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ARLINGTON, Texas — Three hours before the start of Thursday's preseason finale, Peyton Manning lined up alongside 27 teammates on the goal line. To prevent confusion on who was running, and when, Manning made it simple.
"We will go on hut," the quarterback said, taking the pretend snap and barking out the call which sent the first-stringers and key contributors in motion.
It represented Manning's moment of leadership Thursday. He absorbed a fine ($8,268) for taunting Houston safety D.J. Swearinger, showed he was fine in warm-ups, then handed the keys to the Ferrari to backup Brock Osweiler.
Osweiler no longer is grinding gears, showing progress in his third year. Few players are more polarizing than Osweiler. The former Arizona State star played poorly against the Texans last weekend. While his inconsistency can be maddening at practice, his ability to rebound after a bad game represents growth.
Osweiler guided four scoring drives Thursday, and eight in the exhibition season (seven touchdowns, one field goal). Fake games don't matter, but Osweiler enters the season opener looking more like a safety net than a liability.
Notable in his play against the Cowboys: He stood firm in the pocket, crushed multiple times while still completing passes. He's learning this offense is designed for receivers to help make him look good. He completed a 3-yard pass that rookie Cody Latimer turned into a 57-yard gain. In the two-minute drill, he completed passes of 28 yards (to Isaiah Burse) and 29 yards (Cameron Morrah), setting up a 20-yard field goal.
Osweiler finished the preseason 29-of-49 passing for 423 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. He's not Manning. But after watching San Francisco's Blaine Gabbert and Dallas' Brandon Weeden play this summer, Osweiler clearly is more lighthouse than rocks on the shore.
Still kicking
Rookie place-kicker Brandon McManus remains a possibility to replace the suspended Matt Prater, but cracked the door open for the Broncos to bring in competition this week.
McManus missed 52- and 54-yard field goals, which Prater has made a career of converting. McManus nailed a 20-yarder and 39-yarder. His six kickoffs were touchbacks, bringing his total to 16-of-17 this preseason.
Carter's mixed bag
Cornerback Tony Carter picked off his second pass of the preseason, setting up the Broncos' first score. Then he missed an open-field tackle, was beaten on a long play and called for illegal contact. The Broncos' secondary became deeper with the drafting of first-round pick Bradley Roby, who sat out Thursday's game — an indication of his improving status on the depth chart.
Wes Welker jogged lightly before the game but has not been cleared to practice after his third concussion in 10 months. … The Cowboys paid tribute to longtime Dallas star DeMarcus Ware with a highlight package on the JumboTron. The new Bronco was joined by his kids on the sideline before the game. … Former CSU star Shaquil Barrett had two sacks.

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Thoughts on an upside-down world . . . . . . . . .
Are you, and others, seeing the 'real you', or just a mere reflection?
Surely it's obvious that being bad at something will hold us back?
Yes, well – walking past a building whose roof was being repaired, a colleague turned to me to complain about the behaviour of the scaffold workers. "It's obvious that if they do that it will be dangerous. Can't they just see that . . . . . . . ?"
"But" I replied, "you're assuming that they are endowed with sufficient imagination to predict what might happen in the future. Do you think that anyone with that amount of imagination, would want to work at that sort of height?"
My colleague had to admit that having a well developed imagination could be a problem for some jobs – in other words, being bad at something could be a benefit!
In the world of business management, some people lack either the analytical skills or the temperament to manage quantities of detail. This trait can result in them concentrating on the over-view, and then being seen to be 'strategic'. And senior managers need to be strategic. Another example of when being bad at something could be a benefit!
And surely it's obvious that being good at something will help our careers to advance?
Yes well – in years past, many people who were really good at their jobs were rarely given the chance to advance: they were called 'secretaries'. They were so good at doing their job, (including 'propping up' their bosses), that they were rarely encouraged to break free and progress.
In the world of business management, those people who are skilled at handling detail can be similarly disadvantaged. Their skills can be seen as so valuable that they are not encouraged to develop. And because they are good at detail, it may also be assumed that they are incapable of strategic thinking – without ever being given the chance to prove otherwise.
If you want to break out of this, it's worth working hard on the fact that 'what got you to where you are now, might not be enough to get you to where you want to be'.
It can be important to think these things through – make sure that you, and others, can see the 'real you', rather than a mere reflection!


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MACON, Ga. (Oct. 9, 2013) – After a solid performance at the Greater Louisville Classic, sophomore ETSU runner Katie Hirko (Oley, Pa.) has been tabbed the Atlantic Sun Conference Women's Runner of the Week, the league office announced Wednesday.
The accolade is the second of her career for the reigning A-Sun Women's Freshman Runner of the Year.
At the Classic on Saturday, Oct. 5, Hirko notched an 11th-place overall finish, out of 169 runners, with a time of 17:41.10. This placement paced the Buccaneers who as a team registered a 27th-place standing out of 32 teams at the meet.
This performance marks the third time in as many events that the Pennsylvania native has been the Buccaneers' top finisher. Hirko is currently averaging a 12th-place overall finish in three events, highlighted by taking first at the Virginia Tech Alumni Invitational with a time of 21:32.90 in a 6k on Friday, Sept. 20.
Following a disappointing team performance this past week at the Classic, the ETSU women's cross country team has started the 2013 campaign fairly strong after placing second out of three teams in Blacksburg, Va. and ninth out of 20 squads at the Commodore Classic to begin the season.
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My recommendations this week. As usual, I normally pick one or two good posts from my week's readings, or left from the prior week! Hope they are useful or at least interesting to you, as well! If it is your first visit, even better! ;-)
I am pleased to again recommend a fine post by Dan Curtis - Professional Personal Historian: "What I've Learned About Getting "Truthful" Interviews."
The post is directed at the personal history interview, but the seven point discussion really speaks to all of the genealogy and family history research we do on our family and ancestors as well, in my view. We want the "truth" - but does the "whole truth and nothing but the truth" always contribute in a positive way to what we hope to accomplish in our research and especially in our sharing of our family story?
I do not mean to suggest we "not seek the truth." To the contrary, following the context Dan builds with his seven points, I believe, provides us a better framework within which to tell our family stories.
What to you think? ;-)
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Meet my Phakenopsis!
Phakenopsis yes this is one of my husbands favourite houseplant it is so durable. Extremely long-lasting as a matter of fact it has been flowering in my kitchen window since…last January. It doesn't need much care at all. Have you guessed it already? It's a fake. The 'mother plant' is an old orchid that I have had for years and it has never bloomed again so instead of throwing it away a bought this fake Phalaenopsis and let the mother plant adopt it. I think sometimes it's OK to cheat and use a fake and this 'Phakenopsis' looks really well on my kitchen windowsill.
Today it is Blooming Friday again and do look in at Katarina's Roses and stuff and meet all the other participants. I think it is going to be a great day today, I have something really nice that I'm looking forward to tonight, they are showing a new program on the TV this evening The English garden's the first programme in the series of six.
I wish you all my blogging gardenfriend a great weekend - Ha en riktigt finfin helg!


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Moscow from below
Palaces and prefab blocks, talented newcomers and venerable institutions: The Moscow Metro connects them all – at 90-second intervals
Station 1: Khovrino
Ivan Lepskij is in a hurry. He and the other boys rush into the dining room of the FC Dynamo Moscow boarding school. One day, the 11-year-old says between mouthfuls of macaroni, he wants to eat from the buffet with the other professional soccer players in the dining room upstairs. Ivan, who comes from Kamchatka in the Pacific Ocean, 6500 kilometers from Moscow as the crow flies, has already made it quite far, but has bigger plans. Talking to his parents on the phone (10 p.m. his time, 6 a.m., theirs), he says: "First I'll play for the national team, then Real Madrid." His present club, Dynamo Moscow, is a first division club that's been limping along in the lower third of the league table, but hopes are high that the World Cup will inject it with more dynamism. At least afterwards, it will be able to play home games in its own stadium again, which has been undergoing refurbishment for the big event for years. The club's current training facilities are on the edge of the city near Khimki Forest, some 30 kilometers northwest of Red Square. It's here that we begin our tour.
