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RICHMOND, Va. – If Saturday night's 84-57 win over George Washington is any indication, VCU is ready for its stretch run. It was the Rams' final game before a pressure-packed five-bout gauntlet to close out the regular season, and VCU looked a lot like the team that was blowing opponents off the Siegel Center floor earlier this year.
It was a perfect storm for VCU (21-5, 9-2 A-10), really. It was Havoc meets the Peach Fuzz Boys. The Rams' relentless defensive pressure, combined with George Washington's inexperience, gestated into 25 Colonials' turnovers. VCU was more than happy to trade those miscues in for 27 points, an advantage that proved insurmountable.
George Washington, in the second year of Mike Lonergan's rebuilding project, started four freshmen Saturday night. Those four rookies combined for 17 turnovers, including eight from Joe McDonald. After that, there were few stats that mattered. The pace and tone of the game were squarely in VCU's favor, and from there, it was a day at the races.
Junior Juvonte Reddic found open space all evening and made his first seven field goal attempts, five of them highlight-quality dunks. On the Rams' first offensive possession of the game, Reddic used a back screen to get free and caught a high-arching lob from Darius Theus with his right hand and threw it down for a thunderous slam. It was a play that set the tone for night.
"We knew that the back screen was going to get me open on the lob, we practiced that in practice, and the first play of the game it worked and I threw it down with one hand and it got the crowd hyped, it got my team hyped and we just had the momentum," Reddic said. "It created a great atmosphere and made it hard for our opponents to play their game."
Reddic finished with a game-high 24 points on 11-of-13 shooting and collected 10 rebounds, two blocks and two steals.
The Rams did mostly as they pleased on offense all night. They were loose, efficient and looked like they were having a ball.
With VCU greats Eric Maynor and Larry Sanders watching from courtside, the Rams played inspired. While Reddic was channeling Sanders' dunking ways, freshman Melvin Johnson showed off the best floater since Maynor used his on the way to a school-record 1,953 points from 2005-09. Johnson sank three signature teardrops and finished with 11 points.
Although Johnson wasn't around for Maynor's reign, he's aware of the Oklahoma City Thunder point guard's legend at the Siegel Center.
"Today, [Maynor] actually condoned it," Johnson said of his flurry of floaters, which he hit just feet from Maynor's courtside seat. "He said, 'one more time.' The last one, I looked at him and he was excited."
Even Troy Daniels got into the fun. With 8:13 remaining, the senior 3-point specialist stole a ball at midcourt and took it to the rack for a left-handed slam, likely the first career dunk for a guy better known for his work from 21 feet away from the hoop.
"Yes, I had to get a dunk before I leave," Daniels joked afterwards. "I'm not going to count that as a dunk. It kind of slipped out of my hand."
VCU shot 53 percent (32-of-60) for the evening, including 8-of-17 from three. If not for 16 of their own turnovers, the Rams surely would have run away from George Washington by more than 27. With the most important stretch of the season on the horizon, VCU put together back-to-back wins this week against UMass and George Washington by average of 22.5 points.
What lies ahead next for VCU is stage one of a five-round donnybrook that will decide the Atlantic 10 Conference regular season champion and could determine their NCAA Tournament fate. On Tuesday, VCU will travel to white-hot Saint Louis (19-5, 8-2). The Billikens, a half game behind the Rams for first in the A-10, have won seven straight, most of them decisively.
"It's a fight for first," Daniels said, his tone turning serious. "That's all we know right now. We're going to prepare for them tomorrow and Monday and go from there. We know they're a great team and they have a lot of fans and great fans in Saint Louis, so we have to be ready to play, be ready to be road warriors."
Games at Xavier and Temple, as well as home dates with rival Richmond and 11th-ranked Butler also await VCU in the final weeks of the regular season. All five of VCU's remaining opponents are ranked in the top 90 in RPI.
It's going to test the Rams' mettle, but the road ahead didn't seem to weigh on VCU Saturday night. The Rams looked ready for a fight.


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Simulation of Magnetic Flux Distribution of Stator and Rotor Coil of Superconducting Air Cored Wind Turbine Generator using COMSOL Multiphysics
Wind energy is one of the fastest growing renewable energy sources for electricity generation over the past decade. The offshore installation of large-scale wind farms draws huge attention because of better wind profile. Direct drive synchronous wind turbine generators are now a global demand for light weight, compact, large scale wind turbine generators. Among various approaches in designing direct drive superconducting wind turbine generators, a comparatively new design (Figure 1) having both axial and radial air gaps between stator and superconducting rotor winding is selected for simulation work. It has the advantages of uniform stress and magnetic force around the circular coil. Elimination of gear box leads to light weight of the wind turbine generator. This paper deals with the simulation of magnetic flux distribution of stator and rotor coil of the same using the sliding mesh tool of COMSOL Multiphysics. The model geometry of the wind turbine generator mentioned earlier was drawn using 3D CAD tool of COMSOL Multiphysics. After declaring the global and local parameters, the magnetic and electric fields (mef) is chosen for setting the physics of the model in AC/DC module. It is followed by the proper assignment of material properties of the coils and core. To implement the rotational effect of the rotor coil on the stator magnetic field, sliding mesh concept is used. Parametric sweep is incorporated in study portal, which evaluates field distribution of the model for every angular position of the rotor with respect to the stationary axis and stores the results. Time dependent study was performed thereafter. Physics controlled mesh was directed with extra fine setting (figure 2,3). Total number of elements was found to be 1029920. Flux distribution in the rotor coil is realized here using volume plot of magnetic flux density (normal). The simulated magnetic field is distributed almost uniformly throughout the outer part of the stator and the same varies gradually with the distance from the centre in each coil (figure 4) of the rotor. Some animations from different angle are captured in the post processing. The simulation software COMSOL Multiphysics has been used to simulate a parametric model of a circular superconducting air core coil of direct drive off sore wind turbine generator. The solution has been efficiently computed using the built-in tools and solvers of COMSOL Multiphysics. Sliding mesh technique incorporating parametric sweep gave the realistic effect of rotation of the rotor with respect to the stator on flux distribution. In summary, 3D model geometry has been efficiently constructed in 3D CAD tool of COMSOL Multiphysics and it is found to be a very flexible and efficient tool for numerical field computations.

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There are worse things I could be doing with my time than sifting through commandlinefu.com, looking for diamonds among the diamonds. I have a few favorites, although the word "favorite" doesn't really make sense here; it's more like a list of commands that, after discovering them, I've become emotionally attached to. In other words, these are the ones I tend to re-use most often.
Now to be perfectly honest, I knew this one long before I saw it at the top of that stack, so maybe it doesn't count. In the days when I was shifting from Ubuntu to Arch, this became exceptionally helpful — and it still does. To be painfully honest, I don't use sudo much when I'm using Arch or Crux, and so any time I jump back to Ubuntu, I find myself relying on this again.
Regardless of your opinion on the whole root-vs-sudo affair, it's good to know that you can save yourself a little time with sudo-double-bang.
This is a miracle time saver. For as many times as I've wanted to just duplicate a file without taking the time to type the file name over again, or tell a cumbersome graphical file manager to copy and then past the same thing … this is perfect. No more keystrokes than it takes to type out the name anyway (hooray for tab completion), plus four or five extra. Genius.
With or without the
:p trailer, this is a useful command. I use CTRL+R a lot to search backwards through my command history, but this is actually quicker, if I'm certain I know what that last command was.
I suppose that's where the
:p trailer comes in after all: If I'm not sure I'm grabbing the right command, I can at least check first, before executing the wrong thing. Oh, and notice that there's no space between the "whatever" and the
:p. For a little while there, I thought my system was broken. …
I'm not going to bother trickling through any others, because the site itself does a better job than I can. And if you want to know the how and why, it's worth looking at Peter Krumins' blog, which breaks many of them apart and inspects their shiny parts. Or something like that. …


