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Anna Martin's homecoming got off to a rough start, and DePaul never recovered.
Martin had 14 points, but the Blue Demons fell behind by double digits early in the game and went on to a 96-64 loss at No. 7 Kentucky on Friday night.
The Wildcats jumped all over DePaul, scoring 23 straight points for a 25-2 lead in their lone home game this season at Rupp Arena.
"I was really proud of my basketball team after we got shell-shocked in the first half," coach Doug Bruno said. "Kentucky did a great job of putting us in the place they put us in by being like we were down.
"At the point of being down, 22, 20 or whatever point it got to be, I just thought we finally played basketball. We still lost the game. I thought we did some things that are going to help us as the season moves forward."
Martin, who grew up in Kentucky and led nearby Lexington Christian Academy to three state titles, was 6 for 14 from the field. She also had three assists and two steals in front of a crowd of 18,488, setting a single-game record for a Kentucky women's home game.
"I wish the result was different, but I think our team will learn from this and get a lot better," Martin said. "I watch some of the Kentucky games, so when I heard the fight song it was hard for me not to chant along. It was a weird feeling, but once the ball went up it was game time."
Jasmine Perry scored 16 points for the Blue Demons (6-3), and Brittany Hrynko finished with 13.
DePaul shot just 40 percent and committed 21 turnovers. The Blue Demons lost to their first ranked opponent this season.
DeNesha Stallworth had 17 points and 13 rebounds for Kentucky (7-1), which shot 49 percent from the field in its sixth consecutive victory. Stallworth, a junior transfer, passed 1,000 career points while recording her second double-double this season.
Samarie Walker added 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Wildcats, and A'dia Mathies had 17 points and nine boards. Jennifer O'Neill scored 13.
O'Neill started the rout by scoring six seconds into the game. Stallworth's follow made it 4-2 32 seconds later and started Kentucky's run of 23 consecutive points.
"I think the environment got to us and that's just an attribute to the fans here," Bruno said.
DePaul put together a 10-0 run to close to 40-24 in the first half. But the Blue Demons couldn't keep up with the Wildcats, especially Stallworth, who had 11 points and seven rebounds to help Kentucky carry a 51-33 lead into the break.
Unfazed by Penny or Katherine Harry in front of her, Stallworth fought her way to the basket and was just as fierce in Kentucky's pressure defense that made it hard for DePaul to inbound the ball early on.
The Wildcats kept up the pace in the second half, holding the Blue Demons to 34 percent shooting.


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More bad news on the economy, as the ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels not seen in nearly 40 years.
Census figures for 2011 will be released this fall in the weeks ahead of the November elections. However, the Associated Press surveyed more than a dozen economists, think tanks and academics, both nonpartisan and those with known liberal or conservative leanings, and found a broad consensus: The official poverty rate will rise from 15.1% in 2010, climbing as high as 15.7%. Several predicted a more modest gain, but even a rise of a tenth of a percentage point would put poverty at the highest level since 1965, according to the news service.
"Poverty is spreading at record levels across many groups, from underemployed workers and suburban families to the poorest poor," the AP writes. "More discouraged workers are giving up on the job market, leaving them vulnerable as unemployment aid begins to run out. Suburbs are seeing increases in poverty, including in such political battlegrounds as Colorado, Florida and Nevada, where voters are coping with a new norm of living hand to mouth."
The predictions for 2011 are based on separate AP interviews, supplemented with research on suburban poverty from Alan Berube of the Brookings Institution and an analysis of federal spending by the Congressional Research Service and Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute.
The AP found that analysts' estimates suggest that some 47 million people in the U.S., or one in six, were poor last year. An increase of one-tenth of a percentage point to 15.2% would tie the 1983 rate, the highest since 1965. The highest level on record was 22.4% in 1959, when the government began calculating poverty figures.
The AP also reports:
- Poverty will remain above the prerecession level of 12.5% for many more years. Several predicted that peak poverty levels — 15% to 16% — will last at least until 2014, due to expiring unemployment benefits, a jobless rate persistently above 6 percent and weak wage growth.
- Suburban poverty, already at a record level of 11.8%, will increase again in 2011.
- Part-time or underemployed workers, who saw a record 15% poverty rate in 2010, will rise to a new high.
- Poverty among people 65 and older will remain at historically low levels, buoyed by Social Security cash payments.
- Child poverty will increase from its 22% level in 2010.
Analysts also believe that the poorest poor, defined as those at 50% or less of the poverty level, will remain near its peak level of 6.7%.

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HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — Defense attorneys want to suppress statements made by the father accused of killing his three young daughters at their western Wisconsin home.
Aaron Schaffhausen was back in St. Croix County Circuit Court Monday. The defense is trying to suppress Schaffhausen's statements in the case, based on Miranda warning questions and the voluntary nature of anything said or indicated after he turned himself in.
The 35-year-old carpenter from Minot, N.D., is accused of killing 5-year-old Cecilia, 8-year-old Sophie and 11-year-old Amara Schaffhausen at their home in River Falls last July during a visit with his daughters.
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Both Blackpool and Wolves have fallen foul of Premier League rule E.20, which states that "in every league match, each participating club shall field a full-strength team". The league has now relaxed that rule, meaning managers will be free to choose at will from their senior squad and, if need be, their pool of 'home-grown' Under-21 talent. A spokesman for the Premier League said: "The clubs voted at the last Premier League Annual General Meeting to modify the rule regarding clubs fielding full strength teams (E.20). "From 2011/12 onwards the rule will allow any combination of players included in a club's 25-man squad list to be selected for a Premier League fixture. "The 25-man squad rules do allow clubs to pick Under-21 players beyond those named in their squad list and, with this in mind, it was agreed by the clubs that it was appropriate for the rule to remain in place in order to ensure the integrity of the competition." Blackpool were fined £25,000 last season after making 10 changes for a midweek game at Aston Villa before reverting to their previous line-up for a trip to fellow-relegation battlers West Ham. In December 2009, before the 25-man system had been introduced, Wolves were hit with a suspended fine after making sweeping changes at Manchester United, where they lost 3-0.


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Tony Hawk: Shred will put your Tony Hawk: Ride skateboard controller to use, once again, later this year, letting players skateboard and snowboard while balancing on pricey plastic peripherals. This is what Tony Hawk: Shred will look like.
Pro skater Tony Hawk was the first to leak details on the next game in the long-running series. Activision later confirmed that Tony Hawk: Shred exists and that it will double up on the extreme sportsmanship.
First screens of the Wii version of Activision and Robomodo's forthcoming game show that, yes, you'll shred on a snowboard. You'll skate in cities and parks. You'll do so in a fashion slightly more cartoonish and cel-shaded. And you'll occasionally wear licensed Volcom clothing while shredding and skating.
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A Tale of Two States: The Northeast's Final Marriage Frontier
Only two states in the Northeast have yet to legalize same-sex marriage.
New Jersey and Pennsylvania remain battlegrounds for the hot-button topic of same-sex marriage and have been receiving media attention for court cases and controversies. But this battle could be coming to an end sooner rather than later. With New Jersey's same-sex marriage ruling coming up and a Pennsylvania gay marriage case on the horizon, September is shaping up to be a busy month.
