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GLOBUS 2020: Newfoundland & Labrador with Iceberg Festival (CF1)
13 days from Corner Brook to St. John's
With cruises, ferry crossings, and visits to several UNESCO World Heritage Sites, this breathtaking vacation features the best of Newfoundland and Labrador-with overnights in Corner Brook, Plum Point, L'Anse-au-Clair, St. Anthony, Rocky Harbour, Gander, Clarenville, and St. John's.Throughout this Newfoundland & Labrador tour, enjoy breathtaking scenery. On your cruise on Bonne Bay, learn about the history of the small villages nestled on the shores as you watch for whales and bald eagles. Travel to the Witless Bay Islands and enjoy a narrated cruise and watch for whales and puffins. Other scenic highlights include Gros Morne National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its stunning beauty and unique geological features; Arches Provincial Park, where you'll stop to photograph two large arches carved by the pounding sea; Terra Nova National Park, Canada's most easterly national park; and much more. Plus, you'll be in St. Anthony for the annual Iceberg Festival. Enjoy a cruise through Iceberg Alley, experience a Viking feast, and explore on your own. In addition to amazing scenery, visit historic sights on this Newfoundland & Labrador tour. Visit Port au Choix National Historic Site, where an exhibit highlights archaeological finds from people who settled here before 2000 BC; Red Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to a 16th-century Basque whaling station; the L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and North America's only known Viking settlement; Cape Spear National Historic Site, home to the province's oldest surviving lighthouse; St. John's, where you'll tour North America's oldest settlement; and much more.Throughout this tour, you'll be accompanied by an expert Tour Director who will bring this region to life with in-depth knowledge and local insights into the region's culture, history, and secrets. All of this-and much more-await you on this marvelous tour!
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|Day 1
|Corner Brook
|Welcome to Corner Brook! The remainder of the day is at leisure to explore the town or relax at your hotel.
|Day 2
|Corner Brook
|This morning, meet your traveling companions and Tour Director during a welcome breakfast. Then, enjoy an orientation tour of Corner Brook, followed by a break to see the Captain James Cook National Historic Site. Travel along Humber Arm to the Bay of Islands, with excellent photo opportunities on the way to Frenchman's Cove. Enjoy a stop at Lark Harbour. Savor great views of Guernsey, Tweed, and the Pearl Islands on the return to Corner Brook. (B)
|Day 3
|Skirt the shores of Deer Lake and head north to GROS MORNE NATIONAL PARK, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its exceptional beauty and unique geological features. At the Lobster Cove Head, visit the LIGHTHOUSE and the fascinating marine displays. Next is BROOM POINT, highlighting the history of Canada's earliest fishing settlements. Depart for St. Barbe, visiting a few important sites along the way. View glacier-carved gorges on the way to PORT AU CHOIX NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE. The exhibits focus on archaeological finds of Maritime Archaic and Dorset peoples who settled here before 2000 BC. (B,D)
|Day 4
|Board your FERRY to cross the Strait of Belle Isle, known as Iceberg Alley, to Blanc Sablon. Then, to RED BAY, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first major industrial complex of the New World and home to a 16th-century Basque whaling station exhibit. Return to L'Anse-au-Clair. (B,D) NOTE: Icebergs are most often seen in June and July.
|Day 5
|St Anthony
|FERRY back to St. Barbe. Enter L'ANSE AUX MEADOWS NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, the only known Viking settlement in North America and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Tour the reconstructed sod huts, learn how the Vikings lived, and see Norse artifacts dating back to 1000 AD. (B,D)
|Day 6
|St. Anthony
|Spend the day being a part of the annual Iceberg Festival, celebrating the coming of spring and the arrival of icebergs. We'll start the day with a CRUISE through Iceberg Alley to experience magnificent icebergs, seabirds, and possibly whales. During your free time today, attend one of the local events and learn more about the region's history, culture, and music. Enjoy an evening of food, fun and feuds at the GREAT VIKING FEAST DINNER THEATRE. You can even join the crew and become an honorary Viking! (B,D)
|Day 7
|This morning, travel along the Viking Trail, with a stop at ARCHES PROVINCIAL PARK to photograph the two large arches carved by the pounding sea. Then, board a ship for a scenic CRUISE on Bonne Bay. Relax as you take in views of Gros Morne Mountain, learn about the history of the small villages nestled on the shores, and keep a lookout for whales and bald eagles. Tonight, enjoy a special [LF] LOBSTER DINNER. (B,D)
|Day 8
|After breakfast, depart for Gander, once the international aviation crossroads of the world for a visit to the NORTH ATLANTIC AVIATION MUSEUM, to learn the history of North Atlantic aviation from the 1930s to its unexpected role in the days following the 9/11 tragedy. (B,D)
|Day 9
|Along the 'Road to the Isles,' the local predilection for colorful language comes across with place names such as 'Too Good Arm,' 'Virgin Arm,' and 'Crow Head.' On the way to Twillingate, visit the PRIME BERTH FISHING MUSEUM and see the Long Point Lighthouse. With luck, you might spot whales along the coast en route to TERRA NOVA NATIONAL PARK. Spend the next two night in Clarenville situated in beautiful Trinity Bay. (B,D)
|Day 10
|This morning, travel to historic Trinity, one of the oldest communities in North America, with its scenic harbor. Enjoy a guided [LF] WALKING TOUR and hear stories that bring this picturesque village alive. Continue to Cape Bonavista to admire the beautiful cliffs and coastlines. In Bonavista, learn how modern North America began when John Cabot made landfall here in 1497. A visit to RYAN PREMISES NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE commemorates the prosperous fishing industry from the early 1500s to present day. (B)
|Day 11
|St. John's
|Rejoin the Trans-Canada Highway and travel to Witless Bay Islands, where whales and puffins abound. Board your boat for a narrated CRUISE around the three islands. Newfoundland has the largest concentration of humpback whales in the world, and is also known as the 'Seabird Capital of North America,' with the largest Atlantic puffin sanctuary in North America. Continue to St. John's, visiting CAPE SPEAR NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE en route, the most easterly point in North America. (B)
|Day 12
|St. John's
|Tour the oldest settlement in North America with a Local Guide. Visit SIGNAL HILL NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, Cabot Tower, the Old Town, and the Basilica of St. John the Baptist. This afternoon is free to explore on your own. You may wish to visit The Rooms, where you can immerse yourself in the local culture through history, heritage, and artistic expression or spend time browsing the many boutiques and galleries of St. John's. This evening, your Tour Director hosts a special farewell dinner that includes a traditional [LF] SCREECH-IN ceremony. Wonderful conversation and cuisine make the perfect finale for your tour. (B,D)
|Day 13
|St. John's
|The tour ends this morning with guests departing on individual schedules. (B)
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From around the age of seven, I saw the world in 8bit color. The Nintendo Entertainment System was more than a revelation for my young eyes. It was a revolution.
Even now, I love the look of 8-bit, those stark and sometimes saturated blocky colors. I love it so much that I downloaded this 8-bit camera app to do things like take photos of my watch. On my desk. With different filters.
8bit: Camera is a barebones camera app, with a handful of said filters (four, actually). In that way, it reminds me of Instagram, which I love and need to spend more time on!
What I liked about this camera app were the small touches, such as the game blip when the shutter goes off. I do wish I could convert my old pics into 8-bit and hope the developer offers that in a future update! It's a newly released app, so fingers crossed that more features are forthcoming.
The resulting 8-bit-ized photos are on the small side (about 300 pixels across), so that is something you should be aware of.
I've seen a few 8-bit camera apps on the App Store—such as a Game Boy camera clone that came out last year. I do believe this is one of the only dedicated 8-bit camera apps that is in full color (it also has black and white, if that is your thing). If you cannot get out of an 8-bit haze or want to get back into one, 8bit: Camera might be worth checking out.
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If it hasn't already, Facebook is beginning to take over our real-life social services.
A day after word brock that those grappling with suicide could turn to the Palo Alto-based social-networking site for counseling comes a report that a European airline will begin letting travelers pick their seatmates based on their Facebook profile.
Dutch airline KLM is developing a tool to allow passengers to opt in and review fellow passengers Facebook profiles and decide whether to sit near them or not.
Passengers can choose their seatmate based on looks, similar interests or where they work.
The service is still being developed but it is expected to be available early next year.
For those self conscious types or those who like to sleep for an entire flight, they can opt out of the service and have their seat assigned at random.