There are two things you can always depend on in Moscow: gridlocked traffic above ground and a model of efficiency below. A train stops every 90 seconds and the Moscow Metro transports 2.5 billion people every year. It is also considered the world's most magnificent subway. We take the Line 2, the green line, south from Khovrino station, a purpose-built affair with glass swing doors marking the entrance to the underworld. The train hurtles beneath the residential blocks of this gray bedroom community at 100 kilometers an hour.
Station 10: Tverskaja
The city's historic center begins just past the Dynamo stadium. Peering out of the train windows, you see Soviet mosaics, arched vaults, white marble and chandeliers. Beginning in the 1930s, Stalin commissioned the best architects in the country to build these "palaces for the people." The escalator takes us up to the area that was populated by artists and writers in the 19th century.
We almost miss the Ziferblat café because the sign is barely visible. "We wanted to change that," says Sonya Serova wrily once we are inside, "but we forgot." The second-floor café rejoices in a mishmash of old furniture, crooked but comfortable. One of the guests is plonking around on a piano, another is performing an elaborate tea ceremony for friends. It's hard to distinguish the guests from the people who work there. Serova asks: "Which alarm clock would you like?" The clocks, all of them fleamarket finds, reflect the café's concept. The name Ziferblat means clockface, and guests pay for the time they spend at the café: three rubles per minute or about three dollars an hour. After two hours the price goes down. There are different kinds of tea and coffee, plus cookies and fruit, but you serve yourself. Nobody goes to the Ziferblat to fill up on food or drink as fast as possible. Instead, it's a place to meet and make friends. Serova, 23, is the manager. She studied art history for a while, "maybe one day I'll finish my degree," she says, but now, she spends every precious minute in the café. There are places in Moscow with better coffee and more elegant seating, she admits, "but the Ziferblat has emotion." The café opened seven years ago, an eternity for this fast-paced city. It marked the beginning of a more leisurely era. Muscovites are learning to enjoy their city, hanging out or strolling around, lounging in hammocks or riding bikes along the Moskva River. "Our city is much more laid back than it was 10 years ago," says Serova.
Station 11: Teatralnaya
Our next ride on the Metro is very short and ends at Teatralnaya Ploshchad (Theatre Square), a station announced by crystal lamps set in bronze chandeliers. Out on the street again, we suddenly find ourselves in the heart of Moscow, between the Kremlin, Red Square and the GUM luxury department store. The monument to Karl Marx has his famous rallying cry: "Workers of the world, unite!" engraved into the granite. On the far side of the next intersection lies the Bolshoi Theater, the building for which the square is named. Muscovites like to point out that the Bolshoi is a few months older than the United States.
Piano melodies lead the way to practice room No. 2 where Igor Tsvirko and Kristina Kretova are rehearsing the passionate, painful final scene of Don Quixote. You can see the muscles rippling in Kretova's back and hear Tsvirko's breathing as he lifts her into the air. "Now what?" he whispers to to his partner, who replies breathlessly, "the arabesque!" A few bars later he lands on the floor with a thump. "Stop!" the teacher calls out, shaking her head disapprovingly. Igor Tsvirko laughs.
The Bolshoi Ballet ensemble numbers more than 200 dancers. Tsvirko, 28, and Kretova, 34, are principal dancers, the highest rank in a ballet company. Their teachers are often former Bolshoi stars themselves, and like all ballet dancers, these two will remain students throughout their career. The Bolshoi devours them whole. Tsvirko dances Don Quixote one day, Spartacus the next, then a role as a French revolutionary. "On stage, I get overwhelmed by emotions," he says, "which is often very hard to bear." Tsvirko and Kretova take off their ballet shoes and slip into fur-lined boots to keep their tendons and ligaments warm. The next rehearsal is in two hours.
Station 17: Kashirskaya
Rounding a bend, we continue south, the Metro cars clattering along. Some of them still bear the red star insignia. The cars were built in St. blocks, a small park and a rusty children's playground recall the 1960s. We are headed for the Na Kashirke Gallery, a flat-roofed courtyard building. Inside, Galina Vorobyova scrunches up her eyes, then opens them wide again. She does this when she's evaluating a student's painting. "Let's start over" she says.
The gallery opened in the 1980s to introduce locals to art. Today, after surviving many years of turbulence, it proves that art can make it big, even in the suburbs. The director, Galina Kuzmina, is constantly on the lookout for contemporary art. One wall shows installations made of birch bark and salmon skin by an artist from Udmurtia in the foothills of the Ural Mountains. Another room exhibits seven decades' worth of women's magazine covers: women tractor drivers and doting mothers – a commentary on the role of women in the Soviet Union.
Some neighbors stop by in the afternoon to paint. Galina Kuzmina sits down with them. The teacher, Galina Vorobyova, is an artist who usually works with children. She says adults are more difficult because "they have forgotten how to observe properly." She shows them three tulips. "You have to look closely" she says, to see that one has the air of a confident beauty whereas another is bent like a woman in prayer. Galina Kuzmina is thinking about her next exhibition. Working title? Laziness. "We need to get away from all the stress," she explains.
Station 19: Tsaritsyno
After Kashirskaya, the distance between stops grows longer. Moscow is spreading out into its hinterland, and with it, the Metro system, which has long become a city beneath the city where 36 000 people work. We float upwards on the escalator only to be met by derelict buildings and broken paving stones, although a magnificent sight awaits us around the next corner: There, on a hill about 20 kilometers from the center of town, is Tsaritsyno Palace. Catherine the Great fell in love with this spot overlooking Moscow in 1775 and ordered a fairy-tale castle to be built; today it is a museum.
Julia Kiseleva, a museum worker, treats us to "Russian history in fast-forward mode." During the summer, Muscovites hold picnics on the lawn in front of the cavalry buildings, and in the winter, go for sleighrides in the snow. Kiseleva praises the Russian empress's prescience: "She chose Moscow's most romantic spot, although she was a bit erratic." That's putting it mildly. When the empress visited the half-finished palace, she didn't like what she saw and had parts of it torn down and ordered Petersburg until the mid-1970s, when the city was still Leningrad. The train spits out its passengers at Kashirskaya, where rows of apartment a new one built. Construction only stopped when Catherine died in 1796. "According to one story, she flew into a rage when she couldn't climb the stairs in all her finery," Julia Kiseleva tells us. It's one of many stories. The palace was neglected for 200 years and trees grew amid the ruins. Some of the buildings were used for communal living in Soviet times. In 2005, the mayor of Moscow decided to restore and complete the ensemble of buildings. So Tsaritsyno has become what it was always meant to be: a magical haven, not just for an empress but for about five million people who visit every year.
Station 23: Alma-Atinskaya
The green line continues on for a few kilometers and then we reach Alma-Atinskaya, the end of the line. But the city doesn't end here. The Moskva River flows sedately behind residential buildings. Its current moves away from the city, but we want to go back. By car, it would us take several hours get back into town, so we descend once again and take the Metro.
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Drunken driving arrest of former Sheboygan mayor caught on dash cam
Newly released dash-cam video shows the arrest of Sheboygan's former mayor.
