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Puzzle Scuttle 2014 5k and 1 Mile Family Fun Run
EVENT DATE: Nov 01, 2014
All race day activities will begin at Texas Christian University, Amon G. Carter Stadium's Frog Alley (Eastside of Amon G. Carter Stadium by Dee J. Kelly Alumni and Visitors Center) Stay tuned for parking information!
1 Mile Fun Run Registration Information (Race time is 8:30 a.m.):
Early bird registration until Friday, September 19: $12 (per child or adult)
Regular registration: $15
Race Day: $20
5K Registration Information (Race time is 9:00 a.m.):
Early bird registration until Friday, September 19: $25 (per child or adult)
Regular registration: $30
Race day: $35
Packet Pick-Up
Thursday, October 30 and Friday, October 31
10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Luke's Locker Fort Worth
ONLINE REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 11:55 p.m. (cst) OCTOBER 28
If you miss this deadline, you can still register for the race at Luke's Locker,
2600 W. 7th St Fort Worth, TX 76107, on Thursday, October 30 and Friday October 31 during Packet Pick-Up from 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. OR on race day (prices increase for both races on race day). Online donations will still be accepted! Please continue to fundraise and help us reach our goal!
Join the Child Study Center (CSC) for the 6th Annual Puzzle Scuttle 5K and 1 Mile Family Fun Run on Saturday, November 1, 2014 at Texas Christian University! This family friendly event includes children's entertainment, face painting, bounce houses, music and more! Burn off the Halloween candy while supporting a wonderful cause.
In order to reach our goal of $60,000, we need YOUR help!
How can YOU be a piece of the puzzle? Whether you run the race, join in on the fundraising, or become a volunteer - each person can make a difference. If you would simply like to donate, please click the DONATE button in the upper right hand corner.
All proceeds from Puzzle Scuttle benefit CSC and ensure quality care for children with developmental disabilities, regardless of their ability to pay. We hope you will join us on Saturday, November 1st and help make a difference for children with complex developmental disabilities and autism spectrum disorder!


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Two of Michigan's Fab Five hoping for Final Four reunion
- Ray Jackson and Jimmy King are planning to be at Syracuse game Saturday
- King hopes the other three members of Fab Five would be there for title game
- The five former Wolverines have not all been together in 10 years
The last time Jimmy King thought about a Final Four like this, he was in a bunker.
Twenty years ago, the 1993 Michigan team, with King as a sophomore, was isolated, preparing to play the national semifinal against Kentucky.
For the past few days, since the latest group of Wolverines locked up their Final Four spot, King has imagined it from a different angle.
"The tip-off -- I'm sure it will be the tip-off," he said of Saturday night, around 8:49 p.m., when the Wolverines faces Syracuse in the Georgia Dome, with a shot at Louisville or Wichita State on Monday night. "I've played this in my head for the past couple days. The only thing that keeps flashes in my mind, waiting for the game to begin is to be in that atmosphere and witness it from a different perspective than when I was a player."
He plans to be sitting with his former teammate from 1993, Ray Jackson, and imagining when they were among the Fab Five in their second straight Final Four.
Though the other three may not join them on Saturday – Jalen Rose may have ESPN NBA responsibilities in Los Angeles over the weekend, Juwan Howard is still playing with the Miami Heat and King didn't know about Chris Webber's plans – he has hope that all could reunite for Monday's title game if the Wolverines are there.
"I think it would be great to see us all together again for the first time in that type of stage after 20 years and the first time all five of us been together in 10 years," he said.
The two decades since their appearance has whet the appetite for the entire fan base but also those former players.
"Really, it's been so long it never really crossed my mind until the past couple of days and I was like, I should get a ticket," said King, who quickly called Jackson to fulfill their promise that when Michigan returned, they'd be there to see it. "It's exciting to be a part of this and to watch them have their fun. Your alma mater again and having the great success I experienced as a player but seeing it from a fan standpoint is just as enjoyable."
It may be a bit surreal for the pair, who never got to see the hoopla of college basketball's biggest stage – even though they helped it grow since then.
"That's really what I want, to gauge the difference in the media attention and the events around it," he said. "We were isolated, it was business so there wasn't a chance there to interact much with fans. It was just the shootarounds that we had. It wasn't a real practice, just for the fans to see you. Our real practices were off site. It will be fun to see what that's like, to witness it. Being down there the atmosphere and the electricity that surrounds that, I want to feel it."
Though he spoke to the team's freshmen in their basketball culture class last week, if he was asked to talk to the team in Atlanta, he would gladly.
"If they invite me to, if I happen to get a chance to, I would love to," he said. "The same thing: be yourself, be who you are, go about your business the way that you have to this point. Nothing really changes, other than there's four teams left. It's not a big field so there's a lot of media attention on you. There's going to be comparisons to the past, the Fab Five just because it's been so long. As a current Michigan basketball team, enjoy it, it's a once in a lifetime thing."
Mark Snyder also writes for the Detroit Free Press, a Gannett property

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Discernmentalists need quotes. That is a given. We also love to selectively quote….because good selection means selling good products. Our product happens to be our disdain, dismay, and disparaging remarks against other people we don't like. The object of this game is to change the meaning of anything and everything to mislead your readers and to persuade them to realize that the person you are bashing is worthy of bashing. Like us, you will get LIFE out of attacking and belittling others and crown this as discernment ministry It makes us feel more spiritual, and that others MUST measure up against us.
We like to misquote often to show how wrong others are….and therefore how RIGHT we are. Take for instance this quote, and read it CAREFULLY, because it is chocked full of Rick Warren evilness….
"Rick Warren agreed to pray at the Presidential Inauguration. That immediately made him a left-wing liberal heretic. Well, it made him a WORSE left-wing liberal heretic than he had been before). Obviously everyone in his church was headed for hell because Warren chose to pray for the godless liberal President Obama. Rick Warren is not only a left-wing liberal heretic secret Muslim sympathizer, he's also a supporter of gay marriage, and maybe even a closet homosexual! "
As you can see, we have included all the important buzzwords from a secondary source (never a primary source), carefully selecting a few sentences before tying them together as one cohesive thought. The important thing here is to make the author of said quote to mean something different than its original meaning. DO NOT try to understand the intent of the quote, simply alter, and rearrange the meaning….remember this is NOT dishonest if you believe that his/her theology is ad odds with your pure bible believing teachings. Of course this is a small lesson learned, and if you continue with our short concise ODMafia School of Discernmentalism you too will be a master discernmentalist.
Don't be afraid there are MANY people to disparage.
Please refer to "Lesson Plan #5: Labeling others as Liberals" before continuing to Lesson #6.


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Picture: Shakira - Shakira and Gerard Pique team up with UNICEF to host a virtual baby shower United States Wednesday 16th January 2013
Latin superstar Shakira is a first-time mum after giving birth to a baby boy.
The Hips Don't Lie hitmaker and her partner Gerard Pique welcomed their son Milan on Tuesday (22Jan13) after the singer gave birth in a hospital in Barcelona, Spain.
Announcing the good news on her website, she wrote, "We are happy to announce the birth of Milan Pique Mebarak, son of Shakira Mebarak and Gerard Pique, born Jan. 22nd at 9:36 p.m., in Barcelona, Spain."
Shakira went on to explain her newborn's name, adding, "(It) means dear, loving and gracious in Slavic; in Ancient Roman, eager and laborious; and in Sanskrit, unification. Just like his father, baby Milan became a member of FC Barcelona at birth."
Soccer star Pique plays for the Spanish team.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the hospital where the singer gave birth says mother and child are "in excellent health".
As she prepared to become a mum earlier on Tuesday, Shakira reached out to her fans on Twitter.com, asking them to keep her in their prayers as she headed to the delivery room.
She wrote, "I'd like to ask you all to accompany me in your prayers on this very important day of my life."
The filmmakers behind Tangled and Wreck-it Ralph join forces for this entertaining animated action comedy,...


