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Some of them seem to be very interesting :
- Xinha (Xinha Is Not HtmlArea), a fork of HtmlArea, is the most complete, ergonomic and has got a good files manager. It is used in :
- Xinha Here! : a Mozilla Firefox plugin!
- Wikiwig but this Wiki project seems to be dead.
- TWiki as a plugin.
- Docmint.
- XoWiki.
- Wikiperso.
- Hyppo CMS, a CMS, not a Wiki.
- Code Igniter, a PHP framework.
- SPIP, as a zip plugin.
- Joomla, as a plugin.
- WordPress, as a plugin.
- TinyMCE, that can be completed with the files manager Tinymce Ajax file manager instead of MCFileManager. TinyMCE is used in XWiki, Foswiki (fork of TWiki).
- NicEdit, used in DokuWiki.
- Simple and with a good files manager : SPAW Editor.
- Very interesting but the files manager isn't a free software : CKEditor (fork of FCKeditor used in DokuWiki).
- Have a look there -> CKeditor4Wikka
- A French distribution of Wikka (not officially endorsed by the Wikka Dev Team) that integrates support for CKEditor 3.0 and AjaXplorer : Wikid. But they don't keep the wiki syntax, only HTML.
- Some files managers working with CKEditor (click the Image, Link or Flash button in the CKEditor toolbar and then Browse Server) :
- CKFinder (but it isn't a free software, see the license!).
- FileManager.
- Others files managers that could be perhaps integrated with CKEditor :
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A Celebration of Life Services for Dorothy M. Anderson, 92, of St. James, Minnesota, formerly of rural Ormsby will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, March 23, 2013 at Waverly Lutheran Church in rural Trimont, Minnesota with Pastor Gerald Giese officiating. Burial will be in the Waverly Lutheran Cemetery.
Dorothy Marie Sodeman was born January 14, 1921 to Fred and Amanda (Mumme) Sodeman in South Branch Township, Watonwan County, Minnesota. She was baptized and confirmed at St. John's Lutheran Church in South Branch where she also attended parochial school until the 9th grade. She then worked for physicians as their housekeeper in Mankato and later Sioux City. Dorothy was united in marriage to Clair Anderson on September 27, 1941 at St. John's Lutheran Church in South Branch. After their marriage, they farmed in rural Ormsby until their retirement and continued to live there doing yard work and gardening. As a couple, they enjoyed wintering in Mesa, Arizona for twenty-five years, fishing in Minnesota and Canada, doing square and ballroom dancing anywhere, traveling in the US and abroad, especially to Norway and playing golf at Fox Lake County Club. They were married fifty-seven years. Dorothy was active in Waverly Lutheran Church in bible studies, circles and quilting projects. She was also active in garden club and extension groups. She enjoyed sewing, knitting and was a wonderful cook for family and friends. She loved attdending all events in which her grandchildren participated. She will be remembered for her determination, her lovely flowers and her sharp insight to solve problems. In 2009, she moved to Pleasantview Good Samaritan Home in St. James where she continued to pay cards and do the crossword puzzles until her death. She is survived by her sons, Douglas (Sibyl) Anderson of St. James, Minnesota and Keith Anderson of Brittan, South Dakota; daughter, Julie Bro of Des Moines, Iowa; eight grandchildren; eighteen great-grandchiledren; four great-great grandchildren; sisters-in-law, Bernice Anderson of St. James, Minnesota and Thelma Wassman of Trimont, Minnesota; nieces and nephews and other relatives. Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Clair Anderson; infant daughter, Lori Jean; sister, Lillian Swanson; brother, Norman Sodeman; brothers-in-law, Orville Swanson, Sandford Anderson, Marion Gaalswyk and Ervin Wassman; sisters-in-law, Merle Gaalswyk, Corrine Swanson and Dorothy Sodeman; daughter-in-law, Carolann Anderson and other relatives. Special "thank-you" to all the caring staff of Pleasantview Good Samaritan Home—especially her grand-daughter, Mona Keuker and her daughter, Laura. A Celebration of Life Services for Dorothy M. Anderson, 92, of St. James, Minnesota, formerly of rural Ormsby will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, March 23, 2013 at Waverly Lutheran Church in rural Trimont, Minnesota with Pastor Gerald Giese officiating. Burial will be in the Waverly Lutheran Cemetery.
