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Notes from Bethune-Cookman's FCS playoff game Saturday against Coastal Carolina.
An odd scene played out late in Bethune-Cookman coach Brian Jenkins' press conference Saturday night.
Responding to a question about his team's national relevance, Jenkins stated the reasons he felt his Wildcats were a "national level" team.
He ended by noting that building the program has been a "collective effort," before saying, "It's been a really good ride. I've enjoyed it, and we will see what is next."
When a reporter asked if that meant that Jenkins might be on the move, the coach insisted that is not what he said. Then he went on to not exactly close the door on the idea.
"My main thing is celebrating with my family and moving forward," Jenkins said. "We all know opportunities present themselves. We all know that, and I'm not going to sit here and pretend like opportunities don't present themselves.
"All I can tell you is it is very hard for me to leave a university that loves me, and I love it. It's hard for me to leave a team that I really, really love. I love my players. They love me. It's very, very hard."
Jenkins had several confrontations with the officials.
With 6:55 to go in the second quarter, tight end Jordan Murphy hauled in a pass and lost control of the ball. Officials ruled on the field that Murphy caught the ball and was down, but after a replay they ruled that Murphy fumbled and that Johnnie Houston had recovered. That brought Jenkins onto the field to argue. Postgame the coach said that Murphy did catch the ball and fumble, but that he felt the play had been whistled dead and that B-CU should have kept the ball.
What appeared to be the most volatile of the confrontations came at the start of the fourth with B-CU down 17-0. The Wildcats drove down to the 6 where they lined up to attempt a field goal. But officials flagged B-CU for a false start. Jenkins called a timeout and marched onto the field to talk with the officials — eventually drawing a 15-yard penalty that moved the Wildcats out of field-goal range
"No …," Jenkins said when asked if he regretted the series. "We got a 5-yard penalty on an offside which we did not move. We went down and they came across the line of scrimmage.
"I went out and asked about it and got three different explanations … next."
After the penalty, Jenkins opted to go for it on fourth-and-25 from the 26, and the move appeared to pay off with reserve quarterback Brodrick Waters hitting K.J. Stroud in the back of the end zone for an apparent touchdown. But replays showed Stroud's hand hit out of bounds before his feet came down and the score was overturned. Along the sidelines, Jenkins was restrained by a B-CU representative.
"One of our administrators grabbed me, and it may have looked like he was trying to restrain me, but he was saying some things in my ear that had me (laughing)," Jenkins said.
B-CU's loss continued the MEAC's winless streak in the FCS playoffs that dates back to 1999.
"We understand that," B-CU quarterback Quentin Williams said.
And Williams and his teammates said they feel they can be the team to break the streak.
"I feel that with all my heart," linebacker Jarkevis Fields said. "All these guys we have coming back, the leadership, and the coaching staff believes in us. We go in the weight room and on the field in our extra time and grind. That is all we are going to be doing until next season."
Coastal Carolina pulled away with a 17-point, second quarter that featured two, long touchdown drives.
Fields said that the Chanticleers were able to make some personnel switches on the drives that allowed them to move the ball down the field and CCU head coach Joe Moglia offered a similar assessment of the scoring drives.
"I think we were effective with our play selection," he said.
Isidore Jackson's 77 rushing yards gave him 1,069 on the season. That ranks behind Randy Walker, who rushed for 1,142 yards in 1972, and Wayne Allen, who rushed for 1,097 yards in 1974, as the third best season in B-CU history. … Eddie Poole finished with four receptions for 116 yards. He finished with a reception in all 35 of his games as a Wildcat.

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Contemporary British poets read original poetry on the subject of incarceration & imprisonment.
Tim Atkins / Richard Barrett / Julia Calver / Tom Chivers / Matthew Gregory / Stephen Emmerson / Jeff Hilson / Colin Herd / Holly Hopkins / Kirsty Irving / Antony John / Mendoza / Tamarin Norwood / Chris Page / Holly Pester / Sam Riviere / Jon K Shaw / Marcus Slease / Andy Spragg / Steve Willey / SJ Fowler, launching the collection Minimum Security Prison Dentistry published by Anything Anymore Anywhere press.
Minimum Security Prison Poetry,
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Praise for SJ Fowler's Minimum Security Prison Dentistry:
If you think poetry is some sedate pursuit carried out in an ivory tower then you obviously ain't read Steven Fowler. He makes Bukowski look like Billy Childish and Billy Childish look like William MacGonagall!
– Stewart Home
Punchy, lyrical, and incandescently inventive, by turns surreal and disarmingly direct, these kaleidoscopic poems enter the house of prison language via the back door and take no hostages. If Captain Beefheart had done St. Quentin, the result might have sounded something like this
– Philip Terry
This could be the worst book you will read this year, the discussion is violence, but really it's a punch from a cup cake, using narrative and expressionist syntax. His celebration of where is, has a clipped disgust
– Allen Fisher
Imagine a Boys Own Paper landscape with True Crime architecture. Laurence Harvey dodges from building to country trying to evade CCTV whose sound footage runs through Babelfish. The smells are Jack London, the light is Genet and the memories are Edgar Lee Masters. Equally in words is Steven Johannes Fowler's Minimum Security Prison Dentistry: elegant, coldly funny, at times emotional, textured with occasional accidental/intentional solecisms; but getting the work done. Nowadays most pages labelled "poetry" are unreadable and uninteresting: these give hope. Anyone who can name-check Joe Arpaio and Jacky le Mat, and reference the cover-texture of an Anselm Hollo book from the sixties rides my particular range
– Tom Raworth
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Thanksgiving effect: UVA studies cat allergies
When Dan Robinson headed home for his first break from college two years ago, he was greeted by a nasty surprise. Instead of rest and relaxation, he spent the Thanksgiving weekend barely able to breathe and found sleeping impossible.
He could not know then– but sure knows now– that coming home is hazardous to his health. Suddenly, mysteriously, the cats back home are triggering severe asthma attacks.
Robinson had lived with a cat practically all his life with no problem. But then he leaves for several weeks and returns with a violent, new allergy to felines.
"I always make sure I have a good stock of puffers when I go home," says Robinson, 20, now in his third year as a political science major at Mount Allison University in Canada. He is accustomed to the new reality back home in Prince Edward Island– where there are now two cats.
His is no isolated case. As freshmen at universities and colleges across North America leave their dorms and head home for the first time for Thanksgiving break, more than a few will come away with a newly discovered allergy.
Specialists are still trying to discover exactly why this is happening and how many people it touches. The phenomenon– dubbed the Thanksgiving effect– turns topsy-turvy some commonly held beliefs on allergies and could some day lead to an inoculation against them.
"Traditionally, we have taught if you decrease exposure to an allergen you will not only get better, but in the long run, your allergy will get better," says Thomas Platts-Mills, a professor of medicine at UVA and director of its Asthma & Allergic Diseases Center. "The idea that exposure to an allergen makes you become sensitized and gives you symptoms that's the traditional view."
But with the Thanksgiving effect, increased and prolonged exposure may be actually suppressing a reaction. When exposure disappears, the body's immune system may finally be free to react.
And it seems to happen often when cats are around.
Dr. John Costa, an allergist at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, likes to joke that selling college students pillows stuffed with cat hair could be a lucrative business.
"What we don't know is what it is about having cats in the house that is important," says Dr. Costa, who teaches at Harvard Medical School. "Is it the cats, per se? Is it the allergen that they release? Or is it the fact that with five cats in the house, you are going to have more– not to be gross, but this is what we talk about– fecal contamination."
