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Take on the role of a slave who is about to be sacrificed, stumbles upon a forbidden book that allows its readers to relive battles between sorcerers and monsters of the past.
- Archfiends inspired by dark retellings of classic fairy tales, new sorcerers, arenas, spells and even more quests.
- Many improvements to the game design and systems. The graphics engine has been optimized, some arenas are now dynamic with weather effects and structural changes during battle, the spells system has been refined and allows for more collaborative and deeper gameplay.
- The AI of the Archfiends has been enhanced, who is now more vicious than ever.
- Character customization has been taken to a new level, with the ability to mix costume parts and accessories.
Game progression in Soul Sacrifice can be transferred over to Soul Sacrifice Delta. Veterans of the original title will be able to pick up the adventure where they left it!


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Create your own masterpiece with Our Cat on the Floor paint by numbers kit. It is the perfect first step for beginners to enjoy the art of painting using our animals paint by number collection. You can easily paint your own wall art, even if you have zero artistic ability. Besides, it can be also framed to be an excellent decoration for your home.
Why you should order animals paint by numbers kits :
- Relaxing and Joyful: Drawing with Animals Paint By Numbers kit could be very amusing and joyful. The pleasure of creating a stunning work of art is beyond description. It will help you to relax yourself and decrease stress in your leisure time.
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What is included in a custom Paint by Number kits ?
Each Custom Paint by Number kit is all inclusive! Included in each kit you will find a printed, prenumbered canvas panel, all the paint necessary to complete the design, a paint brushes and a very easy-to-follow instructions.
What size artwork is available in the custom painting by numbers kits ?
The proven most popular size of custom Painting by Number artwork is 16' x 20' and designs are available in either horizontal or vertical formats, and they are also many bigger size the will looks better for some other pictures.
Should I clean my brush when I am switching colors ?
Yes, it is advisable to clean your paintbrush when changing colors as well as after each painting session.
What should I do with my completed Custom Paint by Number artwork ?
A completed Custom Paint by Number project is a work of art and will be enjoyed for years to come. Remembering the hours of relaxing pleasure is only one way to enjoy your artwork. Placing it in a frame for display is another! When framing, it is not necessary to frame with glass, however, when framing with glass be sure to use a matte so that the artwork is not directly touching the glass.
How long does it take for a custom paint by number to be dried ?
It will dry to the touch within 10 – 15 minutes depending on the thickness of paint application.

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Coach Mac still on top of his game
Bill McCartney has a claim to fame not many other septuagenarians can make. Colorado's legendary ex-football coach shot two strokes over his age Wednesday at the Colorado National Golf Club in Erie during an annual CU tournament.
OK, the 72 was a net score after his unannounced handicap was subtracted.
Clearly, he's enjoying his return to CU's inner circle. He has a vested interest in seeing his former players Jon Embree, Eric Bieniemy and Kanavis McGhee succeed as a staff.
McCartney, of course, was not an instant success cleaning up the Chuck Fairbanks era 30 years ago. He urged patience for the new staff.
"What I'm trying to do is tell the public to give it a few years and don't judge too quickly. These guys are building it the right way."


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E. Coli Infection From Food or Water: Blood and Kidney ProblemsSkip to the navigation
Topic Overview
Severe problems affecting the blood and kidneys may develop in a small number of people (5% to 10%) infected with disease-causing types of E. coli , such as E. coli O157:H7, who get sick enough to go to the hospital. footnote 1 These problems include anemia , a low number of platelets in the blood, the formation of small blood clots, and kidney (renal) failure.
Sometimes brain and spinal cord ( central nervous system ) complications also develop. Serious long-term damage to the kidneys and nervous system, as well as death, can occur.
This set of problems is known as either hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) or thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). These two conditions are now thought to be different forms of the same disease.
Symptoms of hemolytic uremic syndrome or thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura may include:
- Pale skin (caused by anemia ).
- Weakness or fatigue (caused by anemia).
- Passing only small amounts of urine.
- Small dark patches or dots on the skin (purpura).
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problems. Examples include:
- Irritability.
- Tiredness or lack of energy.
- Seizures.
- Coma.
- Inability to move one side of the body.
- Long-term nervous system complications. Examples
- Intellectual disability .
- Slowness of movement.
- Blindness.
People who have been diagnosed with E. coli infection should be monitored carefully for these problems. This is especially important for children and older adults. They should have blood and urine tests rather than waiting for symptoms to develop. Monitoring should begin as soon as the diagnosis is made and continue for 2 weeks after diarrhea starts.
Risk factors
The following factors may put you at higher-than-average risk of developing blood and kidney problems from E. coli infection:
- Being treated with antibiotics
- Being a very young child or an elderly adult
- Being treated with antidiarrheal medicines
- Having bloody diarrhea
- Having a high white blood cell count
- Having a high fever
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Change will affect approximately 90 jobs
Specialty chemicals company LANXESS Corp. has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary LANXESS Sybron Chemicals, Inc., will discontinue production of ion exchange resins and related products at its facility in Birmingham, N.J., effective May 2, 2008. This will affect approximately 90 jobs.
"This was not an easy decision, but it was economically necessary," LANXESS Sybron President Markus Linke said. "The Birmingham production site is unable to compete in the changing ion exchange industry. We are grateful for the service our employees in Birmingham have provided, and we will help the affected employees through this period of transition."
With LANXESS' existing ion exchange production sites in Leverkusen and Bitterfeld, Germany, and its planned facility in Gujarat, India, the company is confident that it can continue to meet its customers' ion exchange needs.
"We are committed to the ion exchange industry and are taking the necessary steps to help strengthen our business for the future," said Dr. Michael Zobel, managing director of LANXESS' Ion Exchange Resins business unit.
The LANXESS Sybron facility in Birmingham, N.J. will continue to serve NAFTA customers as a sales, technical service, laboratory and warehousing facility for the LEWATIT and IONAC ion exchange resins.