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MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) — A defendant in the gang rape of a 16-year-old Northern California girl outside a high school dance has pleaded guilty as part of a deal with prosecutors.
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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) plans to show that a robotic vehicle can remove the antenna from a retired spacecraft in graveyard orbit, and attach systems to it to rebuild a functioning geostationary communications satellite, in an orbital demonstration planned for 2016.
Begun in July last year, the four-year, $180 million Phoenix program aims to "increase the return on investment for Defense Department space missions by really lowering the cost," says David Barnhart, Darpa program manager. The program centers on developing "a different way of building spacecraft, with some level on on-orbit assembly to add hardware and use what is already up there."
Although antennas average only 2-3% of a communications satellite's mass, the cost of the spacecraft increases proportionally with aperture size, in turn driving the size of the booster and cost of launch into GEO. "The dollars per specific mass is not that high for an antenna, but if you have to send up a large satellite on a large booster the cost is very high," he says.
An example is the $350 million sticker price on NASA's TDRS-K data-relay satellite, with its two 4.9-meter-dia. unfolding parabolic antennas, and the likely $200 million price tag for its launch this month via Atlas V. "The cost depends on the size of the antenna. With a large commercial aperture, say 18 meters, this architecture could provide a potential 10 times reduction," he says.
While it can take up to 15 years for fuel reserves to be depleted and solar arrays degraded to the point where a satellite has to be retired, Darpa calculates the antenna structure could last more than a century. The agency believes the cost of providing satellite communications could be reduced dramatically by removing and repurposing an existing antenna by attaching "satlet" modules manufactured at high volume and low cost and launched cheaply and quickly as piggyback payloads on commercial satellites.
"If we cannot replace the appropriate functions and mass to control the aperture, the concept does not make sense," Barnhart says. The plan is to achieve this through aggregation, sending up satlets that each perform a function, such as attitude control, momentum management or power generation, provided by the original satellite.
"We will create an aggregate set of hardware. The question is how many of these very small things do we need and can we aggregate them at low cost?" Barnhart says.
In the Phoenix concept, a robotic servicer/tender would be launched into GEO. The satlets, along with tools for the servicer's robot arms, would then be packed into payload orbital delivery systems (PODS) and delivered to GEO as hosted payloads on commercial satellite launches.
"The tempo at which the satlets are going up becomes critical," Barnhart says. With 10-15 GEO commercial launches a year on average, "that's a one-a-month tempo on which we can take advantage of any excess mass as hosted hardware."
The PODS would be ejected on command from the GEO satellite and collected by the servicer, which would store the satlets and tools on its tool belt before heading to graveyard orbit to rendezvous with the donor spacecraft. There the servicer would attach the satlets to the antenna, which would then be severed from its satellite and towed to GEO, where it would take up position as a reconstituted communications satellite. The robot "mechanic" would then stay on orbit, and be sent additional tools and satlets to amortize its cost over several repurposing or servicing operations.
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From the PTR notes, we know that Fluxfire Feline is getting his Wind-Up taken away, and he'll no longer be one-shotting everything in sight. But the ability that's set to replace Wind-Up is actually pretty interesting. It's called Flux and you can check out the ptr fluxfire on wowdb.
Flux deals 12 base damage to the frontline pet and 9 base damage to the backline, for a total of 30 base damage and an ATK ratio of 1.5. So we have exactly the same issue of stacking multipliers that old Fluxfire had: you can combine Supercharge or Prowl with an ability with an intrinsically high ATK ratio. In this case, let's look at a breed 8 Fluxfire (322 power):
Flux deals 12+(12/20)(322) = 205 damage to the frontline, and 9+(9/20)(322) = 154 damage to the backline
and now let's add Prowl, to get 2.5*205 = 513 damage to the frontline, and 2.5*154 = 385 damage to the backline.
Old Fluxfire could do ~1800 damage in 3 turns. New Fluxfire can do ~1200 damage in 2 turns, but it's spread out between all of the opponent's pets. It's not quite as convenient, but it's still a ton of damage, and I bet we can build a team around it. It also has one nice advantage: even if the frontline pet dodges the Flux, the backline pets will still take damage.
