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The Major League Soccer Players Union has pledged to donate a portion of its 2012 player fines to the Kirk Urso Memorial Fund. The Urso Fund supports research and programming focused on congenital heart defects and sudden cardiac death in youth. Urso passed away on August 5, 2012 due to a congenital heart defect after making six appearances for the Crew in his rookie season.
"Kirk's passing was a tremendous loss to our league and our Union," MLS Players Union Executive Bob Foose said. "It was an easy decision for our Executive Board to direct a portion of the 2012 fine money collected from players to the Urso Fund. Our hope in doing so is both to honor Kirk and to help facilitate heart research and programming that may help prevent this type of tragedy from happening again."
Crew President and General Manager Mark McCullers, who also oversees the fund is touched by the Players Union's generosity.
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Columbia, S.C.-Tennessee State softball recorded its first win over a Southeastern Conference opponent in program history by defeating South Carolina at Columbia in front of 482 fans on Friday afternoon. The Tigers and second year head coach Jeff Dabney, picked up a win in their season opener for the second consecutive year as they beat the Gamecocks 4-2.
TSU was the designated home team on the Gamecocks field due to rules set up for the Palmetto Classic. USC would go down in order to start the game, while the Tigers used their half of the first to try and catch their opponents' off-guard.
Junior Jennifer Givens got things started as she shot a ball through the middle of the infield to pick up her first hit as a Tiger. Tedra Alford followed up with a bunt, but USC pitcher Kierstyn White (0-1) attempted unsuccessfully to throw Givens out at second base.
TSU would score the first run as Givens and Alford broke for third and second, respectively. Givens would beat the throw and scampered home as USC catcher Shelby Gonzales could not connect with the shortstop and sailed the ball into left field. Alford, who picked up the steal of second, advanced to third when the outfielder threw home. Two batters later, Alford scored as an illegal pitch was called on White to give the Tigers a 2-0 lead after one inning of play.
South Carolina came right back in the second as they picked up four hits and took advantage of a passed ball to tie the game at 2-2. Gonzales popped a ball just inside the leftfield line for a two out single that allowed Evan Childs and Dana Hathorn to cross the plate.
The tie was short lived as TSU responded in the bottom half of the second inning. After two outs, Givens picked up her second hit of the game and proceeded to swipe her second bag of the day. Alford worked a walk to bring sophomore transfer Devin Amar to the plate. The Oxnard, Calif., native would deliver with a double to the wall in left center that plated both runners to put the Tigers back on top 4-2.
That would be all freshman pitcher Shea Morris (1-0) needed in her debut, as she held the Gamecocks off with just the four hits surrendered in the second inning. Morris awarded her lone walk of the game with two outs in the fourth and would not let another opponent on base until the first batter of the seventh inning. Hathorn reached in the final inning off an error, but the first-year pitcher showed no effects as she retired the next three batters without allowing Hathorn to advance.
Morris completed all seven innings striking out three and giving up just one earned run on four hits and one walk.
Givens and Amar each finished 2-for-3, with the junior scoring twice and two stolen bases, while the sophomore picked up the double and two RBI.
Freshman Savannah Gutierrez notched her first career hit as she went 1-for-3.
TSU will take to field on Saturday for day two of the Palmetto Classic at 5 p.m. ET, versus Cleveland State. The Vikings dropped two hard fought games earlier in the day; 4-3 to Western Kentucky and 3-1 to Winthrop. Live stats for all games this weekend can be found on tsutigers.com.


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Stan E. Hubbard, CEO of cable TV's Reelz channel, sat quietly onstage in a Beverly Hills ballroom, his eyes fixed on the future of his network: a straight-shooting Georgia grandmother asking bemused reporters to fetch her a ham sandwich.
"Hollywood Hillbillies," a reality sitcom in which a Southern-fried family takes on Tinseltown, may not be an early Emmy contender, but when it debuts Jan. 21, it has the potential of doing for Reelz what Honey Boo Boo did for TLC, and finally make the Twin Cities-based Hubbard family a major player in the world of cable.
"We're not looking for the next 'Mad Men' or 'Sopranos,' " Hubbard said a few weeks before the news conference from his St. Paul office. "We're looking for the next 'Duck Dynasty.' "
This was not the original plan.
When Reelz was launched in 2006, executives promised a home for cinema lovers, with round-the-clock conversation about current and classic films. It didn't work.
"I thought we could survive just doing movie talk," Hubbard said. "What we found out is the world of television has evolved past that and we had to evolve with it."
Hubbard Broadcasting shut down Reelz's lavish Los Angeles studio and moved the headquarters to more affordable Albuquerque, N.M. Then it began acquiring shows and movies from Canada, as well as "orphans," programming abandoned by other networks, most notably "Steven Seagal: Lawman," which originally aired on A&E.
In 2011, when the History Channel opted not to air its first big miniseries, "The Kennedys," Hubbard jumped at the opportunity. He launched a $10 million promotional campaign and got the drama on the air within eight weeks of purchasing it. The gamble paid off with the highest ratings in the network's history and four Emmy wins.
"That really put us on the map," said Hubbard, who is backing a sequel, "After Camelot," airing later this year. "Consumers knew that we were now an acceptable choice."
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But don't expect a slew of big-budget, star-studded projects on Reelz.
The Hubbard family may be ambitious — sister Ginny Morris oversees a growing radio empire while brother Rob Hubbard tends to the family's TV stations, which include the Twin Cities' oldest, KSTP, Channel 5 — but they're also cautious and careful when it comes to programming. While other networks churn out scripted series that could cost as much as $5 million an episode, Hubbard plans to rely on nonscripted shows with budgets of $100,000 to $300,000.
That strategy has already paid off with "Beverly Hills Pawn," a knockoff of the History Channel hit "Pawn Stars" that has tripled Reelz's daytime ratings among viewers ages 25-54. In addition to "Hollywood Hillbillies," the channel soon will launch "The Capones," a trash-talking series about a very loud, very feisty family running a Chicago pizza joint, and "The Polka Kings," featuring musicians committed to popularizing the accordion.
