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Savanna3D is a broad and useful set of blocks created for Rhino 4.0 or above. It contains over a thousand detailed 3d models, in 3DM format, grouped by type or function. These collections bring together an extensive and complete library of Rhino blocks prepared for architectural and interior design purposes. Now you can improve your space design productivity with various collections of commonly used objects.
You can see a video of Savanna3D at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FCuAYQvTr0&feature=youtu.be&hd=1
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The swell folks at BlueGlass made me a nifty infographic about Google+ for business, replete with all kinds of factoids and thoughts to consider. I'm not always a super fan of infographics, but there are clearly some advantages to them, it would appear.
So, take a look at what Google+ can do for you. This infographic has a bunch of marketing points scattered throughout it. You'll see why Google+ might help you take your business goals to the next level.
Google+ for Business Infographic
Still with me? Great! If you think it's worth it, please share liberally. And thanks!

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Whether you're a boxing fan or not, you have to admire what EA Sports has done with the Fight Night series. With Round 3 it created a game that helped define sports games for the current console generation, with pretty damn close to photorealistic graphics, literally hard-hitting action and some smart ideas - particularly dropping the health gauge and letting the visuals tell the story - that made the experience incredibly immersive. With Round 4, they could just have rolled out the traditional lazy update, but instead they streamlined the gameplay even further, worked on the analogue controls, and threw in classic bouts that came packed with genuine Raging Bull and When We Were Kings atmosphere.
It's impressive, then, that the quality hasn't dropped off with Round 5, or as EA has decided to call it, Fight Night Champion. It's not only the best in the series, but a sports game that's potentially just as revolutionary as its predecessors.
Why? Because EA has gone back to the cinema for inspiration, and realised that boxing is the perfect sport for a more narrative-led approach. The game's major new addition - the Champion mode of the title - is a classic yarn of life inside and outside the ring, following a rising star, Andre Bishop, on his journey from young contender to heavyweight champ. It's a story that's got it all: the early wins, the corrupt promoters, the late-night warning about what happens if you don't play ball, the frame-up, the jail years and the comeback.
It has a likeable hero, an equally likeable heroine, a dastardly villain and a seemingly inhuman rival who won't stop gloating until you knock him down. Is it clichéd? Maybe, but it's brilliant. EA has nailed the close-up visuals, the script, the voice acting and the plotline, and the result is a drama that keeps you hooked as much as the exceptional gameplay.
What's more, Champion mode works perfectly as a way into Fight Night for the casual player. You don't have to worry about training, scheduling fights or looking after your boxer; all you need to think about is getting through the cutscene to the next bout and putting the other guy on the canvas. Champion mode also mixes things up a little, with scenarios that see you unable to punch with your right hand or suffering from a cut that dramatically effects your performance. The atmosphere is electric, with brilliant use of ringside commentary and between-match TV coverage, and the urge to just see what happens next is ridiculously strong. Let's face it: played on your own, most sports games get dull after an hour or two. Not Fight Night Champion. We haven't felt this compelled to keep coming back to a sports game for donkey's years.
Of course, you can also see it as a starter before the main meal - the return of Round 4's Legacy mode. Here, in traditional EA Sports style, it's all about building your own boxer using the excellent character editor, and pushing him through a career of training, scheduled matches and tournaments as he climbs through the rankings. This is closer to the traditional Fight Night experience, complete with training mini-games and aspects of management. However, even here the game shows signs of improvement over the 2009 model.
It all comes down to the core gameplay. Round 3's analogue stick-based controls helped give the boxing a more visceral feel than most button-based boxing games, but it has to be said that some of the movements involved made it difficult to pull off jabs, uppercuts and combos reliably. Now it's been simplified, so all that matters is where you flick the right stick, while the controls for blocks and heavy punches have also been effectively streamlined. This all makes Fight Night Champion feel noticeably more accessible than its predecessors (and you can still opt for button-based controls), but without turning it into a watered-down pugilism sim. You still have to time your moves, preserve your stamina, block, duck and weave and string together punishing combos if you want that title shot - just as it's always been.
In fact, watered down isn't a phrase you can apply to Fight Night Champion anywhere. We had thought that Rounds 3 and 4 had pushed the graphics and sound as far as they might go, but Fight Night Champions still manages to trump them. The visuals are even more impressive, with a more dynamic camera and a more effective use of close-ups, and the injuries are even more brutal, as you'll get plenty of chance to notice in those legendary face-distorting slowmo replays. There aren't many sports games where we marvel at the sound design, but when you see a big thump connect and hear the boom and listen to the sound go hollow, you know that you've just taken some serious damage. If Fight Night Champion were any more immersive, you wouldn't actually want to play it. It would probably hurt.
Needless to say, it's also packed with online features - not just the expected two-man bouts, but virtual gyms where you can compete with friends or challenge rival gyms to team-based tourneys. If there's any complaint you can make about Fight Night Champion, it's not that it's lacking in things to do.
Are they any valid reasons to moan? Well, some of Round 4's sense of boxing history has disappeared, along with the superb period effects that accompanied historic bouts. You might also say that the odds are stacked too far in your favour for most of the Champion campaign, before the rug is suddenly pulled from under you two-thirds of the way through. However, thinking about it, it's more the case that you're missing something fundamental, or just ignoring the need to defend. Up your game, and you'll soon find that you've got what it takes to win through.
Not just an exceptional boxing game, but an exceptional sports game, Fight Night Champion is a knockout whether you're a fan of the noble art of pugilism or not. Unless you're squeamish or allergic to cheesy plots and the classic training montage, it comes highly recommended.


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SMITHFIELD, Va. - Smithfield Foods Inc. said it plans to form a joint venture to help grow its packaged meats business.
The pork producer said Friday it has signed a letter of intent with Kansas City Sausage Company and its sister company, Pine Ridge Farms.
Terms were not disclosed, but the company said the transaction will be funded with cash on hand. It is expected to close in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013.
Smithfield CEO C. Larry Pope said the move will provide a growth platform in the breakfast and dinner sausage categories and expand its product offerings. The categories represent more than $4 billion in retail and foodservice sales annually.
The company said it will merge Kansas City Sausage's efficient operations with Smithfield's strong brands and sales and marketing team.


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I wasn't going to buy any of the separately available FR2 fashions but I wound up buying all three of them eventually. The last one I got is Metropolitan. I saw it on someone else's doll and it looked much better than the promo. Marl had it on sale for $85. Unfortunately her shipping is rather pricey but it got here fast and in perfect condition.
The ensemble consists of the mauve jumpsuit, a black belt, humongous pink rhinestone stud earrings, multiple tiny bangles (not shown), a black patent handbag and navy blue patent shoes. I added the ring and bracelet.
Elise is gorgeous.
The jumpsuit's construction is not up to the standards of the rest of the FR2 items. I think it may be the choice of fabric that is causing some of the problem. The legs do not lay correctly. If the fabric were heavier, the drape would be better. I pulled the legs straight down prior to taking pictures and it didn't help. They stayed rippled.
I don't know if pressing will help as they were pressed in the factory because there is a pressed crease at the front of the legs. I will try pressing when I remove it from this doll.
It's not the most flattering fashion for this beauty and someone else will be wearing it soon.


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America decided to deal with the Native Americans by war and exile. It took three centuries, as succeeding generations of Indians realized that the White Man would honor no treaty and give them no peace.
Israel has tried since the 1960s to deal with what initially were relatively isolated attacks, by holding every country in the neighborhood responsible, and responding massively to each attack. Six decades later the problem has widened. Unlike the Native Americans, the Palestinians have major allies.
We have repeatedly responded with military force to foreign problems only to see them spin out of control and make things much worse. Read the rest of this entry »


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I admit, I really forgot about this blog. But I see that people still check it out, which is very nice to know. It will remain here as an archive and I hope that people can still derive use of it!
I haven't listened much to Hello! Project since around the time Junjun and Linlin 'graduated' from Morning Musume. But I do check up and see how it's doing!


