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CenturyLink Hauls DoI to Court
Apr 17, 2013 5:00 AM PT
The U.S. Department of the Interior has big plans to implement a major cloud-based information technology program, with a potential investment of US$1 billion over 10 years. However, those plans will have to be put on hold a little longer.
One of the potential contractors for the project, CenturyLink, is taking the department to federal court in a challenge to the contracting terms for the project.
The original project proposal was issued in July 2012, calling for the award of one or more fixed-price contracts for specified services, using an "indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity" (ID/IQ) contract vehicle. Interior reported that it received 26 responses to a request for information from vendors.
The E-Commerce Times has learned that CenturyLink has filed a legal challenge to the terms of the Interior Department's request for proposals. The appeal, filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, addresses what the company feels are significant flaws in the DoI contract proposal.
The company's first attempt to challenge DoI was filed with the General Accountability Office, which ruled in favor of the Interior Department in a March 7, 2013, decision.
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The proposed contract calls for vendors to provide "foundation cloud hosting services" to implement the Interior Department's Strategic Information Technology Transformation program.
The scope of the initiative includes storage services, secure file transfer services, virtual machine services, database hosting services, web hosting services, development and test environment hosting services, and SAP application hosting services.
The legal basis and court filings for CenturyLink's court action are not available. "The case has been filed under seal with the court so I cannot provide any information," Thomas Mason, an attorney with the Cooley law firm, which represented the company in the GAO proceeding, told the E-Commerce Times.
CenturyLink's corporate office, through spokesperson Linda Johnson, also declined to comment for this story.
Under federal law, both the GAO and the court of federal claims can be used to challenge contracting issues, and companies are free to seek redress at both venues on separate and independent tracks. The claims court will process the CenturyLink case on a fresh start, or de novo basis, apart from the GAO ruling.
As a result "there will be no GAO filing, reply or defense at the court," Ralph White, GAO managing associate general counsel for procurement law, told the E-Commerce Times.
Given the legal options available to CenturyLink, the company's likely position in the court of federal claims can be gleaned from the bid protest it filed with the GAO.
CenturyLink contended that the contract solicitation failed to provide enough specificity in its requirements for an adequate vendor response. The GAO decision also indicated that the company had concerns about the risk involved in bidding on the project as a result of insufficient contract terms.
CenturyLink Claims Risky Terms
For example, CenturyLink said the DoI specifications for virtual machine use were inadequately presented. GAO determined that Interior's use description, including the portion of Windows, Unix, and Linux components and other contract terms, fulfilled the criteria for providing reasonable levels of information. GAO dismissed the company's similar concerns about storage requirements.
CenturyLink also had difficulties with the fixed price terms associated with the contract, but GAO found that the pricing element was fairly stated by the department.
"The solicitation includes pricing matrixes that offerors can use in pricing the representative use cases that included details about the agency's requirement," the GAO said. "Given the details provided with respect to the representative use cases, we believe the solicitation provides sufficient information to allow a common basis for evaluating offerors' proposed prices."
Ultimately, the department's solicitation provided sufficient information on which vendors could "compete intelligently and on a relatively equal basis," GAO general counsel Susan Poling said in her ruling on the case.
"While we appreciate that the solicitation here imposes risk on the contractor by requiring fixed prices," she said, "we do not find, on the record before us, that the solicitation exposes offerors to unacceptable or undue risk."
Challenges in Protest Process
Companies engaging in federal contract challenges face an uphill climb, according to one expert specializing in contract litigation.
"GAO rulings are not always satisfactory, and in many cases they fall short of adequately considering the contractor's position," Lee Dougherty, a partner at Fluet Huber and Hoang, told the E-Commerce Times.
"First and foremost, reading a GAO decision will never give you all the facts or even accurate facts," Dougherty said. "The GAO has no appellate forum to review its decisions for accuracy or completeness and therefore it selects only those facts that are most advantageous to its position and it will almost never give a fact that might indicate that there was a debate about the issue."
While he could not speak directly to the CenturyLink case, Dougherty observed that "generally GAO is inclined to defer to the government agency's expertise, and if the agency presents some material demonstrating there was adequate information for potential contractors to submit bids, GAO will accept the agency's position."
However, often agency contracting and legal personnel handling a challenge do not have sufficient technical expertise, nor does the legal staff at the GAO, he added. This works to the disadvantage of the vendor protesting the contract.
The result, in a case like the CenturyLink protest, is that contractors take a major risk in attempting to win the business. "For Interior to say, as it did in this case, that because it received offers from several vendors it must have done something right, is completely off point," Dougherty said. "Some vendors are willing to roll the dice to get the contract, but that doesn't mean the bid process was proper."
The ID/IQ vehicle complicates the bidding process since the duration of the contract can be so long, he noted. "The ID/IQ vehicles serve a purpose and can be a valuable way to contract for goods and service when used as intended.Where ID/IQs are abused is where they are used primarily to discourage competition over a long period. I see many ID/IQs where only one contract is awarded."
The ID/IQ can become a vehicle to sole-source awards, Dougherty said. "When you create an environment where competition is stymied over the course of 10 years, it is not conducive to innovation and it defies fair and open competition."
Since the court of federal claims is also available to CenturyLink, that venue might be somewhat better.
The court will start without any presumption that the GAO decision was either right or wrong, and as a judicial proceeding it may be a better forum. Even so, outcomes from the court of claims tilt towards the government, Dougherty contends.
"By rule both forums are deferential to the government. In order to uphold a protest, the GAO or the court of claims must find that the decision of the government was not reasonable," he said. "One COFC judge likes to use the word irrational. That is a large hurdle for a protestor to overcome."
Google successfully used the court of federal claims process on a major IT contract, which coincidentally involved the Interior Department.
Google challenged the department's original 2010 indication that Microsoft's technology was its preferred choice for a major email system. The search company contended that Interior's basis for that choice was flawed.
The court of claims ruled in favor of Google, and the Interior Department then revised the contract terms and reevaluated proposals. In May of 2012 Interior awarded the $34.9 million contract to Onix Networks for an email system featuring Google's technology.