A European study published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine found that children exposed to endotoxins by living on farms are less likely to develop allergies and asthma later in life.
Animal feces and saliva contain endotoxins that stimulate the immune system. So it could be the stuff in the cat's litterbox behind the protection against allergies at home or perhaps even a friendly lick or two from Fido.
It fits with the emerging "hygiene hypothesis"– the idea that too much cleanliness can actually make children susceptible to problems like allergies or asthma because the immune system has not been built up properly.
And, to the surprise of researchers, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last summer revealed that children who grow up around pets are half as likely to develop allergies or irritable airways than those who do not.
The study followed nearly 500 healthy babies in Detroit– roughly one third of whom had two or more dogs or cats at home. By age seven, children with animals had a 50 percent lower risk of these health problems than those without. Again, endotoxins were thought to help build the children's defenses.
Researchers are now trying to pinpoint what lies behind the Thanksgiving effect. At UVA, 40 students are enrolled in a study that tests their allergic reactions throughout the year to see if they change after trips home.
All have cats back home and live in dorms where pets are not allowed. It may not just happen with cats, but there is no question that cats can provoke strong reactions in the body.
(Contrary to perception, it isn't cat hair triggering fits of sneezing and wheezing, but cat dander– dead flakes of skin– and a protein in cat saliva.)
"The cat is a very good allergen. Exposure is very high. There is no question– a child living in a house with a cat gets 10 times more exposure to cat than to dust mite," says UVA's Platts-Mills.
"Does the same thing happen with a dog? That is confusing. Some of us would like to say that dog is actually a second-rate allergen that simply doesn't sensitize many children and does not induce much immune response," he says.
If researchers discover what is evoking the Thanksgiving effect, it could lead to a vaccine or other preventive treatment against allergies. But that is years away.
For people like Robinson, the only solution is to cope as best they can with today's medicines– or stay home for more than a couple of days. Spring break, for instance, is easier for him. At least he can breathe by the end of the week.
"When I'm home for a good length of time, I start to get better again," says Robinson, who suspects it's just not the cats at home that make him ill, but the neighboring farm fields and pesticides in the air. "When I go in for a checkup, you would still be able to hear a little bit of rattling and stuff like that. You would still be able to hear it through a stethoscope. Not so much that I would notice it, though."


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Many tech writers and consumers wag their finger knowingly at Apple and accuse the company of attempting to force consumers into "the walled garden" of their iOS and Mac devices. The accusation is that Apple wants to force customers to only use their systems and products.
Those who have been Apple customers since before the Mac (that's me) chuckle at the notion, remembering that it wasn't so long ago that Apple stock was around 10 bucks and the rumor was that the company would close down or be bought out.
For many consumers, however, there is a real desire to make their tech choices easier, to spend less time worrying about how and if things will work. For them, Apple's "walled garden" is a welcome relief from other technology choices that appear random, buggy and faulty.
The example many always give when discussing the complexity of technology is the television remote and the video recorder. Just scheduling a recording, or figuring out the settings on a television can be daunting. But printer drivers are probably a better example. As a Mac users I simply never worry about them, whereas my wife has been conditioned to think that printers should work about as well as an AT&T phone on the west coast – hit or miss.
But the issue is not limited to computer technology. Have you shopped for a coffee maker lately? If you buy one of those single-serve makers you soon have the issue of finding coffee for it: those plastic coffee cups won't fit in every machine, you know.
That's why it always surprises some when Apple drops the ball on a feature, such as AirPlay or AirPrint. We were promised that our iPhone or iPad would be able to print wirelessly, but the fact remains that only a few printer models are AirPrint compliant.
But the lesson for publishers is that consumers are more and more demanding that their purchase choices be simplified and made consistent. If I buy a subscription to your magazine I expect to be able to access the iPad edition for free. But many publishers only look at their own costs and forget that to many readers their brand is one product, no matter how many different versions they produce.


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Jim Thorpe could talk the bark off a tree, the grip off a shaft, the cover off a golf ball. Thorpe has opinions about this, that and the other thing, and doesn't mind offering them. Not even while he's launching drives on the range or putting on the practice green. When Jim Thorpe's talking, chances are that things are pretty good for him.
But he never really imagined how good things could be until he turned 50. That's the magic mark that separates a Senior PGA Tour player from a PGA Tour player. That's the magic number that won the jackpot for Jim Thorpe. That's what really has him talking.
"Man, there is so much money out here, all you got to do is pick it up," says Thorpe. "When I came out, Ray Floyd said, 'Man, it's just laying all over the ground. Pick it up. You won't have any trouble.'"
For Thorpe, there is no more scratching out a living on the regular tour. No more hustling for a buck here and there, on the course, at the racetrack, in the casino, no more asking a friend for a loan now and then, just to keep going. After being an also-ran for so many years, Thorpe is near the head of the pack now. "For too many years I was out there just smelling the roses," said Thorpe. "I'm sick of roses. Now, all I want to do is win."
Win, he has. Through his first three Senior Tour seasons, Thorpe, 53, has won four tournaments and more than four million bucks, more than twice as much as he won on the PGA Tour.
His endorsement contract with Foxwoods Resort Casino, a deal that helped him get through the '90s without going broke, is now triple what it was when he first signed on 10 years ago. He has a six-figure deal with Callaway Golf Co., which pays his yearly expenses. The tournament checks go home to his wife, Carol, in Orlando, Florida. Last year, Carol collected $1.8 million from Jim's tournament earnings.
That success should come to such an affable man seems only fitting. Born the ninth of 12 children of Elbert and Vivian Thorpe of Roxboro, North Carolina, Jim Thorpe has carried around an All-American name that didn't mean automatic success. Thorpe doesn't come from a heralded amateur background, wasn't a college wunderkind, didn't have a guru and an entourage to guide his every move and take care of the details. Let's just say that the difference between Tiger Wood's upbringing and Thorpe's is a country mile.
No, Thorpe's road to success wasn't paved with gold. Sometimes it wasn't paved at all. Thorpe's father didn't shepherd him around the country to play with PGA Tour players like Tiger Woods' father, Earl, did. Jim Thorpe didn't have a swing guru like Butch Harmon, a management team like IMG, a top caddie like Steve "Kiwi" Williams, a private jet.
Jim's management team from the outset of his career has been Carol, and assorted friends. And his road, traveled in old cars, buses and trains, took him not to the U.S. Amateur or the NCAA Championship or the Walker Cup. It led him to Western Avenue Golf Course in Los Angeles, to East Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., to unremembered municipal courses across the country.
"That's what golf was for me, man," says Thorpe, drawing on yet another cigar stolen from the locker of his friend and Senior Tour foe Dana Quigley. "There wasn't much money to be made playing tournament golf for somebody like me. The old Negro Tour didn't pay much money. You had to gamble some at the tournaments to make any real money. I've never been afraid to play anyone for money, and I think that's helped me get to where I am today."
He may not have been afraid to play for money, but there have been some dicey moments. "I played this guy and he had a putt to tie me on the last hole and missed," says Thorpe. "He went over to his bag and got out the money to pay me off. Then he went back to his bag, got out a pistol, and went over to his ball and shot it. Pow! Just like that. We used to play matches against a lot of guys who carried guns. It got so it didn't bother you. But you talk about pressure."
The hustling life was a living, and there were times it was a pretty good one. Thorpe recalls the time in the mid-'70s that he was backed by two men against another player with more than $50,000 on the line. If he won, he got a third of the money. And he did win. Now, with more cash than he had ever seen, he had to figure out how to bring the money home to Carol in Baltimore, where they were living, and not have it fall out of his pockets along the way. So he came up with a unique shipping package—the shafts of his golf clubs.
