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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rockies outfielder Corey Dickerson didn't want last season to end. It's as if he didn't want to let it, either.
Dickerson received his first Major League action last year and hit .263 with five home runs, 17 RBIs and 23 extra-base hits in 69 games, over two callups. It was enough to vault him into a competition for at-bats and starts in the outfield this season.
He followed that with an offseason during which he bulked up by 15 pounds and went to Meridian (Miss.) Community College -- where he played before the Rockies drafted him in the eighth round in 2010 -- and took fly balls from all three positions to improve his routes.
"Maybe two weeks out of the whole offseason," Dickerson said, when asked how much time he devoted to rest. "When you have a chance to compete for a spot, you have to take advantage. You can rest later."
Dickerson, 24, will compete with fellow lefty batter Charlie Blackmon, who has hit .291 over parts of three seasons. The Rockies also have righty-swinging Drew Stubbs, who came in a trade with the Indians and is under a one-year, $4.1 million contract -- an indication the club will find playing time for him, as well as Brandon Barnes, the Astros' starting center fielder much of last season.
"I think the way I worked out in the offseason and everything thing I did last year, I feel that I can play any three of the positions -- center field, left field or right field," Dickerson said. "We are competing for that job and whoever wins, wins. But it's all competition."
Many of the available at-bats appear to be at the leadoff spot, which was opened in November when the Rockies sent center fielder Dexter Fowler to the Astros for Barnes and right-handed starter Jordan Lyles.
To complete his heavy training for the season, Dickerson has been in Arizona for a week and plans on working with Rockies first-base coach Eric Young Sr. and Double-A Tulsa manager Kevin Riggs -- a force in Dickerson's development -- to improve his bunting and baserunning. Position players aren't officially due to report to camp until Friday.
However, many a young player coming off a successful debut has taken a step back the following year, partly because he's consumed with the pressure of proving he belongs.
Dickerson said it's not his way to allow for that possibility.
"It's keeping my mind right," Dickerson said. "I don't think about it that way. I think about competing when I get out there. I want to be the best out there and I don't think about it driving me the other way.
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Watching the Navajo language develop in a modern culture
FARMINGTON, N.M. -- "Ya'at eeh," George Werito says, greeting thousands of radio listeners across the Navajo reservation in their native language, Diné.
He has callers on the line, waiting. People want to tell him about road conditions, chapter meetings and church functions.
If you tell him your bit of news, he will report it, but in a fun way. He throws in trivia and games.
Werito, a radio personality at KNDN AM radio in Farmington, is considered the Jay Leno of the Navajo Nation, according to some of his listeners.
The news does not have Leno's national appeal: lost turtles, funeral announcements and pow wow updates. However, when Werito speaks, his audience listens.
And the Navajo language needs the peoples' attention more than ever, according to those trying to preserve it.
About half of the Navajo reservation's population speaks Diné, but the language is changing with its people.
In some ways, the changes are good -- a broadening vocabulary, for instance. In other ways -- fewer people are learning the vocabulary -- the changes are bad.
KNDN radio, one of three Navajo language radio stations in the Southwest, serves listeners across the Navajo reservation, which spreads across three states: New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.
KNDN has roughly 100,000 listeners on any given week. The listeners, for the most part, are among the more than 330,000 Navajo that live in and around the Navajo Nation.
Since KNDN became a full-time Navajo language station in 1978, fans have tuned in, some without a break, to hear the news of the reservation.
"They don't wait," Werito said, noting that he goes on air at 6 a.m. daily and immediately is flooded with calls. "A lot of our people listen. It's where they get their news."
He announces coal allotments, hay and corn distributions, ceremonial events, school board meetings and items lost and found.
While other media report on Navajo news, it is often in English, which some elders do not speak, and it appeals to a different audience. No Navajo-language television shows exist, nor newspapers, though some do use the language fleetingly in their coverage.
KNDN also has small luxuries that most English-speaking media do not have.
The station, for example, has a separate room where it allows people to come in as guests and make death and funeral announcements over the radio so that the radio hosts do not have to participate. If the hosts did participate, they later would have to go through special ceremonies since death is such a taboo topic.
"The station's always included things that are unusual," said Kerwin Gober, who manages KNDN and two other area radio stations.
One time, a man was admitted to the hospital without any indication of his identity, except for an eagle tattoo on his shoulder.
The hospital called the radio station, asking if the station would notify its audience of the patient and his tattoo in hopes of perhaps finding his family. The very same day, the family called in and was connected with the patient.
"We're probably the only form of communication some of them have," Werito said.
Granted, most Navajo have better access to various forms of communication than they used to. Cell phones, computers and other technologies are more available with the slow build-up of infrastructure on the reservation.
But even if the information they get from other media is about the Navajo people, it still is not in the people's native language.
Betsy Cook recalls that, only 20 years ago, when she taught at a community school in Rock Point, Ariz., the majority of her students fluently spoke and practiced Diné at home.
Rock Point, a tiny community on the reservation, is not the same today.
While the schools are teaching the native language, they are teaching students who never before learned it.
"The loss in just 25 years has just been horrendous," said Cook, who now is on the board of the Navajo Language Renaissance, a nonprofit group working to preserve and promote Diné.
Cook was just one of a handful of people who in 2004 kick started the effort to make a Navajo edition of Rosetta Stone, a language learning computer program.
The program was released in 2010, though the group does not want to stop there because it only provides two beginning levels.
"It's a very descriptive language," Cook said, noting that the pictures were vital for the program because there are multiple ways to say one word. A word can change its meaning depending on how it's used in a sentence.
"You can't just say it,'" Cook said, noting that the language is tonal. "There're 16 different words for it.'"
To explain the tones, the relationships and the uses of words in just a two-level program does not suffice, Cook said.
The group is ready for levels three, four, and five, especially since many schools are turning to the Rosetta Stone program to help students learn the language.
The majority of the students interested in Navajo, unsurprisingly, are Navajo, both young and old.
"I grew up with it, but I didn't study it," said Elton Benally, 35, who is taking a beginner's Navajo language course at San Juan College in Farmington, the reservation's largest border town.
Though not on the reservation, Farmington has the highest number of Navajo speakers in the country, with about 16.5 percent speaking it, according to the American Community Survey of 2007.
"I didn't feel like getting made fun of by my grandma anymore," Benally said. "My grandma laughs at me."
The language originally was not a written one, though American militants and missionaries began to write it down in the late 1700s.
While the future of the Diné language is hardly clear, it is a survivor among the nation's American Indian languages.
In Diné, you can talk about sports, politics, technology, a range of topics that other endangered languages would struggle to express.
Still, there are times when English is necessary, usually for very specific topics -- such as medicine. Often, in such cases, the words are too complicated to make it worth finding a new word.
Other times, English isn't necessary, but, for whatever reason, it's easier.
"Our language is very important," Werito said. "We should keep it going."
Saying it, though, is easier than doing it. With more and more youth slipping away from fluency, it likely will be a harder and harder language to maintain.
"My grandchildren, I'm sorry to say, I talk to them in English," said Werito, so known for his Diné voice. "The way I see it, it starts at home."