The embattled Bob Ryan was cooperative, but colorful as he headed to jail.
"Do you have a driver's license with you?" a Kiel police officer asked Ryan.
"No, I don't," Ryan said.
It was late Sunday night when Kiel police pulled over a driver weaving in his lane with an expired registration.
"I'm the former mayor of Sheboygan. I'm staying out here presently," Ryan said.
"Do you have proof of insurance for the vehicle?" the officer asked.
Police said Ryan's registration was expired. He had no license, nor proof of insurance. Officers arrested him after he refused to perform field sobriety tests.
"What time did you stop drinking?" the officer asked.
"When you pulled me over," Ryan said.
On the way to jail, Ryan told the officer he'd had four or five drinks and should have called on Kiel's mayor for help.
"Should have called Mayor Werdeo. He was there with me earlier," Ryan said.
Last month, Ryan pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct charges after a woman accused the drunken mayor of groping her in an Elkhart Lake tavern in 2011. That incident cost him his job as mayor.
During last week's arrest, Ryan's focus was on a female police officer.
"Here I was, hoping that other officer was going to take me to jail. She was pretty hot wasn't she? She was smoking. You noticed didn't you? She could have arrested me any day. Truthfully. I would violate something just to have her arrest me again," Ryan said.
Ryan did not return WISN 12 News' call for comment.
Police ticketed Ryan for drunken driving. He has a court date in Manitowoc County next month.
Ryan's drinking problem forced him to be recalled from office in February 2012.


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In 1941-42, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) built the Lamesa Farm Workers Community in an effort to improve housing and living standards for migrant workers, the majority of which were Mexican immigrants, in the cotton producing farmlands of the West Texas region. The Lamesa Farm Workers Community Historic District, currently known as Los Ybanez, is located in Dawson County, one and one-half miles southeast of the county seat, Lamesa. The Community occupies 50 acres that are organized around an oval green space. Although the historic main entrance is no longer used, the interior of the community retains the much of its original organization. The historic community includes 25 shelters, 25 farm labor houses, a community center, gate house, manager's house, several stores, and recreational facilities. Twenty-five quadruplex shelters survive at their original locations forming the heart of the community. They were only open during the cotton harvest season and housed four families, two on each side. Nineteen of the 25 shelters retain enough historic character to contribute to the historic significance of the community. Fifteen of the 25 farm labor houses remain on the property with varied states of integrity. The community center and the manager's house also contribute to the property's historic significance.
By the 1920s, the need for seasonal labor outstripped the available pool of local workers in this agricultural region. At the same time, escape from the turmoil of the revolution in Mexico and the ongoing demand for cheap labor in the U.S. led to a steadily increasing migration during the early part of the 20th century. As a result, Mexican migrant workers became an important factor in the economic development of Dawson County. This demand for migrant labor continued unabated until farming became primarily mechanized in the 1960s.
In response to the exploitation of this laboring population in an unregulated industry, laws were passed in Texas to help protect them and the farming community. Part of this reform produced the establishment of the Texas State Employment Services (TSES) to organize migrant labor. The TSES encouraged communities to provide better living conditions for migrant laborers. Many labor camps were locally sponsored, but with the establishment of the FSA in 1937, some camps were sponsored and administered by the federal government. Shortly after this, the Lamesa Chamber of Commerce board voted to request construction of a FSA camp to centralize migratory farm labor and correct the growing slum conditions in Lamesa. After much controversy, the camp was built and the first family housed in 1942.
The camp, planned in tradition of the New Deal era reform, was unique because it provided a level of facilities and services that were more accommodating to migrant workers than other camps. These services included a recreational center that held classes on home management skills, nursery facilities and kindergarten instruction, and outdoor playground equipment. A gate house accommodated administrative functions as well as a medical clinic that welcomed all farm workers. The camp also created an atmosphere that supported the workers' "biculturation." Social life included traditional Mexican entertainment; observance of special days, both religious and patriotic; and celebrations honoring both Mexican and American holidays.
The city of Lamesa realized the economic importance of the migrant labor force. Recreational and social activities in Lamesa were aimed at the migrant workers. Two Spanish-language theaters were operated and the Fiesta Drive-In showed films in Spanish. The Lamesa Chamber of Commerce sponsored a "Fiesta Day" in honor of Mexican Independence as a way to strengthen Anglo-Mexican relations. The Catholic Church established Our Lady of Guadalupe Church for the "Latin-American" population.
The Lamesa Farm Workers Community is especially significant as it retains the highest level of historic integrity among the nine FSA facilities constructed in Texas. Establishment of the FSA camp coincided with differing patterns in the state's agrarian economy during the 20th century, including the unstable labor supply situation and increased mechanization over time. This community was built in spite of local opposition and survived through several changes in ownership, a rise in competitive housing, and workers migrating out of state. During its lifespan as a camp it had become a self-contained community whose residents contributed to both the local and national economies until mechanized farming virtually destroyed the need for migrant labor. In 1980, the land was purchased by Israel and Maria Ybanez from the Dawson County Farm Labor Association to serve as low income housing for impoverished Hispanic families. It was renamed Los Ybanez in honor of the family. In 1983 the city of Los Ybanez contained an official population of 300 predominantly Hispanic residents. The town continues to flourish and the Hispanic legacy continues.


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The primary goal of our web design is to increase conversions. That is, we would like our visitors to either sign up for a free 30 day trial of our DIY - Basic service or one of our paid services. Within 15 minutes of signing up they will receive their first set of initial activities to begin work on in order to improve their local and organic SEO rankings based on their chosen target keywords. Therefore, a clear call to action must be prominent and easily found in at least two places above the fold, for example, refer to the wire frame in the Hero graphic and the furthest right Feature element below the Hero graphic.
We are looking for designers who are looking to make a big impact with this design - please feel free to use and experiment with color, we are currently not committed to a particular scheme - we would like you to utilize Web 2.0 design standards, create a simple and clean layout, we are looking for stunningly designed logos, icons, images, & graphics. Of course, all rights to all elements created and used for the design will need to be transferred to AdegoSoft from the chosen winner.
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PLEASE VIEW WIREFRAMES (WF) for initial concepts-please feel free to put your own spin & be creative!
The Welcome page sections (WF slides 1&3):
1.Header-"CREATE ACCOUNT | LOGIN"; Nav Tabs & Logo (Include your logo design as part of the overall site design-something professional, playful, & Web 2.0)
2.Hero Graphic(HG)-Refer to sites below & use them for inspiration on your design regarding palette, graphics & images
3.Create space for YouTube video inside HG along with sign up form
4.Chevron graphics are a sample concept for links on the lower boarder of HG
5.Icons and graphics to call attention to 4 elements below HG
6.Try to incorporate testimonial element on page (not shown in WF)
7.Footer-Please see WF for elements we are looking for; Note: The AdegoSoft logo is not the logo we want for the upper left header logo
The Internal page sections (WF slides 2&4):
1.Internal page shows after user log in; Note: Changes to upper right WF menu "MY ACCOUNT | <membership level> | UPGRADE | SIGN OUT"
2.Header-Use same logo from your Welcome page design
3.Main content area will hold Activities; Tutorials (FAQs, videos, etc.)