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Anyone that I would hand a business card to, or write a letter to. These people are typically other business owners, business brokers, or professionals like attorneys or accountants.
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EECS graduate student, Cody Gilleland has been named as the first a recipient of "The Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation by a Graduate Student." The national award is a new initiative by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to recognize scientists early on in their career and to recognize their accomplishments. Nominees were to submit proposals for a dream project in the biomedical field.
Cody was selected from the 10 national finalists invited to meet with company scientists and to give presentations about their proposals.
Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130627-911467.html
MIT News Oct. 11, 2013 article: "EECS PhD student named first recipient of Regeneron Prize," submitted by the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education


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Professor of Religion and Philosophy Stephen Webb is working on another book this summer. Providence and Promiscuity is in late stages of writing and revision. The book, dealing with religion, sex, and marriage, is an outgrowth of the Theology of Sex and Marriage class which he taught spring semester. He is also contemplating books on Bob Dylan and Church history. He is also contributing articles to a book on philosophy and basketball.
"Much of my writing lately has emerged from the courses I teach or from other interactions with students," Webb explained.
His two books of 2004, American Providence and The Divine Voice, have garnered positive reviews. In fact, The Divine Voice has made it onto several top-ten lists for Christian books in 2004. American Providence deals with many of the recent political developments in the United States and the world within a religious context. They are among eight books that he has published, including titles such as Good Eating and On God and Dogs.
"American Providence was really my attempt to explain to myself, and anyone who would read it, why I became a conservative," Webb said. "I really wrote that book for the students who had goaded me and helped me to discover my conservative voice. That book emerged from conversations and interactions with students, too."
His forthcoming book Providence and Promiscuity is an exploration of sexual ethics in a modern Christian context. His perennially popular "sex and marriage" class was an inspiration. That class explores many aspects of modern sexuality and marriage through a theological lens. His projects on Bob Dylan and Church history are both in the rough draft phase, but they hit on topics that interest him. His work on Bob Dylan continues his explorations of 1960s countercultural figures in the context of religion and philosophy. His recent article, "What Lenny Bruce Really Died For," was another such exploration.
Church history is a topic that interests Webb greatly. He will be teaching the church history cycle during the 2005-06 school year. His book will be a defense of a study of church history by Christians, which Webb feels might be lacking today.
His projects on basketball and philosophy are on Bob Knight, the former Indiana University basketball coach, and on high school gymnasia. In those works, Webb will paint a larger picture of those institutions, beyond flung seating and Saturday night basketball games. In fact, his analysis of gymnasia will appeal to a lost communitarian instinct, such as that discussed by sociologist Robert Nisbet.
Webb, a 1983 summa cum laude graduate of Wabash College, received his Ph.D. with distinction from the University of Chicago in June 1989. He had been at Wabash off-and-on since 1987, but joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1989. He served as an associate professor from 1994-2002, receiving his professorship in May 2002. He serves as the faculty representative to the National Association of Wabash Men board of directors. Among his other associations, Webb is a member of the Dulles Forum, founded by Jesuit scholar Avery Cardinal Dulles, and a co-chair of the Christian Vegetarian Association.
Webb is the most prolific author currently on the faculty, and his books always garner national attention. He has been called to give lectures and participate in discussions on his books at places like Kalamazoo College, Creighton University, and Purdue University. His newest projects continue his work of exploring everyday situations through the lens of astute theology. While students hard at work or play during the summer, Professor Webb will be working on more books for theologians and laymen alike.
Smith '08 writes for Wabash College's student newspaper The Bachelor and for The Commentary. This story first appeared in the April 38 issue of The Bachelor.


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Ignore the podracing and dueling portions of this Kinect Star Wars video and jump directly to around :50 in the video. I probably should have apologized first. Too late now.
Whatever reasons I might have had to purchase Kinect Star Wars, this negates each and every one of them. I had heard of this dancing game. I've even witnessed a slightly more acceptable version of the minigame in action. That didn't seem so bad.
This, however... I've never been so embarrassed for a pair of actors in my life. I want to gather both of them in my arms and tell them it'll be okay, but that would be a cruel and terrible lie.
If you must buy an R2-D2 styled Xbox 360, I suggest opening the package on the way out of the store and letting the game "accidentally" slip out. Accidents happen. This video is living proof.