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Car owners in Austin, TX have noticed a strange occurrence in the past few weeks. Their cars (and really any outdoor surface) have been covered with a sticky, amber-tinted substance that many have assumed is just tree sap.
Of course, we all know when you assume, you make an ass out of you and me, but in this case the ass belongs to an aphid, and you and me are covered in aphid shit.
They delicately refer to the aphid dung as "honeydew" which probably isn't fooling anyone and just ruining an innocent melon for you.
Yes, to the delight of entomological scat fetishists, that goop is none other than an "energy-rich anal secretion" from aphids. Aphid poop. All over your car. Aphids, poetically known as "plant lice" are always around, vampiring the trees with their gross little mouthparts, but this year the amount of them is much worse than normal. Austin's Natural Gardener is calling it "a plague."
And, while plagues seem like a good time for everyone, the by product of the colossal aphid buffet is sweet, energy-rich aphid crap. Plus, the horny, very regular Aphids can reproduce faster than any insect, and I believe they keep their infants in tiny diapers an infinitesimal amount of time, so more and more aphid poop will be out there, coating your car.
So, for you Austin gearheads out there, our sympathies go out to you. If it helps, according to the Multiverse theory, somewhere out there is a universe where giant aphids are driving around in nice cars, and you're sitting on the hood, pants around your ankles, pinching off a steaming pile of crap on their windshield.


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U.S. appeals court rules Prop. 8 unconstitutional
It strips rights already granted, appeals panel finds in narrow ruling
A federal appeals court declared California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional Tuesday in a ruling that was both historic and, perhaps more importantly, narrowly drafted.
The 2-1 ruling by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was the first ever by a federal appellate court to overturn any of the recent proliferation of state laws defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
Gay rights advocates gathered in San Francisco and elsewhere to cheer the court's conclusion that the November 2008 ballot measure, promoted as a life preserver for traditional marriages in California, was actually rooted in the constitutionally suspect soil of private moral judgments.
"Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples," said Judge Stephen Reinhardt in the majority opinion.
He said there was no evidence for the claims of Prop. 8 sponsors that banning same-sex marriage would promote children's welfare or responsible procreation, and no legal basis to exclude an entire group of people from marrying merely because of tradition.
"It brings you to tears," James Pearman, 60, of Daly City, said at a rally outside the Seventh Street courthouse after the ruling was announced. "You know that you are equal. You know that you have rights, that children (of gay parents) will have rights."
Marriages still on hold
The same-sex marriage ban remains in effect while the case proceeds toward the Supreme Court, where Prop. 8's supporters predicted victory.
"We will immediately appeal this misguided decision that disregards the will of more than 7 million Californians who voted to restore marriage as the unique union of only a man and a woman," said Andy Pugno, lawyer for the Prop. 8 campaign committee, a conservative religious coalition called Protect Marriage.
But the ruling appeared to be crafted to improve its chances for survival in the high court, and perhaps to avoid review altogether. As commentators noted, the court stepped back from deciding the constitutionality of same-sex marriage and focused instead on the causes and effects of one California ballot measure.
"This decision was clearly written with a mind toward getting (the Supreme Court) not to take" the case, said Evan Gerstmann, a political science professor at Loyola Marymount University and author of two books on same-sex marriage. "The court focused on specific facts in California" and issued a ruling that might not apply to any other state, he said.
If the Supreme Court takes up the case, said Rick Hasen, a law professor at UC Irvine, it could follow the appeals court's lead and strike down Prop. 8 "without embracing a major holding recognizing a right to same-sex marriage generally."
Reinhardt, one of the nation's most liberal judges, took a legally conservative approach that was closely tied to the history of Prop. 8.
The initiative, approved by 52 percent of the voters, amended the California Constitution to undo a May 2008 ruling by the state Supreme Court, which said the state's then-existing ban on same-sex marriage violated California's constitutional guarantee of equality.
Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker concluded the nation's first federal court trial on same-sex marriage by ruling in August 2010 that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry their chosen partner, and that Prop. 8 discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation and gender.
The appeal
The measure's sponsors appealed, arguing that it was not discriminatory for voters to reaffirm the historic definition of marriage. Protect Marriage also argued that Walker should have been disqualified, and his ruling set aside, because he had not disclosed that he is a gay man with a longtime partner, whom he could marry if his ruling were upheld.
The appeals court rejected the disqualification argument unanimously Tuesday, saying a judge can remain on a case even if its outcome might affect him, along with other members of the public. The court also agreed with Walker's conclusion about Prop. 8, but for different reasons.
Reinhardt, joined by Judge Michael Hawkins, invoked two past U.S. Supreme Court rulings. One was a 1973 decision overturning a federal law that barred households of unrelated people, such as "hippie communes," from qualifying for food stamps. The other, in 1996, struck down a Colorado initiative prohibiting local governments from enacting civil rights laws protecting gays and lesbians.
In both cases, the high court said the government violates equal protection when it withdraws rights in order to harm a politically unpopular group or express disapproval of a vulnerable minority. The 1996 ruling was written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, who could cast the decisive vote in a future marriage case.
There is no need to decide in this case whether gays and lesbians have a fundamental right to marry, Reinhardt said, because Prop. 8 is unconstitutional for a separate reason: Like the Colorado initiative, it stripped rights from a minority group - rights the group held under the earlier California court ruling - for no apparent reason other than moral disapproval.
Other rationales put forward by Protect Marriage don't hold up to inspection, Reinhardt said - outlawing same-sex marriage doesn't encourage men and women to marry, enhance existing marriages, or protect children being raised by California families, including tens of thousands of same-sex households. He also said evidence at the trial showed that the Prop. 8 campaign appealed to voters' fears of homosexuals.
Dissenting opinion
With no demonstrated "legitimate purpose," Reinhardt said, the court must conclude that the ballot measure was rooted in "disapproval of gays and lesbians as a class."
In dissent, Judge N. Randy Smith said Prop. 8 must be upheld if there was any reasonable basis for its enactment. For example, he said, Californians could have concluded - rightly or wrongly - that children were better off with married, biological parents, and that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples would encourage responsible child-rearing.
Under the deferential standard established by past rulings, Smith said, "I am not convinced that Proposition 8 lacks a rational relationship to legitimate state interests."
Proposition 8
What's next: Prop. 8's sponsors plan to appeal. They could ask the full appeals court for a rehearing before an 11-judge panel or appeal directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Status of same-sex marriage: Prop. 8's ban would be lifted in 21 days if the ruling is not appealed. But a request for a rehearing would maintain the ban while the appeal was pending, and it would likely stay in effect until the Supreme Court finished with the case.
The rulings
The measure: In a 2-1 decision, the court said Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California, is unconstitutional because it withdrew marital rights from gays and lesbians for no evident reason other than moral disapproval of homosexuality.
The judge: The court also ruled 3-0 that Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, who had presided over the Prop. 8 trial in 2010, was under no obligation to disclose at the time that he was a gay man with a longtime partner, whom he could marry if same-sex marriage were legal.
To learn more: The panel's ruling can be viewed at links.sfgate.com/ZLHA.
Reactions to the ruling from around the country
"San Francisco stands ready to begin marrying same-sex couples, and we remain as deeply committed to the fight for marriage equality today as we did nearly eight years ago when then-Mayor Gavin Newsom started one of the most important civil rights issues of our generation to ensure equality for all."
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee
"Today, unelected judges cast aside the will of the people of California who voted to protect traditional marriage. I believe marriage is between a man and a woman and, as president, I will protect traditional marriage, and appoint judges who interpret the Constitution as it is written and not according to their own politics and prejudices."
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney
"We are not surprised that this Hollywood-orchestrated attack on marriage - tried in San Francisco - turned out this way."
Brian Raum, attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund
"The court has rendered a powerful affirmation of the right of same-sex couples to marry. I applaud the wisdom and courage of this decision."
Gov. Jerry Brown
"Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, reiterating the California Supreme Court's 1948 comment in ending the ban on interracial marriage that marriage is a 'fundamental right of all citizens,' upheld what we have long held to be true and just - that no loving couple shall be denied the opportunity to marry in California."
State Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco
"The Ninth Circuit made a strong statement that laws must not target the LGBT community for discrimination and all of our state's families deserve to enjoy fair and equal treatment under the law."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco
"More and more Americans are being exposed to the radical overreach of federal judges and their continued assault on the Judeo-Christian foundations of the United States."
GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich
"Today's ruling strikes a devastating blow to the legal defense of Prop. 8."
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera
"Today's ruling is a victory for fairness, a victory for equality and a victory for justice."
State Attorney General Kamala Harris
"This is the one last big piece of the civil rights struggle and it's happening in our lifetime, in real time, and I'm very proud of this court's decision."
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom
"We will immediately appeal this misguided decision that disregards the will of more than 7 million Californians who voted to restore marriage as the unique union of only a man and woman. We are confident that the rights of California voters will finally win out."
Andy Pugno, general counsel for Protect Marriage
"Today's action by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is an eloquent reaffirmation of Dr. King's statement that 'the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.' "
Assembly Speaker John Pérez
"This is an affront to the voters of California. Twice in one decade, Californians affirmed through the ballot that they want traditional marriage, and twice, a handful of judges has vetoed millions of voters. This is judicial activism at its worst."
State Sen. Doug LaMalfa, R-Richvale, Butte County
Timeline of same-sex marriage in California
Feb. 12, 2004: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom authorizes the county clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon are the first to marry.
Feb. 13: Two conservative groups sue to stop the marriages, charging that Newsom acted illegally in authorizing licenses.
Feb. 25: Three San Francisco residents ask the state Supreme Court to put an immediate halt to the weddings.
Feb. 27: California Attorney General Bill Lockyer asks the state Supreme Court to stop San Francisco officials from issuing same-sex marriage licenses and invalidate gay and lesbian weddings that have taken place at City Hall since Feb. 12.
March 11: The California Supreme Court orders an immediate halt to same-sex weddings in San Francisco and says it will decide whether Newsom exceeded his authority in allowing the marriages.
March 11: San Francisco responds by suing the state in Superior Court, contending that California's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
March 12: Six unwed gay and lesbian couples file suit in Superior Court, challenging the state's marriage law on constitutional grounds. The suit is later consolidated with the city's.
May 25: California's Supreme Court justices hear arguments on the legality of San Francisco's same-sex marriages.
July 15: The U.S. Senate defeats the Bush administration's proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
Aug. 12: The California Supreme Court rules that Newsom exceeded his authority when he authorized same-sex marriages in San Francisco and voids 3,955 marriages that were recorded between Feb. 12 and March 11.
March 14, 2005: A San Francisco Superior Court judge rules that a California law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman violates guarantees of equality and fundamental rights in the state Constitution.
April 4: A state appeals court panel upholds California's domestic partner law.
Sept. 29: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoes a bill to give same-sex couples the right to marry.
Oct. 5, 2006: A state appeals court rules gays and lesbians have no constitutional right to marry in California, and any change giving them that right must come from state lawmakers or the voters, rather than the legal system.
Nov. 13: San Francisco appeals to the state Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of California's ban on same-sex marriage and asks it to rule that the law violates the rights of gays and lesbians.
Sept. 7, 2007: For a second time in three years, the Legislature approves a bill to give same-sex couples the right to marry in California. Schwarzenegger later vetoes it.
March 4, 2008: The California Supreme Court hears arguments about same-sex marriages during a 3 1/2-hour hearing.
April 24: Supporters of an initiative to ban same-sex marriage in the state's Constitution submit more than 1.1 million signatures to qualify the measure for the November ballot.
May 15: The California Supreme Court overturns the same-sex marriage ban on a 4-3 vote.
June 3: Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, qualifies for the November ballot.
Nov. 4: Prop. 8 passes with 52 percent of the vote.
May 22, 2009: A lawsuit filed in federal court seeks to overturn Prop. 8.
Jan. 11, 2010: The federal trial on Prop. 8 begins.
June 17: Final arguments made in federal court; the case goes to the judge.
Aug. 4: Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker rules that Prop. 8 is unconstitutional, but issues a stay on the ruling pending further hearings.
Feb. 2, 2012: Videos of the federal Prop. 8 trial cannot be released to the public, says the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 3-0 ruling.
Feb. 7: In a 2-1 decision, the federal appeals court says Prop. 8 is unconstitutional, paving the way for a likely appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Chronicle staff writer Will Kane contributed to this report. Bob Egelko is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. firstname.lastname@example.com