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We Wish We Could Be Happy But…15 Men Who Crushed Us When We Found Out They Were In Relationships/Married
Why is it that we sometimes feel a connection to celebrities that we don't know personally? We're happy for their accomplishments, cry when they pass away, are supportive of them through hard times, consider them our – as Wendy Williams likes to put it – "best friends in our heads," and even sulk when we find out that they're no longer single – though our chances of realistically being with them are slim to none. I know I'm guilty of this – especially that last one. So I figured I'd spotlight 15 men who we were crushed to find out had been boo'd up. Click through and relive the pain with me.
Boris Kodjoe
Boris Kodjoe. The number of hearts he broke when he married Nicole Ari Parker in 2005 could be considered criminal. Why, we wondered, would such a fine piece of man lock himself down before we had our chance at him?! But I believe we've all come to our senses, and maybe even love the family man and his lady as a couple more now than ever before.


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Tomato Basil and Spinach Risotto is fresh and light. Perfect any time of year!
I've got a bright and healthy main or side dish recipe for you on this blustery Monday evening – Tomato-Basil & Spinach Risotto!
Ever since making my first "real" risotto last month (versus oven-baked risotto which, don't get me wrong, is good, but there's nothing like the real thing,) I've felt the undeniable urge to try my hand at creating new versions. My crowning achievement will be to make one that includes mushrooms for my fungus-loving husband – I'm just not mentally ready to go there yet. It's the texture, you see. Like licking cloth. Blarg!
After purchasing fresh basil for last week's Crispy Gnochhi with Zucchini, Sweet Corn & Basil (still drooling over here, btw) I decided to use the leftovers in a super-light and summery risotto which combines creamy arborio rice, dry white wine, savory chicken broth, sweet vine-ripened tomatoes, tender baby spinach and, of course, lots of torn, fresh basil. The result is absolute perfection. If you are still waiting to try your hand at risotto, make this recipe yours!
Start the Tomato-Basil & Spinach Risotto by sauteing 1 minced shallot in a large skillet with 1 Tablespoon butter over medium heat. Season with salt & pepper then cook until translucent, and then add 1 minced garlic clove and saute for 30 more seconds.
Next add 3/4 cup arborio rice. You can find this in the rice aisle, or in the bulk bins!
Stir until the rice is coated in butter then add 1/4 cup dry white wine and stir until it's nearly all absorbed. I used an inexpensive pinot grigio. As I mentioned last time, the alcohol from the wine will cook out, but it's yummy, elegant flavor will remain in the final dish. SO GOOD.
Now turn your attention to 2-1/2 cups chicken broth that's keeping warm on a back burner.
Add a ladle-full of chicken broth to the rice, about 1/2 cup, then stir the rice continuously until it's nearly all absorbed. Then keep adding and stirring, and adding and stirring.
Best to put on a good tv show, some rockin' tunes, or True Blood on the iPad, which I've now moved onto after watching, cough, the second season of Girls, cough. It doesn't take forever, just 20 minutes or so.
K – time to add the mix-ins! Previously I'd seeded and chopped 2 vine-ripened tomatoes. Organic taste best, especially at this time of year. Equivalent amounts of Romas or Compari tomatoes would work great, too.
When there's 1/4 of the broth left, add the tomatoes then keep stirring. When there's one ladle-full left, add 2 cups baby spinach and a big handful of torn basil then stir, stir, stir.
By the way, I feel like risotto-making would be a great topic for a children's book about patience. Finn quietly sings a song about patience to himself whenever he needs a little reminder, like yesterday when he was done with lunch but couldn't be excused until everyone at the table was done too. Most. Adorable. Thing. EVER.
Anyways! After the last of the broth is absorbed, add 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese then stir it in. Taste then season with additional salt & pepper if needed.
This recipe serves 2 as a main dish, or 4 as a side. I served mine with "Salad Dressing Chicken." That's just chicken that's been marinated in salad dressing – I used honey-mustard – for 15 minutes to half an hour, then sauteed or grilled. Super quick and easy, and it also works great with salmon!
Tomato-Basil & Spinach Risotto
Tomato Basil and Spinach Risotto is fresh and light. Perfect any time of year!
- 2-1/2 cups chicken broth
- 1 Tablespoon butter
- 1 shallot, minced
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- salt & pepper
- 3/4 cup certified gluten-free arborio rice
- 1/4 cup dry white wine (I used pinot grigio)
- 2 vine-ripened tomatoes, seeded & chopped (or equivalent amount of Roma or Compari tomatoes)
- 2 cups baby spinach
- handful torn basil
- 1/4 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
- Bring chicken broth to a boil in a small saucepan. Reduce heat to low and keep hot.
- In a large skillet, melt butter over medium heat then add shallot, season with salt & pepper, and then saute until translucent, about 3 minutes. Add garlic then saute for 30 more seconds.
- Add rice then stir to coat in butter. Add wine then stir until nearly absorbed by rice. Add 1/2 cup chicken broth then stir continuously until broth is absorbed. Continue adding broth, 1/2 cup at a time, stirring until nearly absorbed before adding more.
- When there's 1/4 of the broth remaining, add tomatoes then continue stirring. Add baby spinach and basil with the last broth addition then continue stirring. Stir in parmesan cheese then add more salt & pepper to taste.
This recipe is courtesy of Iowa Girl Eats, http://iowagirleats.com.
This recipe is really great for getting others – especially those who are intimidated by cooking – into the kitchen to help. It's really just stirring! Enjoy!


