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Move over Gorilla Glass, your polar opposite has come to town. Meet Willow Glass.
While on one hand, Corning is currently on Gorilla Glass 3, engineered for it's incredible strength and protection, someone at Corning had a stroke of pure genius, and went the other way, a product extremely thin, light, and flexible, to compete against plastics manufacturers. Thus, Willow Glass was born.
Measuring in at just 0.1 millimeter thick, Corning Willow Glass will be manufactured in spools. ( Video here ) Willow Glass can be used as an interior display base substrate, or an exterior protective shell.
What does this mean for you? Devices of all types no longer have to be the usual square or rectangular slab. Curved, flexible displays from mobile handheld devices up to televisions and circular displays are possible.
Literally, the flexibility of Willow Glass will open up a new realm of possibilities for consumer electronics designers to use it and discover new form factors. There are more than 150,000 mobile devices damaged everyday in the United States ~ that's 6,250 mishandled units per hour ~ ending up with shattered screens. The research that Corning is literally pouring into developing innovations like Willow Glass will change the future. See more video showing the future here.
You can expect to see the first consumer devices featuring Willow Glass entering the market place in 2014.
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MONROVIA, Liberia – Liberian police say that at least three bodies have been retrieved and more than 10 people are feared trapped under the rubble of a building that was gutted by fire and came down in the Waterside commercial district of Monrovia.
Police Senior Inspector Gregory Coleman told the Associated Press "half of the building collapsed" over people who were helping to put out the fire, which started Wednesday night.
The United Nations radio station, UNMIL Radio, confirmed two of the dead were from the Liberia Fire Service.
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The reason I make so many cookies is the instant gratification factor. Rugelach contains no part of instant!
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I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned this in public; but I'm writing a screen play about my regiment at Waterloo.
I certainly discussed it with Shona who helped me enormously with an important question; but I think that was done via a PM.
My question is about Pipers at Waterloo.
FYI… Left Flank (the Light Company) 2nd Battalion The Scots Guards. (3rd Regiment of Foot Guards) was on Wellington's right flank.
http://www.napoleonicwarsforum.com/view ... =43&t=3532
Anyway, my Regiment, the Coldstream Guards plus the Germans held the Hougoumont farm while the Grenadier Guards and Germans protected the outside.
There were Pipers at Waterloo as can be seen in the feature film The Battle of Waterloo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0SNmoj ... dUffQ92iTE )
…, seen playing at the Duchess of Richmond's Ball on the 16th of June, 1815. (two days before the battle) The film was principally Russian and filmed outside Rome…, and the band was the Pipes and Drums of the Gordon Highlanders.
My problem is the following:
Despite being a maniac for precision, I am allowed the occasional whim of inventiveness. Otherwise, the film would be too monotonous.
As such and despite RHQ Archives being unable to help, I want a Clan Piper in the farm with one of the Officers.
Lol…, unfortunately, there's nothing to be found.
At the time, many officers took their Clan Piper with them and they acted as batmen, servants and pipers.
At Hougoumont, we have the Scots Guards being about 75% Scottish (like today) and the Coldstreamers, (as the name indicates) also had many Scotsmen in their ranks. In particular, the Commanding Officer at Hougoumont was the Coldstreamer Lt. Col. James Macdonnell. (spelling variations)
In the meantime, I want a piper !
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Well, the first of four fiscal shoes has dropped in Atlantic Canada. Let's hope it's not an example of what's to come.
Tuesday, New Brunswick's provincial government brought down its 11th consecutive deficit budget, a financial plan that will see the province spend $189 million more than it takes in, and will bring its net debt to $14.4 billion by the end of March 2019.
"There is an old adage that says you have to spend money to make money," New Brunswick Finance Minister Cathy Rogers was quoted as saying to The Canadian Press.
Forgive me: I can see the spending part. I don't see the province actually making money as a result.
I actually see it having more money flee the province in the form of interest payments that never, ever return, and will add to the hardship of future New Brunswickers.
Looking across the Atlantic provinces, the debt picture is a frightening one. All four of the provincial governments like to talk about their debt numbers in terms of net debt — roughly speaking, that's their total public sector debt, minus what the financial value of any assets that might be considered sellable.
It might be an accurate representation of financial position — usually, though, taxpayers are paying interest on the significantly-larger public sector debt, the actual amount of money that the four governments have as outstanding debt.
But even using net debt, the numbers for the region are staggering: we owe somewhere well north of $45 billion, with a combined population of roughly 2.4 million people. So, even using net debt numbers, something like $19,000 per person. (That's for every single man, woman and child.)