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Best color palette of all examples & above the fold design - great Web 2.0 design
Nice design, especially like the rotating notebook screen
Same niche similar layout to what we are looking for in hero, but not a very good color pallette
Great use of space - We like rotating ads below hero
We like the icons next to the snippits
Great web 2.0 design; we like the form on right; good palette
Nice web 2.0 design; everything above the fold; we like 3d graphic boxes
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Designer Cassie Betts presented her unique and innovative designs to a sold out crowd at Ca'Brea Restaurant for LA Fashion Week. According to Betts, her style has evolved from "being very urban-rock-trendy to now classic and sophisticated." Furthermore, her vision "channels the movie stars of the 1950's, but with a modern and rebellious edge." When asked about her style of design, she exclaims, "I hate to be put in a box. Who made the rule that a wedding dress has to be long, white and conservative? Whatever the length, silhouette and color of a dress, if it's worn during your wedding ceremony, it's your wedding dress." She definitely prides on that mantra when presenting her collection.
The show kicked off with performances from The Incredible Mr. Smith (former lead singer of AZ YET) and Ultrami who lent their sultry voices on a rendition of Jay-Z and Rhianna's hit " Run This Town" as the models graced the runway in Betts' signature couture. Each design that graced the runway had a special signature touch that elicited a response one would hear when seeing the bride for the very first time and the audience was her groom.
Designs ranged from a simple halter dress with a fuchsia petticoat to a convertible dress with a long, mermaid-style train with signature hand-painted orchids and pearl beading again representing her island finesse. Not only did Betts present non-traditional gowns for the future bride, but she also preserved the sexy with unconventional party dresses that worked seamlessly with her overall theme.
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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry met Tuesday with relatives of an American held by North Korea and is calling for him to be pardoned and immediately freed.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry met Tuesday with relatives of an American held by North Korea and is calling for him to be pardoned and immediately freed.
U.S. officials say the detainee, Kenneth Bae, is in poor health. He was arrested in November 2012 while leading a tour group and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for unspecified anti-government activity. Supporters say he did nothing wrong.
In a statement after Tuesday's meeting, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Bae and his family have apologized publicly for actions that led to the conviction.
"We fully support the efforts of the Bae family to bring Kenneth Bae home. We continue to urge the DPRK to pardon Bae for his actions and grant him amnesty and immediate release," Psaki said, referring to the authoritarian nation's formal title, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
North Korea has given no sign it will free him.
Bae was moved to a hospital last summer in poor health, but said at a news conference organized by Pyongyang earlier this month that he was being transferred back to prison.
Analysts say North Korea has historically used detained Americans as bargaining chips in its dealings with Washington. The two nations do not have formal diplomatic relations because the 1950-53 Korean War ended without a peace treaty. Relations have been further strained by the North's development of nuclear weapons.
Bae's mother Myunghee Bae and sister Terri Chung, who live in Washington state, will attend President Barack Obama's State of the Union address later Tuesday, hosted by two Democratic lawmakers.
Rep. Charles Rangel said by inviting the family, he was reiterating his call for North Korea to free Bae.
"As a Korean War veteran, I have long advocated for peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and hope North Korea would take steps to build trust and reconciliation by first reuniting the Bae family," he said in a statement.
In Beijing, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Glyn Davies also appealed for Bae's freedom, saying he's already been held longer than any other American detainee in North Korea in recent decades.
Davies was in Beijing for talks with Chinese officials on how to persuade North Korea to return to nuclear disarmament talks.
"North Korea I think has made its point about Kenneth Bae and we are in frequent communication with the North Koreans to try to find a resolution to this issue. It's very, very important to us," Davies said.


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When is it time for new tires?
Just like the soles of our shoes, eventually the tires on our automobiles wear out and it's time to replace them. But how do you know when it's time for new tires? Use these tips to help.
Use a penny
The tread on your tires should be at least 1/16 of an inch. To help measure there are specific tools you can buy. Or, you can use a penny. Insert a penny – head down – into the tire's tread. If the head of Abraham Lincoln remains visible, then it's time for new tires.
Look for tread wear indicator bars
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Kyle Lawson and James Peyer discuss their innovative strategy to get biotechnology into schools and hackerspaces. Their company otyp was formed with the purpose of making equipment and information accessible to anyone who wants to get started with genetic research and experiments.
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Ten Card Doubles - Cloverdale - RCL # 6
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Categories: Ten Card Doubles
Ten Card Doubles
A variation of the regular team play designed to speed up the game and add an extra layer of strategy.
The Play
- The dealer shuffles the cards and deals ten cards each to the opponent to the left and to him/herself.
- Each of the players then divide the cards into two regular 4 card hands and give one to their partner and keep the other hand before discarding the remaining two cards to the crib.
- The player to the left of the dealer cuts the cards for the starter and play continues.
Strategy of the Game
- The ten card format presents more options for the dealer and opponent to the left.
- When dividing the cards the player must consider the current position on the board and where the first count is.
- Pegging becomes very important and the player who knows the contents of their partners hand must try to create pegging opportunities.
- The distibution of hands will create higher counts and shorten the game so players must maximize the points gained on each deal.
New players are always welcome. The cost of playing is between $5.00 and $7.00 CDN for an eight game tournament. Refreshments are available at all playing venues.


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Well, the board is either fixed, or it's going to run terribly. Cross your fingers and hope for the best. I'm at my technical limit right now.
Been tinkering
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Been tinkering
Been working on refinishing my RIA 1911 because of finish wear it comes in and out of a holster daily and has worn terribly. I dont have any before pics but will post a few of my results. I have been rust blueing it myself. I also did some stippling to the top of the slide for aesthetics, and some stippling to the frame to help with grip in the heat and humidity down here. The tactical model i have has sharp spots on the ambi thumb and grip safeties and they dig in when carrying so i contoured them to curve. Hopefully the finish lasts and it is more comfortable.
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Getting ready to rust blue the frame over the next couple weeks
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This is how it came out
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I took the sharp spots off the thumb safeties and the grip safety stippled the front strap and triggergaurd for better grip in the heat and stippled the top of the slide lightly for personal aesthetics also i added a set of night sights. This .45 now feels more like mine than 1 of a million.
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The end of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) talks and the subsequent lifting of the threat of a work stoppage appears to have sparked a flurry of last-minute player movement at some clubs. The Colorado Rapids may be no exception.
The Rapids on Tuesday waived veteran midfielder/forward Pat Noonan. The 2008 MLS Cup-winner joined the team last year but failed to start regularly. The off-season signings of the likes of Jeff Larentowicz and Wells Thompson from New England appeared to further lessen Noonan's chances of finding a place in the line-up. His departure could help free up a roster spot for a signing that may have looked unlikely this time last week as a players' strike loomed.
[inline_node:108684]"I am hopeful to maybe add one or two more bodies to the group that will help us towards not only this weekend but moving forward," said Rapids' head coach, Gary Smith.
If the Rapids are able to make such a move before the weekend, Smith said it could be an experienced player that may not have been tracked by the club while the uncertainty over the CBA continued.
"Certainly, there are two or three targets that we are looking at that can come and add to the group," Smith said. "Everyone knows now what they have to deal with and there are some individuals that have come onto the radar that I didn't necessarily think would." Smith said he was surprised to see experienced players like Jon Busch and Simon Elliot waived by their clubs. It was "predominantly" MLS players the Rapids were looking at to make a possible move by the weekend.
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Hudson dominates D-backs to win Giants debut
Veteran hurls 7 2/3 scoreless innings; Pagan, Morse notch RBIs
PHOENIX -- Tim Hudson won't have to ask for respect from his relatively new teammates. He commanded it Wednesday night.
The 38-year-old began his Giants tenure with a performance that deserved accompaniment from the San Francisco Symphony. He missed no notes and skipped no beats during a 7 2/3-inning serenade that sent the Giants to a 2-0 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Hudson wasn't flawless, just excellent. He walked none and allowed three hits while striking out seven. Of the 103 pitches he hurled, 74 were strikes, an admirable percentage. Though Hudson surrendered two doubles and wild-pitched a runner to second base, he displayed his typical grit when it counted by holding the D-backs hitless in seven at-bats with runners in scoring position.
