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Search engine marketing (SEM) is a form of Internet marketing that involves the promotion of websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs) through optimization as well as through advertising (paid placements, contextual advertising, and paid inclusions). Depending on the context, SEM can be an umbrella term for various means of marketing a website including search engine optimization (SEO), which adjusts or rewrites website content to achieve a higher ranking in search engine results pages, or it may contrast with SEO, focusing on only paid components
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I wrote this as a small side project to teach myself Flash/Actionscript, which was quite, um, interesting, given my C++ background (I miss static type checking). It was a lot of fun though, and I owe many thanks to our UX designers who helped supply the necessary "Googley" factor.
You can try it out here in the Google Talk gadget - simply click on your Google Talk picture in the upper right hand corner, and choose the "Take Photo..." option (you'll need a webcam to see this option). You can also see how it works (in Japanese) in this unofficial video.
There are a few undocumented keyboard shortcuts for this feature:
will take a picture ESC will discard the taken picture ENTER will save it as your Google Talk picture

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Oxford Webb�s Isaiah Hicks and Charlotte Providence Day�s Jatarie White headline the 2012-13 Associated Press all-state prep basketball teams for North Carolina.
RALEIGH � Oxford Webb�s Isaiah Hicks and Charlotte Providence Day�s Jatarie White headline the 2012-13 Associated Press all-state prep basketball teams for North Carolina.
Hicks, a North Carolina signee, was a unanimous pick on all 22 votes from sports writers across the state to lead the 12-player boys team in results released Wednesday.
White, considered one of the nation�s top juniors, earned 20 votes to lead the 12-player girls squad.
Hicks, a 6-foot-9 senior, averaged about 24 points, 15 rebounds and eight blocks to help Webb win the 3A championship and make the AP all-state team for the second straight year.
In the 3A final, Hicks had 34 points, a finals-record 30 rebounds and seven blocked shots in the overtime win.
The McDonald�s All-American is a five-star prospect and the No. 20 recruit nationally, according to Scout.com.
White, a 6-3 junior, averaged about 19 points and 10 rebounds to lead Providence Day to a fourth straight 3A independent-schools championship. White is ranked as the No. 12 recruit in her class by ESPN.
Hicks and White were the Gatorade players of the year for North Carolina.
There were nine returnees to the AP all-state teams, led by three-time selections Kennedy Meeks of West Charlotte � also a UNC signee and McDonald�s All-American � on the boys side and Jamie Cherry of West Craven on the girls team.
West Craven senior forward Josh Cuthbertson and Person County senior swingman Tyrone Outlaw Jr., made the AP boys team for a second straight year.
Rounding out the boys are: Waxhaw Cuthbertson�s Shelton Mitchell, Cornelius Hough�s Luke Maye, Eastern Alamance�s Lamont Robinson, East Burke�s Clay Byrd, Southwest Guilford�s Terrell Leach, Clayton�s Gary Clark, Shelby�s Gabe DeVoe and Kinston�s Denzel Keyes.
On the girls� side, Salisbury junior forward Brielle Blaire, Rocky Mount senior guard J�Kyra Brown, Catawba Bandys junior guard Madi Story and Greensboro Page junior guard Paris Kea also made the AP team for the second straight year.
Rounding out the girls are: Asheville Carolina Day�s Haley Laughter, Weddington�s Stephanie Watts, Gastonia Forestview�s Bre Armstrong, East Surry�s Keri Fulp, Lejeune�s Chatori Major and West Rowan�s Shay Steele.
The AP prep basketball coaches of the year for North Carolina will be released today. The players of the year will be released on Friday.
2012-13 AP all-state teams
The 2012-13 Associated Press all-state prep basketball teams for North Carolina, as selected by 22 sports writers across the state in results released Wednesday. With school, position, class and number of votes in parentheses:
Isaiah Hicks, Oxford Webb, C, Sr. (22)
Kennedy Meeks, West Charlotte, C, Sr. (20)
Shelton Mitchell, Waxhaw Cuthbertson, PG, Jr. (19)
Luke Maye, Cornelius Hough, F, So. (15)
Lamont Robinson, Eastern Alamance, PG, Jr. (14)
Josh Cuthbertson, West Craven, F, Sr. (14)
Clay Byrd, East Burke, G, Sr. (13)
Terrell Leach, Southwest Guilford, G, Sr. (13)
Tyrone Outlaw Jr., Person County, G/F, Sr. (10)
Gary Clark, Clayton, F, Jr. (9)
Gabe DeVoe, Shelby, PG, Jr. (9)
Denzel Keyes, Kinston, F, Sr. (9)
Jatarie White, Charlotte Providence, F, Jr. (20)
Jamie Cherry, West Craven, G, Jr. (19)
Haley Laughter, Asheville Carolina Day, G/F, Sr. (18)
Stephanie Watts, Weddington, G, So. (18)
Brielle Blaire, Salisbury, F, Jr. (18)
J'Kyra Brown, Rocky Mount, G, Sr. (17)
Madi Story, Catawba Bandys, G, Jr. (16)
Bre Armstrong, Gastonia Forestview, F, Sr. (11)
Keri Fulp, East Surry, C, Sr. (11)
Paris Kea, Greensboro Page, PG, Jr. (11)
Chatori Major, Lejeune, G, Sr. (10)
Shay Steele, West Rowan, F, Sr. (10)


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Through automation, prosecutors will be able to make audit decisions faster and provide greater workflow security. IBM business analytics will allow employees of the Prosecutor General's Office to generate reports with various levels of complexity automatically, and also create new forms and text and graphical reports without involving programmers or analysts.
The new IBM system provides full content management, automated document-oriented work processes and results monitoring. For example, electronic forms now give employees an alternative to scanning paper applications, and the built-in mechanisms for automatic testing of rules and regulations accelerate decision-making. The system is also providing easy and secure access to resources on the internal interface. User-specific access policies ensure compliance with all required regulations, while significantly reducing the workload associated with processing this information.
Specialists who need to make decisions quickly can respond to requests in electronic format and receive applications automatically. This can significantly reduce processing time and delivery of legally significant information, which previously had to be sent via regular mail and took at least three days to process. The IBM solution helps the Prosecutor General's office make the inspection plan more transparent and visible both to Prosecutor General's employees and businesses.
"The IBM system will strengthen the interaction between government and business, and increase business confidence to the regulatory authorities' activities," said Sergei Taran, the Head of IT Department of Prosecutor General's Office. "Such a system must be extremely reliable, compatibility and secure. The functionality of the IBM system will enable us to provide centralized control of a complex interaction of business and Prosecutor General's Office all over Russia."
The second phase of the project is currently underway.
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The contract was signed in November 2009, and the project was implemented by Open Technologies, an IBM prime partner.
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The Most Common Name in Baseball
Statistical data has found that James is the most common male name in North America while Mohammed is the most common name in the world. But have you ever wondered what the most common first name in baseball is?
I have.
For that reason, I have compiled a list of every player who has been placed on a team's 40-man roster in 2013; 1,357 players resulted from Aaron Cook to Zack Wheeler. Here are the top 10 most popular first names in baseball in 2013.