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Volkswagen and UAW cooperating before Wednesday union election
The UAW and Volkswagen have already forged a high level of cooperation even before workers at the company's Chattanooga, Tenn., plant begin voting Wednesday on whether they want union representation.
Volkswagen has accepted the union's "principles for fair union elections" that UAW President Bob King began discussing in 2010.
"Volkswagen may be one of the few employers — if not the first — that has ever explicitly agreed to those principles," said Gary Klotz, a labor attorney with the Detroit firm of Butzel Long. "It's almost a dream world for the UAW."
That management-union cooperation, before about 1,500 workers vote Wednesday through Friday, has inflamed opposition among Tennessee Republicans and other anti-union groups who have purchased billboard space and lobbied workers to reject the union.
U.S. Sen. and former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker, R-Tenn., pleaded with Volkswagen workers to reject the UAW, which he described as "a Detroit-based organization" and "the largest shareholder of General Motors."
That is a reference to the 8.8% stake in GM held by the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust, established in the 2009 taxpayer-funded bankruptcy of GM to cover health care claims of the company's UAW retirees.
The trust chose to accept shares of GM as part of the bankruptcy restructuring. Corker voted against federal aid to GM and Chrysler.
¦ PDF: UAW agreement with Volkswagen
¦ Related: Tennessee legislators threaten to withhold incentives if VW workers choose UAW
"The key to their survival is to come down and organize plants in the Southeast," Corker said. "We're concerned about the impact. Look at Detroit."
Maury Nicely, a Chattanooga lawyer representing the anti-union group Southern Momentum, said some groups in Tennessee are "examining the legality of this rush to an election and whether it may form the basis for some sort of unfair labor practice charge."
As voting begins, Southern Momentum and the Center for Worker Freedom, funded by Washington, D.C.-based anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist, have accused Volkswagen of backing the UAW.
Republican leaders, who control majorities in both chambers of the Tennessee General Assembly, and Republican Gov. Bill Haslam have threatened to reject incentives for a Volkswagen expansion in Chattanooga if workers accept the UAW.
Gary Casteel, a UAW regional director, said it's "sad that when workers exercise their legal right to form a union some Tennessee politicians are threatening the economic well-being of communities and businesses."
There is an unusual lack of tension between company leaders and the UAW, at least in their public comments.
Volkswagen and the UAW agreed on Jan. 27 to hold this week's election under supervision of the National Labor Relations Board.
In most NLRB-supervised elections, corporations fight hard to convince workers to reject a union. Volkswagen is accustomed to dealing with unions in Europe and South America organized through joint employee-management works councils. It has chosen to remain neutral in Chattanooga.
Details of the election agreement include the following provisions:
¦ The parties "will communicate with employees in a non-adversarial, positive manner and will not defame or make any untruthful statements regarding one another."
¦ Both parties will make presentations to employees. The Volkswagen presentation was mandatory. The UAW portion was optional.
¦ Management provided the UAW with a room where it could talk to employees and answer questions.
¦ Management informed employees it believes establishment of a works council is in the common interest of Volkswagen and its employees.
¦ Management gave the UAW a list of employees' names and home addresses.
Paul Secunda, professor of law at Marquette University, said the election agreement would likely withstand any legal challenges.
"It's still neutral in that Volkswagen is not saying that regardless of what happens they will support the UAW," Secunda said. "The NLRB … has generally held that these types of ground rules and procedures are lawful."
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The simple answer is the inclusion of unhealthy ingredients. It's not too difficult to identify an unhealthy diet – it's one comprised mainly of unhealthy foods. The same goes for smoothies. After reading this blog post I'm confident you'll be able to discern between healthy and unhealthy smoothies with ease.
First, I will attempt to cover all the things you don't want in your smoothie, which cause the scale to tip in favor of unhealthy. Then I will list the healthy ingredients, and in doing so show you that creating healthy smoothies is actually pretty easy.
A quick note before moving onto the unhealthies. Most restaurants, chains, venues, and large events serving smoothies generally lean towards the unhealthy. For example, last summer I attended a major league baseball game and got quite excited when I saw a sign for smoothies. Much to my dismay, the so-called smoothie was nothing more than sugary slush.
Unhealthy Smoothie Bases
We'll start with the liquid base of your smoothie, and what you want avoid like the plague.
Sugar laden fruit juices: Most fruit juices sold in super markets are nothing more than flavored sugar water.
Regular milk: Store bought milk (whether skim, 1%, 2%, or whole) comes from cows that are often mistreated, given hormones and antibiotics, and over milked. Chalk and pus have also been detected in the milk.
Tap water: Recent studies have revealed a plethora of undesired substances in regular old tap water. This includes, but is not limited to, trace amounts of pharmaceutical drugs, lead and arsenic, perchlorate (a toxic chemical found in rocket fuel), sucralose, and many other man-made chemicals.
Most bottled water: Most mainstream bottled water is nothing more than glorified tap water. Pepsi even admitted that Aquafina comes from tap water. For the definitive story on bottled water I highly recommend the documentary Tapped.
Unhealthy Smoothie Ingredients
Now onto the list of smoothie ingredients that I wouldn't add into my blender if you paid me. An exhaustive list isn't practical, but I'll hit on the more obvious offenders.
- Ice cream and sherbet
- Chocolate syrups and powders – think Nestle
- Sugar as a sweetener
- Agave nectar – why
- Most store bought honey – why
- Non-organic peanut butters (Jif, Skippy, Smuckers)
- Cheap protein powders – why
- Chocolate pudding mix
- Cool Whip or whip cream
- Cream soda
At the end of the day, just use a little common sense in determining what not to add to your smoothie.
How To Make Your Smoothie Nice and Healthy
Now that you know what not to add to your smoothies, let's get to what you can toss in the blender to make the healthiest smoothies ever! Instead of using the word organic over and over, I'll mention here that using organic ingredients is always in your best interest. I realize this isn't always possible and don't beat yourself up over it. At the very least try to avoid the "Dirty Dozen".
Healthy Smoothie Bases
Fresh juice: There's nothing better than using fresh juice, whether from a juicer or squeezed.
Raw milk, almond and coconut milk: If you're not lactose intolerant, raw milk is a great option. Almond milk and coconut milk (and water from young/Thai coconuts) are great to use too. I didn't include soy milk because there's evidence soy isn't the health food it's been marketed as, see here and here for reasons why you should avoid soy.
Good water: This includes water run through a good filter, legitimate bottled water (Spring Mountain, Starfire), distilled, purified, and the best option spring water. To locate spring water where you live, check out Find a Spring.
Tea: Using a healthy or medicinal tea can really improve the nutrition of your smoothie. In some circles "elixir" is the term used to designate these drinks.
Fermented beverages: Kefir (milk and water), kombucha, and Hindu lemonade. These are all extremely healthy options, especially when homemade.
Healthy Smoothie Ingredients
There may be some things on the list below that you're not familiar with, don't worry, in future recipes and posts I'll explain why each ingredient is good for your health and a welcome addition to your smoothie.
- Fresh and frozen fruit
- Fresh vegetables
- Yogurt (organic, Greek, homemade)
- Superfoods (cacao, maca, aloe vera, goji berries, spirulina, etc)
- Herbs and spices (cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cayenne, mint, etc)
- Local and/or organic honey
- Local and/or maple syrup
- Stevia
- High quality protein powders
- High quality superfood green powders
- Hemp seeds and hemp protein
- Raw nuts and nut butters
- Various coconut products (shreds, flakes, raw meat, oil, butter)
- Chia seeds and chia seed gel
- Flax seeds and oil
- Oatmeal
- High quality salt (Celtic sea salt, pink Himalayan salt, Redmond salt, etc)
- Gelatin
- Colostrum
- Medicinal mushroom powders
- Chinese herbs
- Mineral supplements
As you can see there's quite a few ingredients available to make healthy smoothies. The number of different concoctions and recipes is endless. Once you get the basics of smoothie making down, you can experiment and come up with your own favorite recipes.
I hope you found this information both informative and actionable. After all this talk of smoothies, I'm off to the kitchen to create my next masterpiece.
Please leave a comment below as I'd love to hear what you think of my "good" and "bad" list of smoothie ingredients.


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First attempt at a TCP/IP primer. It's dumbed down for newbies, and focuses on functions at the network transport layers.
It's going to be a series, so there will be some more that provide info on topics that preceed the concepts of this one, like the OSI model (dumbing down the OSI model...there's a challenge! :D ), and data-link layer TCP/IP functions like MAC and LLC.
There will also be some that build on it, like upper layer TCP/IP functions, and IP addressing and subnetting. Tell me what you think, and I appreciate any suggestions on improvements to it.


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Fort Sill to Receive Hundreds of Unaccompanied Children From Other Countries
From Fort Sill Public Affairs Office
Fort Sill has been identified to support a U.S. federal interagency effort being coordinated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to respond to a recent unexpected influx of unaccompanied children from other countries. Following Joint Base San Antonio and Naval Base Ventura County, the installation becomes the third Department of Defense facility to support this mission.
The children were primarily apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection along the southern U.S. border and are now being cared for by the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families (ACF). The installation will receive these children in the coming days and they will be under ACF care. Fort Sill's headquarters are assisted by U.S. Northern Command on how to best support this important interagency mission.
ACF will provide caretakers for between 600-1200 children that will temporarily reside on the installation. The agency will maintain responsibility to ensure the safety, care and treatment of the unaccompanied minors. Fort Sill will provide a vacant facility historically used by Soldiers set apart from main post that offers sleeping quarters, bathing and toilet facilities, as well as multi-purpose gathering space.
The children may arrive as early as this week and will continue to reside under ACF's care on the installation until the children can be reunited with their families or placed with a sponsor. Fort Sill anticipates supporting the interagency mission for up to four months or as long as directed. The Fires Center of Excellence and Fort Sill does not currently assess that its primary mission of training and deploying Soldiers and Marines will be significantly impacted by this temporary arrangement.
Between 600 and 1,200 Unaccompanied Children, mostly from Central America, will be housed in this building on Fort Sill. The building, built in 1986, has 20 sleeping bays that hold 60 beds each. The building was last occupied by soldiers in April.
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As a 100% Employee Owned Company, all of us at Kendall Electric are serious about being your lowest cost, highest value electrical distributor. We continuously work to identify ways to provide you with the quality electrical products and services you need, on time and at a competitive price.
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Call us to see for yourself.
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Over the past decade, Kendall Electric has perfected a structured program designed to identify cost reduction opportunities within your business and manufacturing process. Our knowledgeable account managers and application engineers utilize the results of this program to develop a roadmap to help them uncover and clearly identify the actual savings opportunities within your business.
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Welcome to Stonewall Golf Course, your top option for a round of Winston-Salem golf. Our course is the centerpiece of the Germanton golf community. North Carolina golf courses are famous throughout the world, and golf experiences like the one found at Stonewall Golf Course are a big part of the reason why. We have everything you need to create an unforgettable round of golf, from the stunning terrain to the unmatched amenities to the knowledgeable staff. We also have a fully-stocked pro shop and practice facilities.
Germanton Golf at Its Finest
The real star of the show at Stonewall Golf Course is the quality of the golf layout. Stonewall Golf Course is a par 70, 18-hole layout in the Stokes County community of Germanton. It is located in the foothills of the 700 million year old Sauratown Mountain Range that includes Pilot Mountain and Hanging Rock state parks.
The hilly terrain and streams throughout Stonewall force a thoughtful approach to the game for anyone who wants a successful day at golf. Town Fork Creek, itself a major tributary of the Dan River, is a major water hazard that provides ample opportunities for soaring scores as well as tranquil and scenic beauty.
Words of advice: Don't be fooled into believing you can bully this little beauty into submission. Wise use of your driver and three wood will serve you well.
Finally, don't forget to set aside some time to stop in the clubhouse and say hello.