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In the last week before Election Day, Donald Trump and his team have decided the best possible message on the coronavirus pandemic is the same one Trump wanted back in the spring. "I wanted to always play it down," Trump told Bob Woodward in a taped conversation on March 19. "I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic." On Feb. 28, when the coronavirus had only just started to threaten the U.S., Trump gave a speech in South Carolina where he declared, "This is their new hoax," saying that "Democrats want us to fail so badly" that they were willing to exaggerate the threat of the virus in order to endanger his re-election.
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Fox News staffers are "in a panic" about election-night coverage after several of the network's top hosts were exposed a COVID-19 patient and told to quarantine, a staffer told The Daily Beast on Monday. Several top execs and hosts — including Fox News' president, Jay Wallace, and chief political correspondent, Bret Baier — took a flight with someone who later tested positive for the coronavirus. An internal memo sent to staffers on Monday said the network would be paring down staff for election-night operations after multiple positive cases, The Daily Beast reported.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has taken a step toward revealing his Supreme Court plans. The last-minute nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court has raised allegations from Democrats that Republicans are unfairly gaming the system. It has also led some Democrats to suggest Biden either expand and pack the court with liberal justices if he's elected, or adopt term limits to replace the current lifetime appointments.
Forty-five missing children were rescued and 179 people arrested in one of the largest human sex trafficking operations in US history. Ohio attorney general David Yost said 109 survivors were recovered as part of operation "Autumn Hope", which involved more than 50 law enforcement agencies conducting simultaneous raids across the state. The three-day sting across Columbus saw US Marshalls and undercover officers rescue children in Cuyahoga, Franklin and Lucas counties, including a 14-year-old girl reported missing from Cleveland and a 15-year-old girl reported missing from Lancaster about six hours earlier.
Karl Williams of Brooklyn believes that Black men have "nothing to win" in this year's presidential race with either President Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden. There's no policy platform being presented that's going to address any needs of Black men," Williams, an investor who trades options, said in a video interview with Yahoo News. Despite this conviction, Williams, 34, plans to vote for Trump for a second time on Nov. 3.
In an appearance on Fox News on Tuesday morning, McEnany was introduced as "Trump 2020 senior advisor and White House press secretary. A few hours later, Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney introduced McEnany by saying she is "serving now as advisor for the Trump campaign. McEnany's dual roles for the White House and the Trump reelection campaign immediately set off alarm bells among good government advocates, who said they represent yet another instance of the often blurry lines between the Trump administration and the president's political operation.
Jennifer Parson, a teacher's assistant and mother from Arizona, recently went viral on TikTok after sharing her unique experience as a gestational surrogate. Parson, who chose to be a surrogate as a way to help a couple complete their family, gave birth to a baby girl on June 9th. However, thanks to COVID-19 and international travel restrictions, the new parents were unable to make the trip to Tucson from Shenzhen, China — so Parson and her family cared for the newborn for nearly three months.
In this press release, he calls it "the very definition of 'voter suppression'" for a poll, by Franklin & Marshall College, to claim Hillary Clinton was ahead by eleven points among likely voters in surveys taken from October 26–30, 2016. He frankly calls this "liberal bias. Yet, Lee notes, Franklin & Marshall and its lead pollster are still taken seriously by the media and cited as nonpartisan experts.
As the US Senate confirmed Donald Trump's pick Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court, many top Democratic senators warned that their Republican colleagues may rue the day they decided to force through the nomination with just over a week to go before the presidential election. Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer said Monday will go down as one of the "darkest days in the Senate's history" as Senate Republicans are "breaking 231 years of precedent and becoming the first majority to confirm a Supreme Court Justice this close to a presidential election day".
Liberals and conservatives don't just differ politically. According to scientific research, people on different ends of the political spectrum differ psychologically too. Fear is linked more often to leaning conservative, whereas feeling safer can lead people to lean more liberal.
Fox News has been planning its election night coverage for weeks, prepping staff and on-air talent for the biggest news night of the year. "Everyone is in a panic about election night," said one current Fox News staffer. On Sunday, The New York Times reported that top Fox News executives and talent will quarantine and get tested after flying on a network-chartered flight from Nashville to New York—following Thursday night's presidential debate—with a staffer who later tested positive for the coronavirus.
If President Trump were looking for a little last-minute boost from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Putin had nothing for him on Sunday. In televised remarks on state TV, Putin "took the time to knock down what he made clear he regarded as false allegations from Trump about the Bidens," Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his son Hunter, Reuters reports. Putin said Trump's story about Hunter Biden getting money from the widow of a former Moscow mayor was news to him, even though Trump tried to tie Putin to the alleged payment.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed Republicans for confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, a week before the next presidential elections. "You will never, never get your credibility back," Schumer told Republicans. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed Republicans for pushing through Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation to the Supreme Court on Monday.
Laura and Scott Van Doormaal spent months fundraising to afford a life-saving treatment for their daughter, Lucy. Lucy has spinal muscular atrophy, and was not expected to live past two without treatment. The Van Doormaal family lives in Canada, where the treatment is not yet approved, but was able to get access through a program offered by the drug maker.
An Arizona man has been arrested after he accosted two young Black men outside of his mixed-use commercial/residential property over the weekend. As seen in captured video, the man, Paul Ng, stopped the pair, who were reportedly recording a YouTube show, and inquires what they are photographing. Asking Ng why he is interested in their presence, the young man says, "Do you know a lot of white men are doing racist things in this world, sir?
More than 30 people have been detained and 30 police officers have been injured after tensions erupt in West Philadelphia following the fatal police-involved shooting of Walter Wallace on Monday.
Donald Trump's press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, reportedly warned in 2015 that Joe Biden would be a "problem" as an election opponent. Ms McEnany also praised the Democratic presidential nominee as a "man of the people" who was more "likeable" than Mr Trump, as both men considered a run for the White House. Those remarks were unearthed by CNN this week, and date back to interviews Ms McEnany made in 2015, when she was a Republican strategist and political commentator.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz says the mounting national debt will re-emerge as a major concern for the GOP. The deficit had been growing even before the pandemic hammered the American economy as a result of the 2017 tax cuts and spending increases that Trump had enacted with GOP backing. Many Republicans are reluctant to support another pandemic aid bill, citing the growing federal debt.
Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said it was "pathetic" that State Secretary Mike Pompeo promised the release more of her emails ahead of the 2020 election. Pompeo made the pledge to release more of Clinton's State Department emails in an interview with Fox News earlier this month, saying "we've got the emails, we're getting them out." Ahead of the 2016 election, the FBI investigated Clinton's use of a private email server, but the investigation resulted in no charges.
"Many are longtime Republicans wrestling with what they see as a choice between two lousy candidates."
"Some undecideds turn out to be people who've long felt alienated from the two big political parties."
"They're not following the 24-hour news cycle. The election and politics are just not a high priority."
"One common trait: at this stage of the game, the undecided voter doesn't fit into an easy political profile."
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Rush Limbaugh Joins Twitter
Radio host Rush Limbaugh announced on his Thursday show that he's opened a Twitter account.
His handle @limbaugh is not to be confused with Fake Rush Limbaugh at a similar handle, @Iimbaugh (where the letter L is actually an upper-case letter "I") but with only 679 followers. The real Rush already has more than 107,000 followers, but has yet to be verified.
His first tweet recommended a story by The Daily Caller about NY Times ads airing on his show and criticized the progressive media watchdog group Media Matters for America.
Good story by @jeff_poor @DailyCaller. He gets it right, @mmfa wrong as usual. Read and Retweet: thedc.com/yDY8Dm— Rush Limbaugh (@limbaugh) March 15, 2012
He joined Twitter, he said on the show, to engage his "army" of followers:
"Everybody has been asking me what they can do to help in all of this, and I've been saying, nah, just do what you've been doing just, if you listen, keep listening, that's fine, but … there's an army out there that wants to be mobilized, and so, I figured, use Twitter for it. I'm just going to put some things on Twitter that you can help us circulate. It's that simple — you just retweet them."
Earlier this month, Limbaugh stirred up a storm of controversy when he labeled a college woman with a derogatory term after she asked that health care coverage included contraception. After which, big advertisers such as AOL withdrew their sponsorships.
Will you follow Rush Limbaugh on Twitter? Will you message him? Tell us in the comments.
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Back in June I wrote about how a initiative in Washington state on the issue of same-sex marriage could see the first real test of a post-Christian majority at the ballot box. More than half of Washington's citizens don't belong to any formal religion, becoming part of the demographic known as "nones," and these "unchurched" have increasingly gotten more and more attention as their numbers swell. In addition, nones in the Pacific Northwest have their own special character according to the authors of "Cascadia: The Elusive Utopia," they are "eclectically, informally, often deeply 'spiritual.'" Specifically, New Age and nature-oriented spirituality loom large among "nones" here.
"According to the just-published "Cascadia: the Elusive Utopia." … a lot of these "nones" in the Pacific Northwest are actually very spiritual, walking a path of their own making, but not into organized religions and churches. Sociology professor Mark Shibley of Southern Oregon University wrote the lead essay called "The Promise and Limits of Secular Spirituality in Cascadia." "This region is different. The people here are not as connected to religious institutions," he says. The alternative spirituality here shows itself in two main ways, Shibley notes: "nature spirituality," such as you see in the secular environmental movement, and the more well-known New Age spirituality, where the gaze is shifted inward."
When I wrote my initial piece, I asserted that "if Cascadian nones are truly the New Age, nature religion, do-it-yourselfers that researchers assert, then this could be a preview for what a truly post-Christian pluralistic political struggle will look like." So, with the clock ticking down on the November elections, where do we stand on this ballot initiative that would potentially stop gay marriage in Washington state? A September 10th poll says that 56% of Washington voters support upholding legal same-sex marriage in their state, while only 38% favor eliminating equal marriage rights, 6% are undecided. This is remarkable data, even in a traditionally "liberal" state like Washington, as voter referendums on same-sex marriage have always favored limiting legal marriage rights to opposite sex couples.
Further, Washington isn't alone in making history with a popular vote for same-sex marriage instead of against it. Maine, Maryland, and Minnesota are also poised to make breakthroughs on this particular issue if the latest polls are to be believed.
Polling numbers suggest a majority of voters support legalizing same-sex marriage on the ballots in Maine, Maryland and Washington, while Minnesota straddles the fence. Should any of the states approve the ballots, it will be the first time gay marriage passes by popular vote as opposed to going through the courts or legislature. "We're feeling positive. The reality is, we haven't won a ballot measure on marriage yet," Human Rights Campaign state legislative director Sarah Warbelow told NBC News. "I think it's very reasonable and realistic to expect that we'll win one or more of these ballot measures; certainly the polling suggests that all four are … a possibility."
Sticking with my "nones" theory, 25% of Maine residents are religiously unaffiliated according to the Pew Forum, while the 2010 US Religion Census shows that area also dominated by the "unchurched." Likewise, Maryland's numbers are also highly religiously unaffiliated (you can download a larger version of the map below here). So, like Washington, they could prefigure a "post-Christian" vote in terms of hot-button social issues like gay marriage.
However, it's Washington that I'm most interested in because of the trends that point to the "nones" in the Pacific Northwest being more like "us" Pagans in inclination and spiritual orientation. If you want tea leaves to read over what a "Pagan" vote might look like, this might be our chance to witness it in action. Of course, this vote could go the other way, as elections are largely about who's more motivated, and opponents to same-sex unions are often highly motivated and well funded. Also, with this being a presidential election year, enthusiasm for the candidate(s) who supports same-sex marriage will also be a factor. Still this is a very good sign that a demographic tide may have turned in Washington. We'll check back in as new data emerges.