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In the old days of desktop publishing, the ideal personal computer display had a resolution of 72 dots per inch, which essentially meant that the page you saw on the screen was about the size of the physical version. Of course, color accuracy was another story entirely.
Today, displays are far sharper, at the expense of the document window being noticeably smaller than the printed counterpart, assuming, of course, that there is a print equivalent. In our digital universe, it hardly matters, so long as text is sharp, eminently readable.
But you want to believe that when you see a picture of a new product, be it food or a tech gadget, that the photo has some connection to reality. You may, for example, see a frozen food box at your neighborhood supermarket. Based on the picture you see on that box, the contents seem absolutely delicious, with liberal helpings of the various ingredients that make up the dish. But when you open the box, more often than not, you see some overcooked mush that barely fills half a container. It's a common trick to entice you to buy something, but I have to wonder why anyone would give those companies a second chance.
When it comes to our tech corner of the world, you know that when you see a photo of a TV set with a brilliant picture, the picture is a composite created in the graphic arts studio. You are not seeing the real TV playing a real show or movie. Getting that set's picture to look decent in a real world photo isn't easy; it's better just to present the mock-up, but you have to hope that the TV maker is giving you a realistic portrayal of the actual product. Of course if you see the set on display for yourself, you can come to your own conclusions.
Now what about all those wonderful handheld computers? Is there any outright deception going on there? Well, Nokia tried to pull a fast one with the Lumia 920. Touting the rear camera's supposedly superior low-light and image stabilization features, they actually used a professional camera to record the photos for an ad campaign. Of course, it was done in such a clumsy fashion that they were caught. But if the camera was really so good, why the fakery?
Recently, in his McElhearn blog, author Kirk McElhearn, who is also Macworld's "iTunes Guy," caught Amazon with their pants down, metaphorically speaking. A fan of the original Amazon Kindle for reading e-books in sunlight, he bought the $119.00 Kindle Paperwhite, which touts a built-in light to increase display brightness. Amazon's photos show a smooth bright white background, with rich sharp text. The name offers the promise of mimicking the look of real paper, but the unit Kirk received was decidedly unlike that photo. On his Paperwhite, "the lighting is uneven at the bottom of the Kindle, and there is a very large difference in brightness."
As you see if you follow our link to Kirk's article, the reality is very much unlike the product Amazon is advertising. While this sort of deception may be routine for a cheap container of frozen food, it is totally unacceptable for a consumer electronics device at any price point. Kirk bought the Paperwhite because he felt his iPad mini wouldn't produce a satisfactory image in sunlit surroundings. Instead, the Paperwhite was returned: "It's a good idea, but it's just a bit cheap and poorly designed. Amazon should really do better with a device like this."
But that's only part of the story. Amazon shouldn't be allowed to get away with false advertising. Sure, if you see one of these in a store, you will know for yourself the limitations. But what about those who buy one online, depending on those descriptive ads to provide useful information about the product's performance? If all Paperwhites suffer from the same uneven image, customers should return them in droves, with appropriately worded complaints. Maybe Amazon will get the message that this sort of chicanery is absolutely unacceptable.
Sure, it's perfectly normal for a company to provide, shall we say, exaggerated claims for a product or service. But it's the degree of deception that counts. Some might say Apple is misrepresenting the capabilities of the Siri voice assistant, pointing out that those TV ads demonstrate a potential in voice recognition accuracy and performance that isn't realized by non-actors in the real world. Apple's excuse? Siri remains a beta.
Apple didn't have so good an excuse with Maps for iOS 6, and I don't need to discuss the problems, since they were front and center. But iOS 6 is free. Even if you bought an iPhone 5 or recent iPad on which it was preloaded, you paid for the hardware. The OS may have bugs, but they will likely be fixed over time. Even now Maps has become better in a number of significant ways, though there's much more room for improvement. But if the defect is in the hardware, you con't fix it with an over-the-air update.
I wonder what sort of excuse Amazon will offer, assuming they ever respond to Kirk's review — but I doubt they ever will.