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Central Florida Crowned Snake
Scientific name: Tantilla relicta neilli (TELFORD 1966)
* Currently accepted name
* scientific names used through time
- Tantilla coronata wagneri – CONANT 1958
- Tantilla relicta – TELFORD 1966
- Tantilla relicta neilli – TELFORD 1966
Description Average adult size is 7-9 inches (17.7-22.8 cm), record is 9.5 inches (24.1 cm). Adults are tannish with a black head, chin, and back of neck. There is a light spot on the sides of the lower neck. The belly is uniform whitish-yellow. The scales are smooth, and there are 15 dorsal scale rows at midbody. The pupil is round. Juveniles are similar to adults.
A. Top of the head
B. Underside of the head (chin and throat)
C. Front (face view) of the head
D. Side of the head
E. Smooth scales
Range: In Florida, the Central Florida Crowned Snake occurs in the northern and central peninsula from Suwannee River to St. Johns River and south to Hillsborough County. Outside of Florida, it occurs north into southern Georgia.
Habitat: Locally abundant, commonly found in well-drained sandhills and hammocks.
Comments: HARMLESS (Non-Venomous). The Central Florida Crowned Snake is a terrestrial burrower, mainly found under rocks, logs, leaf litter, and other debris. It has also been reported to occupy pocket gopher and gopher tortoise burrows. It feeds on insect larvae, snails, and centipedes. It lays eggs. No specific data have been reported, reproduction is believed to be similar to the Southeastern Crowned Snake (Tantilla coronata).
Comparison with other species: The Peninsula Crowned Snake (Tantilla relicta relicta) has a light band on the back of the head. The Florida Brown Snake (Storeria victa) is grayish-brown with a light mid-dorsal stripe and flecking on each side. The Ringneck Snake (Diadophis punctatus) is black with a bright yellow-orange belly with black spots.


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Andy Boyle is principal specialist and IDE concept owner at Nokia.
This article is about lessons my colleagues and I have learned in deploying software development and ALM tools, and how those lessons are being applied in deploying a task-focused interface and backlog integration to Nokia engineers. As you'll see, we learned that tool environments in technology companies requires a much stronger emphasis on treating engineers as customers than what might be the case with traditional ALM deployments. This article is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to deploying software in technology companies, but rather it is a collection of tips that we believe would benefit others undertaking similar deployments.
The key driver for the Tasktop Deployment Project at Nokia is engineer productivity, with the specific objective of leveraging the opportunity of providing engineers with the (Carbide Eclipse-based IDE and Tasktop task-focus interface. Tasktop is the enterprise product built on the open-source Eclipse Mylyn framework. The goal of the Tasktop Deployment Project is to make it easier for engineers to switch between programming tasks (from stories on their Scrum product backlog) by remembering which artefacts an engineer works with in relation to a task, and by automatically filtering the information visible in the IDE to show only the code relevant to that task. For an engineer returning to a task, the task-focused interface answers the question: "Now where was I?"
In terms of measuring the benefit that this technology brings, consider how much time a programmer spends searching within an IDE for programming artefacts versus actually editing them. Past studies of the task-focused interface have shown a statistically significant improvement of this ratio.
The Tasktop Deployment Project
The project to provide Carbide with Tasktop/Mylyn capability has two components:
- A development component undertaken by Tasktop Technologies which involves integrating the Carbide IDE and Tasktop.
- Creating Tasktop connectors to Danube's ScrumWorks Pro Agile change-management system and the SCM system used by Nokia engineers.
Tasktop's function here is to integrate the various development and ALM tools with the IDE, and to layer the productivity-enhancing task-focused interface on top of that integration.
The deployment process will take the product of Tasktop Technologies development component and ensure that it maximizes adoption of the software and its long term adoption within Nokia. We decided to use the Agile Scrum process to manage both development and deployment, since this allows us to quickly respond to the lessons we learn along the way. The deployment is managed in two week "sprints." Figure 2 outlines the deployment plan. At this writing we are in the midst of sprint 5 of 12 development sprints.
The risks and opportunities faced by a project is dependent upon the environment within which a tool or system is being deployed. Consider the deployment of systems that support a key development process. The deployment will be endorsed by management, users will have to follow the process, and there will be only one tool or system that supports the new process: Users are compelled to use the system. At the other end of the spectrum are tool deployments, where the continued running of a production process is not dependent upon the tool. In this case, there are often alternative incumbent tools or other open source options. Also, the environment will often allow users a degree of latitude in the tools they use. In this environment you are "selling in a free market"and your success will depend upon how well you focus on the needs of the end user. This is the sort of "change" environment where the tactics discussed in the rest of this article come in handy


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Consultant Hired For Drainage Work
After postponing action on the hiring of a consultant twice, Palo Alto County Supervisors took the step of hiring Don Etler of Algona to fill the position during a meeting Tuesday morning.
Etler, who was the original project engineer on a project in Drainage District 15 of Palo Alto County, parted ways with his employer, the I&S?Group, at the end of 2012. Details of the departure were sketchy at the time, and the Board of Supervisors was unhappy with the turn of events.
After talks with Etler and representatives of the I&S Group, an agreement was reached between the two parties allowing Etler to work on the project, in accordance with the wishes of the Palo Alto County Supervisors.
However, a question over liability insurance arose, prompting the supervisors to ask Etler and a representative of I&S Group to appear before the board to resolve the issue.
Tuesday morning, Kent Rode of I&S joined his former colleague Etler in the Supervisors' board room.
"Basically, what we want to know is if Don is covered by your liability insurance when he works on this project, and who covers any fines that may be levied," stated Supervisor Jerry Hofstad.
"In our business, sub-consultants like Don carry their own liability insurance,"?Rode answered. "I&S?has a $2 million Professional Liability policy."
"The standard sub-consultant liability policy is $1 million," Etler added. "That's what I have."
Rode noted that I&S holds umbrella liability insurance coverage of $4 million, which does not include professional liability. "That would cover vehicles and the like," Rode said. "But, rest assured, you are covered for anything we do for you or Don does as he works for us."
With the DD15 project under the cloud of possible fines from the Environmental Protection Agency, the question of liability for the fines was raised by the board again.
Etler explained to the board that the problem came when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers refused to accept a wetland determination on lands owned by Dick Wikert, which were included in the project area. Because the determination was refused, a new determination had to be obtained, slowing a permitting process by the Corps of Engineers.
In the meantime, bids for the project were let and due to funding deadlines, work began without the formal issuance of the permit. Now, the EPA is reviewing the permitting process, with the possibility of assessing a fine against the district.
"If anything was done wrong on the permit, I was covered at that time by I&S's liability insurance at that time, and they would have to cover any fine,"?Etler said.
Rode agreed with the statement. "Don was an employee of I&S?at that time so our insurance would cover that instance."
"So, are we going to get slapped over this?" asked Supervisor Linus Solberg.
"I suspect there will be something – a great plan to finish the project and then a letter with a fine from the EPA," Etler answered. "That's when you decide whether to fight or not. We aren't without arrows in this fight, either. But, it's possible there might not be a penalty, too."
"So, if there were a penalty, you were an employee of I&S?at that time, right?" Hofstad reiterated.
"Yes,"?Etler answered.
"Any fine levied by the EPA would be covered by us,"?Rode added.
On a motion by Supervisor Keith Wirtz and a second from Hofstad, Don Etler was hired to serve as the consultant for the DD15 North project on a 4-0 vote of the board, with Supervisor Ed Noonan absent and not voting.


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Obama to hold last news conference of first term
President Barack Obama will hold the last news conference of his first term at the White House Monday morning.
Officials say Obama will take questions in the White House East Room at 11:15 a.m. EST. The event comes one week before the president's ceremonial swearing-in and inaugural address for a second term.
Among the issues the president is expected to address Monday are looming fiscal fights with Congress, particularly over raising the nation's debt limit, and his administration's efforts to curb gun violence. The president is expected to receive a report on Tuesday from Vice President Joe Biden, who has been leading a task force on ways to reduce violence.


