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Height 6-7, Weight 205, B/T: R/R, DOB: 2/13/1985
2009 Redlegs Baseball Prospect Ranking: Not Ranked
The Reds selected Ondrusek with the 392nd overall pick in the 13th round of the 2005 draft. He was drafted out of McLennan Community College, which has produced such big league luminaries as Pat Listach and Jay Buhner. Ondrusek is one of the taller pitchers in the professional game, but he's also very thin. He has a lanky body type that could allow for additional velocity if he were to add more muscle as he continues to fill out. The possibility for additional strength and velocity means that he has additional physical projection, which gives him a higher prospect ceiling.
Ondrusek started out the 2009 season in high-A Sarasota. In his 18.2 innings, he posted a 0.96 ERA, 0.75 WHIP, 3.4 BB/9, and 5.8 K/9. His ERA was impressive, but was aided somewhat by a very low BABIP of .147. His FIP was much higher than his ERA, but still respectable at 3.36. Overall, his K/BB ratio was 1.71, which is solid, but nothing to really write home about. Still, his ground ball rate was robust, racking up 3.3 ground outs for every fly out, which helped earn him a promotion to double-A.
For triple-A Louisville, Ondrusek continued right on rolling. He worked in 20.2 innings, and again breaking the 2.00 ERA barrier with a mark of 1.74. His WHIP was a stellar 0.87, which was aided by a miniscule walk rate of 0.9 BB/9. His K/9 wasn't impressive at 4.8, but his K/BB ratio of 5.50 certainly was. Once again, he forced the opposition to pound the ball into the ground, as reflected in his 1.78 GB/FB ratio.
Perhaps the Reds hadn't seen quite enough of Ondrusek in 2009, so they sent him to the Arizona Fall League where he suffered through his worst performance of the year. If the Reds were pushing him until he struggled, then they certainly succeeded. Ondrusek performed poorly in the AFL, posting a 13.50 ERA in 10.0 innings with a 1.44 GB/FB mark and an 8/2 K/BB ratio. Overall, not bad numbers, but he was hit hard to the tune of 22 hits and a .415 batting average against. The AFL is typically a hitters league and Ondrusek had already spent time at three levels in 2009, so his struggles certainly aren't unexpected.
As a general rule, pitchers need to strike out at least 5.0 hitters per nine innings in order to maintain a consistent level of success at the MLB level. A few heavy groundballers like Carlos Silva, Joel Piniero, and even Kirk Saarloos have managed to find a season or two of success before the high contact rate caught up with them. In 2009, Piniero struck out 4.4 hitters per 9 innings and got groundballs at a 1.60 GB/FB rate, which enabled him to post a 3.49 ERA. He's a free agent now, but he strikes me as a very unwise long-term investment, as he likely will not be able to sustain his success going forward.
Ondrusek's pitching is defined by his height, as it enables him to throw on a downward plane and rack up significant groundballs. For taller pitchers, maintaining consistent mechanics can be problematic, as they have longer levers. It can take longer to get those levers started and be more difficult to keep them all in sync.
Ondrusek features a four-seam fastball that sits around 91-92 mph and touches 94. He also utilizes an 81-82 mph changeup with a bit of sink. In addition, Ondrusek throws a slider and a cutter, though the differential in velocity between the two pitches isn't significant (both are in the 87-91 range) and it may simply be slightly different variations on the same pitch. After all, the grip and the wrist action of the two pitches are very similar, so it could be a matter of mere degrees.
Here is a very good look at Ondrusek in action during the Arizona Fall League courtesy of David Pratt, who has provided a tremendous amount of quality video on AFL prospects over on Vimeo.com:
Logan Ondrusek - Arizona Fall League - 2009 from David Pratt on Vimeo.
As you can see, Ondrusek starts his delivery with a step towards first base with his left foot, then rotating his right foot down on to the rubber. He brings his left knee up a bit past parallel with the ground, but doesn't incorporate much hip rotation and coil to create and store energy. In addition, whatever energy Ondrusek could generate from his leg kick seems to be lost by his limited lower body action. After breaking his hands, Ondrusek moves into a slight crouch and seems to fall off the rubber rather than really drive off with a good push. In some respects, his lower body action resembles that of Sam LeCure. As a result of his limited lower body drive towards the plate, Ondrusek seems to simply "unpack" his leg kick without generating any energy for his delivery. He utilizes a long stride towards the plate, but it's more the result of his height than an over-stride.
As a result of his limited leg drive, Ondrusek must generate most of his velocity with his arm, which can lead to increased stress and injury risk. Incorporating the lower body in the throwing motion is the best way to limit stress on the arm. Fortunately for Ondrusek, his height and longer arms may enable him to generate velocity easier than a shorter pitcher.
Ondrusek takes maximum advantage of his height by using essentially an over the top arm slot, which enables him to throw on a downward plane. Ondrusek also has another advantage over shorter pitchers, as his longer arms enables him to release the pitch closer to homeplate than shorter pitchers. The closer you can release the ball towards homeplate, the shorter the distance the ball has to travel.
After he releases the ball, Ondrusek finishes low and out over his lower body. He has a slight tendency to fall off to the first base side, but it's not significant and shouldn't be a hindrance to his ability to field his position.
Ondrusek doesn't have classic pitching mechanics, but his height may help offset any problems potentially generated by his delivery. He may not get significant push off the rubber, but his height could enable him to create additional momentum simply from falling off the mound. As a taller pitcher, he has a bit farther to fall, which should work to his advantage.
Ondrusek is an intriguing pitching prospect, but, at this point, one that may struggle to maintain the level of performance that landed him on the baseball radar. He had a breakout year in 2009, but real questions remain as to whether his performance was a sustainable level of performance for Ondrusek, especially in light of his high contact rate and less than inspiring walk rate. The ability to miss bats gives pitchers a more controllable level of performance and more consistency in production. Allowing hitters to consistently put the ball in play reduces a pitcher's control over the outcome. Ondrusek would benefit from improving his ability to avoid contact, which could come about as he continues to fill out his frame.
Ondrusek's height potentially gives him advantages over shorter pitchers, but can also create additional problems. In 2009, he seems to have tapped into the former and mastered the latter. Even so, to be able to maintain consistent success against advanced competition, Ondrusek will likely have to increase his strikeout rate. Even if he manages to do so, his massive groundball tendencies will continue to be his defining characteristic, which when combined with the additional projection created by his physical frame is enough to land him at #23 on the list.


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A Mississippi woman's burger run ended with her car destroyed by a fire and her arrest, according to a video posted by Hattiesburg, Miss. TV station WDAM.
Drive-thru workers at a McDonald's let a customer know that her car was on fire as she pulled up to the window. The woman parked the car and went into the restaurant to wait for her order and eat the food rather then dealing with the blaze, WDAM said.
After McDonald's called 911 and the fire department extinguished the fire (which completely burnt her vehicle), she fought with the cops who just needed her information for the report.
From the story:
When an officer attempted to escort the driver back to the presence of firefighters for questioning, she allegedly resisted and punched him. She was then arrested on four misdemeanor counts including public profanity, resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer and disorderly conduct.
(H/T Consumerist)


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The other thing I wanted to mention about my brief interlude with Arch a day ago, was my surprise at using wicd. Ordinarily I wouldn't bother messing with utilities or daemons that manage network connections. I rarely see the need when I can hand-edit the rc.conf file more quickly and easily than working my way through a GUI.
On the other hand, I have family members whose frustrations with Windows 7 and its precursors occasionally warrants teasing 😈 , and something like this is just the ticket.
Knowing that at some point they might ask for a system built to look like Windows XP Classic means I have to prepare for the least common denominator, and that means the things I take for granted — like reconnecting to a different network interface, or automounting USB stuff, or point-and-click wallpaper management — need to be a little easier to handle.
Enter wicd. To put it simply, this program completely usurps the need for Arch's default net daemon in your system. I have
!net set in my rc.conf,
wicd added, and the wicd-gtk interface set to run with the .xinitrc file. And without prompting and without coaxing, it quite easily finds the open interface, connects, and sits back and relaxes.
It's clean, it's fast, it's magical. I was amazed, to be honest. I have come to imagine most of these utilities as requiring more work than they save, but wicd is almost too easy. It can jump between connections at the drop of a hat, will spit up a very simple transmission/receive meter, has a dead simple configuration panel, and after that, it doesn't do anything but what it's supposed to.
I've tried to confuse it by swapping hardware, and it doesn't skip a beat. It doesn't care if you're using wireless or wired connections. About the only complaint I could make is, I would like to be able to customize the tray icon. I know: How shallow is that? 😐
But really, when you start up a program for the first time, and it does exactly what it's supposed to, and it's frighteningly easy to manage, and you can't seem to confuse it … well, what else is there to say? A gold smilie for the wicd people: Nice work. 😀


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The Daily Word: 7.15.11- Somalian drought, Indonesian volcano, brain's misinformation storage and FBI investigations
Also, maybe fluoride makes us dumb.
Volcano erupts in Indonesia, evacuating thousands.
Kenya opens new refugee camp to deal with influx of Somalis facing starvation.
Misinformation may be un-erasable from our brains.
A DuPont herbicide suspected of killing trees.
A conspiracy theory about fluoride.
FBI investigates claim that journalists tried to hack phones after 9/11.
The United States has a lot of debt, dudes.
This short film about robots rioting in Brixton is cool.
Some idiot sends an email to The Oatmeal and he grades it.
Regretsy helps you know what is NOT steampunk.
Spotify hits the US and may reconfigure the music world.
What the heck is Spotify?