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It might be your nervous hands or my deceased ancestors that make the pointer on a regular Ouija Board move. On an iPad Ouija Board, there could be another culprit: a computer programmer. Fair or foul?
There are already three Ouija-Board style apps for the iPad, which may be the ideal device for virtual Ouija Boards. It's big enough, flat enough, bright enough and responsive to enough simultaneous finger-touches, that it could produce ideal Ouija conditions.
Randy Greenback, game developer at Mad Monkey Militia knew all this. He knew the iPad would be great, and so, a couple of days ago, early iPad adopters got a chance to try his company's $2 Ouija release: SpiritPad: The Oracle.
"There is no better platform for an app like this," Greenback told Kotaku. "You can lay the iPad down on a table, get your friends around it and start having some fun. We know some people won't take it seriously, some may use it to prank or scare their friends but others will really get into it and use it to hold their own séance."
But, there's that question... who is responsible for those jolts and jitters when the the pointer — the planchette — starts to move?
Not iPad developer Randy Greenback. He's not the man to blame if it moves this time.
His Ouija Board for iPad hasn't been programmed to be possessed... yet.
"The game at launch does not contain an artificial intelligence and relies instead on the player's sub-conscience and the Automatism theory (the ideomotor response), the same as the classic Ouija boardgame," he explained to Kotaku.
That ideomotor response is the theory that people will sometimes involuntarily move in ways that express their inner thoughts.
So it would be you who moves the planchette on his iPad Ouija board. Or spirits, he admits: "The Spiritualist side of the equation (which I don't prescribe to, but is very interesting) obviously believes that entities, or spirits speak through the boards via the planchette and the medium."
The temptation must be great, though, to possess a Ouija Board with intelligence, to grant a digital spirit to something we would otherwise only have to believe is possessed. Video game designers have this kind of power, to play god, to be the agent of the wind and sunlight and rules of death in the worlds they create — even in the "world" of an iPad Ouija Board. So it shouldn't be too surprising that Greenback will eventually program a mind, or spirit, into SpiritPad.
"We will use the AI in subtle ways once we update and the goal is to catch players off-guard and create a moment that will keep them talking and second guessing themselves," he explained. "If we can make them ask, 'Did that really just happen?,' then we've done our job well. We don't want to ruin the surprise by exposing the magic underneath the app, but did want to clarify our plans for the title with you. We're going to use the AI, sound effects, and voices to really play with peoples minds. It's all in good fun though."
Greenback said his team won't lard the SpiritPad with gimmicks so much that it ruins the classic Ouija Board experience. A classic mode will remain.
If you were making a Ouija Board and could add a spirit to it, would you? On the iPad, that's possible, in a manner of speaking, if you want to believe — or at least fake it.


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UPDATE: [Film] American Indian/Indigenous Film Area
Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 30th Anniversary
Conference, Albuquerque, NM
February 24-28, 2009 in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt Regency
The American Indian/Indigenous Film Area is looking for panels, papers, and
workshops on topics related to American Indian, First Nations, and
Indigenous film. We welcome proposals from all disciplines that examine,
utilize, promote, or teach Native/Indigenous film and media are welcome.
The American Indian/Indigenous Film Area is particularly interested in
bringing together Native filmmakers and Native/non-Native academics to talk
about the burgeoning field of Indigenous Film.
Some topics might include, but are not limited to:
· Native women filmmakers
· American Indian/Indigenous Film and/or filmmakers
· New Voices in Native/Indigenous film and media
· Needs, Access, and Issues in Native/Indigenous film
· The outcomes/consequences of using Native films across cultural
boundaries and in comparison to other cultural approaches.
· Teaching American Indian or Indigenous films as part of a
nonâ€'American Indian Studies course, such as Humanities, American Studies,
or English.
· Disciplinary and cultural politics as they influence how we read
Native film
· American Indians in Hollywood film
· Approaches to teaching American Indian film
· Indian and the Western (this could also apply to how Indigenous
people globally are positioned as "Indians†in national "Western†genres)
· Effects/impacts of Native representations in film/media on Native
and non-Native culture
· Showcasing new work (if you would like to facilitate a panel that
screens new work, please do so)
If you have specific ideas for topics, workshops, or panels that are not
listed here, please submit those as well.
Native filmmakers, scholars, teachers, students, professionals, and others
are encouraged to participate. Graduate students may wish to submit papers
for fellowships and awards.
Further information regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel,
registration, tours, etc) can be found at
http://swtxpca.org/documents/130.html. Register early for a discount rate
and to reserve space at the conference hotelâ€"rooms fill quickly.
Date and Place: February 24-28, 2009
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
30 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.515.766.6710
Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues.
Deadlines: Priority Submission and Registration: December 1, 2008
Final deadline for Proposals and Panels: Decenber 15, 2008
Final Conference Registration: December 31, 2008 (All participants must be
registered by this date).
Please send 100-200 word abstracts to:
M. Elise Marubbio,
Assistant Professor & Director Augsburg Native American Film Series
Augsburg College
2211 Riverside Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55454
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I do not get a lot of comments or even that much traffic to this site but that does not mean that having the website has not paid-off. In fact, I have received a number of high quality contacts who stumbled onto this blog and realized a connection. The most significant of these has been on the Peterson/Moe side of my family. A few months ago, not long after I posted: Peterson - Moe . . . What's in a Name?, I was contacted by three different individuals on that side of the family, including one from Norway. That was really exciting for me.
|Peterson, Moe and others families gather at Wisconsin Dells in 2011.
They brought with them a wealth of resources to share.
It has only been recently that I started to really understand my Norwegian ancestry and then I get a comment from a "cousin" in Norway. All of those years of wondering about the place and the people and one day, finally, an answer. The other two contacts were from Wisconsin and not totally unknown to me but they were still a big find. There had been clues in some on-line data and other research that hinted at these individuals but I have never been in contact with them directly. One morning I received a phone call from my cousin, a guy named John. His grandfather and my mom's grandfather where brothers. I know of him because he had donated some research to the Mount Horeb Historical Society and my mom had found a few of his items there. Still, I didn't have much of an idea about how to contact him. As we talked, I began to realize that he had been engaged in some serious genealogy over the past few years. Not only that, but he was in contact with a number of other families.
Research Leads to Real Contact
The timing of the contact was also important, as he was planning a big family event in August. I was immediately added to the mailing list and granted access to the private family website. This would lead to a treasure-trove of new information available to me. In June and July, we exchanged a number of e-mails. I sent him parts of the family he was missing and he filled me in on the Moe ancestry in Norway. When the big day came, I took my mom and aunt to the reunion. It was a very professional production and attended by over 130. It was great to see all of those people and to realize that they (or most of them) came from the same roots. There was a nice slide show and information was provided about the family and the ongoing research. Many people, including myself, brought photos and other pieces of memorabilia. The stuff was displayed on tables around the room. Here, for the first time ever, I saw the faces of my great grandfather, his father and many others in that family. Even John, the organizer and experienced genealogist, was amazed at all of the material that showed up. The whole thing was really quite extraordinary.
|One of the many tables of Peterson / Moe photographs and
documents displayed at the Big Peterson Reunion
Discover more about the Peterson's in the three part story starting here.I love the new discoveries that family research uncovers: the stories, where they lived, what they did, a name in a record or on a map. Of all of these, I find the pictures to be the greatest discovery. I don't feel like I really know my ancestors until I see their faces and this past month, I saw at least a dozen new faces. Over the past few years, I thought I had uncovered the Peterson/Moe family. I had a good base of material to start with but there were also many holes. Slowly the pieces came together until it was a pretty complete story. Then came the contact with John and the others and a whole lot of new information. This really put the icing on the cake! I know there will always be more to learn but I think it is safe to say that this branch of the family is about complete.
Additional Reading:
New Discoveries are Delightful
The Flow of Information
Two Years of Blogging about Genealogy
Also, go to the Archives page to find other Peterson and Moe posts.