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The Peugeot 505 last saw production back in 1992, but judging by the 5 By Peugeot Concept planned for a Geneva debut, Pug's 5-line's headed for a boring, generic rebirth as the Peugeot 50-something. Interesting? Peut-être. French? Non!
Surprise, the 5 By Peugeot concept's hybridized with a 2.0-liter diesel up front and a 37 HP electric motor at the rear, providing a combined 200 HP to motivate the all-wheel-drive system. It does have low-speed all-electric capability and low carbon emissions because that's important in Europe. Yes, all of that is dull as oatmeal.
The French have long been known for their unique take on the automobile. Their styling has quite often been wildly controversial and normally pushes the edges of what avant garde means. Peugeot's almost always been a more reserved brand, especially when compared to Citroen's Sacré-bleu-look-at-me-now ways, but as of late they've been producing some proboscis-like noses that raised their share of eyebrows.
Sadly for lovers of the over-the-top French designs, Pug seems to be refocusing on a more mainstream audience with the 5 By Peugeot Concept. Don't get us wrong, it's handsome and packing quite a few recognizable design flavors — we're seeing a touch of Nissan Maxima, some Volvo S60 and some VW CC — but it's just the first time in recent memory one of their cars could be described in terms of other automaker's cars. Whither the French cars that look like they were dreamed up by laissez-faire espresso-sipping design students sketching in front of a cafe behind the Eiffel Tower. Maybe the time of exciting, crazy French designs are finally coming to an end. Car culture is all the worse if that's true.


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Welding Brunswick, OH - MIG, TIG & Resistance - Robotic Hemming
Electro Prime Group LLC is a TS16949 registered provider of Robotic Row Hemming, MIG, TIG, and Resistance Welding that services Brunswick, OH . The Electro Prime Group Assembly Division serves both OEM and after-market customers with everything from simple weld nut applications to full Class A assemblies. Our unique approach to manufacturing is cost effective for both high and low volume production. We currently have 8 flexible weld and assembly cells enabling our assembly division to produce over 700 different parts for the automotive industry.
When you are considering "make or buy" decisions, or if you would like to use your space for something else, please consider Electro Prime. We are TS16949 certified and are pre-approved suppliers to several automotive customers.
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Plaid 60 Jumper
Size Chart
Click here to view size chart
Take one measurement at a time and record it before taking the next. Refer to the diagram for the approximate placement of the tape measure.
- BUST - Measure across widest part of back, under arms, across full bust line.
- WAIST - Measure at natural waistline.
- HIGH HIPS - Keeping tape measure parallel to the floor, measure approximately 2" to 3" below waist.
- HIPS - Keeping tape measure parallel to the floor, measure around fullest part of hips approximately 7" to 9" below waist.
- UPPER ARM - Measure horizontally when arm is relaxed, midway between shoulder and elbow.
- BACK WAIST LENGTH - Measure from prominent bone at base of neck, center back, to the natural waistline.
- FINISHED LENGTH - Drop waist jumpers -- Measure from prominent bone at base of neck, center back, to the finished length. Jumpers with bibs, skirts and culottes -- Measure from the waist at center back to the finished length.
- CROTCH DEPTH - Sit on a flat surface, feet flat on the floor with back straight and tall. Measure from natural waist to flat surface at the side.
- STRIDE - From the waist in front, through the legs, to waist in back.
- OUTSEAM LENGTH - Measure from waist to finished length at the side of the leg.
- INSEAM LENGTH - Measure from the crotch inside leg to finished length.
(8-10 not shown on the diagram)
- CHEST - Measure around the fullest part.
- WAIST - Measure at natural waistline. With pants adjusted to wearing position, measure around area where waist seam rests.
- HIPS - Measure around the fullest part.
- NECKBAND - Measure around neck at Adam's Apple plus 1/2"
- UPPER ARM - Measure horizontally when arm is relaxed, midway between shoulder and elbow.
- SHIRT SLEEVE LENGTH - Measure from top of arm to finished length of sleeve.
- INSEAM LENGTH - (for altering pants only) Measure from crotch inside leg to finished length (not shown on diagram).
- Appointments: We have reopened our store! In an effort to comply with social distancing regulations, we ask that customers make an appointment to shop.
- CDC Guidelines: Customers are asked to wear a mask, practice social distancing, and avoid bringing large groups to our store.
- Cleanliness: We are taking extra precautions to sanitize our store- especially fitting rooms, counters, high-touch surfaces, and returned/tried-on merchandise.
- Extended exchange period: Our return policy has been adjusted to allow exchanges through October 31, 2020. Items must be in unworn condition, with original tags and receipt present. Shop now and exchange later if your student grows over the summer!
What is your return policy?
If for any reason you are not satisfied with any items purchased from RC Uniforms, they may be exchanged or returned at any time!
Please follow these guidelines in order to receive the full value from your return or exchange:
- We cannot accept returns or exchanges for washed, worn, personalized or altered items, unless they are determined to have been defective when purchased.
- Returns must be made within 90 days after purchase. After 90 days, only a store credit can be issued.
- Original tags must be attached to the garment(s).
- Original receipt must be presented at the time of return or exchange. If a receipt is not presented at time of return or exchange, only a store credit or even exchange can be issued.
- If returning or exchanging items for Dupont Middle School, San Jose Academy/Prep School, Joseph Stilwell Military Academy of Leadership or Edward White Military Academy of Leadership, please note that we cannot offer refunds for individual items purchased as a part of a package. Items can, however, be exchanged for different size options. If you wish to return a package, you must return all items in the package in order to receive a refund. JSMAL and EWMAL schools have both requested that we honor this policy in order to ensure that all students are in complete uniform. Any exceptions will have to be approved by school administration.
Do you offer any sales or discounts?
Yes! Throughout the month of June, we offer special back-to-school savings in order to motivate parents and students to shop early. Additionally we encourage you to click here to subscribe to our mailing list. Email subscribers are the first to hear about upcoming promotions and uniform discounts.
What forms of payment do you accept?
- In-store we accept credit cards, debit cards, RC Uniforms gift cards, and cash. As of 1/1/16 we no longer accept checks.
- Online we accept all credit and debit cards. All online transactions are processed through PayPal, although you are not required to register for a PayPal account in order to make a purchase. We are not able to accept RC Uniforms gift cards online at the time.
- Phone orders require immediate payment. Please remember to keep your debit or credit card on-hand when placing a phone order.
Where are you located?
Our store is located at 11160 Beach Blvd, Suites 126 & 128. We are just west of I-295 in the Winn-Dixie shopping center, directly behind Arby's.
How do I place an order for uniforms?
Uniforms can be purchase in-store, online, or over the phone. We carry a wide selection of logoed items in stock for most schools year-round.
Can I bring my own shirt and have my school logo embroidered on it by RC Uniforms?
No. In order to keep consistency within the uniforms and honor contracts with our schools, we are only authorized to apply school logos to the items we carry in-store. We do, however, keep an extensive inventory of embroidered items for you to come and chose from or order online.
How do I return/exchange an online purchase?
At this time, we can only accept returns and exchanges in-store. If you have any questions about returning an online order, please call our Customer Care Team at (904) 646-0493.
Can I place items on hold?
If you would like to reserve an item to be picked up, we strongly encourage you to place a phone order or an online order. We generally do not put items on "hold" if they have not been paid for.
How do I know my uniform will be in-stock?
During the back-to-school season, the best way to guarantee that your uniform will be in-stock is to shop early. We offer the best discounts early in the summer while our inventory is largest, with plenty of time to order an item if needed.
How can I know what sizes will fit my child?
Click here to access size charts, or bring your child along to our store, and our friendly associates will help you to find the right size.
Timeless girls jumper features a dropwaist kick-pleat design with a zipper closure on the back. Peter pan blouse is not included. Please refer to the size chart before purchasing a Half Size.
- Minimal shrinkage
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Stockton, CA
Joseph Daniel Collari
Nov. 13, 1927 - Mar. 18, 2013
Joseph Daniel Collari passed away at Dameron Hospital on March 18, 2013 at the age of 85.
Born in Wellesley, MA, he has lived the past 48 years in Stockton. Joe was a foundry worker and finished his career as a maintenance supervisor at Lodi Iron Works. He was an avid golfer, bowler, and outdoorsman. Also was a member of the Moose Lodge, and was past president of the Stockton Bowling Association. Joe took great pride in his garden and grew beautiful flowers and different varieties of vegetables. His greatest joy in life came from spending time with
family, especially at family barbeques.
He is survived by his beloved wife of 63 years Dorothy J. Collari of Stockton; children: Edward (Jan) Collari of Stockton, Sharon Stockdale (Jim) of Stockton, Carol Wright of Stockton and Lynda Collari of Springfield, OR; grandchildren: Jeffery Stockdale,
Jennifer Pritchard, Danny Collari, Julie Smith, Michelle Anderson, Laura Prock, Joseph Prock, Jaden Collari; 6 great grandchildren;
and a sister Rosanna Collari of
Friends and family may attend funeral services at 11:00 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013 at the Evergreen Chapel at Cherokee Memorial Park, Hwy 99 at E. Harney Lane in Lodi. Visitation will take place from 4-8 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013 at Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home, 831 Industrial Way, Lodi. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Joe's memory to the American Heart Association: PO Box 742030 Los Angeles, CA 90074
Please sign the online guestbook at www.cherokeememorial.com.