Judge Mary Jacobson, the Mercer County Judge presiding over the Aug. 15 New Jersey marriage case, has said that she will make her decision on whether to allow same-sex marriage in September. This suit, filed by Lambda Legal on behalf of six gay couples and their children and LGBT rights advocacy group Garden State Equality, argued that civil unions do not grant equal protection under the law for gay couples.
"We're making the argument that civil unions don't offer the same benefits in New Jersey as marriage does," said Troy Stevenson, Executive Director of Garden State Equality.
A 2006 New Jersey Supreme Court ruling stated that civil unions might be granted to same-sex couples so long as those couples received the same benefits and protections under the law as heterosexual married couples in the state. After the June U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down DOMA, thousands of same-sex couples were granted the federal benefits they had previously been denied, but not in New Jersey. And this, says Stevenson, means the state of New Jersey is no longer in compliance with the original NJ Supreme Court decision.
While marriage-equality hopefuls are awaiting this decision with fingers crossed, it is expected that same-sex marriage will make its way to The Garden State, one way or another.
A law allowing same-sex marriage already passed through both chambers of New Jersey's legislature last year, but was vetoed by Republican Governor Chris Christie. Christie has also spoken out saying that the courts would be "overstepping their boundaries" by allowing same-sex marriage in New Jersey. EDGE reached out to Christie to ask by which means marriage equality should or could legally be passed, but was unsuccessful in reaching him.
Despite the governor's apparent disapproval of same-sex marriage, it seems that the majority of New Jersians do not feel the same way. According to a Quinnipiac University Poll, 60 percent of New Jersey voters support same-sex marriage.
"New Jersey was predicted to be one of the first states to pass marriage equality legislation years ago," said Stevenson. "For it to have stalled the way it has is extremely unfortunate."
With a January 2014 deadline, legislators and LGBT advocacy groups are working fervently to secure enough votes for an override of Christie's veto and a chance at marriage equality. It is not far-fetched, though, to think this result could come much sooner, as we prepare for Judge Jacobson's ruling.
Pennsylvania, the other state in the Northeast that does not recognize same-sex marriage, has court cases of its own, and enough drama to land itself on a daytime talk show.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against Pennsylvania last month on behalf of 23 plaintiffs, stating that the state's same-sex marriage ban, similar to the DOMA statute overturned in June by SCOTUS, is unconstitutional. Attorney General Kathleen Kane (D) agreed and, in what looks very similar to the actions of the Obama Administration, refused to defend the statute.
"When the president came out for marriage equality it allowed people in elected office to come forward," said Ted Martin, Executive Director of Equality Pennsylvania. "Any time an elected official comes forward in support of equality it is a good thing."
But not everyone sees it this way. Pennsylvania Republicans including Governor Tom Corbett, are outraged at Kane's neglect of her duties in defending this law. Some of the more extreme voices have even called for her impeachment.
And Kane is not the only one-stepping up to the plate. In what has seemed like a wave, public officials, one after another, have been coming out in support of same-sex marriage. State College, PA Mayor Elizabeth Goreham has admitted to hosting same-sex weddings at her home. Braddock, PA Mayor John Fetterman took it a step further, actually performing a marriage ceremony for a gay couple at his home in early August. And, perhaps the biggest scandal of all, is the now-famous D. Bruce Hanes, Montgomery County Register of Wills, who has been issuing same-sex marriage licenses, despite the statewide ban, since late July. Over 130 same-sex couples have received their licenses and wed in the weeks since Hanes began permitting it.
On Sep. 4, Hanes will face Governor Corbett's administration and a Harrisburg County Judge for his actions. While the Health Department hopes to stop Hanes from issuing same-sex marriage licenses, others hope that this will result in a speedy win for marriage equality. If a Judge rules that Hanes was, in fact, acting in accordance with the state constitution, this could mean immediate reversal of the Pennsylvania marriage ban, or at the least, some strong precedent for the ACLU suit which is expected to happen in late 2014.
Mary Catherine Roper, ACLU Pennsylvania Senior Staff Attorney, is hoping that she and the plaintiffs she represents, are able to see their day in court.
"We think it's really important to have a full trial with the opportunity to rebut any reasons they come up with (for not giving marriage rights to same-sex couples)," said Roper." That means it takes time."
Martin and Roper both agree that the courts are the best place for this issue to be taken up, rather than the conservative Pennsylvania legislature.
"The ACLU nationally is working with legislatures around the country," said Roper. "In Pennsylvania, the legislature is frankly more conservative than the populace. Polls show that 50 percent of PA voters support same-sex marriage, but you can't see that in the legislature."
Indeed, in a Quinnipiac University Poll published in July, 49 percent of Pennsylvania respondents said they would support a state law allowing same-sex marriage (with 44 percent in opposition and 6 percent undecided). Further, 53 percent of respondents say they believe that same-sex marriage laws should be determined nationally based on the U.S. Constitution, and not by individual states (with 40 percent saying the opposite, that states should decide).
Looking at these findings it may seem surprising that not only does Pennsylvania not allow same-sex marriages or recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, but also they do not even allow civil unions for same-sex couples. Gay couples in Pennsylvania have no marriage or domestic partnership rights whatsoever. And this, says Martin is a pervading theme in Pennsylvania.
"We need to look at Pennsylvania in a bigger way," he said. "Pennsylvania remains the last state in the Northeast with no prohibitions against discrimination, hate crimes, or bullying based on sexual orientation."
Martin says that what's happening in Montgomery county, what Bruce Hanes is doing, is remarkable, but is sort of missing the big picture. Getting a non-discrimination act passed would be a real triumph, but learning how to treat LGBT people in general is the first step.
"When you can be fired for hanging a picture of you and your spouse in the office," said Martin, "then marriage equality seems like a hollow win."
But for many same-sex couples in Pennsylvania, the hope of wedding bells and all the benefits, protections, and positivity that come along with it, is still alive and maybe closer than ever before.
For now the fight continues, both in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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Investment research firm TrimTabs, whose institutional clients pay at least $5,000 a year for its comprehensive tracking of supply and demand for stocks and money, is making portfolio recommendations available to retail investors for $10 a week.
Charles Biderman, the firm's voluble CEO known for his harsh criticism of governmental manipulation of the stock market, told AdvisorOne that the newsletter, called "Biderman's Market Picks," is not something that TrimTabs particularly needs as a revenue source.
The purpose of the newsletter is about "the financial survival of me and my family and people I care about," said Biderman, who is 65 and has a stable institutional client base. He noted that TrimTabs has received thousands of requests from individual investors for access to its research over the years.
Those investors who follow Biderman's media remarks or Daily Edge videocasts and share his concerns about "delay and pray" policies in the U.S., Europe and Japan can now access easy-to-implement portfolio recommendations reflecting Biderman's bearish views. In fact, Biderman opens his newsletter stating he is now "the most bearish I have been in quite some time," a stark statement given his profoundly negative views over the past several years.
The pessimism stems from the fact that public companies have become net sellers of stocks in May—despite the huge Facebook IPO—selling "$25 billion more of new shares than they bought back." And the $18 billion that went to Facebook shares has also limited the supply of investment capital. "When there's no new money for stocks, you have to sell existing shares," he said.