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43Folders.com is Merlin Mann's website about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work.
New model: Moleskine Reporter Notebooks
Merlin Mann | Mar 18 2005
Moleskine Reporter Notebooks, MoleskineUS
Drool. Spanking new Moleskine reporter notebooks look really nice. Can't wait to pick one up for myself.
Looks like they're very similar to the old-school classic Moleskine, but with the flippable top-binding and a vertically-oriented accordion pocket. The immediate improvement I can see would be for writing in cramped places—like the top of your thigh while riding the bus. I wonder if the binding allows it to flip over completely without damaging the spine.
Anxious to hear what other folks think of these. Anyone tried them yet?
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Dawasi "Tommy" Tawodi might not be repeating his gig as Prey's leading man in the upcoming sequel, but that doesn't mean he won't be playing a part. even if that part involves doing his best impression of Journey front man Steve Perry.
Fresh from the Prey 2 Facebook page, this is the first look we're getting at good old Tommy in the ambitious open world sequel, and he's looking mighty fine, at least from what we can see. Killian Samuels, an air marshal aboard an extremely memorable airplane in the first game takes over as the hero this time around, but it just wouldn't be Prey without a little Tommy.
The Native American's "Don't Fear the Reaper" moment in the original Prey was one of my favorite moments in gaming history. The only way to top it is to have him soulfully belt out "Oh Sherry" in the sequel. He's poised in this picture. Just let nature take its course.


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U.S. to Surpass Russia as Largest Oil and Gas Producer
The U.S. is on pace to top Russia as the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas, another sign of the shale boom's ripple effect on global energy markets.
Surging production of oil and natural gas has led a U.S. comeback in energy. Drilling at shale rock formations has tapped into previously unreachable oil and gas, boosting supplies and impacting a wide range of industries.
The U.S. already surpassed Russia in total production of natural gas, and China is expected to replace America as the world's largest net importer of oil. U.S. imports of natural gas and crude oil have fallen 32% and 15%, respectively, over the last five years.
Now the U.S. is also poised to beat Russia in total production of oil and natural gas combined, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. In fact, it may have already happened.
In July, the U.S. produced the equivalent of roughly 22.2 million barrels a day of oil, natural gas and related fuels, according to data from the Energy Information Administration and International Energy Agency.
Neither agency has data for Russia's gas output, but based on the country's forecast for 2013, combined production should be about 21.8 million barrels a day.
Last year, the U.S. produced more natural gas than Russia for the first time since 1982.
Russia does hold the potential for greater production. The country is believed to have one of the world's largest oil-bearing shale formations.
But so far, Russia hasn't embraced the combination of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling that has unleashed large supplies of oil and gas in the U.S.
Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to hit production milestones amid rapid production at shale formations like North Dakota's Bakken and Eagle Ford in Texas.
Based on the EIA's short-term energy outlook, domestic oil production in August was at its highest daily output, 7.6 million barrels a day, since 1989. The agency anticipates further production growth, estimating daily production of 8.4 million barrels a day by the end of 2014.