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You will need:
- clean Mason jar with tight-fitting lid
- heavy whipping cream
2. Shake the crap out of it until it turns to butter with a little buttermilk on the side:


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The "Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference on Religion" is an annual multi-day gathering of graduate students studying religion within a variety of disciplinary frameworks. It is comprised of thematic panels that cross religious traditions, academic disciplines, and intellectual and theological commitments.
Inaugurated in 2012, the Ways of Knowing Conference is hosted by Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. Harvard Divinity School is one of the oldest professional graduate schools of Harvard University and is located at Harvard University's main campus. This conference is one of the major annual programs organized by the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School (SRCp). The Director of SRCp, Professor Ragab, serves as the faculty advisor for the Ways of Knowing Conference.


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ST. LOUIS – A year ago at this time, Antti Raanta was sitting on a couch on the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean.
It was a big couch, but not as big as the ocean. Still, it was comfortable, which allowed Raanta to park in front of his television and watch the Blackhawks' run to a Stanley Cup title.
"Good seats," Raanta said with a laugh.
Anyone with a high-definition TV knows the feeling.
Now, Raanta has an especially good seat. Front row, near center ice. And he gets paid to sit there.
No wonder the 24-year-old Finland native is smiling as if he just won a dream vacation.
"Of course, my first NHL playoffs," Raanta said. "It's really nice."
It's a lot of things, as Hawks fans know well. Yes, the postseason can be really nice, and it also can be really infuriating, really uplifting, really terrifying or really perfect. Usually all in the same series.
Most of all, the playoffs can be really unpredictable.
That's why it was important to check in on Raanta before the Hawks played the St. Louis Blues on Thursday in Game 1 of the Western Conference quarterfinals. As the backup goaltender, he was the only player on the team who was active and in uniform but would not be expected to log one second of ice time.
Nothing about this situation was controversial. Corey Crawford is the Hawks' clear-cut No. 1 starter in net and has a Stanley Cup championship on his résumé, and it would take a serious injury or a Lindsay Lohan-caliber meltdown in order for Raanta to leave his perch on the bench.
So Raanta must have arrived to the Scottrade Center hoping not to play, right? Because, if he did leave his spot on the bench, that would have meant something terrible had happened to Crawford?
"Well, of course," Raanta said. "You never want anything to happen, but you never know. Hockey is a fast game and there are lots of things that can happen. But I don't want to start thinking those things.
"I just try to go to practice and be the best goalie and try to push Corey higher and higher. Hopefully, Corey will play great games like he was playing last year. Hopefully, I can help the team in practice.
"Well, you never know what happens. So I don't want to start thinking too much, those things."
It was too late.
Raanta was thinking about the possibility of leaving the bench to become the Hawks' most important player at a moment's notice. He was thinking about his confidence in himself to rise to the occasion if necessary. He was thinking about his rookie regular season, which included some good and some bad as he posted a 13-5-4 record with a 2.71 goals-against average in 25 appearances.
"Always, you can think of [your] games and what you can do better," Raanta said. "Maybe December was a little bit better than the last couple months. Maybe my game was a little bit better in that time. There were a little bit of ups and downs in the last few games.
"But it's still the first year. I don't know if I can make those mistakes, but you have to make mistakes to learn more. … There are still lots of things to do to be at the top level here. But we are in the playoffs, so I can't be too disappointed."
Instead, Raanta can be happy.
This time of year is the exact reason why Raanta signed a one-year deal with the Hawks last summer. He had thrived in Finland and might have been able to receive more playing time on a less talented team, but he joined the Hawks because of all of the postseason fun he had seen on TV from his couch.
"I knew that this organization was at a high level and there's always a chance to go all the way," Raanta said. "That was one of the reasons why I picked this team. Now, I have been here almost a year, [and] it has been just as great as I was thinking. Everything – the whole organization – everybody has been helping me and everybody has been trying to make my job as easy as possible."
But now Raanta has a hard assignment.
Sit still, but stay sharp.
In the meantime, enjoy the front-row seat.
• Shaw Media sports columnist Tom Musick can be reached at email@example.com and on Twitter @tcmusick.


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At a former Air Force base, Bill Warner set a new land speed record, getting his modified Suzuki Hayabusa up to just shy of 312 MPH. If you're feeling insecure about your ride, just note that Warner needed a shove to get going.
Also note: for a man going nearly half the speed of sound on a bike, this might be the most boring video ever filmed. [Bangor Daily News]


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These plastic sheets are essential for all types of body wraps, including herbal, mud and seaweed. The perforated thermoplastic film is high density to provide better heat insulation than standard wraps. One time use. Waterproof. 40" x 825' perforated roll makes (150) 40" x 66" sheets.


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A sandwich restaurant chain says it's looking into how a dead frog got into a customer's salad in Manhattan Monday.
The customer found the small frog in her salad from a Pret A Manger store on 47th Street and Sixth Avenue, according to her colleague Kathryn Lurie, who photographed it and posted it to the photo-sharing app Instagram.
Lurie, an editor at The Wall Street Journal, said on Twitter her co-worker wanted to remain anonymous but that "she was pretty shaken, understandably."
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It's not clear how the frog got into the salad.
Pret said in a statement: "Our lettuce is sourced from farms that do not use any pesticides on its produce, therefore organic matter does very rarely manage to pass through our production process. We are currently looking into this issue to make every effort that this does not happen again."