The service stops shorts -- at least overtly -- of another airline that set up an online dating service for frequent flyers. Strangely that program has since been shut down.
Dutch Airline to Let Passengers Pick Seatmates Via Facebook
If it hasn't already, Facebook is beginning to take over our real-life social services.


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Everybody loves holidays because during our holidays we can relax and have fun.I strongly believe that all students and teaching staff are looking for winter holiday because it is a break for
weus all. We can have more free time to do what we want during this period of time. We can sleep and stay up as long as we want to and dont need to worry about getting up late for class the next day morningfor the next day morning classes.
I had always dreamed about going to France and last winter holiday my dream came true.
It was the evening of December 19, when my parents told me that we are going to France for one week in our holiday. I couldnt believe my ears what I just heard. I asked they again if is not making it up, but they said
theywe have already purchased tickets online and made plans. On 21th21st May we departed Berlin and headed towards our first destination, Mont Blanc mountenmountain(i guess u wrote mountain). As soon as we reached there after a long journey, I was stunned by the beautiful scenic views that I only saw in pictures. I was totally lost in the scenic views that I forgot to blink my eyes. We stayed in the 5-star hotel near the moutainmountain. Next day we hired a helicopter for a trip to see the sorroundssurrounds. It was simply amazing.Last day was fantastic too because Ive driveddrove (use the second form of drive in past tense) a snowmobile and it was really fun.
My holiday was exciting and full of joy. I enjoyed it immensely. I am looking forward to
going there again soon. again visit those places soon.
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Father Pat's Pastoral Ponderings
The Dormition of the Theotokos
August 15, 2010
Docetism, one of the earliest Christological heresies, derived its name from the Greek verb dokein — to "seem." This name was descriptive: It indicated the teaching that God's Son only "seemed" to be a human being. His presence on the earth, though real in itself, was conveyed by way of a revelatory appearance, not connected with His being. His humanity was a kindly illusion. According to this opinion, the Son of God wore a semblance of humanity, like a costume, as it were, a kind of actor's mask. Donning this mask, He "played a part" in the human drama, rather like the various gods of the Iliad — or, for that matter, the biblical angels, who "appeared" on earth.
Although this heresy stayed around for a long time — and maintained its voice even as late as the Qur'an (Sura 4:157-158) — the Christian Church was not slow to spot a significant problem with it. Namely, if the humanity of Jesus was only apparent — as distinct from real — then whatever He did in that apparent humanity was likewise only apparent. He only "appeared" to die for our sins, for example, and only "seemed" to rise for our justification.
One can detect vestiges of Docetism even today, I believe. Is there not a taint of it, for example, in the rather common suggestion that Jesus feigned ignorance from time to time? Thus, some folks tell us, when Jesus inquired whose hand in the crowd had touched him (Luke 8:45-46), He really knew whose it was; He was only pretending not to know. But isn't pretense the very essence of Docetism?
Chalcedon's declaration — in 451 — that Jesus is "of one being [homoousios] with us with respect to His humanity" means the full assumption of the human condition, sin excepted. God's Son, becoming flesh and dwelling among us, took on a truly human life, circumscribed in space, limited to a particular time and concrete set of circumstances. Against the Docetists, the holy orthodox and catholic faith affirms a complete Incarnation, not the pretense of one. It asserts a redemption of the human race "from within." A single subject (hypostasis) is at once both divine and human, neither confused nor divided.
Thus, when Jesus slept — during a storm, for instance (Mark 4:38) — He was really asleep. When He sat down to rest, He was truly weary, and, when He asked for a drink, He was not pretending to be thirsty (John 4:6-7). Likewise, when Jesus professed not to know the time of the final judgment (Matthew 24:36 in the older manuscripts), we should not imagine Him juggling various preferences of mental reservation. However thin, façade and disguise are the very contrary of the Incarnation. The one thing Jesus never did was deceive us.
The Incarnation was total and forever. When our humanity was seized, it was — save sin — without reservation; no holds were barred, nothing held back. This means that God's Son flung Himself completely into our humanity, including the processes of thought and resolve. The "single subject" Christology of Chalcedon necessarily affirms the unity of Jesus' self-awareness.
Consequently, there was not the scantest part of internal disguise or pretense in Christ. He did not peep, slyly but approvingly, over His own shoulder. He was not inwardly divided into actor and spectator, the one putting on a show and the other watching it. If we believe that the embrace of the Incarnation — a concrete humanity — was complete and without reserve, there could not have been a trace of the "docetic" in the inner life of Jesus.
When, as a man, Jesus committed His life and destiny to the Father, the obedience was utterly pure and unalloyed with self-regard. There was no "self-fulfillment" here. The only "fulfillment" was that of prophecy. His was a holocaust, in the original sense that God received the entire victim; the priest was left nothing on which to feed. Love for the Father and for us was His sole motive, and it was selfless in a way unparalleled in the history of mankind. Jesus suffered and endured all things, guided by no narrative except the demands of biblical prophecy. He told Himself no story separate from His own existence. Everything was exactly as it seemed.
Rudolf Kassner expressed, perhaps, the most eloquent conviction on this point: "I remain convinced that the God-man never, at any time, not even for a moment, however brief, saw or attempted to see his own face in a mirror."
Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon is pastor of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago, Illinois, and a Senior Editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity.
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Spot On: Virtual Super Bowl 2004
One sports sim has consistently picked the big game's winner, but this year, the competition makes GameDay scramble.
One sports sim has consistently picked the big game's winner, but this year, the competition makes GameDay scramble.
Fledgling cable channel SpikeTV pairs porn and power-ups at its first annual Video Game Awards.
250,000 more moths have been lured to the flame, and Madden NFL burns the brightest.
Major League Gaming announces that its first major console gaming tournament will take place in New York next month.
EA Sports to sponsor pregame show, but does it step on Sega's toes?
EA Sports announces that the 2004 editions of both Madden NFL and NCAA Football are recording record-breaking sales.
Are you ready for some football? Our walkthrough covers all major editions of Madden NFL 2004, with summaries of all 32 NFL teams, tips on building your franchise, and strategies ...
EA Sports announces that its second annual Madden Challenge tournament will kick off in Chicago this weekend.
EA announces the North American release of all six versions of its latest football game.
EA Sports completes work on the latest game in its long-running football franchise.
We take a look at some of the brand-new features for the 2004 iteration of Madden NFL.
We get an up-close look at the 2004 edition of EA Sports' Madden NFL series for the PC.
We got an early look at the next game in EA Sports' best-selling football series, and we have details on its various enhancements.
Electronic Arts releases a list of the games it'll be showing at this year's E3.
The Atlanta Falcons quarterback will be gracing the cover of EA Sports' next Madden game.
Electronic Arts and Nintendo announce a collaboration that will see a number of future EA games supporting GameCube-GBA connectivity.
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The Flying Dutchmen are champions of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) for the ninth time in 11 years.
Sealing the title at a season-ending tournament on their own home course, coach Bob Ebels' Flying Dutchmen finished 41 strokes ahead of the field. The team gained the championship with consistent play, taking first in three of the eight conference tournaments and finishing third or higher in the rest. The Flying Dutchmen set an MIAA course record at the Milham golf course in Kalamazoo.
The men's golf championship is the 14th in school history.
Senior Steven Strock (Grandville, Mich.) captured league medalist honors for the second straight year and was joined on the All-MIAA first team by teammates Charlie Olson, a freshman from Suttons Bay, Mich., and Nick Campbell, a sophomore from Saline, Mich. Campbell was an All-MIAA second team honoree in 2008.
For the season, Strock averaged 73.7 strokes per 18-hole round while Olson ended at 74.1 and Nick Campbell 74.25. His seasonal average (73.7) was the ninth best in Hope school history.
Other Hope golfers who qualified for the final MIAA seasonal standings were junior Chris Ansel of Zeeland, Mich. (Zeeland East HS), 77.4 average, and sophomore Andy Thomson of Beaver Dam, Wisc. (Central Wisconsin Christian HS), 80.1 average.
Ansel had an individual highlight when he shot a hole-in-one on the 11th hole (208 yards, par 3) at the Bedford Valley Country Club on Sept. 8. It was only the fourth hole-in-one in modern-day MIAA history and the second by a Hope golfer. The other was by Jay Prasad in 1997 (Duck Lake GC, 5th hole, par 3, 115 yards).