" 'Walking Dead' was a huge monster hit right out of the gate, but it's hard to handicap those," Hubbard said. "If you're an independent network, you can't afford to chase those. It's more important for us to hit solid doubles rather than either hitting a homer or striking out."
That formula has worked well for other networks. Eight years ago, Discovery Communications, which oversees 14 channels, had a 3.5 percent share of overall cable viewership. Today, thanks to a heavier emphasis on reality series such as "Deadliest Catch," the Discovery family has raised that share above 11 percent.
"It's another example of a channel with a high-minded mission that realizes they have to pay the bills," said Alan Sepinwall, a TV critic for the website HitFix and author of "The Revolution Was Televised," an in-depth study on recent dramatic hits. "The channels try to find a balance between quality shows and trashier shows, but at a certain point, most of these channels just stop trying and fill the airwaves with more spinoffs."
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Sepinwall believes Reelz's biggest challenge this year will be to come up with an identity. If Discovery is largely about macho activities and Bravo specializes in catty conversation, what exactly will Reelz be known for?
"To be perfectly honest, if I wasn't a TV critic and they didn't send me stuff, I'm not sure I would know Reelz existed," he said.
That may change if "Hillbillies" catches on, a very realistic scenario thanks to direct-as-dirt grandma Delores "Mema" Hughes and her highly opinionated grandson, Michael Kittrell, who became a viral sensation in 2010 when he slammed "South Park" for making fun of "gingers." The show's executive producer, Jonathan Koch, thinks it perfectly illustrates what Reelz wants to be known as: a family-friendly home for reality TV.
"Reelz's sweet spot is that the characters are fun without slamming each other over the head with bottles. These will be families that, at the end of the day, love each other," said Koch, whose credits include "The Kennedys," "Being Mike Tyson" and "Beverly Hills Pawn."
"The key is to make sure there's enough on the network so that people develop a habit of watching on a regular basis."
Reelz is certainly seeing growth. The channel, which debuted in 28 million homes, is now available in 70 million. Hubbard, who also helps run the even more ratings-challenged Ovation network, predicts that Reelz will make money for the first time in 2014.
It's even getting some famous fans. Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg recently took Hubbard out for dinner in Los Angeles to rave about the network.
But Reelz is still not available on Cox Communications, the nation's third largest cable provider. Hubbard is also fighting to get a better dial position in existing markets, and to be more broadly available in high definition. In cities where those elements are in place, Reelz comes in as a top 40 cable network. In other markets, it ranks as low as No. 75.
A bona fide hit would go a long way in giving Reelz more bargaining power. That's where "Mema" fits in — just as soon as she finishes her ham sandwich.


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As an out-of-towner who visits Charlottesvile once or twice every year, I'm excited to see that the city is making an enduring commitment to culture. Although some of the old-school C'villers I know grumble about rapid change, I believe that things like the beautifully designed Coran Capshaw amphitheatre are bound to make Charlottesville an even more stimulating community.
I'm a city dweller who lives near the beach in Los Angeles, but my mother, the late Suzanne York, threw her bouquet off the Farmington balcony, as did her mother before her. Hailing from a Charlottesville clan that includes some UVA professors, athletes, and scholars, and having married a man who grew up here and attended St. Anne's-Belfield, I know that Charlottesville has always prided itself on its intellectual and cultural vigor.
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a1b4c5d2e8f7. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Colin Möhr recetly asked the above question on Rootsweb (South Africa). A long discussion followed. Here are some edited replies.
A while ago it was announced that approximately 800 000 South Africans emigrated over the last decade. Johann Hanekom indirectly refers to such by writing: ... and so they are becoming progenitors in their own right in their new abodes. Does it make genealogical sense to hang on to their SA coding?
for beginners and experienced genealogists.
Richard Ball, Norfolk, England: First of all, always bear in mind that the De Villiers numbering system, which you are quoting here and which is used in the original C.C.de Villiers Geslagtregister', also De Villiers/Pama revision of 1966 and the current volumes of the the South African Genealogies, still in course of publication, is a relative system, not an absolute one.
Therefore, any descendant number such as you quote above must first have
- a family name and then
- publication to which it refers.
For more information on this coding system see: http://www.saintclair.org/numbers/. The numbering system we are discussing is on that page 6 -- the de Villiers/Pama system but in a nutshell, here is how it works:
a is the progenitor or stamvader, the person who first arrived in South Africa. There may have been just one, in which case the a is not usually quoted (although the surname must always be quoted) or there may have been more than one progenitor, in which case they will be labelled a1, a2, etc.
b is the second generation (or first one born in SA -- sometimes some confusion here) and the number is the order of that particular child in the birth order. b6 is the sixth child of the progenitor.
b2c3 is the third child of the second child of the progenitor, and so on.
These numbers do not carry on to the children of female descendants which, in the De Villiers system, take their numbering from their father's family.
To illustrate what I mean when I say the code is only relevant to the publication in which it appears, take the Van Wyk family where there were 6 progenitors, including the two main early ones, where the 'Die VAN WYK-families van Suid-Afrika', compiled by the Noord-Transvaal branch of the GSSA, labels Willem van Wyk, a2 and Roelof van Wyk a1.
This is a recent revision of the family and differs from what appears in the original Geslagtregister' or 'DeVilliers/Pama' and any numbering of the generations will only be intelligible if the publication from which the code is taken is also quoted.
For instance take the following two Van Wyks:
the Roelof van Wyk who married 1727 Aletta Bezuidenhout is coded a2b1 in the DeVilliers/Pama book, but in the new revision a1b1c1;
the Willem van Wyk who married (1)1729 Johanna Campher and (2)1746 Hendrina Monk (and left many descendants) is coded a2b3 in the DeVilliers/Pama book but in the new revision a2b6.