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Renesas, TSMC detail MCU platform collaboration
Keywords:eFlash technology? MCU platform? CMOS logic? analog IP?
The new MCU platform integrates Renesas' 40nm embedded flash (eFlash) technology, the Japanese MCU giant's crown jewel, with TSMC's CMOS logic and analog IPs.
Details of the licensing model and business arrangements between the two companies are "still under discussion," said Shinichi Iwamoto, senior vice president of Renesas Electronics. They plan to complete the new platform by the end of 2012, he added.
Neither Renesas nor TSMC representatives at the press conference would confirm or deny reports of Renesas' pending sale of Tsuruoka fabin Yamagata prefecture to TSMC.
However, as Cheng-Ming Lin, director of specialty technology at TSMC pointed out that the collaboration announcement was "the first step toward further collaboration between TSMC and Renesas."
For Renesas' part, the company is now sending a clear signal that it's more willing to pursue an "outsourcing" model—including MCUs for automotive applications. Previously, Renesas executives had said that Renesas was committed to Japan-based manufacture of the company's "core products" like automotive MCUs.
To be clear, Renesas had previously agreed to outsource MCUs to TSMC using 90nm eFlash process technology. However, that was based on "a straightforward outsourcing model," explained Iwamoto, under which "TSMC simply builds our eFlash based on Renesas' 90nm spec, which [TSMC] would not be able to release to its other customers." In contrast, the new 40nm agreement will allow TSMC to use Renesas' Metal-Oxide-Nitride-Oxide-Silicon (MONOS) embedded flash technology on TSMC's own 40nm process, and make it available for its customers throughout the world.
By getting access to Renesas' MONOS eFlash technology, TSMC substantially strengthens its IP portfolio. "This is particularly attractive to us," said TSMC's Lin. The announcement represents TSMC's shift in embedded memory cell IPs from Microchip's licensable 90nm SuperFlash technology (originally developed by Silicon Storage Technology) to Renesas 40nm eFlash, explained Lin. Noting that it is no stranger to MCU foundry business, Lin said that TSMC is currently producing more than one million (8-inch) wafers per month.
Cheng-Ming Lin, director of specialty technology (left) and Shinichi Iwamoto, senior vice president of Renesas Electronics
According to Renesas, the Japanese company outsourced 15 percent of its semiconductor products in 2011. That ratio is likely to double to 30 percent by 2016, said Iwamoto.
When asked if TSMC finds Renesas' fabs in Japan attractive, TSMC's Lin offered a non-answer, saying the decision would fall to those responsible for business assessment at TSMC. However, "in my personal opinion, I don't think we should rule out" the possibility [of buying a fab in Japan], Lin added. "Japan has great engineering resources, and I would personally vote 'yes.'"
Late last year, Renesas announced what the company claims to be the "industry's first" 40-nm embedded flash memory IP for automotive real-time applications. The plan announced then was for Renesas to be first to launch 40nm embedded flash MCUs for automotive applications, with samples available by the beginning of autumn 2012. That may still come true, but the 180-degree shift here is that Renesas is making the same technology available for licensing to others through TSMC. Further, the Japanese MCU giant is eager to expand its own MCU market well beyond automotive applications by integrating CMOS logic and other IPs from TSMC.
TSMC's Lin made it clear that embedded flash is, in fact, one of the three pillars for TSMC's "specialty technology" division, newly created by Morris Chang earlier this year. Those three pillars deemed critical for differentiated services at TSMC include: high-voltage power management technology; CMOS image sensors and embedded flash, according to Lin.
Renesas boasts that its 40-nm flash memory IP guarantees 20 years of data retention, and can be read from up to 170°C junction temperature. Additionally, the code flash supports read speed of 120MHz, and the data flash achieves an industry-leading long data-retention period of 20 years even after 125,000 of program/erase cycles.
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An Officer and a Gentleman actor (not to mention two-time People magazine Sexiest Man Alive) Richard Gere has portrayed personas as diverse as a Civil War vet returning home in 1993's Sommersby and a … well, you know, in the 1980 hit American Gigolo. But — as I've learned with a little help from a friend — Gere's ancestry connects him to some interesting real-life characters, as well.
Sometimes, despite my best efforts, I can't find the genealogical information I'm seeking (I bet you can relate). That's when I turn to colleagues who specialize in the regions where I'm searching. When it comes to New England connections, I often find esteemed genealogist and author Gary Boyd Roberts willing to lend a helping hand and share his research.
Such was the case with the ancestry of Richard Gere, born in Philadelphia Aug. 31, 1949, to a family with strong New England ties. In fact, Gere's 11th-great-grandfather is William Brewster, a leader of the Pilgrims who settled Plymouth, Mass. Through his Brewster connection, Gere finds himself a 10th cousin twice removed to crooner Bing Crosby. More renowned relatives include poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who's a seventh cousin five times removed, and US Supreme Court justice David Hackett Souter, a 12th cousin.
When you're at a loss, reach out to fellow family historians through mailing lists, such as those at RootsWeb <lists.rootsweb.com>, and by communing in person at genealogical society gatherings. Other researchers' knowledge may be the key to uncovering officers, gentlemen and other interesting characters — maybe even the occasional, er, playboy — in your past.
From the December 2004 issue of Family Tree Magazine.