Other members of the team included freshman John Cannon of Traverse City, Mich. (Traverse City West HS); freshman Auastin Farah of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (Southfield Christian HS), sophomore Chris Harwood of Westfield, Ind. (Brebeuf Prep); sophomore Caleb Nykamp of Holland, Mich. (Holland Christian HS); freshman Adam Peplinski of Cedar, Mich. (St. Mary's HS); and sophomore Scott Webster pf Ada, Mich. (Linfield, Calif. Christian HS).


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Texas marked a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday evening, executing its 500th inmate since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982.
Kimberly McCarthy, who was put to death for the murder of her 71-year-old neighbor, was also the first woman executed in the U.S. in nearly three years.
McCarthy's last statement was short and directed at her family and supporters:
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"I just wanted to say Thanks to all who have supported me over the years. Reverend Campbell for my spiritual guidance, Aaron the father of Darrian my son, and Maurie my Attorney. Thank you everybody, this is not a loss, this is a win. You know where I'm going. I am going home to be with Jesus, Keep the faith, I love y'all. Thank you Chaplain."
McCarthy, 52, was executed for the 1997 robbery, beating and fatal stabbing of retired college psychology professor Dorothy Booth. Booth had agreed to give McCarthy a cup of sugar before she was attacked with a butcher knife and candelabra at her home in Lancaster, about 15 miles south of Dallas. Authorities say McCarthy cut off Booth's finger to remove her wedding ring.
It was among three slayings linked to McCarthy, a former nursing home therapist who became addicted to crack cocaine.
She was pronounced dead at 6:37 p.m. CDT, 20 minutes after Texas prison officials began administering a single lethal dose of pentobarbital.
Texas has carried out nearly 40 percent of the more than 1,300 executions in the U.S. since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976. The state's standing stems from its size as the nation's second-most populous state as well as its tradition of tough justice for killers.
With increased debate in recent years over wrongful convictions, some states have halted the practice entirely. However, 32 states have the death penalty on the books. Though Texas still carries out executions, lawmakers have provided more sentencing options for juries and courts have narrowed the cases for which death can be sought.
Executions of women are infrequent. McCarthy was the 13th woman put to death in the U.S. and the fourth in Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty state, since the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume. In that same period, more than 1,300 male inmates have been executed nationwide, 496 of them in Texas. Virginia is a distant second, nearly 400 executions behind.
McCarthy's lawyer, Maurie Levin, had asked the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to halt the punishment, arguing black jurors were improperly excluded from McCarthy's trial by Dallas County prosecutors. McCarthy is black; her victim white. All but one of her 12 jurors were white. The court denied McCarthy's appeals, ruling her claims should have been raised previously.
Prosecutors said McCarthy stole Booth's Mercedes and drove to Dallas, pawned the woman's wedding ring she removed from the severed finger for $200 and went to a crack house to buy cocaine. Evidence also showed she used Booth's credit cards at a liquor store.
McCarthy blamed the crime on two drug dealers, but there was no evidence either existed.
DNA evidence also tied McCarthy to the December 1988 slayings of 81-year-old Maggie Harding and 85-year-old Jettie Lucas. Harding was stabbed and beaten with a meat tenderizer, while Lucas was beaten with both sides of a claw hammer and stabbed.
McCarthy, who denied any involvement in the attacks, was indicted but not tried for those slayings.
McCarthy is a former wife of Aaron Michaels, founder of the New Black Panther Party, and he testified on her behalf. They had separated before Booth's slaying.
In January, McCarthy was just hours away from being put to death when a Dallas judge delayed her execution.
McCarthy was the eighth Texas prisoner executed this year. She was among 10 women on death row in Texas, but the only one with an execution date. Seven male Texas prisoners have executions scheduled in the coming months.
Victim's Family: 500th Execution 'Just a Number'
Friends and family of Kimberly McCarthy's victim say they weren't aware McCarthy's execution was the 500th in Texas since executions resumed in 1982.
McCarthy was put to death Wednesday executed for the 1997 robbery, beating and fatal stabbing of retired college psychology professor Dorothy Booth. Booth's family said their only focus was on Booth's brutal murder.
Randall Browning, who was Booth's godson, says 500 is "just a number. It doesn't really mean very much." Browning says Booth's friends and family were "just thinking about the justice that was promised to us by the state of Texas."
In a statement she read to reporters, Booth's daughter Donna Aldred said her mother "was an incredible person who was taken before her time."
McCarthy Attorney: 500th Execution '500 Too Many'
The attorney for the woman who became the 500th inmate Texas has put to death since 1982 says the state's capital punishment practices are "pointless and barbaric."
Marie Levin had asked the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to halt the punishment, arguing that Dallas County prosecutors excluded black jurors improperly from Kimberly McCarthy's trial. McCarthy is black, but victim Dorothy Booth was white.
All but one of her 12 jurors were white, but the appeals court denied McCarthy's appeals, saying they should have been raised earlier.
In a statement, Levin said "500 is 500 too many" and that "this pointless and barbaric practice, imposed almost exclusively on those who are poor and disproportionately on people of color, has no place in a civilized society."


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The Patent Law Treaty requires Congress to act before they can take effect.
David Kappos, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that implementing legislation was necessary for American companies to reap the benefits of two international treaties that were ratified in 2007.
The Patent Law Treaty, which streamlines the patent application and protection process across signatory countries, and the Hague agreement, which covers industrial design patents, require Congress to act before they can take effect.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., didn't offer a timetable for the introduction of implementing legislation, but he did get Kappos to recite a litany of economic benefits for American companies once the treaties take effect.
In his progress report on implementation of the America Invents Act, Kappos said that the legislation, in addition to reducing the backlog of unprocessed patent applications, has aided the U.S. in its efforts to promote the idea of a grace period -- the time between the disclosure of an invention and the application for a patent -- to countries in Asia and Europe.
The only drama in an otherwise friendly hearing involved Kappos's trips abroad. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Judiciary's ranking Republican, reiterated a request made in September 2011 for documentation of Patent Office spending for foreign trips, including one to Tokyo that Grassley said cost $180,000.
Kappos offered assurances that he and the few staffers who accompanied him on international trips flew coach, even on long flights, and said he would look at the request. But he didn't commit to supplying the documentation.
A spate of high-profile patent lawsuits, including two by Apple against mobile handset competitors Motorola Mobility and Samsung, loomed in the background of the questioning. Kappos said that pledges to license patents under the fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms used in standards-setting "need to be kept."
He added that there are some "tremendously negative side effects" that can occur if companies that offered licenses under these terms later obtain exclusion orders and injunctions to prevent competitors from bringing products to market. But he said that such commitments don't stand for "licensing under any terms or conditions."
Kappos's remarks were somewhat more measured than those of the European Union's top antitrust regulator, Joaquín Almunia, who last week intimated that consumers were being "held hostage" to ongoing patent litigation.


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Dallas Fed Trimmed Mean Pce 0.8 Percent for October
For immediate release: December 6, 2013
DALLAS—The Trimmed Mean PCE inflation rate for October was 0.8 percent at an annualized rate, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
The overall Personal Consumption Expenditures inflation rate for October, released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, was an annualized -0.4 percent, while the inflation rate for PCE excluding food and energy was an annualized 0.9 percent.
The Trimmed Mean PCE inflation rate for the 12-month period ending in October was 1.3 percent. Over the same 12 months, the price index for overall PCE rose 0.7 percent and the price index for PCE excluding food and energy rose 1.1 percent.
The Trimmed Mean PCE inflation rate is an alternative measure of core inflation in the price index for PCE. It is calculated by the Dallas Fed, using data from the BEA.
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Arun Agrawal
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Arun Agrawal, PhD, emphasizes the politics of international development, institutional change, and environmental conservation in his research and teaching. He has written critically on indigenous knowledge, community-based conservation, common property, population resources, and environmental identities. Agrawal is the coordinator for the International Forestry Resources and Institutions network and is currently carrying out research in central and east Africa as well as South Asia. Since 2013, Agrawal has served as the editor-in-chief of World Development and his recent work has appeared in Science, PNAS, Conservation Biology, Development and Change, among other journals. Preceding his work at U-M, Agrawal was educated at Duke University, the Indian Institute of Management, and Delhi University and has held teaching and research positions at Yale, Florida, McGill, Berkeley, and Harvard among other universities.
- 2015-18: (Co-PI) Large-Scale Land Transactions as Drivers of Land-Cover Change in SubSaharan Africa. NASA. 891K (With Dan Brown, PI).
- 2014-15: (PI) Integrating forest commons and global datasets. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) 153K.