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Gross Beat is a huge time-saver for glitching, scratching and related time/volume based effects. While it's fun to use live, one of the most precise methods is to use the Fruity Keyboard Controller or an Automation Clip to switch envelopes (Time and or Volume) in sync with the project. This video shows you how...
Gross Beat - Scratch, Glitch and Mayhem Powerhouse
If you are using the live keyboard control method you can download a Gross Beat preset 'Momentary' from Looptalk, thanks to nucleon for providing it. This releases the preset slot on key-release so you don't have to press the slot 1 again to turn off the selected slot.
Bit thanks to JWMMakerofMusic (Jim) for the loan of his cool 'Kowloon' track used in this tutorial. Here's the original (unmolested version) of Kowloon:
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- Mots-clés > drug ration kits
- Mots-clés > drug registration
- Mots-clés > Good Regulatory Practice (GRP)
- Mots-clés > marketing authorization
- Mots-clés > medicines regulation
- Mots-clés > Multisource (Generic) Pharmaceutical Product
- Mots-clés > National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA)
- Mots-clés > pre-marketing evaluation
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In 1999, WHO published a manual entitled "Marketing Authorization of Pharmaceutical Products with Special Reference to Multisource (Generic) products - A Manual for a Drug Regulatory Authority." After an initial distribution of two thousand copies to the Regulatory Authorities of WHO member countries, more than three thousand additional copies were printed and distributed in response to requests. Feedback was received from many who have used the manual in their assessment work or in training courses. The manual became known as the Blue Book and is intended to provide guidance to countries that do not already have a fully developed system of premarket evaluation and market authorization, and have a particular interest in the assessment and authorization of multisource (generic) pharmaceutical products. Many of the principles apply to other groups of medicines (such as complex biologicals and "alternative" preparations), but most details may be specific to multisource products. This is the second edition of the Blue Book. In developing this new edition, many practical suggestions made by regulatory officials were taken into account and incorporated as far as possible.
Now included are a series of documents that will be of practical assistance to regulatory authorities, including checklists, flow charts, model evaluation reports and model correspondence. Relevant WHO guidelines (such as those concerning stability and bio-equivalence testing) are referenced in the text but are no longer attached for these reasons:
With the additional material to be incorporated in this edition, the Blue Book could have become long and cumbersome;
Updated versions of guidelines may become available before a new version of the Blue Book is produced;
All of the relevant guidelines are available via the WHO website.
An important addition is the section concerning Good Regulatory Practice. The Blue Book should be seen as a dynamic document that responds to a rapidly changing environment. Further updates may be anticipated. When the book will be published it may not reflect the latest WHO guidelines nor the latest Prequalification practices and readers should note that when documentation or websites are referenced, the latest edition should be consulted.
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I ran into a website today that had two URLs and I'm completely stunned. The website, not to be specific, has a full address of
http://example/cat/http://example/dog. I will say that the first part is a randomly generated ad that pops up, but regardless isn't going to two addresses the equivalent of being at two different houses at the same time i.e. impossible? Anyhow, I just wanted some clarification on how it works.
And before you ask, the site is not exactly something that I would paste on an affluent forum thus the reason I have left it out.


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Look at all the fun we're having.
Let me preface this by saying I have experienced very little tag abuse so far, and am currently content enough with the tagging system. I understand why it exists, and enjoy the thoroughness the tagging system offers when searching. I think there's definitely room for improvement, so thank you for being open to suggestions!
You touch on something that I think is at the heart of artists' concerns; creators retaining control of their work. The best suggestions will surround addressing this concern. Perhaps users should be allowed to opt out of community tagging, or tags have to go through an approval stage before being added. It's nice that we have the option to prevent others from removing our tags, but it doesn't feel like that's enough control when it comes to tagging. It still leaves us open to abuse, and takes preventative action out of our hands entirely. I personally would rather have the ability to approve or decline outside tags, instead of letting them be visible on my submission until I have the time to police my gallery's tags.
These would be nice perks to have in the tagging system. Otherwise, keep up the great work!
- The system could really use some associated words feature; right now it doesn't even include both singular and plural of the same word for once. ("Cat" and "Cats" will give you completely different results)
-As Eski mentions, a way for artists to approve tags before they are added.
And of course an option to turn off "tag approval"
- Hidden tags would also be a huuuge help in addition to that.
They would be tags that wouldn't display on the submission for anyone but staff and the creator.
These tags would be ignored by the search but would get picked up by the blocking filter.
Tags not yet approved or discarded by the artist would be seen as hidden tags by the site.
So if the tag is added by someone who is blocking it, the submission would disappear from their view instantly, while it wouldn't show up in searches, or appear on the submission to viewers.
- Tags should be separated differently, no really get rid of the _ and allow me to copy paste a full sting please?
Doing the:
This is a tag, this is a different tag, three tag here,
Appears to be pretty universal and make people less frustrated.
- An "tags often used by you" list while submitting that you could just point and click to add the tag
To speed things up a bit.
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The option to block community tagging is sorely needed. I'm the only person I want tagging anything of mine.
Sega does what Nintendon't.
Hey, here are some random ideas:
Create an interface for community taggers to easily tag a lot of works. Show them random artwork, allow them to tag it, maybe with suggestions based on already existing tags. Add a next button to go to the next random artwork.
Auto-complete tags based on overall popularity (so you have less typos). Also you could add suggestions based on the description or other tags that are used on the image. Or suggest tags based on the previous works of the content creator or anyone mentioned in the description. So if I'm mentioned in the description, it'll suggest "snow leopard", because at lot of my artwork is tagged with that.
Like Eskiworks said, add an optional approval system for the content creators.
Add a number wang somewhere to the profile, add a point for an approved (and popular) tag, subtract 3 (or more) points for declined tags.
Maybe don't show tags publicly until at least 2 people added (or confirmed) it to content to prevent abuse.
the most important part of the tag system to me is the ability to create a blacklist. There's some things out there that I just really would be happier not having to see on a daily basis. Being able to add my own tag to an image is an easy way right now for me to "fix" something that isn't tagged correctly without having to deal with the artist directly. So, I think this use case is something that should also be considered going forward.
and yeah the other big issue with the tag system as it is now is that there are way too many aliases for the same "thing", like [cat] [cats] [feline] [kitty] [housecat], it goes on and on.
While I appreciate it when someone thinks of a tag that I may not have (I do tag all of my work) I would like it if when someone wants to add a tag, it sends me a notification so that I can approve or reject said tag. I find it invasive to just automatically add tags without my (the creators) permission. Sure, I could remove it afterward... but I would prefer the choice to say 'yes' or 'no' beforehand.
I mentioned this on a serial-taggers page several weeks ago. I had this problem on another website where people kept trying to tag one of my images as cub-porn... which it was absolutely not. I got at least 6 or 7 related tag suggestions and thankfully I was able to reject them all.
If we're going to have useful tags, we need the community and consistent tagging standards. This means that we're going to have to go for a 'tag what you see' approach with standardized tags. This is just one of those things where a site can't give the artists 'whatever they want'. If we do that, we're just going to have tags become a useless mess as each artist will use their own opinion (rather than a community developed standard) to tag their work.
As for some of the cases people have brought up, such as trans* work being tagged with 'futa', that could be solved with aliases. Simply replace 'futa' or 'herm' or such with a reasonable aliased name, and when someone searches for an aliased tag, bring up all of the aliases.
I didn't even realize we didn't get asked for approval (unlike e.g. InkBunny). If that's actually the case then I'd say that's personally the biggest thing I'd like to see. The tags can even apply until you choose, but I definitely want to know when someone has changed a tag. Unless I get a notice I have no reason to go back to previous pieces to see if they've been changed.
I disagree with Irbisgreif about requiring a "tag what you see" approach, but agree that standardized tags would be good. My suggested implementation would be that if an artist adds a tag that's not the "main representation" tag, it applies the main tag, too (e.g. cat -> feline), or at least suggests it. However, even if it doesn't add, just having search automatically handle it would be good, although perhaps not as efficient (computer resources wise) as just replacing the tag with its main (root) tag.
I would suggest, if you do make an ontology/word-relation system to do that, that there would be a way to view relations, both in general and as new ones are added, so people can check them out and suggest additional relations, alternatives, or arguments against relations (e.g. someone says 'tiger' is just 'feline', but 'tiger' is a subset of it, so you shouldn't be replacing tiger, only adding feline to it.)