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Review by Nick Wedd, from British Go Journal 128, Autumn 2002
In issue 109 of this Journal, I wrote a review of version 10 of David Fotland's program "The Many Faces of Go". Since then, I have been recommending it as the best all-round Go program for someone who is willing to pay for the best. Version 11 has now been released. Like version 10, it is a program for Windows, and comes on a CD.
Many Faces of Go is primarily a Go-playing program - it is one of the world's strongest such programs. In addition, it comes with a large amount of other useful material, and many Go players will value it for this, rather than for its playing ability.
Many Faces of Go version 11 (MFoG11) can now play on any sized board from 7x7 to 19x19. It can play against a human, as black or as white; it can play agaiant itself; or it can act as a board for a game between two humans. It can be set to use American, Chinese, Japanese or SST (Ing) rules.
It plays as fast, or as slowly, as you tell it to. Unlike many computer Go programs, it adapts its speed of play to use the time available to it - and unlike some, it plays better if given more time. It can play very fast. I set it to play itself on a full board at its lowest strength level, and the entire game took 10 seconds.
I tried playing against it at the highest of its ten levels of strength, giving it nine stones, and beat it (I am about 1-kyu). This is something which I still cannot do against HandTalk. The reason for this difference is, I think, that Many Faces plays "honestly", whereas HandTalk tries sequences which, if played by a human, would be described as swindles.
I also tried playing it against a recent version of Mick Reiss's program "Go4++". The game was close, but the styles of the two programs are very different. Many Faces plays rather like a human 10-kyu, making influence and then not knowing quite what to do with it. Go4++ behaves as if it knows its own limitations: it contents itself with modest third-line territory, and relies on the fact that its opponent won't know how to make the most of its outward influence.
Commercially available programs such as MFoG11 are "frozen snapshots" of their programmers' work, as this is undergoing continuous improvement (or rarely, relapse). MFoG11 was frozen shortly before the recent "21st Century Cup", which it won, defeating all its opponents, including Go4++. It can therefore claim to be the strongest computer Go program that you can buy. I doubt that it is measurably stronger than the latest version of Go4++. But it should be stronger than the currently available version of Go Professional, which is a version of Go4++ frozen about two years ago.
As well as playing Go, MFoG11 includes many features not present in other Go-playing programs.
There is an introduction to Go, starting at a very elementary level, explaining liberties, connections, capture, and so on. This is displayed more clearly on a computer screen than it could be in a book. There is plenty of advice on play, and two sample games with very full comments directed at beginners.
There is a Joseki tutor, and two large databases of openings which can be used for studying fuseki and joseki. It can analyse the status of groups. It includes a problem-solver, which is much stronger than the one that was included with MFoG10.
You can use it to record and replay games, and to add variations and comments to the game record. Something which I find particularly useful is that it can record games in either Ishi or SGF format, and can read both formats. It can therefore be used to convert between them.
It comes with two large collections of game records: 1200 commented amateur games, from the Go Teaching Ladder, and over 1600 commented professional games.
It also comes with a collection of over 2000 Go problems. It keeps a record of your performance at these, so you always have an incentive to try to get them right and improve your score. When you ask it to set you a problem, it randomises the orientation, so you get rather better value than if they were always presented the same way round. If you solve a problem correctly, it plays the next move to check that you can follow up you solution correctly; and if you give a wrong answer, it shows you a refutation. It has the facility to update its collection of problems directly from some place on the internet - I don't know how often this place is likely to be updated.
A new feature is that MFoG11 can be used as a "Go Client", to connect to IGS, NNGS, and other compatible Go Servers. It is not the best such client, but it does work, and you may prefer to use it as your Go Client rather than go to the trouble of downloading and familiarising yourself with a different program. If you do use it as a client, you can use it to cheat, by asking its opinion of the status of your groups, the balance of territory, etc., as you play.
You can use MFoG to play go using your modem with a direct telephone connection to anyone who owns any version of MFoG, or Nemesis or certain other programs that support the same protocol (the "Go Modem Protocol").
MFoG11 has a feature which I know of in no other program, and which I particularly like. This is a "game score graph". For any game, you can ask it to display a graph of how much White is winning by after each move. In general, this rises when White moves and falls when Black moves; and it rises and falls by more than usual for what MFoG considers to be particularly effective moves. This image shows its graphical assessment of the recent Macfadyen-Cocke game. As you can see, its evaluation of the positions is not accurate; but this is a powerful idea.
Many Faces version 11 has in one package almost all of the features available in any other Go program. It is suitable as an introduction to Go for complete beginners, and has plenty to offer to experienced players. I would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone who has a 32-bit Windows system ( Windows 95 or better). It is attractively packaged, and would make a suitable present for a games player.


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Post-Production Pro
Drone Talk and Getting Good Footage
Who the heck is this guy? What are we Learning? (2:21)
Resolution, Frame Rate, Video File Types, Importance of Data Rate (3:28)
RAW Format and Aerial Photography (0:34)
PC Requirements & Why (4:24)
Best Settings for the Cinematic Image (1:57)
Plan your route before-hand, shoot calmly (1:35)
Film until its awkward (3:19)
Surveillance, Scout out the shoot (0:55)
Edit out of Utility and keep your shots moving (1:11)
So Many Drones Out There! Which is one is for me? (4:33)
Drone Pilots #1 Amateur mistake. THE HERKY JERKY. (1:59)
Getting the True Cinematic Image - 24fps (3:13)
Editing Level I - Optimizing Software Settings,
Calibrating Software Settings (3:06)
Proxies - MOST IMPORTANT STEP (4:46)
Basic Editing Functions (5:23)
Editing Level II - Coloring, Audio, Transitions, Titles
Basics of Effects, Titles, Transitions (5:30)
Color Grading (Color Correction) with Lumetri (4:54)
Editing Level III - Advanced Stuff
Mirrored Earth (5:01)
Speed Ramp Timewarp Presets (7:48)
More professional transition applications and tasteful finishes to your edit (9:10)
Other Tricks with no specific catagory
Exporting - Saving your Edit to a File (4:08)
Fill gaps with Rate Stretch and Frame-Hold (0:28)
Shooting Slow Motion Correctly & Frame Rates (1:05)
Selecting Groups and Clips faster - Separating Audio/Video (0:59)
Stabilizing Shakey Drone Footage (1:10)
Closing and Random Fun Stuff
Unless you clicked here first, you made it
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Sleek design, functional features, and agile handling: the Commuter is a fully-equipped commuting bike that will have you pedalling past the traffic in style.
The perfect drivetrain for city riding
A belt drive system with internal hub gearing is the perfect drivetrain for a city bike. It's low-maintenance, feels powerful, and doesn't attract dirt like a traditional oiled chain.
Concept made reality
Upon its launch in 2015, the Commuter was an instant hit with the critics – bringing home the Red Dot Design Award and the IF Product Design Award in the same year. When explaining their decision, the judges specifically praised the bike's unique lines, and the elegant design of the one-piece cockpit with integrated lighting.