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Public invited to kick off Hawaii's inaugural Peace Day at the Capitol on FridayUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Matsunaga Institute for Peace
HONOLULU — The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace (MIP), in partnership with the State of Hawaiʻi, invites the public to celebrate Hawaiʻi's Peace Day at the Capitol this Friday (Sept. 21).
Capitol ceremonies include a forum on peace education at 3:30 p.m., followed by special Rotunda festivities at 5 p.m.
The event is presented in honor of Hawaiʻi being the first state to annually proclaim its own Peace Day, which is celebrated around the world as the United Nations International Day of Peace. Introduced by Rep. Jon Riki Karamatsu on behalf of young members of the Hawaiʻi Buddhist Association, the Peace Day bill was signed into law by Gov. Linda Lingle on April 18, 2007.
The Matsunaga Institute for Peace provided testimony for four bills regarding the promotion of peace during this past legislative session. The two bills that passed were HB 345, or the Peace Day bill, and HR 173, which requests the Matsunaga Institute to convene a working group to explore the possibility of designating Hawaiʻi as the "Geneva of the Pacific". MIP will hold a forum, "What can Hawaii Bring to Peacemaking?," to explore some of the controversial issues that continue to divide our community and whether Hawaiʻi can and should aspire to be a center of peacemaking in the Pacific region.
"Peace education encompasses much more than what has traditionally been the study and eradication of conditions of war and violence," said Jeannie Lum, associate professor with MIP and a key organizer of Peace Day. "Today it embraces transforming our world from cultures of war to cultures of peace addressing conditions of human survival -- ecological, economic, and cultural sustainability, planetary stewardship, social justice consciousness-raising, and spirituality."
The public is welcome to join the discussion at the MIP Forum from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Capitol Auditorium, Chamber level. The inaugural Peace Day festivities will follow until 7:30 p.m. in the outdoor Rotunda and will include speeches by Gov. Lingle and other dignitaries, performances by Vicki Gorman, Ignace Jang, I-bei Lin, Raiatea Helm, and the Hongwanji Mission School choir, awards for the "Expressions of Peace" contest/display, and a candlelight ceremony statewide moment of prayer.


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Bestville necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 180 diseños de 35 diseñadores freelance.
Bestville's mission is to be a ratings and review system that is trusted by users and valued by the companies that covet our highest rating for their products or services.
Bestville.com helps users find the best products and services to buy in a Q&A format. Users pose questions to the community like "What's the best inexpensive digital camera for my 8 year old child?," and members of the community selected for their discernment respond with their views on what are the best-in-class or highest value products given the questioner's needs.
The reasons we focus only on the best products are because this helps users:
- Make purchase decision easier by focusing on only the best few to consider
- Get the most for their money
- Reward the companies and products that deserve their money
Online shoppers looking for reviews and ratings so they can make purchase decisions.
Style & Tone:
Logo design should be simple yet unique and memorable. It should not conjure up associations with other company logos.
Logo should be clearly legible. Though a sans serif font isn't a requirement, avoid crazy fonts. Make sure the "i-l-l" sequence of letters in "Bestville" reads clearly -- avoid designs that don't disambiguate the "i" from the "l".
We plan to eventually incorporate the logo into a "Bestville Certified" or "Bestville #1" type of badge that we award to products we deem best-in-class. We would like this logo-incorporating badge to give off an air of prestige or authority so that manufacturers or vendors will be proud to display it -- keep this use in mind.
Recommended Color Palette:
The logo should go well with a colored background.
A nice-to-have would be a logo with a primary and secondary color that can dictate the website design. Do not use too many colors. Gradations of a given color are fine. We're open to the use of natural photorealistic textures, such as used here-- simpleshoes.com
Aspect ratio should have width longer than height to so the site header can be as short as possible.
Logos We Like:
*Note*: Don't use the current Bestville.com site as a reference. We will completely redesign the website to add new Q&A features and match the logo.
NEW: A possible tagline to add to the logo: "What is best?"
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HAVELOCK � Havelock is exploring the concept of creating a new business park northwest of the city that would serve Cherry Point and the port at Morehead City.
HAVELOCK � Havelock is exploring the concept of creating a new business park northwest of the city that would serve Cherry Point and the port at Morehead City.
The city�s current business park off Fontana Boulevard is nearly full. Only one 6.75-acre plot in the park on Outer Banks Drive remains unoccupied. The city developed the park in the early 1990s in conjunction with the Havelock Regional Development Corporation, which owns the property.
�It�s been 20 years and in 20 years we�re now down to one lot,� Havelock Mayor Jimmy Sanders said. �It was a good location at the time and it served us well.�
Sanders said the old park cannot be expanded, and because it is located on the two-lane road, access is limited.
�Being down 101, first off we don�t have anywhere to grow down there,� he said. �Secondly, if we want to expand, let�s expand where we have access to the railway and where we have access to super 70.�
Commissioner Will Lewis, who is mayor-elect, said the old business park�s location has been a problem.
�We�ve had a lot of opportunities missed because there�s one way in and one way out,� he said. �It doesn�t have a stoplight. The road is relatively small.�
The idea of creating a business/industrial park on the west end of the city has been kicked around for a couple of years now. The city originally had planned to construct a business park on land near the proposed U.S. 70 bypass, but the state objected, Sanders said.
�The idea was good. The location was not,� he said. �DOT really was not supportive of that location. They were supportive of the idea. They are supportive of the concept. They were not supportive of the location.�
Sanders said that the city is pursuing purchase of land northwest of the city for the park. Lewis said the locations are 300 to 400 acres large. Neither would say exactly which properties were being considered as the city was in negotiations for the purchase.
�We�ve looked at several properties and we�re negotiating with some folks as we speak on how to put something together,� said Danny Walsh, a Havelock commissioner who is a board member of the Havelock Regional Development Corporation.
Walsh said that city tax money would not be used to purchase the property, that instead it would come from the corporation, which has money in the bank from the sale of property in the original industrial park.
Lewis said an industrial park would help Havelock�s economic diversity and help the port at Morehead City.
�The port at Morehead City is landlocked and has nowhere to grow and yet they need to grow,� he said. �If the port wants to expand, they need somewhere inland to operate. With this potential site, we�ll have railroad access and Highway 70 access and request a light. Whether we get one or not is another thing.�
Walsh said the park could act as an �inland port� that could help in transporting loads to and from the port at Morehead City.
Working to support port transport is part of the goal, Lewis said.
�If a company was going to ship something to the port and they needed someplace to drop it off that was secure and they needed four acres and 100,000 square feet, right now Havelock�s not an option,� Lewis said. �We�re not even prepared for that. I think that having a plan on what we would do economic development-wise with a park would give us that opportunity.�
The park could also support Cherry Point.
�They only take trucks at the base at certain times of the day,� Lewis said. �We could offer a secure parking area where these people can only be three miles from the gate. They can park inside the fence. They know that they�re safe. Their cargo is safe, they can park, sleep and get up the next morning and head to the base. So that�s a way that this project will strengthen our relationship with the base.�
The plan would be for the park to be located west of the proposed U.S. 70 bypass, but Sanders, Lewis and Walsh all agreed that the idea is very early in the planning stages.
�Putting a plan together between the port, the rail, the state, the city, the land owners and everybody involved takes a lot of planning and that�s where we�re at right now,� Walsh said. �We�re in the planning stages. The difference is that we�re prepared. We have the money. We have water and sewage capacity. All we have to do is put it together now.�
Drew C. Wilson is a reporter for the Havelock News.