Looking across the Atlantic provinces, the debt picture is a frightening one.
What it means is that none of us can really afford to have any other Atlantic province follow New Brunswick's lead.
Because the region's finance ministers sometimes seem to have a tenuous grasp of the implications.
Newfoundland and Labrador Finance Minister Tom Osborne actually recently argued his province was doing better because things aren't going bad as quickly as they were: "When we formed government the projected borrowing was $4.38 million per day just to cover the deficit. We've gotten that down. We're down now to less than $2 million a day," he told the CBC.
Or, if he was fire chief, congratulating firefighters because only the top floor of the building was still burning. (Osborne followed that up with a considerably less terrifying, "It's still not sustainable. The province cannot afford to borrow $2 million a day just to cover the deficit.")
Right now, all four provincial governments are benefiting from the fact that interest rates have remained at historical lows. That's left more money in the kitty for general spending, with new borrowing costing governments less. To be blunt, as long-term, higher-interest debt rolled over into lower interest placements, Atlantic governments looked more fiscally responsible than they actually were. That pendulum is now swinging the other way – slowly.
Provincial debt is generally tied up in a series of debt placements where interest rates are locked in for years, so interest rate changes take a while to move to the bottom line
But think about this: in the last year, the Bank of Canada has moved interest rates up by 0.75 per cent. A lot has been made about the impact on home sales and affordability of refinancing, but stop and think what it means for the four Atlantic provinces: a single-year increase of $339 million in debt payments. And that would be additional money that would have to be found every following year.
Saying "we're not digging the hole as fast" is nothing like trying to actually fill the hole in. Neither is an 11th year of spending more to make … well, certainly not to make money.
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Lenovo is running powerful big data analytics software from SAS, the global leader in analytics (per IDC and Forrester), on the public cloud infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS). The computer manufacturer is combining insights from its own data with unstructured data, such as social media, product reviews, customer forums, call center logs and online chat sessions.
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Everyone knows the best way to kill vampires is with a wooden stake through the heart. It appears from these pictures someone in Russia decided for some reason this station wagon should meet a similar fate
Whether this car was displaying undead tendencies or merely happened to be parked next to the wrong construction site (we like the first explanation better) we are pretty amazed this board actually managed to successfully puncture the car's roof.
According to EnglishRussia this car was spotted in the Russian city of Kazan. Depending on which explanation you believe, we'd encourage the citizens of this city to beware of undead station wagons or extremely careless construction workers.


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In the research published Wednesday, doctors at the University of Pennsylvania say the treatment made the most common type of leukemia completely disappear in two of the patients and reduced it by 70 percent in the third. In each of the patients as much as five pounds of cancerous tissue completely melted away in a few weeks, and a year later it is still gone.
The results of the preliminary test "exceeded our wildest expectations," says immunologist Dr. Carl June a member of the Abramson Cancer Center's research team.
Dr. Edgar Engleman, a cancer immunologist at Stanford University School of Medicine who was not involved in the research calls the results "remarkable ... great stuff."
The Penn scientists targeted chroniclymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most common type of the blood disease. It strikes some 15,000 people in the United States, mostly adults, and kills 4,300 every year. Chemotherapy and radiation can hold this form of leukemia at bay for years, but until now the only cure has been a bone marrow transplant. A bone marrow transplant requires a suitable match, works only about half the time, and often brings on severe, life-threatening side effects such as pain and infection.
In the Penn experiment, the researchers removed certain types of white blood cells that the body uses to fight disease from the patients. Using a modified, harmless version of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, they inserted a series of genes into the white blood cells. These were designed to make to cells target and kill the cancer cells. After growing a large batch of the genetically engineered white blood cells, the doctors injected them back into the patients.
In similar past experimental treatments for several types of cancer the re-injected white cells killed a few cancer cells and then died out. But the Penn researchers inserted a gene that made the white blood cells multiply by a thousand fold inside the body. The result, as researcher June put it, is that the white blood cells became "serial killers" relentlessly tracking down and killing the cancer cells in the blood, bone marrow and lymph tissue.
As the white cells killed the cancer cells, the patients experienced the fevers and aches and pains that one would expect when the body is fighting off an infection, but beyond that the side effects have been minimal.
Doctors had told Bill Ludwig, one of the research volunteers, that he would die from his leukemia within weeks. Then he got the experimental treatment a year ago.
With tears welling up, he told NBC, "I'm more closer to the people I love and I appreciate them more... I'm getting emotional... the grass is greener and flowers smell wonderful."