So, unless you also have the name of the publication, you cannot identify an individual simply with a code.
Francois Greeff: Think about the kind of "roadmap" you get when you stop to ask for directions in a city:
"Take the second left
then the third right
then the second right
then the fourth left
then the seventh turning to the left again..." and so on.
Effectively, you have a set of directions that get you from one specific point in the city to another specific point.
A family tree is just a map of how the different points in a family are related to each other, and there are two different kinds of map: One for ancestors, and another for descendants. The reason for this is that the two trees, or maps, have different structures.
A map of ancestors follows a very rigid progression because each person has exactly TWO biological parents. Each ancestral map has the same structure (from the bottom upward):
128 ggggg grandparents, and so on (each generation having twice as many people as the one before)
64 gggg grandparents
32 ggg grandparents
16 great great grandparents
8 great grandparents
4 grandparents
2 parents
1 person
This structure is easily seen in an ancestral chart (Click on the link to see an example, and count the number of people in each column:
In this tree each person has a unique place AND NUMBER that defines his or her relationship to all other people in the tree. The numbers are simply: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 11, 12, 13... and so on. (See http://www.greeff.info/tng01/pedigreetext.php?personID=I2&tree=GreeffKwartierstaat&parentset=0&generations=5%29rstaat&parentset=0&generations=5)
If you click on the last link you will see that it happens that:
1. all males have even numbers (except number one, who could be female);
2. all females have odd numbers;
3. each person's father is double their own number;
4. each person's mother is double their number, plus one and
5. every wife has her husband's number plus one.
The structure of this ancestral chart (or map) is EXACTLY THE SAME FOR ALL PEOPLE. One can thus refer to the chart and say that numbers 1, 3, 8, and 9 attended the funeral of number 19 and any person in the world could see that the person whose tree it is (1) and his mother (3) and his paternal grandfather's parents (8 & 9) went to the funeral of number one's father's father's mother's mother. Using the numbers to refer to people is clearly much simpler than "number one's father's father's mother's mother", especially when one gets to a huge tree of ten or twenty generations.
Second and third wives and husbands NEVER enter into this kind of ANCESTRAL TREE for the simple reason that the tree lists ONLY the ancestors of number one, and no one can have two or more biological mothers.
Now we can look at a map of descendants.
Descendant's trees (or maps of family relationships) are far more difficult, simply because each set of parents has a different number of children, and different marriages.
In this system we have two separate counters:
- One counter for each generation (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j and so on) and
- Another counter for the number of children in THAT family (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc).
In this system ONLY BLOOD RELATIVES ARE GIVEN NUMBERS, and by that I mean blood relatives of the one person whose descendants we are describing.
The DESCENDANT'S CHART also starts with ONE PERSON, who is coded a, because a is the first generation in the tree. It is a common mistake to put the progenitor (or starting person in the tree) down as a1, because that means that he was his parents' first, or oldest, child. If he is known to be the fourth child, then he should be a4.
So a has two wives, who have NO NUMBER in this system. a has four children by his first wife, and three by his second wife. All of a's children are the second generation in the tree, so they are generation b, and in addition to that they are numbered in order of birth: b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7.
It is obvious that b5 is the fifth child of a. Now b5 has five children, who are generation c in this tree. They are c1, c2, c3, c4, c5.
A problem arises immediately, because b7 also has children, six of them, and in this tree they are also the third generation, thus c. They are ALSO c1, c2, c3, c4, c5, c6.
In order to tell all the c generation children apart we look at who their parents and grandparents were, and renumber them:
ab5c1, ab5c2, ab5c3, ab5c4, ab5c5 and
ab7c1, ab7c2, ab7c3, ab7c4, ab7c5, ab7c6.
Now each person has a unique number.
That unique number also maps out each person's PLACE IN THE TREE (or place on this family map).
Returning to the example you asked about in the first place, "a1b4c5d2e8f7", you can begin to see that this long number is:
- A specific person in a tree and
- A set of directions that define his relationship to all the other people in that tree.
Do you remember the set of directions above you got to travel across the city? "Take the second left, then the third right then the seventh turning to the left again..." and so on.
"a1b4c5d2e8f7" is also such a set of directions for you to navigate in a family tree (or a map of the family). In fact, an abbreviation of a set of directions. Let us break "a1b4c5d2e8f7" up and look at what "a1b4c5d2e8f7" means.
- a1 is the main person around whom the entire tree is built, a because he is the first generation, and 1 because he is the first child of his parents.
- b4 is the fourth child of a1
- c5 is the fifth child of b4
- d2 is the second child of c5
- e8 is the eighth child of d2 and
- f7 is the seventh child of e8.
This system was invented by the late de Villiers to describe SOUTH AFRICAN FAMILIES. De Villiers, consequently, made an exception of person a, because he was studying a very specific group of first generation people. All of his first generation people were THE FIRST MAN OF A FAMILY TO ARRIVE IN SOUTH AFRICA -- the progenitor of his clan in South Africa.
Very soon de Villiers ran into a new problem, of which my clan happens to be a good example:
- Matthias Greeff arrived at the Cape in 1680;
- Peter Greeff arrived at the Cape in 1734 and
- Friedrich Greeff arrived at the Cape around 1775.
So now we have THREE progenitors of "the Greeff family" in South Africa.
De Villiers solved the problem by making an exception of the number that follows:
a: Given that he had three Greeff progenitors he numbered them a1, a2, and a3.
Consequently the numbers behind a DO NOT mean that that person was the first, second or third child of his parents, but it means that he was the first, second, or third person of that surname to arrive in South Africa.
In the De Villiers numbering system the number following a is thus NOT a mistake, because it still refers to the first, second or third person (or progenitor - "stamvader") to arrive in South Africa.
For the sake of simplicity I have not covered some of the other exceptions in the system, nor all the finer details.