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With the recent launch of Coherence 12c (12.1.2), I'd like to go into more detail about one of the new features, Managed Coherence Servers, as well as outline how you can run the sample application available with a WebLogic Server 12.1.2 install.
Managed Coherence Servers provide tight integration between WebLogic Server and Coherence. This integration allows for a simplified and streamlined development and management environment for distributed applications. The functionality allows end users to build a new archive type (Grid Archive aka GAR), which can be deployed and managed via standard WebLogic Server best practices. Developers can now streamline their build processes to generate GARs. Operations departments can now standardize deployment of Coherence and Coherence applications in the test and production environments.
Traditionally, Coherence has been deployed as a jar incorporated into a Java application (e.g., WAR or standalone Java application) along with a tier of standalone cache server JVMs (often using the DefaultCacheServer class). The embedded java usages (such as in a WAR) are referred to as clients and the standalone cache servers are referred to as servers. The lifecycles of the "clients" and cache servers are managed separately, often manually, with the cache servers managed by custom shell scripts. Application development and deployment in this model can be a complicated process involving many moving parts that require custom management processes.
Within the new model, the artifacts required to run Coherence based applications, such as POJO's, server side logic and cache configuration are packaged into a GAR. This mirrors to a large degree the structure of other Java EE artifacts such as Web Archives (WAR). This GAR can be deployed and managed in the same using the standard WebLogic Server tools such as:
The Coherence cluster's operational configuration and structure is defined within the Admin Console, or via WLST. You can then take advantage of the traditional WebLogic Server constructs such as Clusters (not to be confused with the new Coherence Cluster artifact), to build a tiered application architecture that might include a data tier, application tier, and proxy tier. The Coherence configuration is targeted to those WebLogic Server Clusters and Managed Servers that are assigned to those WebLogic Server Clusters inherit the operation configuration by being members of those WebLogic Server Clusters. You can then deploy Coherence based applications, (EARs, GARs) to clusters and they will be automatically deployed to all members of the cluster.
Please see the Oracle Coherence YouTube Channel for more in-depth videos and demonstrations of Managed Coherence Servers.
When you download WebLogic Server 12c and complete the full install, there is a sample application and sample WLST scripts that you can use to get familiar with the new feature. I'll explain the steps to do this below.
Firstly you need to download WebLogic Server 12c from Oracle Technology Network. You can download the "Generic WebLogic Server and Coherence Installer" or the specific installer for your operating system. If you choose to download the generic installer you must download a certified JDK as well. See here for detailed installation information.
In my example I downloaded the latest "Java SE Development Kit 7u25" available here.
For my example, on Windows 7, I ran a command prompt as administrator, set my JAVA_HOME to my installed JDK and ran the installer.
Click Next on the "Welcome Screen", and choose C:\Oracle\Middleware (or appropriate directory) as install location. Click Next to continue.
On the next screen ensure you select Complete Install as this will install the examples as well. Select Next to continue.
Continue through the installer and after the installation is completed, ensure the "Automatically Launch the Quickstart Configuration Wizard" check-box is checked, and click Finish.
When the Config Wizard starts, choose a a password, such as welcome1, and click Create to configure the examples.
After the creation is complete, you don't need to start the domain for these examples.
Open the index.html file in the examples home directory. For my install the home directory was c:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\applications\wl_server\index.html. This page is the home for all WebLogic Server examples. You can select the Managed Coherence Servers Examples link to view the examples.
There are a number of examples showcasing the new functionality. If your machine doesn't have too much memory, e.g, 4GB or less you can follow the instructions in the Single Server example which will deploy only to a single Admin Server. Below, I will explain how to run the Multi Server example which uses a tiered approach.
Open a command prompt and set your WebLogic Server environment by using the setWLSEnv.cmd/ setWLSEnv.sh in your installation. For my install the location of setWLSEnv.cmd is C:\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver\server\bin.
Next change to the examples home directory. This is a nice long directory, but in my install the location was C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\wl_server\examples\src\examples\coherence\managed-coherence-servers.
Under this directory there are a number of directories, but as we are going to run the multi-server example, change to the multi-server directory.
Next type ant deploy to build and install the application. If ant is not found, ensure you have correctly run setWLSEnv.cmd/sh. After the compilation has completed answer the prompts to enter a password (note this will be displayed in clear text) and hostname for your machine. You can leave the other ports as defaults.
The build process will create a new domain called multi_domain with a data tier and app tier and deploy the application to this domain.
On completion, you can then access the URL shown above and run the sample JSP application, shown below. You can also access the Admin console to view the applications and configuration that was created.
There are other examples available in the same location showing you how to carry out a rolling redeploy and thread-dump of all managed servers using WLST.
See the following links for more information on Coherence 12.1.2 and Managed Coherence Servers.


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Tricking the Search All
In my previous post, I used Accordance to show that an internet meme claiming that the Bible has 365 occurrences of "Do not be afraid" is clearly mistaken. First I searched my default Bible using a series of OR commands to account for possible variations in the phrase. Then I used the Search All window to search all my English Bibles. At the end of that post, I pointed out something surprising: several popular English translations (such as the KJV, NRSV, and NASB) did not show up in the search results. I even offered a ten dollar Accordance credit to the first person who could explain why that was. In this post, I want to explain why the search failed for those translations and offer a workaround.
When you search an Accordance resource, the first thing Accordance does is check every word you entered against the word list for that resource. If one of the words is not found in the word list, Accordance will actually present you with the word list so you can pick another word. If you search the NRSV for the search I created in my last post (do not be afraid <OR> don't be afraid <OR> do not fear <OR> don't fear <OR> be not afraid <OR> fear not), you'll see immediately that the NRSV does not include the contraction "don't." Thus, the search as I've constructed it is invalid for the NRSV.
When you perform this search in a Search tab, you get instant feedback that a word you entered is not found, but in the Search All window, it would be irritating to be presented with a word list for each module that did not contain a word in your search argument. The Search All window therefore only returns results for the modules that contain the search terms entered. Thus, any Bible that does not have the word "don't" does not show up in our search results, even though it may contain the other phrases entered.
If you want to make sure this search returns results for those Bibles which do not have "don't" in their word lists, you have to resort to a little trickery. By replacing the "o" in "don't" with an asterisk wildcard, Accordance will accept the search, since these Bibles have plenty of words which begin with "d" and end with "nt" (Accordance ignores the apostrophe). Since words like "descendant" and "different" are not likely to be coupled with "fear" in a single phrase, this broader search returns few if any false hits. It simply satisfies Accordance's requirement that a search term match at least one word in a module's word list. With that requirement satisfied, the Search All will now return results for those Bibles which do not contain the word "don't", including the NRSV, KJV, and NASB.
In my next post, we'll examine this wildcard search more closely and see what, if any, false hits might have been found. Then I'll show you another trick to eliminate even those.