The other two patients have chosen to remain anonymous but one who happens to be a scientist himself wrote, "I am still trying to grasp the enormity of what I am a part of -- and of what the results will mean to countless others with CLL or other forms of cancer. When I was a young scientist, like many I'm sure, I dreamed that I might make a discovery that would make a difference to mankind – I never imagined I would be part of the experiment."
So why has this remarkable treatment been tried so far on only three patients?
Both the National Cancer Institute and several pharmaceutical companies declined to pay for the research. Neither applicants nor funders discuss the reasons an application is turned down. But good guesses are the general shortage of funds and the concept tried in this experiment was too novel and, thus, too risky for consideration.
The researchers did manage to get a grant from the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, a charity founded by Barbara and Edward Netter after their daughter-in-law died of cancer. The money was enough to finance the trials on the first three patients.
With results for the three patients published Wednesday simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine, money for further studies -- not just in this one type of leukemia, but in other cancers -- will likely pour in from both the government and drug companies.
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It is important to emphasize that there still have been only three patients. Over the past century, many attempts to harness the body's immune system to fight cancer have shown initial success and subsequent failure. So much research remains to be done to prove just how good this treatment is. But it should begin soon, with great vigor.
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The anti-tax crowd in California always defends its absolute opposition to tax increases as a defense of business.
But taxation is more complicated than that. Some taxes benefit businesses, and sometimes raising them is good for business.
An example is California's new 1% tax on lumber sales. This tax, which passed in August and was signed into law Sept. 11, was sought by the timber industry.
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Why? Because California's timber industry had been at a competitive disadvantage.
Regulation of the industry had been funded by fees paid by California firms -- and not by out of state competitors.
A broad tax on timber sales levels the playing field -- and reduces costs by switching funding of regulation from those fees to taxes.
(It also didn't hurt that the bill included provisions limiting how much prosecutors and agencies can recover from the industry when wildfires are caused by the industry's practices).
So who opposed it?
The federal government didn't like the not being able to recover more in the event of industry-related wildfires.
But in addition to that, many Republicans in the legislature opposed it because they didn't want to vote for a tax. Any tax.
Even one supported by industry. One specific objection was that out of state companies with economic impact in California would be hurt.
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Choreography by: Peter Martins
Music by: Michael Torke
Set to a score by Michael Torke, Martins' contortionistic choreography employs off-balance shifts of weight and languorous movements to create a coolly sensuous pas de deux.
The central movement from Peter Martins' Ecstatic Orange, Purple is pas de deux that was added to Ecstatic Orange six months after the ballet premiered. The music for Purple was commissioned by New York City Ballet from the acclaimed American composer Michael Torke, who also composed the other two movements of the work – "Verdant Music" (for the "Green" section of the ballet), and "Ecstatic Orange", the finale of the complete ballet.


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Gotee Records Now Fully Independent Company
Gotee Records, known for their boutique approach to finding and nurturing musical talent, is now a fully independent company after purchasing the minority stake back from EMI Christian Music Group.
Begun in 1994, Gotee Records is positioned to re-focus on artist development, while also becoming a hybrid publishing company via EMack Music.
"Gotee Records and Emack Music are moving forward in a proactive and strategic fashion, and we plan to re-calibrate ourselves for the new consumer we're now encountering in this business," says co-founder and label President Joey Elwood, "Our next phase will obviously be heavily weighted on the digital market and how to engage that consumer."
Label co-founder and CEO Toby McKeehan, a hugely successful artist in his own right (dcTalk, TobyMac) adds, "Gotee was born of an artist heart, so we will continue to be an entity focused on arts and artists. Since our beginning with acts like Out of Eden, GRITS, Jennifer Knapp, SonicFlood; into the years of Relient K, Ayiesha Woods, and Family Force 5, we feel confident in our ability to bring relevant and moving art to the people. EMI CMG played a very strategic role in our company's history and they will always be part of our roots as we move forward."
TobyMac and dcTalk will remain on EMI CMG's Forefront roster as recording artists and EMI CMG Publishing will continue to administer their publishing catalogs. In addition, the two Relient K albums released on Gotee/Capitol Records, "MMHMM" and "Five Score and Seven Years Ago," will remain as part of EMI's catalog.
One key element of this transition is a shift from configuration-based contracts to content-based contracts. The talent signed to the label will be constantly creating and releasing music, and in return the marketing will be ongoing.