The team would probably look something like this: Fluxfire, Fluxfire, Brilliant Kaliri. The first two pets are there to blast as much AoE damage as possible, and the last pet is a fast hard hitter that can kill low health opponents before they can retaliate. In hypothetical other games this last pet might be called a 'sweeper': it could be a Kaliri/Owl, a Moth, Enchanted Broom, Peddlefeet, a breed 5 Nether Faerie Dragon, a breed 5 Flayer, etc.
A hypothetical turn sequence:
Fluxfire1 -- Prowl, Flux, swap out
Fluxfire2 -- Prowl, Flux, Claw/Pounce until dead
Fluxfire1 -- If near death, Flux; otherwise Prowl, Flux, Claw/Pounce until dead
At this point, assuming each Fluxfire lives for 3 turns, you've put out 1575 damage to their frontline pet and 884 to their backline. If each Fluxfire can live for 4 turns, you've put out 2227 damage to their frontline pet and 1095 damage to their backline. Now your sweeper steps in and faces 2 or possibly 3 pets that should have fairly low health, and uses its speed advantage plus cooldowns to kill them--for example Kaliri can use Predatory Strike to kill a <650 health pet before it can take an action.
This team is a bit gimmicky, but it puts out a ton of damage, and unless you can kill the Fluxfires in 2 turns, there is really only one ability that can prevent your backrow from taking 700+ damage in 5 turns. That ability is Sandstorm, which cuts Flux damage roughly by half. Unfortunately, Anubisath Idol is everywhere and will only be stronger in 5.2, so he represents a major obstacle for this team (and AoE strategies in general). Nonetheless, I think this has some real potential to be a fun comp to play with.


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The tool helps sales people figure out for restaurateurs that cheesecake, with its high fat content, calls for a dark roast, heavy bodied coffee with a high acidity level, she said. A fudge brownie, however, calls for a lower acidity level. And pound cake goes down better with a light roast coffee with high acidity.
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This is a surfer's dream: catching a great wave, far from the shore, and riding it for long beautiful moments as it stretches further and further gathering momentum until the very end, when it breaks right at the beach. This is how my generation, born in the 1970s (when the Beach Boys released their iconic Surf's Up album), should feel, as we are riding on a "global demographic wave" which keeps extending further and further.
From a demographic standpoint, this generation is different from the previous one in two fundamental ways: it is both less "fertile" and more "durable." We all live longer than our parents – dramatically so in emerging economies – and smaller families are becoming the norm. This is also why we will soon need to say "good bye" to the "population pyramid," one of the key defining concepts for any high-school or university student of our time. The next generation of students will learn instead about the "population barrel." Already today, the pyramid is gone. The distribution of world population has the shape of a bell (see Figure 1).
This may seem counterintuitive. Given that population growth is at near record levels, with world population adding another "net" 80 million each year why is the pyramid is not expanding further? As this blog pointed out four years ago, today's rapid population growth is driven by longevity, and no longer by high fertility: there are more and more adults in the world. This is why we can experience both declining fertility and rapid population growth at the same time.
By 2050, there will be an additional 2.2 billion people in the world, bringing the total to approximately 9.5 billion (or about 30 percent more than we are today). Roughly speaking, Africa and Asia will each grow by a billion, while the rest of world will add some 200 million. Collectively we will be significantly older too.
To get at the bottom of this phenomenon we project the breakdown of these additional 2.2 billion by age group, both in absolute terms and compared to their current size. Here are the results (see also Figure 2):
- Children and teenagers (0-19 years) will remain the largest group but only grow modestly from 2.5 billion to 2.7 billion (an increase of 8 percent);
- Young adults and parents (20-39 years) will only see modest changes (the biggest shifts in this group already happened over the last 30 years) growing from 2.2 to 2.6 billion (a 14 percent increase);
- The "new middle aged" (40-59 years) will experience major growth. Rising from 1.7 billion today to 2.2 billion in 2050, this group will add more than half a billion people (plus 38 percent);
- The grandparents (60-79 years) will gain the most and more than double in size from 760 million to 1.6 billion (a 100 percent increase);
- The new "oldies" (80+) are also expected to rise sharply but from a very low base. From 120 million today, they should add another 380 million by 2050 (plus 211%).