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Texas' Hamilton Belts Four Homers In Win Over Orioles
BALTIMORE, Maryland - Josh Hamilton has become the 16th player in major league history to hit four home runs in a game.
Facing the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday night, the Texas Rangers outfielder hit two-run homers in the first, third and seventh innings and added a solo shot in the eighth to tie the major league record. He also doubled in the fifth.
The 18 total bases is a new single-game American League record. His seven RBIs are a career high.
The last player to hit four home runs in a game was Carlos Delgado on Sept. 25, 2003, for Toronto against Tampa Bay.
Two of the 16 players to hit four homers in a game did it before 1900. Hamilton is the sixth AL player to perform the feat.
Hamilton leads the AL with 14 homers and 35 RBIs and is batting .406.
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August 21, 1952 - October 26, 2013
Ellenville, NY
Joseph F. Vesely, of Ellenville, formerly of New Windsor, entered into rest on Saturday, October 26, 2013. He was 61.
Son of the late Joseph F. Vesely Sr. and Shirley (Buyl) Vesely, he was born August 21, 1952 in Newburgh. He married Agnes Connor Gath Vesely on August 31, 2013 in Ellenville. Agnes survives at home.
Joseph attended Washingtonville High School, and was a retired heavy equipment operator/foreman for the Town of New Windsor Highway Dept. He served as Vice Commander for the American Legion Cook-Taylor, Post 111 in Ellenville; was a lifetime member of the New Windsor Fire Department, where he was also member of the Benevolent Association; and was an honorary member and photographer of Scoresby Hose in Ellenville.
Dad was an avid fisherman who loved nothing more than spending as much time doing so with his "little buddy" Tyler and being a loving "Pop-Pop" to his precious Maddy. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
In addition to his wife, Agnes, he is survived by his children, Shelly Vesely and her companion, Scott Pryne of Cornwall-on-Hudson, Lori Chapman and her husband, Jeff of Walden; former wife and mother of his children, Gail Hand Vesely of Napanoch; siblings: JoAnne DeFini of Schenectady, James Vesely and wife, Debra of New Windsor, Dennis and wife, Jenny of New Windsor, Peter and wife, Lisa of Walden, Theresa Gardner and husband, Edwin of Gardiner, and Gerald Vesely and wife, Tina of Shohola, PA; cherished grandchildren: Tyler DiLello of Cornwall-on-Hudson and Madison Chapman of Walden; and many cherished nieces and nephews and cousins. He is further survived by his best friends, Charles "Chuck" Hunter, John Farrenkopf, and the original members of the "Dirty Dozen".
Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, October 29th at Brooks Funeral Home, 481 Gidney Ave., Newburgh. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, October 30th in St. Francis of Assisi Church, Newburgh, with burial following in St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery, New Windsor.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions on Joseph's behalf may be sent to The FASNY Fireman's Home, 125 Harry Howard Ave., Hudson, NY 12534; or St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Pl., Memphis, TN 38105.
To send a personal condolence or further information, please call 845-561-8300, or visit www.Brooksfh.com.


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NEW YORK (AP) -- The head of the U.S. Small Business Administration says she doesn't expect operations at the agency to be dramatically affected by automatic federal budget cuts scheduled to begin March 1.
Administrator Karen Mills says the SBA won't need to furlough employees because it already cut staffers through early retirements. She expects little impact on the amount of loans the SBA guarantees because demand for some types of loans is likely to decline.
Mills says many small businesses have already felt the impact of the budget cuts that are known as sequestration. She noted that contracts at the Pentagon, the agency that has the biggest federal contracting budget, were down sharply in December.
Mills, who plans to leave her post later this year, made her comments in a meeting with reporters.
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Lego Saturdays at the Radium Library – They're for everyone!
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Weekly on the same day until Mar 31, 2018
Lego Saturdays at the Radium Hot Springs Public Library are a great way for families to start the weekend with some quality time together. It's a fun event for everyone of every age. And it's FREE! Mark the dates on your calendar and make Lego Saturdays part of your family's happy weekend.
For more information about Lego Saturdays and other events at the Radium Library, visit: http://radium.bc.libraries.coop/