The family-oriented label has reached more than 70 million dollars in gross sales, selling nearly 8 million albums to date. Gotee Records has also racked up five albums as certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), as well as garnering four GRAMMY nods, 12 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards and over 60 Dove Award nominations.
Moving forward in 2008 fans can anticipate new music from GRAMMY-nominated songstress Sarah Kelly (4/1), debut act Stephanie Smith, digital campaigns for rapper-extraordinaire John Reuben and House of Heroes (spring/summer), and music from both breakout artist Ayiesha Woods (July) and Family Force 5 (August).
Gotee Records touts one of the most diverse artist rosters in the Christian music industry today. Launched in 1994 with their first signing, the sister-trio Out of Eden, Gotee is now home to Family Force 5, John Reuben, Sarah Kelly, Ayiesha Woods, Stephanie Smith, B-Reith, and Relient K.


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Launching a new Christmas myth is always a dicey proposition, as there a number of notes you simply have to hit, while at the same time trying make your film feel fresh and current. Few films have succeeded as brilliantly as "Elf" and "A Christmas Story," and though "Arthur Christmas" isn't quite in their class, it's still a very funny, sweet and entertaining addition to the genre.
For the last few years Santa's oldest son, Steve (Hugh Laurie), has been doing all the heavy lifting around the North Pole, updating the IT, building a massive ship with a starscape underside and so on… While dad (Jim Broadbent) serves as little more than a do-nothing figurehead.
For Steve, Christmas is a well-oiled machine honed to laser perfection to be executed with military precision. And watching his elves at work delivering presents is impressive—it's done with all the style, flair and expertise of a Bond film. Director Sara Smith, who co-wrote the film with Peter Baynahm, keeps the action fast and fun, and resists assaulting your senses with 3D flying objects.
Steve's little brother, Arthur (James McAvoy), however, still believes dearly in the magic (spelled out with a glittery magic marker) of the holiday. But he is a bumbling klutz who got banished to the Letters Department after a minor disaster in another posting left countless elves homeless.
But when it's learned that one little girl didn't get her new bicycle. Santa's too sleepy, and Steve dismisses it as a rounding error. Only Arthur feels compelled to do whatever it takes to make the last Christmas wish come true. And so with the help of the cantankerous Grandsanta (Bill Nighy, who fires off all the film's best lines), Arthur hops aboard an old-fashioned wooden sled pulled by descendants of the eight original reindeer--powered by magic dust, of course.
It will forever remain unclear why it is that, regardless of genre, the odd duck who still believes in magic/love/whatever has to be awkward, clumsy and dim, but there it is. And it seems odd that Steve would have developed such a massive operation and not have some sort of contingency plan in place in the event of a missed package. But it's the holidays, let's not nitpick.
"Arthur Christmas" manages to walk the fine line between paying homage to the old ways, while recognizing the value of progress, and lovingly tweaks bean-counting bureaucrats in the process. And the laughs will play to all ages, without resorting to an exhausting barrage of pop culture winks—it's heartfelt without being sticky sweet.


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- Newly created Client Services Director role within an ambitious agency and home to a brilliant client base, many of which are national and global FMCG brands.
- A key hire, supporting the growth and development of the agency, working hand in hand with the Managing Director.
- Lead a small (and growing) client services team.
- £60k - £70k basic + bonus + long term prospects.
This is a brilliant opportunity for a Client Services Director to join an ambitious and progressive agency based in the heart of Bristol. Well established and already successful you'll be a visionary that can lead, support and enjoy supporting the business through their next phase of growth and beyond.
What you'll be doing
As Client Services Director you'll naturally take the lead with clients, a roster of big name FMCG brands to which the agency provide primarily digital expertise across social, content, media, sales promotion and campaign orientated projects, all of which are fuelled by meaningful insight. They bring digital expertise within the wider integrated brand picture; connecting customers with brands, engaging and building advocacy at every opportunity.
You'll lead a small client services team from the front, supporting, nurturing and continually developing their development to support the delivery of best in class and award winning digital client projects.
Working into and very closely with the MD you'll essentially be freeing him up to focus on business development and bringing even more clients into the business. You'll gain a deep understanding of the business plan and bring your own vision, in turn on boarding new clients into the agency and ensuring success and growth is achieved from the outset.
You'll see this as an opportunity to take an established agency and play a lead role in growing it out.
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- A proven background of supporting and developing an account management team
- A creatively minded, strategic thinking visionary who'd enjoy being part of a growing business and helping steer them through this exciting period of growth
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IT departments that approach analytics with the same tools and mindset as business intelligence projects often struggle to deliver business value.