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Saturday, January 11, 2014
Sports News
of favorite tag, Federer hopes to flourish in Melbourne
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[January 11, 2014]
By Simon Cambers
MELBOURNE (Reuters) — Armed with a new
coach and bigger racket, Roger Federer hopes being in the unusual
position of underdog will help him add to his record tally of 17 grand
slam titles.
The Swiss has been overshadowed by Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic
in recent years, winning only one grand slam title (Wimbledon 2012)
since his 2010 victory Melbourne Park and dropping to sixth in the
world rankings.
However, the 32-year-old told reporters on Saturday that he could
fly below the radar.
"I definitely have less pressure this year, less to lose," he said.
"I'm not the defending champion or any of that.
"So I should be able to play more freely, and other guys are
supposed to make their move or defend again, all these things.
"Things are maybe a little bit more comfortable this year around.
But at the same time maybe the draw becomes tougher in the process.
"But I'm happy I'm back here, I'm very proud of my grand slam streak
(57 straight slams). I hope I can keep playing for a long time."
Federer is playing with a slightly bigger racket-head but it is the
addition of former world number one Stefan Edberg to his coaching
team which has caught the imagination of the tennis world.
The unflappable Swede, who served and volleyed his way to six grand
slam titles, is to work with Federer for 10 weeks this year,
including the grand slams.
"I'm just really excited that he's taken up the offer because I
didn't think he was going to do it because he's got a life," he
said. "He doesn't need this.
[to top of second column]
"For me, clearly it's very exciting to have him as part of
the team. I'm looking forward to every week I'll spend with him
on the tour this year."
Four times the champion in Melbourne, Federer is seeded to face
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the fourth round, with Andy Murray and
Nadal potentially between him and another final.
So long the favorite for every tournament, Federer is beginning
to get used to being in the shadows of Nadal and Djokovic, who
won three of the four grand slams in 2013.
"I think it's normal that they are considered the one and two
favorites for the tournament," he said. "(But) of course, we do
believe we can knock them off.
"At the end of the day it all comes down to how well I play, to
see how big my chances are to go really far and win the
"But I'm very focused right now on getting through the first
week and making sure I get things underway nicely."
Federer plays James Duckworth of Australia in round one.
(Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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Ageism in the Workplace
Patricia Brownell
Older workers make important contributions to the workplace, its productivity, and its culture. Work remains important for older adults for financial security, to give meaning to later life, to maintain social networks, and to promote lifelong learning. However, ageist beliefs about the capacity of older adults to remain productive and contributing workers in the workforce can create barriers for older workers. Understanding how older workers experience ageist behavior in the workplace can help employers, policy makers, and social workers learn more about how to address this social problem. Organizations can become more age friendly through enabling workplace programs, supportive management, and proactive human resource managers. Social workers serving older adults in employee assistance programs and in private practice can help them to challenge ageism in the workplace. Finally, legislation such as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act protects the rights of older workers; however, more legislation is needed to address bullying and harassment of older adults in the workplace.
Ageism and Retirement
Lynn McDonald
Retirement is a modest social institution that appeared in most industrialized nations near the start of the 20th century. The aim of retirement was to solve the societal dilemma of an increasingly aged labor force by moving older workers systematically out of their jobs so as to not cause them financial harm (Atchley, 1980, p. 264). Although retirement has been considered benign since its inception, the history of retirement indicates that it is one of the main progenitors of ageism in society today (Atchley, 1982, 1993; Haber & Gratton, 1994; McDonald, 2013; Walker, 1990). Retirement and its accompanying stereotypes have been used as a tool for the management of the size and composition of the labor force contingent on the dictums of current markets in any given historical era. Ever-changing ideologies about older adults that extend from negative to positive ageism have been utilized by business, government, the public, and the media to support whatever justification is required in a particular era, with little thought to the harm perpetrated on older adults. Unfortunately, society has subscribed to these justifications en masse, including older adults themselves. In this article the ageism embedded in retirement is examined to make what is implicit explicit to social work practitioners and policymakers in the field of aging.
American Social Security System
Eric R. Kingson, Dana Bell, and Sarah Shive
This entry examines why our nation's Social Security system was built, what it does, and what must be done to maintain and improve this foundational system for current and future generations. After a discussion of the social insurance approach to economic security and its underlying principles and values, the evolution of America's Social Security system is reviewed—beginning with the enactment of the Social Security Act of 1935, through its incremental development, to the changed politics of Social Security since the mid-1990s. Next, program benefits and financing are described and contemporary challenges and related policy options are identified, in terms of both the program's projected shortfall and the public's need for expanded retirement, disability, and survivorship protections. The entry concludes by noting that social workers have an important role to play in shaping Social Security's future.


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JOM School Supply Distribution
Federal Programs
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
JOM Eligibility Requirements:
To be eligible for JOM services, a student must be an ENROLLED member of a Federally Recognized Indian Tribe or at least 1/4 or more degree of Indian blood.
Proof of student's tribal enrollment must be provided.
For more information contact:
Pam Fodder, Lawton Public School Indian Education Coordinator
580-215-0255, ext. 2310 or email@example.com


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mdangelo necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 23 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Become That Guy, LLC
Description/ Background: This contest is intended to establish a new logo for Become That Guy, LLC. The companies mission statement and some info on their audience appears below. Companies website is http://www.becomethatguy.com, their current logo is http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs216…2918_n.jpg
Design Wise we are giving a lot of latitude, so our constant feedback will be given along the way. However we want something extremely professional, crisp, and current. Any questions as things kick off are to be made through this site and responses will be made on an as soon as possible basis. Logo will be used on all material online and print, business cards, website, marketing material, and legal paperwork.
BTG's Mission Statement:
Become that guy: become the kind of guy that's irresistibly attractive to women.
At Become that Guy: we teach you the skills, beliefs, attitudes and
behaviors necessary to become the kind of guy that naturally attracts
women. When you become that guy, you don't need to do anything fake
or weird, but instead can authentically be yourself knowing that
you've become the kind of guy who's naturally attractive to women.
Who is BTG's market?
My market is single professional men between about 21 and 40 that want
more choice in their dating life. Some are already doing at least ok,
and may be doing pretty well in their professional life and personal
life but still want more. Others are very nervous talking to
strangers. Many of them work in technical and highly analytical
professions and are somewhat awkward to very awkward socially, do not
consider themselves naturals with people and lack confidence in that
area. Other problems include low self-esteem, a lack of understanding
of women in terms of relationships and sexuality, trying to be too
nice because they are too approval seeking of other people, and lack
their own internal validation.
What messages resonate with BTG's market?
That others have gone from where they were at or worse and faced
similar problems but are now doing great. They want to know that you
have a plan, step by step where you have figured out exactly what to
do. Knowing what to do alleviates anxiety and ensures a higher
probability of success for people used to wanting things to be perfect
before plunging ahead.
Copyright and Requirements: Full copyright and ownership is transferred to Underdog Software, LLC upon payment for direct transfer to my business partner on this project. Don't use copyrighted material in your design. Design format is to be delivered in a non-flattened Illustrator or Photoshop format (.tiff, .ai…- vector graphics are a requirement).
This really is your opportunity to be creative. We are very confident in your ability to conceptualize some great logos. From my experiences in the past- I see great things.
Thanks for your time, consideration, and more importantly your talent.
- Michael
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the Scotch Cemetery, Manilla, Brock Township, Durham (formerly Ontario) County
Hubs took several photos of tombstones which I've made into a video and uploaded on Olive Tree Genealogy YouTube Channel. It is only a partial viewing of the cemetery as there are many more gravestones in it.
I hope you enjoy your Cemetery Walk


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Code.org's Hour of Code initiative, which kicks off this week, has received endorsements from no less than President Obama, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft. Hour of Code seeks to motivate students at 33,000 schools to give programming a try by using tutorials on the site or by attending sessions at locations like Apple or Microsoft retail stores.
Hour of Code is part of Computer Science Education Week (CSEW), which started in 2009 and begins this Monday. The hour of coding isn't meant to be at any particular time; it's simply a block of time for encouraging children to engage with programming at some point during the week.
The new nonprofit Code.org took up the cause of CSEW this year, getting the cooperation of corporate partners including Yahoo, Google, MSN, and Disney, which will all promote Hour of Code on their home pages, per AllThingsD. Code.org claims that five million students have committed to participate globally, and it provides a guide for teachers to lead an hour of coding in their classrooms.
To celebrate the week, Apple is hosting a free workshop at its retail stores December 11, and Microsoft's retail stores will hold similar workshops throughout the week.