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Yes, your iPad/tablet/big-ass-portable-device has a camera on it.
No, that camera on your iPad/tablet/big-ass-portable-device is not for taking out in public and recording your most precious memories.
This is a photo from Claire's holiday chorus performance at her school last night. I counted no less than 10 iPads/tablets/big-ass-portable-devices being used as video and still cameras.
You can see 2 of the offenders in this photo I took with my iPhone from the last row:
How to Spot an Asshole, Tip #65: The parent sitting in the audience using an iPad to video his/her kid's school performance is an asshole.
— Angie (@alotofnothing) December 17, 2013
There are so many offenders of this recent asshole behavior, of course there is a website devoted to outing them: iPad is Not a Camera.
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Hi, lovelies!
My wonderful Mommy started a new blog that I'd like to share with you:
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Cottage
Raising a smile in every situation
My Mom writes posts painting memories.
And my beautiful older sister also started a blog:
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Little Mum with big thoughts
If you could check these blogs out, I'm sure they would appreciate it a lot!
Sorry for this extremely short post, but that is honestly all I have to say. 🙂
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Technology Report: WORM Tape
WORM tape is increasingly being used for long-term archival purposes. Why? Because it's cheap, portable and satisfies today's demanding regulations.
Archive with WORM tape
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We recently spoke with John Lowe, associate vice president, network systems engineering, at investment firm Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc. about his WORM tape system.
Q: What type of WORM tape system do you have?
A: We have a Spectra Logic 64K AIT3 in our main data center and a Spectra Logic 20K AIT3 in our business continuity center.
Q: How much data is currently stored on WORM tape?
A: We have 3TB.
Q: WORM tape offers a cost-effective solution that helps satisfy regulatory requirements. What do you use it for?
A: We use the WORM tape library for the SEC's rule 17a-4, and for e-mail, instant messaging and fax archiving.
Q: Did you consider disk or software products before you purchased your WORM tape library?
A: Yes, we considered disk and other solutions in late 2002 and early 2003; although vendors promised compliance, the government was silent on their acceptance of anything other than optical or WORM tape.
Q: What kind of system did you put in place to make sure your cartridges are WORM, and not just plain tape?
A: We use a tape library partitioned for WORM only. The media is logically and physically separate from the backup media, and we only use approved WORM media.
Q: How are your WORM tape policies different from your regular tape backup policies?
A: Retention periods are set at three years, and destruction policies and procedures are enforced.
Q: What kind of application in addition to your regular backup software do you use to set retention policies for your WORM tape?
A: We use DiskXtender 2000.
Q: What do you like most about your WORM tape system?
A: It's hands-off and it's easy to manage and replicate media. We don't have to physically move media, and there's enough capacity in the library to meet retention requirements. Also, we can expand capacity on demand by adding additional drives and media.
Q: What do you like least?
A: The volatile nature of tape. Even though media storage is rated at 10-plus years, I probably wouldn't use it if retention periods were over five years.
Keep it all. That's increasingly the company line handed down by management to storage administrators. With sometimes conflicting and overlapping government regulations about retaining sensitive data within organizations, no longer can any data be viewed as disposable. More often than not, storage administrators end up storing everything, with a growing number examining write once, read many (WORM) tape as a method for satisfy long-term data retention requirements.
However, it's important to consider how, when and under what circumstances to deploy WORM tape. Tape is the newcomer to the world of WORM media, following on the heels of optical and disk. Changes to the tape cartridge and firmware upgrades to existing tape drive media now enable WORM functionality on tape. But before deploying this new technology, make sure WORM tape satisfactorily addresses issues such as security, durability, portability, performance, content management, disaster recovery and TCO. Many users will find that a properly designed WORM tape implementation offers a viable, cost-effective solution that helps them satisfy their regulatory requirements.
WORM tape benefits
WORM tape gives users the ability to store petabytes of unalterable data for decades at a fraction of the price of even the cheapest disk without having to make significant changes to their existing infrastructure. It comes with all of tape's features such as portability, recoverability and infinite capacity, and the list of tape vendors offering support of WORM technology continues to grow.
Storage Technology Corp.'s (StorageTek) 9840/9940 and Sony Electronics' AIT/SAIT tape families have offered WORM technology for years, while WORM support for IBM Corp.'s 3592 and Quantum Corp.'s DLT tape families was announced in May and June of 2004, respectively. Shops with LTO tape need to wait until the LTO consortium can hammer out a WORM LTO standard. However, LTO tape libraries can now use SAIT WORM tape. Current SAIT tape drives and cartridges have been retrofitted to fit into tape drive slots on LTO tape libraries. The WORM tape cartridges cost approximately 10% more than regular tape cartridges.
The benefits of WORM tape show up in its ability to use existing resources and processes with minimal additional expenditures. However, differences exist between regular and WORM tape cartridges:
- WORM cartridges and cartridge labels are different colors. IBM's new 3592 WORM tape cartridges will be colored grey to enable tape handlers to easily distinguish between regular and WORM tape cartridges. Others, such as StorageTek's 9840/9940 and Quantum's DLT cartridges, will have labels and write protect switches with different colors to distinguish their WORM tape from their regular tape.
- Tape protection added to the cartridge. On 9840/9940 cartridges, there's a distinctive impression on the cartridge that allows tape drive sensors to identify it as a WORM cartridge. On IBM's 3592 media, tamper-proof screws are used to prevent cartridges from being opened, and the tape film being moved and inserted into another cartridge.
- WORM information written on the tape film at the factory. Every tape cartridge supporting WORM has information written to the tape film to indicate that it's a WORM tape.
- Firmware upgrades for tape drives. While all current tape drives can read WORM cartridges, firmware upgrades are required to write and append to WORM cartridges. This firmware software is free and the upgrades can be done by technicians as part of normal maintenance.
Applications for WORM tape
There are risks associated with using WORM technology. To properly ascertain the risks, users need to consider both the applications WORM tape will support and how the data will be managed.
For example, most users expect a response time of five seconds or fewer to retrieve 60- to 90-day-old e-mails; if response times continually exceed 10 seconds, the help desk hears about it. For applications that require relatively fast retrieval, WORM tape's poor response times may be inappropriate. Joe Viviano at Bear Stearns and Co. discovered that WORM tape was a poor choice for their e-mail application because WORM tape couldn't deliver on users' expectations for timely e-mail message retrieval. The storage administrator switched to EMC's Centera disk-based WORM product for his company's e-mail because it provided quicker response times for archived e-mails.
How accurate are tape compression numbers? Tape manufacturers routinely advertise compressed tape capacities and transfer rates that double their stated native numbers. SDLT 600 media promises users 600GB of compressed capacity with a 72MB/sec transfer rate, while SAIT markets offer a 1.3TB compressed capacity and 78MB/sec transfer rate. How accurate are these projections?
Fuji Photo Film's national technical support manager, Mike McCorkle, finds that the only tape capacity numbers users can rely upon are the native capacity numbers. While users can expect increases in tape capacity with tape compression turned on, the amount of compression will vary by application.
So when vendors like Sony Electronics advertise a 2.6:1 compression rate for their AIT media and most other vendors claim compression rates of 2:1, users should not assume they will actually achieve these storage rates in their environments.
Also, numerous variables affect throughput speeds. While it is logical to expect that buying and deploying the latest tape drives and cartridges will decrease backup times, this will not necessarily be the case. Variables such as back hitches, network traffic, tape drive cache buffers, data block size, backup software, the number of tape drives and compression ratio will all play a role in determining the actual data transfer rate.
|Which WORM-- Disk, Tape or Optical?
Planning for Obsolescence
A major concern for any WORM media is the ability to access the data on the media in which it's stored. Storing data on media with a shelf life of 15, 30 or 50 years sounds prudent, but the more important issue is making sure the hardware still exists to read the media after an extended number of years.
Rather than trying to keep tape cartridges forever, plan on making all cartridges obsolete after five years and make sure no cartridge remains past 10 years. As tape cartridges start approaching five years, migrate the data on those media that have a retention period of longer than 10 years to current, larger capacity tapes. You will likely be able to reduce the number of tapes in your environment, keep your environment manageable for the longer term and avoid any long-term liabilities.
WORM tape policies
Storing data on WORM tape--which has a life expectancy of 15 to 30 years--could incur potential legal liabilities later on if an organization can't identify and destroy the data on those tapes that has exceeded its required retention period. A number of organizations can tell horror stories about having to spend money to recover decades-old data from tape that should have been destroyed years ago. Without a tool to track and report on what media the data resides on and when to get rid of it, WORM tape can exacerbate this risk because it can only be destroyed, not reformatted.
In most cases, storage managers can use their existing backup software to track the age of the data on WORM tape cartridges. Of course, the backup will need some level of integration with the applications. For example, add-on options such as ApplicationXtender and EmailXtender for Legato Software's NetWorker give users the visibility they need to set up the necessary retention policies. CommVault Systems, IBM Tivoli and Veritas Software Corp. also offer similar options for their backup products.
Because some tape cartridges are capable of storing more than a terabyte of information, administrators shouldn't store multiple sets of data with different retention periods on the same cartridge. WORM tape cartridges can't be reformatted, so storage administrators and their organizations could find themselves in a predicament with tapes that have different data retention periods. The best policy is to move data with longer retention periods to another set of WORM tapes.
WORM tape cartridges provide an economical and practical way to comply with the latest government retention regulations. While users of 3592, DLT and LTO tape media will need to wait just a bit longer for this functionality, 9840 and AIT users can begin to implement this technology now. Remember: Failing to set up policies and procedures to manage long-term data on WORM tape could have consequences as dire as if you had not implemented WORM tape at all.