Johan Hanekom: It is a valid point about always quoting the publication from which the code for an individual is taken -- but lately it has became apparent that the REVISION of that publication also needs to be considered, as revisions correct errors and omissions from previous revisions. If I do my job on our family tree well, I am afraid that the next revision of SAG Vol3 is going to be very interesting to see.
My interest in the Hanekom family tree (http://www.hanekom.org.uk/) goes way beyond the South African progenitor, and I am sure that goes for a lot of researchers here too. Unfortunately that makes a bit of a nonsense of the coding.
Richard Ball: Oh yes, certainly -- not only the publication but its edition, too. The coding is only meaningful in the context of its exact publication.
Johan said: "My interest in the Hanekom family tree (http://www.hanekom.org.uk/) goes way beyond the South African progenitor, and I am sure that goes for a lot of researchers here too".
I presume you mean you are interested in the the progenitor's ancestry? This is seemingly a modern concept. It seems the earlier researchers had little interest in the European or other antecedents of the stamvaders.
Johan also said: "Unfortunately that makes a bit of a nonsense of the coding".
The De Villiers coding seems firmly established for the main South African genealogical publications. I have seen a variation that goes backward from the progenitor using upper case letters B1.C2 etc, but you are, of course, at liberty to use your own for any publication you produce.
Johan Hanekom: I think I am not unique in finding that more and more originally South African family names are no longer purely South African family names, but becoming international. In my research into the Hanekom family I find a lot of members now living in the UK, USA, Saudi Arabia, Namibia, New Zealand, Australia, and even one (my son) back in Germany, close to where our SA progenitor came from originally. And so they are becoming progenitors in their own right in their new abodes. Does it make genealogical sense to hang on to their SA coding? I don't know.
With the excellent charting and reports now available I personally find it easier to use a pedigree chart to display and track the ancestry of a given person, than trying to implement a numbering system that keeps changing.
Now let me throw a second stone in the water. At the risk of offending researchers who publish their family histories, I would posit that genealogical books don't generate a lot of royalties for the author, and that e-books containing the anecdotal history of the family, with a searchable family tree, would be a worthwhile consideration. It would be cheaper for the author to publish, easier to update, and of much more value to genealogical researchers -and save a few more trees in the process.
Richard Ball: C.C.de Villiers, however, if indeed he devised the system (his incomplete work was edited and prepared for publication by G.M.Theal), was not designing a database but a system which would help a reader to locate the various generations in a long printed list, similar to such systems as used by most genealoly programs. If you look at the original books that G.M.Theal produced from De Villiers's data, you will see the logic for
1. the printed page
2. 5 or 6 generations
and part of this original system was the use of specific indentation for each generation, as below, making it relatively easy to run one's eye down the page, concentrating on one generation. (Dots inserted for the sake of neat typing.)
This was the purpose of the system.


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text: As of today, National Aquarium, Washington DC will be the new home for Toby, a rare blue lobster found off the coast of Maryland. Toby's particular blue hue is said to be a 1-in-2-million exception to the reddish-brown shade of most lobsters. The lobster has been staying in Martin's Fish Co.'s lobster tank since he was caught Thursday by John Gourley on his fishing boat, the Pot Luck, near Ocean City, Md. Gourley decided to donate the lobster to National Aquarium, Washington, DC. National Aquarium staff are picking up Toby from Martin's Fish Co. today, but will not immediately place him on exhibit due to standard precautionary measures regarding the safety of a new species. Toby will eventually be placed in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuaries exhibit, which currently houses three black sea bass and one tautog. National Aquarium hopes to have Toby on display by July 4. "We are always excited to be able to share new animals with our guests, but this lobster is particularly special," said Bob Ramin, Chief Development Officer of National Aquarium and Executive Director of National Aquarium, Washington, DC. "Toby will be the perfect addition to our National Aquarium family." According to the University of Maine Lobster Institute, Toby is blue due to a genetic variation that causes the lobster to produce an excessive amount of a particular protein. This characteristic is estimated to be present in every 1-in-2-million lobsters born. Categories: Animals


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Road Trip & Things to do in Durban and Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (incl. Hluhluwe & Drakensberg)
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In this video I show you the best things to do in Durban & Kwazulu-Natal including the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park and a 3 day hike in the Drakensberg mountains. ➸ My travel guides: https://www.back-packer.org Check out my friends: Marco - https://www.youtube.com/user/SanchodelaRoca Drone Footage courtesy of Marco Buch, all rights reserved. MY CAMERA EQUIPMENT ▸ Cam1:Sony RX 100 V http://amzn.to/2qGeZSK ▸ Cam2:Sony A7 II http://amzn.to/1Gfj8MU ▸ Cam3: GoPro http://amzn.to/1GZdh1q ▸ Drone1: Mavic Pro http://amzn.to/2lCujh3 ▸ Drone2: Phantom 3 Pro http://amzn.to/28Q2MQV ▸ Joby Gorillapod http://amzn.to/1CMyE0b ▸ Audio Recorder: Zoom H2n http://amzn.to/1FFVSt4 ▸ SDHC Memory Card http://amzn.to/1ygZzWD ▸ Waterproof Memory Card Case http://amzn.to/1FFWLCb ▸ Backpack Osprey Farpoint 40 http://amzn.to/1ceMOlo ▸ 3 Axis Gimbal Stabilizer http://amzn.to/2yDV24r My friend Marco and me went down to Durban to explore the things to do in Durban and some more sights in Kwazulu-Natal. As usual I tried to mix sightseeing in South Africa with some cool activities, such as the big rush, a multi day trek in the Drakensberg mountains or a Segway tour in Durban. For doing all this we rented a car and drive through the region for about 10 days with activities booked a few weeks ahead. You can use this guide to prepare and plan your own trip to this region, therefore I included all Spots and companies we used along the way. All Things to do in Durban & Kwazulu-Natal as shown in this episode: - Durban waterfront - Helicopter ride in Durban - Station Drive, Durban - Segway Tour in Durban - Townsh...