That same toughness characterized Hudson's comeback from a fractured right ankle, which he sustained last July 24 while covering first base as a member of the Atlanta Braves. Obviously, the prolonged layoff neither eroded his skill nor overwhelmed his senses as he returned to the mound.
"There was a little more to it because I hadn't pitched in a long time," admitted Hudson, who signed a two-year, $23 million contract with the Giants last November. "You get anxious to get back out there. I was just happy to compete again. It's been a little bit of a long road to get here, but it feels nice to get back out there and give us a chance to win."
Any Giants fan wondering what it was like to watch Juan Marichal mesmerize hitters received a reasonable facsimile from Hudson. According to MLB.com's Gameday pitch tracker, Hudson threw only two pitches that traveled as fast as 90 miles an hour. Most of the rest were sinking, cutting or split-fingered fastballs hovering a few miles per hour slower than that.
Arizona manager Kirk Gibson noted that Hudson threw first-pitch strikes to seven of the first nine batters, each of whom the right-hander retired.
"Then you start swinging at the first pitch and he's one step ahead of you," Gibson added. "He's very crafty. His balls start in the zone and they look like strikes and he's got great movement, great control to both sides of the plate. So it made it tough on us."
Though the season's in its infancy, the Giants needed a stout effort from a starter after Madison Bumgarner and Matt Cain combined to last nine innings. They received it from Hudson, who departed with a runner on first base. Javier Lopez finished the eighth inning before Sergio Romo worked a perfect ninth for his second save. That sealed Hudson's 206th career victory, nudging him past Yankees left-hander CC Sabathia to become the Major Leagues' winningest active pitcher.
"We had a little rough go with the pitching in the first couple of games," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "It was good to get on track."
The Giants didn't generate much offense for Hudson, but it sufficed. They broke a scoreless tie in the fifth against D-backs starter Trevor Cahill, who courted trouble by walking No. 8 hitter Ehire Adrianza. Hudson's sacrifice bunt advanced Adrianza to second base before Angel Pagan lashed an RBI single to right field. The Giants have come to rely on such clutch hitting from Pagan, who batted .298 with runners in scoring position in 2012 and .345 in those situations during his injury-marred 2013 campaign.
Michael Morse added a two-out RBI double in the sixth inning.
Pagan also contributed defensively. With Gerardo Parra on second base, Pagan ended the fourth inning by charging hard and diving to snare Martin Prado's bid for a base hit. Pagan also made a nice running catch on a fly to right-center by A.J. Pollock, the final batter Hudson faced.
Bochy called Pagan's catch on Pollock "game-changing," noting that it easily could have fallen for a run-scoring extra-base hit.
This support helped Hudson improve to 8-1 with a 1.99 ERA lifetime against Arizona, including 5-1, 1.59 at Chase Field.
"Honestly, I have no idea why," Hudson said of his success here.
Actually, Hudson's artistry provided a vivid explanation.


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REAL ESTATE- On the Block- Rest in peace: And walk to the Mall
ADDRESS: 714 South First Street
SIZE: 1,014 fin. sq. ft.
LAND: .09 acres
CURB APPEAL: 8.5 out of 10
LISTED BY: Julie Gee of Keller Williams Realty 220-2220
Not many houses four blocks from the middle of the Downtown Mall can boast having virtually no traffic, houses on just one side of the street, and a view from the front porch of a peaceful five-acre (city records say 14 acres) field of grass and trees. All for a price tag around $200,000.
The only hiccup is that the field happens to be Oakwood cemetery. It could be argued that cemeteries make excellent neighbors. After all, Oakwood offers huge swaths of shade under aged hardwoods and patinaed tombstones amid rolling hills of lush grass. Plus, whatever bad or raucous attitudes the inhabitants might have had in the past, they are quiet now.
One's view of cemeteries probably hinges on one's view of death. People who see death as a welcome final rest and reward are likely to feel peacefulness when they walk through or look at a cemetery. Someone else who views death more darkly, as a final tearing asunder of life and spirit, probably doesn't feel much peace at a cemetery. This house is not for that person.
The level lot sits near the top of a small ridge providing a nice view out over the grass and tombstones. A stand of trees in back screens the view of the nearby Frank Ix Building whose many businesses– including the new television stations– cluster behind the house. Plans for that Ix complex include more small businesses, offices, and galleries.
According to the agent, this house was derelict and dilapidated when the current owners purchased it in 2003 in order to gut it before undertaking a complete renovation. The place now sports new hardwood floors, carpet, windows, kitchen, bathroom, and sheetrock. Even the front entry walk and landscaping are new. The stucco siding is about the only pre-renovation remnant. A small stutter in the roofline directly above an interior wall suggests that the back end of the house was an addition.
The current owner, a mason, has added attractive stone facing to the front of the house but left the original stucco on the other three sides untouched. A stone façade on just one side of a building runs the risk of seeming to be an artificial and incongruous veneer, but here it works to enhance the house, probably because the stonework seems to be of good workmanship, and the owner added a matching stone retaining wall in front, creating a theme that anchors the house to the site.
The stone facing also adds visual interest to an otherwise thoroughly humdrum design– a one-story rectangle with a shed roof. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for stone buildings.
At around 1,000 square feet, this house is compact, with rooms ranging from small to modest. The three bedrooms are particularly pint-sized, while the living room, kitchen, the single bathroom, and the laundry room also qualify as dainty. Three people would feel crowded unless they were a couple with a recently weaned child. There is no basement, but the attic space under the shed roof looks like it could provide a modicum of storage.
The renovation added a few nice features: all new stainless steel appliances in the kitchen, a laundry room ready for a washer and dryer, and a checkered tile floor in the bathroom. The outside front entry walkway and front porch feature a gray stone surface with red brick border.
The biggest chafe is the design decision to set the bathroom floor tiles directly in concrete with wide gaps between them that may become troughs for dirt, and the choice of an unusual mottled brown for shower tiles.
The floor in the middle of the house feels slightly bouncy in places, which could be a sign of structural weakness. The joists span nearly 20 feet of a building that was "derelict" for who knows how long, so it's not unreasonable to worry about structural problems. A new buyer would be wise to have a thorough home inspection or crawl down into the crawl space and look at the joists closely. Otherwise, the house looks structurally sound.
If the idea of peaceful walks in a cemetery and 15-minute strolls to the Downtown Mall appeals, and lots of space is not a requirement, this is one of the few houses left in the low six figures. Except for Burnet Commons across the street, the market seems to have missed this part of town, but it's a pretty good bet that soon people will be dying for a crack at this location.


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KDE Linux Packaging Project Taken Down
Ivan E Moore has pulled the plug on the KDE Linux Packaging Project. On his page he explains the reasons, citing a lack of time and the fact that he received little help from the community, along with "one person".
"I've decided to kill the KLPP and my packaging of anything other than the Debian woody version of KDE 2.0. The reason is due to 1 person. I know you are saying..but it's just one person. Well...I volunteer my
Well, I have to say this is the one drawback to an opensource volunteer world. The fact that people are used to being able to expect a level of perfection from the people producing things they use. We created a
I'm just tired of this. I have so much on my plate right now with the packaging of KDE 2.0 for Debian woody and the other packages I maintain. And that's just my Debian duties. And don't take this as an
For this I say goodbye on this plane. I'll leave the files up for at least a week. And maybe once KDE 2.0 is officially released and I get the woody stuff worked out I might build some potato packages for you all."