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Hillary Clinton on Financial Crisis: 'Everybody Should be Concerned'
-- ALBANY, N.Y. -- Here in New York State, the financial crisis on Wall Street is a critical local issue in a different way than it matters nationally. Here, Wall Street is Main Street -- or, at least, one of them.
And Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's message on Monday: "Everybody should be concerned," she told reporters in Albany after a quick stop aboard GMA's "Whistle-Stop Express."
"Obviously here in New York we have the special concern of the thousands of jobs that are at risk," said Clinton, D-N.Y. "Now we're in the crisis, and we all have to be smart and focused on how we're going to get ourselves out of it."
"I'm very concerned about the impact on New York -- we're going to see a drop in revenues in government, for the city, for actually all the jurisdictions around New York City," she added. "The job loss is something I'm worried about. So we're just going to have to do the best we can to make up for what wasn't done, and frankly a real failure of leadership and oversight."
Clinton's exclusive interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer will air Tuesday on "Good Morning America."


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Regional Foster Families are always looking for people who have an interest in fostering that live within the county of Nottinghamshire and specifically Nottingham, Mansfield and Newark.
In the "About Fostering" section of this website you will find detailed information regarding fostering, the qualities required of a foster carer, the assessment process, support and training.
There is also a booklet available to download by clicking the blue box opposite called "Becoming a Foster Carer and the Assessment" which will appear once you have made an enquiry.
You can listen to testimonials from some of our foster carers on the video "Watch Our Fostering Video".


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heeeiii ,,, a few days after the concert in Barcelona... my feelings are the same! or worse... What the hell you play?! 4 or 5 songs from the Rock Dust light star??? it was a joke? People were with the band all time, singing, and enjoying the music, and the band plays not too much, uuuh, you do not have time for us, for the people in Barcelona? We pay, and it was not cheap! I paid to hear Rock Dust Light Star, and just you play 5, and in a bis, the last song because people cried you play more!!
come on!! hei forum, the concert was short, and I heard 5 songs from last album!!!!!
I am very angry!
hei, what happened? we, people there, were not so important for Jamiroquai as the seven cities or more in France soon?? Just 2 concerts in Spain, and I could not listen nothing about the last album? Why?
ahora mismo me da hasta rabia escuchar un album que al parecer ni la propia banda defiende, venga ya, no somos tan tirados, o mainstream o a saber qué pensarán de nosotros para tocar tan poco su album, pensaba que era una gira para ese album, y yo pagué la pasta para ese album, porqué creía que se podía disfrutar en directo pero si la propia banda no lo cree, vaya mierda.
Mal, muy mal, decepción.


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Openings: Verde Pizza Napoletana, Baltimore
Nine words and a name piqued my pizza curiosity: Imported smoked buffalo mozarella, sliced lemons, and fresh basil. The Sorrentina. Another word immediately leapt to mind; Keste.
I've eaten this pizza in Keste and made a replica of it many times. It's one of my all time favorite combinations of ingredients. And here it was printed on a menu in Baltimore, not exactly a bastion of Neapolitan pizza or home to many people who even know what the heck a Keste is.
Verde Pizza Napoletana
641 S. Montford St, Baltimore, MD 21224 (map); 410-522-1000; verdepizza.com
Pizza Style: Neapolitan
Oven Type: Wood Fired (Wood Stone Mountain Series)
The Skinny: Newcomer shows significant potential. Pizzaiolo has trained with Keste's Roberto Caporuscio
Price: Pizzas between $7 and $16
Opened just a couple of weeks ago in the former Birches Restaurant space, the smallish neighborhood restaurant has all of the makings of a very successful pizza joint. The space is smartly appointed with clean tile work, retro lighting fixtures and reclaimed wood, including two gorgeous table tops in the front room made of wood from a Chicago church which the owner (Ed) previously owned.
A nicely tiled Wood Stone Mountain Series oven stands guard over the back of the space, with bags of Caputo 00 Pizzeria flour and Ciao tomatoes visable in the make table area.
The menu is smart and focused. A few salads, twelve red pizzas, seven white pies, three calzones, dessert and coffee. No distractions from having to make other food items.
Most important, owner Ed and his son Evan are pizza enthusiasts with a great attitude. Ed has eaten Neapolitan pizzas at various places around the country and in Italy. His son Evan has trained on several occasions with Keste's Roberto Caparuscio, which is as serious a teacher as one can find. Both Ed and Evan are open about their pizza making process and have the infectious enthusiasm one can only hope to find in a new pizza venture.
My wife, baby blogger, and I had two salads, Sorrentina and Margherita pizzas and two glasses of wine last night for just under $50. Not bad. We were the first people at dinner service (4:40pm arrival), so the oven was not quite up to its maximum temperature. I clocked four pizzas at 1:48, 1:42, 1:38, and 1:34, respectively. Evan said his desired bake time is 60 to 90 seconds, which is the often-targeted sweet spot for Neapolitan-style pizzas.
More visits to get a better gauge on consistency are needed, and I'll be posting an under the hood look at Verde in a couple of months. Based on my initial visit last night, this is definitely a pizzeria to keep an eye on and visit.
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dungeons and dragons gold box series(pools of radiance,curse of azure bonds,secret of the silver blades, and pools of darkness)
dungeons and dragons gold box series(pools of radiance,curse of azure bonds,secret of the silver blades, and pools of darkness)
No Final Fantasy, no Kingdom Hearts, no Metal Gear Solid.
Excuse me while I submit that shit.
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- MAFIA: City of Lost Heaven
- Dragon Age: Origins
- DeusEx
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Best in general is Diablo 2, best for me was Warcraft3, specially since dota and wow are its childs
The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I do not know.' The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything. And I have prided myself on my ability to learn
http://youtu.be/x3ejO7Nssj8 7:20+ "Alliance remaining super power", clearly blizz favor horde too much, that they made alliance the super power
System Shock
Command & Conquer
Thief: The Dark Project
I am prone to rose-tinted glasses on this one - the game that left the deepest impression on me was Dungeon Master.
Diablo II even with it's problems
Went to add my personal favourites.
....they were *all* already there.
Considering it is top 100 computer games, I am surprised to not see games like Bastion, Torchlight, VVVVVV, Dungeon Defenders, and of course the giant League of Legends.
Seeing as how console games are allowed on the list (a described at the end of the OP)...And anyway, I have them all downloaded on my computer anyway.
Here's my list; rated like Craakar did in his post on the first page.
Final Fantasy VII - 8/10
Final Fantasy VI - 9/10
Legend of Dragoon - 9/10
Legend of Legaia - 7/10
Zelda: A Link to the Past - 8/10
Panzer Dragoon Orta - 9/10
Breath of Fire - 8/10
Magic the Gathering: Battleground - 7/10 (don't ask why, I just loved that game)
Xanadu - 10/10 (old school bitches)
Xenogears - 10/10
Crono Trigger - 8/10
Crono Cross - 8/10
Crash Team Racing - 7/10
Super Mario Kart - 9/10
Crash Bandicoot - 8/10
Baldur's Gate - 8/10
Badur's Gate 2 - 9/10
Age of Empires 2 - 10/10
Sim City 2000 - 7/10
Kindoms Under Fire - 10/10
Kindoms Under Fire: Crusaders - 10/10
Note: I rated the games in my opinion due to thier gameplay and storyline. Graphics has always been the least of my concerns when playing video games; unless they are choppy as hell to where you can't play them without getting a headache (which is why none of the Spyro games are on here...).
If I was to put newer games on here (which I don't believe that they should be since most new games in my opinion are just rehashes of older one) I would put:
League of Legends - 7/10 (only because it was the first MOBA game that wasn't a COMPLETE rip off of DOTA)
SMITE - 8/10 (only MOBA game that actually tries to redifine the genre and is a fucking blast to play)
Plants vs Zombies - 7/10 (sometimes just plain old brain-dead entertainment is all you need)
XCOM - 9/10 (rehash of thier original game that goes beyond what the first one did; Tactical RPGs at thier finest)
Final Fantasy Tactics - 10/10 (Ogre Battle did it first, FFT did it better)
Nearly added Guild wars 2 to my list, but log on, had a great time with some friends, some of the best content in any wow along with probably its best combat system, then a new event gets added to the game and pretty much crashes the sever, So instead of posting it as one of the greatest games, maybe ill wait for a thread with games with the most potential
Baldurs Gate
Dragon Age (Yes all of them have more than one part.)
RPG : World of Warcraft, Diablo 2, Zelda : Ocarina of Time, Final Fantasy 9, Shenmue, Pokemon Gold, Skyrim, Wonderboy in Monster World.
RTS : Warcraft 3, Command & Conquer : Red Alert 2
Racing : Gran Turismo 4, Sega Rally, Grand Prix Legends, Colin Mcrae : Dirt 2, Rfactor.
Shooting/Action : GoldenEye, Halflife, Crysis, Medal of Honor : Allied Assualt, Unreal Tournament, Panzer Dragoon 2 Zwei,
Fighting : Street Fighter 2 : Champion Edition, Virtua Fighter 2, Soul Calibur
Platform : Mario 64, Sonic 2, Tomb Raider, New Super Mario Bros
There are just too many games to list, I would change my mind on a weekly basis and could never choose a top 10 that would stick!
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A startup called Pancetera has announced a virtual appliance that can reduce virtual machine backup I/O load by up to 80 per cent, and lets sysadmins move virtual machine files as easily as browsing a Windows network drive.
The idea is that this Unite appliance treats virtual machines (VMs) as files in a single virtual filesystem and presents them as such, in directories, instead of them being on different ESX hosts and different types and makes of storage.
Sysadmins mount the Unite filesystem as either a CIFS share or NFS mount and can then perform backup, replication and migration using standard filesystem tools and Unite. It is a single virtual NAS (network-attached storage) system containing all your VMs from across the data centre.
You can use existing backup software, for example, and backup VMs through the Unite appliance because the backup app' "sees" files and directories through the Unite virtual appliance. Pancetera says there is no need for backup agents to run in each VM, meaning saved license costs. Unite has SmartRead and SmartView components.
This point was supported by an early customer, Logan Lemming, the IT director for the El Dorado County Office of Education, who said: "Using virtualisation technology... dropped an iron curtain around my storage, not allowing me to interact with my VM file systems, and forcing me to use expensive and complex agent-based backup software.
"Pancetera Unite blows that whole paradigm away. I am no longer handcuffed to a certain storage or backup vendor to maintain the integrity of my virtual infrastructure. Pancetera Unite is the silver bullet that we in the virtualisation world have been waiting for," Lemming gushed.
SmartView discovers and presents all the VMs in your data centre as being resident in a synthesised NAS file system. All the VMS appear in it, whether they are powered down, suspended, or running, and are ordered by host in a folder structure. Pancetera says it is updated when you create, delete, migrate or vMotion a VM so that you can always see your full environment.
SmartRead is VM component-aware. It presents a VM as a file to a backup or replication application but only includes, Pancetera says, the data actually in use in the VM and not other data gathered in its history but no longer used. This is claimed to improve I/O efficiency when a VM is backed up, migrated or replicated by between 10 and 80 per cent.
Pancetera says it also presents smaller amounts of data to deduplication targets and WAN accelerators, increasing their speed.
The company claims that moving an 8GB VM with Windows 2003 across a 10Mbit/s network link took a little over two hours. This was lowered to one hour and 20 minutes with a WAN accelerator at both ends of the link, and then to 13 minutes by adding in Pancetera Unite and having the move done through the Unite interface and using SmartRead.
This was not a VMotion move of a running VM. Instead it was a simulation of an off-site replication for a standby or backup copy. Pacetera says: "With Pancetera, customers can use standard file system replication tools and techniques to move running virtual machines to new targets, without disturbing the running virtual machine, whether on the LAN or across the WAN. We enable this use case without scripting."
The company, founded by ex-Data Domain and Legato executives, has come out of stealthy development, announcing a $5m funding round and appointing Henrik Rosendahl as its CEO.
The company has gained product validation from CommVault, Riverbed, Tivoli, TSANet, Symantec, and is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner.
If the claims and customer comment above are generally applicable, it looks like a hot company with a hot product. ®