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By radiation is meant, as explained above, the projection of certain thoughts promoting the well-being of those persons towards whom one's mind is directed. A metta-thought is a powerful thought-force. It can actually effect what has been willed. For wishing well-being is willing and thus is creative action. In fact, all that man has created in different fields is the result of what he has willed, whether it is a city or a hydro-electric project, a rocket going to the moon, a weapon of destruction, or an artistic or literary masterpiece. Radiation of thoughts of metta, too, is the development of a willpower that can effect whatever is willed. It is not a rare experience to see diseases cured or misfortunes warded off, even from a great distance, by the application of the thought-force of metta. But this thought-force has to be generated in a very specific and skillful way, following a certain sequence.
Near the end are some stories to support this, including the well-known tale of the Buddha stopping a raging elephant in its tracks with metta.The subjective benefit of universal love is evident enough. The enjoyment of well-being, good health, peace of mind, radiant features, and the affection and goodwill of all are indeed great blessings of life accruing from the practice of metta-meditation. But what is even more wonderful is the impact which metta has on the environment and on other beings
Now, I've also read many Buddhists online who've stated that the benefits of metta-bhavana are for the one doing the meditating -- by training the mind to be more loving and less judgmental we become ready to reach Jhanas, and so on, and the objects of meditation don't really "receive" any sort of mystical transfer of goodwill or positive energy when we "send metta" to them, though they do benefit simply from interacting with a person whose mind has been well-conditioned by metta practice.
So, I'm curious, do different teachers approach this differently?
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BOSTON (AP) — Shaquille O'Neal, a 15-time All-Star who struggled to get on the court last season because of injuries, tweeted on Wednesday that he is going to retire after a 19-year career in which he won four titles and the 2000 league Most Valuable Player award.
O'Neal wrote on Twitter shortly before 2:45 p.m. that, "im retiring." It included a link to a 16-second video in which he says, "We did it; 19 years, baby. Thank you very much. That's why I'm telling you first: I'm about to retire. Love you. Talk to you soon."
An inveterate prankster who gave himself a new nickname — or several — in each of his six NBA cities, O'Neal did not notify the Boston Celtics, his latest team, of his plans. He played just 37 games this year, the first of a two-year deal at the veteran's minimum salary, making just three brief appearances after Feb. 1.
"To my knowledge, he has not informed any of us that he's retiring," Celtics spokesman Jeff Twiss said.
If he goes, O'Neal retires fifth all-time with 28,596 points, 12th with 13,099 rebounds and a .582 field goal percentage that is second only to Artis Gilmore among players with more than 2,000 baskets. His free throw percentage of .527 — well, now is not the time to dwell on that.
"I'm a little bit sad," said Pat Riley, the Heat president who was also the coach when O'Neal won a title in Miami. "It's the end of an absolute 20-year career. Great, great player. … The league's going to miss Shaq. I'm sure Shaq will do something big and beyond."
O'Neal's contributions to basketball went far beyond his presence on the court.
One of the most charismatic players in NBA history, O'Neal was a franchise-saver when the Orlando Magic made him the No. 1 overall pick in the 1992 draft. He took them from the lottery to the playoffs in two years, and then led them to the NBA finals in his third year before they were swept by the Houston Rockets.
O'Neal, 39, signed with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1996 and had his greatest success there, winning three titles alongside Kobe Bryant and coach Phil Jackson. But amid tension between O'Neal and Bryant after a loss to the Detroit Pistons in the finals, O'Neal was traded to the Heat in the summer of 2004.
After 3 1/2 years in Miami, a tenure that included his fourth NBA championship, O'Neal became a veteran-for-hire, moving to Phoenix and then Cleveland and finally Boston. But he couldn't deliver another title for Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire with the Suns, with LeBron James with the Cavaliers or with the Celtics' Big Three of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen.
"What a career for Shaq Diesel!!" James wrote on Twitter. "The most dominating force to ever play the game. Great person to be around as well. Comedy all the time!!"
At each stop, he endeared himself to the fans and his new teammates with his effervescent smile and playful attitude, including the habit of adopting a new nickname that he felt embodied his role with his new team. In Phoenix he was the "Big Shaqtus"; in Boston, the "Big Shamroq."
He also embraced social networking, amassing almost 4 million followers on his Twitter account, where fans could find out his next move or even the "random acts of Shaqness" — like sitting in Harvard Square, pretending to be a statue, or going out in drag on Halloween.
But O'Neal's off-court persona couldn't disguise the fact that he was getting old, and while he showed he could still play with younger opponents he couldn't manage to stay on the court with them. He missed a week in November with a bruised right knee, a week in December with a calf injury and another in January with a sore right hip.
He returned for three games — a total of about 34 minutes — before missing the next 27 games with what the team called a sore right leg. Although the injury was originally expected to keep him out just a few games, his absence stretched to more than two months.
He returned to play in one more regular-season game but lasted just 5 minutes, 29 seconds before reinjuring the leg and limping off the court. He missed Boston's entire first-round series against the New York Knicks and made two appearances against Miami, a total of 12 minutes, and scored two points.
In all, O'Neal averaged just 9.2 points, 4.8 rebounds and 20.3 minutes this season while playing in 37 games — all career lows.
AP Sports Writer Tim Reynolds in Miami contributed to this report.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Millions have read Sun Tzu's Art of War, the classic text on leadership and strategy, but how many understand its profound teachings and know how to apply them in modern life? The Rules of Victory presents the essential insights of The Art of War, making this classic relevant to anyone who seeks more successful and creative approaches to dealing with conflict and chaos in the workplace, at home, or in any challenging circumstance. It shows us:
• The core strategies of The Art of War and how to use them
• First-person success stories illustrating how these teachings can be applied in all areas of life
• How to recognize and even create critical turning points in any project
5 CDs; 6 hours; abridged. The Rules of Victory is also available in print.


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The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics was nominally founded in 1998, but, in terms of its mission and guiding spirit, it is a continuation, in an expanded and improved form, of the first ten volumes of the semi-annual Review of Austrian Economics, whose founding editor was the late Murray N. Rothbard. The QJAE features the same editorial staff that succeeded Rothbard in the editorship of the RAE beginning with volume 8, number 2.
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Beyond BIO2010
Celebration and Opportunities
21-22 May 2010
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, D.C.
We are a decade into the twenty-first century and 2010 has arrived. What progress has been made in addressing the challenges laid down in the National Research Council of the National Academies' call to action: BIO2010: TRANSFORMING UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION FOR FUTURE RESEARCH BIOLOGISTS? This conference will celebrate significant progress made by the mutual effort of biologists and mathematicians in the development of new curricular materials, majors, collaborative research initiatives, national institutes, professional development workshops, journals, national science digital libraries, awards, etc. These initiatives have been funded by grant agencies such as NSF, HHMI, NIH, and Sloan as well as by professional societies including: AAAS, AIBS, MAA, SMB, ASM, BSA, and ASCB. In addition to celebrating the progress and investment of considerable resources, we want to plan how should we address recent reports: AAAS Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education (2010), A New Biology for the 21st Century (2009), Towards 2020 Science (2006), Stoichiometry and the New Biology: The Future Is Now (2007), Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge; A 21st Century Agenda for the National Science Foundation. Report of the NSF Task Force on Cyberlearning (2008), Math and Bio 2010: Linking Undergraduate Disciplines (2005), The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery (2009), Linking Big: The Continuing Promise of Evolutionary Synthesis (2009), and Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians: Report of the AAMC-HHMI Committee (2009). Educators and scientists are invited to attend this celebration which will showcase some of the best collaborative initiatives to have emerged over the past seven years and chart a path for the future.
Sponsoring host:
Adam P. Fagen, Senior Program Officer, Board on Life Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies
John R. Jungck, Vice President, International Union of Biological Sciences, Chairperson, NRC/NAS U.S. National Committee of IUBS, and Mead Chair of the Sciences, Beloit College
Holly Gaff, Chairperson, SIGMAA Bio section of the Mathematics Association of America, and Assistant Professor, School of Community and Environmental Health, College of Life Sciences, Old Dominion University
Financial support for the conference is provided by the Society for Mathematical Biology, the National Institute for Mathematical Biology Synthesis Center (NIMBioS), the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS), the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the National Academy of Sciences, and institutions supporting the work of individual presenters, including but not limited to AAAS, American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), College Board, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Mathematical Association of America (MAA), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Registration and information: https://bioquest.org/beyondbio2010/