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These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
One International
Why transparency in the extractive industries matters for women
"Each year around the world, International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8, with thousands of events occurring not just on this day, but throughout March to mark the economic, political and social achievements of women.
As the world marks this special day ONE spoke to Winnie Ngabiirwe, Chairperson of Publish What You Pay Uganda and Executive Director of Global Rights Alert, on why transparency in the extractives industries will benefit women in Uganda and other countries.
Winnie leads the effort to make sure revenues received for Uganda's recently discovered oil are not wasted, and are put towards social and economic development programmes."
Space for Transparency
Corruption and the Arms Trade
"The one hundred and ninety two states of the United Nations spent last week negotiating a UN treaty to regulate the international arms trade. The Treaty's purpose is "To elaborate a legally binding instrument on the highest possible common international standards for the transfer of conventional arms." Two members of Transparency International's Defence and Security Programme were in New York for the negotiations, pressing governments to support strong anti-corruption provisions in a robust treaty. We are working with nations and with a wide range of NGOs to achieve this objective."
Does the Media Help or Harm in Potentially Divisive Elections
"The media were accused in last year's Kenya general election of fermenting violence, yet in Ghana they were hailed for helping facilitate an election where informed citizens cast their votes according to policy choices rather than ethnic identity.
The role of media in elections - sometimes negative, sometimes positive - is becoming an increasingly key governance issue."
Pew Internet
How mobile devices are changing community information environments
"Local news is going mobile. Nearly half of all American adults (47%) report that they get at least some local news and information on their cellphone or tablet computer.
The information they seek out on mobile platforms is practical and real time: 42% of mobile device owners report getting weather updates and 37% get material about restaurants or other local businesses on their phones or tablets. Fewer get news about local traffic and transportation, general news alerts or other local topics."
The Huffington Post
Gov 2.0 and Open Government Take Root in India
"On March 11, there will be a Gov 2.0 camp in India. As Alan Silberberg observes, this "India Govcamp" shows how Gov 2.0 and open government are spreading around the globe. While this event reduces the idea of reduces "Gov 2.0" to the idea of social media in governance, a survey of the Gov 2.0 ideas submitted at Gov2.in demonstrate that Indian citizens are thinking more broadly of the concept.
Shrikant Shahaji Shinde suggests "a platform on internet for asking questions or giving suggestions directly to MP, MLA, ministers and to officers selected by Civil service examinations. Niraj Prakash would like "eBooks and eFilms made from our national archives." Lainna Emmanuel submitted that, "along the lines of Code for America, regular camps should be held which brings together cutting-edge web developers and local decisions makers on the same platform." Gopi Krishna asked attendees to check out at Gov 2.0 site, Citzen Social."
Research Into Use
The ShujaazFM Youth Communications Initiative
"ShujaazFM has been developed by the Nairobi-based communications company Well Told Story. The idea behind ShujaazFM is simple - that getting messages out to young people is easier if you engage them through popular culture and use the right language. The project combines three powerful and accessible youth-focused media:
- nationally distributed free monthly comic books
- daily syndicated FM radio and (planned) television programmes
- interactive SMS (for audience feedback)
Working with FIPS-Africa ShujaazFM has identified a series of relevant agricultural messages, based on previous research. The messages are incorporated into comic book stories which follow the lives of four typical Kenyans."
The New York Times
When Unrest Stirs, Bloggers Are Already in Place
"As the protests spread across Tunisia for weeks, many international news organizations scrambled to cover the unrest just before President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali fled on Jan. 14, ending 23 years of authoritarian rule. But Amira al-Hussaini was all over the story.
Ms. Hussaini oversaw a handful of bloggers who gathered information about the mounting protests in Tunisia for Global Voices, a volunteer-driven organization and platform that works with bloggers all over the world to translate, aggregate and link to online content. As part of its reporting, she said, the site turned to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, where other bloggers and hundreds of ordinary people stepped into the role of citizen journalists and shared their experiences, cellphone photos and videos online."
The Guardian
Closing the gap between development policymakers and people
"How do policymakers know what effect their policies are having on the people they serve? For the past four years, an innovative Swedish government initiative in Bangladesh has been trying to address this question. The Reality Check has field teams visit and spend quality time with ordinary households living in poverty in different parts of the country.
Billions of dollars of international donor money have recently been invested in improving basic services through health and education sector reforms. The Health, Nutrition and Population Sector Programme (2004-10) was a $3.5bn investment, and the Second Primary Education Development Programme (2003-10) has cost $1.8bn."
Social Media Plays Vital Role in Reconnecting Japan Quake Victims With Loved Ones
"Japan's Internet is largely intact after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Friday, allowing online services to play a pivotal role in connecting victims of the quake with families and friends unsure of their whereabouts.
While the earthquake knocked out electricity supplies and shut down two nuclear power plants, Internet availability remains relatively unaffected, according to a blog post from Internet monitoring company Renesys.
In a message sent Friday from the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo to U.S. citizens in Japan, the Embassy encouraged Americans 'to continue your efforts to be in contact with your loved one(s) using SMS texting and other social media (e.g., FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter, etc.) that your loved one(s) may use.'"
Revenue Watch Institute
EITI Reports: Results and Analysis
"Twenty-three countries in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative have published a total of 50 reports. Some provide clear, complete information about revenues from oil, gas and mining. Others leave readers frustrated and confused. Most fall somewhere in the middle.
Use the tools here to view country summaries, compare results by indicator and download or share the data from Revenue Watch's analysis of EITI report quality. The current analysis is based the most recent report from each country."


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Must-win U.S. Has To Correct Tactical Flaws
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By Orin Davidson
Whether it is the senior or the junior team, there is a recurring theme with the national squads representing the United States in overseas competition.
A combination of poor fitness and flawed strategy is robbing the country of the level of success you would expect from the talent available to this country's cricket decision makers.
It happened in New Zealand with the junior team and it is the main reason the senior team is staring down the barrel of elimination in the World Group Five playoffs in Nepal.
Having dropped a crucial game to Singapore on Wednesday, the United States finds itself in a must- win situation in their final clash against Nepal on Friday (Thursday night Eastern Time) to qualify for promotion to the higher Group Four level.
Any result other than a victory would be considered a complete failure by the US on the their month- long tour of the Middle East, following their unsuccessful run in the Twenty20 World Cup qualifiers in the UAE.
But the team has to improve its poor strategy in team selection which is making matters worse as according to the reports from Nepal and the UAE, a lack of fitness among many players is clearly visible.
The United States of America Cricket Association hopefully is looking and learning.
Those tactical flaws have to be corrected for this vital last round robin game as the players' stamina cannot be remedied overnight.
The batting was an abject failure against Singapore, and to a lesser extent the bowling and field which shows that the grind of four matches in five days is having a telling effect on unfit bodies.
A batting lineup reshuffle is badly needed for Friday, in the circumstances .
For all his success in the past, Sushil Nadkarnie has been a failure in all his matches in both competitions in UAE and Nepal and should be omitted simply because it seems the effects of his Achilles Heel injury are severely limiting him.
He should make way for Clain Williams who has been made into a tourist by virtue of him not being selected for any of the games. Williams will be fresh, is also younger than Nadkarni and is twice a better fielder.
Solidity at the top of the order by the openers is a must which is why the decision to continue using Orlando Baker in the opening slot and the mysterious demotion of Carl Wright against Singapore is beyond comprehension.
Baker is much more effective in the middle when the ball is older, as the team has discovered in Rashard Marshall who was normally used at the top in the past.
Also Aditya Thyagarajan is being wasted at numbers seven and six. He has been the team's most consistent batsman over the last two years in all types of conditions and must be promoted to the top four. Even it means swapping places with captain Steve Massiah who has been struggling all tour long. His 50 made on Thursday was his most recent example, coming off a marathon 98 balls. At the same time Sudesh Dhaniram is not a worthy choice at number five. Dhaniram at 42 years old has outlived his usefulness as a batsman and should be played in this team solely as a spinner. He has been doing very well with the ball and thus should be dropped down into the tail.
Hopefully, the U.S. could be motivated enough to have the adrenaline flowing for this one last charge to win on Friday, to guarantee a top two finish for the Group Four promotion, as from all appearances many of the players' stamina has disappeared. Which is not surprising as according to sources none of the players present in Florida for the trials late last year, passed the Coopers Fitness test administered during the weekend trials there.
This lack of stamina and the grind associated with competing day to day at a higher level, cost the team two years ago in their last Group Five competition appearance and also five years ago in Ireland at the World Cup qualifiers.
Some of the players from those two failed campaigns are in the current squad and if they can't appreciate the importance of fitness now , they never will. This experience should also hammer home to USACA the necessity of having meaningful training camps for all teams entering international competition.
And the players too would do well to acquire training programs to work with all year long.
Excuses cannot be tolerated as the resource personnel is readily available.


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Boeing conducted a successful test flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner with its new upgraded battery system today. With this test, it's completed the required schedule of tests required for FAA certification. The plane is on fire—and in the good way!
The battery system that the FAA certified last time around caught fire on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport back in January. The planes have been grounded since then. It turns out, the new lithium-Ion battery system Boeing developed for the plane was never fully tested, but last month Boeing announced its plans to fix the design, and not surprisingly, there hasn't been a bump in the air since. The FAA will presumably rubber stamp the plane for flight now—let's hope the redesign is a blazing success. [Boeing]


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For the week ending 7 June 2008 / 4 Sivan 5768
A Reliable Guarantor
"I desperately need a loan for a half year," said the newcomer to Yeshaya Jochovitzer. "Since I am new here I cannot provide any guarantor. Only G-d knows that I am an honest person and He can be my guarantor."
"There is no better guarantor," said Yeshaya as he extended the requested loan.
Half a year later the borrower smilingly returned to repay the loan, adding that the money had helped him to succeed in his business. But Yeshaya refused to accept the money, explaining that the Divine Guarantor had already repaid the loan by blessing him with an unexpected profit in the exact amount of the loan.
(A similar tale regarding Rabbi Akiva is found in the commentaries in the Mesechta Nedarim 50a.)