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Philmatic Wrote:Isn't this duplicating the work being done in the AudioEngine branch? Or do I not understand what you're talking about (Always possible )?
I'm working on PulseAudio passthrough specifically. I read through the thread and it looks I could probably take advantage of some of the extensions they're adding. So I'll probably branch off their git as soon as I'm ready. Thanks for the link.


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Alexandria, VA — June 16, 2009
Five participants of the Holy Week Faith and Resistance Retreat held in Washington, D.C., were tried, convicted, and sentenced to fines and probation today in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, VA for their Good Friday Pentagon witness. They were arrested as they prayed in silence around a cross near the Pentagon Metro entrance, while about 40 other
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The Central Connecticut swimming and diving team announced its 2012-13 captains and handed out the 2011-12 season awards. Junior Allison Rasile claimed both the Athlete of the Year and the Winning Performance of the Year awards.
Rasile earned the performance award for her outstanding swim in the 500 free at the Northeast Conference Championships. She also took home the Athlete of the Year award for her overall performance during the 2011-12 season.
Both of the awards are voted on by the members of the Blue Devil swimming and diving team.
"During my first year at Central, we decided to give the team the opportunity to determine who should win those awards annually," head coach Bill Ball said at the banquet. "I think it gives the awards much more meaning and value when determined by an athlete nomination and voting process. Congratulations to Allison she truly earned and deserved both awards!"
The swimming and diving staff also announced the team captains for the 2012-13 campaign at the event. Junior Taylor Friedmann, Junior Katie Lang and junior Allison Rasile will lead the Blue Devils next season as they attempt to capture the program's fourth NEC Championship.


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Team USA Beats Argentina 96-81, Wins Bronze MedalTeam USA outscored Argentina 46-32 in the second half, breaking open a close game and seizing the bronze medal in the FIBA World Championships with a 96-81 victory. Dwyane Wade led Team USA with 32 points, including 18 in a fourth quarter explosion that was reminiscent of the kind of play that earned him the 2006 NBA Finals MVP. LeBron James flirted with a triple double (20 points, nine rebounds, seven assists), while Carmelo Anthony (15) and Elton Brand (13) also scored in double figures. Luis Scola led Argentina with 19 points but he fouled out after only playing 21 minutes. Andres Nocioni contributed 18 points and Carlos Delfino had 13, including a spectacular two hand dunk that gave Argentina a 40-34 lead in the second quarter. Manu Ginobili was held to 10 points on 2-9 shooting from the field.
The big question coming into this game was which team would be better equipped to bounce back from the disappointment of not making it to the gold medal game. Fabricio Oberto opened the scoring for Argentina by beating Team USA downcourt for a transition layup, a flashback to the poor defense that plagued Team USA in the semifinals loss to Greece. Wade soon countered with a drive to the hoop but it was the Luis Scola show in the early going, as he scored 12 of Argentina's first 21 points. Argentina took a 12-4 lead before Team USA rallied and cut the deficit to 27-21 by the end of the quarter.
In the first half, Team USA had the same problems defending the pick and roll play that they had against Greece and ESPN2's Fran Fraschilla made a very perceptive comment about this. He mentioned that in the press conference after the loss to Greece, Coach Krzyzewski and the Team USA players referred to the Greek players by their jersey numbers, not by their names. Fraschilla concluded, "I really felt that all through the tournament we didn't respect the non-NBA players in this tournament." Fraschilla and his broadcasting partner Jim Durham added that to defend the pick and roll successfully it is vital to know the opponents' tendencies--who can shoot, who likes to drive (and which way they like to drive) and so forth. The fact that Team USA cannot even identify the Greeks by name underscores the point that I (and others) have made repeatedly: it is not possible to put together a FIBA championship team in three weeks. Can you imagine a team trying to win an NBA championship without even knowing the opposing teams' players by name let or being thoroughly familiar with each of their strengths and weaknesses?
Argentina stretched their second quarter lead to 43-34 after a Walter Hermann three pointer but Oberto went to the bench at the 4:00 mark after picking up his third foul. Argentina only made one field goal during the rest of the second quarter as Team USA closed the half on a 16-6 run. Anthony had a mini mental breakdown near the end of the period. First he fouled Ginobili while he was shooting a three pointer and then he was slapped with a technical foul for screaming at the officials when he grabbed a rebound and felt that he had been fouled. That could have been a big play, because under FIBA rules technical fouls count as personal fouls and five fouls result in disqualification. The technical was Anthony's third foul of the game but he redeemed himself a little bit by hitting a three pointer right before the halftime buzzer to give Team USA their first lead of the game (50-49).
Wade scored on a fastbreak layup to start the third quarter but it would be several more minutes before either team would make another field goal. Instead, the momentum of the game swung in Team USA's favor as Argentina committed five fouls in the first 3:21 of the quarter. Team USA converted only 3 of the resulting 8 free throws but Scola went to the bench with his fourth foul and Team USA was in the bonus for the rest of the period. Ginobili received his third foul just before the end of the first half and he sat out the entire third quarter. Nocioni was tagged with his third foul at the 4:59 mark of the third period and Oberto got his fourth foul 1:26 later, meaning that Argentina's starting frontcourt and their best player (Ginobili) all had at least three fouls with more than 13 minutes left in the game. This is worth mentioning because it not only limited those players' minutes but it also curbed their aggressiveness while they were on the court. Argentina was called for 29 fouls in the game, compared to 17 for Team USA, but Anthony did receive his fourth foul in the third period and Brand eventually fouled out. A Nocioni three pointer cut Team USA's lead to 69-62 at the end of the period.
Team USA went on a 10-4 run to open the fourth quarter and led by at least nine the rest of the way, outscoring Argentina 27-19 in the final stanza. Wade's 18 came from all angles--dunks, jumpers (including two three pointers), free throws and slashing drives. James concluded the scoring with an emphatic dunk, making a free throw to complete the three point play.