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COLUMBUS: Child welfare workers should have known more about the background of a group home resident who has been charged in the slaying of a jogger in a central Ohio park last fall, according to a new report.
The report released Wednesday by Franklin County Children Services said it needs to better assess youths who end up in group homes. The agency also said it plans a review of al1st Ld-Writethrul its group-home placements.
The 16-year-old boy is accused of the fatal stabbing of 55-year-old Jane Juergens, who was attacked on Oct. 20 as she went for a run in a park in Blendon Township near Columbus.
The Columbus Dispatch reported that of 125 cases studied, about 15 percent of the group-home teens had violent, aggressive or self-harming behavior. About 10 percent were recommended for further assessment to determine whether they need a higher level of care. About 14 percent of the teens were on probation with the county juvenile court.
The report said the jogger �yielded insights and opportunities for practice change in several areas.�
Evaluations need to take into account the child�s family and early life, the report said. The assessments should lead to better placements and services for troubled youths, not more incarceration, said Chip Spinning, the agency�s executive director.
�The institutionalization of youths is not favorable long term. Ultimately, they come back to the community,� he said.
The agency wants more placement options, including in the homes of foster parents who are trained and willing to care for troubled teens, so that they don�t have to be placed in group homes.


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Tower of Iron Will wrote:Count Blacktron wrote:Oh yes, bring back the PITCHFORK!
I agree that more trade utensils would be of interest such as the cleaver and handsaw mentioned.
Somewhat in the same vein as trade-tools, we could use a nice mandolin and harp for our bards and musicians.
LEGO can bring pitchforks back as long as they make some peasants/farmers to go with them. Musical instruments would be very cool. Harps, mandolins, flutes, recorders, long trumpets, yes, that would be the best.
CB/Tower - you guys are geniuses!! i would also like to see a return of the trumpets (from the western series) but not in chrome though. maybe in bley or metallic gold.


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FreeBSD 7.0 manual page repository
FreeBSD is a free computer operating system based on BSD UNIX originally. Many IT companies, like DeployIS is using it to provide an up-to-date, stable operating system.
dcons - dumb console device driver
dcons - dumb console device driver
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: options GDB device firewire device dcons Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in your kernel configuration file: options GDB and in loader.conf(5): dcons_load="YES"
The dcons device is a simple console device which just reads from and writes to an allocated buffer for input and output respectively. It is of no use by itself and it is supposed that the buffer is accessed via a bus like firewire(4) or kvm(3) for interaction. The buffer consists of 4 channels. There are 2 ports, one for the con‐ sole TTY and another is GDB port, then each port has an input channel and an output channel.
/dev/dcons /etc/ttys
If you want to run getty(8) on dcons, insert the following line into ttys(5) and send a HUP signal to init(8) using kill(1). dcons "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure Once the fwohci(4) device is initialized to allow physical access, the buffer can be accessed from another host via a firewire(4) bus using the dconschat(8) application. See dconschat(8) for more details. dcons_crom(4), ddb(4), firewire(4), fwohci(4), ttys(5), conscontrol(8), dconschat(8), fwcontrol(8)
Hidetoshi Shimokawa 〈firstname.lastname@example.com〉
This driver is currently under development.