"I had some spare clubs I always carried, so I took off the grip, rolled up the $100 bills and stuck them down the shafts of a few clubs," says Thorpe. "Then I would put the grips back on. I had this Magic Marker and I would write '5' on the shaft if there was $5,000 in it, or '4.5' if there was $4,500 in it. When I got home I just cut those suckers off and out comes all the cash." And the grin gets wider and wider. There is something almost otherworldly about Thorpe's grin. It emanates from a massive body with puffy shoulders and a chest that hasn't yet slipped to his waistline. His pearly whites gleam, the glare alone suggesting that Thorpe is more than a little happy to be on the farther side of 50.
That smile has almost always been there, though in olden times it could mask the hurt of another fallow week on the tour. How curious it was that when the world first heard of Jim Thorpe, as the first-round leader of the 1981 U.S. Open, he had barely enough money for food and expenses. Given the fact he was the first African American to lead a U.S. Open since John Shippen in 1896, Thorpe was invited to be on "Good Morning America" the following day. Grateful though he was for the publicity, the free breakfast served in the studio was a blessing.
At the time the Thorpes were living in Buffalo with relatives. Carol worked for the New York state legislature, but it certainly wasn't enough money to support a household and a golf career, and when Jim went on the tour full time, she had to give up that job to look after the children. There were trips to the pawn shop, a car given to them by relatives sold to raise expense money.
"I really liked my diamond ring, but it stayed in the shop a little too long for me," says Carol. "But I got it back."
Carol Thorpe is the reason that Jim has a PGA career. Tired of the uncertainty of Jim's daily life, Carol saw a PGA event on television one afternoon in 1974 and decided that her husband must try to play with the best or give up the game. "I didn't want him out there just scratching out a living," says Carol. "If he was going to do it, I want him to be doing it with the best players. I knew he was a good player. If he dedicated himself to making it, I knew he would make it."
Thorpe earned his tour card at the 1975 Tour School, and lost it the next season. He won the card back in 1978, and set out to play among the best. For a brief time, he was among the best. He won three tournaments in 1985—86, his first coming at the Greater Milwaukee Open in 1985 when he played with, and beat, Jack Nicklaus. Thorpe had the tournament in hand as the pair approached the 18th green. They were walking together, but Nicklaus stopped and said: "This walk is for you." "That's something I'll never forget," says Thorpe. "To win my first tournament, to beat Jack—who is the greatest player who ever lived—and then have Jack say that to me, that was fantastic. I knew then I could play with those guys."
Though he would go on to win twice more, Thorpe's career was stunted by injuries. His outside-inside loopy swing with his flailing helicopter follow-through had taken a toll on his formidable body. Surgery on a thumb and lots of rest for an ailing back took energy from his body and sharpness from his game.
It would be a mistake, however, to believe that Thorpe fell into despair over the shortcomings of his game. If he let himself down on the course, he could often pick himself up again at a racetrack or casino. Gambling wasn't just a matter of necessity for Thorpe. He swears his gambling jones was never addictive, that it was for pleasure and relaxation. He had a string of trotting horses for a while until Carol looked at the veterinarian's bills.
There was a time, though, when he really hit the jackpot, and it almost cost him his tee time. In 1985, Thorpe was playing in Nicklaus's Memorial Tournament in Columbus, Ohio, just a few minutes from the Scioto Downs racetrack. After hitting an exotic bet for $54,000, Thorpe took the cash back to his hotel room and called Carol at home in Buffalo.
"I told her to git down here and take this money," said Thorpe.
"I didn't want it around me. I didn't want to lose it. I didn't want to gamble it. This was big money, man." Carol got to Columbus as soon as she could to unburden her husband of the cash. Jim raced to the golf course to make his tee time. He didn't have time to even change his shoes. He hit his first tee shot in his tasseled loafers.
As his PGA Tour career became less profitable, Thorpe found himself in contact, through an old friend, with Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. The casino wanted a visible player to do outings with their high rollers, to schmooze the whales and make it not seem so painful that they had just dropped 50 grand of their own blubber at the craps table. Thorpe seemed the natural. Gregarious was a word invented for him. Combining his social talents with his love for gambling, the job was nothing less than a straight flush.
"I don't think the horses and the gambling were an addiction for him," says longtime friend and agent Mike Lewis. "It was just something he loved to do. Ultimately, it was something that proved to be beneficial for him. It set him apart. Jim didn't have any of those big club company deals, so this was something that made him different."
When Thorpe was running short on cash, he would ask friends for a few grand. When his friend called from Foxwoods, Thorpe was first taken aback. "I told this guy, 'Man, I don't need to go to a casino. That's the last place I need to go,'" says Thorpe. "But I went to talk with them and they fell in love with me and I fell in love with them. I learned to respect these guys [Mashantucket Pequot tribe members]. They went from chopping wood and running bingo parlors to operating one of the biggest casinos in the world. I was making $75,000 a year, which was perfect for me. I have a much better deal now. I do their high-roller tournaments, about 10 times a year. And come to find out, there is some Indian heritage on my father's side of the family."
The Foxwoods deal carried Thorpe throughout the '90s because his golf game could not. He foundered, only making the top 125 exempt list twice. "He was lost," says Lewis. "I don't think there was another golfer who missed more cuts by one shot than him. He could go play the toughest course you ever saw and shoot 65, but he couldn't take that game to a tournament with him. I think he was looking forward to the Senior Tour too soon."
His game soured enough that when it came time for the Senior Tour, Thorpe wasn't exempt by a position in the top 32 in the all-time money list. To be fully qualified he had to go back to qualifying school, the pressure cauldron of professional golf. But Jim Thorpe had played golf against men with pistols in their bags. He had played golf with no money in the bank. And he had played golf against all these tour-school prospects, beating them most of the time. Beat them this one more time, he figured, and he would enter Heaven. He beat them, and the Pearly Gates opened. "I knew if I could make it out here, no one could stop me from making a million dollars," says Thorpe. "My game is much better now than it was back then. I work a lot harder on my game now. I hit balls or putt instead of going to a casino or a track. Not all the time. I still like my fun, but there's no doubt I'm working a lot harder. I want to make sure that in three or four years my family is in a position that I don't have to do this anymore if I don't want to. Carol takes care of the money and says I should be able to walk away. I give her so much credit for what I've been able to do. I dedicate my Senior Tour career to her."
When the gravy train pulled into the station, Jim Thorpe jumped right into the first-class seats. There is plenty of money coming in, plenty of fun to be had. There are outings with the Foxwoods gang, tournaments like the Montecristo Cup, where he has become a regular on the course and at the craps tables. There are new cars, a new house for Carol and daughters Sheronne and Chera. There is respect among his fellow pros, even if he can occasionally frustrate the best of friends.
"I got to think that Thorpie is the most unreliable person in the world when it comes to doing things," says Dana Quigley. "Myself, Jim and Ed Dougherty, when we were playing in California, decided to fly to Vegas for some action. Jim drove all of us in his car to the airport. We had like an 11 o'clock flight back the next day. Ed and I went down to check out at 9 and they told us that Jim had already left. He had flown back and never said a word about it. We had to find a ride from the airport to the golf course. But he's a hell of a guy, a real man's man you might say. You've got to respect him for what he has been able to do, especially being a black man in a white man's sport."