10. Jose (19): While I expected to find this name a little higher on the list, 19 current baseball players are named Jose. Two of the more popular Joses are found on the Blue Jays, including Jose Bautista and Jose Reyes.
9. Justin (19): Turns out that a multitude of power pitchers are named Justin, including Justin Masterson and Justin Verlander. Canadian Justin Morneau also dons the name well.
8. Brandon (19): There are plenty of pitchers named Brandon, including Brandon Morrow, Brandon League and Brandon McCarthy.
7. Dave/David (20): Franchise players wear the name Dave or David well, including David Wright, David Price and David Ortiz.
6. Ryan (24): Ryan Zimmerman, Ryan Braun and Ryan Dempster all prove just how popular the name Ryan is in baseball.
5. John/Jon/Johnathan/Jonathon (25): From John Buck to Jon Lester to Jonathan Broxton or Jonathon Niese – it doesn't matter how you spell it – there are 25 of 'em!
4. Josh (26): Think you can name an MLB player named Josh? You probably can as there are 26! The most popular include Josh Johnson, Josh Hamilton, Josh Beckett and Josh Willingham.
3. Chris (33): From Chris Davis' home run power to Chris Sale and Chris Capuano's strikeout abilities, there are 33 players named Chris on Major League rosters.
2. Mat/Matt (34): From power hitters Matt Kemp and Matt Wieters to pitchers Mat Latos, Matt Cain and Matt Harvey, there are 34 Major League players named Mat(t).
1. Michael/Mike (43): Did you guess which name is the most popular in MLB in 2013? Here's a hint: What do Michael Morse, Michael Young, Mike Moustakas and Mike Trout all have in common? That's right, the name Michael/Mike!
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If you store your Aperture library on a volume that is formatted FAT32 (a file system commonly used on Windows PCs), you may encounter issues including poor performance, data corruption, and data loss. Referenced images stored on FAT32 volumes may sporadically go offline. Many external drives come pre-formatted as FAT32. Use Disk Utility to format new external hard drives as Mac OS X Extended before using them with Aperture. For instructions on how to do so, see the steps in Format external drives to Mac OS Extended before using with Aperture.
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Those of you who are on DT's , you know how some of them just feel like "home." DPC is definitely that for me! Cathie is AMAZING, her kindness and generosity is just out of this world! So , I wanted to share this DT call , and encourage you all to give it a shot! Even if you aren't ona single DT! Doesn't matter your "experience" level! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! MAke sure to check out the full details HERE. And of course look at all the yumminess in the store that we get to work with HERE.
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it's been a week since the only headliner show in Germany happened in Erlangen. It was a wonderful energy with many smiling faces in front and on stage. The bootleg is online for seven days, and I kindly ask you to share it - but if you do, do it for free.
The next track "Be More Kind" ist NOT included in this bootleg.
Here you go:
01) Get Better
02) Glorious You
03) Plain Sailing Weather
04) The Next Storm
05) Out Of Breath
06) Recovery
07) Banter
08) Losing Days
09) Try This At Home
10) One Foot Before The Other
11) Long Live The Queen
12) Banter
13) The Way I Tend To Be
14) Josephine (Solo)
15) Be More Kind (Solo // Not included!!!)
16) The Ballad Of Me And My Friends
17) Opening Act Of Spring
18) The Road
19) I Am Disappeared
20) Happy Birthday Cathrin
21) If Ever I Stray
22) Photosythesis
23) Banter
24) Pass It Along (Duo /w Matt)
25) Polaroid Picture
26) I Still Belive
27) Four Simple Words
28) Outro
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Combat sports: It's a waste of breath calling for their extinction | OPINION
I can trace the solidification of my love of boxing to my youth and a TV that was ridiculously small, and reception that was absurdly poor.
It mattered not. Because even on such a limited canvas, Mike Tyson was implanted in my consciousness, and the consciousness of millions, as an almost mythical force who blasted poor Trevor Berbick into submission with murderous precision, power and ferocity. The sight of Berbick staggering around the ring like an inebriate, forlornly trying to regain his legs and senses, is an iconic boxing moment.
But to anti-combat sports advocates, it is an appalling spectacle, a man savagely beating another man for the amusement of others.
I recently published an article on a Muay Thai fighter who won via knockout, the photo showing the opponent seemingly unconscious on the floor. A reader said the article should not have been published because Muay Thai was not a sport. It was, the reader said, a showcase of violence detrimental to a child's desired development, and I should be "ashamed" of myself.
The rise of the UFC has intensified the din of those who want combat sports banned. Because something in which the optimal outcome is to knock out an opponent is not a sport, they argue – it is a barbarism, no better than long-outlawed duelling, and has no place in civilised society.
Watching an unconscious fighter receive more blows from an opponent kneeling over them, as often occurs in the UFC, is hard to defend.
But as much as someone may loathe these sports – pointing to the devastating brain injuries linked to them as further proof of their undesirability – the masses will continue enjoying them and the media will continue covering them.
And here's the nub: The only thing worse than watching a boring fight is missing a knockout because, I don't know, an annoying boss wanted you to turn off the work TV.
That was the dilemma I had faced when I watched the Tyson-Berbick fight. It was a Sunday morning and I was the sole employee at a drive-through bottle shop in Gladstone, Queensland. Under the threat of being sacked, my boss told me to stop watching the fight.
I chose the fight. And to this day I don't regret it. Because I watched an athlete, born of a poor urban black experience in New York City, harness fabled natural attributes and years of training – under the tutelage of an ageing father figure skilled in the sport's old ways – to beat another highly skilled athlete senseless, and it was beautiful.
Mark Bode is a Fairfax journalist.


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Miranda Lambert Plays Surprise Florida Show
Miranda Lambert was on her way to a Jacksonville, Fla. gig Saturday (June 14) when she decided to make some fans very happy with a quick pit stop. The 'Automatic' singer stopped in Fort Walton Beach and decided to play a surprise show!
She had some time to kill before her Sunday show at EverBank Field so she pulled her little silver camper over and decided to play a free two-hour show. What's the best way to promote a surprise show? Social media, of course.
After the tweet was sent and Lambert's Airstream was seen, fans quickly started to line up at the Florida nightclub, according to CMT. The venue, which has a 700-person capacity, filled up with music loving fans for a two-hour concert.
Lambert, who wore holy jeans and a tank top, a big teal belt buckle and a sparkly headband, played her songs 'Fastest Girl in Town,' 'Heart Like Mine,' 'Even Prettier' and 'Gunpowder and Lead' before doing something a little different. She let band member Carolyn Dawn Johnson take center stage for 'Summer of '69,' which was made popular by Bryan Adams in 1984. They also played a few covers for the packed crowd including Led Zeppelin's 'Rock and Roll' and the Faces' 'Stay With Me.'
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On Sunday morning, a 25-year-old driver in São Paulo lost control of his Peugeot, flew off the edge of the road, and got stuck in the second-story wall of a house. There were eight people (including five children) inside, thankfully no one was injured.
Especially when you consider that, of the eight residents in the home, two women, two children, and a six-month-old baby were asleep in the room that the Peugeot crashed into. The car broke through the wall just over three feet from their beds.