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Noris De Jesus-Petrones First Book The Pig Girl is a Heart Warming Story of Endurance, Perseverance, and the Indomitable Power of the Human Spirit
(PRWEB) February 23, 2014
Noris De Jesus-Petrone, a practicing Marriage & Family Counselor, as well as an adjunct professor at two separate colleges, has completed her first book "The Pig Girl": a gorgeously illustrated book filled with wonder and the redeeming power of love and goodness.
"I remember being bullied and feeling like an outsider when I was a teen. As other girls my age were blossoming and becoming 'beautiful' I felt that I did not have the gift of beauty or anything that made me special. I would write poems and stories about how I felt, my experiences and dreams. One day, when my class was given the assignment to write a story I wanted to add my experiences of feeling bullied and laughed at, but with a twist of triumph at the end, which is also reminiscent of my own life story many years later. "
Published by New York City-based Page Publishing, Noris De Jesus-Petrone's poignant tale is an uplifting children's story about a young girl who thinks she has nothing but soon learns that the beauty of her soul and the shining goodness in her heart are priceless commodities that will draw happiness and joy into her life.
In the town of Hunter there lives a young orphan named Julie. Although she is very poor, she supports herself by working in the local farms and feeding the pigs. The other kids in town like to tease her for her job and the way she smells, but that all changes on one unusual day.
After wishing that one day she could become someone special, the wonderful, magical blue pig, Amanda, begins to help turn Julie's life and luck around.
There is a true and obvious message of not feeling accepted by others. Julie teaches us that it is important to look at ourselves in a positive way, and understand that we all have so much to contribute despite what others may say about us. We must believe it and when we do there is nothing that will stand in the way of our bright future.
Readers who wish to experience this inspiring work can purchase "The Pig Girl" at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon, Google Play or Barnes and Noble.
For additional information, review copies or media inquiries, contact Page Publishing at 866-315-2708.
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Many conservative pundits and personalities took to Twitter following President Barack Obama's re-election last night, sometimes going to extremes to lament a second Obama term.
Here's what some of them had to say:
Musician and outspoken Republican Ted Nugent:
Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters hav a president to destroy America— Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) November 7, 2012
Donald Trump went on quite the rant, and NBC's Brian Williams thrashed him for it on national television:
This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2012
Bryan Fischer, Director of Issues Analysis for the American Family Association, had perhaps the most shocking tweet of all:
Today was Pearl Harbor. Tomorrow we begin planning for Normandy.— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) November 7, 2012
If Romney loses, Republican governors using 10th Amendment as a firewall against central govt may be America's last hope.— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) November 7, 2012
Former Major League Baseball player Jose Canseco slammed "bottom feeders":
Bunch of bottom feeders living of tax payers money and with serious power trip issues.— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 7, 2012
Former comedian and SNL star Victoria Jackson, who is now a right wing activist and blogger, went on quite the rant. Her tweets had an incredibly apocalyptic tone:
New York Times bestselling author and conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham:
Axelrod's mustache lives.America's economy dies.— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) November 7, 2012
Neal Boortz, conservative host of the The Neal Boortz Show:
Tomorrow we're going to talk about escape plans ... how you can avoid the disaster of four more years of Dear Ruler.— Neal Boortz (@Talkmaster) November 7, 2012
Radio personality Vicki McKenna suggests buying more guns:
Finally, conservative writer Michelle Malkin slammed Obama for referring to Vice President Joe Biden as "America's Happy Warrior" during his acceptance speech:
Fact check: REAGAN was America's Happy Warrior. Biden is America's Hapless Blowhard.— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) November 7, 2012
MORE: A top Iowa conservative says a Republican Civil War is on the way >


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Does anyone know where I can find law school rankings by practice area? I've looked at the 8 or so subject area US News ranks and am looking for additional practice areas.thanks for the help.
How about litigation program rankings? Also, tax is an area I am interested in.Do rankings like these really not exist. Like I said above, I have seen US News', I was just looking for more rankings.Thanks
Good example is South Texas, a T4 school, which is in the top 10 trial advocacy schools. Graduating from South Texas (if you are on the moot court team) gives you the same opportunities in Texas that UT (#15) does.


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Manhattan during Fashion Week is a wonderful thing to behold. It hardly seems to matter if you actually go the shows, because there is more than enough fashion on the street to go around. And the trend is clear: no outfit seems fresh or modern without an electric pop of color.
Even the grey façade of Bergdorf Goodman (above) got in on the act, wrapping itself in an enormous lavender ribbon to celebrate its 111th birthday. (And also, we admit, setting a new bar for completely random anniversaries.)
If you wanted the attention of the style bloggers at Lincoln Centre, the epicenter of fashion week — and weren't, say, Anna Wintour or Carine Roitfeld — you threw on some color and hoped for the best. It certainly was a wonderful carnival to watch.
It seems the trick to making color seem new is to use it sparingly, as the grace note of an otherwise neutral outfit. A splendidly patterned skirt with a khaki blazer, or a bright blue fedora with simple shirt and pants (in the crowd, above).
All over the city, windows beckoned with their latest … shoes. Coral pumps and cobalt heels looked as delicious as candy at JCrew (above).
Nor did color ignore men at Cole Haan (above): neon blue or yellow soles, anyone? … Anyone?
But the stop-in-your-tracks best window came from Barneys (above). It was a marvelous color story: bright pink Louboutins swam with real pink fish in brilliantly lit tank. This kind of wit and imagination reminds us why our eyes always want to visit Manhattan.
Of course it was marvelous to see color's continuing resonance, because here at J.Falkner we love to bring on the brights. For example, our playful Parrot birthday card in lime (above), or our happy pink Pig (below). With many more colorful cards to be found at our online store, .


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Photo courtesy Save Our Streets, used with permission.
NEW YORK — Amid debate over the New York Police Department's "stop-and-frisk" policy and following a rash of fatal shootings — including the recent death of a young child by a stray bullet — city lawmakers are giving money to programs that approach gun violence as a public health threat.
The City Council said yesterday it would fund programs in South Jamaica, the South Bronx and at Richmond University Medical Center that use the CeaseFire model that has been nationally recognized for reducing violence in Boston and in Chicago.
The city is already home to at least two programs modeled after CeaseFire — one in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, called Save Our Streets, and another, called SNUG, in Harlem and Brooklyn.
The new programs will be funded through the Council's anti-gun violence initiative, which received $4.8 million in June. Two additional CeaseFire programs in Harlem and East New York are expected to be funded by the city Department of Health.
The CeaseFire model approaches gun violence as a public health crisis, as epidemiologists might address obesity or any other disease.
The model calls for trained, street-smart individuals to intervene in group disputes to avoid violence. Outcomes are tracked extensively. The goal is to prevent violence.
Councilman Jumaane Williams, the co-chair of the anti-gun violence task force, says that a strategy of "focused deterrence" — getting police to target specific individuals or networks that have been determined to pose a threat — will help the initiative achieve that goal.
"It puts police resources into the members of the community who are known to have had run-ins with the law, instead of focusing on the entire community," Williams said.
Council Speaker Christine Quinn said in a statement yesterday that CeaseFire focuses "on both rapid response and early prevention."
"We believe this initiative will complement the work of the NYPD and help save lives," she said.
Focus on Prevention
The city's most debated tool for combating gun violence — stop-and-frisk — has been criticized for a heavy reliance on scattershot policing and for affecting predominantly black and Latino youth. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the NYPD have defended it.
The spike in shootings has complicated the narrative, throwing the stop-and-frisk debate into a new light, with some former critics announcing their newfound support for it.
"If the stop-and-frisk policy can make a difference, then we need to realize that it's time to support stop-and-frisk," wrote Senator Ruben Diaz in a statement posted on his website on July 23rd, the day after 4-year-old Lloyd Morgan was killed in Morrisania. Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson shared the sentiment. "There is a 4-year-old dead. Now we should really consider not stopping stop-and-frisk," Stevenson told the New York Post.
In recent days, police reported that stop-and-frisk encounters had declined by 34 percent in the past three months, compared to the first three months of the year.
As part of the public health approach, the Council-funded initiatives will attempt to treat entire communities stricken by violence, with a sort of "holistic cure." That means offering training and job-placement services, therapy, and conflict mediation classes for public school students.
"The cause isn't one thing, so the answer isn't going to be just one thing," Williams said.
Robert Gangi of the Urban Justice Center, an outspoken critic of stop-and-frisk, is another advocate for focused deterrence.
"One of the factors that contributes to street crime is lack of services," Gangi said. "The failure of schools, the lack of jobs, those are the issues and the problems that should be directly addressed … Addressing those problems would be more effective in stopping crime than any policing activity."
Dr. Mark Rosenberg, editor of "Violence in America: A Public Health Approach," said the public health focus shifts the problem to prevention. It also demands rigorous evaluation.
"It's very easy to spend $5 million on a problem and not learn anything about it, to get inconclusive results," Dr. Rosenberg said. "If we don't evaluate, there's a risk we will implement policies based on bad data."
It is not yet clear whether the Council has or will set aside for evaluation a portion of the $4.8 million allocated to the anti-gun violence initiative.
The Model in Action
Save Our Streets, a Crown Heights community organization, is one New York City program that has already adopted the public health approach. It is a project of the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center and the Center for Court Innovation.
Founded in 2004 with a grant from the federal government to replicate the Chicago program, like that pioneering effort, S.O.S. organizes community responses each time a shooting takes place in the neighborhood, and employs "violence interrupters" who spend their overnight shifts trying to learn of conflicts early enough to prevent them from turning violent.
The organization also recruits local businesses and residents to join in the mission to "articulate that shooting is an unacceptable behavior," namely by posting the flyers — ubiquitous on Kingston and Brooklyn avenues — that keep track of how many days the neighborhood has gone without a shooting.
That community engagement helps boost the neighborhood morale, said S.O.S. Director Amy Ellenbogen.
"Until this approach there was a feeling of hopelessness, there wasn't really a job for people to do," she said. "With this model, people can get involved."
That involvement took a creative turn this June, when the organization's youth component, known as Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets, pitched in to contribute to the S.O.S. "Week of Peace."
The youth organizers, a group of teenagers aged 13 to 17 who live in Crown Heights, were gathered at a neighborhood corner when two of them began to argue.
The conflict quickly escalated, and soon a shouting group of teenagers had gathered around the pair and seemed ready to join in as soon as the situation called for backup.
It was a familiar sight for most onlookers, but this conflict was different, because it was staged.
Just as violence seemed imminent, the "fight" morphed into a coordinated dance routine to "Waving Flag" by K'naan. It was a flash mob, meant to convey a very specific message to the teens' peers and community.
"They feel an urgent need to prove that when young people gather it is not always for malice," said Ruby-Beth Buitekant, a case manager for YO S.O.S. "They used a current trend and brought it to their neighborhood to say, 'enough is enough. We are sick of the guns.' "
"After we finished dancing everybody came [to] us, they took our pictures, and some of them was crying," said Reean Charles, a youth member of YO S.O.S. "They were shocked."
The S.O.S.'s sister organization in the South Bronx will receive $500,000 in Council funding to create a similar CeaseFire program, also run by the Center for Court Innovation.
The Council has also allocated $500,000 to the South Jamaica, Queens, program to be run by Life Camp, Inc.; and $100,000 for a hospital-based program out of Richmond University Medical Center.
Ellenbogen said she's been lucky to work with elected officials who have been open to the organization's non-traditional approach.
"Every time I've sat down with a politician and they've heard me explain the model, they've been very interested," she said. "People are desperate for innovative approaches, and this one not only sounds right to a lot of people, but there's a growing body of evidence that indicates it's effective."
That evidence has caught the attention of experts outside of the criminal justice field as well.
In April, the Institute of Medicine held a two-day workshop where professionals in the health field met to consider the merits of treating violence as a disease. And, in Philadelphia, a consortium of hospitals collaborate on the Healing Hurt People, a violence intervention program, which counsels shooting victims to try to prevent retaliation.
"The fact that this is a public health issue is definitely accepted within the task force, and is becoming accepted more widely," Councilman Williams said. After all, he added, "what we've been doing is not working."