This is why so many big players in the Facebook IPO got burned, he added. "The real problem with Facebook is the smart guys [who] can flip hot deals…couldn't flip Facebook," he said. "There just wasn't any cash around."
A pronounced slowing of wage and salary growth in the U.S. and Europe's mounting problems, for which he sees no repair, are the other key reasons for Biderman's current negativity.
Biderman's largest allocation in his model portfolio is gold, to which he assigns a 25% weight. While the model uses an ETF (GLD) to track performance, Biderman recommends buying gold in one-ounce bars from a reputable dealer.
"In turbulent times you want physical possession," he said. "My parents were survivors of the Holocaust. One lesson I learned from them is that physical possession could save your life." He added that it could be hard to cash out of paper securities in the midst of a global financial crisis.
Biderman's newsletter says gold "is an obvious bet for the long term" because "the U.S., Europe and Japan are all debasing their currencies via the printing press," but warns that gold will falter over the short term because of the slowdown in China and India that has reduced demand for gold bullion and jewelry.
Another 25% of the model portfolio is in Treasury inflation-protected securities, since he expects inflation to surge "at some point in time."
Biderman recommends three ProShares ETFs (together totaling 28% of his portfolio) that short Europe (EFZ), China and other emerging markets (EUM) and financial stocks (SEF), since he believes U.S. banks will not withstand Europe's banking problems.
Europe's problems exceed the means of any potential financial rescuer, such as Germany, Biderman said.
"The only solution to Europe is mark to market," meaning bankruptcy, essentially. "Then the quicker the rebound will happen. 'Delay and pray' means the end will be worse," he said, noting that Spanish banks are now leveraged 70 to 1 (Lehman Brothers was leveraged 37 to 1).
As for China, real data (as opposed to official window dressing) show the growth there has stopped, with electricity usage, for example, barely growing year over year. And financial stocks, including U.S. banks, own lots of European banking debt and many trillions of dollars in derivatives risk.
For all the gloom and doom, Biderman is long on Apple, Salesforce.com and Amazon (6%, 4% and 3% of the portfolio, respectively) and even allocates 1% of the portfolio to Facebook—for the nearly 1 billion people on its platform and potential alone.
The portfolio also contains a 6% allocation to his TrimTabs Float Shrink ETF, which owns shares of companies that are buying back their own stock. The ETF has done especially well on the downside, he says, since in a down market, share buybacks are one of the only sources of demand.
Biderman admits a near-term risk to the portfolio: a new round of monetary stimulus, which he says could come as soon as the June Federal Reserve meeting. If wages and salaries continue to slump, he believes the Fed will come to the rescue. "The announcement alone will create a rally," Biderman says, though he questions how long the rally can be sustained.
"Ultimately, the only real solution is rapid economic growth. And there's nothing going on that will create that," he said. "All I see is stagnation and huge amount of money printing. I see deflation and inflation at the same time."
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An early building in the district, Ingleside (Stoddard Baptist Home) NR at 1818 Newton Street was designed by Thomas Ustick Walter and constructed in 1850 in Italian Villa style. A new addition was added in the 1970s. An example of architecture surviving from the first years of the village is the vernacular house at 3423 Oakwood Terrace built in 1871 by S.P. Brown. The turn of the century marked a major change in the appearance and population of Mount Pleasant. The rural atmosphere that distinguished the early village soon gave way to a distinctly 20th century appearance. With the advent of an extensive streetcar system and the revival of the building industry, many parts of the district were expanded as residential areas. Mount Pleasant with its healthy elevation and beautiful wooded terrain, was a prime location for this development. Rowhouses of many sizes and styles were built throughout the area serving as a unifying element, framing the large detached houses, semi-detached houses, and groups of townhouses. The majority of construction took place from 1900 to 1930 and reflects in large part the popularity of the Classical Revival styles in both privately commissioned and speculative designs.
Mount Pleasant Street serves as the commercial corridor for the community. A number of apartment houses, churches and schools are scattered throughout the community. The most significant institution and formal architectural structure is the Mount Pleasant Branch Library at the corner of Lamont and 16th Streets. It was constructed in 1925 and designed by New York architect Edward J. Tilton in the Italian Renaissance style.
Mount Pleasant Historic District is roughly bounded by 16th St., NW, on the east; Harvard St., NW, on the south; Rock Creek Park on the west; and Piney Branch Park on the north. The buildings listed above are private and not open to the public. Metro stop: Woodley Park-Zoo.


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New Efficiencies in Health Care? Not Likely
If the British experience is any indication, generic drugs and expert commissions will do little to lower costs
All attempts to reduce bureaucracy increase it, and the same goes for cost. Such, at any rate, has been my experience of the British health care system—its famed, or infamous, National Health Service.
Thus, I could not but smile a little wanly when President Barack Obama said this week that he hoped an increase in the use of generic drugs, together with an expert commission to examine the cost-effectiveness of medical treatments, would make a significant impact on the vast budget deficit of the United States. We in Britain have been there and we have done that, and our health-care costs doubled, perhaps not as a result, but certainly at the same time.
The best that might be said for these measures is that the increase in health-care costs was lower than it might otherwise have been. That is certainly not enough to save a country from a financial apocalypse, or even enough to be a major contribution to its salvation.
In Britain we have been prescribing generics for years; I cannot remember a time when I personally did not. Our National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE, a typically Blairite acronym) has done cost-benefit analyses of drugs and procedures, often very sensibly, for years. But despite its best efforts, our system has been highly inventive in finding other ways of wasting immense quantities of public money.
President Obama also wants to move from a fee-for-service system, which gives doctors an incentive to perform expensive and doubtfully effective procedures, to one in which doctors are rewarded for preventing diseases that are so expensive to treat. On paper, prevention always seems much cheaper than cure. Health-care economists prove it very elegantly and convincingly over and over again.
Unfortunately, the world always proves to be more complex and refractory than the theories of even the best economists.
In Britain, we have long had a highly developed primary health-care system. Every person in the country has a primary care physician. Each such physician has a "list" of 2,000 to 3,000 patients.
For a long time, a physician was paid a capitation fee: He received a certain amount per patient per year from the NHS, irrespective of what the doctor did for the patient or how many times a year the patient was seen. The doctor could charge a small fee for some services, such as adult immunizations, or for issuing a sick note or a cremation certificate, but otherwise could not increase his income except by private practice. Needless to say, private practice was most extensive in the better-off areas, so that the system ended up reproducing the very social divisions in health care that it was designed to abolish.
In the poorer areas, doctors had no incentive—at any rate, no financial incentive—to improve their practice. It was rather the reverse. The worse the facilities they offered, the higher their income.
In the 1990s, it was decided to change all that. Family doctors began to be paid to undertake preventive measures. The experts hoped that this would save money because the cost of preventing diseases would be more than offset by the savings from not having to treat the diseases that they prevented. (It is now merely a historical curiosity that, when the NHS was set up, its proponents seriously argued and believed that its cost would inevitably decline with time, since it would make the population healthier and less in need of medical attention.)