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Sorry for double post. I'm using IE 5.0 at work and it fooled me into re-sending the form.
By Paul Leopardi at Wed, 2000/10/18 - 5:00am
A SuSE KDE2 packaging and documentation effort!!!
I've found Silvio Schürer's SuSE KDE2 RPM page at http://www.keywarrior.net/silvio/kde2/index.en.html
By Paul Leopardi at Wed, 2000/10/18 - 5:00am
What's wrong with procmail?
I don't understand - if somebody annoys you why not simply set up procmail to filter out the annoying messages?
By Pavel Roskin at Wed, 2000/10/18 - 5:00am
what the hell takes so much time?
if it takes so much time to maintain packages, why the hell not just compile the tar.gz's?
Why waste so much time just in packaging? If it's not an automated process, or automatable, forget it! I don't understand this waste of time anyways, so perhaps this is for the better?
By Torsten Howard at Wed, 2000/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: what the hell takes so much time?
1) A lot of people cannot compile themselves
So the packer is doing a favour to the community like the coder or the people writing the documentation.
One could take your argument further, and say why code? Why not let everybody out there make its own software for him/herself? That would not make sense either...
I'm not using KDE, but I imagine that it must be a lot of work to put the packages together.
By Preben Randhol at Wed, 2000/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: KDE Linux Packaging Project Taken Down
I'm a 'baby newbie' at this point. All I really know is how to successfully load 'Redhat Linux' 5 times out of 6 on average, and not much more. What concerns me here is attitude. There is a "problem" in the Open Linux community over this situation with Ivan. If there never are 'problems'in a creative situation, it wouldn't be creative. Naturally in the universe, the appearance of destructiveness during a creative cycle takes place - with people too. I'm just starting this adventure in the Linux Universe. I'm having to constantly remind myself to relax and enjoy, even the tough moments. I'm glad to be part of the creative universe of Linux.
By Chris Madden at Wed, 2000/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: KDE Linux Packaging Project Taken Down
Ivan: Your experience and your reaction to it sounds right on to me. The Open Source community needs to take a hard look at its ugly, selfish underbelly, understand its limits, and grow up. At it's worst, it is an egotistical, self defeating mob of leaderless, egotistical jackasses who are hurting an otherwise noble endeavour. Cf. Lord of the Flies, boyz. Eric Raymond's "gifting culture" is bullshit.
By Dennis Eberl, F... at Wed, 2000/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: KDE Linux Packaging Project Taken Down
I just read others' comments to Ivan and am very impressed by the healthy generosity and genuine appreciation directed toward him. I hope my remarks are not misunderstood. For they appear to paint all members of the Open Source community with the same negative brush. To do so is inaccurate and unjust. I am trying to express the idea (as one of the posters put it so well) that the whiners should either get to work or (to paraphrase) "go back to MS Windows." I will add, however, that others seeing this "one individual" drive a good person over the edge should probably have been more forcefull in their defense of his efforts and in their condemnation of that lone, misguided individual. I may be off base on this and if I am, please accept my apology, but I bet not many spoke up in Ivan's defense while the flaming was going on. (This was one flame war I missed, thank you.) In my experience, most are afraid to stand on a principle, afraid to take a leadership role, afraid to get involved in a heated argument. They sit passively by as a few people flame the shorts off of one another. Often, the flammers are all jerks, but in this case Ivan clearly was not and his attacker was. Again, I don't know if such "High Noon" passivity was the case here, but I bet it was. If you see a good person getting stomped, it's your job to jump in and put an end to it without a lot of howdy-do's and oops, you go before me's. Timidity is a greater danger to the Open Source movement than the odd wrong headed, arrogant S.O.B. Respectfully, Dennis Eberl, Founder of BFLUG, ( http://www.bflug.org ).
By Dennis Eberl, F... at Thu, 2000/10/19 - 5:00am
Re: KDE Linux Packaging Project Taken Down
You really don't know what you're talking about. This wasn't some public flame war. I had just vented my frustration with KDE and Debian with Ivan in private and it just happened to be that I was the straw that broke the camel's back. I *have* apologized to Ivan since that has happened and he seems to be taking care of things very well. Haven't you noticed that Ivan wasn't the only one at the KLPP? Yet apparently he was the only one who was active. And haven't you noticed that the site hadn't been updated much anyway?
By Bart at Thu, 2000/10/19 - 5:00am
Re: KDE Linux Packaging Project Taken Down
Dear Ivan, I'm only a spanish student of Computer Science. Initially I used Linux because it is the de-facto OS in my faculty (Debian dist). In the faculty we used the FVWM window manager but this wm is horrible for Windows & Mac users (and for not too). Then, I decided to install, in my PC, KDE 1.1.2 and I was in the heaven: a nice GUI very intuitive with well-integrated apps. In addition, my faculty has decided this year to install the Potato release with the KDE desktop as the default window manager, and now, in this moment I'm downloading the KDE 2.0 packages THANKS TO YOU, IVAN. I've been waiting this moment anxious.
Greetings from Spain.
By Djinn at Tue, 2000/10/24 - 5:00am
KDE Linux Packaging Project Taken Down
Hey listen I know it makes you angry for one person who talks out of his ass. But still there are a lot of people like me who switch from windoze to linx and we know all the hard work that you and others put in on something on your own time. So here is a person that would like to say thank you for all your hard work. Just don't let one horse persude you from doing something you want to do
By Ron (Seeker) LaRue at Sun, 2005/09/11 - 5:00am


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I would like to enable a system that can respond to user voice commands and run scripts according to the verbal command GIVEN.
Ideally, I would like for the computer to be listening constantly.
Once it hears the buzz word "Computer" it will activate and listen for commands for 10 seconds (or so).
Once active, and while it's listening, I would like for another set of buzz words to be able to run scripts.
For instance....
(Computer is idle) "Computer" (computer immediately listens) "Access new MESSAGES" (MESSAGES being buzz word *IGNORES "ACCESS NEW" -- computer runs a script and opens evolution or empathy). There could be one for browser, one for closing windows and showing desktop, or a bunch of stuff really.
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"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination" Jimmy Dean
It was so freakin' windy today!!! It was frigid and cold and brrrrrrrrrrrrr! I don't have time tonight to do my vlog, but I will make sure to do it tomorrow. I spent the day with my mom doing Christmas stuff for her. Which was cool because it made me forget about all the worries with my accounts. We went to Wally World and she went on her merry little way to do her shopping and I went on my merry little way to get the last of the fixings for Christmas dinner. I got a beautiful ham for $8.88! I also got the fixings for Michael's favorite, German Chocolate Cake, which I make from scratch, YUM! While I was there I picked up an outfit that is perfect for stage. Mom bought me some cute black leggings to go with my boots and I found a hot pink and black skirt and a hot pink top with a silver smiley face on it. You're just gonna have to see it to believe it. It is definitely not my normal stage outfit, but I am trying to change things up a little. Anyway, it was a great day. Michael picked up some side work the last couple of days that brought in some extra Christmas money that enabled us to do a few things that we probably couldn't have without the extra work. Anyway, I hope this blog finds everyone well and happy….Peace and I leave you with" Stormy Weather" Miss Etta, who else :)…
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Dr. Erich Goode, sociology professor emeritus at Stony Brook University, is scheduled to speak to a Union College audience about the contemporary drug scene and how it has evolved over the past four decades.