The bulk of future population growth – more than 1.4 billion – will happen in the middle of the distribution. Those born in my generation and the ones right after will be between 40 and 79 years by 2050: they will fill up the top half of the barrel. And if they stay healthy enough, they will then join a small but rapidly growing group of octogenarians still listening to the Beach Boys and, why not, surfing their retirement away!
Belonging to the fastest
Belonging to the fastest growing group I suggest we look at our employment policies as well. "Early " retirement at 60 or 65 years of age seem to me rather inappropriate looking at the challenges of aging societies and a tremendous waste of experience and expertise. Politicians and trade unions are slow in understanding this.
Dear Michael,
Dear Michael,
you are absolutely right. If you look at these inevitable trends it is absolutely counterintuitive to lower the retirement age. It also seems very inconsistent with previous policies which raised it to 67 years.
However, I think we need to overcome the notion of "retiring" more fundamentally. The current debate is very much driven by a 20th century mindset which assumes that people have to do for many years an unpleasant job until they earned their retirement. Today, most people actually enjoy their work and (if they are not involved in manual work) could do it well beyond the traditional retirement age. If we all paid a little more attention to the quality of management then you could get to a situation that people actually don't want to retire. They may work less at a certain age but still remain engaged.
Two very interesting comments
Two very interesting comments from Michael and Wolfgang.
I partially agree: we should continue the debate about people retiring at the age of 65 or 67 and how this puts a huge burden on young(er) tax payers.
Nevertheless, we should keep in mind that people staying longer in their jobs will undeniably create a bottleneck for youngsters willing to take higher positions (and many of them do have the necessary qualifications), but they can't due to the fact that the senior management does not want to leave the job.
This can be seen in the example of Lufthansa. Many Captains or - in general - older pilots really enjoy their jobs and don't want to give it up. This causes fresh pilot graduates to find themselves in waiting line, often serving as stewards as long as they cannot commence their duty in the cockpit.
Actually, more people at work
Actually, more people at work do not necessarily mean more bottlenecks and fewer opportunities for the younger generation. Otherwise, countries with a large workforce would be worse off than smaller countries. But in Europe, Germany has the largest workforce and also low unemployment, especially among the youth. The cake is not fixed, it keeps growing! There are, however, some sectors where the opportunities are more restricted. I am surprised, however, that Lufthansa pilots are a good example. Weren't their striking to maintain their right to retire early? And if young pilots don't have sufficient opportunities in Germany they would have in other parts of the world where airlines are expanding rapidly, especially in Asia.
This change in demographics
This change in demographics also challenges business models across many industries. Not only does the assumption of "tax young workers to provide for the elderly" fall apart, but even life insurance and bank investment assumptions will have to change. So many of our business practices are grounded in the pyramid model! On the positive side, perhaps retailers will stop designing clothes only for the teenagers.
Nice points Katharine and I
Nice points Katharine and I will also look forward to the new fashion designs.
Very true. Developing countries have taken to educating women and the higher the grade attained by a woman, the lower the number of children she gets. This in itself not just "less fertile" is a major contributor to population control. Hence the emerging shape.
Well put Ndemo. Women's
Well put Ndemo. Women's education and urbanization are among the greatest predictors of the number of children per family. Both trends will continue to rise rapidly, especially in Africa.
Thanks Wolfgang for an
Thanks Wolfgang for an interesting article, and for ditto responses to the same. Let us use this new demographic scenario and the "barrel" to inspire our organisations to prepare better for the aging and - still - working "grandparent" group. There are tremendous opportunities for creative and productive mentorship schemes (having older colleagues supporting younger ones and vice versa) that could help our organisations and businesses get better results and continuity by combining new talent with seasoned expertise.
Well put Anders, especially
Well put Anders, especially as the nature of work is changing as well. Even though our brains are said to reach their peak in terms of "raw power" at age of 24, the growing dominance of "White collar jobs" is providing ample opportunities for people to work beyond the traditional retirement age. However, policy would need to adapt and change the binary approach to work and retirement.
It would be interesting to
It would be interesting to project what this will mean in terms of healthcare costs..I suppose not all these old guys will be healthy. Not to mention the fact that lifestyle diseases are on the rise in these emerging economies where the population growth is expected..