The driver — who didn't have a driver's license — had to be lifted from the car by a rope and even he sustained only bruises from the crash. He will be charged for driving without a license, and there may be additional charges for endangering the lives of others.
The speed of the vehicle when it left the road has not yet been determined, but we'd take an educated guess that it was probably slightly more than the posted limit.
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There is plenty of parking in the covered multi-storey car park and in outdoor car parks P3 and P4A near the terminal. Book your space online to save money!
To park at Dresden Airport, simply turn up and take a ticket at the barrier to park anywhere in the Classic area of the multi-storey car park or in outdoor car park P3 and P4 (when available).


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DeepTrawl brauchte ein neues Anderes Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 49 Designs von 6 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Our software helps webmasters find & fix errors in their websites.
Our customers are professionals who are experienced in web design. The graphics should look cutting edge (reflections & glass effects welcomed) & should appeal to users of high end software.
The contest is to design two images, one of which will be the new header for our website (http://www.DeepTrawl.com). The other will be the splash screen.
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This is how my boyfriend proposed to me! It is a picture of a set of custom G.I. Joes that John made of me and him. Since he has a bad knee he did it this way. In the background there are stormtroopers, iron man, thor, my lego guys, R2D2, C3PO, cobra vipers, and Duke and Scarlett (from G.I. Joe).
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- Due to Provincial restrictions, our classes are being rescheduled. Classes will resume when the closure mandate is lifted and it safe once again to gather and learn. Thank you for your patience during these difficult times.
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- If you need to cancel, please let us know 5 days prior to the class. Cancellations made later than that will forfeit the class deposit or fee.
- We may re-schedule or cancel classes if we do not receive the minimum number of bookings, or in case of bad weather or instructor illness. In this case, you will be notified and the fees will be refunded or issued as store credit.


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May Lee, owner of JJ Eyelashes, is a stickler for assessing clients' eyes and customizing her recommendations. You won't believe the results once you've tried her team's eyelash extension handiwork. Meet May!
Why do you think there is such a fascination with long eyelashes? Eyelash extensions enhance a woman's beauty and make her look more sexy, attractive, and it defines the eye shape. It's like waking up every morning and not having to do your makeup because the lashes do it all.
There seems to be endless eyelash extension services in the city. Tell us about JJ Eyelashes and how it stands out from the others.
JJ Eyelashes focuses on client satisfaction. Our fully trained professional technicians customize the lashes to fit the client's eye shape and facial structure, using two different curls in lengths ranging from 7mm to 17mm. We can even customize lashes for those who have a lazy eye. That's what separates us from others. It truly is an experience.
What do you think your clients love most about JJ Eyelashes?
Our clients always look forward to just taking one hour of their day to come here and finally relax. They doze off and wake up to a complimentary foot massage.
What made you decide to start this business?
I've been doing permanent makeup for over ten years. Making women beautiful is so much fun for me, so I decided to venture off into the eyelash extension business as well. To see the reaction on their faces brings me a joy that I cannot explain. It just shows the difference you have made in someone's life. Women that come here are always almost too busy to do anything and the eyelash extensions save so much time and give them that on-the-go sexy look they want.
What is the ultimate beauty tip that you personally follow?
Keep it natural. The natural look is most beautiful. Most women love that they can apply the lashes and not have people ask them if they have falsies on. I have my eyeliner, full lips, and eyebrows done, and it looks as natural as ever. No one can ever tell that I have permanent makeup on and that is what I love about this business.
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Beautifully written! Hilarious and very evocative! I was in Romania at age 13 in 1974 and it was a similar experience, only I wasn't responsible, so it was much better.
Oh Emily! I was MARRIED in Prague in 1994–post communist, but pre-latte (also pre-destination wedding). I was living as a student in Germany and 7 months pregnant. I needed health insurance that covered the birth, and this was the way to get it fast!
The Americians were just arriving, and the city and citizens were still run on coal and covered with soot. The place still ran like a communist country, but with a touch of optimism. All that red tape, translations and super-legalization of documents, and visits to buroctratic offices.
Long since the divorce, I keep my marriage papers as a charming artifact. They actually wrote Rileova on the papers because Rile is masculine (no ova!). Then in Germany I had to convince them to take the "egg" off the translation…The story goes on and on. Have not yet been back for the latte.
It's quite amazing how EMDR can make such a massive change in ones life.
Prepared Seal may be the best stain out there. It is going to continue to keep the cedar searching hunting excellent. Over a deck you do need to reapply each and every two a long time since the the is harsh. If any company tells you different they can be striving to market you a little something other than their product.
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PHOTOPHILE- Hoo-tenanny: Cavs fans party hard before Tech game
The gridiron showdown between the University of Virginia Cavaliers and the Virginia Tech Hokies is the biggest football game of the year in the Commonwealth, and for UVA fans it's also the year's biggest party.
So when the Hokies descended on Scott Stadium Saturday, November 24, Cavaliers of all kinds broke out the barbecues and donned their orange-and-blue to celebrate the annual pigskin-palooza. Even the 33-21 loss to the in-state rival and temperatures in the 30s could not stop Wahoos from cheering their hearts out.
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I'm quite frankly sick to death of hearing about Lance and his apparently inexhaustible ability to be targeted by, and just missed by, doping investigations. More importantly, I'm tired of it being the only story the main stream american media seems able to cover related to cycling. Well, that and a cyclist killing a pedestrian. For americans this was an amazing year in bike racing, but you barely heard anything about in on the talking picture box. Two major pro level stage races in the United States. An American team battling it out in the olympics. American cyclist Chris Horner apparently inheriting the reigns of Cycling Media Ambassador for the american Audiences. These are exciting times for those of us in the states that are paying attention. For the rest of the population, apparently cycling is only about allegations of cheating from over a decade ago.
With all of this hoopla, you think that the Armstrong events were absolutely critical to the sport of cycling. But what impact with the USADA / Lance debacle actually have? Well, only one of two.
Scenario One: The (still) immortal Lance
There will be continued bickering, lawyering-up and public statementifications (read that carefully) until ultimately, some obscure court that no one has ever heard of will completely side-step the doping allegations, In this scenario, the Court of Arbitration for Sport will decide that the USADA has no authority to strip medals and wins. If this happens, historians will need to rewrite the name "Armstrong, L. United States" across the white out they just recently placed across his name.
Scenarion Two: Lance only had 9 lives (and already used up 8)
Alternatively, the ruling may stand. Lance may be stripped of his wins for all posterity. The sport will be cleansed of the evil dopers – oui? No. In fact, almost all of the 2nd place finishers that would be promoted to first if Armstrong is stripped of his titles are themselves accused and/or convicted dopers. That's progress, right?
Lance's characterization of these allegations as a "witch hunt" may be true. However, unlike the madness in Salem of oh-so-many years ago, this time around thar be real witches in the woods.


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Set in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the century, Julie Harmon works hard and toils to support her family, often doing the work that nobody else wants to do. After her brother and father die, Julie and her family meet Hank, who proposes to Julie after only a week. Once married, Julie works hard and toils for Hank, who turns abusive after having lost his job. Under the constant threat of losing their home, the two try to make the best of their very simple life.