Companies have spent billions on business intelligence (BI) software. In 2011 alone, worldwide revenue from sales of BI platforms, corporate performance management suites, and analytic application/performance management software reached $12.2 billion, according to Gartner Inc.¹
Now that more companies are pursuing analytics, many CIOs wonder whether their existing BI capabilities can be applied to these newer analytics initiatives, according to Richard Starnes, a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP's Information Management service line. "CIOs want to know if they should invest more in BI, or if they should blow up their BI infrastructures and start over," he says.
The answer, according to Starnes: Analytics requires different tools, techniques, and organizational structures than BI because it attempts to answer open-ended, forward-looking questions. Too often, Starnes sees floundering analytics initiatives that fail to provide meaningful insights because IT departments are applying traditional reporting tools and development methodologies that just aren't appropriate for analytics.
Here are some considerations for keeping your analytics efforts on track from the start:
Begin with business goals. Analytics initiatives are more likely to produce useful insights when companies begin with a specific business goal or use case such as, say, finding ways to reduce customer churn by predicting their likelihood of switching to a competitor. While traditional BI dashboards can show companies their churn rates, analytics can explain why customers are leaving and even where they're going, allowing companies to formulate more targeted retention strategies, according to Starnes.
Establish an analytics office. Because many analytics efforts begin in shadow IT functions, leading companies have begun creating analytics offices, staffed with data strategists and data scientists, to oversee disparate projects, according to Kanishk Priyadarshi, a manager with Deloitte Consulting LLP's Strategy & Operations service line. Companies typically design an analytics office to drive widespread use of analytics across the enterprise, standardize tools and platforms, and confirm data accuracy and consistency, he says. Priyadarshi adds that Amazon.com and President Obama's re-election campaign are examples of organizations that have reaped value from their analytics offices.
Don't hoard data. Priyadarshi says some companies make the mistake of trying to gather all imaginable data to feed an analytics project prior to its start. "Humans are natural hoarders," he says. "There's an insatiable and addictive need to hoard data, but it distracts them from answering the questions that truly matter."
One danger in hoarding data: By the time IT staff have gathered the data they think they'll need, they've run out of budget funding to do anything with it, Priyadarshi points out. A more effective approach, he adds, would be for data strategists to source data according to a specific data acquisition strategy.
Create a data playground for users. Starnes says traditional reporting tools aren't fully adequate for the world of analytics. They don't permit the open-ended data manipulation and discovery required to answer forward-looking questions. CIOs should consider seeking out flexible applications like Tableau, QlikView, or SAP HANA Studio to complement BI tools, according to Starnes. He notes that those and other applications built for analytics tend to be easier for business users to work with and allow them to determine cause and effect as well as examine relationships between data sets.
Embrace agile methodologies. Many IT organizations set up BI capabilities for business users following a traditional "waterfall" development approach, according to Starnes. They take users' requirements, and months later they return with a prototype.
Starnes and Priyadarshi say the waterfall method doesn't work for analytics. "Because the questions analytics attempts to answer are forward-looking, it's hard for data scientists to know exactly what data structures to build to answer those questions," says Starnes.
Moreover, business users tend to encounter difficulty defining their information needs, and the waterfall method relies on business users' ability to articulate what they want.
"Analytics projects require an agile and iterative design approach with business analysts working closely and collaboratively with end users," says Starnes. "They need to play with different data sets to zero in on requirements."
Avoid the trap of perfectionism. Closely linked to the waterfall method, the quest for the perfect data model or algorithm can doom analytics projects. Priyadarshi notes that many IT departments focus on building perfect systems, as opposed to rapidly iterating via agile development methodologies. But the quest for perfection, when applied to analytics, hampers data strategists' and data scientists' ability to realize when they've made a mistake.
"Analytics is about failing fast and smart so you can recalculate your models quickly," says Priyadarshi. "Developers usually have to run through several iterations of an algorithm before it's correct. You simply can't do that with the classic waterfall lifecycle. Your budget will run out before you deliver a prototype."
¹ "Market Snapshot: BI, Analytics and Performance Management Software, 2011," Gartner Inc., May 31, 2012


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This Week's Best Tweets: Willie Nelson, Jerrod Niemann + More Recognize 4/20
Today is considered a major holiday for some country music stars. Of course Willie Nelson is famously celebrating April 20 — a date which is an informal celebration of marijuana — but more than a few others at least recognized its existence. Find out who in this look at the week's best tweets from country music's biggest stars.