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DETROIT >> It's all about grabbing your piece of the pie in Wings coach Mike Babcock's eyes.
Thursday, he'll dress a team that has a majority of its talent driven in from Grand Rapids against one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference, the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Five of Detroit's 12 forwards – Gustav Nyquist, Riley Sheahan, Luke Glendenning, Landon Ferraro and Temmu Pulkkinen – all began the season with the Griffins.
Tomas Tatar played there most of last year and Cory Emmerton spent most of the season there after being waived by the Wings at the start of this season.
"Glendening played basically second-line center minutes (Tuesday) night," Babcock said. "Sheahan plays a ton. Those opportunities aren't available to you otherwise. Cory Emmerton is in the league, Pulkkinen's in the league. Ferraro's in the league. Those are all opportunities for the guys. Make good on your opportunity. You never know what can happen.
"Those guys are in the individual point of their career," Babcock continued. "They're trying to find a job and stay in the league, so be confident and play hard and make it good for yourself."
After losing Jonathan Ericsson to a broken finger on Tuesday, the Wings have lost a player to injury in six consecutive games.
"You can lots of injuries but if you got Sid and Malkin playing and you got Z and Pav playing you can't talk about injuries … we were still rolling along pretty good when Z was playing and Pav was out but when they're both out – and it's not just the two of them, we've got a whole ton of guys (missing)," Babcock said. "The way I look at it, if you're the general manager of the organization, instead of thinking you've got something in the summer, you know what you've got, you've played them all, you've looked at the kids in the organization so now you can decide what you need to do to fix your team.
"Our kids have done a real good job, given us an opportunity," Babcock added. "(Jeff) Blashill in Grand Rapids has done a real good job. These kids have all done a good job, they've won and they know what it takes."
Ericsson will miss four-to-six weeks after having surgery to stabilize his fractured finger and repair a partially torn tendon.
Jonas Gustavsson (groin) began the long list of injuries after leading the team to a win over the New Jersey Devils on March. 4. That was followed by Joakim Andersson (broken foot, March 9 against the New York Rangers), Tomas Jurco (broken rib, March 11 against Columbus), Todd Bertuzzi (lower-body injury, March 14 against Edmonton) and Justin Abdelkader (leg laceration, Sunday against Chicago.
The team is also without Pavel Datsyuk (knee), Henrik Zetterberg (back), Stephen Weiss (sports hernia), Mikael Samuelsson (shoulder) and Daniel Cleary (knee).
Bertuzzi missed just one game and Gustavsson returned to his backup role Tuesday.
"The kids have come up and jumped right in their spot and I think that's helped our team," said Drew Miller, who's one of just two players on the roster to have played every game this season. "The other big thing is this locker room still believes we can get it done. Night in and night out we've got to battle for our wins and play a full 60-minute game but I think we're getting better every game and as hard as it is to play without Pavel and Z I think we're trying to find the best way to do that and having some success."
The Wings head into tonight's game second in the league in man games lost at 313 according to mangameslost.com. Pittsburgh tops the list at 413.
"We've had such good leadership, it's rubbed off on a lot of guys in the room," Miller said. "When one guy does down, even when Nick (Lidstrom) retired, you see different guys step up."
Crosby MVP candidate
Sidney Crosby is running away with the scoring title, heading into play Thursday with a league-leading 91 points.
"Just like all the best players I've coached, elite, elite, elite competitors," said Wings coach Mike Babcock, who has coached Crosby at two Olympics. "Drive train is second to none. He's not the biggest guy, but he's so thick and so powerful and a great, great skater. He gets a step on you. No different than a guy like (Jonathan) Toews, (Pavel) Datsyuk or (Henrik) Zetterberg. He's just on another level."
Toronto's Phil Kessel and Anaheim's Ryan Getzlaf are tied behind Crosby with 71 points.
"He's not a rah-rah guy at all, he works," Babcock said. "When you talk about superstars everyone thinks it's because of their skillset. All the best ones I've coached – Crosby and Toews, (Nicklas) Lidstrom, Datsyuk and Zetterberg, it's because of their drive train, their will to win, their determination, their attention to detail. That's what makes them better than everybody else. They have an unbelievable skill set to go with it, but there's a lot of guys with skill set that don't have that determination that end up being good players who play on a lot of teams."
Then asked if Crosby is the league's MVP Babcock joked, "Who's in the running? I'm just trying to survive here. I don't even know. Right now I think it's Glendening. No, I'm just kidding."
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VANCOUVER, BC – Vancouver Whitecaps FC remain perfect in Major League Soccer season openers after defeating New York Red Bulls 4-1 in front of a sold-out crowd of 21,000 on Saturday afternoon at BC Place.
Striker Kenny Miller notched a brace and newcomers Sebastian Fernandez and Pedro Morales scored in their MLS debuts as the 'Caps cruised to a thrilling victory over the defending Supporters Shield winners in their first match of 2014.
After a Miller penalty gave Whitecaps FC a lead late in the first half, the Blue and White put the game out of reach after the break with three second-half tallies.
First, Fernandez brought the crowd to its feet with a stunning strike from about 25 yards in the 50th minute, and then Vancouver's newest Designated Player made his mark.
In the 77th minute, Morales chipped a perfect ball over the top to Miller, who then lobbed Red Bulls goalkeeper Luis Robles to score his second goal of the match.
And then Morales, a second-half substitute, found of the back of the net himself in the 89th minute, firing home an inviting ball into the box from Nigel Reo-Coker.
New York got a goal back in time added on through Bradley Wright-Phillips, but it did little to dampen what was a near-perfect start to the season for the Blue and White.
It was a dominating performance from head coach Carl Robinson's side, who launched 10 shots on target and outshot their Eastern Conference opponents by a 14-8 margin.
The 'Caps have now won each of their four season openers in MLS, outscoring their opponents 11-3 in the process, in addition to having gone undefeated in 13 straight season openers dating back to 2002.
They also remain undefeated against New York in MLS with a 2W-0L-2D record.
In his first regular season match as Whitecaps FC head coach, Robinson fielded a starting XI composed of eight returning players and four starters from First Kick 2013. The three newcomers in the starting lineup were Fernandez, right back Steven Beitashour and midfielder Matias Laba.
Buoyed by a boisterous home crowd, the 'Caps nearly got off to a dream start Saturday at BC Place. Less than a minute into the match, left back Jordan Harvey picked off an errant pass and played in Miller, who poked his right-footed effort over the goal as he was challenged from behind.
The 'Caps had another great opportunity to open the scoring just a few minutes later. This time, Robles was forced to make an acrobatic diving save off a heavy Russell Teibert strike from distance.
It was an energetic start for the Blue and White, who played on the front foot and looked dangerous in the final third throughout the first half.
Fresh off a pair of international appearances with Jamaica, where he found the back of the net three times, striker Darren Mattocks was particularly involved in the 'Caps attack. The 23-year-old Jamaican caused all sorts of problems for the Red Bulls back line with his speed and movement.
His best chance came in the 18th minute, when he broke in after a nifty one-two with Fernandez only to be disrupted by a last-ditch Richard Eckersley tackle.
At the other end of the park, New York had a pair of half-chances early against the run of play. But 'Caps goalkeeper David Ousted was only really tested once, when he made a diving save on a heavy strike from Lloyd Sam in the 10th minute.
Although New York controlled possession in the opening stages of the second half, the 'Caps back line did well to keep them away from the middle of the park before a barrage of late goals put the game away.
Next up for Whitecaps FC is a mini two-match road trip, in which they will meet Chivas USA on Sunday, March 16 and New England Revolution on Saturday, March 22.
The 'Caps will be back at BC Place on March 29 against the Houston Dynamo. Retired defender Young-Pyo Lee will be honoured prior to the match.
Tweet of the Game
I have an urge to eat tamales while dancing the tango in a pool of salsa... Loving this @WhitecapsFC #SouthAmericanConnection
— BeaSTonAbike (@4thlinerferlife) March 9, 2014
Stat of the Game (courtesy of Opta):
In just 25 minutes of action, Morales created three chances from open play – more than any other 'Caps player. His passing accuracy percentage (88.89 per cent) was also the highest on the team.
Quote of the Game:
"To be honest, this is the most competitive team I've been on. I think the coaches have done a great job. I think that the chances are going to come, as you saw tonight." - Darren Mattocks
Match Details
Budweiser Man of the Match: Sebastian Fernandez
Referee: Abbey Okulaja
Attendance: 21,000
Scoring Summary
34' - VAN - Kenny Miller (penalty kick)
49' - VAN - Sebastian Fernandez (Darren Mattocks)
78' - VAN - Kenny Miller (Pedro Morales)
87' - VAN - Pedro Morales (Nigel Reo-Coker)
90'+1 - NY - Bradley Wright-Phillips (Lloyd Sam)
Match Stats
Shots: Vancouver 14 - New York 8
Shots on Goal: Vancouver 10 - New York 4
Saves: Vancouver 3 - New York 6
Fouls: Vancouver 11 - New York 9
Offsides: Vancouver 2 - New York 2
Corners: Vancouver 4 - New York 4
7' - VAN - Steven Beitashour
31' - NY - Armando
36' - VAN - Jordan Harvey
62' - VAN - Russel Teibert
87' - NY - Lloyd Sam
Vancouver Whitecaps FC
1.David Ousted; 33.Steven Beitashour, 40.Andy O'Brien, 6.Jay DeMerit, 2.Jordan Harvey; 20.Nigel Reo-Coker, 15.Matías Laba; 31.Russell Teibert, 9.Kenny Miller (23.Kekuta Manneh 83'), 7.Sebastián Fernández (29.Nicolás Mezquida 73'); 11.Darren Mattocks (77.Pedro Morales 65')
Substitutes not used
70.Paolo Tornaghi, 16.Johnny Leveron, 19.Erik Hurtado, 28.Gershon Koffie
New York Red Bulls
31.Luis Robles; 15.Bobby Convey, 32.Ibrahim Sekagya, 5.Armando, 2.Richard Eckersley; 22.Jonny Steele (7.Roy Miller 64'), 12.Eric Alexander (21.Ruben Bover 84'), 11.Dax McCarty, 10.Lloyd Sam; 8.Peguy Luyindula (99.Bradley Weight-Phillips 73'), 17.Tim Cahill
Substitutes not used
18.Ryan Meara, 9.Andre Akpan, 20.Matt Miazga, 27.Kosuke Kimura
Whitecaps FC season tickets start at just $349 and single-match tickets start at $22, subject to applicable fees. The 'Caps also offer a flexible range of ticket products, including half-season tickets ($244), 5-packs ($149), student season tickets ($199), and a youth soccer half-season ticket ($100). For more information on all Whitecaps FC ticket options, call 604.669.9283 ext. 2 or visit whitecapsfc.com/tickets.