Anyone who believes that Team USA lost to Greece because of poor shooting should carefully compare the boxscores of that game with the Argentina game. Team USA shot 33-66 (.500) from the field versus Greece and a virtually identical 37-72 (.514) from the field versus Argentina; they shot 20-34 (.588) on free throws versus Greece and an even worse 15-30 (.500) versus Argentina. Yes, the three point shooting was a little better versus Argentina (7-18; .389) than versus Greece (9-28; .321) but the real difference was at the defensive end: Team USA held Argentina to 34-75 field goal shooting (.453), including 4-21 (.190) from three point range, while Greece shot a blistering 35-56 (.625), including 8-18 (.444) from three point range. Team USA scored 95 points versus Greece and 96 points versus Argentina. Forgive me for belaboring the point, but scoring is not Team USA's problem, nor is shooting; defending against the pick and roll and guarding three point shooters are the two main things that hurt Team USA against elite FIBA teams. Team USA's poor free throw shooting was an aberration--is anyone seriously considering cutting James because he shot 1-4 versus Greece or Anthony because he shot 6-10 and then 1-6 versus Argentina? I don't think that selecting the team based on the NBA's free throw percentage leaders is a recipe for victory. If anything, those guys were trying too hard and missing more often than usual because they were pressing to make up for the defensive lapses that got them behind in the first place.
This was a good effort against a tough Argentina team that has been together for several years and has players who have both NBA and FIBA experience. Wade was in the starting lineup for the first time for Team USA and he played 35 of a possible 40 minutes. It is easy to forget that Coach Krzyzewski and his staff not only had to take a crash course on the other teams in three weeks but that they also had to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the players on their own roster and which combinations of players worked best together. When Fraschilla mentioned this, Durham wryly noted that Wade was the Finals MVP and that it might not be a bad idea to start the five best players. I agree with that and would take it a step further, as I wrote after Team USA's nine point win over Italy: "...the FIBA World Championships are not the NBA All-Star Game; the most important thing is winning the game, not making sure that everyone gets a chance to play. If someone is not productive in a given game or does not match up well with the players on the court then he should sit on the bench." That is why I was so disappointed to read Gilbert Arenas' comments in the Washington Post on August 30. It had been originally reported that he was left off of the final 12 man roster due to injury but he believes that he was going to be cut regardless and cannot understand why he was not given the freedom to do whatever he wants to do on the court. Among other things, Arenas said "You've got LeBron being LeBron. You've got Carmelo being Carmelo. You've got D-Wade being D-Wade. Why can't I be me? Why do I have to transform? I did that and now you are going to cut me?" Arenas then vowed to try to score 50 points in each of his games next year versus the Phoenix Suns and Portland Trail Blazers because he felt that he was slighted by their head coaches--Mike D'Antoni and Nate McMillan respectively--who are assistants on Krzyzewski's staff. That is precisely the attitude that Team USA does not need. James and Wade are clearly better all around players than Arenas and Anthony is certainly at least as good of a scorer. Chris Paul set a Team USA record for assists in FIBA World Championship play and James also can handle the ball, so what makes Arenas think that he is entitled to guaranteed minutes on this team?
The roster moves/playing time decisions that I did not understand with Team USA are (1) Wade not starting until the last game when the team played markedly better with him on the court; (2) Bruce Bowen being cut when the team desperately needs good perimeter defenders; (3) Brad Miller being on the team because he is supposedly the prototypical FIBA big man, but rarely getting any playing time--if he is that valuable, work him into the rotation, otherwise cut him loose in favor of Bowen or somebody who can help Team USA's defense. It will be interesting to see what the roster looks like next summer when Team USA must have a strong showing in the Tournament of the Americas in order to qualify for the 2008 Olympics. Assuming that Kobe Bryant and Chauncey Billups are available, who will be cut from this year's roster? What if Amare Stoudemire is healthy, too? Arenas has probably talked himself off of the team, but what about Bowen's status?
Coach Larry Brown was blasted when his 2004 version of Team USA won the bronze medal in the Olympics but the new and improved Team USA did no better than equal that finish in the FIBA World Championships, although they did avenge Team USA's loss to Argentina in 2004. While both teams had similar preparation time, the difference is that Brown's team was a one and done outfit, while Krzyzewski and his staff will have the same pool of 24 players to choose from until 2008. I believe that they will use the extra preparation time wisely and that Team USA will win the gold medal in the 2008 Olympics--but if they are still identifying opposing players by jersey number and not by name in the Tournament of the Americas, I reserve the right to change my prediction.
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JonoTech necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 78 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
In the Seattle area real estate agents are limited to 15 pictures in the multiple listing service, hence the name 15pics. Having great pictures brings more visibility to the listing, and hopefully results in a quicker transaction.
Real estate agents and homeowners who want a simple, reliable, photography service which produces outstanding images.
I need a nice clean logo that represents the company. I'd like there to be some sort of graphic element or mark that either represents photography, real estate, or both. I prefer more web 2.0 logo designs.
I haven't chosen any colors. I'd like to see some color combinations presented by the designers.
I will be developing the 15pics website and the logo will be used. The website will be nice and simple. Agents will have the ability to order a photo service on the website, and then they'll be able to download the resulting images from the website. The simplicity of the service will save agents time.
I really like the stackoverflow.com logo.
I like how both 37signals.com and 99designs.com incorporate the numbers into their brand. Only in our case 15pics literally is our product so the number will help agents remember the brand.
Another company that does somewhat similar real estate photography is:
It's possible I'd add a tag line as part of the logo. I'd like to see "Real Estate Photography" perhaps as a tag line.
I'd like to keep all the resulting files (PSD, vector, etc).
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Artists and Poets Friday
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FRIDAY'S POST ~ Friday, day of artists and poets. Illusive muse managed a walk in between rain showers today. Creative spirit restored momentarily. In a previous life, I must have risen from the ocean, my spirit thirsts for daily walks by the ocean. Do you have a favorite place to renew your creative energy?