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Granderson moved to two-spot in batting order
NEW YORK -- It was just 65 at-bats, but they were 65 highly visible at-bats. Curtis Granderson entered Sunday hitting .140 in his first 16 games as a Met, and most of those struggles have come as the team's cleanup hitter. That's about to change, though, and Granderson was listed as the No. 2 hitter on Sunday.
The new spot in the order didn't exactly jump-start Granderson, who went 0-for-6 and left five men on base, but he did launch a walk-off sacrifice fly to win the game for the Mets in the 14th inning.
Prior to this season, Granderson had rarely hit in the No. 4 slot, and the Mets think that may have played into his early struggles. Now, they like the idea of Granderson batting high in the order, where he can be more patient and get on base in front of David Wright and Daniel Murphy.
"I've been thinking about doing it for a few days," said manager Terry Collins of making the move. "On the off-day, I had a little chance to look at his history. He's got great numbers hitting second, no matter where he's played. I just said, 'You know what? Maybe that's the spot for him.' I know that with the rate right now that [Eric Young] is getting on, maybe he'll get some fastballs to hit."
Granderson has logged career-best numbers in both on-base percentage (.359) and slugging (.546) out of the No. 2 slot, and he's batted there more than any other spot except leadoff. Collins just wants the veteran to feel comfortable, and after that, he wants Granderson to get hot and stay hot.
"He works as hard as anybody. He's going to get it going," he said. "Everybody wants him to do so well because he's such a great guy. ... He's a perfect example of a guy that didn't play very much last year. Playing at this level, when the bright lights come on, it takes a little while to get used to it."
Indeed, Granderson was hampered by injuries and missed most of 2013, playing just 61 games in his final season with the Yankees. Granderson performed well in Spring Training, and he said Saturday that it's only a matter of time before the production translates into the regular season.
"You've got to get pitches to hit. And once you get those pitches to hit, you can't miss them," said Granderson. "Once you do that, you've got to give credit to the defense out there. They're going to be trying to do whatever they can to catch as many of them as they can. The thing is to find grass. Once you get some grass and put a little dirt on the ball, things start to move in your direction."
Granderson had a four-game hitting streak last week, but he's batting .143 with just one extra-base hit in his last eight contests. He's had only one multihit game this season. The Mets know that everybody slumps at some point, though, and they're not overly worried about starting slow in April.
"We're starting to see some bright spots," Collins said of Granderson's at-bats. "As always happens, everybody wants immediate results. I continue to go back to the fact that I've had history with guys who are slow starters. He's not necessarily one of those, but I know when he gets it going, he can carry it. I just don't think not playing him is going to help him. I think he's got to play."


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BY RANIA RICHARDSON | A young Georgian woman struggles to hold her life together as she waits for the father of her children to finish a ten-year prison sentence in this fine addition to an ever-expanding body of international incarceration chronicles.
The drama is even more poignant with the knowledge that director Tinatin Kajrishvili and her co-writer, husband David Chubinishvili, based it on their own true-life experiences when he was behind bars. The debut feature for Kajrishvili world-premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February.
Turbulence in post-Soviet Georgia left many families with members in prison — and here, seamstress Nutsa (Mari Kitia) awaits Goga (Giorgi Maskharashvili), who is in jail for an unspecified crime. "They're all here for 'stealing a bike,' " sighs one official in the correctional facility. A new rule allows women to visit their men for an hour each month if they are married, so women of many generations gather there for a quick function that will legalize their unions and make them "brides."
'Brides' a fine addition to the incarceration chronicle genre
The quiet film, shot in dusty hues, focuses on quotidian life and unremarkable moments. The tale is infused with an element of suspense after Goga describes a short story by Yukio Mishima to Nutsa, in which a prisoner and his wife commit mutual suicide.
Eventually Goga's children and friends drift away emotionally. Nutsa is attracted to a customer who comes to her for sewing alterations, but her heart is with her husband. When conjugal prison visits are finally allowed, Nutsa unearths the polka dot dress from their first date to join him in a motel-like development surrounded by blue prison bars.
"I've been sleeping with 40 men for four years," says Goga, incredulous that he can finally lay with his wife. The two share "forbidden" chewing gum and listen to the other prisoners singing to their loved ones. Their faces register the emotions of sorrow, even as their reunion seems joyful on the surface.