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LONDON The Church of England has lifted a ban on gay male clergy who live with their partners from becoming bishops on condition they pledge to stay celibate, threatening to reignite an issue that splits the 80-million-strong global Anglican community.
The issue of homosexuality has driven a rift between Western and African Anglicans since a Canadian diocese approved blessings for same-sex couples in 2002 and U.S. Anglicans in the Episcopal Church appointed an openly gay man as a bishop in 2003.
The Church of England, struggling to remain relevant in modern Britain despite falling numbers of believers, is already under pressure after voting narrowly last November to maintain a ban on women becoming bishops.
The church said the House of Bishops, one of its most senior bodies, had ended an 18-month moratorium on the appointment of gays in civil partnerships as bishops.
The decision was made in late December but received little attention until the church confirmed it on Friday.
Gay clergy in civil partnerships would be eligible for the episcopate - the position of bishop - if they make the pledge to remain celibate, as is already the case for gay deacons and priests.
"The House has confirmed that clergy in civil partnerships, and living in accordance with the teaching of the Church on human sexuality, can be considered as candidates for the episcopate," the Bishop of Norwich Graham James said.
"The House believed it would be unjust to exclude from consideration for the episcopate anyone seeking to live fully in conformity with the Church's teaching on sexual ethics or other areas of personal life and discipline," he added in a statement on behalf of the House of Bishops.
The church teaches that couples can only have sex within marriage, and that marriage can only be between a man and a woman.
Britain legalized civil partnerships in 2005, forcing the church to consider how to treat clergy living in same-sex unions.
The church ruled that a civil partnership was not a bar to a clerical position, provided the clergy remained celibate, but failed to specifically address the issue of when the appointment was of a bishop.
In July 2011 the church launched a review to deal with this omission, at the same time imposing the moratorium on nominating gays in such partnerships as bishops while the study was conducted.
The review came a year after a gay cleric living in a civil partnership was reportedly blocked from becoming a bishop in south London.
It was the second setback for the cleric, Jeffrey John, who would already have become a bishop in 2003 but was forced to withdraw from the nomination after an outcry from church conservatives.
Rod Thomas, chairman of the conservative evangelical group Reform, said the church's move on gay bishops would provoke further dispute.
"It will be much more divisive than what we have seen over women bishops. If you thought that was a furor, wait to see what will happen the first time a bishop in a civil partnership is appointed," he told BBC television.
(Editing by Tom Pfeiffer)
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Sep 02, 2008 | 540 Minutes
"A well-researched book that imagines what lies behind that placid façade of the first lady…Ms. Sittenfeld was not out to sensationalize but to sympathize.
–Maureen Dowd, The New York Times
"Brilliant…[A] triumph…Curtis Sittenfeld has provided a plausible secret history of an American embarrassment – and a grand entertainment."
–Joe Klein, Time Magazine
"A smart and sophisticated portrait of a high-profile political wife…Sittenfeld has an astonishing gift for creating characters that take up residence in readers' heads."
–Connie Schultz,Washington Post Book World
"Sittenfeld boldly imagines the inner life of a first lady…an intimate and daring story…American Wife is a vicarious experience, an up-close portrait of the interior life of a very complicated woman…cinematic."
–USA Today
"The novel, Sittenfeld's most fully realized yet, artfully evokes the painful reverberations of the past."
–New Yorker
"Compelling…enormously sympathetic…Sittenfeld's remarkable gifts as a storyteller draw you back into the fictional world of Alice Blackwell. She writes in the sharp, realistic tradition of Philip Roth and Richard Ford–clear, unpretentious prose; metaphors so spot-on you barely notice them. Sittenfeld may have lifted the set pieces from a real woman's life, but in the process she has created a wise and insightful character who is entirely her own."
–Time Out New York
"Ambitious…Sittenfeld installs herself deep within the psyche of the tight-lipped wife of the president and emerges with an evenhanded, compassionate look at her mind and heart…powerfully intimate. Grade: A"
–Washington Post
"A masterful highbrow-lowbrow mash-up that satisfies as ass-kicking literary fiction
and juicy gossip simultaneously."
"With American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld has deftly crossed an extraordinarily high wire…I read American Wife in just two or three delicious sittings, struck by the granular clarity of the author's descriptions and the down-to-earth believability of the story, bewitched by the charming, frustrating woman at the center of it: Laura Bush."
— Ana Marie Cox, The New York Observer
"Curtis Sittenfeld is one of our best contemporary chroniclers of class and caste… Sittenfeld imagines this couple so deliciously and so plausibly… Curtis Sittenfeld invents a deep, messy, sympathetic life for a public person whose surface is all we'll ever know."
— St Petersburg Times
"Immensely readable. It's a nuanced portrait of a woman in a singularly fascinating position."
— Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A broad, deep and utterly convincing account…a portrait of a woman and a marriage that also brings the reader as close to the probable essence of the outgoing president as any other novelist, or any biographer, is likely to get."
— Portland Oregonian
"We love Sittenfeld. We love her wry, razor-sharp observations. We love her funny, straightforward honesty…[American Wife] is an empathetic, fascinating, and gorgeously written story about a 30-year marriage. We devoured it in one night."
— Boston Magazine
"Endearing and poignant, humorous and enlightening, American Wife is a must-read for Sittenfeld fans–and a good first read for would-be converts."
— Fredericksburg Freelance Star
"An entertaining, racy tale that's inspired more than a bit by the life of our current president's wife, Laura Bush…A well-told tale that will leave many readers wondering: How much of Sittenfeld's story might be closer to fact than fiction?"
— St Louis Post Dispatch
"The scope and detail of American Wife are reminiscent of Richard Russo. Like Russo, she creates characters from the ground up, ancestry, neighborhood, culture and all."
–LA Times
"American Wife promises to be another sensation."
– Dayton Daily News
"American Wife is a sparkling, sprawling novel…A ridiculously gifted writer…Sittenfeld has harnessed her talents perfectly in American Wife, producing an exhilirating epic infused with humor, pain, and hope."
"Widely anticipated and vastly entertaining… An intelligent, well-crafted, psychologically astute novel"
–New York Sun
"Highly engaging…fascinating depth."
— Seattle Times
"A well-researched, juicy roman a clef about the current first lady."
— Boston Globe
"Ambitious…entertaining…a parable of America in the years of the second Bush presidency."
–Joyce Carol Oates, cover of The New York Times Book Review
"With her first line – "Have I made terrible mistakes?" – Alice Blackwell (a fictional First Lady modeled after Laura Bush) reels us into a gripping epic of public and private lives. A gem."
–Good Housekeeping
"This searing page-turner will make you wonder what unspoken promises lie behind the victory smiles of any power couple."
– Redbook
"What is Laura Bush thinking? That's the question Sittenfeld ponders in her novel,
loosely based on the life of our First Lady…Just as she did in Prep, Sittenfeld masterfully deflates
the middle-class fairy tale — rose gardens and all."
–Marie Claire
"Bold…conveys in convincing, thoroughly riveting detail a life far more complicated than it appears on the surface…What she does here, in prose as winning as it is confident, is to craft out of the first-person narration a compelling, very human voice, one full of kindness and decency. And, as if making the Bush-like couple entirely sympathetic is not enough of a feat in itself, she also provides many rich insights into the emotional ebb and flow of a long-term marriage."
–Booklist, Upfront and Starred review
"Terrific . . . an intelligent, bighearted novel about a controversial political dynasty."
–Entertainment Weekly
"Remarkable . . . American Wife is about the long history of a marriage, and . . . the way we make decisions when we're young that have consequences we couldn't have anticipated. . . . Sittenfeld's most ambitious and impressive work to date."
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Walter Cottle Lester, a third-generation California farmer who stubbornly refused to sell his family's 237-acre ranch to developers even as Silicon Valley rose up around it and made the land worth hundreds of millions of dollars, has died at age 88.
Lester died of natural causes on Friday, a day before a 4-mile perimeter trail representing the first piece of a future park and agricultural preserve that will occupy his family homestead opened to the public, The San Jose Mercury News reported (https://bit.ly/1eivPNO ).
Lester deeded the land, which had been in his family since the 1860s and where fruit and grains still are grown, to Santa Clara County and the state starting a decade ago on the condition that it remain as open space forever.
At his request, the future Martial Cottle Park will be named for his maternal grandfather, who bequeathed the ranch to Lester's mother, who in turn passed it on to her son and his sister, who died 15 years ago.
Lester, who never married or had children, died in the same 140-year-old farmhouse where he was born. He was the last surviving member of the Cottle family and Silicon Valley's last big farm owner, the Mercury News reported. He repeatedly turned down offers from developers eager to secure the prime south San Jose real estate and could have gotten as much as $500 million for the property, the newspaper said.
"People ask: Why didn't Walter sell and go buy an island? Well, his world was right here," said David Giordano, who managed Lester's farming operation for the past two decades. "His duty in life, as he perceived it, was to preserve the ranch in its entirety."
Current plans call for the park to include a visitor center that explores the area's agricultural past, picnic areas and parcels that can be leased for farming and the crops sold at local markets. Former Santa Clara Supervisor Susanne Wilson, who worked with Lester to hammer out the preservation deal, said the project will be a tribute to his determination.
"He was just a crusty old farmer who had a dream, and he stuck with it. He was stubborn and crotchety, and a loner in many ways. He knew what he wanted," Wilson said. "He wasn't about to relinquish one bit of that land. He was here first, and, by golly, he had rights."
Information from: San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News, https://www.mercurynews.com


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And then there's Ruben Dario's book of poems, prose and otherwise, Azul.
I like it when very distinct sources come up with the same material. One of the pleasure of writing a blog lies in sharing this kind of weird shit with my readers.
What to make of this?
Marcel Proust, in the last volume of A la recherché du temps perdu, having lost his footing on an uneven paving-stone, is reminded of an instance in Venice when, similarly, he had lost his footing, and through a process of accumulated memories of this kind attempts to measure the definitive instance of recall, the moment in which the whole process of revelatory recollection comes together. And his moment of revelation arrives in the colour blue, or azure:
The happiness that I had just experienced was indeed just like that I had felt when eating the madeleine, and the cause of which I had at that time put off seeking. The difference, purely material, was in the images each evoked; a deep azure intoxicated my eyes, impressions of coolness and dazzling light swirled around me and, in my desire to grasp them, without daring to move any more than when I had tasted the madeleine and I was trying to bring back to my memory what it reminded me of, I continued . . . to stagger, as I had done a moment before, one foot on the raised paving-stone, the other foot on the lower one.
It would seem that this swimming about in the blue, as an image of self-awareness, or imminent revelation, was something familiar to the ancient alchemists. Lindy Abraham, in A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery writes:
[T]he mercurial water and alchemical quintessence are frequently described as being sky blue or azure. Paraclesus introduced the symbol of the sapphire from the Cabbala into alchemy, where it came to signify the arcane substance. Thomas Vaughan described the tincture as having the colour of a certain inexpressible Azure like the Body of Heaven in a clear Day.' He called the Stone 'an azure Heaven.' Elsewhere Vaughan wrote that the water of the sages was a 'deep Blew Tincture'. To clothe in an azure shirt or garment means to make projection of the tincture on molten metal in order to convert it into silver or gold.
And finally Thomas Vaughan himself, alchemist and brother of the great poet Henry Vaughan writes in his Aula Lucis:
Hence you may gather some infallible signs, whereby you may direct yourselves in the knowledge of the Matter and in the operation itself, when the Matter is known. For if you have the true sperm and know withal how to prepare it – which cannot be without our secret fire – you shall find that the matter no sooner feels the philosophical heat but the white light will lift himself above the water, and there will he swim in his glorious blue vestment like the heavens.
If you have the true sperm and know withal how to prepare it . . . prepare, dear reader, to swim into the livelong blue.