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Help for the Rockaways is pouring in from all across New York City. Yetta Kurland, a City Council hopeful for Christie Quinn's seat, led the Transit Forward Coalition to bring food, supplies, and an extra set of hands to help aid the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
[Press Release] The Transit Forward Coalition, a community-based coalition of New York City Transit Riders and Workers, has played a key role in responding to damage from Hurricane Sandy in New York . Most notably, members of the coalition from Transportation Workers Union Local 100 are working tirelessly to get New York City 's essential transportation lifeline back on track. Within a few days, most lines in the 100-year-old system were restored. The work is arduous, often dangerous, vital and ongoing.
As though that were not enough, the Transit coalition spearheaded a major volunteer and donation drive throughout the five boroughs. Teaming up with members of the West Village in Manhattan , Transit Forward hosted a donation collection and distribution party at the famous Stonewall Inn on Saturday. The bar, site of the 1969 Stonewall Riots which gave birth to the modern LGBT movement, quickly filled with water, clothes, canned goods and medical supplies.
The following day, led by community organizer Yetta Kurland and others, over 100 volunteers transported the materials to community organizer Jacques Leandre who then distributed the goods to desperately underserved areas in the Far Rockaway section of Queens – neighborhoods that still had no electricity and very limited access to resources.
The Transit Forward Coalition was joined by members of Occupy Wall Street's #OccupySandy movement. Their grassroots, no power organizing techniques proved perfectly suited for the unelectrified neighborhoods the community is serving.
Yetta Kurland said,
"My community has just gone through a week without power, hot water and lights. We can only imagine what our fellow New Yorkers in Far Rockaway are going through. It was incredible to see the care and thoughtfulness of the donations that people made. But given the freezing temperatures we are even more concerned for the residents of Far Rockaway and other impacted areas."
Jacques Leandre stated,
"Nearly a week after Hurricane Sandy, the people of the Rockaways are desperate for relief and assistance. It is not fair and it is not just that the residents of the Rockaways have not received the attention they deserve, while people's homes are still underwater in our community and families are begging for water on the streets. Transit Forward is coming to the Rockaways to not only deliver food, water, and flashlights, but also to make sure voters can still exercise their right to vote."
Mona Davids, President, NYC Parents Union and member of the Coalition said,
"We're so thankful for the support from the Transit Forward Coalition and LGBT Community. The outpouring of concern is overwhelming and uplifting. Transit Forward Coalition members are in Rockaways everyday helping families and giving them the assistance and support they desperately need to recover.
The Coalition is continuing to collect information, supplies and resources for New Yorkers recovering from the storm. If you need resources, or would like to help, contact the Transit Forward Coalition at http://www.transitforward.org/hurricane_sandy_assistance.
If you (or someone you know) doesn't have access to the internet right now, contact the borough pepresentatives:
If you do not have access to the internet, contact our Borough representatives below.
Manhattan: Yetta Kurland | 917-701-9590
Queens: Jacques Leandre | 347-613-2315
Bronx: Mona Davids | 646-807-4191
Brooklyn: Rodneyse Bichotte | 718-744-8410
Staten Island: Ahmed Tigani | 718-312-9105


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'Wayne's Poly to Splines' 3D Max plug-in (Free)
Link: www.psychocore.com/WaynesPolyToSpline.zip
Well as a personal thank you to all the zbrush users that were so positive about the mudbox videos and realised they are just as useful to them, and also didn't insult me or start ww3.... Here's a little thank you for those of you that use 3D Max. Its something I knocked out in an hour tonight that takes imported zbrush hair and converts it into splines so that they can be used with to comb max hair and fur. This of course gives you dynamics and opens the whole thing up to animation. Its single click and works fast...oh and free.
It operates in a single click and includes a very basic installation and usage PDF....if there are any spelling mistakes or typos don't blame me as I wrote the damn thing in 5 mins lol. As mudbox users have sort of had a monopoly on me of late I felt it would be a nice way to say thanks to the zbrush users who often get sidelined in my freebie releases.
I can't stick this on zb central as I've been banned for 'daring to use mudbox' now for over 3 1/2 years lol. So pass the word amongst yourselves as I cannot.


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Today we are releasing a major update to version 2016. As you may have noticed instead of releasing regular small updates we do this in bigger batches. Think of this update as a service pack.
Here is what has been done:
Fixed: Crash in Keyboard Shortcuts form
Fixed: Crash while disconnecting from FTP server if the connection fails catastrophically
Fixed: Scrolling to incorrect <img> after updating image with link via toolbar
Fixed: Draggable menus contained incorrect toolbars
Fixed: Crash when opening invalid document
Fixed: Crash when FTP trying to activate document that isn't open anymore
Improved: Color picker will support multiple monitors
Improved: Selecting image or script from inspector or auto-complete will add file:/// if the selected path is not relative to current document
Fixed: Prevent window.close() in Chromium preview to exit IDE
Improved: High definition support in FTP explorer window folder tree
Improved: High definition support in update notification window
Plugins: New function SaveStringToFile
Plugins: Trying to add image in incorrect size will throw and exception
Roadmap info:
We will continue addressing critical bugs in version 2016, however work has also began on the next major version which is expected to come out either in late 2017 or early 2018. I and Aivars we are maintaining an orderly list of suggestions and issues that need to be addressed, and we shall try to do as much as we can to satisfy the needs of as many of our awesome users as possible.