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Ignore the Fed!June 20, 2013: 12:35 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
I ain't afraid of no Ben Bernanke. Investors shouldn't be either.
Yes, the Federal Reserve is important. Stocks are tumbling for a second straight day on fears that Bernanke is about to finally turn off the lights on what's been a great bull market for the past four years.
But the Fed's quantitative easing policy is not the only thing that matters. Whatever happened to good old-fashioned stock-picking?
In this age of QE, "investing" seems to simply boil down to finding the right index exchange-traded fund and letting the whims of correlation do the rest.
Related: Fed sets road map for end of QE
But several strategists and fund managers said that the market is now paying entirely too much attention to Ben Bernanke's latest musings on tapering and not enough to how the economy and companies are actually doing. Earnings and revenue. Remember them?
"The Fed is noise. Investors have to try and filter that out and focus on fundamentals," said Jason McPharlin, manager with the Rushmore Equity Income portfolio in Plano, Texas. "I'm not overly worried. Stocks are still a better opportunity than bonds."
Sure, the market is hooked on (phonics?) the Fed's liquidity machine. But if you listened closely to what Bernanke said in his press conference Wednesday, he clearly indicated that the Fed is only going to taper if the economy improves.
Related: Bond yields spike to 2-year highs
If GDP growth starts moving closer to 3% and the unemployment rate finally dips below 7%, isn't that a good thing? Wouldn't that be a sign that consumers will spend more, which should then boost corporate sales and profits?
What's more, Bernanke stressed that any slowdown of its $85 billion-a-month asset purchase program will be gradual and that short-term rate increases are still not likely until 2015. So it seems that worries about the Fed killing the recovery and plunging the economy into another recession are misguided.
But in this increasingly myopic, what's the market going to do in the next femtosecond, world we live in, a triple-digit point drop in the Dow is treated as a sign that stocks and the economy are doomed.
Related: Fear & Greed Index slides back to extreme fear
"I see this as a buying opportunity. I expect a global economic rebound with the dollar getting stronger and the U.S. leading the way," said Joe Quinlan, chief market strategist with U.S. Trust in New York. "People are confusing tapering with tightening."
That's a great point. Everyone wanted the Fed to plug in a destination for the end of QE into the market's GPS. Bernanke essentially did that. It's mid-2014.
But there could be some detours and traffic jams. That's why he wants the market to follow the data. Stocks shouldn't be treated like some futuristic Google driver-less car.
It should be painfully obvious that the Fed will only pull back on its bond purchases if the job market continues to recover.
"Forgetting about fundamentals and just worrying about the Fed is not a good thing," said Ron Sloan, senior portfolio manager with the Invesco Charter Fund in San Francisco. "I would much rather own stocks because their businesses are improving and GDP has a plus sign -- even if it's not the level we want."
With that in mind, Sloan said investors need to be focused on companies that are investing in themselves in order to boost revenue -- regardless of how weak the economic recovery is. He likes drug makers, particularly European leaders Roche (RHHBY), Sanofi (SNY) and Novartis (NVS), because he said they are focusing heavily on research and development.
Sloan also has a big holding in Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) (BRKB).
Related: Ben Bernanke's power over your money
While most people pay attention to Berkshire because they want to know what stocks Warren Buffett is buying and selling, Sloan said that Berkshire has now positioned itself to be a company that relies less on investments and more on actual businesses that benefit from the economy's growth.
Sloan thinks Berkshire's Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad unit should do well for years due to increased demand for hauling shale oil and gas produced in the U.S.
What else might hold up even if the Fed starts to taper? McPharlin thinks investors should focus on stocks that are likely to increase their dividends at a healthy clip. He was quick to caution that this doesn't mean investors should rush into stocks with high yields, such as utilities or telecoms AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ).
"We're leaning more towards dividend growth than yield," said McPharlin. "You're going to want cyclical companies."
Some examples? McPharlin said he owns Apple (AAPL) and mobile chip leader Qualcomm (QCOM), regional banks BB&T (BBT) and PNC (PNC), as well as industrial conglomerates GE (GE) and Eaton (ETN).
Related: Dollar headed for 'multi-year' rally
Quinlan agreed that financials, industrials and tech may be a better bet than more defensive sectors like utilities, telecom and consumer staples.
He added that it's important for investors to remember that the Fed is still the market's friend. Bernanke (and any likely successor) won't put a halt to QE until the economy is ready to stand on its own two feet. That means that the market could continue to climb higher for awhile.
"The stock market's run may be a little ahead of itself but it is still justified," Quinlan said. "It's been five years since the crash and while it's true that the economic recovery may be one of the weakest on record, it may also turn out to be one of the longest."