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Our diverse corps of volunteers ranges from high school seniors to retired seniors. They value being actively engaged in learning, giving, researching, and teaching. Volunteers at the National Archives say that they come to volunteer because they enjoy history, but they stay because of the friends they make.
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Anthony Vidler and Stephen Rustow will participate in the symposium Revising Labrouste in the Digital Age. Vidler will moderate the panel discussion "Reading Alone in Public: The Library and the Spaces of Information from the 19th to the 21st centuries," and Rustow will introduce and moderate the panel discussion "Learning with and from Labrouste." The event, which is held in conjunction with the exhibition Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light, will take place March 28, 2013 at MoMA.
"Held in conjunction with the exhibition Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light, this symposium acts, in part, as the fourth section of the three-part exhibition. It explores how a 19th-century architect and his work, and particularly his innovative use of materials and light in spaces of contemplation and public assembly, are relevant in contemporary culture and architecture. Young and mid-career architects and scholars examine Labrouste's inclusion in a 1975 exhibition at MoMA and how today's context is different; and how issues such as the library in the information age and the collective expression of individual experience, and the rational ornament apply to contemporary practice." - MoMA


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Documents show the widow a Chicago lottery winner poisoned with cyanide has battled in court with several of his siblings over control of his estate, including his lottery winnings.
The court documents shed no light on the circumstances of Khan's death, but add a layer of drama to the story.
A family member on Wednesday evening said that just one day after collecting his winnings -- $424,449.60 after taxes -- Khan "threw up blood."
"A heart attack doesn't make you do that. And he died after winning the lottery. We knew something wasn't right," the relative said.
Khan's brother, Imtiaz, and sister, Meraj Khan, won an order from a probate judge in September to freeze the lottery check, asserting his widow tried to cash it. They expressed concern in court filings that Khan's daughter from a previous marriage might not get her share.
The widow, Shabana Ansari, denies removing assets from the estate.
On Tueday, she said she couldn't believe her husband could have had enemies and that she has no idea who in their family asked authorities to take a deeper look into the death that originally was believed to be a death by natural causes.
"I was shattered. I can't believe he's no longer with me," the short, soft-spoken Ansari said tearfully, standing in one of three dry-cleaning businesses her husband started after immigrating to the U.S. from India in 1989.


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Sony Music Entertainment and Zee Music Co today announced a world-wide deal under which the global music major will manage all digital assets for the Indian firm's upcoming Bollywood releases.
With this announcement Sony Music will have access to all of Zee Music's releases, including Holiday, Bang Bang, Bombay Velvet, Humshakal and Hawa Hawaii, the company said in a statement.
Commenting on the development, Sony Music India Marketing Director Sanujeet Bhujabal said: "This strategic association will provide a global foot print to all the prestigious releases. This is a huge opportunity and together we believe we will be able to provide the best of music entertainment to fans."
Expressing similar views, Zee Music Co Head Anurag Bedi said: "Partnering with Sony Music will be mutually beneficial as we have a robust slate for this year which includes about 20-25 films, all of which are produced by leading production houses."
The tie-up further extends to exploring publishing for Zee Music's assets for the rest of the world through Sony/ATV, the largest music publishing company in the world.
Apart from the Zee Music releases, Sony Music said it will also be working on big budget films with leading production houses, including Vishesh Films, Dharma Production and Fox Star Studios.
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd had recently announced its foray into the music label space with its venture, Zee Music Company, and acquired the music rights of over 20 major motion pictures.


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text: This jelly has a white bowl-shaped bell with 16 purple stripes and very long tentacles. Young crabs are often found hitching a ride in this jelly's bell. This is a symbiotic relationship—by eating parasitic amphipods that damage the jelly, the crabs get a free meal, and the jelly gets a free cleaning. Did You Know? Young crabs are often found hitching a ride in this jelly's bell. Diet Zooplankton, including copepods, larval fish, ctenophores, salps, other jellies and fish eggs Size Bell can be up to 3 feet wide, and tentacles can extend as long as 25 feet on giant specimens. Range Found primarily off the coast of California Population Status In the past, jelly populations were kept in check by predators like sea turtles and jelly-eating fish. Due to the reduction of their predators, jelly populations are growing at alarming rates. Predators Sea turtles and other jelly-eating animals such as tuna, sunfish, butterfish and spiny dogfish keep the jelly populations in balance. All seven species of sea turtles include them in their diets. The largest sea turtle species, the leatherback, depends on jellies for food. Because jellies are more than 90 percent water and an adult leatherback can weigh more than 2,000 pounds, one turtle can consume a lot of jellies. Back to the Top


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Can the iPad save news media? The Guardian certainly hopes so: alongside its numerous other digital platforms, the paper recently launched an iPad app edition of its newspaper content to considerable acclaim, and saw 175,000 downloads in the first two weeks it was available.
We spoke to the paper's editor, Alan Rusbridger, about apps, the future of news, and the way technology has changed the job of a journalist.
When did you know that you wanted to move into journalism?
AR: Well at university I did what we'd now call being an intern, we didn't then - I just went to work on a local paper during my holidays and I got the bug. So that was in the mid 1970s, while I was still at university.
And have things changed a great deal in the time since then? What's the main difference between the newsroom in those days and today?
AR: Much quieter.
Ha ha.
AR: These people don't... there's a sort of library hush. The job as such, and finding things out, interviewing people, verifying - there's going to be some things that are the same, but in lots of ways, it's such a different business these days. Everything about the publishing schedule, the medium in which we publish, the fact that we're publishing live, we're publishing around the clock, responsive, everything else about the job has changed. Apart from the sort of eternal verities of journalism.
So technology is a major factor in the way that things have changed. Do you think this has added extra pressures to the life of a journalist?
AR: Well, yes and no. Given that the only research tool we really had when I started on the local paper was the library and cuttings folders - in a sense, the fact that you've got the world at your reach and so much information is now published, in a way it's easier.
But I think it's undoubtedly true that the pressures have also grown with that. The fact that you're publishing essentially 24 hours a day, at the same time as bringing out a newspaper, means undoubtedly the pressure... people work much harder than they did when I first became a journalist. And there's more pressure to get things right and to do things quickly.
Do you think that contributed to the way the Amanda Knox verdict was reported in Britain?
AR: It shouldn't do, because the people who are quickest and most accurate are traditionally news agencies like Reuters and AP, so there's... being an agency reporter is all about doing things very quickly and doing things accurately. But it's undoubtedly true that mistakes can slip in if you don't keep reminding yourself that it's better to be late than be inaccurate.
How do you consume the news yourself? Are you a paper man, or an online man?
AR: I still get papers at home, though I find now with the Guardian iPad [Edition], the fact that it's downloaded in the middle of the night, I'm one of those sad people who keeps an iPad by their beds. I use it last thing at night before going to sleep and instinctively it's the first thing I actually reach for in the morning. I still like papers, and still read papers, though I guess if you added up the amount of hours that I look on screen, as opposed to the amount of time spent reading papers, I must be overwhelmingly a screen person.
Do you think the tactile pleasure of a paper - do you think that's something that will help it to survive? I'm thinking of the feel of the Guardian app itself, the way you're touching it and you're involved with it physically.
AR: We were trying to recreate something of the pleasure of reading and the things that a newspaper does well, the things that people like about newspapers. You can scan them quite easily, they have a sense of hierarchy, it's not just all undifferentiated. I think the iPad succeeds on that score. It's very legible, and a lot of thought went into the ordering, you go sort of section by section, and you can find your way around it quite easily. I think you're right - the tactile element of it is also important. One of the gorgeous things about an iPad is that the interaction between the hand and the screen is so intimate and immediate.
What about the Kindle - do you think the novel has a different future to the newspaper? Do you think they'll both go digital in the same way?
AR: I think the main advantage of a Kindle... it's sort of cheap and cheerful, I suppose you're a bit less paranoid about the physical... there's something incredibly precious and shiny about an iPad. Whereas on holiday with a Kindle, you can read by the pool, it seems a more utilitarian object. And it's also easier to read in sunlight. The Guardian on Kindle is a less beautiful thing, it's purely utilitarian. There's much less sense of something that's been designed for a screen. I guess that will change with the new Kindle product, the iPad clone. But at the moment it feels like a different idea.
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Synonym(s): gain, advance, win, pull_ahead, make_headway, gain_ground
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text: Global Politics As U.S., NATO mull military action against Syria, questions raised about legality The World August 29, 2013 Chemical weapons are banned by most nations of the world, though Syria isn't one of them. It's still unclear, though, what countries can do when other countries use chemical weapons. What's becoming more clear, though, is that there's still not an easy legal justification for military strikes on Syria.