It turned out, however, that the costs of prevention were decidedly real, while the savings were inclined to be imaginary. This was for more than one reason. The bureaucratic costs of setting and monitoring health-improvement targets—which were often highly arbitrary—were far greater than anticipated, bureaucracies having an inherent tendency to increase in size and spending power. Many doctors started to be paid for procedures that they were already doing for no charge, like taking their patients' blood pressure. Screening procedures turned out to be highly equivocal in their efficacy. Thus the overall benefit was much less than anticipated. Some of the more common ills that had been targeted, such as strokes and heart attacks, were in marked decline anyway.
Worse, much of the expenditure on the treatment of disease proved intractable. Technology inexorably increased costs; and even if the health of the population improved rapidly, so that 70 was the new 60, 60 the new 50 and so forth, the proportion of old people in the population meant that the proportion of people ill with expensive chronic diseases increased. In the U.S., there were 37 million people over 65 in 2006, just over 12% of the population. That figure is projected to rise to 71 million, or 20%, by 2030.
In my professional lifetime, procedures such as hip replacement have gone from being relatively new-fangled and exotic to being routine, precisely at a time when there are more people than ever who can benefit from them. Osteoarthritis is no doubt hastened by obesity, but no medical means has yet been found for the prevention of that particular condition.
It is true that in Britain we have had our own peculiar reasons for the spectacular rise in the cost of our health-care system. First Margaret Thatcher (inadvertently) and then Tony Blair (deliberately) corrupted our civil service—Mrs. Thatcher by allowing the bureaucrats to pretend that they were businessmen, with perquisites to match; and Mr. Blair by expanding this class of persons enormously, creating a powerful political lobby. The British system is now capable of absorbing infinite amounts of money with minimal benefit to the health of the population, though with great benefit to the pocketbooks of those who work in it.
It is an occupational hazard for politicians to think that they and their ilk know best, and by all indications Mr. Obama rather likes centralization. In my professional lifetime in the centralized British health-care system, however, I have seen a hundred schemes of cost reduction, but I have never seen any reduction in costs, or at least any that lasted more than a few months. I can't remember a single health minister who did not promise more efficiency at less cost, or a single one who actually managed to achieve it.
The long-term solution, I imagine, is the same for health care as it is for pensions: to pay for it with the income generated by dedicated savings accounts, which can be transferred to the next generation after death. The important thing is to reduce the insurance element, which encourages a pay-as-you-go system, a kind of Madoff scheme ensnaring the whole country.
If we are to have health-care systems that don't bankrupt us, people will have to accept paying more bills out of pocket and perhaps lowering their standard of living. Tiresome as the advice might be, we had better start saving a good deal more.
—Theodore Dalrymple is the pen name of the physician Anthony Daniels. He is a contributing editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal.
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I have been setting up a few mysql servers with SSL support for replication .
I used the script provided in the the official mysql documentation for creating the ssl certificates cause I needed to do it on more then one server and it made more sense to use it then actually creating each certificate one by one.
If you just read the documentation and create the certificate one by one you will be fine but if you use the script your CA certificate will expire after 30 days and after a month you'll be banging your head trying to find out why suddenly SSL connections don't work anymore.
You know your certificates should be valid for a year or more but why doesn't it work anymore ... running this command :
- openssl x509 -in cacert.pem -dates -noout
reveals it ...
notBefore=Apr 17 12:20:10 2008 GMT notAfter=May 17 12:20:10 2008 GMT
Ah .... there you go ... just 30 days for the cacert file ... insane...
The problem was actually reported by someone else in the comments on that documentation page but I was in a hurry ( yeah right ) and didn't go that far with reading it.
Note to self: always read the comments on those pages
So if you use that script make sure you modify it to make the CA valid for more then 30 days.
This line:
- openssl req -new -x509 -keyout $PRIV/cakey.pem -out $DIR/cacert.pem \
- -config $DIR/openssl.cnf
Should be something like:
- openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -keyout $PRIV/cakey.pem -out $DIR/cacert.pem \
- -config $DIR/openssl.cnf
That is if you want the CA cert to be valid for a year.


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Apparently advertising really works. Well, at least if it contains a nerdy geek making out with a blonde model.
Web hosting company Go Daddy announced yesterday that it had its biggest Super Bowl sales day ever after its infamous ad aired on Sunday. The site got more new customers and overall sales than after any of its other Super Bowl campaigns.
"Attracting new customers is what advertising is all about," Go Daddy CEO Blake Irving said in a statement. "We set all-time Super Bowl Sunday records for mobile sales, Website Builders, website hosting and new customers."
Go Daddy featured two commercials. One had different people talking about the next "big idea." But the ad that garnered the most attention showed model Bar Refaeli slowly kissing a curly haired geek. The point of the ad is to illustrate that Go Daddy is a brand that is both sexy and nerdy.
Not only did the ad trend on Twitter and top Google searches, it got more than 4 million YouTube views before the game even aired. Go Daddy's commercial also stirred controversy with some claiming that it was inappropriate, which is exactly what the company was looking for.
"Inappropriate? Hearing that word, I absolutely knew we were in for a record Super Bowl ad campaign," Go Daddy's executive chairman and founder Bob Parsons said.


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Short version: has anyone done geometry on something that is the formal filtered colimit of Frechet manifolds?
Longer version: A colleague and I came up with a concept today that seems like we require generalising smooth Frechet manifolds to something that is a filtered colimit of such manifolds: Ind-Frechet manifolds if you will.
A fragment of this idea is that we need to consider a space of smooth paths $I \to M$ in a smooth manifold (poss. compact) with a finite number discontinuities (poss. zero). As a topological space one can simply take the (filtered) colimit over the spaces of paths with discontinuities at specified number of points in $I$ (this should be a Frechet manifold). The result is a space over the infinite simplex (i.e. $colim_n \Delta^n$). But there is no guarantee that this colimit exists in the category of Frechet manifolds and smooth maps.
We really need this to be something like a smooth space, so we can discuss connections and the such like. I'm aware that we could use something like diffeological spaces or Chen spaces or the like, but since people talk about ind-schemes, I wondered if there was something similar for manifolds.


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Classic Huell: Cat Litter
In this classic Videolog, Huell visits a cat litter mine and factory.
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Huell takes a hike to the elusive bridge that could have led to somewhere but got beaten out by Mother Nature by way of heavy rain and floods.1
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Join Huell on an adventure to two places he's wanted to visit for years. First up is a stop along Highway 395 to see the Upside Down House in Lee Vining. Built by Nellie Bly O'Bryan and inspired by children's books, it's considered Mono County's first man-made tourist attraction. Huell gets a tour from some of the locals who restored it lovingly after years of decay.
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You've probably used this word at some point in your life and never knew that it was actually a town in California. Timbuctoo was once a bustling gold rush town named after that far away place in Africa. There's not much left, but Huell pays a visit to Timbuctoo, which is now privately owned. Next it's off to Smartsville, that due to a post office mandate had to lose the "S" and became Smartville. The good citizens never gave up calling it Smartsville and took their case all the way to the federal government, who finally agreed to give them back their "S".
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Michael Adams
Huell travels north to the Yosemite Valley to meet up with Michael Adams. Michael is the son of Ansel Adams, arguably our countries most famous photographer. They travel through the valley and learn about why this place was so important to Ansel. Huell gets some very personal insight into the mind of Ansel and also learns about the family's early history in Yosemite. The backdrop to this adventure is as good as it gets.