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This Week at 148Apps - January 9-13
This week at 148Apps, we took your New Year's resolutions seriously and started our "Health and Fitness" month. Editor Rob LeFebvre writes, "We've already taken a look at some apps that help us all acheive our goals, and we plan to continue that trend for the entire month, with personal stories from our crack writing team, continued reviews, and focused features like our Favorite Four."
See our first group of Health & Fitness reviews at 148Apps.
All-in Pedometer
Our apps-for-kids site, GiggleApps, offered a review of Odd Spotting. Reviewer Amy Solomon says, "Odd Spotting, developed by Micromicon Media Limit, is an "odd one out" game with 144 levels, the goal of each being to spot the object that is different from all the others in the group. As I began to explore how Odd Spotting works, I couldn't help but to remember the lyrics from a classic Sesame Street song, "One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong."
Learn more and read the full review on GiggleApps.
Odd Spotting
Finally, on 148Apps.biz, writer Jeff Hughes commented on Apple's recent (and quiet) changes to app categorization on the App Store, saying "Just like Google, when iTunes makes the slightest change to their App Store search algorithm, it has an impact on how many people see your app. The recent changes to the category ordering have also impacted sales for many app vendors for better or worse. Some developers have been helped because their app is now in a category that is displayed higher on the mobile screen...Other developers may be adversely impacted due to the decrease in exposure for their app because their category now appears further down the list."
And that, my friends, completes our rundown of happenings across the 148Apps network for the week of January 9-13. Keep track of all the latest news, reviews and contests by following us on Twitter or Liking us on Facebook. See you in a week!


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Cismont ceremony: Bless the beasts and the hunters
On November 28, an atypical religious service will take place at Grace Episcopal Church near Keswick. For over 70 years, the dozens of hounds belonging to the Keswick Hunt Club have received a special Thanksgiving treat.
With its hymns, gospel readings, and recitation of the Lord's Prayer, the Blessing of the Hounds has all the trappings of a regular Episcopal Sunday service– until the part where the hounds (and riders, horses, and foxes) receive the rector's blessing.
In 1929, master of Foxhounds John Stewart and the Rev. Frank Robinson started the tradition at the antebellum stone church in Cismont, basing their ceremony on the ancient Feast of St. Hubert, patron saint of hunters. An 8th century Frenchman, St. Hubert converted to Christianity after he saw a glowing crucifix between the antlers of a stag he was pursuing.
While other hunts across the country perform variations on the Blessing of the Hounds, Keswick Hunt's is generally accepted as the earliest on record, according to Barclay Rives, author of The 100 Year History of the Keswick Hunt Club.
The Blessing of the Hounds is also a fundraiser– fox hunters in scarlet coats take up the offering in their velvet hunt caps. In past years, the SPCA and Habitat for Humanity have been the chosen recipients of the collection.
Once the hounds have been blessed and the caps have been passed, the fox hunters head out for a day of sport.


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In 1989, marking the start of the blue-clad ninja's two-and-a-half decade career, the first Strider game was released in arcades throughout Japan and North America. From then on, it was a road filled with cameos, curious localization decisions, and slashed-up baddies.
To celebrate the upcoming reboot of the platformer series, Capcom lovingly crafted a short five-minute video, in which we get to see Strider (both the series and the character) gradually evolve into its modern version. It's a great watch if you're a fan, and also if you're new to this whole Strider thing and want to know what all the fuss is about. Take a look:
Strider: A Capcom Retrospective [CapcomUnityVideos@YouTube]
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Sunday Sketches and Photographers
|Asian style brush Painting
Today is a special Sunday as we are 'post sharing' with Nancy's Sunday Best Photo Challenge. Link up with us below at end of post. Try to visit as many blogs as you can and join their sites if you don't already follow them. We are trying to help bloggers get more followers and commenters. Thanks so much.
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The World Cup may be two years away, but soccer fans can get an early start when the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and RoboCup Federation host Nanogram 2009 international nanosoccer contest next summer.
Nanosoccer -- a competition where computer-driven "nanobots" the size of dust mites challenge one another on fields no bigger than a grain of rice -- will be part of the RoboCup games in Graz, Austria, from June 29-July 5, 2009. NIST is accepting applications for organizations wishing to field robots in the events.
Viewed under a microscope, the soccer nanobots are operated by remote control and move in response to changing magnetic fields or electrical signals transmitted across the microchip arena. "Nanoscale" refers to their mass. The bots are a few tens of micrometers to a few hundred micrometers long, but their masses range from only a few nanograms to a few hundred nanograms. They are manufactured from materials such as aluminum, nickel, gold, silicon, and chromium.
Rules for the competition are now available. Teams wishing to compete in Austria must submit their application materials by December 31, 2008.