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Campers make the best out of a soggy backpacking trip.
By the time they slogged out of Myakka River State Park, bone-tired and dripping wet, their waterlogged boots squeaked and squished with every step.
"I can't feel my feet," said Cross Branham, 33, of Sarasota.
"I can't feel my shoulders," said James Wright, 28, of Nokomis, who carried the heaviest backpack.
On Tuesday afternoon, a group of four returned from a two-day trip to the Bee Island primitive campsite. After hours of steady rain, though, the Bee Island Trail and Powerline Road were beyond flooded.
It took two hours to hike three miles.
"We were walking through at least a foot of water," said David Silverberg, 23, of Sarasota. "Two feet in some places."
Jessie Wright, James' 27-year-old brother, rounded out the group of campers.
Several of them work at Square 1 Burgers in Sarasota. They joked about hiking back to square one. They planned the camping trip months ago, so they weren't going to let the some of the wettest weather of this rainy season hold them back.
At Myakka River, where seasonal flooding is to be expected, soggy hikers are just part of the scenery. The state park recorded more than three inches of rain in the last two days, less than some other areas on Monday and Tuesday.
"Nothing out of the ordinary," said Steve Giguere, assistant park manager. "Most people don't go out to the back-country sites in summer because it floods, but we do get the occasional enthusiasts who make it out there."
The Square 1 campers had two tents and some tarpaulins to help ward off the rain. They used a camp stove to heat soup and water for quick-serve meals. They snacked on beef jerky.
Rain tales aside, James Wright had the best camping story.
"I hiked out on Sunday and lost my sunglasses," he said. "When they got here yesterday, I said, 'Did you happen to find a pair of sunglasses?' And they said: 'Yes, we did.' They found 'em hanging from a tree branch. Can you believe that?"
The group pronounced their soggy camping trip a success. On a scale of 1 to 10, they gave it a 9.
The hike out of the park was a different story.
Their folding camp chairs were so heavy and bulky that they had to stash them, with plans to retrieve them later. And the water was so deep that it was more like wading than hiking.
"It was, it was . . . fun," Barnham declared once he'd dropped some gear.
In a small lot off the main park road, the guys pulled off their ponchos and peeled off wet jeans. They climbed into their cars, still damp, to get back to the real world.
"This is insane," James said. "I don't have any dry clothes. I'm gonna be driving home in my underwear and a T-shirt."


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Soon, organisms will be another medium for artists to manipulate like clay. There will be no structure to limit them from doing so. It will only be the skill of the artist that might eventually determine a species rather than the genetics of the species. What looks like a cat may have actually begun life as a cow or dog. Man made creatures will walk among those created by mother nature. Cubist cows and abstract rats will flourish in our city streets, be traded on eBay, and live amongst us as pets. This will be accomplished by breaking down the DNA on the molecular level allowing for free manipulation to occur by outside forces until they are set by the designer. Once done however, they'll be able to be changed as many times as the designer wishes. Life will truly be customizable. Man will have ultimate control over nature, redesigning it to his will. Man will be able to make the natural world his own, work around his ideas and not that of eons of evolution. Man will in essence become nature and force an evolution upon the rest of the world. Genetics will be broken down to ooze that which can be shaped and modeled at will. Machines will become organic, organic will become mechanical. What becomes of a world created by our own creations, and how does this world react in contrast to the original world?
I create within my work a sense of this possibility. I look to automotive, furniture, and industrial design for the clues to what this world may look like. My work is a mix of both science fiction and modern sculptural practices. Though based on science fiction and surrealism in concept, I am interested in materialism and sleek abstract design in the physical manifestation of the work. Much of my work comes from dreams, but is edited in the building process.
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The good and bad — yin and yang, if you prefer — of college football's just-completed postseason. As viewed through predominantly ACC-colored bifocals.
Good: Auburn defensive tackle Nick Fairley and running back Michael Dyer were electric in the Tigers' national-title victory over Oregon.
Bad: Quarterback Cam Newton, Auburn's Heisman-winning quarterback, was eligible for the game only because the NCAA concluded he had no knowledge of his father pimping him to Mississippi State. Talk about setting the bar low.
Good: ACC teams were 2-2 against ranked opponents in bowls. Florida State defeated South Carolina, and North Carolina State bested West Virginia, while Boston College lost to Nevada, and Virginia Tech fell to Stanford.
Modest perhaps, but downright encouraging after the ACC went 0-10 against non-league top-25 teams during the regular season.
Bad: ACC teams went 4-5 in postseason, the conference's fourth consecutive year with a losing bowl record.
Good: For the seventh time in eight years, a Colonial Athletic Association team reached the Championship Subdivision title game.
Bad: The CAA's Delaware squandered a 19-0 lead and lost to Eastern Washington 20-19.
Good: For the second consecutive year, EJ Manuel quarterbacked Florida State to a bowl victory in relief of injured Christian Ponder.
Bad: Miami quarterbacks Jacory Harris (three) and Stephen Morris (one) threw a combined four interceptions in the Hurricanes' 33-17 Sun Bowl sleepwalk against Notre Dame.
New Miami coach Al Golden, a former Virginia defensive coordinator, has a more difficult rebuilding task than most realize. Talent isn't the Hurricanes' issue. Attitude is.
Good: Virginia Tech limited Stanford to 13 points and Andrew Luck to 86 yards passing in the first half of the Orange Bowl.
Bad: The Cardinal outscored the Hokies 27-0 after intermission as Luck passed for 201 yards. It was the most-lopsided half against Tech since the Hokies trailed No. 1 Miami 31-3 at recess in 1992.
Good: North Carolina defeated Tennessee in double overtime for its first bowl victory in nine years.
Bad: Only a poorly conceived, soon-to-be-changed NCAA timing rule saved the Tar Heels from their own clock mismanagement at the end of regulation.
Good: North Carolina and N.C. State won bowls in the same season for only the second time, the first since 1972.
Bad: Georgia Tech lost the Independence Bowl to Air Force 14-7, the Yellow Jackets' sixth consecutive bowl defeat. In three postseason games under coach Paul Johnson, Georgia Tech has scored 24 points.
Moral of the story is, given time to prepare, defenses have figured out Johnson's option offense.
Good: Phoebus High graduate Tajh Boyd threw two late touchdown passes to spark Clemson's rally against South Florida.
Bad: The Tigers lost 23-16, and soon thereafter coach Dabo Swinney fired offensive coordinator Billy Napier.
Good: Maryland routed East Carolina 51-20 in the Military Bowl to finish with its best record (9-4) since 2003.
Bad: Terps athletic director Kevin Anderson fired ACC Coach of the Year Ralph Friedgen. Those more familiar with the program should judge whether the dismissal was merited, but there's no debating that Anderson mangled the public relations.
Nor is there any denying that Maryland is the first ACC school, absent NCAA violations, to fire a football coach after a top-25 season — the Terps are No. 23 in the final Associated Press poll.
Good: Randy Edsall coached Connecticut to its first Bowl Championship Series bid and parlayed that into the Maryland job.
Bad: Edsall told his players he was bailing via conference call.
Good: Florida State earned a bowl bid for the 22nd consecutive season, the nation's longest current streak.
Bad: Virginia's three-year bowl drought is the program's longest since its first invite in 1984. Count this among the many reasons former Cavs coach George Welsh was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Good: The day after the Orange Bowl, ESPN touted the game for attracting the network's third-largest audience ever for college football.
Bad: The Orange Bowl was the second-lowest rated game in the BCS' 13-year history.
Good: A Washington,D.C.-based political action committee, Playoff PAC, exposed the Orange Bowl for treating 40 athletic directors, conference commissioners and their spouses to an all-expenses-paid cruise to the Bahamas.
Bad: The Orange Bowl justified the boondoggle as meeting "with (our) key stakeholders to communicate and advocate our business focus."
Good: The more stories fans read about bowl excesses, all the more outrageous given the games' non-profit tax exemptions, the greater chance for an uprising that brings a playoff.
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Heavy Rain Movie Adapted by 'Deadwood' Creator
The movie is being developed by production company Unique Features with Warner Bros., which is reportedly 'fast-tracking' it.
"David Milch's incredible ability to transform intense and complex storylines into gripping, popular drama makes him the perfect partner for us to have on 'Heavy Rain,'" Unique's Bob Shaye said. Milch will start writing once he's finished working on the first season of HBO series 'Luck,' another of his creations
While Heavy Rain had cinematic aspirations, turning it into a movie itself is a little curious considering two of its main selling points were the branching storyline and unprecedented level of control players had over the four main characters. It came out for PlayStation 3 in February 2010, later gaining PlayStation Move Support.