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Sunday, September 30, 2007
The day the music died
For four weeks in France my appetite for music was met by France Musique, a wide ranging selection of CDs and books (see above), and much fine live music.
When I drove off the cross-channel ferry last Monday I retuned the car radio to BBC Radio 3. Within an hour the presenter had plugged the BBC's New Generation Artists Scheme so many times that I concluded she was earning a bonus for every mention. Between the plugs there was much other useful information, such as "the violinist was born in 1983, which means she is now 24". And later in the afternoon Sean Rafferty fawned over every act a desperate record company or concert agent sent along to the In Tune studio.
The next day the morning presenter helpfully explained to me why I should appreciate Jordi Savall's Bach, while in the evening classical-jock of the week Tom Service started the network's birthday tribute to Sir Colin Davis by leaving studio guest Mitsuko Uchida's microphone closed for the first thirty seconds of her contribution. Then, yesterday, a tribute to record label Lyrita, which promised so much, sounded like a promotional video for a bio-tech company. It came complete with customer endorsements delivered over Stanford's Second Piano Concerto, a work which sounds like film music even when it is not being used as the background for a voice-over.
The patronising presenters could be ignored if they were introducing great radio. But, today's ratings driven Radio 3 has come up with its own inversion of Lord Reith's vision for the BBC, and the network's programmes now, invariably, offer the public 'something worse than it ever thought it wanted'.
This kind of post doesn't make happy reading, or happy writing. But there will not be many more like it, which will please my regular readers at webgw2.thls.bbc.co.uk (British Broadcasting Corporation). After 40 years of almost daily listening I have decided that BBC Radio 3 will no longer be my default radio station. Instead, my default will be Radio 4 and the long tail of internet stations, supplemented by CDs and some much needed silence. Radio 3 will now be a 'destination station', only listened to for worthwhile concerts and programmes such as Iain Burnside's and Michael Berkeley's. Iain's programme today, with his guest, A. C. Grayling, and the Elisabeth Lutyens motet, was an oasis in a desert of mediocrity.
Coincidentally, today is the 40th anniversary of the first day's broadcasting on BBC Radio 3. But for this listener it is the day the music died. There are now much better alternatives. Access one of them by clicking on the image below to to launch the Radeo internet player, and listen to Polski Radio Dwojka.
Now read more about the future of radio.
For the lyrics of American Pie follow this link. Photo taken by me at Le Romarin, Les Gargoris, France, copyright On An Overgrown Path. Report broken links, missing images and other errors to - overgrownpath at hotmail dot co dot uk
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- Scott said...
I agree completely about the delights of the radeo internet player. I've recommended it to a few people.
All is not quite skittles & beer just yet, however. Perhaps 10% of the stations I've tried give a "bad link" error, or can be played from outside radeo but not inside. Also, stations vary widely as to whether they'll let you know what is being played.
I'm in the same situation as you are; I'm in Canada, and have just given up on CBC Radio 2 as my default station.
Sometimes I connect my laptop to my stereo system, and if you'll permit a product recommendation, I'm very satisfied with the Xitel HiFi Link as my connection mechanism ... definitely better than than a simple y-cable connection. See http://www.xitel.com/USA/prod_hflpc.htm .
Mind you, at the moment I'm on my back deck doing some work and with radeo playing SR Klassiskt from Sweden through my small powered speakers. Blue sky, 21 Celsius, leaves starting to turn. Could be worse.
Oh ... my wine glass is empty. Excuse me ...
- 8:54 pm
- The Omniscient Mussel said...
Miss Mussel ditched CBCRadio2 about six months ago in favour of its arch-rival Espace Musique. There is a large variety of music on offer although you may have to overlook the occasional cheesy French pop song. There is great jazz starting at 4 or 5, leading up to a classical concert at 8.
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- Pliable said...
Email received:
Divorcing Radio 3
I hear you on R3.
But, when it comes down to it, what are we looking forin the radeo.net channels?
Music? We can get that anywhere now.
So maybe it is the randomness.
We probably don't know what is coming next. And there is perhaps more likely to be something interestingcoming than on R3, with less chat.
And we don't always understand the chat. An exotic voice introducing something can be attractive, and so can randomness.
But isn't that about it? The music is the same. Theonly thing which distinguishes a good radio channelfrom the civilised disc-jockey-delivered channels intons of places is the making of ... hushed silence ...programmes.
Programmes are still occasionally made on R3. I can think of one or two this year -- Elgar, Takemitsu, the Britten opera series. Nobody ever did that better than the Beeb. But who else ever does it?
So what are we praising with radeo.net?
- 9:31 pm
- Pliable said...
David, thank you for that. You make some interesting points, and here are my thoughts on them.
Radio 3 has become formulaic. The presentation style follows a formula (patronising, matey, etc) and the repertoire follows a formula (mainstream with lashings of 'cred composers' such as Shostakovich, plus regular outings for a limited number of approved contemporary composers, Adams, Glass, etc).
Most classical stations also follow a formula, although thankfully many of them are not as cringe inducing as today's Radio 3.
The Radeo internet player allows you to explore different formulas, and find stations that meet your own personal needs. Radio 3 with its restrictive formula has eliminated chance. The search and browse facilities on the Radeo put serendipity back into the listening experience,
I am very clear what I am praising. It is that the Radeo player is a search engine for music (and talk).
Think Google and websites, translate that to Radeo and internet stations.
Search engines revolutionised the web, applications like Radeo will revolutionise online radio.
The Controller of Radio 3, Roger Wright, thinks that he can still tell us what we are going to listen to, and how it will be presented.
The Radeo internet player empowers the listener. Now I can decide what I am going to listen to, and I can share my discoveries with friends and readers, and create communities of common interest - which is precisely what the readership of An Overgrown Path is.
The music may be the same. But control has switched from broadcaster to listener.
That is very important.
- 10:02 pm
- rchrd said...
Sounds like the Beeb is getting as bad as the so-called classical music station (the only one left) here in San Francisco, KDFC
I actually heard one of the announcers say "That Mozart, what a guy!"
We leave the radio on KDFC to entertain our parrots when we're not around. Stricly for the birds.
Click on the link above and listen for yourself. They will play the Haydn Trumpet Concerto at least once a day. No joke.
Thank goodness for internet radio!
- 7:39 am
- Pliable said...
This comment on the Friends of BBC Radio 3 website says it all:
It's probably understandable that the controller insists publicly there's nothing wrong with Radio 3's presentation. However, that needn't prevent him making changes when the evidence of listeners' negative reaction becomes overwhelming.
Just one more lost listener, after 40 years of listening to Radio 3: http://theovergrownpath.blogspot.com...usic-died.html
Deserters may not agree on every detail about current programmes but they do agree that the best action to take is to switch off.
- 9:31 am


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Gordon S. Black necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 85 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
Gordon S. Black, Ph.D.
The America that Gordon Black grew up in was a land of economic opportunity, a democracy that worked most of the time for most of the people, and a culture that generously rewarded hard work, decency, kindness and imagination. Now in his 60's, Gordon Black's American has degenerated into a society of greater and greater inequality, a democracy that today functions only for the powerful and the connected, and a culture that has embraced greed, fatalism, negativity and conformity - a culture that rewards who you know more than what you are. . The Corn Is Forever is one man's story of overcoming tremendous odds to succeed, only to see the things he loved the most about his country taken from his children and grandchildren. The book is an appeal to Americans to take back what is rightfully theirs, and to restore our heritage of freedom and opportunity to our children and grandchildren.
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This is a cover for an unpublished autobiography of Gordon Black, the man who build Harris Interactive, the owner of the Harris Poll, into the largest Internet based polling firm in the world, and the fastest growing. This cover will appear on his book, which will published on a new site called Authorswithoutagents.com, which is a site designed to bring together budding authors and sophisticated and serious readers.


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Two Hope College students died from injuries suffered in a two-vehicle accident in Muskegon (Mich.) County on August 10, 2007.
Samuel (Sam) A. Meengs of Zeeland, Mich. was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Karen A. Linder of Sioux City, Iowa died at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids two days later.
Both Sam and Karen would have been sophomores at Hope this fall. They were each 19-years-of-age. Each achieved academic honors in their first year at Hope earning Dean's List recognition. Sam was a pre-med student while Karen intended to pursue a career in physical therapy. Sam was a diver on Hope's swimming team.
The two were en route to Sam's family cottage at Hess Lake in Newaygo County when the accident occurred. The accident was investigated by the Muskegon County Sheriff Department.
A funeral service for both students was held on Wednesday, Aug. 15 in Dimnent Memorial Chapel on the Hope College campus.
A time rememberance will be held for the Hope community on Thursday, Sept. 6.