To say this book is dull and repetitive would be a kindness. There really wasn't much of a plot to hold onto. While the book had some engaging moments, particularly when Morgan would describe in excruciating detail the slaughter of hogs and rendering of lard, I found most of the book to be an endless drone. Both Julie and Hank are the most stale, predictable and two-dimensional characters I have come across. There was no life, no spark, no spirit, nothing to engage me in their lives or care about their circumstances. Most of the personality went to the tertiary characters. Julie's narration is very forced and clunky. I think Morgan had some issues trying to speak through a female character. Whether that is part of the author's narration scheme or not, I don't know. I would recommend Willa Cather's My Antonia if you're looking for a book on a similar topic and time period.


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THE Get Hooked on Fishing bigwigs were out in force over the August Bank Holiday festival but it was the enthusiastic youngsters of today who planted their rods and poles firmly in Leicestershire's magnificent The Glebe fishery on the Saturday. And they laughed their way to hooking fish after fish in double-quick time.
The event was an opportunity to thank the young Peer Mentors for their help, support and commitment during the last year and also to raise awareness of the valuable work the charity does across the UK.
Glebe owner Roy Marlow and his Marukyu Pro Team led this charging brigade on Pools 1 & 6. The fishing was difficult on a day which started with baking heat, turning to rain, thunder and lightning but 'keepnets' full of enthusiasm and commitment were evident all round throughout the day and some huge smiles definitely brightened up the weigh-in!
The young rods had descended upon The Glebe from far away, transported and backed-up all the way by a team of Get Hooked on Fishing helpers. They came from Teesside, Merseyside, Tyneside and 'local' NE Lincolnshire, not just to sample the delicious breakfast served up but, in some cases, to taste our great sport of fishing for the very first time.
Well, at least coarse fishing, as some of the lads from Merseyside were more accustomed to catching flounders from the Mersey Estuary. Roy insisted that his precious carp and skimmers were definitely not going to be wrapped in brown overcoats and deep fried… even if one intrepid youngster had brought along a pack of oven chips ready to go!
Every boy and girl – yes, girls do Get Hooked on Fishing too – caught plenty as the day progressed. And with some excellent coaches to help each "team", why wouldn't they?
Of course, an ample supply of Marukyu baits and tinned sweetcorn, (that which wasn't devoured by the youngsters who have much to learn about the art of "feeding"), did help the cause. And even in a bit of a breeze, the resident fish didn't object to the odd wayward cast or float travelling in circles!
Leader of the pack on the day was the diminutive Kiegan Burnicle from Tyneside, who after being mesmerised by cruising carp in peg 86 on Pool 6, decided he was going to catch some.
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One rung down the ladder was 17-year-old Danny Lambrends from Merseyside, and this teenage scouser netted 39lb 8oz of carp and allsorts from peg 15 on Pool 1.
In third place was 16-year-old Sam Abols, also from Merseyside, who tamed 37lb 4oz of prime fish from Pool 1, peg 1, including a last gasp specimen that ripped elastic from his pole for a full 15 minutes! But let's not forget the ladies, and young Paige Wardle from Teesside bagged a handsome 26lb 12oz from peg 23 on Pool 1, and also added a few admirers with her obvious angling skills. A young lady to watch: take note.
Here's a mention for the rest of our young anglers of the future who are now all well and truly "Get Hooked on Fishing":
Trophies galore were awarded, far too many to mention in full here. The GHoF Outstanding Contribution Award went to Simon Short (adult helper from NE Lincs) who returned to fishing only 3 months ago after not wetting a line since childhood, but was prepared to support GHoF and fish in the event alongside experienced youngsters and talented adults. He contributed admirably to his team's overall weight of 268 lb 12 oz. What a star!!
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PRE-B CELL RECEPTOR SIGNALING IN ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA by Rahul R. Nahar A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (GENETIC, MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY) December 2010 Copyright 2010 Rahul R. Nahar
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|B cell lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) represents the most frequent malignancy in children and is also common in adults. In virtually all cases, B cell lineage ALL cells are arrested at the pre-B cell stage or before. ALL cases are categorized in different subgroups based on the different chromosomal translocations and abnormalities found in them. Philadelphia chromosome positive (Ph+) leukemia carrying the t(9;22)(q34;q11) translocation is defined by the constitutively active oncogenic tyrosine kinase BCR-ABL1. In addition, in >80% of cases deletions of IKAROS gene are found in Ph+ ALL. We have recently shown that Ph+ ALL can also be defined by deficiency of a functional pre-B cell receptor.; During normal B cell development, pre-B cell receptor signaling first induces proliferation of the B cell precursors (large cycling pre-B cells, Fraction C') and then causes cell cycle arrest at the time of Ig light chain gene rearrangement to initiate differentiation (small pre-B cells, Fraction D). Here we show that expression of µ chain (immunoglobulin heavy chain) in BCR-ABL1 transformed cells or reconstitution of SLP65 (a major adaptor protein in pre-B cell receptor signaling complex) in Slp65-/- BCR-ABL1 cells induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis.; Dissecting the mechanism of tumor suppression by the pre-B cell receptor in BCR-ABL1 ALL, we studied Stat5 signaling, a central mediator of survival and proliferation downstream of the BCR-ABL1 kinase. Forced expression of pre-B cell receptor or Ikaros resulted in rapid dephosphorylation of Stat5 Y694 and concomitant upregulation of BCL6. Upregulation of BCL6 is causally linked with pre-B cell receptor induced cell cycle arrest. By genome wide ChIP-on-chip analysis we observed direct recruitment of BCL6 transcriptional repressor to promoters of MYC and CCND2, two key mediators of cell cycle progression in Ph+ ALL. Forced expression of BCL6 induced a cell cycle arrest in BCR-ABL1 transformed ALL and in addition Bcl6-deficient BCR-ABL1 transformed pre-B cells were more resistant than the Bcl6+/+ cells to the tumor suppression by the pre-B cell receptor. Further overexpression of Myc could rescue the pre-B cell receptor mediated cell cycle arrest.; In the process of studying how the pre-B cell receptor results in dephosphorylation of Stat5, we found Ikaros as key mediator. We have recently shown that pre-B cell receptor signaling leads to upregulation of Ikaros. In addition, reconstitution of Ikaros resulted in significant Stat5 dephosphorylation and this event required the pre-B cell receptor associated adapter molecule SLP65. Further dominant negative Ikaros isoform IK6 prevents the cell cycle arrest induced by the pre-B cell receptor. As a consequence of Stat5 dephosphorylation Ikaros indirectly resulted in Bcl6 upregulation and subsequent cell cycle arrest.; BCR-ABL1 driven ALL is defined by deletions of Ikaros and absence of a functional pre-B cell receptor. However the mechanism of this tumor suppression by Ikaros/pre-B cell receptor still remained elusive. We here elucidate the mechanism of Ikaros mediated tumor suppressor, namely Stat5 dephosphorylation. In conclusion, we identify Stat5 dephosphorylation and BCL6 upregulation as the key events in the pre-B cell receptor / IKAROS mediated tumor suppression in Ph+ ALL.