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From bell bottoms to suits—
and "The Division Bell."
From flowers and IED's,
to rage (within) the machine.
"Welcome to the Machine."
From peace and love—
to "all you masters of war."
From altered states—
to "I Want a New Drug."
From "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"
(in a Garden of Eden?)—
to "in the white room with black curtains…"
all "gold pavements."
"What's the buzz? Tell me what's a-happening…
Why are you obsessed with fighting
times and fates you can't defy?"
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Cities in the Sky: Science Fiction's Forgotten Visionaries: Who were the first people to come up with the idea of aliens, cryogenics, space travel, weather control, and evil robots? The answers may surprise you. The filmmakers behind Cities in the Sky are planning to highlight the men and women whose contributions to science fiction have been largely forgotten, and uncover the origins of ideas we take for granted today. For a $25 pledge, you'll receive a digital download of the film as well as exclusive production updates.
H. P. Lovecraft's DAGON - an animated adaptation: There is no shortage of live-action adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft's stories, but animation has certain powers inaccessible to live-action film. Director Alastair McColl and editor Simon Modery are seeking to harness the full power of hand-drawn animation to "see the unseeable" and capture the atmospheric horror of Lovecraft's "Dagon." For a £10 pledge, you'll receive a digital download of the film and the promise that you'll be eaten eleventh to last. For a £14 pledge, you'll receive the film, plus high resolution images of its nightmarish concept art. Oh, and you'll be eaten tenth to last.
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Thanks to all who came out to our Rock Your Body Dance Party at Webster Hall on Saturday night. We sure had the right venue and the right people -- the perfect recipe for a great celebration. The night was a benefit for FUV, and we never had so much fun raising funds. Don't miss the next one! Keep an ear open for our next party date.
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Book Public Debt: The Brazilian Experience
The Brazilian National Treasury, in partnership with the World Bank Group, launched on August 17th, 2010, the book: "Public Debt: The Brazilian Experience". The book provides a comprehensive coverage of the Brazilian public debt management experience, in a single document, that involves since Brazilian debt earliest registers until the management of the public debt nowadays.
The publication may be of special interest to academics, investors, financial analysts, credit-rating agencies, and journalists. It was written by professionals with the first-hand experience on debt management, mainly National Treasury staff, and authors from the World Bank, other Brazilian Federal government institutions and the academy.
It is important to hail the book's value for Brazilian society, due to the intention of demystifying the topic, increase transparency and by the fact that the subject has been dealt with strict parameters and technical criteria. At the same time, it highlights an important step reached by the Ministry of Finance, and more specifically, by the National Treasury, considering the institutional framework remodeled focused on the best international practices. The book also points toward forthcoming challenges, including those related to the consolidation of a few institutional steps, the development of the secondary market and the increase and diversification of the investors' base. These challenges, when overcome, will ensure the path of continued improvement of debt management paving the way to further reductions in the cost and risk of the public debt, and contributing to the sustainable growth of the Brazilian economy.
Finally, the National Treasury hopes the lessons learned and described in this book will help to guide other countries in the attempt to build solid practices on public debt management and the development of a securities market, generating positive externalities for far beyond the Brazilian society.
The section below contains the book for download either by chapter or in its full version. The full version is available in pdf, epub and mobi formats. Currently, the epub format is the standard applied in the industry of ebooks and can be used in many e-readers, tablets and smartphones that have support for reading ebooks, while mobi format can be used in Amazon Kindle e-readers.
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Chapter 1 - Origin and history of Brazil's public debt up to 1963
Chapter 2 - History of public debt in Brazil: from 1964 to the present
Chapter 3 - Public Debt sustainability
Chapter 4 - Public Debt concepts and statistics
• Part 2 – BRAZILIAN PUBLIC DEBT MANAGEMENT
Chapter 1 - Institutional structure and recent developments in Federal Public Debt management
Chapter 2 - Strategic planning of the Federal Public Debt
Chapter 3 - The Federal Public Debt risk management
Chapter 4 - The Federal Public Debt budget
Chapter 5 - Regulatory frameworks and government auditing of public debt
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Chapter 1 - Recent evolution of the Federal Public Debt market
Chapter 2 - Pricing federal public securities
Chapter 3 - Organization of Brazil's financial market
Chapter 4 - Primary market of the Federal Public Debt
Chapter 5 - The investor base of the Federal Public Debt in Brazil
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.99 no.11 Cape Town nov. 2009
Plummeting corneal donations at the Gauteng cornea and eye bank
Aubrey Mokokomadi MakgotloeI; Trevor Robin CarmichaelII
IMB BCh, FCOphth (SA). Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
IIMB BCh, FCOphth (SA), PhD (Med), MSc (Med). Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
To the Editor: Corneal opacification (e.g. scarring) or ectasia (e.g. keratoconus) are the most common indications for corneal transplantation, and patients wait longer than a year for routine transplantation in the Johannesburg public sector hospitals. The situation is similar in the rest of South Africa.1 For those with financial resources, imported American corneas are available at US$2 000 each.
The records of the Gauteng Cornea and Eye Bank (GCEB) over the 11-year period 1998 - 2008 showed that 1 516 individuals donated corneal tissue, with an average of 138 donors per year. The number of donations per month was fairly stable until 2005, but after that dropped off dramatically (Fig. 1). White donors were in an overwhelming majority (96.8%, 1 467 donors), followed by blacks (1.6%, 25 donors), Asians (1.2%, 18 donors) and people of mixed race (0.4%, 6 donors). Most referrals for donation came from mortuaries (786, 51.8%), followed by private hospitals (530, 35.0%), while public sector hospitals accounted for only 10.0% (151) of all the referrals.
Of the 3 032 corneas donated, 2 642 (87.1%) were suitable for use in recipients. Of the 390 corneas discarded, 36% were damaged, 32% were positive for HIV (or inconclusive) and 8% were positive for hepatitis. The corneas were mostly used for private patients (91.5%, 2 417), only 225 (8.5%) being used for patients in the public sector.
It seems that public sector needs are being neglected and that the white ethnic group provides almost all donations of corneal tissue. It is not known, however, whether the process of corneal harvesting favours certain ethnic groups over others or whether there are reasons such as religious beliefs why some groups donate less. Easier payment might favour the dispersion of available corneas to private practitioners rather than the slower paying public sector.
The decline in corneal donations followed a change in procedures at mortuaries. In April 2006 government legislation shifted the forensic mortuaries from the South African Police Service to the Department of Health. There had been an informal agreement between mortuaries in Johannesburg and the GCEB that kept cases referred to the eye bank at reasonable levels. Various improvements were made in forensic procedures during 2006, for good reasons, but an unfortunate side-effect has been the decline in donations.
Some private hospitals, specifically the Netcare group of hospitals, have made it mandatory for their staff to refer potential donors to transplant co-ordinators with sufficient time to successfully retrieve tissue. Public hospitals generally have no such policy and therefore do not supply their own needs.
The demand for corneal tissue will probably never be met if the majority race group in South Africa does not participate sufficiently in the donation process. This highlights the importance of intensifying procurement programmes in traditionally black communities.
1. Meyer D. The new challenge of corneal transplantation in South Africa (Editorial). S Afr Med J 2007; 97: 512. [ Links ]
Accepted 9 August 2009.
Corresponding author: T R Carmichael (firstname.lastname@example.com)


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The Government of Barbados and the Government of the Republic of Kosovo on, Friday, March 9th, 2018, have signed a Joint Communiqué establishing diplomatic relations between their two countries.
The Chargé d'Affaires, Permanent Mission of Barbados to the United Nations, Ms. Juliette Babb-Riley and the Consul General of the Republic of Kosovo in New York, H.E. Mrs. Teuta Sahatqija, signed the Joint Communiqué on behalf of their respective governments.
The Governments of Barbados and the Republic of Kosovo reaffirmed their commitment to the principles of International Law, including mutual respect for national sovereignty, territorial integrity and non-interference in the internal affairs of another state. The two Governments have agreed to promote the ties of friendship and widen cooperation between the two countries.


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Cruz drills two homers, but bullpen falters vs. Reds
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Luis Cruz, the Dodgers' likely replacement for the injured Hanley Ramirez at shortstop, slugged a pair of home runs off Mike Leake and drove in four, but it wasn't enough as the Reds scored three runs in the ninth to win on Friday, 6-5.
Cruz played this game at third base, with Dee Gordon starting at short. They are the two shortstop candidates manager Don Mattingly has mentioned for the two months Ramirez will miss after tearing a right thumb ligament in the World Baseball Classic.
Cruz's home runs were in support of Clayton Kershaw, who allowed three runs (two earned) in six innings. Kershaw hit the first batter he faced and walked the next, leading to a two-run first inning for Cincinnati on RBI singles by Ryan Ludwick and Todd Frazier.
Leake, named the Reds' fifth starter earlier in the day, went five innings. He was relieved by closer Aroldis Chapman, who pitched a scoreless inning.
In the top of the ninth, the Reds were able to get the best of reliever Josh Wall, who was charged with three earned runs in just 1/3 of an inning. Jack Hannahan tied the game on a one-out, two-run single. Xavier Paul gave the Reds the lead with a sacrifice fly to score Emmanuel Burriss.
Dodgers Cuban sensation Yasiel Puig electrified the crowd in the fourth inning with a double and advanced to third on a fielding error by Ludwick.
But Puig had to leave the game in the top of the fifth inning when he tried to make a diving catch of a wind-blown fly by Brandon Phillips and had the wind knocked out of him when he landed hard on the ground. He said he was uninjured and expects to play Saturday night.
Up next: Carl Crawford's recovery from Tommy John surgery takes a big step as he is expected to make his defensive debut for the Dodgers Saturday night. Hyun-Jin Ryu continues his bid for a spot in the starting rotation when he takes the ball against the White Sox and Jake Peavy in a 7:05 p.m. PT game at Camelback Ranch. In a Minor League day game, Chad Billingsley will make his first start since suffering a bruised right index finger bunting in batting practice. Billingsley will not throw curveballs.


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