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Barack Obama's California College Days
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Obama described Occidental as "a wonderful, small liberal arts college. The professors were diverse and inspiring. I ended up making some lifelong friendships there, and those first two years really helped me grow up." Who knew that the next president of the United States had such a formative connection to California? Join Huell as he gets the Presidential tour of Occidental College in Eagle Rock, where Barack Obama spent his Freshman and Sophomore years.
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White Sea Bass
Huell meets up with Bill Ernst to catch the largest white sea bass ever! Huell then heads down to the Hubbs-Seaworld Research Institute to learn more about these fish and even helps release a bunch of fry.
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Lompoc Mural
Imagine driving through Lompoc in the early 1940's and coming across a huge 12 acre American flag made up of red, white and blue flowers. That's just what people saw every spring for several years and it was a remarkable sight. In 1942 the good folks at Bodger Seeds in Lompoc decided they could do something really spectacular to support the war effort. A 12 acre flower flag was their way of saying thanks to all the Americans who were fighting the good fight. The company planted " flags" in 1942, '43, '45 and 1952.
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There are roughly 250,000 Hmong people living in the U.S. The Hmong are an Asian ethnic group from the mountainous regions of Southeast Asia. Many ended up in the fertile areas in and around Fresno County, where their love of farming and vast knowledge has served them well. Huell visits a small family farm and the largest Hmong farm in the county, which are both growing some of the most unusual produce in California.
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Tall Ship Californian
Huell sails aboard the state's official tall ship, the Californian, to see just how hard it was for our early settlers to get here. He also enjoys some sea shanties.
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Capitol Steps
Huell goes straight to the TOP! Finished in 1874, California's Capitol Building is a stunning neoclassical gem. With all great buildings of this size, there are lots of steps. Some steps are very obvious, like the set that leads up to the front entrance, but this building has lots of "step" stories and even a few that are very scary to climb.
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Neptune Pool
Huell gets a behind-the-scenes tour and takes the "swim of a lifetime" in the Neptune pool at Hearst Castle, which is arguably one of the most spectacular pools in the world. It is fed by mountain water and is surrounded by ancient Roman columns and statues. Designed by architect Julia Morgan, the Neptune pool was constructed in 1924 and finally completed after several redesigns in 1936.
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Mining Museum
Huell drops by the California State Mining and Mineral Museum in Mariposa to see our state's official collection of more than 13,000 minerals, rocks, gems, historic artifacts and fossils.
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Pt. Fermin Lighthouse Lens
There is a reason that old lighthouses could send a beam of light for miles. Most lighthouses used a Fresnel lens, which looks like a beehive made of glass. These lenses are works of art and the one that graced Point Fermin Lighthouse is no exception. In this adventure, Huell learns the history of the lens, which was removed from Point Fermin and changed hands many times.
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Coit Tower
Coit Tower was built on top of Telegraph Hill in 1933 at the bequest of Lillie Hitchcock Coit to beautify the City of San Francisco; Lillie bequeathed one-third of her estate to the City of San Francisco "to be expended in an appropriate manner for the purpose of adding to the beauty of the city which I have always loved".
Huell spends the day exploring all aspects of this San Francisco landmark, including the beautiful murals that adorn the lobby with the descendants of one of the original artists.
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Land Sailing
Huell travels to the Mojave Desert's El Mirage Dry Lake, one of the world's best spots for land sailors. Land Sailing is a sport in which a wheeled vehicle powered by wind moves across land with the aide of a sail. Huell explores the history of this unique tradition and even gets the opportunity to ride a sofa through the desert!
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El Camino Real Bells
The Kings Highway, or El Camino Real, has long been a part of California's rich history. From its humble beginnings as a dusty trail, it quickly became California's first "super highway" connecting all 21 Missions.
Join Huell Howser as he learns first hand about the road and its famous bells from author and historian Max Kurillo. Huell also joins up with Cal Trans as they install a new roadside bell, and even recreates a walk with a Padre and burro along an original dirt section of El Camino Real at La Purisima Mission in Lompoc.
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Cape Mendocino Lighthouse
Join Huell as he travels to the western-most point in California in search of the Cape Mendocino Lighthouse which was activated in 1868 and finally abandoned in the 1970's. After over 20 years of neglect, a group of locals banded together to move the light house to Shelter Cove and restore the lighthouse to its former glory. Huell also stops at the entrance to the Humboldt County Fairgrounds where a full-sized replica of the lighthouse actually houses the original fresnel lens.
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La Grange
Huell travels to the small town of La Grange to see an amazing part of our states history. The Tuolumne Gold Dredge sits abandoned right of the highway and is an incredible site. Huell and some local historians visit the dredge and the now virtual ghost town that was once home to the many workers that kept this behemoth running around the clock in search of gold.
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Snow Goose Festival
Huell travels to Chico to join the celebration of the arrival of thousands of waterfowl that come from the north to spend their winters in the temperate North Valley climate. Snow Geese, Tundra Swans, Sandhill Cranes, Pintail Ducks and many more, fill the rice fields and wildlife refuges throughout the area. The Snow Goose Festival has grown to be one of the major Birding and Wildlife events in the state of California and you'll be amazed at the shear beauty of this spectacle.
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Baseball Sod
Spend the day with Huell at Angel's Stadium as he meets up with the good folks at West Coast Turf and learns all about the grass that they install at venues all over California.
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Crookedest Street
Huell goes in search of the crookedest street in the world. A small section of Vermont Street in the Potrero Hill section of San Francisco is just miles away from the more famous Lombard Street. Which street is crookeder? Huell grabs a gang of experts and finally solves this mystery.
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Sturgeon's Mill
Huell visits a lumbermill... or is it a working museum? Join Huell, the founder's great-grandson and a cast of characters at this historic place.
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Getty Villa
In 1945, J. Paul Getty acquired his Malibu retreat which now includes a Romanesque gallery full of priceless art. Huell also tours the propety's historically-accurate Ancient Roman crop garden.
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Ablitt House
Huell visits this unique house which was built on a 20 by 20 square foot lot in the heart of Old Town Santa Barbara.
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Aircraft Carriers
California has a rich maritime history and has been at the forefront of naval warfare since the beginning. In this special one-hour adventure, Huell visits two aircraft carriers that are now museums in the waters of California.
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Camel Dairy
Huell visits the Oasis Camel Dairy east of San Diego where he gets to milk a camel, plays with baby camels, and learns about camel milk products.
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Huell visits the Watts Towers Arts Center to explore the history of this iconic work by artist Simon Rodia.
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Point Sur Lighthouse
Jutting out into the Pacific Ocean from the spectacular Big Sur Coast, the Point Sur Lightstation stands as a silent sentinel to a bygone era. Point Sur, a National Historic Landmark, is the only complete turn-of-the-century lightstation open the public in California. From 1889 until 1974, families lived and worked in the buildings atop Pt. Sur. The families are gone but the unique stone lighthouse still guides ships with its light. Many ships perished on the rocks off Pt.
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The miracle of the Swallows of Capistrano takes place each year at the Mission San Juan Capistrano on March 19th, St. Joseph's Day. Legend says the swallows, seeking sanctuary from an innkeeper who destroyed their nests, took up residence at the old Mission. They return to the site each year to nest, knowing their young can be safe within the Mission walls.