Also included are a few tweets about the passing of Dick Clark and the usual observations and sightings stars like Sunny Sweeney make as they tour the country. Joe Nichols celebrated a new arrival this week, while 'The Voice' star RaeLynn explains why she's not all that upset she was booted from the show. Begin reading by clicking the big orange button below.


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Men's tennis falls in NCAA First Round to fifth-seeded Buckeyes
COLUMBUS, Ohio. (May 12, 2012) – Facing a tough draw in the First Round of the 2012 NCAA Men's Tennis Tournament, ETSU fell to No. 5 seed Ohio State, 4-0, on Saturday at the Buckeyes' home Varsity Tennis Courts.
ETSU (14-9, 9-0 A-Sun) witnesses its season come to an end for a second-consecutive year in Columbus, Ohio. In last year's tournament, the Buccaneers fell to Notre Dame, 4-3. The Bucs also traveled to Columbus for the 2008 Tournament, where they defeated Notre Dame, 4-2, before falling to Ohio State in the Second Round, 4-0.
Ohio State (32-3, 11-0 Big Ten) moves on to Sunday for a meeting with Notre Dame. The Irish opened up the Columbus regional at 10 a.m. by defeating Vanderbilt, 4-3, to earn their advancement into the Second Round.
"We fought hard. We were outplayed in a couple positions, but certainly not overmatched," Director of ETSU Tennis Yaser Zaatini said. "I hope the returners learn from this and come back prepared for the challenges we'll face next year. I'm also very proud and thankful of our seniors."
The Buckeyes began the afternoon session by taking the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles matches to earn the first point.
The nationally ranked No. 32 pairing of Devin McCarthy and Ille Van Engelen gave Ohio State the advantage, taking down ETSU senior Jeremy Bonnevalle (Keerbergen, Belgium) and junior Juan Ramirez (Asuncion, Paraguay) 8-3 at No. 2. Peter Kobelt and Connor Smith clinched the point at No. 3, defeating A-Sun Championship MVP Jesus Bandres (Caracas, Venezuela) and freshman Rogerio Ribeiro (Sao Paulo, Brazil) 8-4.
The Bucs' top duo of seniors Sander Gille (Kuringen, Belgium) and Robin Akser (Ornskoldsvik, Sweden) had their match left unfinished against the nation's No. 1 ranked pair of Chase Buchanan and Blaz Rola. OSU was leading the set 6-4.
With the doubles point in hand, Ohio State carried its momentum into singles by winning the first set in all six matches.
Rola – the ITA's No. 9 ranked singles player – put the first point away by defeating Gille in straight sets 6-3, 6-2. Minutes later, No. 67 Kobelt put OSU up 3-0 in the match by defeating Ramirez 6-4, 6-2.
Bandres fought to take his second set against No. 10 Buchanan on court one by a score of 6-3, extending ETSU's postseason life. It was not enough though, as only a point away from advancing to the Second Round, No. 85 McCarthy ended Ribeiro's team-leading 12-match winning streak and sent the Buckeyes through 6-3, 6-3.
Bandres, Bonnevalle and Ordeig were forced to leave their matches unfinished at No. 1, 4 and 6, respectively. Bonnevalle led his second set against Van Engelen 5-4 after dropping the first 6-3, and Ordeig trailed Callahan 6-4, 4-1. Bandres had just entered his third set with Buchanan.
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Synopsis: This drama is a story about Kim Chun-chu, who led the planning and realization of the unification of three ancient kingdoms - Koguryo, Baekjae and Shilla - and achieved the restoration of Shilla Kingdom. He was the first Shilla king to become king from the "jingol" class at a time when only those from the "songgol (royal family)" class could be king. He was a master of diplomacy endowed with a brilliant diplomatic sense, a fact that was acknowledged by neighboring countries' leaders, such as Taejong of Dang Dynasty, Yeongesomun of Koguryo and Emperor Tenji of Japan. This drama depicts the turbulent success story of a man who was born a ruined royal offspring and was credited with realizing the first-ever united kingdom on the Korean peninsular, as well as the exemplary friendship between him and General Kim Yu-sin, his political rival as well as a lifelong friend. The Shilla people praised Kim Chun-chu as the king who saved the world. However, from the perspective of a nationalist view of history, he is being underestimated harshly. Danjae Shin Chae-ho criticized the unification of three kingdoms led by Shilla as "an event that killed brothers by inducing burglars from outside". Was Shilla's unification a negative event that attracted foreign power to the Korean peninsular and made the unification territorially incomplete? Is Kim Chun-chu a character who betrayed the national independence for the unification of Shilla?