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New products introduced over the last week include a new SPDR ETF from State Street Global Advisors and new ETFs from Russell Investments.
In addition, Interbank FX has launched a new social trading platform, and Smartleaf added a model vendor portal to its model distribution service.
Here are the latest developments of interest to advisors:
1) State Street Global Advisors Launches Short Term High Yield Bond SPDR ETF
State Street Global Advisors, the asset management business of State Street Corporation, announced Thursday that trading began on the SPDR Barclays Capital Short Term High Yield Bond ETF (SJNK). The new ETF offers investors access to high-yield corporate bonds with short durations, and has an annual expense ratio is 0.40%.
SJNK seeks to track the performance of the Barclays Capital 0-5 Cash Pay Constrained High Yield Index, which includes publicly issued U.S. dollar-denominated, non-investment-grade, fixed-rate, taxable corporate bonds that have a remaining maturity of less than 5 years, are rated high yield (Ba1/BB+/BB+ or below) using the middle rating of Moody's Investors Service Inc., Fitch, Inc., or Standard & Poor's Inc., and have $350 million or more of issuance. As of March 5, 2012, there were approximately 351 securities in the Index with an average modified adjusted duration of approximately 2.06 years.
2) New Russell ETFs Offer High Dividend Yield Exposure
Global asset manager Russell Investments on Thursday launched two high dividend yield ETFs. The Russell High Dividend Yield ETF (HDIV) and Russell Small Cap High Dividend Yield ETF (DIVS) seek to track the market capitalization-weighted Russell U.S. Large Cap High Dividend Yield and Russell U.S. Small Cap High Dividend Yield Indexes, respectively.
Each is composed of dividend-paying companies with characteristics such as ability to pay a higher dividend yield, exhibit sustained dividend growth and deliver earnings stability. The characteristics of each company are then evaluated by measures of financial strength including positive cash flow, return on equity and analyst forecasts for earnings growth. Once the universe is screened for financially strong securities, the constituents are selected to help maximize dividend yield.
3) Interbank FX Launches Social Trading Platform For Customers
Interbank FX, which was recently acquired by, and is a division of, TradeStation Forex Inc., announced Thursday that it has reintroduced IBFXConnect. IBFXConnect allows customers to trade FX alongside traders from around the globe. TradeStation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc.
Through IBFXConnect, everyday traders have the opportunity to see what others are doing in a "social trading network of forex traders from all over the world," according to Drew Izzo, vice president of marketing for IBFX. They can determine if they would like to follow their trades and commentary, or even copy their trades directly. IBFXConnect enables two-way communication between a customer's trading account and their IBFXConnect profile. From there, each customer has complete control of their privacy settings while being able to manage and copy trades from other members. No fee is required.
4) Smartleaf Adds Model Vendor Portal
Smartleaf announced Thursday the addition of an online portal for model vendors that is part of its model distribution service (MDS) and will streamline model updating by giving model vendors the ability to log in to a secure site to enter and maintain their models. Model updates will be checked for integrity and, when approved, will be automatically transmitted to subscribing firms who use the models to guide the customized management of individual wealth accounts.
To participate in the MDS, model vendors sign a contract with Smartleaf, not directly with clients, lowering the number of contracts the model vendor has to manage. This also allows model vendors to specify the price of their models, the terms and conditions of use, and which Smartleaf clients are allowed to purchase their models. Smartleaf handles invoicing clients on behalf of model vendors participating in the MDS.
Read the March 9 Portfolio Products Roundup at AdvisorOne.com