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Bird Rock
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have your very own island? What about an island off the southern coast of California? Join Huell and the family that owns this special island as they return to their little slice of California. It takes three separate boat rides to get there and your feet might get wet, but it is well worth the trip.
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In this muddy adventure, Huell travels to some very remote areas to take an up close and personal look at "mudpots". Mudpots only occur three places in the US and one of them is right here in California. Our first stop is the Imperial Wildlife Area. Huell and a member of the Fish and Game take a look at huge mounds of bubbling, oozing, popping and exploding mudpots. This is a public are that is open to mud lovers one and all. Next its off to some privately owned land which has some extraordinary mudpots.
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Under Lake Arrowhead
Originally built as a reservoir to feed the citrus groves of San Bernardino through a series of flumes and tunnels, this engineering marvel eventually fell apart. For legal reasons, the project never worked and the reservoir became a recreational area. What most people don't know is that there is a whole world under the lake. Huell takes a hundred-foot ride down in an elevator that was built in the late 1800s to explore this underwater marvel.
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Have you ever wondered what 100,000 Monarch Butterflies look like? Well here's your chance. Huell travels to Pismo State Beach to visit the largest overwintering site for Monarch butterflies in the U.S. More people visit this site than any another butterfly site in the world. Last year they had 50,000 visitors!
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Hetch Hetchy
Before it was dammed in the early 1900s, John Muir called it more beautiful than Yosemite Valley itself. And now, in a one-hour special, Huell travels to this historic and spectacular place to document its past and talk about its future.
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Central Coast
Visit the world's first motel, the Motel Inn in San Luis Obispo; a stop at Pozo's Saloon, a stagecoach stop, and chat with the last remaining citizen of Moy Mell, where a colony of people called Dunites lived in the sand dunes from the 1920s through the 1940s.
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Santa Cruz
Discover the colorful history of the Beach Boardwalk, the last remaining oceanside amusement park in the West Coast; meet the pioneers of surfing and the inventor of the wet suit, and enjoy salt water taffy and other sweet treats at Marini's, a family-run business for over four generations.
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Lost Sierra
Travel to Downieville, nestled high in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where gold miners organized the first ski races in the country; meet the staff on the Mountain Messenger, the state's oldest weekly newspaper; and watch a demonstration of the long, heavy wooden skis worn by the gold miners in the mid-1800s.
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Clear Lake
Clear Lake is located at the base of fabled Mt. Konocti and is California's largest natural lake. Much of the terrain around the 4,200 foot Mt. Konocti was formed by lava flows and folding of the earth's crust. The lake has a rich history; evidence of human habitation dates back at least ten thousand years. More than 120,000 visitors each year enjoy picnicking, boating, camping and nature walks.
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Vernal Pools
For years Huell has been getting letters telling him he should do a show about vernal pools. Well, now he has. Just a short drive from Sacramento on an old military base, Huell meets up with a couple of experts and a bunch of school kids all eager to explore the flora and fauna that live in and around these wonderful, natural pools. As they go from pool to pool, Huell learns that even if they are only a few acres apart, they can be totally different worlds.
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Will Rogers has got to be one of the all-time great American characters. Often called the "Cowboy Philosopher," he kept America laughing through some of its toughest years. Will was a radio commentator, newspaper columnist and motion picture star. In 1922, Will bought property above Sunset Boulevard in Pacific Palisades and built a summer cottage. The family loved the place so much that Will had a proper ranch built and the family moved there in 1928. In 1944, after the death of Mrs. Rogers, the property became Will Rogers State Historic Park and is now a well loved tourist destination.
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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2010, file photo, New England Patriots linebacker Junior Seau (55) warms up on the field before an NFL wild-card playoff football game in Foxborough, Mass. Star linebacker Junior Seau had a degenerative brain disease when he committed suicide last May, the National Institutes of Health told The Associated Press on Thursday Jan. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)


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You can easily connect an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from Apple to the Wi-Fi network of your FRITZ!Box. The iOS device can then access the internet, conduct calls over the FRITZ!Box, and play photos, videos, and music from the FRITZ!Box Media Server.
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1 Configuring the FRITZ!Box
In the factory settings, the FRITZ!Box automatically assigns the correct IP settings to all devices via DHCP. If you disabled the FRITZ!Box's DHCP server, re-enable it:
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- Click "Network" in the "Home Network" menu.
- Click on the "Network Settings" tab.
- Click "Additional Settings" in the section "LAN Settings" to display all of the settings.
- Click the "IPv4 Configuration" button.
- Enable the DHCP server and define the range from which the FRITZ!Box assigns IP addresses.
Note:The FRITZ!Box has the IP address 192.168.178.1 (subnet mask 255.255.255.0) and assigns IP addresses from xxx.20 to xxx.200 in the factory settings.
- Click "OK" to save the settings.
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- Tap "Settings" on the home screen.
- Tap "Wi-Fi" in the "Settings" menu.
- If Wi-Fi is switched off, tap the "On / Off" symbol.
- Under "Choose a network..." tap the name of the FRITZ!Box's Wi-Fi network (SSID). If the FRITZ!Box's Wi-Fi network is not displayed, follow the steps in our guide FRITZ!Box's Wi-Fi network cannot be found.
Note:If necessary, you can determine the Wi-Fi network name and network key of the FRITZ!Box as described in our guide Setting up a Wi-Fi connection to the FRITZ!Box.
- Enter the FRITZ!Box's network key in the "Password" field and tap "Join".
Now the iOS device is connected to the internet via the FRITZ!Box. It can play multimedia content from media servers in the home network with suitable apps, for example.
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If you want to make calls at home using the telephone numbers configured in the FRITZ!Box:
- Set up FRITZ!App Fon.
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If you want to securely access your FRITZ!Box or a USB storage device connected to the FRITZ!Box, or control your smart home devices over the internet when you are away from home:
- Set up MyFRITZ!App.
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- If you want to easily access your FRITZ!NAS contents, set up our MyFRITZ!App.
- If you want to access your FRITZ!NAS contents without using an additional app, call up http://fritz.nas in a web browser.
- If you are already using an app that supports the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol or the FTP protocol, you can also use it to access your FRITZ!NAS contents via \\fritz.box or ftp://fritz.box.
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Only printers that use Apple's AirPrint technology can be used by iOS devices. iOS devices can only use printers that do not support AirPrint if additional software such as handyPrint, O'Print, or Printopia is installed on the computer. The software functions as an AirPrint server and forwards the print job from the iOS device to the printer.
Setting up a VPN connection to the FRITZ!Box
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White House to Hold Chat on Arts This Afternoon - (October 19, 2010)
Washington, D.C. - As part of its Tuesday Talks series and in celebration of National Arts and Humanities Month, the White House will hold a live chat with leaders from the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities (PCAH).
Questions can be submitted via the White House Facebook page and you are invited to watch the chat live at 2:15 p.m. EDT or view the archive afterward.