The sun is shining and Jim Thorpe's talking. He's on the practice range of the Crandon Park Golf Course in Key Biscayne, Florida, site of the Royal Caribbean Classic. It's pro-am day and next to him is a lady amateur with a smooth swing. "You gonna beat your pro, honey," says Thorpe. "You gonna beat him."
The lady smiles back. "I'm playing with Isao Aoki," she says. "You're gonna beat him," says Thorpe. "I beat him, you'll beat him." The lady smiles and Thorpe ushers forth his baritone chuckle. "Man, can you imagine I'm doing this," he says, to himself as much as to those who surround him. "Man, can it be any better?"
Robert Lowell is a freelance writer based in New York.


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Creativity Heals, a non-profit organization, will launch its California-based program which is dedicated to promoting the arts and providing artistic outlets for children who are victims of developmental trauma and abuse. The mission is to promote empowerment, self-discovery, and self-worth through creativity and self-expression. Art, music, dance and movement are all outlets that help individuals express themselves as well as aid in the healing process.
The event will be MC'd by TV personality TK and acclaimed dancer JD McElroy, and hosted by the founders of Creativity Heals: Charleen Meyer, Matt Kessinger, and Jenny Kita. The fun-filled evening features a wide selection of art by Sergio Rueda, live performance by singer Jenilee Reyes & rapper Kovas, DJs, silent auction, raffle prizes, vendors, food trucks and complimentary drinks all while helping children in need.
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After failing in their bid to stop the Massachusetts legislature from giving Democratic Governor Deval Patrick the power to fill a United States Senate vacancy, Republicans are going to court on Friday to try to prevent the governor's interim pick from taking office.
On the same day that Patrick chose Paul Kirk, a long-time friend and associate of Ted Kennedy to temporarily replace the late senator, Republicans filed court papers arguing that Patrick's use of an emergency declaration paving the way for the nomination was unconstitutional. Because most Massachusetts laws do not go into effect for 90 days, Patrick had to issue the declaration so that the just-passed legislation allowing him to name a replacement senator could take effect immediately.
A hearing on the motion for a preliminary injunction against Patrick is scheduled for 8 a.m. on Friday in Suffolk County Superior Court — several hours before Kirk is scheduled to be sworn in to office.
Several legal experts familiar with Massachusetts constitutional law said Republicans could face an uphill battle in seeking to delay or invalidate the governor's appointment.
"From the beginning, the Republican Party of Massachusetts has been focused on ensuring the laws of our Commonwealth are properly followed," the Massachusetts GOP chairwoman, Jennifer Nassour, said in a statement. "While we opposed the change in the election law, once changed, we believe Governor Patrick has an obligation to follow the law as written."
After signing the bill that changed the state's succession law Thursday morning, the governor sent a letter to Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin declaring it an emergency law.
"So that the people of the Commonwealth may have full representation in the United States Senate without delay," the governor wrote, "I declare that it is in the public interest and convenience that this Act take effect immediately."
Lawrence M. Friedman, a professor at New England Law in Boston who studies Massachusetts constitutional issues, predicted that the GOP challenge was unlikely to succeed.
"The court will treat it seriously and I expect given the gravity of the issue, it might even work its way to the Supreme Judicial Court," Friedman said in an interview. "But in my opinion it's unlikely that the judiciary is going to second guess the governor's reasons for an emergency."
Friedman added: "In a way it's a political question and if the governor made a bad call, the voters will take it out on him in the next election."
After reviewing the injunction, Marc Perlin, an associate dean and professor at Suffolk University Law School, agreed that there was little chance Republicans would be able to stop the appointment.
"Getting an injunction under any circumstance requires a significant showing," Perlin said. "This raises issues of separation of powers and makes it even more difficult. Courts are typically reluctant to get involved in these types of matters."
Kirk, 71, will serve in office only until Massachusetts voters go to the polls on Jan. 19 to elect a permanent replacement for Kennedy in a special election, but his appointment was a win for Democrats who have been seeking a 60-vote majority in the Senate as lawmakers in Washington debate health care reform and other issues this fall.
GOP Files Suit to Block Kirk
Hearing set hours before Kirk to be sworn in
After failing in their bid to stop the Massachusetts legislature from giving Democratic Governor Deval Patrick the power to fill a United States Senate vacancy, Republicans are going to court on Friday to try to prevent the governor's interim pick from taking office.


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Rancho Buena Vista 14, Carlsbad 6
Don't look now, but the Longhorns are back.
After opening the Avocado West League softball race with a pair of losses, Rancho Buena Vista High may have found itself in the nick of time.
The Longhorns capped their comeback week with a 14-6 victory Thursday thanks to Amanda Godoy's three-run home run and a pair of two-run blasts by sophomore Falepolima Aviu and freshman Sarah Fischer.
This outburst came just two days after a 14-4 thumping of La Costa Canyon after losing to Fallbrook (5-4) and El Camino (6-4) in league play.
Rancho Buena Vista (14-5, 2-2) took advantage of 12 hits and 12 walks to knock off the No. 3-ranked Lancers (15-8-1, 2-2).
"Sometimes, you have bad days," RBV coach Theresa Murillo said. "This was a great day for us.
"The girls were focused from the moment we got here. I doubt focus will be a problem the rest of the way."
Leading the way was Godoy, a senior catcher. She was 3-for-4 with her second homer of the season and four RBIs. Her three-run homer in the seventh inning capped the day's scoring.
"We can play this way every game," Godoy said. "We're that good. This is a good time to peak with the end of the season coming up."
After Godoy's first-inning single gave the Longhorns a 1-0 lead, Carlsbad answered with three runs behind Adriana Huetter's two-run single and Erika Piancastelli's run-scoring single.
Aviu's homer tied the game 3-3 and Fischer's shot put RBV ahead 5-3 only to have Robyn Ukegawa of Carlsbad single in two runs to tie the game 5-5 after two innings.
Allison Chesterton's third-inning single put RBV ahead 7-5 and Carlsbad answered with one run on Amanda Domingo's double.
"Going in, I figured we'd have to score five runs to win with their bats," Carlsbad coach Dan Worley said. "Unfortunately, we needed more than that. Their first four or five hitters are very good and we're not going to win many slugfests."
RBV put the final touches on its return to contender status with a five-run seventh inning as Kali Pugh, who walked four times, singled in two runs and Godoy homered.
"As a hitter, this is a great day," Godoy said. "Crouching behind home plate is hard enough, so if we're going to play a long game we might as well win.
"This was one of our best days yet. As long as we do our best from here on out, I'll be happy."
The rest of the Avocado West League won't be as happy.


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Tennessee State University men's and women's tennis team returns home to host Western Kentucky on Thursday afternoon at the TSU Tennis Complex. The Tigers and Hilltoppers square off in a 3 p.m. contest.
Last weekend, the Tigers (0-4, 0-4 OVC) fell in a pair of Ohio Valley Conference contests at SIUE and Eastern Illinois. This Saturday, the TSU men host Tennessee Tech, while the women take on Southeast Missouri. The women's netters also play UT Martin on Sunday.
Senior Lawrence Washington won his first match of the season defeating Eastern Illinois' Michael Sperry, 6-2, 6-2 in the No. 1 spot.
WKU's men (4-6) have not played in a contest in 20 days due to last week's match postponement with the Tigers. The Hilltoppers women (7-4) dropped 7-0 contest at
Middle Tennessee on March 25.
Results of the match will be posted online at TSUTigers.com.


