what I see and hear at the 28th annual Data Center Conference. Today was simply registration, which opened at 4pm, and I was able to get my conference backpack, badge, and details of the week.
Already, I can tell there will be more people here, and it looks like the economy is on the rebound versus last year. Here are my posts from 12 months ago when I attended this conference in 2008:
This year, we will have the IBM Portable Modular Data Center (PMDC) with XIV and iDataPlex inside, as well as several subject matter experts joining me at the solution center. Look for us in the "Hunter Green" shirts.
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There's growing outrage over the long-term cost of pensions in San Diego's City Employees Retirement System (SDCERS).
A new study shows that the 10 highest-rewarded pensioners, if they live a normal lifespan, will divide tens of millons of dollars among themselves and their survivors.
San Diego's retirement system has been the subject of criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits for nearly six years but has withstood almost all court challenges.
Now that the numbers behind a $2 billion deficit are out in the open, the retirement agreements could turn voter sentiment against Prop. D, a sales tax measure aimed at saving city services.
"There is no service cut deep enough, no tax increase big enough, to satisfy the skyrocking annual pension payment," City Councilman Carl DeMaio told reporters at a City Hall news conference Monday. "If you do not reform city pensions, you will never fix the city's financial problems."
DeMaio is calling on his colleagues and Mayor Jerry Sanders to docket measures requiring elected officials to pay a full equal share of the city's cost of their exiting benefits, and also to terminate the system in favor of a 401(k) defined contribution plan.
At DeMaio's request, Sacramento-based CPA Marcia Fritz projected long-term "actuarial"costs of $61 million for the pension plans of the 10 highest pension recipients. Ranging from the $191,163 in total annual benefits for a former assistant fire chief to $299,108 for a former assistant city attorney, their pension allowances all outpace the earnings of the governor and other statewide officer holders. Their benefits also are more than double the salaries of all state lawmakers.
Fritz noted that San Diego city employees gain vesting in the system by their first year and can draw retirement benefits as early as age 35.
"It's pretty outrageous," Fritz said. "Why should they continue to work when they can make this kind of money being retired?"
Eight of the Top 10 derive large amounts from what Fritz calls "a way around the IRS limit" on retirement allowances.
"It was designed for the fatcats," Fritz said, adding that she plans to contact members of Congress to see whether that loophole -- known as "preservation of benefits" -- should be permitted in such cases.
Longtime critics of the pension system say this issue has statewide as well as local implications.
"This may very well result in something like Proposition 13," said Pat Flannery, a Point Loma resident who closely follows City Hall on his "Blog of San Diego." "Because you push the system so much and so far, and then the taxpayer fights back. I think Prop. D here in San Diego may be the little trigger that may have been an ill-advised move on the part of the city."
Said Richard Rider, president of San Diego Tax Fighters: "How many people's 401(k)'s have 6 percent with a 100 percent match? That's what they've been getting. Their total pensions can easily be 140 percent or higher, and it's not the top peope -- it's thousands of retirees in the city of San Diego."
SDCERS officials have not returned a call for comment on all this.
Tomorrow, top city leaders and union representatives will meet behind closed doors to discuss a variety of pension reforms which are part of a 10-point plan whose completion is necessary to activate the half-cent sales tax proposed under Prop. D.