The above photo is a creation I started yesterday and completed the first in a series today. There is always more to be done on a creation. Yet, today, like me, the painting will continue to be a 'work in progress'. My sketchbook is finally complete and will send it off next week. Then begin the process of developing some type of publication of haiku and a bit of brush painting. My haiku for today is below. Today we are sharing with:
paint party friday
haiku my heart
creative everyday
carpe diem haiku
leaves falling ever
branches shedding, lightening
load lessening fall.
going to ground now
cocooning into night season
rising again, spring.
birth, growth, sleeping dead
awake to new life, seasoned
fresh, a new being.
Hope you enjoyed your visit viewing a piece of art work and reading some haiku over a gentle cup of tea. For more delightful creations visit the links listed above.
Wishing you a peaceful and healing weekend.
Hugs and namaste,
We love to have you post your comments, thoughts or questions to delight us all in the day ~ especially, ArtMuse Dog ^_^
QUOTE FOR THE DAY: 'Everything is miraculous. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath.' ~ Pablo Picasso


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So far we are aware of a few different Haswell graphics cores. The main distinction is that the G3 is more powerful and faster, while and GT2 is smaller, less powerful and obviously more efficient.
The fastest of all of them for notebook computing is GT3 with cache memory on board that ends up with Intel HD Graphics 5200 branding. This part goes into high performance notebooks and we can imagine that this core will find its place in quad core Haswell processors.
The GT3 for Ultrabooks will end up branded as Intel HD Graphics 5200 for the faster one and Intel HD Graphics 5100 for a somewhat slower version. We don't know the clocks or the actual specification for the 5000 series, just brands. GT3 for Ultrabooks doesn't come with on package memory, probably due to a limited space on this dual core.
Intel GT2 HD graphics target high end notebook computers at high clocks and they end up with Intel HD Graphics 4600 branding. Intel GT2 HD graphics for Ultrabooks will end up branded as Intel HD Graphics 4400 for the faster one and Intel HD Graphics 4200 for the slowest of the GT2s for the mobile.
Intel also claims that same graphics numbering system applies across client and server products.
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Intel GT3 5200, 5100, 5000, 4600 explained
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The Tangettes are revolting. Over on The Inside The Book The Book — Playing the Percentages in Baseball Blog (which reminds me of the Official Stephen A. Smith My Blog), you can witness the uprising in comment form against the God-King Tangotiger.
For those too squeamish for uncensored carnage, Tango said something about Stephen Strasburg and how he (that being Tango) is always right. And then we get to the comments. Here are highlight selections, in chronological order.
Mike Fast:
I don't know what lesson, if any, I'd take from such a small sample, but it certainly would not be the lesson you [Tangotiger] are proposing.
I don't see how you can beat your chest on this topic, if anything I would expect you [Tangotiger] to post a "my bad"
Mike Fast:
Could your [Tangotiger's] rule of thumb still be right, despite Strasburg's performance? I suppose it could be. But to try to use his performance as proof that you were right is involving some major arm-twisting and severe avoidance of sound sabermetric principles.
This is how it works guys. That's why the Tom Seaver Rule is needed.
David Gassko (with an instant 2010 SABR Comment of the Year candidate):
No, no, no, no, and once more, no. You CANNOT say that Strasburg was lucky, because we are not having this argument ex-post. The question of how Strasburg would do came up before he had ever thrown a major league pitch—therefore, there is NO reason to "correct" bias in his numbers. That would be like regressing to the mean twice. If a pitcher posts a 2.00 ERA in a season, maybe his likeliest true talent projection is 3.00. If a pitcher posts a 3.00 ERA, maybe his likeliest true talent is 3.75. But if a pitcher posts a 2.00 ERA, it does not follow that his likeliest true talent is 3.75. Which is what you are currently trying to argue. Strasburg was a pre-selected subject. Therefore, there is no reason to expect bias in his numbers. What happened happened. Oliver was right. You were wrong. End of story.
End of story.
You can say all the rest, but don't say that.
Nick Steiner:
I agree with many of the points you [Tangotiger] make, but this is incredibly disingenuous.
And I'm saying that we observed 75% keeps the conversation open. Telling me "end of story" is the same thing as telling me to shut up. I'm talking, and I'll keep talking, thanks.
Jeremy Greenhouse:
Tango, this doesn't feel right. I think that you should take a few steps back from this argument and start running some numbers. Brian's projection of Strasburg is something he should take pride in, and it seems like you're summarily dismissing his work without evidence of your own.
And Tangotiger gets the last word (for now):
I was fair then in that thread, and I was fair in this thread.


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Taylor Swift Hints at New Sound, Says New Album is 'Way Ahead of Schedule'
For Taylor Swift fans ecstatic that she recently won the AMA Artist of the Year award for the third year in a row, get ready for even more exciting news: Her new album has a brand-new sound -- and it may be ready sooner than you think.
"I'm so obsessed with where it is right now because I think, for me, the goal is that we start coming upon a sound that's different from everything that we've done before, an identity to a new record," she gushed to reporters backstage after the show. "Having come upon that so early in the process is just really thrilling."
While each of her albums share a common thread in the heartfelt lyrics that are Swift's hallmark, there is no denying that each has a unique sound, with 'Red' being the biggest departure from them all. So, what can we expect from her latest venture?
"I've got a lot of time to write more, but it's really looking promising so far…it's way ahead of schedule," she added. "So I'm really stoked for you to hear it."
Could it be coming as soon as 2014? We can't wait to find out!


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The attacker victim scenarios we designed are no longer appropriate. It is amazing that no less than a decade ago I was working with teams to design information security attack scenarios where we were dealing mainly with mafia, ex-intelligence agents, and loose nit groups. Now we have countries organized and attacking with some brilliant attack strategies. The sophistication, coordination, and execution of these is obvious to be conducted by military / intelligence professionals. Despite all the conjecture it has been difficult to prove, as usually only victims and logs stand as evidence. The developments of YamaTough present a hard case where a countries espionage activities may be exposed.