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Before we jump into this quick and dirty article, I want to be clear on a few things:
- I detest list posts but I realize that the ADD is real and people are "too busy" these days. I appreciate that lists are easier to read but I find them lazy. Just my opinion.
- I'm not a partnered Twitch streamer (yet) but that's more a matter of priorities than knowledge. I am a NISM-certified social media strategist so the info here is no mere speculation.
That said, I hope this list will entertain and perhaps help our fellow Twitch streamers step their game up. More importantly, we want to provide a perspective that will make Twitch less intimidating and more useful, fun, and, well, doable. If you are looking for a more detailed guide on how succeed on Twitch and social media, check out our unofficial Twitch/Social Media strategy guide (a.k.a. grow your audience). Here are the Twitch myths debunked and the truths revealed.. In no particular order!
1. Google Purchased Twitch For One Billion Dollars [Cash]
Okay, let's be very clear here. The total amount of the Google acquisition of Twitch has not yet been confirmed and it certainly wasn't when this was breaking news. The original offer was for 1B but Google has not commented on the deal details thereof. Anyone who says otherwise is full of it. Even VentureBeat has offered "he said, she said" details and very shaky confirmations. A rule of thumb on journalism is that, if anyone does not provide a solid source or says "basically" (or something to that effect), they are speculating, blatantly lying, or sharing an opinion.
That said, the deal is easily worth one billion dollars. It is not known if this deal was done in cash or as a package with stock options and such. Some media outlets have mentioned that this was a cash deal but do not back up the details. SMH.. The real news here is what this means to Twitch streamers that are NOT part of the 1%.
It's worth noting that Google realized they could not win the fight between YouTube and Twitch, so they bought them out. This is just more of their continued 30B shopping spree.. Because Google. Is this a move to mitigate potential threats or do they have real plans to improve Twitch? I remain hopeful but I am prepared for the worst. Let's not forget the acquisitions Google killed off in the past. Of course, if there is any company with the resources to make big things happen for Twitch, it's Google… Right?
We reckon that it's possible this deal has not been finalized.. And that someone might buy Twitch out from under Google. Who has that media buying power? Microsoft, EA, AOL, Time-Warner, Amazon, Viacom… Hmmmm…. Check back with the GANG and we'll keep you posted on that. Regardless, be wary of media misinformation and fake news sites.
2. You Need An Nvidia Graphics Card/Processor
Nvidia seems to be favored heavily amongst gamers but it's not necessarily the best nor is it required. Shadow Play does allow for much easier native streaming but AMD, formerly ATI, products are still solid and may provide a more budget solution with great compatibility. Along with a solid PSU and CPU, a graphics accelerator is a must for streaming video but don't feel pressured to get Nvidia specifically. Look at the benchmarks and you'll find the differences is are too subtle to warrant price differences.
On a similar note, don't be afraid to share your gaming rig specs with your viewers. Some folks may only acknowledge bleeding-edge technology but there is such a thing as overkill. If your kit suits your needs, don't worry about the rest. Note that if you generally play indie or retro games, the system requirements are significantly lower. Your rig will grow alongside your rig so no worries!
I will say that audio quality trumps video quality every time. If your audio pops or is inconsistent, ears will bleed and people will leave. Note that some people will only listen to the audio of your stream while they multitask. This places a greater importance on a quality microphone.
3. You Should Stream Popular Games Only
These days it seems like everyone streams League Of Legends. That's a great game to add to your stable of offerings but we recommend playing more niche titles. At any given time, there are at least 1000 LoL streamers so the space is quite saturated. You have to offer something very special for LoL to be part of a sustainable streaming strategy.
Indie titles and games that allow for easy viewer interaction/participation are usually best. For example, Choice Chamber and Cards Against Humanity both offer deep interaction with your Twitch viewers with the latter allowing for big games, whereas LoL really limits how many people you can play with at once. If you like the MOBA and ARTS style, there is still opportunity in popular yet less-streamed games such as Guardians Of Middle Earth, Dawngate, Smite, and Tome.
The beauty of streaming games that have little to no presence on Twitch is that you can work with the developers to be featured in-game or on their social channels. They love the promotion and will often hook you up by promoting your channel, sending you freebies, or giving you work. With League Of Legends, the competition is just too heavy unless you are part of the fortunate 1-5% that has timing, contacts, and/or professional gaming on their side.
4. Twitch Only Partners Streamers With Lots Of Viewers
I hear so much talk about the minimum milestones and conditions necessary for Twitch to consider you for their partners program. It's all bunk. Here's why:
Twitch has and will make exceptions for streamers they find attractive in some way.. Even if the numbers are not there.
Maybe you have a great personality or you do other content that has garnered lots of attention. They will consider that. I know this because I have been to channels where there were 10-20 viewers and the person had a subscribe button. I also know people that got sub buttons almost as soon as they started, just because they knew someone or got lucky. Mind you, these same people had NO social media following or marketing background at all.
When you apply to be a Twitch Partner, you will have the opportunity to build your case. Share links to your social channels, web sites, podcasts, videos, etc. These will help you in a BIG way! If you still get denied, don't be discouraged. Having a sub button is not an instawin.. But it's nice.
5. Professional Overlays Are A MUST
A video overlay (the stuff that shows on top of the gameplay video) is one of the first things people will notice when browsing new channels, alongside a face cam and any sort of branding you share. While you could pay someone to have a professional layout/overlay created, it is not recommended to boot. It is best to get into a routine with your stream and find what works best for you before investing too much money into it.
If you pace yourself, you'll find that people will donate and support your channel if you engage them and/or offer unique content. These donations can then be re-invested to upgrade your rig, purchase new games to stream, improve your branding, or just save for a rainy day. Don't rush things – you'll get there! A Twitch channel is a constantly-evolving thing so enjoy it at every step of the way.
It's also important to note that a lot of the overlays out there are overkill. There's no reason for your webcam or any other assets to take up 33-50% of your layout. Some people, believe it or not, want to watch the actual gameplay. This Wildstar overlay from Dexter_BL commits a lot of Twitch sins:
- It takes the focus away from the core of the experience – the gameplay.
- It slaps people in the face by trying to show off a nice house/apartment/flat.
This particular overlay is likely going for the LAN party effect but it's a bit much, regardless. I have seen people showing off their setups overtly and it's quite obvious, materialistic, and silly. I've heard from countless Twitch viewers that they feel this practice just shoves success in their faces and makes them want to support the stream less. I would agree.
6. Video Quality Is The Most Important Thing
Wrong. Wrong. WRONG.
People don't see video quality when browsing channels (they do see your title though *HINT-HINT*) and, in the first few seconds of being in your channel, what they will notice is your skills in the game and your personality. If either are what they seek, less than awesome video quality will not take away from the overall experience. There are people that insist on streaming at 1080p 60 FPS or some other silliness but it's overkill and most people will downscale your quality to suit mobile devices or avoid having their bandwidth throttled.
I am not saying that aiming for better video quality is not a good goal but don't become obsessed with it. When it comes to overall stream quality, it's best to have smooth video than high-resolution. You'll have to play with the bit rate, CRF, buffer sizes, and other items to get it just right. Be patient and, again, don't be discouraged if you get the occasional elitist that says your video quality sucks.


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great site that gives an outline for the courses. Even if you are not in Virginia, the outlines provided are great.