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One of the peculiarities of the Alien Tort Statute is its mix of cosmopolitan conceptions of justice with American exceptionalism. Under the ATS the U.S. has been the only nation in the world allowing for universal jurisdiction ("UJ") in civil suits. So while enforcing international law has been the justification for these suits, it has been a mode of enforcement otherwise unseen around the world.
That changed a tiny bit today with a precedent-setting decision in the Netherlands, that awarded damages in a UJ civil suit brought by a Palestinian man against Libyan officials for torture that took place in Libya – the notorious and bizarre fraudulent persecution of foreign medical workers for infecting patients with AIDs. (And this is when Qaddafi could still be seen in polite company.)
So what does this ruling mean for the ATS, and particularly the extraterritoriality issue to be argued in Kiobel? At first, it would seem to bolster the plaintiff's case, by making civil UJ seem (very marginally) less anomalous. But it also cuts the other way, perhaps more strongly. The argument that there is no other forum where these serious wrongs can be redressed has underpinned broad notions of the ATS, both with regards to UJ extraterritoriality and corporate liability. Now, the danger of "impunity" has abated. Now a federal judge must now ask in a UJ ATS case – why wasn't it brought in Holland? What if Holland is actually physically closer to the conduct (as in Kiobel)? Isn't Holland where all the international lawyers are? Does plaintiff's presumptive choice of forum apply to UJ cases?
Finally, the Libyan defendants were all sued as individuals (because of sovereign immunity), suggesting an absence of entity liability (like corporate liability) does not make a nullity of international justice and human rights litigation.


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At Prizefighter—a bar in Emeryville, California, just over the bridge from San Francisco—the drinks are refreshingly simple. Owners Dylan O'Brien (pictured above) and Jon Santer are mixing the modern equivalent of the highball: just good spirits, fresh juice, and usually no more than three ingredients. In other words, perfect patio cocktails. Here are six of their favorite easy drinks that will leave you more time for an all-day doubleheader, monitoring the temperature gauge on your brisket smoker, or keeping an eye on the kids playing chicken with the lawn sprinkler.
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User talk:James P. McDonald
Week 12 Journal Feedback
- Thank you for submitting your assignment on time.
- It was a little difficult to review your GO terms since you only listed the GO ID, not the name of the term itself.
- Remember, from our journal club paper and the review articles, it is known that ribosome biogenesis is a process that is up-regulated during cold shock.
— Kam D. Dahlquist 12:38, 18 April 2013 (EDT)
- With regard to question 4: The individual gene's p value just tells us that we would see that big of a change in gene expression due to chance, that percentage of the time. The other factors that might influence that amount of change in gene expression could be technical issues with the experiment itself. Also, the Gene Ontology terms and transcription factors are two separate considerations. GO terms are associated with a group of genes who all play a part in that process the term describes. There are some terms related to transcription and transcription factors, but most GO terms are related to other parts of a cell's physiology. YEASTRACT tells us about which transcription factors regulate a group of genes.
— Kam D. Dahlquist 15:25, 19 April 2013 (EDT)
Week 1 Journal Feedback
- Thank you for submitting your assignment on time.
- There are a few of things that you need to fix on your individual user page and shared journal page. Please make these changes by next week's journal deadline (midnight, February 8) to earn back the points you missed on this assignment.
- You need to put the complete street address for your box at LMU.
- On the Week 1 shared journal page, put the link to your user page underneath the header for your section. Be sure to use a label for the link back to your user page. Instead of [[User:James P. McDonald]], use [[User:James P. McDonald | James P. McDonald]].
- You are writing something in the summary field most of the time; the goal is to fill it out every time you make a change.
- Your external link needs a label. What you did works, but it would be better to use the complete wiki syntax. I.e., use [http://www.lmu.edu LMU], which looks like this: LMU, instead of just http://www.lmu.edu.
- For the file you uploaded, you provided a journal article. While this is illustrative of your research, you need to be clear that you did not write this article. You should give the complete bibliographic citation of the article and say that it is related to your research. In addition, you need to find out if you are even allowed to post this article here. The article may be copyrighted by the journal, which means that you cannot repost it without permission. You will need to go to the journal web site to see if that is the case. If it is, you need to take it down. You can link to the article on the journal web site instead and you will need to provide a different file that you own for the assignment.
— Kam D. Dahlquist 01:52, 31 January 2013 (EST)
James, I answered your question on my user talk page — Kam D. Dahlquist 15:57, 22 January 2013 (EST)
You asked: "Hi Dr. Fitzpatrick, it appears that you have an extensive background in math, what got you interested in biology as well? James P. McDonald 21:21, 21 January 2013 (EST)"
My answer: My dad was a veterinarian, so I always had some interest. In graduate school, my thesis involved developing and applying so statistical techniques to study brain tissue, and as a young faculty member at UTK I discovered Murray's work on a math model of how leopards get their spots. That kind of thing really got me into it.
Ben G. Fitzpatrick 13:23, 3 February 2013 (EST)
Week 2 Journal Feedback
- Thank you for submitting your assignment on time.
- Your discussion is reasonable, but it would help tremendously to see graphs from some of your simulations. See Elizabeth's page for a good example of a single pdf file containing simulations that are well-annotated. See Ashley's page for figures embedded in the discussion.
- How might you include waste in the differential equation model?
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Cardinal Health and ClearCount Distribute RFID Sponge-Counting System
01 April, 2008
category: Biometrics, Health, RFID
Cardinal Health, a global provider of products and services that improve the safety and productivity of health care, today announced an agreement with ClearCount Medical Solutions to distribute the first system cleared by the Food and Drug Administration that integrates both counting and detection for sponge management during surgeries.
"Technologically advanced hospitals have been seeking a comprehensive solution to the sponge management challenge," said David Palmer, chief executive officer of ClearCount, "and we have every confidence that our system meets their needs."
Cardinal Health, ClearCount Medical Solutions Sign Primary Distribution Agreement for RFID-Enabled Sponge Counting, Detection System
DUBLIN, Ohio, April 1 /PRNewswire/ – Cardinal Health, a global provider of products and services that improve the safety and productivity of health care, today announced an agreement with ClearCount Medical Solutions to distribute the first system cleared by the Food and Drug Administration that integrates both counting and detection for sponge management during surgeries.
Under the terms of the agreement, Cardinal Health will be the primary distributor for ClearCount's patented SmartSponge(TM) system to hospitals, surgery centers and other health care distributors in the U.S. Cardinal Health will offer the SmartSponge(TM) system as part of its Presource(R) surgical kits and as a stand alone offering.
The sponges are permanently affixed with a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tag smaller than a dime. The SmartBucket(TM) display highlights any count discrepancies. If a discrepancy occurs, a SmartWand(TM) scan is used to identify any sponges remaining in the patient. A SmartMat(TM) under the patient provides the user with notification that a scan is proceeding properly. As the only system to integrate counting and detection for the purpose of sponge management, the SmartSponge(TM) system saves time, prevents unnecessary X-rays, reduces the possibility of user error, minimizes delays in procedures and reduces the hassles associated with count discrepancies.
"Patient safety has always been a top priority for hospitals, and they are becoming even more focused on preventing foreign objects from being left behind following surgery," said Steve Inacker, president and general manager of Cardinal Health's Presource kitting business. "This agreement demonstrates our continuing commitment to offer our customers leading technologies to help improve safety and productivity in their operating rooms."
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and an increasing number of private insurers have indicated that in the near future they will no longer reimburse for procedures associated with "never" events such as left- behind surgical sponges. Published studies today indicate that one in every 1,000 to 1,500 intra-abdominal surgeries results in a sponge left behind in a patient. A retained sponge incident can lead to serious complications, including sepsis, unnecessary X-rays, need for repeat surgeries and even death.
"Cardinal Health is a leader in patient safety, and our partnership is yet another example of their commitment to remain at the forefront of the industry," said David Palmer, chief executive officer of ClearCount. "Technologically advanced hospitals have been seeking a comprehensive solution to the sponge management challenge, and we have every confidence that our system meets their needs."
About Cardinal Health
Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. is an $87 billion, global company serving the health-care industry with products and services that help hospitals, physician offices and pharmacies reduce costs, improve safety, productivity and profitability, and deliver better care to patients. With a focus on making supply chains more efficient, reducing hospital-acquired infections and breaking the cycle of harmful medication errors, Cardinal Health develops market-leading technologies, including Alaris(R) IV pumps, Pyxis(R) automated dispensing systems, MedMined(TM) electronic infection surveillance service, VIASYS(R) respiratory care products and the CareFusion(TM) patient identification system. The company also manufactures medical and surgical products and is one of the largest distributors of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies worldwide. Ranked No. 19 on the Fortune 500, Cardinal Health employs more than 40,000 people on five continents. More information about the company may be found at www.cardinalhealth.com.
About ClearCount Medical Solutions
ClearCount Medical Solutions is a medical device company focused on patient safety solutions. ClearCount has assembled an extendable RFID-based platform that provides an encompassing solution to drive efficiencies while preventing medical errors. ClearCount's SmartSponge System is the first FDA- cleared RFID enabled system for counting and detecting surgical sponges. The comprehensive SmartSponge System is a reconciliation and detection solution that improves patient and OR safety, enhances operational efficiency and reduces cost. To learn more, visit www.clearcount.com.