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I believe he may be referring to the Tesla Roadster but not sure. Actually, $57,500 is around 35,300 pounds at the current rate.
Yep, you diviplied instead of multiding.
Almost all European countries pay VAT for cars, which is somewhere around 20-25% of the production price. That could explain the higher price, at least partially. AFAIK in US they don't pay VAT for cars (I'm not sure they pay VAT for anything? Do you?)
We do not pay anything on the Federal side in the US. It's the States and Local cities that add sales tax and/or personal property tax on to cars. It is typically around 10%, at least in Saint Louis.
Some states are higher but some of them waive the tax for EV's.
What do other cars in the Roadster class cost in the UK? just curious.
Roadster price before federal tax incentive is $109000. 1.2 times that is 130800, with Dollar-Pound conversion that is 80152.10 GBP.
Still 10k short, but close.
Competition for the Roadster! I give you the Porsche Hybrid Spyder: Only $0.85M U$, delivery 2013.
Note re: Spyder...
Not a video screen to be seen; all analog:
Short version: V8 + 2 electric motors, AWD, 0-60 in 3.1. Designed for the track.
That's a bad "motor scooter" alright. Porsche, remaining the "drug dealers" car of choice.
To answer the original question about the price falling - I think the answer is almost certainly "no", if it's not already apparent, considering two factors:
Roadster production is not going to continue for long as Tesla stops making Roadsters and switches to the 'S', and
I heard that at some point very soon Tesla won't even be taking orders for non-sport Roadsters, as they face the end of the production run, i.e. the last 300 or something [GUESSING!] will be Sport only. So the "base price" goes up by $19K in the US. I only know this because I just ordered a basic model myself.
Of course in the future there will be more Roadster-like vehicles, and they will be cheaper than this Roadster. Some articles on Tesla mention a possible successor to the Roadster as well, somewhere down the line, although I haven't seen much on that topic.
Hope this helps (and isn't too disappointing!),
Hello all,
I was always a big fan of Tesla until we had the opportunity to test drive the Tesla Roadster... Now I'm their NUMBER ONE FAN!
Check out our video with and exclusive interview with the Tesla Communications Manager and the representative of ProMotor Romania:
Personally I can't wait for the SUV...
Expensive, yes, but what a car!!!
The Morgan Stanley analyst report today set a target price for TSLA of $70!! The stock immediately jumped $4 to over $27. Here's the link:
Also, Chevy has a concept hybrid "Mi-Ray Roadster" touring Korea. Pretty strange specs, IMO:
1.5L turbocharged 4-cylinder engine;
twin 15-kW electric motors and mid-mounted 1.6-kWh lithium-ion battery
The Mi-ray is propelled by two front-mounted 15-kW electric motors for quick acceleration and zero emissions in urban driving. The motors are powered by a 1.6-kWh lithium-ion battery that is charged through regenerative braking energy. The Mi-ray has the capability of being switched from front-wheel drive to rear-wheel drive.
For performance driving, the Mi-ray's 1.5-liter four-cylinder turbocharged engine combines with the electric motors, providing spirited torque control to both the left and right wheels as needed. The high-tech engine, mounted behind the cockpit, drives the rear wheels while seamlessly integrating electrification technology that defines a new standard in the compact roadster segment.
A dual-clutch transmission (DCT) enables a reduction in the powertrain's size by eliminating the torque converter. Shifts are quick and firm. The shift pattern has been tuned for improved top speed in performance mode. A start-stop system works in conjunction with the DCT.
No indication of price range.
FYI-Roadster production ends this June 2011 and will not return for 7 years. Buy new now or buy used later.
MaryBeth, where do you have this detail from?
I think their contract with Lotus ends then. If they want to produce Roadster after that they need to do it in their own plant, and if they do that I think they make it a whole new thing, and not continue doing what they have done this far.
That info is buried somewhere in here, I have read that as well, just can't find it just now (no search here).
I don't know about the 7 year timeline to resume Roadster production, but this is the end of the lotus gliders being provided/made.
If you live in Europe, then the Roadster is still available until the end of 2011. Only custom-order production in USA has stopped, and there are still a few on the showroom floors (but basically Sport only by now).
I repeat, Timo: use any standard search engine, but precede your search terms with the following:
"site:http://www.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/ "
You'll need to use a separate tab for that. Do you know how to tab?


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well, lets see if willie can be the player i know he isn't, and that's a load carrier.....and i hope carter doesn't win the starting job, i don't want a midget starting at saftey
and they need to get off that wr throwing b.s., they act like it was a major part of our offense. they are making me sick with all the talk about that ****
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06236/715925-66.stmThursday, August 24, 2006
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Other than reveal that two of his more important 30-year-olds, wide receiver Hines Ward and cornerback Deshea Townsend, will not play tomorrow night in Philadelphia because of injuries, coach Bill Cowher was chock full of news and insights during what could be his final news conference ever from Saint Vincent College yesterday.
The highlights:
Willie Parker will stay in the game when the Steelers near the goal line, at least to start the season. There will be no Jerome Bettis-like role this season unless somehow Verron Haynes or Duce Staley prove they can fill it. So far, they have not done that.
"If somebody starts to surface and becomes that guy, as the season goes on I wouldn't rule it out," Cowher said. "But I can't say right now there's been one person like there was with Jerome. And I don't think that's a bad thing. That's the way it was last year. This year's a different year."


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MikeMC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 80 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
A logo that targets college students age 18-24. Open to all designs but am also interested in a logo that incorporates "CTM". Must be in vector. Provides original .PSD.
Please read the entire brief. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!!
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2 stars - needs more awesome
3 stars - has awesome potential
4 stars - wowed me with awesome
5 stars - beauty. contender for the awesome prize.
**All entries will start off with 2 stars and will change as more entries come in.
College Town Menus
A website that has restaurants from surrounding universities, all across the country. The website is not designed yet, but is in progress of being developed. I am going to focus the design of the website around the logo.
Target college students age 18-23
Ideally, I would like to see the logo in terms of a web layout. IE: Provide the logo by itself and then one with a sample corresponding web design.
- Not required, but am interested in creating a brand "CTM." Maybe have one design with/without to show differences?
- College font maybe?
- Possibly a cartoon college guy or a easily recognizable symbol (like the Nike swoosh, Adidas triangle, etc.)
- I made a "prototype website" when I was in college called "Radmenus" (www.radmenus.com). We liked the red theme but am also open to other types. When I made that logo, I was thinking that the dots on the outside represent all other menus being tied to Radmenus.
- I REALLY like the website Zagat.com overall design/layout of their page - our website will be similar but with slight changes.
- I also like CampusFood.com, though I think their logo is a bit plain.
- OVERALL: The logo will be used as the primary marketing piece for website, banners, fliers, business cards, and other promo materials.
- I do not like BUSY designs. Sometimes less is more.
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Honestly, I think adding that whole menu thing was a poor decision as it now forces a menu entry that when clicked, always adds foo_dsp_xgeq to the Active DSP list, which messes with my current settings. I had to go back to a previous version where there was no menu added.
adding some enabled checkbox (like the built-in eq has) which adds/removes from the list of active DSPs?
What would you want it to do if the eq is not in the list of active DSPs? Display an error message that you need to activate the eq yourself?Also, I don't understand why you had to go back. Nothing/nobody forces you to click View - Graphic Equalizer. You can still use the DSP manager in the preferences or the vst plugin's submenu.edit: I could also think of adding a dialog "The eq is not in the list of active DSPs, do you want to add it? [Yes] [No]". But isn't that annoying?Or adding some enabled checkbox (like the built-in eq has) which adds/removes from the list of active DSPs?
Where can I find (.xqeg) presets this is too much configuration for me.
Is is possible to make your EQ a default UI component?Or a Column UI one?
Quote from: khaos974 on 2012-07-04 08:28:58Is is possible to make your EQ a default UI component?Or a Column UI one?In order to make sure that player uses this plugin instead of buit-in equalizer just goto preferences click DSP Manager and add "Graphic Equalizer' into Active DSP list and remove "Equalizer' from it if it's there
Works fine for me.You may have chosen not to install a necessary dependency at installation. Try running the foobar installer again and choose the "Full" option.Make sure Graphic Equalizer has been added to (and configured at) the Active DSP list which is located at Preferences > Playback > DSP Manager.
Hello,I'd like to know if there was a way to include the Graphic Eq into the GUI, or even better to replace the built in Eq with it, and if that's possible, how to do it ?I'd like to insert it into a Tab...Thanks