This is a webpage written by high school teachers for those who teach US history who want to find online content as well as technology that you can use in the classroom.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Google Plus
"kenhalla"), but also on this link for Google Plus.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Great Collection of Web Tools for Students
This is a very nice collection of webpage tools all nice and neat in one place. It includes Fakebook (which I have commented on before), Glogster, Jeopardy, Doink (for creating animations), Artpad, Fotoflexer (which allows you to edit images online), Prezi (a cooler way to present than PowerPoint), Storybird (which allows you to make short books online), Youpublisher (where you can make your pfds into little booklets that have page turning), Voicethread (where you have have animated slides and make them with people in different locations), Wordle and several other items. Soon I will be doing more in depth items on several of these.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
This is a way to make a time line. I used to not like that it required a short tagline for each picture, but over time I have come to enjoy the fact that kids have to think about what they are writing it. So students get to write a few lines on Timerime and create a picture as well. Above is one I did.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Blackboard Quiz Converter
here is an easy way to create a file which you can import into Bb for a pre-made quiz. Just cut and paste the quiz in the box and push the bottom to convert it. Then you input it into Blackboard and you have a quiz ready to go.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Splitting the Screen on a Mac
Here is how I do it in Explorer and Firefox (you can't do it in Chrome without their insert) and here is how you can do it easily by dragging it to a corner on a Mac (as opposed to taking the time to resize it. I will tell you that it does cost $7 and I get nothing from Cinch (who makes it) by telling you about it.
Monday, August 8, 2011
A Word of Caution
here is a great one that shows a super looking website that most people students (and some adults) would immediately think it is a super site. But when you look more closely it is riddled (on purpose) with mistakes. Check on the first few lines on Jacques Cartier or the one on Columbus. Granted there are very few forgeries like this, but it is a good lesson that students should read carefully and consider who is making an Internet page they are working on.
Okay, so it was at the end of our meeting when Blabberize came up. However, it is very easy to use and it a fun way to present students with questions and only take seconds to make. Above is one I made for Christopher Columbus which can also be found here.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Civil War Simulation
Facebook simulation called Fakebook. Now he has a new (free) one on the Civil War which your students might like to try. Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo's G+ heads up for telling me about this.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Convert Tons of File Types
Covertfiles.com which converts any file you would ever want to use. Sure you can convert files within Google Docs, but this goes way beyond what you would typically find there or with your Microsoft's files and includes video, audio, e-book, images, archiving. Best of all it can serve as a depository as I have used it (for free) for my friend's band and just connect it to their site. You can also upload the files, once converted, to your site - or others including youtube. Here are all the conversions possible.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Just Since I've Been Married!
Google is one year older than my marriage. Like the company my life has changed a lot during that time fromadding one cat, then a dog, then three kids and finally another dog, Google has changed a lot as well as you can see from the graphic. I'm not putting it up to promote Google, but rather to show that if you aren't promoting the technology bandwagon, you're going to have to chase your students down to understand how they are creating their projects and working with their peers. If you click on the image it will get bigger. By the way I found the picture on a link from one of my new favorite blogs, Not Another History Teacher.
Last Living Witness of Lincoln Assassination
No, the person is not still alive, but I found this clip on Open Culture. It is a five minute video from 1956 that is a CBS interview with James Seymour, who at the time was the last living witness of the Ford's Theater assassination of Lincoln. Talk about bringing history alive.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
"Push Pop" Is A Cool Way To Read A Book
Facebook just bought Push Pop which is a tablet and smart phone e-book producer which pushes the boundaries of what an e-book is. One of the reasons I have been a huge proponent of students using e-books is because of the amazingly quick changes that are occurring all the time. We really are to the point where people need to rethink what a "book" really is. Please take a minute to watch the short Ted Talks video above to see some of the potential of books. Of course the question here is why did Facebook buy this company?!
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Jason Kidd recorded this song for a 1994 album called B-Ball's Best Kept Secret, a title that sounds as bad as the idea itself (one unspoken rule about basketball is that thou shalt never refer to it as "b-ball" with a straight face). The collection paired NBA players with producers and rappers to record tracks — Gary Payton had a song "Livin' Legal and Large," Cedric Ceballos recorded one with Warren G called "Flow On" — at a time when that idea didn't immediately come across as a joke.
The producers provided Kidd, who was just 21 years old at the time and who had probably just begun his professional career with Dallas, with a Dre-esque west coast beat that sounds like it could have have come from Doggystyle's reject pile. There are no real memorable lines here. He does try for some syllable play on the line "St. Joe's, the whole street had me diff'rent/But I was good on the dribble, like an in-fant," and the line about trying "to hit the strip in a drop 500 Benzito" has a nice Biggie-inspired flow to it, but the real joy of the song is that Kidd sounds like a kid who can't believe he gets to rap about how tight he is and then go play basketball for a living.
We'll look for a reprise if he finally gets his title.
H/T SI's Hot Clicks.


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Mercy Hospital celebrates 50 years, breaks ground for new addition
Groundbreaking for the new Moose Lake Mercy Hospital addition and remodeling project took place on May 31 on the hospital grounds. It marked the beginning of major changes at the site.
In preparation for the changes, lots are being cleared across from the old Gateway Clinic site. The Walter's House will be moved from its current location to a new site. A temporary garage is being set up for the ambulances; a pole type building is planned for the new ambulance garage. An employee meeting was held on May 30 to inform employees of planned changes. Temporary parking sites will be designated before construction beings. Plans are for the helipad to be operational at all times during construction.
A fence will be placed from the hospital to the ambulance garage to delineate the construction area. Cameras will be in place on the construction site.
Keith Carlson, Director of Support Services, reported on an all day building project meeting that was recently held. All essential players were involved in the meeting, including the St. Paul architects, the contractors and hospital representatives. All aspects of the construction were discussed and an extensive study was made of the expansion plans. Every detail of the plans was discussed as the group did a room by room plan inspection. The building permit for the expansion was issued on Tuesday, May 28. Gateway Clinic will make a room available for the contractor to have an office on site.
Other business
Jason Douglas, Mercy CEO, spoke to the board about Dr. Tom Nelson, a general surgeon who plans on moving to Moose Lake late in July. He has expressed an interest in setting up a practice in the Moose Lake area. A joint Executive Committee meeting was scheduled with Gateway Clinic May 30 to discuss this opportunity. One of the hospital's strategic plan goals was to look at having two full-time surgeons available in the area. Douglas also mentioned that this might be an opportunity to offer a higher level of trauma care in the area.
Douglas informed the board that Mercy Hospital is canceling their relationship with Fairview Premier Purchasing Network. Mercy Hospital has become a member of the Rural Health Alliance, a regional group purchasing organization (GPO) located in Alexandria. Med Assets and Rural Health Alliance are Mercy's new GPOs. Gregg Chartrand, Chief Financial Officer, stated in a letter to Fairview Purchasing Network that Med Assets had greater construction discounts as well as other construction monitoring tools that would assist Mercy Hospital with it's expansion.
Judy Molis, Director of Home Cafre, presented information regarding the palliative care program at Mercy Hospital. The program works in conjunction with other hospital departments such as home health, social workers, physicians, pharmacists, spiritual counselors, and grief support services. Palliative care is the comprehensive treatment of the discomfort, symptoms and stress of serious illness. The program works together with the primary treatment received, with the goal to ease suffering and improve quality of life.
For more information about the program, call (218) 485-5506 or (800) 760-4808, or ask your physician for a referral.
The next Mercy Hospital Board of Directors meeting will be held on Monday, June 24, at 5 p.m. in the hospital conference room.


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About 900 artists and entrepreneurs are about to invade Downtown Jacksonville, vying for a piece of the pie: a crowdfund of $250,000, $1 million in capital investments and immediate individual contributions. It's called One Spark, and it's anticipated to be one of the biggest events the city's ever experienced.