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Q. Does it sometimes seem as if these two teams are incapable of playing a routine playoff game?
JOE TORRE: Well, all of those people who say you sit in that dugout and it's so calm, you didn't want to be there tonight. You know it was like it was too good to be true. It was 6-0 and then 8-0. Moose was pitching a gem. I mean he did pitch a gem. This ballclub is so capable of doing what they did tonight, and, you know, Bernie Williams gave us the breathing room in the bottom of the eighth. Again, each game is going to be an emotional roller coaster, there's no question.
Q. Your thoughts on Mariano Rivera and were you hoping that you didn't have to use him tonight?
JOE TORRE: Not necessarily. I didn't see him until I shook his hand at the end of the game. Mel had gone in the clubhouse and had talked to him, and he said, "I'm fine. I'm ready to go." Mel tells me that and then I feel pretty good. Certainly I didn't want to bring him in in the eighth inning, but we wind up having to do that. He's special, there's no question. You know, he had two days, he pitched Saturday, two innings. As far as not using him, if the situation presented itself, obviously we are going to do that.
Q. Just to follow-up on that, could you have expected this kind of performance from anybody else?
JOE TORRE: Well, again, I don't think I trust anybody more than I trust Mariano. When he tells you he's okay, he's okay. And sometimes in situations like this, everything he's been through and his wife, Clara has been through for the last few days, back in uniform and out there, maybe it's a chance for him to hide for an hour or so. But he's special, there's no question.
Q. Do you think the way the game ended, it might get a little lost, Mussina's performance, his perfect six and a third innings, struck out the top of the order looking?
JOE TORRE: He strikes out Johnny Damon three times, that's certainly not easy to do. But no, it's not going to get lost. Any time you record outs and get through innings against this ballclub, like he did tonight, I mean, that's -- to do something like this, he almost, you know, pitched a perfect game. He pitched a perfect game into the ninth inning a couple years ago in Boston, a 1-0 game. But any time you can take an inning off the line there, you know you're doing a heck of a job against this club because they are so -- you know, they can explode any time. They got right there, and as I say, Bernie got us back with a little bit more comfort.
Q. What did you see out of Schilling?
JOE TORRE: What I see? You know, we had good at-bats. He had his way with us last time he faced us up in Boston. I thought right from the first hitter, Jeter, he fell behind in the count and looked like he hit a pretty good pitch and hit it pretty good to right center. I just thought we prepared to go up against him. Knowing that you can't think in huge terms against him because you're not going to hit home runs and stuff. You're going to have to take what he gives you and I thought we had some real good at-bats. We made him work hard, I guess.
Q. Can you talk about Matsui again in a big situation?
JOE TORRE: Again, he has an idea when he goes up there. It's not always going to work but he's never in between and he's not afraid of the field. He gets a situation where, you know, there's men in scoring position and he has knowledge of the pitcher, he just has a feel on what pitch he wants to hit. As I say, there's some at-bats he really looks like he has no idea, because as I say, he goes up there with a plan, and sometimes the plan doesn't work, but it doesn't keep him from making that plan next time.
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Weather-wise, this has been a rather strange and memorable winter. A North American polar vortex and frigid Mars-like temperatures will do that. As this new NASA Earth Observatory map beautifully illustrates, it has been an anomalous winter, indeed.
The map above shows land surface temperature anomalies in North America for January 1 to 7, 2014. Data was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.
The map depicts temperatures for this period compared to the 2001–2010 average for the same week. Areas with warmer than average temperatures are shown in red, near-normal temperatures are white, and areas that were cooler than the base period are shown in blue.
A second map shows temperature anomalies in Europe during the same period (grey represents areas where clouds blocked the satellite from collecting usable data.):
During roughly this same period, Australia suffered an intense heatwave that brought record-breaking temperatures, while in South America, Argentinians faced a two-week heatwave that boosted temperatures more than 15°C (27°F) above average in some areas, causing widespread power and water shortages.
"It's tempting to link individual weather events like this to broader discussions of climate change, and there certainly are some interesting theories out there, but the science really isn't mature enough at this point to make any meaningful connections," said atmospheric scientist Paul Newman in an EO release. "One-off events like this are neither evidence for or against climate change."
For sure, the cold spell in the U.S. only represented about 2% of the Earth's total climate. But still — it's been a rather strange and severe winter (in the north) and summer (in the south).