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Earthquake overview : After a long 30 minutes of receiving I Have Felt It reports from concerned New Delhi people we could finally report that a magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck close to New Delhi.
"I have Felt it" Reports --> see below + Let us know how you have felt this earthquake
To read the full story as it happened, we advise our readers to start at the lower part of the page (earthquake data).
Keep this page open or return regularly as we will be back with more details when they become available
Update 09/09 - 07:39 UTC : One woman was injured after falling and fracturing her hand in Delhi. Minor damage like broken plaster and cracks in walls, occurred in some parts of area.
In 2007, a magnitude 4.7 earthquake occurred in the Delhi region causing minor damage.
The strongest recent historical earthquakes in the Delhi region include the M 6.0 Khurja-Bulandshahr earthquake on 10 October 1956, the M 6.0 Gurgaon earthquake on 27 August 1960 and the M 5.6 Moradabad earthquake on 15 August 1966.
Historically, the 15 July 1720 earthquake in the Delhi region caused the greatest damage in the city causing many deaths and widespread damage including knocking down large parts of the city wall in Old Delhi from Kabuli Gate to Lal Darwaza.
Update 08/09 - 08:03 UTC : More I Have Felt It reports
Update 08/09 - 07:31 UTC : The map at right is showing the earthquake risk areas in Northern India. The Haryana area, New Delhi and the Sonipat epicenter are located in a low to medium risk area. The colors and scale at the right side are showing the "Peak Ground Acceleration (m/s²) with a 10% probability of exceeedance in 50 years. The areas to the north have far more risks on damaging and even catastrophic earthquakes as we have seen many times in the past.
Update 08/09 - 07:16 UTC : The Fire Department in Delhi said that they have not received any call for help. There are NO reports of even minor damage. At Earthquake-Report.com, we can confirm that earthquakes with magnitude 4 to 4.5 are very rarely generating damage. At the most cracks in walls and loose items falling on the ground.
Update 08/09 - 07:10 UTC :The tremors were felt across North India, including Kashmir and Uttarakhand.
Update 21:49 UTC : There are still NO reports of damage or injuries so far. Although we are not really expecting major damage from the shaking (the shaking lasted only about 10 seconds), we would not be surprised to see houses and buildings with cracks, shattered tiles, etc when daylight arrives in this very populated area with a lot of badly constructed brick houses.. So far however, no signs of any minor damage.
Update 21:48 UTC : Delhi is among thirty important cities in India that fall into high risk seismic zone while Srinagar is among places at very high risk of earthquakes, the government said.
Update 20:42 UTC : We have a crazy situation in India where a lot of press is still mentioning a cruel 6.6 magnitude value. 6.6 was a value which circulated shortly after the earthquake occurred. Even the Times of India (and we) were taking over this value (although we did not believe it as seismological agencies did not confirm it quickly enough)
Update 20:20 UTC : YouTube NDTV footage of the news
Update 20:10 UTC : Scared studio personnel ! Takes only 7 seconds to watch !
Update 19:58 UTC : More I Have Felt It reports
Update 19:41 UTC : As usual the location of the epicenter differ much from agency to agency. We mostly trust the local agency as they have their instruments closest to the epicenter.
Update 19:41 UTC : People in Delhi were terrified after having experienced a cruel bomb attack earlier today.
Update 19:39 UTC : The epicenter on the link in the data below is the epicenter following USGS (measured from very far away). This is the epicenter satellite map following the Indian Seismological agency: Click here
De depth following them is 8 km (USGS 10 km)
Update 19:36 UTC : There are NO reports of damage or injuries so far.
Update 19:34 UTC : The quake has sent shivers among citizens who ran out of the high-rise buildings.
Update 19:31 UTC : A lot new I Have Felt it reports
Update 19:08 UTC : We could finally fill in the earthquake data from this after all moderately dangerous earthquake. It was more like a scary experience than a real dangerous earthquake
Update 18:56 UTC : The epicenter of the earthquake was Sonipat at Delhi-Haryana border.
Update 18:51 UTC :Contrary to the reports from the Times of India, asc-india.org is reporting a magnitude 4.2 earthquake in the Delhi-Haryana region.
We have the impression at Earthquake-Report.com as the worldwide seismological agencies would pickup a 6.6 much faster than now.
Update 18:41 UTC : We quote an Indian press article : An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale shook Delhi and its outskirts at 11.30 pm on Wednesday night, the Met department said.
Update : we know only what readers have send us so far. Officially we know nothing yet.
"I Have Felt It" reports as received by Earthquake-Report.com
MMI values (if indicated) after the text (III: Weak shaking, IV Light shaking, V Moderate shaking, VI Strong shaking, VII Very Strong shaking)
Sonipat : i felt that......it was around 11:30 PM.i was sitting on chair and suddenly it my chair started to shake.......
Delhi : windows and doors were shaking really bad, even a picture frame fell
Delhi : Yes, felt an earthquake in Delhi region moments ago..
Delhi : Light shaking of earth in delhi, india. Epicentre may be either in hindukush mountains, himalayas or gujarat
Delhi : It was very strong but for very less duration.
Delhi : Felt a gentle earthquake in Delhi. Time was about 11:30 pm. Gurgaon, Ghaziabad,Noida,Najafgarh seem to be affected
Delhi : though it was short-lived, for once i thought, i don't wanna right now.. my monitor was shaking.. hope everyone is safe..!! fingers crossed.
Delhi : It was about 2335hrs in New Delhi, India. I was working on the computer. I felt as if the table and the building (on 5th floor) was shaking.My wife also asked me whether i knocked the bathroom door.
Faridabad :i live in faridabad. i felt dat my bed is vibrating.
Gurgaon : Felt quite a shake, windows and doors were shaking. Went on for about 12 seconds.
Delhi : strong earthquake felt in NEW DELHI just at 11.38 pm (IST).
Delhi : a terrible shaking of the entire hostel building and the entire campus.
Delhi : We felt earthquake tremor tonight, 7-th of September around 23.30 IST in Delhi, India.
Noida : wasnt long enough but strong!
Delhi : I felt the earthquake at my home in new delhi at 11.28 PM , 7 September, 2011. The tremor felt quite strong and we rushed out in fear of an aftershock. The furniture also shook.
Delhi : 6th floor of hotel swayed for about 30 seconds.
Delhi : in delhi there was strong shaking possibly the epicentre may be in uttarpradesh. tremors were not felt in punjab and gujarat
Delhi : a brief duration of almost half a minute....of strong tremors...felt like could have more
Noida : I was sleeping and suddenly I was awoken by violent shaking of my bed. Right now I am very scared and don't know if there will be any aftershocks. If anyone else has felt this, please tell. Even the news has not mentioned anything yet.
Delhi : moderate to slightly strong shaking which lasted a short while of about 2 seconds at about 11:27 PM (IST)
Delhi : Just felt tremors about 10 minutes ago. I had to hold stuff on my television set.. to save them from falling Saved though..
Delhi : It was 5.8 magnitude as per NDTV news
Delhi : Felt the building shake for about 5-10 seconds
?? : at 11:27 i felt a shake for 3 seconds coming from south east side
Delhi : Around 2337 hours. No damage apparent in vicinity (West Delhi area).
Noida : earthquake felt in Noida
Gurgaon : Based on the News reported by 2 Indian (Hindi) channels, namely Star News and Aaj Tak, I think it's safe to say that there has indeed been an earthquake, and that was not a figment of my imagination. The quake has been listed as 6.1 on the Richter scale. Though the epicenter has not been confirmed as yet, the media has targeted Uttarakhand as the main area of the quake. Let's hope this doesn't get worse, we JUST went through a bomblast not 12 hours ago. Cheers. SAV (ER - finally it was 4.3 or 4.2 depending on the agency)
Faridabad : 2335 IST - 1805 UTC, mild tremors felt, lasted upto 7-8 seconds, two continuous shocks, I was watching TV and was resting on bed, it shaked left right and was obvious that its a tremor - Location - Faridabad, Haryana (IN)
Delhi : epicenter was new delhi harayana border a place called 'KUNDLI' 4.2 on ritcher scale..
Delhi : Felt Strong shaking with a loud rumbling sound. Lasted about 10 to 15 secs. One wave only.....well so far!!!
Delhi : Oh! dear, the Govt agencies are sleeping while we are looking for info. India is blessed by God or else how can one survive while the Govt agencies sleep.
Delhi-Noida : We were woken by the shaking of the bed; 11:28 pm local time, India
Delhi : Bottle started shaking. Have been accounts of cracks and other small fissures at other places.
Jangpura : felt an earthquake in jangpura,delhi
Delhi : some time before earthquake i live in IIIrd floor - all people go down - i know 10 second
Nodia : im here in nodia .i was just watching a movie and @ 11:38 PM IST fell some one is pulling my bed , im sure it's wrost some here 🙁 wish im wrong
Delhi : EVERYTHING started shaking. I was sitting on my bed, and everything started shaking for about five seconds. We were worried it was another bomb!
Delhi : Around 4.5 magnitude on richter scale. Epicentre was at Sonepat about 50 kms north of delhi. No reports of casualty. unusual for Delhi hence people came out of their homes. Panick high esp amongs those living in high rise buildings in and around delhi. Lasted about 5-7 seconds. With a loud noise. No after shocks. Left people shaken. - Brij
Delhi : There is a Earthquake in delhi... in late nigth at 11:26pm... i feel it in hari nagar location...
There is a Earthquake in delhi... in late nigth at 11:26pm... i feel it in hari nagar location...
Delhi : Its 5th earthquake of my life bt i never felt such a strong quake with a loud sound. One of my nebour got uncusious during this quake.
Anand Parvat : I am stand on mirror suddenly mirror and walls photos and watch shaked but it safe
Delhi : Felt vibrations of windows
New Delhi, JUCASSO HOTEL : During my trip at new Dehli, i was located in my hotel room working on my computer. Suddenly at 11:30 PM the building began budging for at least 10 seconds. I used to go downstair and found a lot of people in the street. Benjamin MOUANDZA
Gurgaon : I WAS SITTING IN MY OFFICE WITH MY MANAGER ,HE WAS SCOLDING ME SUDDENLY ,I FELT LIKE I AM FLYING BECAUSE THE GROUND WAS SHAKING ,I WAS SO SCARED ,IT WAS SMALL BUT VERY STONG ,FIRST TIME I HAD A EXPERINCES LIKE THIS ,MY MAMAGER RAN AWAY SD I WILL NOT CALL YOU FOR A MEET AGAIN
Ghaziabad : I too felt the earthquake at 11:30 ..I dont know why it was along with aloud sound.felt as if something too heavy had fell down somewhere which caused this vibration.
Delhi : buildings shook with the feeling that somekind of a vibrator was attached to the base and the top end of the bauilding which is shaking the building and swaying the building like a twig swaying due to wind with a humming sound. At about 11:28 to 11:30 pm, 7th Sept,2011. G.Sarker,
Delhi : It was the strongest earthwuake i ever felt..i was scared that i rushed out of my house...
Gurgaon : Bed shook and window rattled for about 30 seconds. No damage
Most important Earthquake Data:
Magnitude : 4.3
UTC Time : Wednesday, September 07, 2011 at 17:58:21 UTC
Local time at epicenter : Wednesday, September 07, 2011 at 11:28:21 PM at epicenter
Depth (Hypocenter) : 10 km
Geo-location(s) :
Epicenter near Sonipat
42 km (26 miles) N (1°) from NEW DELHI, Delhi, India
46 km (29 miles) W (269°) from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
147 km (91 miles) NW (326°) from Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Links to important maps
USGS Did You Feel It Map
Google satellite map showing the epicenter and the surrounding area.
Historic earthquakes map
Seismic hazard map
Shaking map
Focal mechanism report
QuakeSOS+ and QuakeSOS free are iPhone applications developed by Armand Vervaeck, the founder of Earthquake Report. The Application simplifies immediate group communication to friends and family members (with your exact GPS location) and is feeding the users with Earthquake Report news. The 0.99 US$ QuakeSOS+ version will support the activities of SOS Earthquakes.
Earthquake-Report.com headlines on twitter
@OnlyQuakeNews : Get all the headlines of our earthquake-report.com articles + regular updates on ongoing events
@QuakeSOS : earthquake-report.com news + automatic earthquake notifications of USGS earthquakes of M 4.0 or higher with emphasis to earthquakes in the America's and the Pacific Ocean sphere (4 and up) and a lot of the rest of the world (5 and up). This account was created for our QuakeSOS and QuakeSOS+ iPhone applications
@ShakingEarth : earthquake-report.com news + automatic earthquake notifications of EMSC earthquakes of M 4.0 or higher with emphasis to earthquakes in European and Asian / Middle East sphere (4 and up) and a lot of the rest of the world (5 and up). This account was originally created to stimulate our Facebook account
@QuakeMaps : earthquake-report.com news with mapping notifications of ALL earthquakes M 3.0 and higher from all over the world via EMSC and USGS. This account was created for our http://www.quake-maps.com website
I did feel it – Ik heb het gevoeld – Το έκανα αισθάνεται – Yo lo siento – 我的确感到了 – 私はそれを感じていました- Ich habe es gefühlt – Bunu hissediyorum yaptı – لم أشعر أنه