Participants in today's chat will include:
Chuck Close, Member and visual artist (view bio)
Margo Lion, Co-Chair (view bio)
George Stevens, Jr., Co-Chair (view bio)
Damian Woetzel, Member and ballet dancer (view bio )
Learn More At The White House Blog
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By Julia Adam, Yuri Possokhov, and Edwaard Liang at the Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress (map) through May 15 | tickets: $25-$145 | more info
Reviewed by Dan Jakes
By May, whatever sense of pride we Chicagoans feel for having endured
another grueling, road-destroying, finger-blistering, mind-numbing
winter begins to fade and is replaced by a mild delirium. The high
season for introspective, cerebral work comes to a close–we can't take
it anymore. After the thaw, it's time to play, not to think.
Just as nights along the lakefront are starting to become more balmy, the Joffrey Ballet
presents this appropriately-timed spring offering, showcasing visceral
and percussive variations on dreamscapes, sexual awakening and unbridled
Works by choreographers Edwaard Liang, Julia Adam and Yuri Possokhov are
prefaced with a short video introduction featuring interviews with the
artists and rehearsal footage (see videos below). The stories and themes
explored in their dances are pleasantly accessible and do not require
blatant explanation–didacticism doesn't appear to be the goal, though.
It looks rather that artistic director Ashley C. Wheater
and the Joffrey are making an attempt to enrich its audience and
welcome them in to the process of a notoriously mystified art form. The
effect is disarming. I found myself openly considering and accepting the
individual pieces where I might otherwise have been drawn to decipher
Marc Chagall's vibrant, fantastical paintings are the inspiration for
Adam's "Night," a so-called dance of flight. Matthew Pierce's
perceivably simple, sustained music composition adds to the piece's
sense of exploration and wonder, luring and enticing a young woman to
drift, float and soar through her subconscious. Like its theme, the
dance is tangential and flows delightfully from one impression-like
image to the next. Dreams, literal and not, are a thread through each of
the works. That idea is furthered and deepened in Liang's grand "Woven
Dreams," set to Ravel and Michael Galasso,
a large-scale work that considers and plays with the notions of
malleable realities and shared-dreaming. Where Liang and Adam provide
fantasy, Possokhov basks in drama. In "Bells," Rachmaninov underscores a
series of unabashed, intensely-sexual duets (with enough conviction,
apparently a thigh-slap can suddenly seem R-rated and ballet can look
S&M) where relationships are born and die in the same firestorm.
© Joffrey Ballet. All rights reserved.


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The maturation of Earthquakes rookie JJ Koval in the second month of the 2014 MLS season challenges the notion of an adjustment period for first-year players in the league.
The 21-year old Stanford product has become a fixture in the Quakes midfield in the month of April, logging 295 minutes in six games as a rookie, second only to Chicago Fire rookie Harry Shipp (448). After recording 120 minutes in a CONCACAF quarterfinal loss to Toluca on March 19, Koval transitioned from a gameday substitute in the first four MLS fixtures to a starting midfielder in the last two matches against Colorado on April 19 and Chivas USA on April 26.
In light of the rookies' emergence, Major League Soccer bumped Koval to number two in the MLS Rookie Rankings, up from number five just a week earlier. After earning a 1-0 win against Chivas USA in Week 8, Soccer By Ives named Koval the SBI MLS Rookie of the Week, only the second rookie in the 2014 season to be honored.
For the ninth overall selection in the 2014 MLS SuperDraft, success has derived from an unshaken poise on the field, a quality habitually absent in first-year players. Koval's veteran savvy is a direct result of his vocal leadership, unshaken versatility both in the midfield and defense, and growing reputation as a hard-nosed defensive juggernaut.
After a strong showing in the month of April, Koval is positioned for a bright month of May. The Quakes open the third month of the season with three matches in eight days, two of which will be played at Buck Shaw Stadium. After conceding only one goal in the last three games, Koval will look to anchor the Quakes midfield in search of consecutive three point matches, all in a day's work for one of the most promising rookies in MLS.


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You will need to modify the bar to flag to one front line.Windfreak87 wrote:Looks like a 17m would fill my needs pretty well, is it pretty much plug and play with my cabrinha ids bar or will I have to tweak the lines a bit.
If you want to have a swivel at the bottom of the front lines, the Naish Universal swivel might work OK. You would have to ensure that enough length of a front line will pass through the bar to flag the kite out and that any connections will pass through the flagout system without snagging - that's the most difficult bit and may not be possible. I found the front line connection wouldn't pass through my 09 IDS.


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Kevin Kolack (Adj. Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, Indiana University; B.S., Organic Chemistry, The University of Virginia) has more than 20 years of college teaching experience and tutoring at the elementary to high school and college level. Professor Kolack has a highly eclectic background including 10 years as a firefighter/EMT, licenses for New York City taxi, ambulance, fire truck and helicopter, professional puppeteer experience, training as a fire eater, he competed at the Olympic level in smallbore rifle, and he really enjoys indoor skydiving in a vertical wind tunnel. Dr. Kolack also wrote and starred in "The Professor K Show," a topical, environmental educational TV program. For the past 2 years, Professor Kolack has supervised the Cooper Union chemistry department's summer research internship program for advanced New York City high school students. Professor Kolack and his wife, the Reverend Diane Kolack, live in New York City with their dog, Queso Blanco.


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A few months ago I introduced a discussion I was going to have on my blog about what is wrong with the church. Since that initial post I've been wisely advised to let some time pass before I enter into that discussion. Some have recommended as much as a year before trying to write some of my thoughts. While I don't know if it will be that long, I think they are correct in that I need to get some of my transition under by belt before I take on some of the deeper topics I want to write about.
Rest assured, though, that the urge to have these discussions is still on my heart and I will, at the right time, pick them up again.


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Mui Ne Beach Break
This add-on is a 5-day package to Mui Ne Beach that can be booked in conjunction with any of our SE Asia group tours, city breaks or private tours.
A tropical paradise just five hours drive from Saigon, Mui Ne Beach in Phan Thiet is the perfect place to enjoy some rest and relaxation after an action-packed tour. With a glorious 21km stretch of golden sandy beach, Mui Ne is a real Mecca for surfers from August to December and kite-surfing enthusiasts from October to April, it's also ideal for simply soaking up the sunshine and enjoying a refreshing dip in the sea.
Day 1 - Morning transfer by road from your hotel in Saigon to Mui Ne in Phan Thiet, one of the most stunning beaches in Southern Vietnam. After hotel check in you're free to explore the area and simply relax.
Days 2 - 4 - Spend three blissful days at leisure. Sunbathe on the beautiful beach, swim in the emerald water or perhaps enjoy some of the activities on offer in the area such as golfing, fishing or even sand-sledding on Phan Thiet's famous red and white sand dunes.
Day 5 - After breakfast travel back to Saigon for your onward flight home.
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Pitfalls to Avoid when Interpreting Machine Learning Models
Modern requirements for machine learning models include both high predictive performance and model interpretability. A team of experts in explainable AI highlights pitfalls ...
Beauty and the Geek jeans
Wireless keyboard, mouse and computer speakers built in to designer jeans. Will work with most laptop computers. Designed by Erik De Nijs.
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Integrated sensors track performance data such as heart rate, breathing, skin surface temperature and acceleration. Transmitted by Bluetooth to phones and PC's giving your trainer real time information of movement and performance.
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Delivers a vibration to remind you to stop slouching. Build your own using an Arduino board, wireless radio and battery.