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It's coming. The faint buzz past your ear. The spindly shadow bouncing across your wall. Mosquitoes will soon be here.
It's coming. The faint buzz past your ear. The spindly shadow bouncing across your wall. Mosquitoes will soon be here. But while nobody enjoys the pests, epidemiologists and other experts are not yet sure whether this year's bugs will be bringing their even more sinister companion, the Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus. With the first testing of mosquito samples scheduled to begin this week, State Public Health Veterinarian Catherine Brown said health officials are crossing their fingers that this summer won't be as bad as last year, when EEE cases skyrocketed across the state. "It's the number one question everyone is asking," she said. "But it's so complex, no one's figured out a way to really make an accurate prediction." Experts say there certainly are factors that contribute to the fast spread of the disease. The relatively warm winter and spring last year, for example, was blamed for partly contributing to a more than 300 percent increase in EEE-positive mosquito samples across the state. "The heat is thought to help the virus replicate in the mosquito's body and be transmitted earlier," said Timothy Deschamps, director of the Central Massachusetts Mosquito Control Project. On the other hand, the rainy weather the region has seen of late is also troublesome, he said, because it helps create the stagnant pools of water where the insects lay eggs.
But the key factor still puzzling epidemiologists, Brown said, is what happens to EEE once it dies down in the fall. Capturing a more complete picture of the virus's cycle could be instrumental in controlling it in the spring and summer. "We're all sort of wondering what happens to the virus in the winter," she said. "Lots of people are working on that question, but so far we have not elucidated an answer." That puts the onus on the state health department and regional mosquito control programs to instead focus on surveillance, which is the only reliable tool they have to gauge the spread of the disease. The varieties of mosquitoes that tend to carry the virus are just starting to be born, Deschamps said, which means answers should be coming soon.
In the meantime, mosquito control programs and local towns are preparing as usual. David Lawson, director of the Norfolk County Mosquito Control District, said his typical regimen of preventing pooling water, spraying, and dropping larvicide has not changed, and he doesn't expect it to in the near future. "In general, I don't think there's anything groundbreaking that's going to revolutionize what we do," he said, adding the program's priority will eventually switch over the next few weeks to spraying for adult mosquitoes in areas where EEE and West Nile Virus are detected. The types of mosquitoes that transmit EEE are especially tricky to deal with, Brown said, because they tend to breed in difficult-to-reach air pockets in submerged tree roots in cedar and red maple swamps. Larvicide is not effective if it's indiscriminately spread around those areas, she said, and conversely it's too labor intensive to manually apply treatment to individual breeding spots. The best defense, she said, is for people to take simple precautions against the bugs. "It's very easy to get too afraid of this," she said. "But if you don't get bit, it doesn't matter if they're carrying the virus or not." Locally, people seem to be getting the message, based on recent sales of mosquito products at the Natick Outdoor Store. Owner Henry Kanner said more people were snatching up insect sprays, head nets, and other devices last summer compared to previous years, and that so far this spring he's already had to reorder the popular outdoor portable diffusers that ward off mosquitoes. "I do think people are becoming more and more aware of the seriousness of mosquito bites," he said, adding that most customers are looking for a simple DEET-based product to put on their skin. Town health and recreation officials, meanwhile, after having to cancel many late-summer events and restrict field usage last year, are prepared to take similar precautions again if EEE is detected in the region. Although it usually takes a positive sample to trigger those significant scheduling changes, Westborough Public Health Director Paul McNulty, whose town had five EEE-positive mosquito testing pools last summer, said people should assume the virus is in the environment regardless of what the surveillance uncovers. "I tell them to be cautious," he said. West Nile virus has already been accepted as a permanent resident in the region, he added, "and (EEE) may be here every year from now on also." Scott O'Connell can be reached at 508-626-4449 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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Wireless Headphones
About Wireless Headphones
Why buy wireless headphones?The freedom of wireless means you can listen to your music on the go, whether you're running, commuting or just doing the housework. Wireless means no more untangling wires – just connect your device and go!
Another reason to switch to wireless is that as new models are released, prices continually drop on slightly older models. And if you're worried about battery life, bear in mind that most wireless headphones come with a cable which allows you to connect if the battery dies.
What's more, unlike traditional wired headphones, wireless headphones are not exclusive. That means you'll never have to worry about them not fitting your device.
How do wireless headphones work?Wireless headphones work by connecting or pairing with your device through a wireless signal.
Many devices use Bluetooth technology to make connecting easier and more convenient. Devices with Bluetooth can connect to your device and exchange data wirelessly over a short distance.
How to connect wireless headphonesTo connect your device to your wireless headphones, press and hold the "on" or "Bluetooth" button on your headphones until you hear a sound / see a light indicating that the headphones are switched on.
Next, set the headphones aside and search for them on your device. Once you have located your headphones, select "Connect" or "Pair" on your device. Congratulations – you are now ready to enjoy the power of wireless!
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I'm looking for toolset recommendations to automate testing of an Oracle Forms application, with the tests (ideally) to be driven from Cucumber.
I am aware of Oracle's OATS. Can its APIs be called directly from another Java application, so I can avoid the whole record and playback idiom, or should I be looking somewhere else?


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STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, March 17 (UPI) -- A judge found two Steubenville, Ohio, teens guilty of raping an allegedly drunk 16-year-old girl and sentenced them Sunday to at least one year in jail each.
Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'lik Richmond, 16, were found delinquent -- the juvenile equivalent of guilty -- by Judge Thomas Lipps after four days of testimony The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reported.
Both teens were sentenced to a minimum of one year in jail, WKYC-TV, Cleveland reported. Mays was sentenced to an additional year for possessing a nude photograph of the victim.
Witnesses testified the two football players digitally penetrated the girl, which constitutes rape in the state of Ohio. The girl, whose name was not reported, testified she was intoxicated at the time of the incident, calling into question her ability to understand what was happening and to consent, CNN reported.
Much of the four-day trial focused on explicit text messages sent between the victim and the defendants, and the defendants and others, as well cellphone pictures and videos and social media posts surrounding the sexual abuse of the girl.
Mays and Richmond will likely undergo evaluation to determine their risk level, which could help classify them into a sexual offender registration tier.
The two teens face the possibility of being jailed until they are 21 years old.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Mike DeWine said Sunday a grand jury will be convened to determine if any of the other party-goers should be charged for the incident, WKYC reported.
Authorities determined 43 people were at one or both parties where the assaults happened, and 16 of those people have refused to answer police questions, DeWine said.
The attorney general said more needs to be done to educate the nation's young people about sex and rape.
"Crime likes this happen every single weekend in this country. Steubenville is not the exception. ... We still have an ignorance, from people about the fact that these events happen all the time," he said.