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Good Thursday, bloggers! I'm back after a bit of a break due to a full schedule at school, to bring you some of the new releases!. This card has two new stamp sets on it, His Little Ones Drummer Boy and Winter Sketches. I also used an older stamp set, the Background Stamps. Hope you like it, and be sure to drop by the Inspired Stamps blog to see all the other different styles the DT created with all the new releases. The new releases will be available in the online store tomorrow!
Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today!
Inky and glittery fingers for all!
Challenges Entered:
- Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Keep It Clean and Simple


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St. Nicholas: On this rock I will rebuild my Church
On September 11, 2001 the barbaric attack not only destroyed the majestic Twin Towers but also the tiny yet historic St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, located south of the second tower of the World Trade Center. In the aftermath of its destruction, very little survived: two icons, one of St. Dionysios of Zakynthos and the other of the Zoodochos Pege, along with a few liturgical items, a book, and some candles.
Within days, the Archbishop traveled personally to Ground Zero, setting foot on the site where the Church of St. Nicholas stood, in order to conduct a memorial service for the victims of those who perished in the attacks and to offer prayers for the families in mourning.
On the Feast Day of St. Nicholas, December 6, the Archbishop, joined by His Eminence Archbishop Iakovos and area clergy, celebrated a somber Vespers and memorial service near where the Church once stood. Six months after the attacks, His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew also journeyed to this sacred site and presided at a memorial service with family members of the victims.
Though small in stature, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was a place of ministry and worship both for her parishioners and also for local residents and workers in the Financial District of Manhattan who would pass by and often enter the Church. Following its collapse, the legacy of this tiny Church continues to dramatically impact peoples' lives, and donations of almost $2 million have been received, as well as additional pledges of construction materials and appointments for the complete rebuilding of the Church. The city of Bari, Italy, where the relics of St. Nicholas were originally bestowed, has donated $250,000. The government of Greece has contributed $750,000 to these efforts, and the Ecumenical Patriarchate has given $50,000. The Governor of the State of New York, George Pataki, met with the Archbishop and pledged his support for including a new St. Nicholas in the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site.
The task of rebuilding the Church of St. Nicholas involves careful coordination, planning and vision. To this end, His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios has appointed a committee to oversee the rebuilding project. In accomplishing their objectives, the committee has met with the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation so that the task of rebuilding St. Nicholas may be properly incorporated into the concept plans for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site located at Ground Zero. These concept plans, which are the product of an inclusive process, envision the rebuilding of the historic Church of St. Nicholas as a functioning parish, ministering once again to the needs of her faithful. His Eminence, however, also sees the rebuilding of St. Nicholas as a matter of spiritual destiny, so that the millions of people who will visit the historic site of the World Trade Center may find marking the place of a national tragedy, a sanctuary of solace and prayer, a concrete and visible testimony of renewed faith and hope.


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CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS KDD-2004 THE TENTH ACM SIGKDD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING August 22-25, 2004 Seattle, WA, USA http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2004 or http://www.kdd2004.com ____________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadlines: Electronic Abstract Submission: Feb. 20, 2004 *at noon PST* Electronic Paper Submission: Feb. 27, 2004 *at noon PST* Submission Format: Camera-Ready (no more than 10 pages), electronic submissions *in PDF format only* Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 21, 2004 Camera-ready papers due: June 4, 2004 ____________________________________________________________ During the past years, the ACM SIGKDD conference has established itself as the premier international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining with an attendance of 600-900 people. To continue with this tradition, the tenth ACM SIGKDD conference will provide a forum for researchers from academia, industry, and government, developers, practitioners, and the data mining user community to share their research and experience. The SIGKDD conference will feature keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster presentations, workshops, tutorials, and panels, as well as the KDD Cup competition. Papers on all aspects of knowledge discovery and data mining are solicited. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Applications of data mining (biomedical, e-commerce, defense) - Data and result visualization - Data mining and data warehousing - Data mining for community generation, social network analysis, and graph-structured data - Foundations of data mining - KDD framework and process - Mining data streams - Mining high-dimensional data - Mining text and semi-structured data - Multi-media data mining - Novel data mining algorithms - Spatial and temporal data mining - Security and privacy issues - Interactive and online data mining - Pre-processing and post-processing for data mining - Robust and scalable statistical methods Abstracts and full papers must be submitted electronically at the conference Web site (see URL above). Abstracts must be submitted on or before February 20, 2004, 12 noon PST (Pacific Standard Time). An abstract may not contain more than 250 words. No paper will be considered without having the abstract submitted on time. Full papers must be submitted on or before February 27, 2004, at 12 noon PST. This is a FIRM deadline. Papers must be no more than 10 pages in length, inclusive of all figures, tables, references and appendices. Papers should be submitted in ACM proceedings format (two columns, 9pt font, approx. 1in margins). Templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Authors are solely responsible for ensuring that their submissions display and print properly. All papers will be judged based on their technical merits, originality, relevance to KDD, and presentation clarity. Papers should describe original work that has not been published before, is not under review elsewhere, and may not be submitted elsewhere during KDD-2004's review period (specialized workshops with a limited audience excluded). A separate call is being issued for industrial/government track papers; see the conference Web site at the URL above. Reviewers can assign research track submissions to the industrial/government track and vice-versa, if they feel this to be more appropriate. Calls for workshop, tutorial and panel proposals can also be found at the conference Web site. The KDD-2004 Best Paper awards recognize the best paper in two categories: fundamental research and applications/applied research. Fundamental research papers are judged by the significance and originality of their contribution. Applications/applied research papers are judged by the practical impact and current or potential usefulness of the work. In both cases, the clarity and quality of presentation are also considered. KDD-2004 will also award scholarships to selected students to help defray the cost of participating in the conference. Details will appear on the conference Web site. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: - General Chair: Ronny Kohavi (Amazon.com, USA) - Program co-Chairs: Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University, USA) and William DuMouchel (AT&T Labs, USA) - Industrial/Government Track Co-Chairs: John Elder (Elder Research, USA) and Bharat Rao (Siemens Research, USA) - Panels Chair: Raghu Ramakrishnan (University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA) - Tutorials Chair: Mihael Ankerst (Boeing, USA) - Workshops Chair: Myra Spiliopoulou (Otto-von-Guericke Universitaet Magdeberg, Germany) - Best Paper Awards Chair: Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft Research, USA) - Student Awards Chair: David Madigan (Rutgers University, USA) - Proceedings Chair: Joydeep Ghosh (University of Texas at Austin, USA) - Publicity Chair and Webmaster: Gabor Melli (PredictionWorks, USA) - Local Publicity Chair: Zhaohui Tang (Microsoft Research, USA) - Treasurer: Rajesh Parekh (Blue Martini Software, USA) - Local Arrangements Chair: Ying Li (Microsoft Research, USA) - Sponsorship Chairs: Kamal Ali (Yahoo!, USA) and Tom Breur (ING Card) - Exhibits chair: Llew Mason (Blue Martini Software, USA) - Registration Chair: Marina Meila (University of Washington, USA) - SIGKDD Chair: Won Kim (Cyber Database Solutions, USA) ---


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Sprint and Samsung have started rolling out the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update for their variant of the Galaxy S2 – the Epic 4G Touch. The update will bring with it quite a bunch of new features as seen on the international Galaxy S2, including Smart Stay, Direct Call and more.
The usual Android 4.1 Jelly Bean enhancements are also present including Google Now, Project Butter for buttery-smooth UI, enhanced speech-to-text with offline mode support, and expandable notifications among other things.
Samsung is not rolling out the update via OTA, and Sprint SGS2 owners need to use KIES on a Windows XP or Windows 7 based PC to get the update. The update needs to be manually downloaded from here, and weighs in a whopping 520MB+. Your data will be left untouched, but it is highly recommended that you make a backup before proceeding with the update. While KIES does not officially support Windows 8, the application and the update process works flawlessly on the latest OS from Microsoft.
Hopefully, AT&T and other U.S operators will soon release the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for their variant of the Galaxy S2 as well.