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Friday, December 02, 2011
Gingrich the Man - When the bar is set very low
"I don't claim to be the perfect candidate. I just claim to be a lot more conservative than Mitt Romney and a lot more electable than anyone else."
Wow, now that's truly inspiring, Newt. Not.
Mostly it just tells you how terrible the field of Republican candidates for President are, for 2012 - with Gingrich himself admitting it.
Isn't it strange that in a nation with the power and prestige of the United States, in a nation with just two parties competing for power, that the Republicans are left to choose between the likes of Bachman, Santorum, Gingrich, Paul, Cain, Romney and Huntsman?
Of course, Huntsman seems lots more human, rational and sane than the others (except for the Mormon part, to which "rational" surely does not apply - as it does not apply to Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, etc. - by definition). But he doesn't stand a chance.
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- iudith said...
Hello Steven,
Though in a very far and different part of the world, it seems that our societies are facing the same problem: How is it possible that from among so many clever, wise and smart people, it is almost impossible to find a honorable list of candidates, regardless of the party they belong to, that is, a list in front of which the common sense of a mid-smart person not to feel spiritually offended ?
Well ... we are a small country,
though 7 million should still be enough to choose 120 "honorable" representatives ... but USA is HUGE !!!
Where is the world top-level wisdom of this big nation ?
I dare say that the problem relies in the incapacity of the system to promote real human values, it is only "able" to promote the economic interests of a very small layer of the entire population...
and that's why we have wars always awaiting behind the corner,
hunger, ilness, children labor (they unfortunately know very well the value of money, already at a very low age) and all the other sufferings ... and then the refuge
inside all those "...ism"-s that you have mentioned ...
I was grown up in a different system and, may everybody blame me,
I felt much more honourable as a human being, and never felt life as being a burden instead of enjoying it as a miracle gift.
I perfectly subscribe to your thoughts, like probably most common people do, however, we will probably never be strong enough to change this ill world into a better one ...
Best Regards,
Iudith Mentzel - Israel
- Erik van Roon said...
Well, Steven, I think that if ever we (the voters) cab get ourselves to judge candidates on their views and abilities to properly do the job they wish to be elected for, in stead of judging them by the fact that they a) want to divorce their wife, b) smoked a funny cigarette in high-school, c) have a teenage kid who got drunk at a party last weekend, d) don't go to church regularly od (god forbid) e) are homosexual, then maybe the smart people will be willing to expose themselves to the criticism of the voter.
- Steven Feuerstein said...
Great comment, Belly.
I was thinking the other day that while I believe Herman Cain would be an awful President, I am not terribly comfortable with him dropping out of the race because of charges of infidelity.
Generally, I don't think a person running for office should be judged by their personal life - certainly not their religion or sexual preferences - as long as it involves only non-coercive, consensual agreement between adults.
I do think that hypocrisy on such behaviors is relevant, though. That's why Gingrich is especially repulsive to me. Attacking Clinton for adultery while he adulterated, attacking politicians for accepting money from Freddie Mac while HE accepted money from them. That sort of thing is truly disgusting and frightening, because it shows that he has no moral fiber. He will do and say whatever it takes to get elected.
- Joel Garry said...
It's worse - many of us think that the reason polarization is so bad in this country today is that Newt made it so. Back in the late '70s, starting in California, there was a "tax revolution." This came about, in a very small nutshell, because Nixon had freed the dollar from the gold standard, and Carter couldn't really do much about the "stagflation" that resulted. This meant that inflating property values (there was also a real estate bubble) meant more revenue for the state, which meant a huge surplus in revenues. Howard Jarvis led a group to limit property taxes - not a bad thing in itself, but even at the time many of us pointed out that in the long run, normal business cycles would lead to huge deficits (what has now come home to roost). Newt said, in so many words, in order for Republicans to take back Congress, they had to demonize Democrats. So Reagan rode that to the presidency, bringing in various forms of deregulation - which led to several phases of boom and bust increasing in amplitude, including loan crises in each subsequent decade.
And now people want to move towards more representative democracy through technology, making PR even more important.
At least we don't live in Syria.
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U.S. EPA Administrator McCarthy, HUD Secretary Donovan, and DOT Secretary Foxx To Tour Joint Federal Investments and Sustainability Sites in Memphis
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WASHINGTON – On Friday, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy will join U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Anthony Foxx to conduct a tour highlighting joint agency investments in Memphis through the Partnership for Sustainable Communities.
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text: There's no such thing as a "typical day" for the Aquarium's veterinary staff. With dolphins that can weigh up to 500 pounds to frogs that weigh as much as a paper clip, our vets face different challenges every day. Some procedures require special skills, which is when the Aquarium turns to outside experts. Last week, the Aquarium medical team faced a special challenge: "Houdini" is a four year old bearded dragon that is part of our animal programs team. If you've been at the Aquarium for one of our daily Animal Encounters in the Overlook, you may have met her! In April, Houdini became very ill with fluid building up in her body and under her skin. Through weeks of intensive medical management, vets were able to get her back to normal behavior and appetite, but still weren't able to determine the underlying cause. The diagnostic options were an exploratory surgery or endoscopy – both invasive- or advanced imaging of the soft tissues using a non-invasive MRI. An MRI would let vets look at Houdini's ovaries, liver, kidneys and other organs without requiring surgery – the best option. Our vets turned to the special skills and equipment of the team at the IAMS Pet Imaging Center in Vienna, VA. The IAMS center is a dedicated veterinary MRI facility – they only work on animals, using machines that have been adapted to function well for animals and their particular needs. And though their patients are mostly pets, "we like doing the out of the ordinary patients on occasion!" says Dr. Julie Smith, medical director and chief of anesthesia at the IAMS center. With the help of the skilled team at the IAMS center, Houdini had an MRI and vets were able to get a look inside. She did very well through the anesthetic and the scans and is now back at the Aquarium. It will take several days for the scans to be evaluated in full. The Aquarium would like to thank the IAMS Pet Imaging Center for generously donating the MRI test, especially Dr. Smith, MRI tech Dennis Daniels, office manager Sharon Cornelius, and Pat Gavin, the radiologist reviewing the films. Check out the IAMS Pet Imaging Center to see photos of the team in action at http://www.iamspetimaging.com/index.htm. Thank you, IAMS team! Tags: animal-encounters, bearded-dragons, mri, veterinarians Categories: Animals, News Previous Post Next Post


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And daddy doesn't understand it He always said she was good as gold And he can see no reasons 'Cos there are no reasons What reason do you need to be shown? -- Bob Geldof
At age 22, Britain's "most violent criminal" Charles Bronson (né Michael Peterson, who initially took the name for his short-lived boxing career and then had it legally changed; here played by Tom Hardy) began serving a 7-year sentence for armed robbery. The year was 1974, less than 2 years after Stanley Kubrick pulled his movie Clockwork Orange from the theaters due to death threats. With the exception of just over 4 months, Bronson has spent the last 35 years as a ward of the state, all but 4 of them in solitary confinement. This extended sentence has to do with his seeming love of violence for violence's sake, something like the performance art of an evil Andy Kaufman. As such, he's a child of Alex de Large, or an Agent Orange -- that is, one whose real life lends itself to Kubrick's satire. Or, at least, that's how Bronson's director Refn takes it (some of Bronson's victims tend to approach his nature a little less abstractly). Therefore, Refn gives us Clockwork Orange's malevolent juxtapositions of barbarity and high-toned culture, gravitas and cornball pop tunes, with a comic book color palette and told through the wide-angled, symmetrical perspective of a demented narrator in clown makeup. Not exactly original, but like Cape Fear was to Hitchcock, livelier than most other films that don't steal from only one source.Continue Reading


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On Friday, Houston's popular Spec's liquor announced some of its stores' point-of-sale systems had been hit by malware that snagged critical customer data and dispatched it to evildoers on the Internet. More than 550,000 customers were affected by the breach, which lasted a staggering year and a half at 34 stores before the Spec's IT department shut it down.