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NL DIVISION SERIES: CARDINALS v PADRES
October 7, 2006
Bruce Bochy
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI: Game Three
Q. Can we start with the lineup?
BRUCE BOCHY: Yeah, the lineup is pretty much the same lineup that we had out there when we faced Suppan before, last time we were here.
So the only difference is Walker is in the 2 hole and Giles is in the 3 hole.
Q. Where is Walker playing?
BRUCE BOCHY: What's that?
Q. Where is he playing, first, second or third?
BRUCE BOCHY: He's playing second.
Q. Brandon is in the lineup?
BRUCE BOCHY: Yes.
Q. But do you have a pitch for tomorrow?
BRUCE BOCHY: We have not announced one, no. At this point we'll use all of them today if we have to. So we'll get through this game and hopefully get a win and we'll announce it after the game.
Q. Bruce, does that mean Woody is in the bullpen today?
BRUCE BOCHY: Yeah, if we have got to use Woody in the bullpen, yes. He's available. Really all of them are. And you don't know how the game is going to go. So you know, when you're in a situation like we're in and one game from being out of it, you use everybody. You do all you can to win that game.
Q. You talked yesterday about possibly putting Khalil at shortstop. What finally made up your mind there and were there any other deliberations that you would share with us about moves you almost made?
BRUCE BOCHY: Yeah. We talked at length about Khalil, and couple of things. I mean, one, Blum really has done a great job. He's been playing every day. He's been playing well down the stretch here in September. He's had success off of Suppan. And Khalil has not gotten a lot of playing time. And Khalil will admit that he's not going to be real comfortable up there at the plate, even though he's at the point now where he can take a pretty good swing.
And I didn't think it would be fair to the kid to throw him in there at this point.
Q. Boch, why didn't you guys even carry him on the roster? Why didn't you stay with Alexander who had been backing up for you and could play?
BRUCE BOCHY: Manny was not going to start. But Khalil, we used in Arizona for defense, and that's what we plan on doing now.
Now, you can see Khalil out there, but we still felt that we had our starting shortstop at a point where, you know, we had to start him we when could, and obviously we think a lot of Khalil.
And with him being healthier and close to 100 percent, that he would assume a similar role that Manny would assume, but yet, you know, if I had to start Khalil, which we did debate today, he could go out there and start.
So that was really a no-brainer for us, because they'll be using a very similar situation, late in the game, double switch or defense. And obviously we think overall, Khalil's our better player. He's our starting shortstop.
Q. Bruce, how do you balance the idea of you have to win today with knowing, if you do, you need a pitcher tomorrow and Monday?
BRUCE BOCHY: Well, I think when you're at this point you just try to win the game, then the next day you try to figure it out. I mean, you piece it together the best you can. But we're fine with the pitching. And, again, we have a couple good options. Really depends on what happens today. But when you're in a must-win situation, you don't worry about tomorrow. And that's the way we're approaching it right now.
Q. You know, last year you were in the same situation but you had Eaton pegged for the game four starter. What makes it different this year than last year?
BRUCE BOCHY: We thought we'd hold off right now and see where we're at. We have Jake who would be on normal rest. He definitely could go tomorrow. Last year we lost Jake that first game. So that changes the scenario a little bit better.
We're different where Jake is available, and a good chance that he could go tomorrow.
Q. Boch, the guys were pretty loose before game two, and then obviously the bats weren't there. Do you have any gauge at all on just the spirit and mood of the team and the challenge ahead of them?
BRUCE BOCHY: I think the mood and spirit of the club is very good. I mean, we've shown we've been resilient all year. We've had tough losses, losing streaks, and, you know, they've bounced back very well. And they're very upbeat right now. They know that, you know, we've got a steep climb but they also know that winning three games, it's been done. And it's a short series, anything can happen. We just gotta go out and win a ball game. Then we'll worry about tomorrow tomorrow. And that's the only way to attack it right now.
But as far as where they're at, they feel good, and they should. I mean it's a club that has been resilient. And I really believe that they're going to come out and play their game today.
MODERATOR: All right. Thanks a lot, Bruce.
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"Rob and Sara love each other," begins a promotional video for the Closer ToGetHer iPhone and Android app, "but work keeps them apart more than they'd like."
The app's proposed solution: a feature that allows Rob to control the vibration function on Sara's phone.
Yep, its creators are serious.
Justin Wilcox, who wrote the code, says the idea was partially inspired by an Xbox hack he created when he worked for Microsoft. He took the force feedback motor that makes the controller shake when, say, a car rams into a wall at full-speed. Instead, for adult purposes, he made the Xbox controller motor respond to music. Microsoft's patent office, not surprisingly, denied his request to take that product to market.
But the idea of a remote-controlled adult toy resurfaced when Wilcox started a long-distance relationship.
In addition to controlling the phone's movement from far away, the app also has a sound setting, which theoretically can control a sound-activated toy (apparently someone who wasn't working for Microsoft beat Wilcox to market on that one).
Hygiene issues aside, Wilcox recognizes that the $9.99 app might raise some eyebrows with app store browsers. "I'm not a pervert, and this isn't how I spend most of my time or anything," he reassures us. "I'd rather be helping kids or something."
Somehow the app made it past the Apple censors; you can find it in the iPhone app store here.
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According to research firm Strategic Insight, JPMorgan's lineup, led by global funds chief George Gatch, posted higher net sales growth as a percentage of assets than any other firm with at least $50 billion. Gatch is scheduled to speak at this year's Morningstar investment Conference in June, signaling a broader acceptance of banks in the mutual fund space.
Bloomberg reports that while rival banks sought to sell asset management units following the financial crisis, "JPMorgan escaped relatively unscathed, allowing it to spend on the unit and lift long-term fund assets by 160% since 2008. The largest U.S. bank by assets succeeded in part by courting financial advisers to complement its in-house sales force and by offering hedge-fund-like products that have become more popular as investors flee traditional stock funds."
"We want to remain in the top five in net flows every year for the foreseeable future," Gatch told the news service. "If we do that, we're well-positioned as the markets normalize."
Funds owned by banks, brokerages and insurers have lost ground over the past decade to pure money managers such as Vanguard Group Inc. and Franklin Templeton.
As Bloomberg notes, the asset management unit, which also includes money funds and separate accounts for institutions and wealthy investors, produced 11% of JPMorgan's $21.5 billion in fourth- quarter revenue and 8.1% of its profit.
"Gatch, 49, who joined the firm in 1986 and took over the mutual funds business in 2001, has driven growth in part through an internal sales force of financial advisers who can sell the firm's funds as well as those of rivals, a fading approach that some observers say creates a conflict of interest," Bloomberg says. "He's also pouring resources into capturing business from independent registered investment advisers, or RIAs, the fastest-growing competitor to traditional brokers."
He's done it almost exclusively with actively run funds, another anachronism. U.S. investors pumped 2.5 times as much money into index-tracking funds, including exchange-traded products, in the past five years as they did into those whose managers pick securities. That, according to Bloomberg, leaves JPMorgan winning more business in a shrinking portion of the funds industry.


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🔵Monday October 14th
🦃🍂Thanksgiving Weekend🍂🦃is THIS WEEKEND which means the Bowmanville Older Adult Association will be 🚫CLOSED🚫:
🔵Saturday October 12th
🔵Sunday October 13th
🔵Monday October 14th
In these extraordinary times, we are committed to continuing to provide exceptional older adult programming, services and events to our members safely. We are an organization that's always done things a little differently… although it might not be what was always done, we are thrilled to announce
our reopening plan for our gradual re-opening starting in the Fall of 2020. Our organization is implementing important new measures to safeguard our members, staff and volunteers in order to make participating at the BOAA enjoyable.
Like many businesses and organizations, we've had to work incredibly fast with extreme flexibility to respond to the impacts of COVID-19 and to reflect ongoing government mandates. In response, on Monday September 14 th we will be safely reopening the doors to the BOAA with LIMITED ACCESS
available for members and guests. Pre-registration for indoor and outdoor programs and events is required.
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5. Hand sanitizer will be available throughout the building
We will continue to monitor the situation, doing our best to make the right decisions for our members, our team and our community. What is important for all to remember is that this will only be possible if we are COVID FREE and able to meet all Federal, Provincial, Regional & Municipal guidelines. Updates should always be expected and all planning is tentative.
We are honoured to be a part of your lives and look forward to our gradual reopening. Please follow us on our Facebook page to stay informed: https://facebook.com/BowmanvilleOA
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Fearing childbirth may prolong labor
Dr. Stuart Fischbein chuckled when he read the title of the press release: "Women with a fear of childbirth endure a longer labor."
The release was promoting a study published this week in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Researchers at Akershus University Hospital in Norway found women who feared giving birth were in labor for 1 hour and 32 minutes longer, on average, than those who had no fear.
"I'm glad there's now evidence to say that," Fischbein said, "but it's obvious."
For those of us who aren't OB/GYNs, it may seem more like a cruel joke. Women who are afraid of the pain and the possible medical complications associated with giving birth have to suffer through it longer?
"Mental stress is associated with physiological arousal and release of stress hormones," Adams wrote in an e-mail. "During labour, high levels of stress hormones may weaken uterine [contractions]."
In other words, the adrenaline released when a body is stressed stops the oxytocin hormone production that makes a woman's uterus contract, slowing labor. It's a natural, biological response to fear, Fischbein said.
Fischbein, who's also a co-author of "Fearless Pregnancy," said women today are afraid of giving birth because they're surrounded by horror stories.
"We have a society where sensationalism sells. They're pounded with information [about] things that can go wrong with childbirth. Of course you develop fears."
To understand Fischbein's lack of surprise at the study results, you have to take a look at the way other mammals give birth. For example, when cats, dogs or horses are in labor, they find dark places to have their offspring in peace. They eat when they're hungry, pace if they're in pain and run if something comes near them.
Compare that to a hospital setting, where a woman is given ice chips, strapped to machines while laying in bed and surrounded by people who are constantly interrupting. Though the machines and medical personnel are sometimes necessary, Fischbein says the stress comes from being in an unfamiliar environment.
He recommends women find a doctor or midwife who will take the time to talk through their fears and dispense honest advice about the birthing process.
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