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Meet the Faculty
Anne E. Beidler
Professor of Art
Contact Information
Phone: 404.471.6436
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Academic Degrees
B.F.A., University of Connecticut, Storrs
M.F.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Teaching and Scholarly Interests
Professor Beidler has been on the faculty of Agnes Scott College since 1992 and teaches drawing, printmaking, painting and book-arts. She is particularly interested in inspiring students to find intersections between their creative work and engagement within the other academic disciplines.
Her studio work includes prints, drawings, mixed-media paintings and artist books. In her ongoing Body/Text Project, she creates large scale figural prints and drawings that explore personal transformation. The focus of her most recent studio project is based in the Buddhist sensibility found in poems such as those of, the Chinese T'ang Dynasty poet Han-shan. Many of her images are developed from her photographs of Asian gardens, temples, and street scenes, as well as from her prints, drawings, collected materials and found images. In much the same way that a garden or temple gateway invites exploration and evokes ancient places or distant memories, her sequential works are like pages or visual maps and become gateways to new thoughts and images.
Professional Activities
Beidler's work has been selected for inclusion in exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. Some of her exhibitions include, An Exhibition of Artist's Books, Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Multiple Hemispheres exchange exhibitions Argentina and the USA; New Dialogues: Women Printmakers Invitational at Wellesley College; Stories From Her, Department of Cultural and Visual Studies at Rochester, New York.
She has been a visiting artist at a number of colleges and universities including Rollins College in Florida; Tulane University in New Orleans; and Seoul Women's University in Korea.
Her work is in private and public collections including those of Auburn University, the Wiregrass Museum in Alabama, the Kennedy Museum of Ohio University, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.


text: The Middle East Institute is honored to host the Hon. Filippo Grandi, Commissioner-General of UNRWA, for a discussion about the status and plight of Palestinian refugees. Since its creation in 1949, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has been at the forefront providing essential humanitarian and human development services to the now approximately 5 million registered Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza. The challenges to the Agency and its beneficiaries are many-from continuing to operate in some of the most dangerous parts of Syria, to providing care and protection to now 2nd and 3rd time Palestinian refugees from Syria seeking safety and shelter in Lebanon and Jordan, to addressing the aftermath of the recent war in Gaza. UNRWA Commissioner-General Grandi will offer an update on the rising tensions in the region, the international community's response and new dangers that lie ahead from the perspective of the refugees. Biography Filippo Grandi was appointed Commissioner-General of UNRWA on January 20, 2010 having previously served as Deputy Commissioner-General since October 2005. Prior to joining UNRWA, he distinguished himself in a variety of headquarters and field functions around the globe for the United Nations encompassing refugee assistance, protection, emergency management, donor relations, and humanitarian and political affairs.


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This is my third post about sisters.
There was this one http://drsavta.com/wordpress/2007/07/23/sisters/
and this one http://drsavta.com/wordpress/2009/10/07/sisters-2/
because to me, this relationship is very special.
If you have been reading my blog, you probably know that in December, my sister finally made aliya. After over 45 years of living very far away, my sister is a 5 minute car ride away. I can bump into her at the mall, we can see a movie together, and we can sit and talk about things that no one understands the way we do.
When she was far away, we kept in touch. She was great about making sure to visit no matter where we were living. She was present at most of the important times in my life. I appreciated her and loved her.
But now, I know what a wonderful thing it is to have her here, nearby, and to not have to think about when her flight home leaves. She is home.


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Simon Gerrans Sling Shots to Victory in VallsSun 24 Mar 2013
Simon Gerrans surprised as he shot out of the final corner ahead of the finish line to rocket past the sprinters for victory on stage six of Volta a Catalunya. Taking his second win of the season, the 11th for ORICA-GreenEDGE, Gerrans was part of a 40-strong group that formed over the slopes of the second category Alt de Lilla.
"I'm really happy with the stage win," said Gerrans. "It was a huge team effort today. Trav [Travis Meyer], Christian [Meier], Sam [Bewley] and Wes [Wesley Sulzberger] did a huge amount of work in the first couple of hours to cover the breakaway. They did a really fantastic job. After that, it was just a matter of Brett [Lancaster] and I taking care of our position ahead of the final."
It took well over half the stage for a breakaway to slip up the road. The peloton finally allowed an eight rider escape group to build up a small advantage as the race approached the day's first of two categorised climbs.
"The day unfolded pretty much according to plan although the race was a bit faster and harder than we had expected," noted Gerrans. "The break didn't establish until 100 kilometres, so it was super fast for the first two or three hours. The team was really good about covering moves until the break went away. They're just about dead on their feet after such a big effort in the first half of the race."
Lancaster helped Gerrans position himself on the approach to the second climb. The pace up the slopes of the Alt de Lilla splintered the peloton.
"The races split up the last climb," explained Gerrans. "There was still a little breakaway just up the front. They had maybe 30" or so at this point. We rode quite fast from behind to bring that back."
Inside the final five kilometres, the peloton had reeled in the break. Gerrans was alone in a select front group charging towards the finish.
"In the build-up to the sprint, I positioned myself around the guys that I know are going quite well at the moment," Gerrans said. "I was able to keep myself in a good place, and I came through that last left-hander in tenth wheel or so. I was far back, but I knew the guys in front of me were still lead out riders, so I had time to come around them."
"I kicked quite hard out of the corner," he continued. "This gave me the opportunity to move up and use my momentum to pop out in the last couple hundred metres. I had the legs to come from behind today. It's fantastic to get another WorldTour stage win for the team."
Gerrans wasn't the only ORICA-GreenEDGE rider to make a podium appearance. Christian Meier snagged both the points leader jersey and the Tour de France 100 Sprint jersey on the first day of racing and has successfully defended both jerseys through today's penultimate stage
"Christian is the guy that you can always count on to help out the other riders," said Gerrans. "He's a hard worker, and his efforts are almost always for his team. I'm happy to see him get something for himself. It would be a big result for Christian to finish the race tomorrow in either one or both of those sprint jerseys."