Chronicle reporter David Kaplan laid out just what kind of information was stolen:
The exposure may include customers' bank routing numbers, card security codes and other payment card and check information.
The "security codes" apparently included customer Personal Identification Numbers, or PINs – the digits that debit card users must enter. Specs give its customers discounts for using cash and debit cards – they pay full price if they use a credit card – so a lot of people use debit cards at the company's checkouts to save some bucks.
Me included. And as a result, I think I may have been a victim of this breach.
One evening last year, I got a phone call from my bank's fraud protection desk. My debit card had just been used to withdraw the maximum cash amount in far north Harris County. The bank rep wanted to know: Had I made that withdrawal?
Nope, I told her. I had been relaxing on a couch in my Montrose swankienda, someone used a card connected to my account, along with my PIN, at a distant ATM. And yes, my debit card was safely in my wallet.
My bank had put a hold on my account, and immediately credited the withdrawn cash back to me. The card was canceled and I was issued a new one. Because the card was used at a lot of online websites, I had to go to each one and remove it. It was a huge hassle, but thankfully it didn't cost me any money.
I'd been hit by credit and debit card abuse in the past – I don't know anyone who uses these common financial instruments who hasn't. But this was the first time my debit card and its PIN had been used. How had the scum gotten my PIN?
This happened long before now-infamous Target breach, but within the time frame of the Spec's attack – Oct. 31, 2012, through March 20 of this year. I had not shopped at Target with my card during its breach, but I had shopped at one of the stricken Specs stores – one in Corpus Christi, near my parents' house. (I usually patronize the big warehouse store downtown, and the smaller Spec's at Westheimer and Montrose, but neither of those were affected.)
While my PIN might have been stolen some other way – perhaps through a "skimmer" box placed over a legitimate card swiper – the Spec's connection makes the most sense.
Since the PIN incident, I'd quit using my debit card at checkouts, instead using it as a credit card, which doesn't require a PIN. There's been one retailer where I've continued to use as a debit card: Spec's. After all, there's that nice discount …
But no longer. I'll either use my card in credit mode, or bring cash to buy booze. While Spec's stores may be safe now, it makes sense to avoid using a debit card PIN if you don't have to. While having thieves nab your credit card number is bad news, getting the PIN makes it worse, because that gives them access to cash.
One thing that really bothers me – and I suspect it irks other Spec's customers, too – is that the feds asked the company not to divulge the breach, even though it was discovered some time ago. Law enforcement officials wanted time to figure out how the breach worked and possibly gain clues to apprehend the bad guys, but by doing so it left Spec's customers' vulnerable for an extended period of time.
Here's hoping it was worth the pain that might have caused customers, and the perpetrators are apprehended sooner rather than later as a result.
You can find out more by clicking on the link to the Chronicle story above, and by visiting a site Spec's has set up regarding the breach. The company is providing free identity protection services for a year for affected customers.


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Lasting Memories
Margaret "Peggy" Jean Karn
Jan. 22, 1929-May 21, 2013
Pleasanton, California
Margaret J. ?Peggy? Karn died May 21, 2013 in ValleyCare Hospital after a courageous 10-year battle with multiple system atrophy, a rare and debilitating disease. She was 84. She was born Jan. 22, 1929 in Oakland to Mary Celeste and Americus P. Britto. She grew up in Oakland and graduated from Fremont High School. When she was a sophomore at Fremont High, she met Richard Karn, who became the love of her life. They attended Dick?s Senior Ball together before he graduated and joined the Navy. They were married before Dick?s senior year at the University of California, Berkeley and she worked to put him through his final year. She raised their daughter, Pam, and their son, Bob, while they lived in Castro Valley and later Hayward. Dick established his own civil engineering firm in 1966. While living in Hayward, they were members of Hayward Dance Club and enjoyed quarterly dances to big band music. She was an active volunteer with the Almond Branch of the Children?s Hospital Auxiliary and enjoyed modeling in their fundraising fashion shows. They moved to Pleasanton 26 years ago. She was a member of Centerpointe Presbyterian Church (formerly Pleasanton Presbyterian) and served on the board of elders. Peggy also was an active member of PEO for more than 25 years. Peggy, a beautiful, creative, loving wife and mother was always there with a smile and a kiss. She was a vivacious woman with a great sense of humor who took delight in making people laugh. She was a person with firm convictions who was willing to speak up when the situation required it. Peggy loved to work with colors and established an interior design business with a number of clients. She used her design skills in Dick?s engineering offices as well as guiding the updating of Pleasanton Presbyterian Church?s former Mirador Drive site. She was also an accomplished artist in oils. She and Dick travelled widely, touring most of the world, often with professional engineering societies. Dick was involved in leadership of these groups and she joined him on business travel. Her favorite destination was Italy, although she enjoyed some memorable trips to Africa, Russia and other European and Asian countries. They routinely spent the month of February in Baja California. She is survived by her husband of 64 years, Richard Karn, her daughter Pam Karn of Oakland, her son, Bob, and loving daughter-in-law Diane, of Vacaville, her sister Gloria Hotton of Franklin, WI., and grandchildren Shawn, Matthew, Rachelle, Lisa and Tom and her great-grandson Wesley. She also leaves a large extended family who she greatly valued, including her care-giver for 2 ½ years, Rose Fernandez.


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Unión MicroFinanza
Microcredit helps the world's poor create sustainable futures. But one overlooked fact is it often doesn't work as well in impoverished rural areas as it does in cities. We're using network analysis research to build an innovative microcredit organization that will be more effective and efficient for rural regions.
Our organization, Unión MicroFinanza ("Union Microfinance" in English) will initially serve 32 villages in one of the poorest regions of Honduras. We'd love to see our organization eventually expand to other regions.
We're currently seeking donations and academic partnerships. We're in the process of building a website that will provide info about our organization and ways to donate.
We have two main audiences. The first is potential donors to our organization. This includes a wide spectrum of individuals and organizations—one group we've been targeting is churches, whose congregations can "adopt" one of the villages. These people want to know, generally, who we're helping and how we're doing it.
Another audience is academics. We're seeking research partnerships and grants, so these people want to know more about the details of our research-backed methodology and how we differ from traditional microcredit firms. They want to know we're serious about what we're doing!
We'd like a professional logo to help us establish credibility. But we'd also like the logo to represent that we're a little different. We're just as serious as other microcredit organizations, but we've got a fresh approach.