Created in 2011 by Elton Rivas, Dennis Eusebio and Varick Rosete, One Spark is modeled after ArtPrize, an international art competition held in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The five-day event features artists, entrepreneurs and innovators displaying everything from poetry and solar panels to live music and pole-dance fitness — even a U.S. Navy-themed board game — at venues including The Florida Theatre, Burrito Gallery and the Jacksonville Public Library.
Here are a few of the creators whose work you can see during the event. For a complete list, go to One Spark's website.
Velvet Road
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DALLAS - Larry Hagman, the North Texas native who played the conniving and mischievous J.R. Ewing on the TV show "Dallas," died Friday at a Dallas hospital. He was 81.
Hagman died at 4:20 p.m. Friday at Medical City Dallas Hospital from complications of his recent battle with cancer, members of his family said.
"Larry was back in his beloved Dallas, re-enacting the iconic role he loved most," the family said in a statement. "Larry's family and close friends had joined him in Dallas for the Thanksgiving holiday. When he passed, he was surrounded by loved ones. It was a peaceful passing, just as he had wished for. The family requests privacy at this time."
The iconic role of J.R. Ewing metamorphosed Hagman's life. He rocketed from being a merely well-known TV actor on "I Dream of Jeannie" and the son of Broadway legend Mary Martin, to the kind of transnational fame known only by the likes of the Beatles and Muhammad Ali.
Hagman made his home in California with his wife of nearly 60 years, the former Maj Axelsson. Despite obvious physical frailty, he gamely returned to Dallas to film season one of TNT's Dallas reboot and part of season two.
Linda Gray's agent, Jeffrey Lane, said the actress was at Hagman's bedside when he died.Another co-star, Patrick Duffy, also was present.


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Someone has again anonymously dropped a gold Krugerrand coin into a Salvation Army red kettle in a central Indiana city.
Salvation Army Capt. Dale Brandenburg said the South African coin was found in one of its Kokomo kettles last week and it was sold for $1,220. The Kokomo Tribune reports this marks the fifth straight year that a Krugerrand donation has been made in the city.
Brandenburg said the coin sold for about $400 less than last year when the price of gold was higher.
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He said the donation of the coin is a big boost since the group is about $50,000 short of its $82,500 fundraising goal for Kokomo.
Brandenburg said it's always exciting to find one of the gold coins inside a kettle. In years past, Krugerrand's have shown up in red kettles around the country, including two in Houston and one in Dallas in 2011.


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World Port Hackathon 2017
Dock Tech #1 & SmartPort Prize
Dock Tech build a prototype that provides insight in the right moments for dredging the waterways. Various data sources like schedules and depth information are combined into a single overview. The solution includes an algorithm that enhances the resolution and creates forecasts through combining low-res crowd-sourced depth measurements.
Strawberry #2
Strawberry created a solution that caters for the transition towards autonomous shipping. Manned and unmanned vessels can coordinate their journey in the port and on the waterways in a safe way!
N^2 – LaunchLab and PortXL prize
N^2 created a demonstrator that provides insights in the way various networks are intertwined. The connectedness, the dependency and the potential impact of a disruption are visualized on maps, and over time.
MariTimeSeries – Discovery Day
MariTimeSeries developed a platform to share data within the supply chain! Containers and the documents are shared and this allows for better efficiency and less CO2 footprint.
De Biggetjes – Discovery Day
De biggetjes build a solution that predicts where incidents occur and optimizes the officer positions on (expected) events. In this way an average time of 6.5 minutes can be saved, which are crucial minutes in incident management.
Care Bears – Discovery Day
Care Bears build a solution for social travel. Citizens get insight in the different options and consequences for the city as a whole when choosing a specific trip. They will be rewarded for choices that contribute to the overall improvement of the city.
Qquest – Discovery Day
Creating transparancy in the demand for data
Our solution communicates how well (or bad) a relevant supply chain performs, in terms of providing data whenever it is requested. Each party involved can see their own average performance, and that of other parties involved. This transparancy motivates them to provide the missing data, or to address another party involved to do so. If the data is not deliverd, customers get dissatisfied and eventually choose another company: a party that can actually answer their demands.
Searoutes – Discovery Day
Searoutes developed a tool that provides insight in the actual usage of tugboats based on the AIS. It provides the skipper with insight how they can save fuel and reduce CO2 emissions.
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THE 5th WORLD PORT HACKATHON
After four successful editions of the World Port Hackathon, it is time to celebrate our fifth anniversary! 24 hours of vibrant energy, innovation, collaboration and above all fun will again be present in the fifth edition of the World Port Hackathon! This year, the first World Port Hackathon Conference is being organised to test the limits of innovation and get even more inspired.
The WPH2017 will start with a World Port Hackathon Conference. The Conference offers our partners the possibility to connect perspectives, share knowledge, and explore opportunities together with the hackers. Inspire and be inspired!
The World Port Hackathon & Conference is the place where talented people, emerging technologies and experts from the port community collaborate and share their passion. We provide the platform on which to develop promising ideas. Take a look at the previous editions to feel the energy!
The venue of the #WPH2017 is UNESCO World Heritage listed The van Nelle Fabriek.
The#WPH2017, where innovation comes to life!
Level up… World Port Hackathon 2017 Challenges
Do more with less: that's the challenge for the coming years! Within the port, extensive logistic systems, networks and operations have been created over time. We have created vast infrastructures where growth has been the main driver of change. We use many resources which are not sustainable in the long term. The real challenge: we need to improve current systems to make them sustainable in the broadest sense. The right insights are required to foster 'smart' port activities.
Data, technology: we have it all. We are looking for people with the knowledge and mind-set to collaboratively crack this puzzle.
24-hours ago we knew nothing about ports, and the port of Rotterdam. Now we built something that people who have worked here for years might actually find useful, and that's amazing!
What we try to do at the Hackathon is to bring all those young, bright, enthusiastic people into contact with the complex port environment that they do not know.
If we work together as a port sector, as a maritime sector, we can achieve some steps in the right direction and contribute to a better environment.
If you want to compete and accel in ports, collaboration is key. Eventually, it is the right scene that provides the right innovations.
We believe that these young people at the WPH have the skills to challenge us to do good stuff, especially in proving how technology can help the logistic processes.
Just to sit here at the World Port Hackathon and think about problems for once was really fun!
Before the World Port Hackathon I had a little chat about possible ideas and on the Hackathon, we actually kind of make it work!
At the WPH we are looking for possibilities to provide nautical information in an easy system for navigational purposes in our port.
The World Port Hackathon drives change in the whole industry.
I like to learn what all the teams have been building, there is a huge diversity of the teams participating in the Hackathon. Let's build new relationships.
It is an era of change, every organisation is going to search for the limits to be more efficient and more sustainable.
We came up with 4 ideas last 24-hours. We didn't really know the port world until 24-hours ago. So that's why it took us a few ideas to iterate on something that is truly unique.
I see lots of creative people, I see people with lots of energy, putting up creative ideas not being afraid to challenge the way things are currently done.
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The first World Port Hackathon was held five years ago and we are now celebrating our fifth anniversary with a World Port Hackathon… and Conference!
Explore the inner workings of leading technology and port companies and meet fellow guests in an intimate, interactive setting. Keynotes, master classes and presentations from experts: it will all be there!
Let's co-create the port of the future!