- 2014-18: (PI) Forest Dependence and effectiveness of forest interventions to support livelihoods. Department for International Development. 3.1M.
- 2014-16 (PI) International Institute for Education (State Department). Climate change mitigation, avoided deforestation and commodity agriculture. Global Innovation Initiative. 250K (with P. Newton and L. Wollenberg)
- 2013: (PI): Enhancing causal inference for forest commons outcomes, Rights and Resources Initiative (60K)
- Post-doctoral Fellow, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington.
- Senior Scholars fellowship from the American Institute for Indian Studies to carry out fieldwork in India on indigenous knowledge.
- Postdoctoral fellowship, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.
- Best Dissertation in Political Economy Award from the American Political Science Association
- Ciriacy-Wantrup post doctoral fellowship from the University of California at Berkeley.
- Oldekop, Johan A., Sims, Katharine R. E., Karna, Birendra K., Whittingham, Mark J., Agrawal, Arun. 2019. Reductions in deforestation and poverty from decentralized forest management in Nepal. Nature Sustainability.
- Agrawal, A., L. Wollenberg, and L, Persha. 2014. Governing Mitigation in Agriculture-Forest Landscapes. Global Environmental Change. 29: 270-326.
- Agrawal, A., L. Wollenberg, and L, Persha. 2014. Governing Mitigation in Agriculture-Forest Landscapes. Global Environmental Change. 29: 270-326.
- Agrawal, A. 2005. Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects (Duke University Press; Oxford University Press, Delhi). rpt. 2006.
- Sivaramakrishnan, K. and A. Agrawal. 2003. Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development. Stanford University Press.
- Agrawal, A. 1999. Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community among a Migrant Pastoral People. Durham NC: Duke University Press. (Jointly published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi).
- Coordinator: International Forestry Resources and Institutions Program (2006- Present)
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The theme for the 2014 OAH Annual Meeting will be "Crossing Borders." The history of the United States is a product of migrations – internal and international. Along with people, goods and ideas crossed these borders, reshaping the composition and character of the American people. Sometimes the borders and boundaries were physical, as when international migrants crossed oceans and continents, or when large numbers of individuals migrated from one region of the country to another, or when the lure of wealth and influence led to foreign invasions and conquests. Those on the move were accompanied by bacteria or viruses, microorganisms whose migration across borders also shaped human experience. Borders were also framed by culture – racial, ethnic, class, and gender differences that perennially redefined our population and social order. The theme for the 2014 conference seeks to examine, in all their complexity, a broad array of border crossings and "encounters" in US history, highlighting the contributions and challenges presented by those who transcended borders to redefine their lives or flee the constraints of their pasts.
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The 2014 OAH Program Committee seeks a broad, wide-ranging program that treats the rich expanse of the American experience, from the pre-Columbian era to the twenty-first century, and the thematic breadth that defines the work of contemporary historians on the page and in their classrooms. The committee enthusiastically encourages proposals from those teaching at universities, colleges, community colleges, and secondary schools, as well as public historians and independent scholars.
Submissions will be accepted starting January 1, 2013; the submission deadline is February 15. More details are available here.In pursuit of inclusivity and diversity, the program committee invites the submission of panels and presentations that deal with the themes of the conference, but also other important themes and issues in American history. We welcome teaching sessions, particularly those involving the audience as active participants or those that reflect collaborative partnerships among teachers, historians, and history educators at all levels. Professional development sessions are always welcome.


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DJ2Hot necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 217 diseños de 59 diseñadores freelance.
DJ 2 Hot
Hi designers,
I'm a professional and well known Video-DJ with lots of experience international and want to focus now on something that makes people remember me even more! Well that's why I have to start with a logo design!
To get more information please visit: http://www.yourvideodj.com or http://www.dj2hot.com
I'm also part of the famous Crooklyn Clan based in NY and got here from on of their DJs who already got a logo from here (Anthem Kingz) if someone remembers.
This Logo should be well designed to attract people's attention! Be aware that this logo (my name) will be featured on several flyers every week, will be used on promotional stuff like clothing, headphones, photos, vinyl record labels, shown on tv etc.
What I want is something creative and innovative made with my name!
I really DON'T want to see just a plain text in different font and colour cause I could do that myself and wouldn't pay that much for!
I hope I could point this out! So please try to make something individual!
You can maybe try to work with the number "2" in the middle! I think that got potential and you can be creative with that.
I hope to see some good results soon and I'm excited to work with you as I may want some other stuff from you in the future!
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Golden Globes 2018: People are wondering why Millie Bobby Brown didn't show up with the rest of the 'Stranger Things' crew https://t.co/90433CdChI pic.twitter.com/OqSAdP9ol2— LB Press-Telegram (@presstelegram) January 8, 2018
- She walked with them at last year's awards shows, but since starting promo for Season 2, she's been separated.
- Arrived an hour later, and by that time the other kids had already walked the red carpet, separately and together, and done interviews together.
- People noted that she wasn't nominated individually this year, so the decision to be separate is strange.
Made a post because it was a ~topic of conversation in the red carpet post. Just to be clear (not that it needs to be said, but), the decision to have her separating from her castmates during these types of events is her team's decision.


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Do you accept the word "sectlessness"? It's pretty much my coinage, but I'm going to promote it as a good, short headline word to refer to the absence of a religious affiliation. I originally had "atheism," but it's the wrong word, because many of the people who say they belong to no religious group also say they believe in God and even that they pray and have what the Washington Post refers to as "regular spiritual routines." I'm trying to picture those routines, and I don't know, I'm just seeing a blank. Hmm. Seeing blankness — that could be a spiritual routine. What do you think? Seems zen, doesn't it? Yeah, that's the ticket. I'm spiritual. Seriously, what do you think these regular-spiritual-routines folk are doing? Anything fancy with bread and wine or just gazing at nature and feeling aglow?
I'm reminded of my father, who when asked (by me) why he didn't go to church, said you can commune with God anywhere, for example, on the golf course. He liked to golf. Sorry, am I being too puritanical? Either participate in some official group ritual or lay off the claims of worship? No, I don't really think that. I'm just skeptical. Hell, I'm skeptical about whether the people who go to church (or other place of worship) really believe what the ritual is supposed to demonstrate. I think many people are there to honor the tradition they feel part of or to keep in touch with a social circle or to facilitate the efforts at community organizing. Maybe the sectless souls with spiritual routines are more sincerely religious.
Ah, well. It's American etiquette to accept whatever people say about their religion and move on to more easily debatable topics. Within that scheme, I'm being rude.
Back to the Pew survey: 79% of Americans named "an established faith group" that they belong to. The 21% — atheists, agnostics, and "nothing in particular" — skew strongly toward the Democratic Party.
This group is the Democrats' "largest... faith constituency" — at 24%. Or so the WaPo says, but that's only if you split Protestants into groups like "black Protestants" (16%) and "white mainline Protestants" (14%), which, added together, is 30%. Note that "white evangelicals" — also Protestants — are viewed as a separate "faith constituency," and these folks skew Republican. 34% of Republicans are white evangelicals.
The study presents a stark map of how political and religious polarization have merged in recent decades. Congregations used to be a blend of political affiliations, but that's generally not the case anymore. Sociologists have shown that Americans are more likely to pick their place of worship by their politics, not vice versa.How awful! What are you supposed to do when your family's traditional religious group is one that channels politics you don't like? Can you stand to attend services and sit through lectures (sermons) about politics blended with religion? You're supposed to change your religion to accord with your political ideology? That should lead many sincerely religious persons to stay away... and insincere politicos to gravitate toward the like-minded crowd.
I did mean to allude above to our President's religion. For context, let me repeat my own summary of Chapter 14 of Obama's "Dreams from My Father":
While working as a community organizer, Obama was told that it would "help [his] mission if [he] had a church home" and that Jeremiah Wright "might be worth talking to" because "his message seemed to appeal to young people like [him]." Obama wrote that "not all of what these people [who went to Trinity] sought was strictly religious... it wasn't just Jesus they were coming home to." He was told that "if you joined the church you could help us start a community program," and he didn't want to "confess that [he] could no longer distinguish between faith and mere folly." He was, he writes, "a reluctant skeptic." Thereafter, he attends a church service and hears Wright give a sermon titled "The Audacity of Hope" (which would, of course, be the title of Obama's second book). He describes how moved he was by the service, but what moves him is the others around him as they respond to a sermon about black culture and history. He never says he felt the presence of God or accepted Jesus as his savior or anything that suggests he let go of his skepticism. Obama's own book makes him look like an agnostic (or an atheist). He respects religion because he responds to the people who believe, and he seems oriented toward leveraging the religious beliefs of the people for worldly, political ends.