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It is not unusual for drugs to be derived from substances that in other contexts would be considered dangerous. Many cancer medications are in this category.
It is also common for drugs that are licensed for a particular condition to be used "off label" to treat other problems.
So even though botulinum toxin (better known as Botox) is one of the most powerful nerve poisons known, its rise as a medication in recent decades is not as startling as some might think.
But all drugs, even the mildest over-the-counter medications, have unwanted side effects. And as the number of uses for botulinum toxin grows along with the number of people who use it, healthy or otherwise, it is no surprise that reports of unwanted effects are growing, too.
Though this toxin is extremely deadly when ingested, as a muscle injection it has found a vast clientele among otherwise healthy people. As Botox Cosmetic by Allergen, it is widely used by many women and men in affluent countries to relieve the visible ravages of age, at least temporarily.
A friend recently told me with slight exaggeration that "every woman" in Argentina in her 40s regularly had Botox injections to smooth out facial wrinkles, just as casually as she might have her hair dyed to hide the encroaching gray.
I can only wonder what these women will do in their 50s and 60s, when wrinkled skin is no longer confined to their faces. Given the prevalence of ageism and the perennially youthful images paraded before us in the media, there is no telling to what limits women and some men may go to in an effort to physically deny their age.
Miracle or Menace?
Botulinum toxin is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. It grows in the absence of air and has a lethal reputation as a food contaminant, especially in improperly canned or preserved foods. It weakens muscles and can cause paralysis, including life-threatening breathing problems. The toxin acts on peripheral nerve endings, preventing the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which conveys nerve signals to muscles.
In tiny amounts injected into muscle, it can relieve spasms by causing muscles to relax. The effect lasts for months; when it wears off, the toxin can be reinjected.
The toxin was first used as a drug in the 1970s to treat strabismus, deviant eye muscles that cause double vision. It has since proved remarkably effective in treating all manner of problems caused by overactive muscles, like neck and limb spasms, unwanted movements, abnormal postures, excessive sweating and pain associated with various disorders, including migraine headaches. One of its newest uses, off label, is treating overactive bladder that is unresponsive to other remedies.
Dr. Jean Carruthers, an ophthalmologist at the University of British Columbia who in 1987 was among the first to observe Botox's cosmetic potential, has likened it to penicillin both for its versatility and for its derivation from a common bacterium. Dr. Carruthers and her husband, Arthur, a dermatologist, noted that patients she treated with Botox to relax spastic eye muscles also often experienced a smoothing of frown lines between their brows.
Although there are seven types of the toxin, each with a specific mode of action, just two, A and B, are currently used medically. Of the products available in the United States, Botox and Botox Cosmetic are derived from botulinum toxin A and Myobloc from B. The cosmetic formulation uses a much lower dose of the toxin than the one used to treat major muscle spasms.
In February, the Food and Drug Administration, which has a continuing safety review of these products, notified the public about reports of ill effects associated with the drugs. Most of the serious cases resulted from medical, not cosmetic, uses of the toxin. Medical treatments typically require much larger doses, and many of the patients have other health problems that increase their risk.
The reactions, which included serious and sometimes deadly effects like respiratory failure, involved a range of doses and uses, many of them off label. The most severe reactions occurred in children treated for limb spasticity associated with cerebral palsy, an off-label use in children and adults.
Because this safety review depends on voluntary reports from medical and patient sources, it is often not possible to tell exactly what is to blame for the unwanted effects poor technique, wrong dosage, an underlying medical problem or a hazard of the drug itself.
Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization in Washington, has petitioned the drug agency to force manufacturers to warn doctors about the reported complications. The group reviewed the agency's adverse-event reports and found 180 cases of serious effects like pneumonia and difficulty swallowing and breathing, as well as 16 deaths. In September 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reviewed 1,437 adverse reports: 406 after medical use of Botox (217 of them serious effects) and 1,031 after cosmetic use (36 of them serious).
The proportion of serious reports was 33-fold higher for patients treated for medical problems than for those receiving cosmetic treatments.
Concerns for Distant Muscles
Although it has long been known that injecting the toxin can cause unwanted effects in adjacent muscles for example, injections to smooth creases around the eyes may cause temporary drooping of the eyelids recent concerns involve what are called systemic reactions, or effects on distant muscles.
Dermatologists who use the drug for wrinkle reduction say that in experienced hands and properly diluted and administered, Botox is extremely safe. The worst disasters have occurred when unqualified practitioners administered the drug.
The drug agency has told doctors who use the toxin to give patients and their caregivers information about the signs and symptoms of adverse effects and the need to seek "immediate medical attention if they have worsening or unexpected difficulty swallowing or talking, trouble breathing or muscle weakness." Doctors and patients should also know that adverse effects do not always occur right away, the agency said, but may show up even weeks after treatment.