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What's new in CLZ Games for iOS?
CLZ Games (iOS)
v4.6.9: Optimized layout for iPad Pro
October 20th, 2017
- Optimized layout of main screen on 10.5 and 12.9 inch iPads
- Optimized the performance of the main screen thumbnail view
- Fresh placeholder cover images
Recent changes
v5.3: Add Games by Platform and Add Hardware from Core April 7th, 2020 v5.2 Faster CLZ Cloud syncing! March 18th, 2020 v5.1.1: Search folders, sort folders by count and and faster syncing February 14th, 2020 v5.0.4: Added 2 new folder options January 7th, 2020 CLZ Games 5.0: Multiple collections, Statistics, UI improvements, etc.. October 22nd, 2019 v4.14.2: New design for resizable panels in Add Screen December 17th, 2018 v4.14.1: New for iPad layout: Resizable panels December 7th, 2018 v4.13.1: Redesigned app icon November 16th, 2018 v4.11.1: Secure HTTPS connections August 26th, 2018 v4.10.2: Bigger and easier to spot Add button! May 9th, 2018 v4.10: Many new sort options and a redesigned Select Sort Order screen April 19th, 2018 v4.9: Improved search features February 21st, 2018 v4.8.1: Automatic CLZ Cloud syncing! January 10th, 2018 v4.6.10: Further improvements to the Add Games screen November 9th, 2017 v4.6.9: Optimized layout for iPad Pro October 20th, 2017 v4.6.7: Redesigned Selection Mode October 15th, 2017 v4.6.4: Download current values of your games September 12th, 2017 v4.6.1: New Loose/CIB/New field plus enhanced cloud syncing August 4th, 2017 v4.5.6: Improved navigation in "All Games / Hardware" folder July 21st, 2017 v4.5.4: New preview templates and better navigation after adding June 11th, 2017 v4.5.2: New "Clear" templates added April 26th, 2017 v4.5: A completely new look! April 20th, 2017 v4.3.3: Easily add games that come up as "Unrecognized Barcode" March 6th, 2017 v4.3.2: Redesigned the edit screen and added new folder group options January 12th, 2017 v4.3.1: Redesigned Add Automatically screen! December 17th, 2016


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Guard/center Alex Parsons, cornerback/safety Brandian Ross and running back Jeremy Stewart all signed their exclusive rights contracts and were presumably present at the Raiders first day of their offseason workeout program Monday.
All were on the 53-man roster last season at the close of the season and could conceivably make it again. Ross saw time as a starting cornerback and Stewart performed well in two games when Darren McFadden and Mike Goodson were both out with injuries.
The Raiders started their offseason workout program today in Alameda. It's likely that there will be media access to the players at some point in the coming days.


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Republicans have finally criticized the Obama administration's position on Libya. What did they say? What took them so long? And what makes them right?
NEWSCASTER: Good evening. After five long days, Republicans have finally criticized the Obama administration's position on Libya. What did they say? What took them so long? And what makes them right? I'm Chip Gipperson and this is the Opposition News Network.
House Speaker John Boehner this week finally — finally! — confronted the Obama administration on its ham-handed and, frankly — and I say this as a disinterested newsman of some 20 years' experience —unconscionable decisions in taking part in military operations in Libya. Joining me now is congressional correspondent Shepard Pye. Shepard, what took him so long?
PYE: Chip, you're absolutely right. The U.S.-led military effort to establish a no-fly zone in Libya was in its fifth day before Speaker Boehner confronted the president. The speaker's office tells me it was not reticence but good, old-fashioned American patriotism that caused the delay. There's an unwritten rule that the president shouldn't be criticized about military matters when he's not on U.S. soil — even if his place of birth makes it highly unlikely that he legally IS the president.
GIPPERSON: And as we know, the president was on a five-day jaunt through Central and South America — taking in the sun while U.S. military commanders took responsibility for operations in Libya.
PYE: That's right, Chip. Suspiciously enough, he left town just as the mission started. So John Boehner really didn't have the opportunity to criticize the decision until the president's plane touched down in Washington at 3:35 Wednesday.
GIPPERSON: And when did the speaker go public with his critique?
PYE: At 3:36 Wednesday. He delivered a strongly worded letter to the president, criticizing Barack Hussein Obama's decision not to consult more closely with Congress and demanding to know his benchmark for success.
GIPPERSON: Let's go now to video of Speaker Boehner as he made that announcement:
BOEHNER: The American People spoke last November, and we heard them loud and clear. The American People said they wanted us to cut spending. The American People said they wanted smaller government. The American People didn't say anything about no-fly zones in Libya.
GIPPERSON: We turn now to senior analyst Ace E. Doocy. Who's right? The speaker? The president? Or the American People?
DOOCY: Well, ha ha, two out of three ain't bad. Look — John Boehner is exactly right. The president spent five days hobnobbing in Middle America—
GIPPERSON: Central America.
DOOCY: Central America. Whatever. Five days knowing full well — full well! — he was criticism-proof. Well, he couldn't run forever. Eventually he had to come home and face the music. And the fat lady in this case was ... well, it was John Boehner — not a great analogy but you know what I mean.
GIPPERSON: How is this story playing across America's airwaves? We turn now to Armstrong Headstrong, host of Red State Radio. Your analysis, Armstrong?
HEADSTRONG: This latest failed foreign policy by this failed president is exactly the type of failed thinking one would expected from the failed policies engendered by a liberal, socialist administration.
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The Royal Cliff Hotels Group awarded 7 employees from various departments with the Long Service Award and one employee with the Star CARE Certificate of Appreciation for the year 2012. The award ceremony took place in the Beach Hotel and was attended by Royal Cliff Hotels Group Executives.
The Long Service Award is bestowed upon loyal employees who have devoted 20 years of valuable work and dedication to the hotels group. Royal Cliff Hotels Group Vice President Mr. Vathanai Vathanakul and Executive Director Mr. Vitanart Vathanakul presented the employees with a gold necklace and medallion with Phra Aphai Mani logo to honour their longstanding service.
Royal Cliff's Star CARE Certificate is presented to the employee with the most guest commendations during the past year, highlighting their commitment to hospitality and personalised customer service. Royal Cliff Hotels Group General Manager presented the Star CARE certificate.
Royal Cliff is renowned for having a very steadfast team, with over 60 percent in employment for over 10 years. Employees' positivity and satisfaction levels always score highly in the Employees' Assessment Survey. The hotels group is very proud of its retention record and the management team continually endeavours to improve employees' working environment and experience.
Situated on a private parkland estate overlooking the stunning Gulf of Thailand, the Royal Cliff Hotels Group offers the perfect beachfront setting with traditional and modern Thai style furnishings, extraordinary service and the ambience of absolute luxury. The 64 acre property is home to four award winning 5-star hotels offering a sensory experience defined profoundly by its style, culture and elegance - all presented with the distinctive spirit of the State of Exclusivity and Fascination.
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Finger of defiance
Posted by RRC on November 30, 2007
In Reply to: Finger of defiance posted by Smokey Stover on November 30, 2007
: : What does "raise the finger of defiance" mean please?
: In the U.S., that would almost certainly mean the gesture called "the finger," a gesture made with palm up and all fingers but the middle, or largest, finger, curled over, so that the middle finger is conspicuously pointing upwards. The Brits apparently have a two-finger gesture, and therefore don't have a "finger of defiance". I'm sorry to tell you this, Shirley, but it is generally supposed that the finger gesture, if translated into words, would be either "fuck you," or "up your ass." In American television programs, in order to meet FCC requirements, this gesture, along with mouths saying the words cited above, or certain naked parts of bodies, are blurred out, so indecent is the gesture thought to be by America's moral guardians.
: To give someone the finger is a usage first reported by the OED from 1941, in Budd Schulberg's "What makes Sammy run," a book feared and anathematized by school librarians.
: A synonym, also North American in origin (says the OED), is "to flip (someone) the bird." I had thought that usage to be British, as I've rarely heard the phrase spoken--and also because I have no idea how a bird is involved. (When I don't understand a phrase I usually think it must be British.)
Flipping/shooting the finger/bird (all combinations thereof) were common in southwest/south of the US in the 70's and 80's (possibly still). Early 80's, we even had a line in football cheer that was a joke on it. "Let me see you shoot the bird" followed by miming a shotgun shooting in the air rather than shooting the finger at the other team.
- Finger of defiance Brian from Shawnee 01/December/07