Tom you are right that there
Tom you are right that there are new pattern of diseases which come with an ageing society: many emerging economies are facing a "dual burden", communicable diseases (Malaria, AIDS, etc.) are still high even though they are declining while non-communicable diseases (diabetes, cancer, etc.) are rising (see here the example form Kenya: https://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/punished-twice-kenya-s-dual-health-burden).
Everything else being equal, healthcare costs are set to raise rapidly. At the same time, this sector has so much waste in the healthcare that you can get a lot of efficiency savings with new and smarter systems: (see: http://blogs.worldbank.org/futuredevelopment/can-computers-outperform-humans).


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Mooshee has started offering some spooky patterns at her etsy store, like this one:
She's offering a free pattern, too, which you can see here. Very cool!
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Chris Brown is not a happy camper, and he made sure all of his Twitter followers got a taste of his fury.
In a series of multiple tweets (because it's very hard to convey such strong emotion in just 140 characters), the singer expressed his ongoing frustration with the outcome of his last court hearing, which ordered the celeb to complete an additional 1,000 hours of community labor.
After beginning his rant with what seemed like a feud with other artists in the industry (no one specific was named), Breezy switched gears and began to target the judicial system.
NEWS: Chris Brown cleared in hit-and-run case
Brown tweeted, "Ni--a done 6 months community service wit police and the DA racist ass crying to the judge that I didn't do it. F--k the SYSTEM!"
He continued, "How about y'all take care of all the homeless kids and families on skid row. Promote helping people that are really f--ked up in your city!...Family first! The LAW...last...I paint pics of monsters because its a reflection of u bitchass ni--as and this bitchass system!"
The singer's sentence was in exchange to the Los Angeles District Attorney dismissing their request to rescind Brown's probation after he was involved in an alleged hit-and-run accident earlier this summer.
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Despite the charge getting dismissed, Brown couldn't hide his frustration over the sentencing while in court.
At one point, he told his attorney out loud in the courtroom, "I understand. I understand. I am going to say whatever I want to. It's how I feel. I don't care." (And apparently that rule applies to Twitter, too.)
The 24-year-old has the option of taking part in beach cleanup, Caltrans, graffiti removal or a probation alternative work program.
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I also tryed both of the kites with an TT and a race board.
To be honest i m not experienced to racing but i can feel how much power a kite has.
So i think the 11m is the "king" since you can handle it more easy if a gust hits.It really pulls so upwind that i had realy a big problem going downwind with a raceboard.
You just need to got a little more downwind when you do the water start and you can realy catch up the 14m.
Wind was 9 maybe 10 knots.


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Sekiei and Mikage were spectators from Kumogakure who were watching the final rounds of the Chūnin Exams. When the Konoha Crush by Suna and Oto began, they took the opportunity to kidnap Hinata Hyūga for her Byakugan. The Hyūga Elder tried to save her but they escaped before he was able to get to them. He was later knocked unconscious by an Otogakure ninja. Neji Hyūga, Tenten, and Kiba Inuzuka trailed the two ninja outside the village limits and Kiba rescued Hinata after she struck the short spectator. Neji, disguised as Kiba, had the Kumo ninja following him with a decoy Hinata while Kiba took Hinata to safety. After defeating the first ninja, Neji fights against Sekiei but struggles against his Earth Release technique that had bound both his hands and feet. Neji was saved by Hiashi Hyūga who subsequently defeats the ninja with the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm technique. After their defeat, they were captured and questioned.


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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
MacEntee and DeGroodt Ancestor Photos
I wanted to give a big thank you to my newly found cousin (we are in fact 2nd cousins) whom I've never met in person but who found me online because of this blog (as well as my overall web presence).
Dan MacEntee and I began emailing in May 2008 after I posted my series about whether or not the MacEntee and McEntee families of New York's Hudson Valley are related. Over the past few weeks he has been speaking with his 94-year old grandmother, Mary MacEntee, who married my Grand Uncle, Harold MacEntee. They have been reviewing old photos and Dan has been good enough to write down identifications of the people in the photos, possible dates, etc.