Join the World Port Conference & World Port Hackathon
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Leading companies in the port industry will open the conference with one hour full of keynotes
The first round in which you can join several tracks of masterclasses, unconferences, and presentations of World Port Hackathon Partners.
The second round in which you can join several tracks of masterclasses, unconferences, and presentations of World Port Hackathon Partners.
The jury will nominee a limited number of teams that get the opportunity to share their answers to the port challenges on stage. In front of a highly interested audience you will pitch your idea and compete for the great prizes!
The number of participants is limited!
Don't miss your seat. Join the World Port Hackathon & Conference
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Do you have a passion for technology and ports?
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"Prosperity doesn't mean that you will have wealth, health and happiness. The best way to explain prosperity is to say it is like when a rosebud flowers and opens up, and it shares its fragrance. That's the moment, which lasts a few days, when a rose flower is prosperous. When a man or woman is prosperous, it is the fragrance of security, grace, depth, character, and truthfulness that a person can share. Like a candle emits light, a human emits prosperity."
–Yogi Bhajan, 12/26/97 from Success and the Spirit: An Aquarian Path to Prosperity.
In the practice of Kundalini Yoga, we recognize that we are part of creation. Creation operates on the principle of flowering. The sun gives. The earth gives. The rain gives. Then, the plants flower. The food is grown. Fruits ripen. From that cycle, consciousness evolves in so many forms on the earth.
True prosperity does not come from accumulating as many earthly possessions as possible. True prosperity happens when our own being comes into a state of flowering. Each of us has something unique to share. When we walk the path of our soul's calling, known as destiny, that is prosperity.
Being prosperous creates contentment, ease in giving, and a trust in the Universal flow. It does not seek to protect itself from challenges, but rather, it embraces challenge as an opportunity for growth.
Over the years, Yogi Bhajan gave many different kriyas and meditations to activate the human capacity to expand, and to develop prosperity consciousness. Expansion and prosperity are completely connected with the destiny of the soul. Everything we need to complete our soul's purpose is pre-arranged and waiting for us to receive it.
"If you feel just one thing in your life—that life is nothing but the gift of God—you are divine and the most courageous person. Try it! Try it as a thought. The moment you feel that life is a gift, you'll become prosperous."
- Yogi Bhajan, 7/5/84.
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As Jon Stewart counts down the days until he bids "The Daily Show" farewell, one of his former writers and correspondents is remembering a not-so-fond memory.
In an interview on Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast this week, Wyatt Cenac, who worked on the satirical Comedy Central show for about seven years, recalled an explosive verbal confrontation he had with the host, who he considered a "mentor" and "hero."
Cenac said that in 2011, when he was the sole black writer on the series, he was bothered by Stewart's on-air impression of then presidential candidate and Republican leader Herman Cain, who is also black.
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"It reminded me of like a Kingfish type of a thing," he told Maron, referring to a racially stereotyped character from "The Amos 'n' Andy Show."
NEWS: Jon Stewart is auctioning off his 'Daily Show' suits
Fox News commentators criticized Stewart over his impression, with some suggesting it was fueled by racism and his own left-leaning views. The host later responded to the criticism on "The Daily Show" with a montage of his past impressions of other famous people, of various races and backgrounds.
Cenac claimed Stewart wanted to produce a segment with an impression "where he was like, 'Everything I do is racist.'" Stewart has not commented.
Cenac said he said he brought up his concerns about both the Herman impression and the proposed response to Fox News via email, at a writers' meeting and, later, in person, while talking to Stewart.
"I always felt like I had to speak for all the minorities because there's nobody speaking for them, necessarily, if something seems questionable," he told Maron.
He claimed Stewart got very defensive, told him, "F--k off. I'm done with you," and screamed at him.
"It's a sobering moment when you see that this person you've turned into a hero is just a mortal," Cenac said.
Cenac claimed the confrontation ended when a colleague's pet dog entered the room and started pawing at him. Then a producer came in and was like, 'Hey, we gotta do a show.' But he was thoroughly shaken by the incident and left the building to sit on the bleachers at a nearby baseball field and cry.
Cenac left his writer's job in 2011 and remained on the show as a correspondent until last year.
NEWS: Why Amy Schumer didn't want to take over for Jon Stewart on 'The Daily Show'
Steve Bodow, an executive producer, told The New York Times there were "blind spots" at the program when Mr. Cenac worked there, adding, "and I'm sure there still are now." He added that "The Daily Show" still has only one black writer, but "that's going to change."
Jen Flanz, another executive producer, told the newspaper that said that when "The Daily Show" takes up topics of race, sexuality, gender or religion, it can lead to "sometimes uncomfortable debates," adding, "nobody wants it to get out of control the way that particular discussion did...and I've been here for 16 years, and I can count on my hands the times that it even got close to that. But they are healthy debates."
Cenac claimed he and Stewart last communicated earlier this year, over email. He said he had contacted the host after he announced he was leaving "The Daily Show" after 16 years to congratulate him and to thank him for giving him the opportunity to work on the series.
Stewart will bid farewell to "The Daily Show" on Aug. 6.Cenac told Maron he told Stewart he was unsure if he wanted to return to make a personal appearance.
"I was kind of like...'I'm on the fence about doing something because I don't think we've ever had this conversation'...the last year I was at the show, I was miserable and a lot of that I put on that fight and I put on everything that happened as a result of that," Cenac said.
He added that Stewart apologized to him for making him feel the way he did and invited him to appear on his last show.
Trevor Noah, a mixed race "Daily Show" contributor and comedian from South Africa, will take over as host on Sept. 28.


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Yesterday, Fable II Pub Games, the pre-order bonus turned $10 Xbox Live Arcade release for Fable II, hit the Xbox Live Arcade. The admittedly simple package has only three basic casino-like games, all of which are pretty shallow. However, for all the criticism it should be due, I can't help but find myself hopelessly addicted as I sat thinking about the future of my character this fall while gambling my life away to build him fortunes far in advance last night.
By all accounts, Pub Games should have received harsh criticism. The XBLA title contains locked content for Fable II that players can access only after spending countless hours within the confines of the pub, gambling their money away. The player has a star rating which can only be raised by spending more and more money at the casino, getting further and further into debt. Completing the tournaments which are locked to specific star ratings rewards in-game items, and of course all of the gold winnings, in Fable II.
So far, I've unlocked a treasure trove of items for my eventual character, ranging from fancy new weapons to a back-flip trick that I can teach my dog, permanent skill potions which alter my character, and a "rock paper scissors" style game that I will be able to play with the citizens of the world. Of course, these extra trinkets cost me $10 and a hearty amount of time—especially the latter, which requires players to win a slot reel-style tournament by sheer luck after jamming on the A button mindlessly for about twenty minutes.
However, from a marketing perspective, the ploy here is near-genius: a surprisingly robust cross-property cash-in that actually has a totally unique bent to it. While the Pub Games themselves may be awfully limited, the interactivity between the XBLA game and the full release is awe-inspiring. As you're building debt trying to win fancy items in the XBLA title, you're actually influencing the world your character will be born in to when you first step foot in it this fall. And the prospect of starting the game hunted by debtors is as frightening as it is impressive.
This Fable II "suite" of software offers an authentic "one game is important to the other" kind of thing that we don't see too often, and it's hard not to admire what the games' designer Peter Molyneux has done here. Even if it is a sinister cash-in to sell what amounts to petty mini-games as a $10 product, the rewards are both meaningful and suitably desirable for the final game. And that's why I'm now $10 and ten hours poorer. I suspect this isn't the last of this particular marketing strategy we'll be seeing, either.