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Friday, August 10, 2007
Hattori Sushi Devil, again
My plate, an order of Ginza. 8 different pieces of sushi.
I know, I've told you before. The best sushi in Stockholm. It's at Hattori Sushi Devil. For sure. And I'm not just saying that because head chef Peter Forsberg happens to be my brother in law - they really *are* the best.
Peter, scooping up my very favorite: squid salad
We eat there regularly, though not as often as I would really like to. They have a very small restaurant with just a few seats, so unless you're planning on takeaway, be prepared to wait for a while or avoid the lunch hour. Everything is made a la minute, which means that yes, it will take longer, but you won't get any boring, dried-out sushi that you won't want to eat anyway. It's well worth it.
Beautiful miso - always included
Unfortunately, no sushi bars in Sweden are allowed to serve alcohol (becuase according to Swedish law, you can only serve alcohol if you have a hot kitchen), so the drinks are limited to water, green tea (free) and Firefly which is a pretty cool drink.
Peter mixes his own flavored soy - there's a ginger, one with shiitake, one with bonito (smoked tuna) and my favorite, a citrusy one that I think has yuzu in it.
The guys are really getting recognition - several papers and magazines have written about them, and they're being asked to cater a lot of big functions. Well, as long as I can get my sushi fix, I'm really happy for them. It's well deserved!
Hattori Sushi Devil
Tegnérgatan 43 (Subway: Rådmansgatan)
08-22 44 00
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Jag trodde att jag hade ätit riktigt, riktigt fräsh sushi, men det där ser ju bara så totalt underbart ut! Måste prova nästa gång jag är i Stockholm
- August 09, 2007 9:58 AM
- Jessica said...
Oh yeah! I just totally agree!!! I hadn't eaten well-prepared sushi since I moved back from Japan until my first visit to Hattori. And man, it was just marvellous!!!!
Since that first visits I have been several times. La minute is how it is done in Japan. Preparing sushi is not just about slicing fish and throwing it on a pillow of rice, it is about far more of an art form than some restaurants appreciates. Hattori has though.
- August 09, 2007 10:58 AM
How does this place compare to East? Coming from New York, I've been very let down by sushi in general here, but East is ok, have had some decent hamachi there...albeit pricey.
- August 09, 2007 1:49 PM
- Anne said...
Anonymous - I haven't been to East. I really don't like the vibe of the place much.
- August 09, 2007 2:05 PM
I've eaten at Hattori twice. I acctually gave it a second chance because of your comments on it Anne but I don't think it's that good.
Sushi is flavoured rice and the rice at Hattori doesn't taste anything at all. The fish is marvelous and fresh but all the extra spices and herbs kinda destroys the whole point of sushi, which is supposed to be clean flavours.
I'd recommend Kimama (Observatoriegatan 13) over Hattori anytime! They have awesome and marvelous fish just as Hattori, but their rice is delicious aswell!
- August 09, 2007 6:09 PM
- thepassionatecook said...
I'd have to agree... no sushi is complete without miso soup. in fact, nothing is complete without miso soup... i LOVE it! Whish i could try your sushi place, you've made my mouth water yet again!
- August 10, 2007 8:33 PM
Åh, visste inte att Peter foppa Forsberg va kock! ;P SKitbra blogg förresten :)
- August 13, 2007 2:33 PM
- Unknown said...
Det är det stora problemet med "Svensk Sushi", Riset verkar inte ligga i fokus. Det är oftast för sött, eller som sagt, smaklöst. Och vet inte om det är samma problem i Sthlm (verkar inte vara det iaf.) Men här nere i Göteborg, Så är det ofta om inte alltid för stora "riskuddar". Det är rent ut sagt perverst...! Anne, om du landar i GBG nån dag, sök upp "Avan Gardo Sushi Ryori". Gör allt på det japanska viset. /Hoze Seruda.
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After rising 0.71% last week, the U.S. gold futures will likely finish on a positive note again. Week-to-Thursday, the gold futures surged 1.82%, touching a high of $1,697.80 on Thursday. The crude oil futures also jumped to a four-month high of $95.49 on Thursday. The S&P 500 index climbed 0.60% this week while the Euro Stoxx 50 index rebounded from its early sell-off, and was flat. The Dollar index failed to break 80, and inched up 0.16% this week, after falling 1.16% last week.
Improving Sentiments for Europe, the U.S. and China
Market sentiments toward the EUR/USD have changed substantially compared to a year ago. The Euro has risen against 30 of its 31 closest trading partners since July 2012. The chair of the Eurogroup and other major investment houses are seeing an even stronger EUR/USD — as high as $1.40 in 12 months' time. This is because of capital flow coming back to Europe, and more stable financial market conditions. The December U.S. housing starts beat the forecast, and advanced at an annual rate of 954,000, compared to 851,000 in November. Last week, the unemployment filings in the U.S. dropped to a five-year-low at 335,000. Gold prices reacted badly initially to the stronger U.S. data. China re-accelerated and grew at an annualized rate of 7.9% in Q4 2012, beating the expectation of 7.%8. In 2012, China's GDP grew 7.8%, beating the median estimate of 7.7%.
Other Pockets of Worry
Yet, the manufacturing data in the Northeast U.S. showed unexpected weakness, raising hopes that the U.S. will continue its stimulus program, therefore supporting gold prices. Both the Philadelphia's general economic index and the New York fed data fell much more than anticipated. The Philadelphia index plunged to -5.8 from +4.6 last month while the New York index dropped to -7.3 from -4.3 in November. The Fed and some large investors are sounding alert on the overheating of the riskier assets as the Fed has been buying $85 billion of bonds each month. Junk bond yield has gone lower than leveraged loan yield this week. More asset inflation is better for gold prices.
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As we mentioned on Wednesday, keep your eyes on the European Finance Ministers meeting, the Bank of Japan monetary policy meeting, and the PMI data from China, Euro-17 and the U.S next week.


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A Stafford man faces multiple charges after he broke free from deputies trying to take him into custody and led officers on a high-speed, two-county chase while driving handcuffed, authorities say.
The Spotsylvania County sheriff's office said in a press release that 26-year-old Traveyan Lee
Chambliss was being placed in the back of a patrol car Thursday for a probation violation when the felon broke free from two deputies and ran to a waiting vehicle.
They say Chambliss, who was handcuffed behind his back, got into the driver's seat of a white Chevrolet Impala and then stepped on the gas as 28-year-old Carolyn M. Henderson of Stafford steered the getaway car. Authorities say the Impala struck the two deputies while leaving the probation and parole office's parking lot.
Authorities tracked the car into Caroline County because it was equipped with On-Star. A deputy there began pursuit, and the Impala reached speeds of more than 120 mph on northbound U.S. 301, police say.
Caroline County Sheriff Tony Lippa says spike strips were laid down and flatted the car's tires south of Bowling Green, but the vehicle continued traveling at 80 mph. When the vehicle finally came to a stop, Chambliss and Henderson ran away but were apprehended.
Authorities say Chambliss is charged in Spotsylvania with escape with force, assault and battery of a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest and a probation violation. Charges in Caroline are pending. He was being held without bond at Rappahannock Regional Jail.
Lippa says Henderson was treated at a hospital for injuries that occurred when she jumped from the moving vehicle. She is charged with assault and battery of a law enforcement officer and aiding and abetting escape in Spotsylvania, as well as felony eluding and driving without a license in Caroline. She was being held without bond at the Pamunkey Regional Jail.
Man Cuffed Behind Back Leads High-Speed Chase
Accomplice held the wheel while escapee worked the gas.
A Stafford man faces multiple charges after he broke free from deputies trying to take him into custody and led officers on a high-speed, two-county chase while driving handcuffed, authorities say.