And then as a bonus he scans and sends me a few photos each week. The photo above is simply amazing to me: it depicts all seven sons of Elmer MacEntee and Margaret DeGroodt, my great-grandparents, who also had five daughters.
They are, from left to right, in birth order: John MacEntee (1901 - 1984), Harold MacEntee (1906 - 1979), Myron MacEntee (1907 - 1981), George MacEntee (1909 - 1965), Elmer MacEntee, Jr. (1911 - 1971), Abraham (1913 - 1977), and William, the youngest in the front (1925 - 1987).
One thing I notice and it would help if readers could take a look and give me their opinions: it appears that John, the eldest with the large ears, looks like Myron but not like Harold right next to him. John and Myron look like me and all the males that I know in the MacEntee family including my father. I also think that Harold and the other brothers who look like him resemble the DeGroodt side of the family and all look alike.
Judging from the age of William, or Billy as he was called, I would say he is about six or seven so this photo is dated 1931 or 1932. Other evidence which backs up my theory: I also received a photo of Jacob DeGroodt (1860 - 1933) and Georgiana Simpson (1862 - 1938), my great-great grandparents, which was taken on the same day as this photo. Since Jacob DeGroodt died in 1933, I think I am on the right track as to the date. I will put the DeGroodt photo up tomorrow for Wordless Wednesday.
Thanks Dan!
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- Laura said...
Wow! What a goldmine. How wonderful to be preserving this history. I'm so jealous!!
- March 3, 2009 at 6:40 PM
- Ruth said...
Hey Thomas!
Check out this link. Jon Stewart of The Daily Show explains Twitter. It's hysterical!
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- z102701 said...
George MacEntee is my grandfather, so I guess that would make us related? He married my grandmother Isabel Bacon, who was the daughter of Arthur Bacon and Elizabeth Degroodt. I have so many family genealogy papers and pics sitting in a box that I inherited after my grandmother passed away, maybe I have some information you need? You can email me at email@example.com
Melissa Z. (maiden name MacEntee)
Also, there has always been the story floating around my family that our name was originally McEntee, but was changed at some point in order to make finding work easier...
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Reynolds' RBI grounder in 9th lifts Indians
CLEVELAND (AP) — Mark Reynolds' fielder's choice with the bases loaded in the ninth inning lifting the Cleveland Indians to a 5-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday.
The Indians, who began the day tied with Detroit atop the AL Central, have won 16 of their last 20.
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Seattle tied the score at 4-all with two-out, solo homers by Raul Ibanez and Justin Smoak off Indians closer Chris Perez in the top of the ninth.
Jason Kipnis, who won Friday's game with a three-run homer in the 10th, led off the bottom of the ninth with a single off Oliver Perez (1-1) and took third on Asdrubal Cabrera's double. Nick Swisher was intentionally walked to load the bases..
Reynolds, who drove in three runs, hit a sharp ground ball off reliever Yoervis Medina that was gloved by shortstop Brendan Ryan, but his throw home pulled catcher Jesus Montero off the plate.
Mariners manager Eric Wedge came on the field to discuss the call with home plate umpire Mike Winters, but quickly went back to the dugout.
The Indians were one out from victory when Ibanez and Smoak struck. Chris Perez retired the first two hitters before Ibanez homered to right, cutting the lead to 4-3. Smoak homered to center on a 1-1 pitch.
Perez (2-0) blew his second save in eight chances this season.
Behind Zach McAllister's strong outing and Reynolds, who hit his 12th home run of the season in the fifth, the Indians appeared to be in good shape entering the ninth.
McAllister took a shutout into the eighth that was broken up by Ryan's two-run homer. The right-hander allowed two runs and six hits in 7 1-3 innings.
Reynolds, whose RBI single in the first put Cleveland ahead, hit a 3-2 pitch from Joe Saunders over the 19-foot high wall in left field in the fifth. Reynolds, signed as a free agent in December, is tied for the AL lead in home runs.
Run-scoring singles by Michael Bourn and Kipnis increased the lead in the sixth.
Saunders allowed four runs and 11 hits in 5 1-3 innings as the left-hander's road woes continued. He's 0-4 with an 11.25 ERA in five starts away from Safeco Field this season. Saunders is 3-0 with an 0.94 ERA in four home starts.