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E-pressed sweater
E-pressed is a sweater that monitirs the 'inner state' of the wearer through a customer galvanic skin resistor sensor. Negative emotions are communicated to the wearer and others.
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Guides visually impaired people via a series of electronic sensors to detect objects in the path. It communicates obstacles via a vibrating motor which defines the proximity and direction of the obstacle.
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Soft circuit joined hoodies to sample and alter sounds. As the sensor is tugged by the movement of the heads then the filters change the effect of the sound.
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Strap the detector unit to your calf and go for a walk. When a metal object is underfoot, a magnetic field is distorted and the battery pack buzzes.
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Hoodie with arduino controller and accellerometer. Dance controlled by participants movements.
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An array of input and output sensors assess and collect health data.
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448 white circuit board tiles interspersed with black solar cells power the dress and light it at night. Designed by Despona Papadopolous.
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Gloves with special fingertip that use stochastic resonance to improve the wearer's sense of touch. Uses an actuator to generate high frequency vibrations and increase the sensitivity of the fingertip.
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Dress made from black and white rice paper. Buttons look like typewriter keys on the bodice.
Messages appear on the skirt via a short throw projector and laptop.
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Scottevest solar jacket
Recharge your USB compatible devices on the go with this solar jacket. The solar panels charge a small battery to power your device. Jackets available for women and men.
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Bluetooth interface and integrated microphone on the jacket collar allow voice dialling and conversations along with music.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- With Derek Jeter making his first visit to the Bronx this season, Robinson Cano hit a three-run homer and the New York Yankees used a flurry of early long balls to outslug the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 Thursday night.
Vernon Wells homered again against Mark Buehrle, and Francisco Cervelli also connected for New York, which overcame a 3-0 deficit to beat the Blue Jays for the third time within a week. The Yankees took two of three in a weekend series in Toronto.
Jeter, out until probably mid-July because of a broken ankle, watched a no-frills New York lineup improve to 12-9. The Yankees captain said he was meeting some of his teammates for the first time.
Hiroki Kuroda (3-1) settled after giving up homers to Edwin Encarnacion and Brett Lawrie in the first two innings, giving up six hits and three runs in six innings. He didn't allow a hit after Munenori Kawasaki doubled with two outs in the second.
Joba Chamberlain and David Robertson each pitched a scoreless inning, and Mariano Rivera was perfect in the ninth for his seventh save in seven chances.
The game drew 31,445, the fourth time this month a record low has been set at new Yankee Stadium, which opened in 2009.
Toronto manager John Gibbons was ejected in the seventh inning after umpires overturned a call at first, giving Ben Francisco an infield hit.
First base umpire Chad Fairchild initially said first baseman Edwin Encarnacion made a clean scoop and Francisco was out. But the umpires met and overturned the call, and TV replays showed Encarnacion trapped the ball. Gibbons argued with crew chief Jeff Kellogg, tossed his hat and was ejected for the 22nd time in his career.
It was Gibbons' second ejection in two games for the disappointing Blue Jays, off to a 9-13 start after bulking up their roster during the offseason.
The left-handed Buehrle, pitching against Kuroda for the second time within a week, struggled against a team that came in hitting .199 against lefties, yielding five runs and seven hits in 5 1-3 innings. Buehrle (1-1) has lost seven straight decisions against the Yankees dating to 2004 with the Chicago White Sox and is 1-9 in 14 starts against New York.
Encarnacion hit a two-run drive in the first, and Lawrie led off the second with a a drive in the second row of the short porch in right field, his first home run of the season.
Wells, a former Toronto star who was among the players New York acquired in March, homered leading off the second with a drive just beyond the 408-ft mark in center field. Wells is 24 for 50 (.480) against Buehrle.
Jayson Nix and Brett Gardner reached on singles, and Cano sent a long drive to right-center for his seventh homer of the year.
Cervelli homered to deep left in the fourth.
NOTES: The Yankees' top outfield prospect, Mason Williams, was charged with driving under the influence following a traffic stop in Florida. ... The Blue Jays placed 1B Adam Lind on the paternity list and recalled RHP Brad Lincoln from Triple-A Buffalo. Lincoln pitched a scoreless inning. ... Toronto LHP Ricky Romero is scheduled to start Saturday, his first outing since his demotion during spring training to work on his mechanics. He'll pitch for Class A Dunedin.


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There is one group of folks who will certainly earn their money from the new state budget - they are the spokesmen for Gov. Rod Blagojevich. They will be charged with trying to make the governor's budget actions not look as vile as they truly are.
On Thursday, Blagojevich finally issued his line-item veto message that cut $463 million from the state's $59 billion fiscal 2008 spending plan. Actually, the word cut is not correct. Blagojevich simply wants to remove the money from certain line items to free up the funds for his plans to expand state-subsidized health care.
Yet, his line-item vetoes demonstrated that the governor's real motivation is not helping people but making a name for himself as the governor who expanded health care. There was a time we did not question Blagojevich's sincerity on health care. Thanks to his bizarre behavior these past few months that time has past.
It is also vital to point out that while most of what Blagojevich cut from the budget were one-time expenses, he is attempting to set them aside for a subsidized health-care program that will be ongoing and will eventually cost more than four times the $463 million he "cut" this year.
For a guy who doesn't want to raise your taxes - well, at least not unless he can raise them by several billions dollars through his proposed gross-receipts tax - Blagojevich is setting up a scenario that could guarantee a general tax increase to pay for his priorities.
The word ironic is probably not strong enough to describe some of the cuts the governor made in order to fund his health-care initiative. His line-item reductions included trimming $40 million in Medicaid payments to hospitals and $50 million in Medicaid money for nursing homes. Blagojevich also took $11 million from a $29.3 million appropriation meant to provide cost-of-living raises for community providers for the developmentally disabled as well as removing money that would have benefited alcohol and substance abuse treatment providers.
That's far from all health-care-related cuts - mental health, autism, birth-defect tracking and even veterans-related health-care items were all cut. And it doesn't have to say health in the line-item to be health-related. Money was cut for wastewater treatment and water line improvements around the state. Keeping small towns on septic systems or faulty sewage systems can certainly affect a community's health in a very serious way.
But this isn't just about the absurdity of what got cut ($250,000 for a medical training program through Lincoln Land Community College) or what was left in ($40,000 for the Springfield Figure Skating Club). This is about how the system is being abused to arrive at these vetoes.
Let us just say it bluntly - it appears Blagojevich bought off his pal Senate President Emil Jones, who refuses to allow his chamber to even consider overriding the governor's budgetary vetoes. Given the largess collected by Jones' relatives of late, it's not surprising such a dirty deal could be struck.
Yet with the lopsided passage of the budget in both chambers, we can only assume that an override would be a sure bet if it were allowed to be voted on. House Speaker Michael Madigan may yet call for an override, though his spokesman said as of now no session days are scheduled. And if the Senate is not allowed to vote, a House vote to override is at best a symbolic victory.
Jones is welcome to vote "no" on any overrides, but he needs to step out of the way in blocking a Senate vote. Acting as the governor's brick wall sets a terrible precedent. Essentially, Jones is saying that it is OK for the governor to rewrite a budget even over a supermajority consensus of the legislature. We don't care if Jones wants to sell himself short, but he has no right to do so for the entire state.