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I mean, i have 2 and a half years left of highschool, i'm a complete nerd, and i want to do college in the US.
The point is that i have kinda low grades (the last semester i had something like 7.6 or something, out of 10), but i really don't care.On programming (algorithmics actualy, this is what we do at school) i have straight 10, and i recently got interested in maths and phisics, so i will have straight 10 on them too (in the next semester).
I'm really counting on doing good stuff on the olympics (this is how it's called in my country, it's on area-related stages (something like the town stage, the "state" stage, country stage, and IOI (link: http://ioinformatics.../index.shtml).)
I'm planning to get in the top 5 in my country (my first time) this year.Maybe the next year I will do better.
So, do i have a chance on obtaining a scholarship in the US, based more on my results, than on my grades?
PS: By scholarship i mean just not having to pay the college (not like a free house/donut or something)
PPS:I defenetely want to do CS
PPPS:Now this was an horryfiingly (not spelled right) long topic, i know.
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calvinfr necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 92 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
JumpStart Foundry
We are looking for a logo to accurately represent "JumpStartFoundry (.com)".
JumpStart Foundry is a new microfunding group from Nashville, Tennessee which provides entrepreneurs with $15,000 in addition to mentoring them. Our focus is technology companies, especially web based technology services.
The logo should portray the following concepts:
New Ideas
The logo should also incorporate a modern feel by utilizing a "light" 3D / raised texture for the illustrative / textual components.
We think a "Serif" font should be used to help convey the concepts mentioned above.
You may incorporate concepts which convey "making things that are new strong": One example would be a blacksmith's oven / hammer. Another could be an arrow pointing upwards (illustrating growth), or a rocket ship.
Please provide both a full color and single color version of your logo.
Serious entrepreneurs with good ideas, but not a lot of money - who need funding to get them started in addition to a point in the right direction.
Final Product(s):
-Full & Single color logo utilizing a unique serif font.
-Fully editable vector artwork (AI) files only.
-Conceptually convey Fun, Growth, Strength
-Serif font
-Full & Single Color
-Incorporation of elements identifiable with one of the following (or something you think of that conveys the same): blacksmithing (ovens / hammers), strong trees, rocket ship, etc.
-Slight 3D / raised effect
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Chewy and Maple – Humane Society Pets of the Week!
When you go to the Humane Society of Wichita County looking for a pet, you're presented with a lot of choices. How do you choose one pet over another? You pet them, talk to them, spend time with them, trying to decide if they're the pet for your home, when suddenly… you just know. One pet will stand out and fit you like a glove, and you'll know that's the pet you want sitting next to you while you watch Seinfeld reruns. While pets do get adopted from the shelter, there are always more coming in, and they're looking for their forever home.
The Humane Society shelters pets, gets them the care they need, gives them the love they're craving, and does their best to place them in permanent homes. Whether you're looking for an lazy dog who prefers a quiet walk to play, or a cat who chases toys, chances are the Humane Society will have your perfect match.
Also, during the months of July and August, the Humane Society is working with a grant called "Beat the Heat." It allows people to bring in their pets to get the spayed or neutered for FREE. Pet overpopulation is a real issue, and with this grant, a few more pets can safely be altered, and their owners don't need to worry about shelling out money. If you're interested, call 940-723-7387 and ask for the HSWC grant.
May I present our pets of the week. If you'd like to see them in person or get more information on these pets or any other pets that the Humane Society has, check them out online here or call 940-855-4941. They're located at 4360 Old Iowa Park Road in Wichita Falls.
Chewy is a small, adult, female cat. She's grey in color, really pretty, and looking for a lap to take a nap in. She's a curious cat and loves getting scratches behind the ears. She's been spayed, is up-to-date on shots, microchipped, and dewormed. Stop in to spend some time with her, and you'll fall in love!
Maple is a young, small, female Chihuahua mix. She may be a little shy at first, but once she gets to know you, she'll be your best friend. She's neutered, heartworm tested and on preventative, up-to-date on shots, dewormed, and microchipped. Come out and take her for a walk and get to know her, and you'll know she's right for your home!


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2Locks necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 118 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
This will be the main logo that will be used on the home page of the web site. It has to be fun, bold and have a dance / music theme. The logo must include the full web address http://www.WorldParty.uk.com and the tagline "The largest Internet organised dance party and live music festival".
This logo must be fun and entertaining and portray dance / music / social networking. The website will have a black background and the tables will all have lime green borders. My original thinking was pink and blue for the main part of the logo but the black and lime green will also need to be considered.
The logo must be centred around the full URL http://www.WorldParty.uk.com and include the tagline "The largest Internet organised dance party and live music festival".
The mock home page can be seen by emailing me on email@example.com (think this will really help understand the theme/look I am going for!). Please put 'Logo Design" as the subject title.
The site will also include a social networking element and will encourage members to recommend others in return for free tickets!
- http://www.WorldParty.uk.com part of logo)
- "The largest Internet organised dance party and live music festival" as a tagline.
- Logo to be clear and understood by new web browser within a couple of seconds
- Logo will also be used in print so it should also work in mono
- Anything too messy/busy
- Somthing you have to look at for a long time to understand what it is all about
- Use of too many different colours
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Rush's lawyer labels cross-claim 'absurd'
The Daily Telegraph's bid for a theatre company to become another defendant in Geoffrey Rush's defamation lawsuit is "utterly hopeless" and absurd, says the actor's lawyer.
Sue Chrysanthous said any "publication" by the Sydney Theatre Company was made to only one person - the newspaper's own journalist Jonathon Moran - compared with the damage caused to the Oscar winner by the tabloid's publication to one million people.
She was responding to an application in the Federal Court on Monday by the newspaper's lawyer, Alec Leopold SC, to bring a cross-claim against the STC and to amend its defence.
The 66-year-old actor is suing the Telegraph and Moran over newspaper stories published late last year alleging he behaved inappropriately with a colleague during the company's production of King Lear in 2015.
The Telegraph denies the articles made Rush out to be a pervert and a predator, submitting no allegations of a sexual nature were made.
Mr Leopold said the STC provided three statements knowing the Telegraph would be likely to rely on them as being accurate and that they would be re-published.
A cross-claim would avoid the Telegraph having to launch separate proceedings against the theatre company after a defamation trial - saving time and money.
Rush would also benefit because a second proceeding would mean the whole case would be aired again and "he won't get the closure he needs", the tabloid's lawyer said.
But Ms Chrysanthous asked why the Telegraph would seek contribution from the STC when its so-called "publication" was to one person - being its own journalist.
"Why is Nationwide News seriously thinking of a contribution from an artistic organisation that would not be here but for grants?" she said.
If the cross-claim was allowed it would "severely prejudice" Rush and would add a week to the trial, she added.
The parties could only guess what defences the STC would raise.
Ms Chrysanthous noted one source told Moran a quote was "not for attribution" meaning the company could sue over breach of confidentiality.
There was no evidence STC assented to the headline "King Leer" or the accompanying photo of Rush that "makes it look like a guilty mug shot", the lawyer said.
She also referred to an aspect of the case in relation to the "world exclusive" tag.
"It is exclusive to Mr Moran because he has made it up," she said.
Justice Michael Wigney said he hoped to give his decision on Friday. He expects the trial will be listed for August or September.
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Heidi Loege necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 133 diseños de 62 diseñadores freelance.
I am a engineer to have been working on an idea for a couple of years and last year i left my position to follow my dream. I have for the past year been working on a prject that will improve saftey onboard large ships like anchor handlers og semisubmerisble rigs that might have object that could hit them .
The Oil & gas industry and the Marine industry
I have developed a system that have two ways of cutting large anchor chain within a second. three years ago there was a accident where a anchor wessel called Bourbon Dolpin capsized and 8 people lost their life. The reason for the accident was the heavy load from the anchor chain. This chain pullled the skip out of position and sunk the vessel at the end. Up to now there have not been and type of technology that can cut large chains in very short time. I have develoeped a system that will be mounted on all vessels and in case of an emergency a click on a button on the bridge will cut the chain within 1 second.
I am now setting up a buinsess and i need a logo and a good name for this. I have up to now called the system ControlCutter, but if anyon have a better name ples feel free. I would like a logo and a name that is eye cathing and in the future will be thought upon as saftey.