Cleveland's first-inning rally began on Cabrera's two-out single. Following a walk to Swisher, Reynolds punched a ground ball through the right side that scored Cabrera.
Montero started Seattle's third with a single, but his baserunning gaffe proved costly. He moved to second on Ryan's single, but strayed too far from second when Endy Chavez took a strike while squaring around for a bunt attempt. Montero was tagged out in a rundown and McAllister retired the next two hitters.
Cabrera returned the baserunning mistake after he led off the fifth with a single. Ibanez caught Swisher's high fly ball in front of the wall in left. Cabrera, thinking the ball was going to be for extra bases, was doubled off first.
The Indians chased Saunders in the sixth. Mike Aviles started the inning with a double and remained at second when Yan Gomes singled through the left side. After a sacrifice and with the infield playing in, Ryan fielded Bourn's ground ball behind the mound but his throw home was too late to get Aviles. Kipnis blooped a single to left that scored Gomes.
Smoak led off the eighth with a double and scored when Ryan hit his first home run of the season. Rich Hill recorded the final two outs of the eighth.
NOTES: Mariners RHP Felix Hernandez (5-2) takes on Indians RHP Justin Masterson (6-2) in a matchup of aces Sunday. Hernandez was forced to leave his start against the New York Yankees on Tuesday with back stiffness. … Indians OF Michael Brantley, hitless in his last seven at-bats, wasn't in the lineup Saturday. Aviles started in left field. Brantley came in as a defensive replacement in the eighth. … Mariners OF Michael Morse returned after missing Friday's game with irritation in his eye and was hitless in four at-bats. … Michael Saunders, who is 2 for 19 with seven strikeouts in his last four games, didn't start. … Mariners RHP Aaron Harang (lower back stiffness) played catch before the game and will throw a bullpen session Sunday. Harang was a late scratch Thursday against the Yankees, but is scheduled to make his next start Tuesday at the Angels. … Cleveland Browns coach Rob Chudzinski threw out the the first pitch and also exchanged uniforms with Indians manager Terry Francona.


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Jim Allchin, who officially quit Microsoft after 17 years of service Wednesday, posted on the Windows Vista Blog about how he thinks his day will look in the near future. "3:15 PM: Went to drive the afternoon carpool run. Spent 20 minutes waiting in line behind other parents whose kids weren't even outside yet. Need to write paper about Next Generation Carpool Queuing solution (NGCQ) that integrates Windows Live Presence with the driveway scheduler. Must get appointment with school principal when it's done."


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Winter/Spring 2010
The ALVAC/AIDSVAX prime-boost combination HIV vaccine demonstrated a small and only marginally significant protective effect in the Phase III RV144 clinical trial in Thailand. While detailed data did not live up to the initial hype, some researchers hailed the findings as proof-of-concept that a preventive HIV vaccine can work.
In September, the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) announced that in an analysis of more than 16,000 study participants, those who received ALVAC/AIDSVAX had a 31% lower risk of HIV infection compared with placebo recipients. However, a closer look at the complete data, presented at the AIDS Vaccine 2009 conference in Paris and simultaneously published in the October 20, 2009, online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, revealed less impressive results.
Overall, 56 vaccine recipients and 76 placebo recipients were newly infected with HIV during follow-up. In an intent-to-treat analysis, there was a trend toward a significant protective effect, with an efficacy of 26.4%; however, the P value (a standard statistical measure) of 0.08 did not reach the usual 0.05 cut-off for significance and the confidence interval was very wide, indicating considerable uncertainty about whether the results were due to chance alone.
"Although the results show only a modest benefit, they offer insight for future research," the RV144 investigators concluded. For example, they plan to explore why ALVAC/AIDSVAX provided the greatest protective effect during the first year (about a 60% risk reduction), and why heterosexual participants at low or medium risk for HIV infection appeared to derive more benefit than high-risk participants such as gay men or injection drug users.
The Thai trial results were "the first signal of [HIV vaccine] efficacy, extremely modest though it might be," National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci said at a CROI plenary. In particular, the findings may offer insights about the correlates of protection, or what needs to happen for a vaccine to work.
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Jets sign former Bills receiver David Nelson
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — David Nelson was home in Texas and getting ready to head to a baseball game Monday night, when his agent called.