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Promote Deep Thinking! How to Choose a Complex Text
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Jennifer Bekel, Master of Science in Education
Eldridge, Iowa
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Close reading engages students in deep thinking concerning a complex text. Through rereading, students answer text-dependent questions that promote critical analysis; therefore, the text must be complex enough to merit such attention. This strategy guide helps you consider the various factors that contribute to complexity.
Research Basis
Students improve their thinking when they are supported in reading a complex text. Through close readings of such a text, students apply critical thinking strategies, which they then begin to generalize to other areas of reading (Fisher, Frey, & Lapp, 2012).
Several components of a text can lead to complexity. Quantitative measures, including readability levels that consider semantic difficulty and sentence complexity, can indicate a challenging text. Qualitatively, a text can be complex based on levels of meaning, purpose, or textual features. A text can also be complex due to the characteristics of the reader or task (Fisher, Frey, & Lapp, 2012). Not all texts warrant a close reading, especially if they are easily understood. However, with careful text selection, teachers can scaffold students reading of a complex text, resulting in students independently reading more complex materials over time (Fisher & Frey, 2012; Fisher, Frey, & Lapp, 2012).
Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2012). Close reading in elementary schools.The Reading Teacher, 66(3), 179-188.
Fisher, D., Frey, N., & Lapp, D. (2012). Text complexity: Raising rigor in reading. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
Strategy in Practice
To complete a close reading, you must select a text that is complex, warranting rereading and critical analysis by your students. When choosing a text, consider the following areas of complexity:
- Quantitative complexity:
- Readability is an average, so it's possible a selection from the text is more or less complex than the text as a whole.
- A text is complex if it's above students' independent reading level. Fisher and Frey (2012) suggest these measures may be unreliable for primary students.
- When considering readability measures like lexile levels, Gail Gibbons or Patricia Polacco texts are examples of quantitative complexity for primary students.
- Qualitative complexity:
- Per Fisher, Frey, and Lapp (2012), qualitative complexity addresses the following factors:
- The levels of meaning/purpose and the ease with which they are identified
- The amount of figurative language used in the text
- The conformity of the text to genre expectations
- The organization of the text and amount of supportive text features
- The match between language used by the text (including vocabulary and word choice) and language used by the students
- The register (formal to informal) used in the text
- The demands the text places on the reader's knowledge
- A qualitatively complex text may be challenging in one or more of these domains. For example, Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes is challenging for primary students based on language use, whereas Tomie dePaola's Legend of the Indian Paintbrush places heavy demands on a reader's background knowledge.
- Per Fisher, Frey, and Lapp (2012), qualitative complexity addresses the following factors:
- Reader characteristics/task considerations:
- Based on the reader's capabilities, a text can be complex regardless of its quantitative or qualitative characteristics.
- Student motivation affects complexity.
- How students are asked to respond to a text influences complexity. Teacher support allows access to a text too complex for students independently.
You have the most information about your students; if the text meets your instructional objectives and one or more of the listed domains can be described as challenging for your students, it is complex and can be used for a close reading.
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Samsung's Investments Hint at Platform Ambitions
When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S4 last month, the company made barely a mention of Google's Android, the operating system on which it has built its dominance of the smartphone market. A conspicuous, even flagrant, omission, since Samsung is by far Google's largest Android hardware partner. And taken together with yesterday's announcement of a new mobile browser partnership with Mozilla — and the company's continuing work on Tizen, the Linux-based mobile platform it's developing with Intel — it's further evidence that Samsung is rejiggering its partnership with Google.
But to what end?
The most likely reason is simply to lessen the company's heavy reliance on Android, as I noted here yesterday. But there's another, as well, one that speaks to Samsung's ambitions in the mobile space. The company is positioning itself for a full-on platform play.
"We see Samsung seeking to transition to more of a vertically integrated platform play of hardware, software, and services to compete more effectively against Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and others," said Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu. "The company has been co-developing Tizen with Intel, while also ramping software efforts, including investments in Silicon Valley."
And those investments are substantial. There's a startup accelerator, a Silicon Valley R&D center, a sales and R&D campus, and a strategy and innovation center on Menlo Park's Sand Hill Road. They're all new, or newly announced. And it's not unreasonable to conclude that they've been established at least in partial support of a platform effort.
Question is, has Samsung's success given it enough heft to pull off a new platform in a market that Apple and Google so thoroughly dominate? And is it even possible to do so when it's so thoroughly tethered to Android's app ecosystem?
Says Wu, "We believe replicating Google and Apple's model as a platform play will prove very difficult where arguably only Amazon is seeing success."
Amazon, of course, has forked Android. Samsung hasn't. Yet.


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Metta World Peace is coming home to play for the New York Knicks.
The Knicks said the contract has not been signed but an agreement has been reached.
"The team is amazing, the players. I'm excited to play and hustle," World Peace said Monday while attending the NBA summer league in Las Vegas.
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World Peace was waived Thursday by the Los Angeles Lakers, who used the amnesty clause to create salary cap space. The 6-foot-7 forward will still be paid the $7.7 million that was owed to him by the Lakers.
Cornstein said the new deal came about pretty quickly. The Knicks expressed interest right after they were allowed to reach out to the former NBA Defensive Player of the Year.
"Obviously, Metta being from the area, and also much more importantly than just being a New Yorker, seeing the way he would fit in the team," Cornstein said. "Coach (Mike) Woodson did an incredible job explaining what his role would be. (Knicks GM) Glen Grunwald really made him feel wanted.
"They just did a tremendous job; quite frankly, it became a pretty easy decision."
World Peace attended St. John's in New York, when he was known as Ron Artest.
"It has nothing to do with New York, the city," World Peace said. "The only thing that's important are those players that I'm going to be joining and touching that hallway with. That's all that's important right now."
In 14 NBA seasons with five teams, he has averaged 14.1 points and 4.7 rebounds per game.
"I don't think I'm a missing piece (to a puzzle)," he said. "I'm more honored to be playing with these players."
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Sunday, October 5, 2008
Post-season Blues
Tell me I'm wrong.
Deliver me some Xanax for my baseball soul.
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You're wrong! Without any drastic moves, next year, we will win 85 to 90. That may be enough to get us into the post-season.
Who will sign C. C. Sabathia? He is a balance-of-power shifter (& a heck of a good hitter). After the Zito escapade, I doubt that we'll be anywhere near that bidding war, but someone will get him - hopefully, not in our division.
Things are great here!
- Mon Oct 06, 08:40:00 PM PDT
- M.C. O'Connor said...
Kindly explain HOW a team with no hitting can win 85 let alone 90.
- Mon Oct 06, 08:52:00 PM PDT
I've always been a huge Phillies fan. Huge. Go Phils. And go Rays! I'm really wanting to see the Rays and Phils match up in the series.
- Tue Oct 07, 08:50:00 AM PDT
- JC Parsons said...
Is that really Ron??? What has it been? Two months , three? Glad to know you are still among the living!
I also have a bit of a flush of optimism. I'm not sure I see us getting to 90 wins but maybe. I take a lot of solace in the fact that we played .500 for the last two months, a time when we stopped playing veterans and let the yutes take over. I said ALL YEAR that we could only be better with the rookies. Next year, perhaps we will start in that mode. All we have to do is fill one of the BLACK HOLES (shortstop, first base, and third) with an average or better hitter and we are on our way. Fill two of those holes and we are a much improved offense. Pablo may be an answer but we better wait and see.
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Finally, he or she circles the sum or difference of the two numbers and writes down the calculation.
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The second player must start by crossing off the number that player $1$ has just circled.
He or she then chooses another number to cross out and then circles a third number which is the sum or difference of the two crossed-off numbers.
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