In Stavanger at the end of August i hav been elcted to present the tool at the second lagets exhibions in the world called ONS and therfore i need a good logo and a good name.
Hope someone can help me
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Transgressions: Drawing the Line at Lynching
I've written about the incident and the subsequent efforts to convince United States authorities to acknowledge official American complicity in the crime, most recently here.
Louie Sam was a member of the Sto:lo Nation, and he lived in a small village associated with the Sto:lo community of Sumas. The lynchers ostensibly hanged him for the murder of a shopkeeper in the American town of Nooksack, just south of the Canada-U.S. border. A subsequent undercover investigation by two very brave B.C. Provincial Police officers, however, revealed that lynch-mob leader William Osterman was the most likely culprit in the shopkeeper's murder.
Interest in the case was revived last June when the United States adopted a resolution confessing to its shame in having failed, when it mattered most, to enact anti-lynching laws. The Senate resolution apologized to the descendants of the 4,743 people lynched in the U.S. between the 1880s and the 1960s. The one lynching for which the Senate resolution did not atone was the lynching of Louie Sam – believed to be the only documented case of lynching in Canadian history.
Also last summer, a fine little documentary-drama, The Lynching of Louie Sam, was making the rounds, but official American attention was not paid to the case until last September. That's when British Columbia's beloved Lieutenant-Governor, Iona Campagnolo, raised the matter at an official reception for senior Washington state legislators, led by Washington State Lt.-Gov. Brad Owen, at Government House, in Victoria. University of Saskatchewan history professor Keith Carlson also deserves top marks for his persistence in keeping the memory of Louie Sam alive.
There are two other names that must not be forgotten in all this: British Columbia Provincial Police detectives William Russell and Charles Clark. In the weeks following Louie Sam's lynching, Russell and Clark, at great risk to their own lives, traveled undercover to the Washington community of Nooksack, posing as itinerant laborers. They returned with precisely the evidence that the Washington state authorities had claimed would have been impossible to gather, on account of Louie Sam's lynchers having "gone to ground." Not only did Clark and Russell return with evidence clearly implicating the lyncher Osterman in the crime Louie Sam was accused of committing, they also came back with a long list of the lynchers' names.
Canadian authorities passed on these findings to U.S. authorities. The Americans ignored it all. That's the injustice Washington State legislators are morally bound to acknowledge next week. We'll see if they do.


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Democrats upset with Walker's plan to strip almost all public workers of nearly all their union rights forced the governor and five other GOP officeholders into recall elections. Walker easily defeated Barrett in the June 5 election.
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Ten days before officially reporting its first quarter financial results, AMD has informed investors that it will miss Wall Street's revenue projections by over $200 million. Revenues for the quarter are expected to be $1.23 billion as opposed to the $1.55 billion expected by market analysts—far below the $1.6 billion figure provided by the company in early March.
AMD's revenue shortfall is not surprising; the amount is. During a presentation early last month after AMD's original downward adjustment, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz talked about the prospect of missed earnings targets. Ruiz noted that sales were down, blaming the slowdown on his company's inability to cope with increased demand from manufacturers. AMD was largely unprepared for the shift from retail to OEM demand, according to Ruiz.
AMD also said it would engage in some rigorous cost cutting with an eye towards reducing capital spending by $500 million. Hiring is all but frozen, with the company saying that only "critical" positions will be filled. The Sunnyvale, CA-based CPU manufacturer will provide more insight into its austerity plans during its planned earnings call next week.
It's all about the market share... or is it?
Lurking in the background is the question of whether AMD's strategy of increasing market share at all costs has put the company in a tight spot. Market share has increased and AMD has moved into the top 10 list of semiconductor manufacturers for the first time. The company also saw huge revenue growth of 86.1 percent in 2006 vs. 2005.
AMD's market share gains came at a steep cost as it slashed prices on many of its CPUs. Intel is in discounting mode as well, though, and it has also wrested the performance crown away from AMD with its Core CPU. To the dismay of both CPU makers, the price war shows few signs of winding down.
AMD is looking to its forthcoming quad-core Barcelona CPU to stave off Intel. Barcelona features four cores on a single die with some shared parts, as opposed to Intel's quad-core CPUs which put two separate dual-core dies in a single socket. Each core on Barcelona gets its own private L1 cache and 512KB of L2 cache. The four cores share a single L3 cache and there are also DDR2 and HyperTransport controllers on die.
At a press event in the beginning of March, AMD showed off some benchmark results and claimed that Barcelona held a 42 percent edge over the Xeon in floating-point calculations. Impressive, but when Barcelona ships in the fall, it will be facing off against Intel's 45nm Penryn-based Xeons, which means that the performance difference is not likely to be as pronounced.
Whether Barcelona will save AMD's bacon remains to be seen, but the cost-cutting measures AMD has announced may make it more difficult for the company to compete. Capital expenditure cuts will save money in the short-term, but may have some undesirable long-term consequences, especially if it means delays in bringing new fabs online or new technologies to market.


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Welcome to the first edition of Editor's Pick of the Week. From now on, every week, our editors will write about a service or app they are passionate about or use on a day-to-day basis.
Often a situtation arises that one would want to scan a document but has no scanner available nearby and unwillingly has to take an actual photocopy of the same since photocopy machines are available easily while scanners are not (because you need a computer to save scanned data, but a photcopier outputs it on paper). Moreover, I would also point out that photocopies use paper: destroying trees, so it's not environment friendly. I wouldn't say a computer is environment friendly either, because there are a lot of factors to considered.
These days, a smartphone has become a common device, so common that people may not have laptops or desktops but have smartphones which come with good cameras (well, mostly). So there is the key to our problem: we can take photographs of the documents to be scanned. It's essentially the same thing: you have the document in digital format; the only difference being that it is not properly processed as a scanned document might be. And since it's a photograph you can obviously take it at different angles, again impairing the visibility.
So there's this handy application for smartphones (iOS, Android) called CamScanner which can enhance such photographs so well that a person can barely point out the difference between an actually scanned document and the output of this app. You can have PDFs (which means you can scan a multipage document into a PDF) or save individual processed images or both.
I'm a student of Engg in India, and it is a religion to copy practical journals, simply because it involves too much effort to think and write it by hand. I used to take photographs and real photocopies of the documents earlier and then came to know about CamScanner from — I guess you know where — the Internet. After a few uses, I was so impressed that I bought the pro version (because most of the documents I required to scan had multiple pages).
Now, all I do is use the app to scan documents (or rather, copying material) and it works out way cheaper and cleaner for me than photocopying it.
The application is very feature rich (not an exhaustive list):
- Single & Multiple Page Documents
- Document tagging (for grouping)
- Facility to share a document
- Uploading to cloud storage (GDrive, Box and Dropbox)
- Google Cloud Print: If you have printers connected to Google Cloud, you can directly print them.
- Various image enhancement options
If you need to scan a lot of documents, CamScanner is a must-have app for you. Do make sure that your phone has a decent camera, otherwise the app will have trouble in properly recognizing the contents of the document you are scanning.
Download CamScanner for Android from Play Store and for iOS from iTunes App Store.


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I have considered myself a baseball fan first and a fan of any particular team for over a decade. I can't pinpoint the exact moment at which this happened, but it's been a while. I never regret this; college sports offer me plenty of opportunity for simple good v. evil, one team only fanaticism. I consider professional baseball too entertaining of a sport, one too amenable to rational analysis, to tie up much of my interest in a partisan stupor.
Still, I am a fan of the Indians, and I assume I will be until they move to Albuquerque in 2037. And so on Thursday evening, as I learned about Manny Acta's firing, I vented a little bit on Twitter. The last time I had such a visceral reaction to a piece of Indians news, it was upon learning about the Ubaldo Jimenez trade.
The problem with being a fan first is that it makes one prone to that sort of off-the-cuff emotional reaction, whereas I'd much prefer to think for a while and then react. This is the more refined (albeit still tinted by the irrationality of fandom, poorly written and disjointed) version of that initial screed.
I always liked Manny Acta as the Indians manager. I supported his hiring, and I generally thought that he did a good job as manager from what I could tell. Of course, some of the most important duties of the manager are the things that, as an outsider, I cannot quantify and really can't even get a good feel for--how he relates to players, how well he works with the front office and how he interacts with them on roster decisions, and the like. It's certainly possible that Manny Acta is bad at these aspects of the job.