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A lonely office worker forges a relationship with an unlikely new friend – a Post-it note.
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A murderous slasher has been killing people at his creepy cabin for years - but now that a neighbor is warning people away, his supply of victims has dried up!


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Type: Bug
Status: Resolved (View Workflow)
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Component/s: xunit-plugin
Environment:Jenkins & Agents: Windows 2012R2 64 bit
Jenkins 2.124
xUnit: 2.0.0
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We upgraded our xUnit plugin from 1.104 to 2.0.0. After that the builds started to fail. The failure is in the last part of the build and seems to have to do with parsing of the unittest-results.
We're parsing as "nUnit-2 (default)".
The build log reports:
09:22:03 [xUnit] [ERROR] - Conversion error Error to convert the input XML document
09:22:03 ERROR: Failed to parse POMs
09:22:03 java.io.IOException: remote file operation failed: C:/jks/ws/Classic-AMIS_2.50.X_Build at hudson.remoting.Channel@d1a67e:JNLP4-connect connection from chdev1074.intern.csam.no/10.14.80.130:61390: java.io.IOException: Failed to deserialize response to UserRequest:org.jenkinsci.plugins.xunit.service.XUnitTransformer@14b5f21: java.lang.SecurityException: Rejected: net.sf.saxon.expr.CardinalityChecker; see https://jenkins.io/redirect/class-filter/
The slaves errorlog reports:
INFO: [xUnit] - [NUnit-2 (default)] - 14 test report file(s) were found with the pattern '**/target/TestResults.xml' relative to 'C:\jks\ws\Classic-AMIS_2.50.X_Build' for the testing framework 'NUnit-2 (default)'. Error on line 59 XPTY0004: A sequence of more than one item is not allowed as the first argument of substring() ("TMService.UnitTests.TMServiceT...", "_IGNOREREASON") at xsl:for-each (#53) processing /test-results/test-suite[1]/results[1]/test-suite[1]/results[1]/test-suite[1]/results[1]/test-suite[3] at xsl:for-each (#51) processing /test-results/test-suite[1]/results[1]/test-suite[1]/results[1]/test-suite[1]/results[1]/test-suite[3]/results[1]/test-case[1] in built-in template rule org.jenkinsci.plugins.xunit.exception.XUnitException: Conversion error Error to convert the input XML document
Caused by: net.sf.saxon.s9api.SaxonApiException: A sequence of more than one item is not allowed as the first argument of substring() ("TMService.UnitTests.TMServiceT...", "_IGNOREREASON")
See the enclosed buildlog and jenkins-slave.err.log extract. I've also included the problematic TestResults.xml file (created by NUnit Console 3.8.0).
I think it has problems handling test-runs where no tests were actually run.
Reverting to 1.104 of the xUnit plugin fixes the problem.
- duplicates
JENKINS-51556 xUnit JEP-200 incompatibility
- Resolved
JENKINS-51465 JEP-200 with new 2.0.0 version on nunit test import
- Resolved
Is it ran with NUnit 3.6 but the generated report transformed in NUni2 format?
In case in latest version there is support for NUnit 3.x format.
Code changed in jenkins
User: Nikolas Falco
JENKINS-51561 xUnit plugin fails to parse NUnit 2 report format generated by NUnit 220.127.116.11
Fix parse of nunit-version attribute to decide how to compose testcase classname and name.
*NOTE:* This service been marked for deprecation: https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-04-25-github-services-deprecation/
Functionality will be removed from GitHub.com on January 31st, 2019.
Nikolas Falco When we switched to running the unit tests with the NUnit-console runner in october last year we had to switch to NUnit 2 format because xUnit did not support NUnit 3 format. Are you now saying that xUnit 2.0 does support NUnit 3 format but no longer the NUnit 2 format?
Both format are supported, you no longer need to produce in version 2 report when you run NUni3
I've edited the attachment 'buildlog.txt' so that the email addresses are redacted away.


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By popular demand; my postseason picks.
Tampa over Texas in 5
Minnesota over New York in 4
Philadelphia over Cincinnati in 3
Atlanta over San Francisco in 5
Tampa over Minnesota in 5
Philadelphia over Atlanta in 5
Tampa over Philadelphia in 6
Full disclosure: My preseason picks are listed over at Wezen-ball. I correctly predicted 4/8 teams that made the playoffs. My World Series pick (Atlanta over Tampa) is still a possibility.
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"Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown," the 1975 special produced and animated by the same team that gave us the now classic holiday specials and taken directly from the late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz's famed comic strip, will air with the classic "A Charlie Brown Valentine," FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 14 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (Rebroadcasts. OAD: 2/10/09 and 2/14/02, repectively)
In "Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown," hearts are fluttering on Valentine's Day at Birchwood School, and Linus has brought a huge box of candy for his homeroom teacher. Thinking that the candy is for her, Sally reciprocates with a homemade card for Linus. Lucy meanwhile, demands some affection from Schroeder, and Charlie Brown waits for his cards in the mail� and waits� and waits�
This special stars Duncan Watson (Charlie Brown), Stephen Shea (Linus), Melanie Kohn (Lucy), Greg Felton (Schroeder), Lynn Mortensen (Sally) and Linda Ercoli (Violet). "Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown" was executive-produced by Lee Mendelson, produced by Bill Melendez and directed by Phil Roman. Music was composed and performed by Vince Guaraldi. It will air with Spanish audio via SAP.
"A Charlie Brown Valentine" marked the first newly created programming from the "PEANUTS" team in several years. In this special, Charlie Brown finally works up the courage to call the little red-haired girl to ask her to the Valentine's Day dance. But once again he ends up broken-hearted and empty-handed when he dials the wrong number and reaches Peppermint Patty instead.
Cast members include Wesley Singerman (Charlie Brown), Lauren Schaffel (Lucy), Corey Padnos (Linus), Emily Lalande (Peppermint Patty), Jessica D. Stone (Marcie) and Christopher Ryan Johnson (Schroeder). Lee Mendelson was executive-producer and Bill Melendez was producer and director of "A Charlie Brown Valentine."
On October 2, 1950 the PEANUTS comic strip launched in seven American newspapers. Who would have guessed the impact the brand would have around the world for decades to come. Nearly 60 years later, the comic strip appears in over 2,200 newspapers, in 75 countries and 21 languages. PEANUTS animated specials have become a seasonal tradition and thousands of consumer products are available in virtually all retail channels. Charlie Brown kicking the football, Linus and his blanket and Lucy leaning over Schroeder's piano are images to which everyone can relate. Such phrases as "Security Blanket" and "Good Grief" have become a part of the global vernacular. Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez's association with Charles Schulz stretches back to 1965 with "A Charlie Brown Christmas," which debuted on CBS in 1965 with Mendelson as executive producer and Bill Melendez as animator and director. The three men continued their long-term association until Schulz's death, working together on 50 PEANUTS network specials and four feature films. The network specials won five Emmys, two Peabodys and 18 other Emmy nominations.
The PEANUTS characters and related intellectual property are owned by Peanuts Worldwide LLC, a joint venture owned 80% by Iconix Brand Group, Inc. and 20% by members of the Charles M. Schulz family. Iconix Brand Group, Inc. owns, licenses and markets a growing portfolio of consumer brands including: CANDIE'S (R), BONGO (R), BADGLEY MISCHKA (R), JOE BOXER (R), RAMPAGE (R), MUDD (R), MOSSIMO (R), LONDON FOG (R), OCEAN PACIFIC (R), DANSKIN (R), ROCAWEAR (R), CANNON (R), ROYAL VELVET (R), FIELDCREST (R), CHARISMA (R), STARTER (R), WAVERLY (R), ZOO YORK (R), ED HARDY (R), SHARPER IMAGE (R) and UMBRO (R). In addition, Iconix owns interests in the ARTFUL DODGER (R), ECKO (R), MARC ECKO (R), MATERIAL GIRL (R), PEANUTS (R) and TRUTH OR DARE (R) brands. The Company licenses its brands to a network of leading retailers and manufacturers that touch every major segment of retail distribution from the luxury market to the mass market in both the U.S. and worldwide. Through its in-house business development, merchandising, advertising and public relations departments Iconix manages its brands to drive greater consumer awareness and equity.
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