I would encourage reading the multiple great articles on this topic, a superb starting point is InfoSecIsland. The facts are critical to understanding how to protect company, personal, and government assets. The actions are key to understanding what is at stake, and how critical it is to be ever agile to these threats.
A takeaway from this attack and the article referenced above though are not to be more agile. It is encouraging a deep evaluation of the third parties in which you do business. This evaluation must consider every partner with the business that gains digital access to company resources. Who should this include, well at least the following:
- Vendors that maintain your systems (hardware and software)
- Outsourcing teams that manage remotely management / operational support of your systems
- Vendors that support your Cloud environments
- Vendors that provide hardware authentication and other 'highly dependent' technology aspects of your infrastructure
- Loan staff brought onboard by HR and contractors
A progressive outsourcing / partnering has occurred with businesses where access to key networks are allowed, at least for a temporary basis. In some cases the security design, management, log monitoring, and underlying software are all designed by third parties. The cost of overseeing, testing, vetting, and validating the integrity / security of these operations must be considered at this time.
The scenario of India as a country conducting espionage created a timeline example, while humerous, is meant to provide a simple description of the current environment:
- Businesses outsource IT operations to company
- Team that managed operations hired by offensive security group
- Same team leverages prior knowledge to attack and circumvent customers throughout region
- Business does not have security through obscurity and in fact, is naked defensively against these individuals as most of security safeguards are the same
- Business, in most cases, is not monitoring these partners for activities such as reconnaissance
- Finally, the BPO and deep network (family and financially) of businesses where outsourcing occurs creates the possibility where approved access itself may be hijacked by attackers
Organizations must seek assurance regarding the operations of third parties, but also institute monitoring, detection, and response capabilities to ensure the ability to identify and limit these events.
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Suffers health problems since rescuing people from a burning school
Cheryl Lawrence is a former police officer saddled with health problems since rescuing three people from a burning school two decades ago. Lawrence, who lives in North Port with Howard, her husband of 25 years, spoke with Herald-Tribune correspondent Abby Weingarten.
I was in the military police from 1973 to 1977, and I was a police offer in New Jersey from 1977 to 1989. In 1989, I rescued three people from a fire. One lady had gone back into the building to get her pocketbook. Another guy went back to get his briefcase. They were running toward the fire instead of away from it. I went back into the building to check and make sure everyone was out. As a result, I ended up with a heart condition.
I went into heart spasms. My breathing was off. I had inhaled smoke from typewriters, computers, phones, all those things that had melted down — similar to what the guys are going through from 9/11. But when I went to collect my pension, they told me that smoke was not excessive force, that I had to be physically hit with something to get my police pension. I never got it. I was sent to California and went through an atherectomy, where they drill in your heart. They told me I had 99 percent blockage.
As time went along after the surgery, I started coming back with some of the same conditions. I have PTSD, COPD, congestive heart failure, fibromyalgia, spinal stenosis and osteoarthritis, and I'm supposed to be on oxygen 24 hours a day. I have to keep the house at 75 degrees or I can't breathe without being congested and coughing.
My electric bill goes up very high, so I have to keep it lower, even if it hurts my breathing, because I can't afford it. When our truck broke down recently, that's when we went to Senior Friendship Centers, because I couldn't get to the hospital and we needed help paying our rent. They are so wonderful. I don't know what we would have done without them.


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Just about everyone could agree on "Get Lucky" and "Hold On, We're Going Home," but there were lots of other great singles and album cuts released this year. Here are 21 you can download from Amoeba.com right now. Pretty sure these could just top out a 120-minute cassette tape, if my high school calculations are correct. Check out my top 50 albums list, too!
Kurt Vile – "KV Crimes"
Kurt Vile's Wakin on a Pretty Daze is a great, melodically hazy stoner-rock record, but "KV Crimes" hits hard, like a song Tom Petty would kick out in five minutes and decide he was too stoned when he wrote it and leave it on the cutting-room floor for some bullshit like "Free Fallin'." Kurt Vile is like our more enlightened Petty, one who knows that off-the-cuff tracks can be the best.
From the album Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Savages – "I Am Here"
"I Am Here" builds its post-punk dread carefully, unleashing into a climax that'll leave you feeling hot and disoriented.


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Preheat oven to 350°. Place quinoa in a blender and grind about 5 minutes until it becomes fine flour or grind in a flour mill. Remove and place in a mixing bowl. Coarsely grind the walnuts in the blender and place in the bowl. Add sea salt, mix, and add the oil, Edensoy and maple syrup. Mix thoroughly. Press the dough evenly into a 9" pie plate to form the crust. Pre-bake the crust for 10 minutes.
While the crust is baking, place the nectarines, juice and sea salt in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to low and slowly add the dissolved kuzu, stirring constantly to prevent lumping. When thick, about 1 minute or so, pour the filling into the pre-baked crust. Bake another 10 minutes until the crust is golden brown. Remove and cool before slicing.
Per serving - 305 calories, 11 g fat (30% calories from fat), 8 g protein, 47 g carbohydrate, 11 g fiber, 0 mg cholesterol, 153 mg sodium


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Necklace from Chippings Collection. Size of pendant: 13 mm width, 16 mm length, 3 mm thickness. The chain used is made from silver 925.
The stones used in each piece of jewellery are unique, which means that they may slightly vary in shade and colouring, inclusions in the stone and its structure.
We aim for our jewellery to be sent out as quickly possible. However since the jewellery is handmade the time in realising this process can take up to 10 working days.
Our "Chippings" collection is a modern form though not met in Polish jewellery where our handcraftsmen create frames for our rocks. The natual rocks are cut by our craftsmen using only traditional methods to gain our asymmetrical double sided frame. This collection is the result of original and hard work, combining both a jeweller and a lapidarist in its making.
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