However, I reject the notion pushed by a contingent of Cleveland fans that Acta is a poor tactical manager from a sabermetric tactic. Again, this is an area that's next to impossible to quantify--it's easy to pick some key categories on which managers have influence (like intentional walks, sacrifice hits, stolen base attempts, pitching changes, lineup construction) and mentally assign the manager a score based on rudimentary criteria ("intentional walks = bad", "games led off by sub-.330 OBA hitters = bad", etc.), but it's difficult to develop a comprehensive evaluation even on these limited criteria. This is all complicated by the fact that some of our sabermetric tools have a margin of error comparable to the theoretical payoffs of alternative strategies, and that the manager always is working with more information than we have regarding the factors that could cause players' abilities to deviate from our estimate of their true talent.
However, based on my general notion of baseball strategy and ability to process my observations, I have no overarching issues with the tactics employed by Manny Acta. Quite the opposite, in fact--I had less moments of confusion when watching Acta manage than I did with Mike Hargrove, Charlie Manuel, or Eric Wedge. Acta spoke intelligently about strategy in his media appearances and stayed true to his word as much as can be reasonably hoped for from a manager.
Of course, any manager is going to make isolated decisions that are puzzling. If cherry-picking just a few of these instances is enough to call for the skipper's head, then I can guarantee you that it won't take much more than a week into his replacement's regime for a similar emotion to emerge. If you have to point to one specific choice in reliever usage, or one marginal young player that didn't play enough for your taste, then I humbly suggest you don't have much of a case. No, it doesn't make sense to me either that Acta chose to use Vinny Rottino as a leadoff hitter (in one game!), but how many managers would have used Shin-Soo Choo as their leadoff hitters in over half of the team's games? I'd suggest the latter is a much bigger deviation from the normal practice of managers, and one more amenable to sabermetric orthodoxy than the other is a departure.
In any event, Acta is gone now, making the more important question for Indians fans the matter of what this tells us about the people who run the organization. I don't think it's pretty. First, a quote from owner Larry Dolan:
"I fully support Chris' decision to make this change and am confident that he will lead a tireless search to find the right individual to lead the club to our ultimate goal of winning the World Series."
Of course, this is typical owner-speak and reading into it is pointless. Still, the quote strongly implies that Dolan believes the single individual most responsible for winning the World Series is the manager. If the Indians could just find the right manager, they'd be fine.
Team president (and former GM, for the majority of Dolan's ownership) Mark Shapiro tweeted:
"One of only levers u can pull w potential for broader change is the manager. Not easy but decision should indicate our desire to improve"
Left unsaid is what those levers are. And those levels have never been pulled. Since Dolan bought the team, the Indians have hired and fired three full-time managers: Charlie Manuel, Eric Wedge, and Manny Acta. They have fired zero general managers: Shapiro was promoted to president and his lieutenant Chris Antonetti took over after the 2010 season.
Manuel's firing was a little different than those of Wedge and Acta--it came mid-season in the Indians first transition year between perennial contender and rebuilding. Manuel was not seen as a fit for the new paradigm, and so his attempt to force the issue by requesting an extension led to his dismissal.
Shapiro displayed a tremendous amount of loyalty to Wedge. It would have been easy to fire him after the failed attempt at contention in 2006, or the letdown on 2008 on the heels of 2007's near pennant. But Shapiro stood by Wedge until after 2009, when a team that fancied itself a contender crashed and burned to 65-97.
The Indians' fundamental problems, however, remain the same in 2012 when Acta was canned as they were in 2009 when Wedge was canned. The Indians possess a number of solid hitters at tough positions (Carlos Santana at catcher, Jason Kipnis at second, Asdrubal Cabrera at short), but gaping holes at the easiest positions (only Shin-Soo Choo was a good producer in the corners, and Travis Hafner's perennial injuries have also held back the DHs). This is not a temporary problem--the Indians' farm system has not produced a major league caliber 1B/LF since--Luke Scott? Sean Casey?
The Indians of 2009 and 2012 were also both woefully short on starting pitching. In 2009, the team had just traded CC Sabathia and Cliff Lee, so it was somewhat understandable. In 2012, though, those departures could not be blamed. The Indians ventured into 2012 with a rotation consisting of one pitcher who'd both pitched well and had good peripherals in the prior season (Justin Masterson). They had an enigmatic pitcher acquired at the cost of the organization's top two pitching prospects (Ubaldo Jimenez); a veteran coming off a lousy season in the NL (Derek Lowe); a finesse righty who was below average in 2011 despite a league-leading 1.1 W/9 (Josh Tomlin); and a sinkerballer with an unremarkable minor league track record (Jeanmar Gomez).
The 2011 Indians started the season 30-15, which was a lot of fun at the time, even for those of us who suspected it was but a mirage. But those 45 games have ultimately proved to be a disaster for the franchise. They transformed what was supposed to be a rebuilding season into an increasingly desperate attempt to cling to the lead in the AL Central. They goaded the front office into trading its two best pitching prospects for Ubaldo Jimenez. And even after the team stumbled to 80-82, those 45 games influenced the team's expectations heading into 2012: they were contenders.
Regardless of intention, the Indians were either unwilling or unable to acquire additional talent to fill out the roster, and insisted that there was sufficient talent to contend, leaving Acta as the fall guy if the purported contender failed to contend.
The Shapiro regime has controlled the Indians for eleven seasons, and in that time they have managed to make the playoffs just once while playing in one of MLB's weaker divisions. Assuming that they should have a 20% chance of winning and seasons are independent, there's a 26% chance that could happen by chance, so it's not inherently damning.
When I tweeted something to that effect (minus the binomial probability), I got a reply that simply said "Process != Results". I was unfamiliar with the tweeter, so I'm not sure if it was serious or facetious. I'm inclined to think it's the latter, as it sounds very much like the kind of sentiment that is often offered by what could be called the Cameron school of sabermetrics.
There is of course a great deal of truth in the statement; a process can be valid and yet produce poor results through decisions made on the basis of incomplete information, unforeseen events, chance, and other factors. But that doesn't mean that actual results can be ignored, particularly as the sample becomes larger.
Of course, it's easier to rationalize poor results when the process is in line with one's ideological leanings (this is true for me as well, of course). It wasn't long ago that Chris Antonetti was the darling of the organizational rankings crowd.
Some people believe that they possess enough insight about front offices to make ordinal rankings of their quality. I am not one of them--all I can do is lay out the facts as I see them:
* The Indians can generally be classified in the upper tier of publically open to sabermetrics organizations, which is certainly a plus from where I sit
* Shapiro's Indians have drafted poorly. The most recent Indians first rounder to establish a solid major league career is Jeremy Guthrie (2002). The most recent to have one with the Indians is CC Sabathia (1998). The jury is still out on several recent picks, although if Alex White or Drew Pomeranz is productive, it will be with another organization.
* The Indians have done a great job of trading for players either in the minors or very early in their major league careers. Cliff Lee, Grady Sizemore, Asdrubal Cabrera, Travis Hafner, Carlos Santana, Shin-Soo Choo, Michael Brantley, Chris Perez, Coco Crisp, and Justin Masterson are examples. But it's much harder to find contributors drafted or signed by the Indians--Jhonny Peralta, Fausto Carmona, Jason Kipnis, Rafael Betancourt, Rafael Perez, Vinny Pestano? (Neither of these lists is comprehensive by any means, but I think thye are representative of the whole).
I don't think that questioning the efficacy of the current organization at developing talent based on an eleven year fallow is excessively "results-oriented".
With respect to the next managerial hire, I tend to think it won't matter much. The organization will not win until it can develop more players, regardless of who is managing them. I'm hoping that Terry Francona's interest is real and not simply a courtesy to Shapiro, but I doubt that is the case. While I don't think Francona would be a silver bullet, his tenure in Boston doesn't raise any obvious red flags. But Francona figures to be the default #1 candidate for any openings, and it's difficult for me to believe that he would choose Cleveland over other options.
Sandy Alomar appears to have the inside track otherwise, and there's very little evidence as to what type of manager he would be. There is plenty of evidence that Indians fans will welcome him as 90s nostalgia grows more powerful, and while that may be a plus from a PR perspective, it can be obnoxious for someone who was never a particular fan of Alomar the player. And heaven forbid the fans start talking about Omar Vizquel.
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Cleveland Manager Rant
I have considered myself a baseball fan first and a fan of any particular team for over a decade. I can't pinpoint the exact moment at which this happened, but it's been a while. I never regret this; college sports offer me plenty of opportunity for simple good v. evil, one team only fanaticism. I consider professional baseball too entertaining of a sport, one too amenable to rational analysis, to tie up much of my interest in a partisan stupor.