Goode will lecture about his experiences researching drug use and what it looked like more than 40 years ago. He will be on Union's campus Tuesday, March 27 at 7PM in Student Conference Center Rooms A, B and C of the Patridge Campus Center. The title of his lecture is "A Personal Journey: Forty Years of Studying Drug Use."
Goode said that his lecture will open the eyes of some people, because the impressions they may have on drug use in Kentucky aren't always aligned with the systematic data on this problem.
"Drug use is a major aspect of our society; it has both causes and important consequences, and members of the society should be aware of them, and the images that are projected in the press, and what the public understands at the grass-roots level, aren't necessarily the way they are factually," Goode said.
Citing Goode's extensive research, Dr. Linda Silber, Union sociology professor, arranged this lecture. Silber said Goode has studied issues related to drug use for more than 40 years. Silber added that she selected Goode to speak not only because he is well versed in the issue and a personal friend of hers; he has also collaborated with her on a textbook focused on substance abuse. The title is "Drugs in American Society," published in 2011.
Silber said that everyone is invited to attend, because this issue pertains to all ages and demographics--not just college students.
"The talk is pitched at a general audience and should be interesting to the college community as well as the greater community as a whole," Silber said.
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Openwave Mobility Anticipates Trends for 2013 in Policy Control and Over the Top Players
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., December 3, 2012 - Openwave Mobility, a software innovator enabling operators to manage and monetize growth in mobile video and web traffic, has predicted what trends it expects for 2013.
The "New Consumer Economy" infiltrates mobile
John Giere, President & CEO, Openwave Mobility: "We live in a world where consumers can buy just one song from an album, rent a car or a meeting room by the hour and purchase a single TV episode. It is a changed world, where people routinely buy or rent products and services at a very granular level – and they are becoming used to the idea. Because consumers have more options available in smaller slices, they can find services and products which are much more focused on their individual needs. Yet that choice and granularity has not reached mobile data provision so far.
"In 2013, I believe we will start to see some of this thinking infiltrating the mobile world with more examples of application-centric, fine-grained data plans. "Buckets" of data have always been tricky, but people will understand data plans that give you 50 hours of Internet browsing, ten hours of video streaming or unlimited social media. It takes a brave mobile operator to move away from the herd and package their mobile data provision differently, but those that do can ride the wave of this 'New Consumer Economy'."
"Policy Engagement" comes to the forefront
Indranil Chatterjee, VP Product Management & Marketing, Openwave Mobility: "In 2013, as 'policy management' edges closer to becoming ubiquitous in developed markets, 'policy engagement' will come to the forefront. Up until now operators have been focused on simple policy enforcement of data traffic such as blocking, throttling etc. Policy engagement, on the other hand, focuses on richer and more meaningful interactions with users that are consuming data. Users will receive price plan offers and promotions based on how and when they interact with content and network services. The network will start to act more like a guide, delivering a 'curated' experience to users, via real time, multi modal interactions that lend to easy adoption of new and contextually relevant services. In summary, the goal of policy engagement is to make these offers easy to understand, easy to adopt and easy to manage for users leading to greater monetization of data services for operators."
Mobile data pricing starts to diversify
Michael Rodgers, Senior Strategist, Openwave Mobility: "Openwave Mobility believes that mobile data pricing will diversify in 2013, which will make the market more complicated and more interesting. One of the reasons for this will be the increase in 4G adoption. Although many will keep with similar pricing strategies used for 3G, for fear of alienating subscribers there will be operators globally who adopt more innovative ways of pricing their 4G data.
"This has already been demonstrated in the US, where one regional operator has reported success with a lower-cost 'no frills' application-based data plan with a time-limited video streaming allowance. This has allowed the operator to upsell video passes on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, resulting in extra revenue from users who want to upgrade while reducing network traffic from those who are not interested in video enough to pay for it. This is all against the backdrop of regulators globally keeping an increasingly close eye on mobile data pricing and plans, meaning that left-field decisions in some regions could force pricing innovation even if it is not currently planned."
Emerging markets will spur collaboration between mobile operators and OTT
Stephane Honore, Chief Technologist, Openwave Mobility: "Monetization opportunities of over-the-top content have appeared at the top of analysts' predictions for some time now; nevertheless, there have been very few real and conclusive success stories so far. One of the reasons is that the co-opetition status-quo between the major Internet players and tier 1 operators is still more inclined towards service competition which doesn't incentivize them to jointly innovate in saturated markets with high penetration of mobile data and Internet services. In developing countries, however, both sets of players are looking for ways to attract users and gain quicker service adoption as the business growth will primarily come from mobile. Cooperation initiatives will benefit both of them under these conditions. Facebook has been an early adopter by pushing 0.facebook.com back in 2010; Google has just recently joined the bandwagon with their Free Zone offering and I expect more announcements of this type to surface in 2013."
A few operators start to become true Over the Top players
Chris Goswami, Director Marketing & Communications, Openwave Mobility: "At the end of 2012 we see three straight years of revenue decline for operators in Europe, with at least one major group (KPN) having issued profit warnings directly citing OTT (WhatsApp) as the cause. At the same time we see Google apparently setting up their own network. So it's not just a question of OTT players eating the operators' lunch, they are now coming to dismantle the kitchen! Groups of operators launching OTT initiatives together like JOYN or WAC just don't work. Within these complex organisations the web-DNA simply isn't there.
"A few operators are taking a different approach. Telefónica Digital is an independent unit of Telefónica headquartered in London and is becoming the poster child for a new way of working. Recruiting staff with software and web DNA, maintaining their own "fast-fail" product development unit, and now responsible for all the new OTT services and start-ups acquired by Telefónica including Jajah, Tuenti and GiffGaff, they are busy launching their own set of OTT services. This includes, for example, "ToMe", an OTT messaging and picture sharing app. Their clear advantage is that they can utilise the massive subscriber base of Telefónica to distribute these new services, create those new business models and also reduce churn. They have even signed up to a revenue target of €5Billion by 2015. I believe this new way of working will spread and develop until these units become separate companies with their own P&L and VC input beginning in 2013."
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Openwave Mobility delivers over 40 billion transactions daily and over half a billion subscribers worldwide use data services powered by its solutions. The company's global customer base consists of over 40 of the largest communication service providers including AT&T, Du, KDDI, T-Mobile, Telefonica, Telstra, Virgin Mobile & Vodafone. Openwave Mobility is owned by Marlin Equity Partners, a leading investment firm with over a billion dollars of capital under management that has publicly committed to building the company through expanded investment in R&D. The company has built a robust portfolio of Intellectual Property, which is growing month by month.
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#543: One Hot Summer Day
A cute little girl using the *F* word is still a cute little girl to me.
I am not sure, but I think it is the first time any character in TWC using the *F' word.
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Father Pat's Pastoral Ponderings
Sunday After the Transfiguration
August 8, 2010
The earliest apostolic proclamation was set within a narrative pattern that spanned "all the time [en panti chrono] that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John to that day when He was taken up from us" (Acts 1:21-22). This limited chronological format, reflected in early sermons (10:37-41; 13:24-30), was also preserved in the gospels of Mark and John.
Matthew and Luke extended this traditional framework forward by adding accounts of Jesus' conception and birth. This new material, for which the evangelists were indebted to special sources, tended to confer a more "biographical" interest on these two gospels. Such is particularly the case in Luke, who makes chronological notes in this material (1:5,26,36,57,59; 2:2,21,22,42).
Luke goes even further in the direction of "biography," by including a unique account of a visit of Jesus to the Temple at age twelve (2:41-50). This narrative is not simply added on to the infancy story; Luke structurally integrates it into the larger story that follows. Indeed, were it not for the very solemn style in which the account of John the Baptist is introduced (3:1-2), one might imagine that Jesus' public ministry, for Luke, began at age twelve!