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I am using Visual Studio 2008. I just wonder if there are any library function in Windows SDK or MFC, or from third-parties, that can convert a UTF-8 string into Windows Unicode string(used in CString object).
Can MultiByteToWideChar or ATL String conversion macro like A2W to the conversion?
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My Snapfish Photo Book is done and thanks to your ideas, I think I have come up with something that truly represents what I hoped to capture of 2011. One of my favorite features of Dine & Dish this past year and something that seemed to be the most well received by you all was my not so regular Happiness Reports. In each Happiness Report I would document small and big things that were making me happy at that time.
I read the book, The Happiness Project by Gretchin Rubin, this past year and it changed my life. It was a big factor in getting me through this year with a smile still on my face. Yes – we've had some pretty big bumps this past year, but I made it through and am still smiling. I owe a lot to the words placed within the pages of The Happiness Project. (Haven't read it yet? Do it. Now!)
It seemed only natural for me to make a photo book of things in 2011 that really made me happy. A visual reminder of happiness, every single time I look at it. My book includes food, travel, family, and random things that make me happy, like coffee and gumballs. It's a fun compilation of happy things, ordered from A through Z.
Making a photo book with Snapfish was incredibly simple… makes me want to kick myself that I haven't made one before. I anticipated it being completely overwhelming, but it wasn't. Some of the things I found to be really neat about the Snapfish Photo Book creation project were:
- Uploading your photos to Snapfish is quick and easy. I was surprised I could upload a group of my photos (which tend to be fairly large files) in just a few minutes. I didn't have to carve out a big part of my day babysitting photos uploading. It was quick and painless!
- Snapfish has a big selection of themes and layouts. From travel to love, there were themes to suit every occasion or even every non-occasion. Simple to elaborate, Snapfish allows you to choose a theme that will totally match the look and feel you want.
- Drag and Drop. I don't know about you, but I love anything that let's you drag and drop pictures. I think that is the easiest way to do things. Inserting photos into the book layout is as easy as dragging the photo you want and dropping it into the spot on the page.
- Helpful service. If you are making your photo book and get stuck or have questions, Snapfish has representatives you can chat with on line and they'll assist you. I love that feature! If you are too busy to make your own photo book, you can also enlist the help of a Snapfish adviser to create the photo book for you!
- Snapfish Photo Books are inexpensive! At one time in the past year, I had looked at putting a selection of some of my favorite blog posts into a book. The service I had looked into was going to be hundreds of dollars. At Snapfish, you can create a beautiful photo book for as little as $11.99.
If you have photos lying around that you want to preserve in a way that is simple and special, I would highly recommend making a Snapfish photo book. Whether for yourself, or as a gift, it is something that will be treasured for years and years to come!
Here are a few more screenshots from my ABC of Happiness Photo Book. Stay tuned while Snapfish judges each of the books from the 10 bloggers. If my book is chosen, the first 100 people who commented on my original Snapfish post will receive $100 credit to Snapfish! Fingers crossed!
This is a sponsored post as part of the Snapfish "Your Creative Lens on Life" campaign. I am receiving compensation for my time and Snapfish is providing me with a photo book. All opinions expressed are my own.
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Photography is one of those things that seems like everyone dabbles a bit in and quite a few people nowadays own very high quality digital cameras. In an attempt to save money, there is a new trend among brides of having a friend or family member take their wedding photos. While this may initially sound like a good idea, investing in an experienced wedding photographer should be one of your top priorities.
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What if, for arguments sake, you decided to forgo hiring a professional wedding photographer and hired a friend of the family to take your photos. He or she owns a digital camera, loves photography and has even taken photos of a few newborns that look great! Wedding photography cannot be THAT much different, right? Wrong. In wedding photography you generally get what you pay for. Yes, there is a chance that you may love the photos of a family friend, but is saving a few dollars on wedding photography worth the risk that you won't? Wouldn't you much rather adjust your budget in other details? Great wedding photography is so much more than just owning a high quality camera. Lenses, flashes, backup equipment in case something goes wrong, not to mention the EXPERIENCE of knowing what to shoot when and how are just a few of the important things that a professional will bring to the table. You wouldn't let your sister's boyfriend take your tonsils out even though he loves watching E.R., wanted to go to medical school and knows quite a few people who have done it, would you? Just like anything else in life some things are much too precious to trust to anyone but a professional.
Finding the perfect photographer is the best gift you can give each other on the big day. It sounds cheesy but we tell our clients all the time that wedding photos are your first family heirloom. Make sure when you are making the important decision on whether or not to go with a pro that you consider what you are really paying for … memories.