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- AnonymousOctober 3, 2012 at 1:08 PM
"And heaven forbid the fans start talking about Omar Vizquel"ReplyDelete
Why, what do you have against Omar?
Vizquel is one of the most overrated players of our time. In Cleveland, this is exacerbated. There's no evidence (other than his name) to suggest that he is qualified to be a major league manager.ReplyDelete
Some additional comments that I wrote on Tango's blog:
I probably did a very poor job of expressing this in the piece, but I'm not necessarily calling for a front office housecleaning. What I am suggesting is that the front office should have been the first target, rather than the manager. And the way the front office has acted starting with the Jimenez trade has poisoned me against them, with Acta's firing the last straw.
That said, I disagree with Lewie's characterization of Lowe, Sizemore, and Ubaldo as bad luck. Lowe had some intriguing peripherals to be sure, but he was a 39 year old pitcher imported from the lesser league coming off a horrific season. A worthwhile gamble at $5MM? Absolutely. The #3 starter for a supposed playoff contender? No way.
I was all for bringing Sizemore back at his price as well, but his last 5 years games played were 162, 157, 106, 33, 71. Counting on something resembling a full season was a stretch.
Ubaldo could not have been expected to go into the tank, but I always thought that they overpayed for him, and made the trade because of 30-15. It was a desperate move to remain relevant in the 2011 race, and it blew up in their face. Thankfully for them, they had Acta lined up to take the fall.Replies
- AnonymousOctober 3, 2012 at 8:53 PM
Absolute nonsense about him being so highly over-rated, and no player has evidence to suggest that he will be a good or bad manager until they get some experience.Delete
Most likely the reason you believe he's over-rated is that you are looking only at offensive numbers and ignoring his defense. And don't start citing defensive WAR numbers, those are highly flawed and everyone knows it.
By your own admission, success at managing requires a number of skills that don't show up in the statistics, and whether Omar has those is not known by you.
This guy is the perfect example of why Vizquel as Indians manager would be unbearable. The typical Indians fan thinks the guy walks on water.ReplyDelete
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Tiramisu Eclair
Been wanting to try this flavor for eclair since forever, but never gotten to it until now. Another dessert I made together with the Vanilla Bean Cream Puffs for my neighbor and for my New Year's Eve dinner dessert. I wasn't planning on making this actually, at least not at that moment. But I suddenly felt the urge of making it when I was in the middle of making the cream puffs. So I made another batch of choux and pipe it to make eclair. I think tiramisu flavor would be better with eclair instead of cream puff, although they are the same generally. It's just that eclair has chocolate glaze on top, although I usually like to drizzle my cream puffs with chocolate glaze as well :D. So practically, they're the same. But eclair sounds much more elegant and looks fancier than cream puffs.
Everybody just went crazy over this tiramisu eclair. I didn't eat it that night because I was too full, but everybody just kept saying how good the eclair is. I was actually surprised myself when I ate it the day after. I like to leave my eclair or cream puff at room temperature for some time to let the pastry to soften up a little, I think it's better that way. I'll definitely make this more often, although yes I realize that it took me a long time to make this from start to finish, but it was definitely worth it.
What did I do with the leftover tiramisu filling? Make tiramisu of course!! But this time, I made it in martini glasses since I didn't have enough leftover cream to make it in a pyrex or container. I just layered the cream with broken lady fingers that have been dipped in espresso-rum mixture. Dust the top with cocoa powder and there you have it.
6 comments:
- Breadpitt said...
u are such a big tiramiss u fans eii......well those eclair looks pretty to good to eat and do it contain liquer inside, if yes it would be more heaven for me......hehe
- January 4, 2009 at 7:36 AM
- Bertha said...
I am a big tiramisu lover. I mean, who wouldn't? Yes, it has a good amount of rum and espresso in it :), fav combo.
Just visited your blog and really amazed at your skill. I'm glad if I just have 25% of your skill :). Are you visiting US anytime soon? :P
- January 4, 2009 at 9:00 AM
- wita said...
Bertha... eclairnya kelihatan muantap.. boleh nggak nyontek idenya... pengen praktek weekend ini ...
- January 5, 2009 at 11:10 AM
- Breadpitt said...
nah.... i aint had much skill , just fooling around;-p hehe! i love to travel but just because of my financial limitation, thanks for asking. u are malaysian or us citizen?
- January 10, 2009 at 7:30 AM
- Bertha said...
Halo Wita, contek ajah :) hopefully you'll like the combination
you are skilled. I just wish to make good stuff like yours (hint:posting more recipes :P).Let me know if you decided to visit the state anytime.
I'm neither US citizen or malaysian. I grew up in Indonesia and I live in the State for quite some time now
- January 13, 2009 at 6:16 PM
- Meisterkokk said...
eclairs look amazing!!! This I`ll have to try, with a twist ;D
Good work!
- June 2, 2009 at 4:44 AM


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"And I wanted to believe in fate —
I wanted to believe in us."
You said there was no such thing as beginnings and endings. Nothing came into existence or disappeared like a puff of smoke. Matter changed shape, becoming something new — never beginning, never ending. Always changing and evolving. Like ice to water. Water into vapor. Vapor into rain. You said the same thing about us. You and I didn't become we. Somehow, we always were. I thought it was romantic. That you could think fate brought us together.
And I wanted to believe in fate — I wanted to believe in us. I did. But then everything changed. Just like you said. How could we have been destined — as if we were always one — if we could be pulled apart so soon? Was it some cosmic lesson we both needed to learn? Or was it just you? Playing me for a fool. We were like a storm, you and I. Blowing in from the sea and ravaging the coastline before fizzling out into nothing. It may still be an evolution of change, but if that's not a beginning and ending, then I don't know what is.
[Sarah Doughty is the tingling wonder-voice behind Heartstring Eulogies. She's also the author of The Silence Between Moonbeams, her poetry chapbook, and the acclaimed novels and novellas of the Earthen Witch Universe. Good news, they're all offered for free, right here! To learn more about how awesome Sarah is, check out her website, stalk her on Goodreads, or both.]


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SISTER launched a brand new music video for "Bullshit and Backstabbing"! Tour with U.D.O. and SISTER SIN to kick off this week!
Swedish sleaze and punk influenced metal band SISTER have just released their second music video off their brand new album HATED for the track Bullshit and Backstabbing!
Check it out below!Vodpod videos no longer available.
Here's what the band had to say about their new video: "The video for "Bullshit and Backstabbing" is the first video we've done with a crew behind the cameras. The song is a favourite of the album HATED for all of us in the band and it felt right to make a video of it. We found a greasy spot to shoot it at and got to work. Like always we wanted to keep it on a basic level and just do a video with what Sister is all about Just deliver the punk rock we've always done. This is what we do and the video crew Bröderna Blom and Tinnerholm got it down and made it sick. Check it!
Ps No animals were seriously harmed during the shooting of this video!"
Make sure to also check out the video from the acoustic session SISTER did for Rock It TV! Just click HERE! There´s also a video interview Chris from Rock It TV did with SISTER! Click HERE!
SISTER, who hails from Stockholm/Jönkoping Sweden, formed in early 2006 working hard to build up a name as a strong act both live and in the studio. SISTER consists of 4 members- Jamie on vocals, Lestat on guitars and backing vocals, Rikki on bass and backing vocals, and Cari on drums and backing vocals- who combine the sounds of Punk, Glam, Rock, and Metal with an end result sounding something like the bastard child of GG Allin and Guns N' Roses.
SISTER's Metal Blade debut HATED came crashing through the metal scene, beer in hand, June 3rd/6th.
Make sure to catch SISTER at the following live shows:
24/11/11 – NL – Zwolle – Hedon
25/11/11 – DE – Pirmasens – Quasimodo
27/11/11 – DE – Berlin – C-Club
30/11/11 – BE – As – GC Drieschaar
01/12/11 – DE – Recklinghausen – Vest Arena
02/12/11 – DE – Burglengenfeld – VA Zentrum
03/12/11 – DE – Leipzig – Hellraiser
04/12/11 – DE – Köln – Essigfabrik
06/12/11 – DE – Langen – Neue Stadthalle
07/12/11 – CH – Pratteln – Z7
09/12/11 – DE – Balingen – Volksbankmesse
10/12/11 – DE – Memmingen – Stadthalle