One thing we'd love to see—if you can make it work—is the idea of a social network incorporated into the logo. Our social network research is crucial to our approach and who we are. You can find some example visualizations of social networks below:
As you can see from these graphics, a defining feature of social networks is that they're interconnected. In other words, they represent more than just "a group of people." We know this is hard to represent in a logo, so this isn't an absolute requirement. But if you have a creative way to represent a social network, we'd really love to see what you have in mind!
A second motif you can work with is "union"—the idea of a union, our organization working collectively with villagers to bring them out of poverty.
And a third idea to play with is the union symbol, which looks just like a U. Maybe only the academic sorts will get the reference, but everyone else will think it's a play on the U in Unión.
The logo will be used on our website and in documents and brochures.
After reviewing our first submissions, we realized we'd like to avoid a color scheme that's overly bright and "web 2.0." Visually, it looks great, but probably isn't best for a finance organization.
We really like the colors burnt orange and bold shades of blue. A color scheme that includes both or one of these colors, or a color scheme that would complement them, would be ideal. (We're not against using bright colors, just not too many of them at once!)
Note that the "O" in the word Unión is the Spanish spelling; it contains an accent.
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This isn't going to end well, is it? (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
By Mike Mulhern
BRISTOL, Tenn.
If rubbin' is racin', well, we haven't seen a heck of a lot of racin' yet this season.
But hey, this is Bristol: 'racin' the way it oughta be,' as the tagline goes.
Sure, hope so.
And looks who's center stage this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway: Denny Hamlin, who won a sizzler here last August, on that 'new' track layout.
Haven't heard anything lately about that apology NASCAR executives owe Hamlin. Maybe here Friday, before 3:40 p.m. EDT pole quals for Sunday's Food City 500 (1 p.m.)...
Last time at this high-banked half-mile, Matt Kenseth and Tony Stewart were swapping the lead and crashing....with Smoke so steamed that he threw his helmet at Kenseth's car.
Now that's racing.
Wonder how much Smoke's helmet went for on e-Bay?
Kenseth's performance down the stretch Sunday at Las Vegas was brilliant, one of the best performances of his career -- holding off the faster Kasey Kahne for his 25th tour win.
Bristol Motor Speedway, one of the wonders of the sporting world (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
That victory was Toyota's 50th since joining the Sprint Cup tour in 2007.
So, over that six-year span, what's the scorecard look like?
Toyota, 50 wins.
Ford, 39 wins.
Dodge, 23 wins.
Chevrolet, 107 wins.
So Chevy has almost as many Cup tour victories as all three rivals combined?
That's domination.
If the playing field is level, that six-year span says something about who's doing their homework and who isn't.
Bristol brings out the fire in a driver's eyes, doesn't it? (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Okay, back 'er down a little, and give Toyota a first-year break (the brand went 0-for-36 in 2007, while Chevrolet won 26 events).
Since Toyota's first tour victory, Atlanta, spring 2008, what's the scorecard?
Toyota, 50.
Ford, 32.
Dodge, 20.
Chevy, 81.
Looks like somebody may need a smaller restrictor plate.....
Tony Stewart (14) was dueling Matt Kenseth side by side last August, and, uh, well, er..... (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Three races into this 36-race season may not be the best point to start writing teams off....but a few things are evident:
Uh, a biggie: guess who's atop the point standings?
Yep, Jimmie 'Five-time' Johnson.
And Johnson has about 60 points on three men expected to be title contender, Kyle Busch, Tony Stewart and Kevin Harvick. (One point is generally the difference in one finishing position.)
Another biggie: Kurt Busch is not off to a rousing start. Daytona was rough, with how many crashes? Phoenix and Las Vegas....
So let's crunch a few more numbers, to find the average finishing positions for drivers on the top-six owner-teams. (Adding total points so far for each team driver, dividing by the numbers of driver-teams.) That gives us an indication of how powerful overall each owner's teams really are.
Rick Hendrick, no surprise, has the best average finishing positions so far: 11th.
That's just a nose ahead of Roger Penske's 11th average too.
Jack Roush's three teams are averaging 13th place finishes.
Joe Gibbs' men are averaging 15th place finishes.
Michael Waltrip's men are averaging 17th place finishes.
The bottom two at the moment -- Tony Stewart's three teams, averaging just 25th place finishes, and Richard Childress' four teams (including Kurt Busch), averaging 27ths.
Brad Keselowski knows how to lock 'n load (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
It's been a year and a half since Busch's last tour win, at Dover.
As tough as Busch has been here over the years, this could be an early-season make-or-break race.
"Bristol has really changed over the years," Busch says. "I loved the old Bristol; but this is the new Bristol. You have to adapt to whatever the track is asking for.
"Another thing about Bristol is you have to protect your car and wait for the right opportunity to pass. You learn over the years when to make passes and when you can't. A misstep at Bristol could have a costly outcome. We've seen it many times."
The game plan: "To contend for the win you want to be in position by lap 350."
The season so far: "The first three races haven't gone the way we anticipated," he concedes. "We had strong cars the first two races, but not good finishes. In Las Vegas we were off from the get-go, but managed to salvage a top-20."
Kahne and crew chief Kenny Francis were the first ones last August to figure out the new layout, after track owner Bruton Smith -- miffed at the spring race action and crowd -- had the top groove ground down to a much lower angle. Smith figured that grind job would force drivers to run the two lower lanes. But Francis and Kahne found the rougher concrete up high actually made for faster racing.
How the layout will work this time is anyone's guess.
Denny Hamlin, who won Bristol last August, likes to play it like Mr. Cool, but at the moment NASCAR execs have him a little fired up (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
St. Patrick's Day is Sunday....wonder if that might be a good omen for any of these drivers? Danica Patrick, perhaps?
Probably not Danica. She hasn't fared well since Daytona, crashing at Phoenix and finishing miles and miles behind at Las Vegas. And she crashed here last spring, in her only Cup start. However she did run a respectable ninth in last summer's Nationwide race.
If the numbers tell the story, then this 500 should be Kyle Busch's. He and brother Kurt and Jeff Gordon have the most wins among active drivers, five each.
Somehow though, there is the sense that the man to keep an eye on here is Denny Hamlin. Nothing like having a point to prove to make a man get up on the wheel.....
Reviewing Las Vegas, Round Three for these 2013s:
-- Some teams clearly had the package right, like Kasey Kahne, Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth.
-- Some teams were out to lunch, like Tony Stewart, Clint Bowyer, Jeff Gordon and Greg Biffle.
So drivers and crews have seen three decidedly different tracks so far, with the new stocker. And Bristol will be a fourth.
Since NASCAR's $25,000 fine on Hamlin for his brief analysis of the 2013s, drivers and teams have nothing but praise, publicly, for the cars, obviously fearing drawing fines themselves.
The debate over the sensibility -- or perhaps non-sensibility -- of NASCAR fining a driver for merely offering an opinion has become a major story this season.
It's not really clear what Daytona's sports bosses really had in mind with the fine, but judging from fans' comments in social media like Twitter and Facebook, fans clearly don't like being treated like idiots. A straight-up apology by NASCAR might be the only way to clear the smoke.