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20.109(F12) Pre-Proposal: Engineering Viral Magnetic Nanoparticles for Magnetic Hyperthermic Cancer Therapy
Coyin Oh & Joanna Yeh
(T/R Green)
Title of Proposed Project
20.109(F12) Pre-Proposal: Engineering viral magnetic nanoparticles for magnetic hyperthermic cancer therapy
Project Summary
Magnetic hyperthermia is an attractive cancer therapy due to its specificity and low toxicity to surrounding healthy tissue. However, this treatment currently struggles with low heat generation due to low local concentration of magnetic nanoparticles around the tumor site. The proposed study would investigate complexes composed of various phages and magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) to increase the local concentration and hence the efficacy of magnetic hyperthermia.
The field of magnetic hyperthermia has attracted a lot of attention in the past thirty years as an alternative cancer therapy method. Magnetic hyperthermia proposes the placement of magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) in tumor cells under an alternating magnetic field. Nanoparticles often have unique physical and chemical properties that can be varied based on size and shape. MNPs are no different; these nanoparticles are superparamagnetic, gaining magnetic properties in the presence of a magnetic field. As the direction of the magnetic field alternates, MNPs undergo magnetic hysteresis losses that are dissipated to local surroundings as thermal energy [1]. Targeted sites are usually heated to temperatures between 42 and 45 C to cause cell damage or death [2]. A major challenge with magnetic hyperthermia is the localization of MNPs to targeted tumor cells. It is possible for MNPs to circulate through the bloodstream and not reach the intended targeted sites. In addition, they at times are internalized and absorbed by the endoplasmic reticulum system of the cells. This low efficiency of MNP transport calls for a higher applied dosage of MNPs [3]. How can we concentrate MNPs within tumor cells to produce sufficient heat for complete cell apoptosis?
- Gupta AK, Naregalkar RR, Vaidya VD, and Gupta M. Recent advances on surface engineering of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles and their biomedical applications. Future Medicine 2007; 2(1): 23-39.
- Giustini AJ, Petryk AA, Cassim SM, Tate JA, Baker I, and Hoopes PJ. Magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia in cancer treatment. Nano LIFE 2010; 01: 17.
- Bakoglidis KD, Simeonidis K, Sakellari D, Stefanou G, and Angelakeris M. Size-Dependent Mechanisms in AC Magnetic Hyperthermia Response of Iron-Oxide Nanoparticles. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 2012; 48:1320-1323.
Your idea
Our proposed project aims to employ viral magnetic nanoparticles to increase the efficacy of magnetic hyperthermia. Viral MNP complexes consist of MNPs attached to viruses that have minimal harmful effects to humans. While the medical applications of viral MNPs has been studied for over a decade now, their functions have been mostly limited to in vivo MRI imaging and targeted gene delivery. Using viral MNPs, we are essentially providing a scaffold for the binding of MNP and a vehicle for the concentrated transport of MNPs to target sites. This way, we are reducing the number of MNPs that are "wasted" from getting internalized or circulated in the bloodstream without arriving at the appropriate target sites. Our approach can potentially increase the concentration of MNPs in targeted tumor cells, thereby achieving the level of heat necessary for effective cell apoptosis yet at the same time, lowering the minimum MNP dosage required for the treatment.
We hypothesize that our engineered viral MNPs can increase the current efficacy of magnetic hyperthermia. This will be measured in terms of tumor cell death per mass of MNPs used. Our general preliminary approach involves five stages:
Stage 1: Virus Hunt
- We need to investigate how the selected virus (likely one of the following: TMV, M13, CCMV, CPMV, BMV or TPMV) interacts with mammalian cells in vivo.
Stage 2: Screening for MNP binding site on virus
- We will start by using Fe3O4 as our MNP of interest. With this, a protein coat screen of the selected virus for a protein coat that can bind with our MNP is necessary.
Stage 3: Screening for tumor-specific sequence binding site on virus
- We need to do a protein coat or RNA screen of the virus for a region that can bind with a tumor-specific peptide sequence. If necessary, we might need to screen tumors for unique short sequences on their cell surfaces.
Stage 4: Virus engineering
- We can now engineer wild-type viruses using specific protein coats or RNA regions isolated in Stage 2 and 3 to produce the viral MNP of interest.
Stage 5: in vivo testing
- Perform an in vivo experiment by injecting the engineered viral MNPs into the circulatory system of mice that have developed tumors. By subjecting these mice to an alternating magnetic field under standard hyperthermia conditions and measuring the change in tumor size, we will be able to quantify the efficacy of using viral MNPs in magnetic hyperthermia.
Currently, the greatest efficacy of magnetic hyperthermia is approximately 1% (mass of MNP accumulated in tumor cells / mass of MNP injected into the body), as demonstrated by the Hoopes group when aided by a 10Gy radiation. Our hope is that our engineered viral particle will be capable of achieving similar if not higher efficacy, preferably in the 5% range.


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They are questions that haunt every self respecting city dweller. What am I going to do tonight? What are my friends doing? Where are the best places?
If you find yourself stuck in the social doldrums and new some new inspiration, a new crop of iPhone apps promise to help and even better, they want to include your friends.
The Basics: What's AroundMe
From bars and restaurants to parking and coffee, AroundMe allows you to quickly find information about your surroundings. The app identifies your position and allows you to choose from a long list of items nearest you.
Results are quickly displayed on a Google map. A finger tap gets you directions and a phone number. Convenient access to Facebook, Twitter, and email lets your friends know where you're headed.
Stay in the Loopt
Loopt combines a dash of Yelp with a splash of Facebook and let's you see where your friends are and what they're doing. The developers promise you'll "never be lonely, bored or hungry again."
Loopt connects to popular communities like Facebook and Twitter so you can share photos, comments, meet people, and discover and explore nearby places that your friends like. The app works with other devices so you can also share location with friends even if they don't have an iPhone.
Give it a Whrrl
Like Loopt, Whrrl combines social networking with location information and keeps you updated on what your friends like and where they are. Users create "stories" describing their activities, add pictures, and include others who can collaborate with you. Think of it as a more mobile version of Facebook that helps you discover new places, things to do, and meet people.
Yelp What You Like but Try the Surprise
No list would be complete with out the the perennial website's handy app. Yelp for iPhone combines their extensive review database with an easy to use touch interface to get you the latest reviews, openings, and hotspots in your area. Search options make it easy to find what your looking for.
But, there's also a new surprise. Yelp has added a secret 'Easter egg' function for iphone 3Gs: augmented reality. Once activated the AR function works via a new button on the top right of the screen, labeled 'Monocle'. Click it and your presented with a real world view from your camera overlayed with nearby places. As you move around, Yelp moves with you in a virtual-reality like way constantly updating things in every direction.
The surprise can be unearthed by simply (or not so simply according to some) shaking the app a few times. Check out the video below to see it in action.