A detailed investigation of the story strengthens this impression: Jesus speaks His first recorded words in the Temple, "sitting in the midst of the teachers both listening to them and asking them questions" (2:46).
The most striking detail here is that Jesus is "sitting." Luke does not portray Him as a student, but as one of the teachers, fully engaged in the discussions common among the rabbis: He asks questions, but He also answers questions. According to Luke's account, Jesus' teaching commences in that setting. (Later, when we first find Him in a synagogue [4:20-21], Jesus is seated to address the assembly.)
Luke sets this picture of the young Jesus, engaged in rabbinical discourse at age twelve, in structural parallel to a cluster of encounters in the Temple during the final week of His public ministry. The rabbinical debates — begun at age twelve — are taken up again, near the end of Jesus' life.
In the later scenes, nonetheless, the tone of the discussions becomes ominous: "as He taught the people in the temple and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes, together with the elders, confronted Him" (20:1). In the ensuing encounters, Jesus addresses the questions put to Him, once again, by the official teachers of Israel: "Tell us, by what authority are You doing these things?" (20:2) — "Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" (20:22) — "Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife does she become?" (20:33).
Rabbinical debate, however, is not one-sided; Jesus, in turn, poses to Israel's teachers some questions of His own: "The baptism of John, was it from heaven or from men?" (20:4) — "Therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?" (20:15) — "Whose image and inscription does it have?" (20:24) — "How can they say that the Christ is the Son of David?" (20:41).
In short, Jesus' public ministry, according to Luke's portrayal, is framed between two accounts of discourse with the official and rabbinical authorities in the Temple — the first at age twelve and the second during the final week of His life. This narrative pattern, in which Jesus' destiny is declared in both places, is unique to Luke.
Recognizing this structure, we may observe another correspondence within it: the divine sonship. At the end of His initial encounter with the rabbinical authorities in the Temple, Jesus declared God to be "My Father" (2:49). In His final encounters with them, in that same Temple setting, Jesus returns to the theme: He tells the story of the vine-growers, a parabolic survey of Israel's history, in the final stage of which the Father sent His Son (20:9-19). It is a parable in the process of enactment, even Jesus tells it: "they knew He had spoken this parable against them" (20:19).
And why has the Son been sent to the vineyard? Jesus had provided the answer twenty-one years before: "Did you not know that I must be about the things of My Father?" Even then, He darkly outlined the final week of His life, when He would purge the Temple (19:40-48) and denounce the conduct of those who taught in it (20:45-47).
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I was in Starbucks over the holidays when VIA Ready Brew packets caught my eye. Here's what we have to say about them.
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Individual packets of Roasted Instant & Microground Coffee
Pack of 3 packets, $2.95
Jennifer Mastroianni: I was in Starbucks over the holidays when VIA Ready Brew packets caught my eye. These snazzy envelopes of instant coffee tubes, which are similar to flavor packets for water, each make an 8-ounce cup of coffee.
Sanka this is not. That's because Starbucks spent two decades getting it right.
"For almost 20 years, we've tried to capture a perfect cup of Starbucks coffee in an instant form, and I'm proud to say that we've finally found a way."
That's the message from CEO Howard Schultz, which is written right on the package. Starbucks totally nailed it. How nice to have an instant cup of coffee that tastes about as close to fresh brewed as you can get.
Price-wise, it's a buck for a cuppa joe, but hey, it's Starbucks.
Saimi Bergmann: Aside from cheese, the consumable I missed most while living in Korea was coffee. The coffee served there was instant and came in single-serving tubes. I'm a long-time coffee snob who grinds her own beans, so you can imagine my dismay when confronted with such an atrocity. (I learned to drink tea.)
So when Jennifer asked me to taste this Starbucks' version of instant coffee, I mentally began compiling scathing adjectives.
Surprisingly, this coffee was drinkable. Certainly not as good as coffee brewed from freshly ground beans, but scads better than the swill served from most vending machines.


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At the same time that rising Republican Senate stars Rand Paul and Ted Cruz were making history with a filibuster Chris Matthews, on Wednesday's Hardball, insisted Paul and Cruz must be heroes to hate groups.
During a segment on the liberal Southern Poverty Law Center's new study about an increase of anti-government hate groups, Matthews demanded which politicians they supported: "Who do they root for?! They don't root for Rand Paul? Pat Buchanan? I mean who? They must like this new guy Ted Cruz. They must love Ted Cruz, c'mon!" (video after the jump)
The following are the relevant exchanges as aired on the March 6 of MSNBC's Hardball:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Welcome back to Hardball, the crazies are still on the rise. A study by the Southern Poverty Law Center finds that the number of anti-government patriot groups has exploded over the last four years. According to the study these groups typically believe "that the federal government is conspiring to take Americans' guns away from them and destroy their liberties as it paves the way for a global one-world government."
MATTHEWS: These anti-government patriot groups have skyrocketed in number during President Obama's time in office. There only 149 groups back in 2008 and 2012. There are more than 1300 and that's an increase of over 800 percent. Look at the chart there. Yesterday the Southern Poverty Law Center sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder warning that the gun control debate may lead to even more such groups being founded. Mark Potok is a respected guy for us. He's with the Southern Poverty Law Center. And Brian Levin is with the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
Gentlemen, I want you to start tonight. It's your report Mark. So lead the way here. Let me ask you this. I'm gonna get into this in my close tonight on the show, which I feel a lot. I Look at Obama as a perfect American. I don't mean politically. We can disagree left and right on him. You can argue about the drones. Argue about the fiscal policy, all that stuff. But as a citizen. The guy went to school, he never broke a law. He did everything right. He raised a wonderful family. He's a good husband, a good father. My God I don't think he's ever gotten a speeding ticket. The guy does everything right and these right-wingers. And he's really been pretty moderate on guns until the horror of Newtown. And I don't know what they're so afraid of, except that he happens to be black. Is there some reason why he has sparked this explosion of right-wing organizing?
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me go to you Brian. The way I'm chalking this up, this right wing hysteria, if you will. Maybe it's logical on their point of view, the way they're thinking about demographic change. But guns, immigration and gays. Is that your reading, that those are the stimuli to these people when they organize these hate groups?
BRIAN LEVIN, CENTER FOR STUDY OF HATE & EXTREMISM: I think it's a lot of it, but I think we have to put in a context. The folklore of the far right - and I'm not talking about Mitt Romney supporters. I'm talking about people who have opted out of our political process and that's what's problematic. These people see the terra firma under them as shifting. Something that anchored them before, they no longer see as anchoring them.
MATTHEWS: Who do they root for?! Who do they root for?!
LEVIN: They don't root for anybody now.
MATTHEWS: They don't root for Rand Paul? Pat Buchanan? I mean who? They must like this new guy Ted Cruz. They must love Ted Cruz, c'mon!


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Thousands to gather for Kennedy ceremony
Memorial marks 50 years since JFK assassination
Fifty years after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, thousands will mark the day with a solemn ceremony in Dealey Plaza.
Friday's city-planned event in the place where JFK's motorcade passed through when shots rang out will feature brief remarks by the mayor, the tolling of church bells and readings from the president's speeches by author David McCullough.
It's a reverential approach that will be mirrored in Boston, where the JFK Library and Museum will open a small exhibit of never-before-displayed items from Kennedy's state funeral and host a musical tribute. In Washington, President Barack Obama will meet privately at the White House with leaders and volunteers from the Peace Corps program, which Kennedy created.
About 5,000 tickets were issued for the free ceremony in Dealey Plaza.