However NASCAR executives have said very little since imposing the fine, and until they straighten out the whole situation it is clear that this sport's credibility and the drivers' credibility will remain in serious jeopardy.
Got a real good feeling this is going to be a really good season for Kasey Kahne (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Do you even know what that phrase means? It refers to cars side-by-side rubbing door panels as they lean on each other racing for position. It does not mean one driver putting his front bumper on another's back bumper and wrecking him. That absolutely is not "rubbing," and it is not racing. That is idiocy. I do not go to race tracks to watch wrecks, and since the popularity of watching one driver wreck another has risen to such a fever pitch, with NASCAR doing nothing to prevent it, I have quit going.
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Trish McLean necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 318 diseños de 112 diseñadores freelance.
Wild Tulip
We are a small family run business specializing in leather accessories, based here in Canada.
We are launching a new line of leather bags. The bags are made from recycled leather belts. They are unique, attractive and functional, and in the mid price point range. At this point they are for women aged 25-45, though we may extend to men later. Demographic: educated, environmentally and socially conscious.
We'd like a new logo designed for this line, using the words: Wild Tulip.
I like simple clean creative, interesting- nothing too elaborate or fussy. We will probably emboss on leather so color isn't such an issue.
I haven't many preconceived ideas, so surprise me. Thanks.
We'll need the logo in all the usual files at close of auction.
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Course-related research instruction is offered by librarians at the request of faculty members for courses at all levels. While the development of library skills is an integral part of the curriculum of the First Year Program, introducing students to research as well as to critical and evaluative skills and the continued development and honing of these skills is a four-year process. Course-related instruction is one way to accomplish this.
Some possible topics for inclusion are: finding books, videos and digital collections using the Encore discovery tool, using journal indexes to locate scholarly, peer-reviewed articles, differentiating between primary and secondary sources, organizing and sharing sources using the RefWorks bibliographic management tool.
To arrange for course-related instruction or for information contact a member of our library instruction group:
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In addition to course-related research instruction, you can refer your students to the library for an individual research consultation with a librarian to work on a specific project. Many students benefit from one-on-one sessions that focus on their specific needs.
The Library also offers, at your request, course-specific library pages that highlight course-specific scholarly resources for your students.
When a course is selected there are links to:
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Karl and Elise find themselves trapped in an unsettling situation.
Anton forces Karl to make an impossible and chilling choice.
Karl Approaches Francois' Father
Francois' father pleads with Karl over his son.
When Karl receives a call from Lana, he attempts to get her to cooperate.
Anton's website is brought to the attention of Karl, Elise and team.
Tensions and suspicion rise at home between Anton and his sister Kiki.
Elise and Karl locate an unsettling tunnel while tracing coordinates from the criminal.
Elise, Karl and his daughter, Mya, take a drive.
BB, Karl and Elise discover a clue while examining a video from the criminal.
Elise, Karl and the team investigate a lead on the missing children.
Karl visits Elise in hopes that she'll help with his investigation of missing refugees.
Karl and Elise take on a toxic and terrifying folie à deux.
Karl and Elise reunite for an emotive and morally complex investigation.
Karl and Elise try to decode the Pied Piper's demands.
Another message from the Pied Piper leads Karl and Elise to a horrifying discovery.
Karl and Elise resort to unconventional means in pursuit of the truth.
An increasingly isolated Karl makes a major breakthrough in the search for Saban.
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February 23, 2013
By: Larry Rulison
Source: Times Union
ALBANY — The upstate economy isn't growing much these days.
released Friday by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis found that
only Buffalo's economy is growing faster than the rest of the state's,
and two upstate cities — Syracuse and Binghamton — have watched their
economies shrink, a dire scenario for business and political leaders.
despite similarly sluggish growth in the Capital Region economy, there
is an exciting trend beneath the surface: the small but growing
high-tech industry, driven by the University at Albany College of
Nanoscale Science and Engineering and by GlobalFoundries, is expanding
at a furious pace.
The health of an economy can be looked at in
many ways. But one of the most important figures to economists is gross
domestic product, or GDP, which measures the amount of goods and
services produced in a geographic area.
In 2011, the most recent
year in the federal data, the "real," or inflation-adjusted, GDP in the
United States grew 1.5 percent, with metro areas having slightly better
growth at 1.6 percent.
Numbers such as that are not expected
to get the economy back on track. The number was lower for New York
state, which had only a 1.1 percent increase in GDP, despite efforts by
the Cuomo administration to control spending and taxes and encourage
businesses growth.
In the Capital Region, GDP grew less than one
percent. Buffalo, by way of contrast, had 1.4 percent GDP growth.
Syracuse suffered the worst contraction of any major upstate city as its
economy shrank by 1.2 percent.
But local business and political
leaders can take solace that years of focusing their economic
development efforts on the high-tech industry, especially the
semiconductor industry that produces computer chips, appears to be
paying off.
In fact, according to the government, computer and
electronic product manufacturing — which includes computer chips, is the
fastest growing sector in the local economy. In 2010, the latest year
for which data are available, the GDP of the local computer and
electronics manufacturing sector grew to $297 million from $134 million
the year before — an increase of 121 percent.
Kajal Lahiri, an
economics professor at the University at Albany, says the local
semiconductor industry is behind the increase. He said that,
statistically, the sector is still a small percentage of the whole
economy, and it is easier to grow an industry when it is smaller.
"But the potential is great, and its psychological effect on the overall economic multiplier can be very large," Lahiri said.
semiconductor industry has one of the highest GDP growth rates in the
world when things are going well, and many cities across the country
have seen their GDPs grow significantly because of local computer chip
operations, says Sergis Mushell, an San Jose-based analyst for
technology research firm Gartner. Examples include San Diego, home to
Qualcomm, which designs chips for smart phones, and Portland, Ore., home
to several Intel chip factories.
"They are a big contributor to the economy in those areas," said Mushell.
Kaloyeros, CEO of the NanoCollege, says the GDP data released Friday
don't include all the research and development spending by companies
such as Intel and IBM at the school.
Kaloyeros estimates that
R&D spending in the sector probably represents three to four times
the manufacturing output. But over time, as the local semiconductor
industry matures, manufacturing will overtake spending on research,
which chip companies typically set at about 20 percent of revenues.
Rooney, a senior vice president with the Center for Economic Growth,
which works to attract companies to the region, says the 2010 GDP data
haven't captured the true growth of the chip sector because the
GlobalFoundries factory in Malta didn't start manufacturing until early
2012. And the NanoCollege is still embarking on more expansion.
industry's impact on the region should only accelerate in the coming
years as integrated circuits continue to proliferate in familiar
products and in those we can't yet imagine," Rooney said.


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Reds pitcher Johnny Cueto beat the Phillies 7-3 in Cincy on June 28. But then, they lost a game in Philly 10 days later. This is his first playoff game. Says Cueto, "I just need to concentrate." [Cincinnati.com]
The Phillies are up 2-0. Cole Hamels, the 2008 World Series MVP, is pitching. Says Hamels, "I've learned that you can't try to be a hero in the postseason. You just have to play your game. If you do that right, then you can become one." [Philly.com]


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