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Microsoft Surface RT full review
Microsoft's first tablet is upon us in the form of the Surface RT. Is Microsoft too late to the market or is the Surface good enough to entice iPad and Android users to switch? Find out in our Surface RT review.
Microsoft Surface RT: Design
The design of the Surface RT is somewhat different to other tablets, certainly the iPad and the hordes of Android tablets which are out there.
With a 10.6in screen you get a bit more real estate than tablets like the iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab and Asus Transformer. However, it's just as portable in our minds. It will easily fit into a bag and is a reasonable weight to carry around – 686g for the tablet only while the keyboard covers add an extra 200g or so. It's deceptively thin at 9.5mm, effectively the same as the third and fourth generation iPad.
This weight becomes a problem though when holding the Surface RT in one hand. Since the tablet is quite long holding it in landscape mode quickly puts a strain on your wrist. Holding it in portrait mode is no problem, but this tablet is design to work in the landscape orientation; it's a tablet you'll want to predominantly use at your desk or on your lap. You can turn it into portrait mode if you wish and while this might be handy for certain tasks, the Windows 8 Start Screen simply looks stupid this way around.
In contrast to the iPad's rounded edges, the Surface RT has a straighter and more angled appearance. It looks much more business-like but manages to remain sleek and stylish it its own way. Visit Microsoft Surface RT vs Apple iPad comparison review.
An important element to the design is the kickstand which is partly why you'll find yourself using the Surface RT on a desk or other flat, er, surface. The kickstand is easily flicked out from the back of the tablet and hides the microSD card slot. It props the Surface RT at 22 degrees and isn't adjustable which can be a pain sometimes, but most tablets don't even have a kickstand.
Using the kickstand means you can easily do things like watch video content or have a video call on Skype without the need for an additional case. Add one of the keyboard covers into play and you have what feels like a pint-sized laptop.
The keyboard covers which we've mentioned already are a genius element to the Surface RT. The Touch Cover is strange to use at first but is something you can get used to after a while. It's just 3mm thick and uses pressure-sensitive touch pads. The Touch Cover is fine for the odd bit of typing but anyone wanting to do any serious work will benefit no end by opting for the Type Cover. It's double the thickness but provides keys that actually move.
Microsoft Surface RT: Build quality
The Surface RT feels every bit a premium product when you take it out of the box. Attention to detail and build quality is reminiscent of Apple's iPad. It would have scored full marks if it were not for a gap in the case on the rear of the tablet though which you can see internal parts.
Proof of this high standard is shown off in the way the keyboard covers lock effortlessly and satisfyingly into place – the TV advert isn't lying. You can even dangle the tablet from either keyboard cover without it falling and smashing on the ground.
The chassis of the Surface RT is made from injection-moulded 'VaporMG' magnesium which makes the device nice a strong and also feels nice to the touch. However, within minutes of using the Surface we'd tainted the nice metal finish with scores of fingerprints.
Microsoft Surface RT: Hardware
Windows RT is design to run on ARM processors and to this end, the Surface RT is powered by an nVidia Tegra 3 1.3GHz quad-core chip which is backed up by 2GB of RAM.
Since the tablet version of Windows doesn't allow full blown x86 software we can't run our usual set of benchmarks. Internet Explorer 10 provided us with pleasing results in the SunSpider JavaScript test - 1024ms in the desktop version and an even faster 985ms in the Modern UI version.
From a user perspective the performance of the Surface RT is extremely slick, like that of Windows Phone 8. Animations are smooth and more demanding tasks like pinch zooming in Internet Explorer and Bing Maps are extremely responsive. Any apps you download from the Windows Store should perform well on the Surface RT, provided they have been developed properly.
The issue we did find with performance was a bit of a wait when opening some apps. On the first load of many apps, we were left looking at the logo for it and the spinning Windows 8 loading dots for a few seconds before the app would fully open. It's a problem we also found with Windows Phone 8.
For the same price as the entry level iPad, £399, the Surface offers twice the amount of built-in storage, 32GB instead of 16GB. There's also a 64GB model available. Furthermore, there is a microSD card slot enabling you to add up to another 64GB of storage.
Microsoft has opted for a screen size larger than most tablets, 10.6in. It uses a resolution of 1366 x 768 which we're more accustomed to seeing on laptops.
While it can't beat the iPad's Retina quality, its 148ppi ClearType HD display looks quite good at a regular viewing distance and matches that of similar sized tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1). Text looks good at full zoom in Internet Explorer but look closer and the fuzzy edges are noticeable.
The widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9 means it's great for browsing the web, viewing multiple apps with the 'snap screen' feature and of course viewing video content. As we said, it's a tablet you will use almost solely in landscape mode.
The Surface RT is plentiful when it comes to connectivity with the usual Wi-Fi and Bluetooth plus a number of handy physical ports. Aside from the microSD card slot, there's headphone jack, micro-HDMI, full-sized USB, keyboard dock and charging port.
The key one being the USB port which means you can plug a range of different devices into the Surface RT including mice, keyboards, cameras and hard drives.
Microsoft provides both front and rear cameras on the Surface RT, both at 720p quality. The rear camera is mounted so that it's level when the tablet is on a flat surface with the kickstand out. We can't really see the point in it but the front facing camera produces a pretty clear image for those video calls.
Microsoft Surface RT: Software
As the name suggests, the Surface RT runs on the tablet specific version of Windows 8 called Windows RT. You'll mostly interact with Windows via the new touch-centric Modern UI with its tiled design – those with an Xbox or Windows Phone 7 device will find this familiar.
Those new to the Modern UI won't find it hard to get accustomed to. Once you learn all the different Windows 8 gestures it's a breeze to navigate around. We particularly like swiping from the left of the screen to open recent apps and the ability to view two at once with 'snap screen'.
A handy feature of Windows RT is the ability to have multiple user accounts, just like you would on a desktop PC.
Like the full desktop version of Windows 8, there is access to the classic desktop and although you can't install regular Windows software on the Surface RT there is are reasons Microsoft has included the desktop mode.
The Surface RT comes pre-loaded with Office 2013 (which until it gets updated is a usable preview) which runs in the desktop view, as does Internet Explorer 10. This makes the Surface RT a great little portable workstation straight out of the box, but only if Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote are enough for you. We also found the desktop view handy for things like the file manager and control panel.
We've been using Windows 8 on our desktop machines at PC Advisor for a while now so it wasn't hard to switch to the Surface RT. We were pleased to find that logging into the Surface RT with our Windows Live account instantly personalised the tablet with content such as contacts, email and calendar. It won't automatically download the apps you use on your Windows 8 desktop but the ones you want to can easily be found in the 'your apps' section of the Store.
So with Office and IE10 pre-installed, getting work done out of the box is no problem. However, Microsoft says the Surface is great for work and play. Since you can't install the programs you use on your Windows desktop you'll be heading to the Store for apps, just like you would on the iPad or an Android tablet.
As it stands, this is the area where the Surface RT falls down. There are a few big name apps like Netflix and Microsoft's own like Skype and Xbox SmartGlass. However, there's a lack of the apps most iPad and Android tablet owners use every day including Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Google Maps, Dropbox, Spotify, BBC iPlayer, IMDb, ESPN Goals and Sky Go. Games not available include Bad Piggies, Words With Friends, World Of Goo and the lists go on.
Most of these services, such as BBC's iPlayer, can be accessed via IE10 but this is only a small consolation. Services like Facebook and Twitter can be accessed by the People Hub but this isn't a suitable replacement for a dedicated app. The idea of a tablet is to have tailored apps, not access services via a web browser like you would on a laptop. Until the situation improves, the lack of app support is a big issue.
Microsoft Surface RT: Battery life
Our experience of the battery life has bemused us somewhat. We started off a day with the Surface RT at 100 percent and only used the tablet intensely for around an hour and a half while shooting our video review. We then used the Surface RT in the evening for around 30 minutes web browsing. The next morning, however, the Surface RT needed the mains charger to switch on so the battery had full depleted overnight. Strange considering Microsoft touts 7-15 days idle life.
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Microsoft Surface RT: Specs
- Windows Surface RT tablet specs Weight: 676 g Size: 9.3 mm Screen: 10.6in ClearType HD Display Processor: NVIDIA-made ARM chip Battery: 31.5 W-h Connected: microSD, USB 2.0, Micro HD Video, 2x2 MIMO antennae Software: Office Home & Student 2013 RT, Touch Cover, Type Cover Practical: VaporMg Case & Stand Storage: 32 GB, 64 GB rt Video, 2x2 MIMO antennae Software: Touch Cover, Type Cover, Pen with Palm Block Practical: VaporMg Case & Stand Storage: 64 GB, 128 GB