Forget the Texas Rangers-Tampa Bay Rays wild-card tiebreaker, he told the wide receiver.
"You should probably watch the football game," Nelson recalled him saying. "Because you're going to be playing next Monday night."
The New York Jets signed Nelson on Wednesday, and the former Buffalo Bills wide receiver could make an immediate impact on a banged-up receiving corps. Santonio Holmes and Stephen Hill could both be sidelined for the Jets' game against the Falcons at Atlanta on Monday night, so Nelson might need to be ready to play despite just getting to his new team.
"I'm confident that I can, when it comes to Monday," Nelson said, "I'll know where to be and when to be there."
Holmes tweaked a hamstring at Tennessee last Sunday and is expected to miss a few games. Hill suffered a concussion, and his status was uncertain.
"I think David is going to be a big-time target for us," quarterback Geno Smith said.
Nelson played with Buffalo from 2010-12 and caught 94 passes for 1,042 yards and eight touchdowns. He signed with Cleveland in the offseason but was among the Browns' final cuts before the regular season. The 6-foot-5, 215-pound Nelson's best season came in 2011, when he had 61 receptions for 658 yards and five touchdowns.
"I've never been involved in a West Coast system, per se," Nelson said about offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg's offense. "Routes are similar. It's just done in a little bit different manner as far as motioning and formations. But the routes are the same, so it's just figuring out what routes go with what concept."
He said he's completely healthy after he tore a ligament in his right knee in the Bills' season opener last year — against the Jets at MetLife Stadium.
Nelson, who impressed the Jets during a workout last week, spent several hours working with receivers coach Sanjay Lal on Tuesday. Nelson said Smith also introduced himself and immediately took him to the film room to watch the Falcons' offense together.
"He's a veteran guy, and you've got to get him up to speed in a hurry," coach Rex Ryan said. "I have no idea how much he knows of this system or anything else right now. But I know we had to defend against him. He's a very capable receiver."
In four games against the Jets, Nelson had 15 receptions for 189 yards and two TDs — both in 2011.
"I told him it's good to finally be on his side so I don't have to worry about his schemes anymore," Nelson said he told Ryan. "And he turned around and said, 'It's good to have you on my side so I don't have to worry about scheming against you anymore. So, that was comforting and gave me a lot of confidence."
Oh, and as far as that Rangers game, Nelson still went and watched Texas' season end with a 5-2 loss to Tampa Bay.
"I'm a huge Rangers fan, and a huge baseball fan," Nelson said. "It was just a chance to celebrate with my brother and spend one last night in Dallas before it was back to the grind."
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Amazon announces the FireTV set-top box, plus complete Mr. Magoo and I Spy DVD sets & more!
The big news today is that Amazon has announced that it's getting into the set-top box business, with their own streaming content device that's designed to be hooked up to your TV and compete with Apple TV, Roku and Microsoft's Xbox. The Amazon FireTV sells for just $99, and includes access to Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, Hulu Plus, WatchESPN, Pandora Radio, Showtime Anytime and more. It also offers voice search, a quad-core processor, a dedicated GPU, 2 GB of memory, dual-band Wi-Fi, and of course it's 1080p HD compatible with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound. And you can download and play select games. More on all that here. And here's what the device looks like (click on the image to visit Amazon's announcement page)... [Read on here...]


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As a leading member of the DVD+RW alliance, Ricoh plays a significant role
in the development of future standards for optical storage solutions. Despite
this, we saw fairly only recently, a press release from Ricoh stating
that Ricoh is withdrawing
from the optical disc drive business.
So the appearance of a new drive model might seem strange. As you will read in
the course of this review, it is not so strange after all.
The Ricoh MP5316DA is a high-performance internal drive that supports DVD+RW/+R and DVD-R/-RW discs and is capable of 16x-speed writing (+R/-R), 4x-speed writing for DL (double-layer) discs, and 4x-speed rewriting (+RW/-RW).
The drive cannot read DVD-RAM media and it uses the well known RPC II region control,
allowing a user to change the drive's region at most 5 times. Below are the drive's main specs as given by NeroInfoTool, VSO Inspector and DVDInfoPro:
The retail version of the RICOH MP5316DA comes with all the necessary parts
to install the drive (screws, IDE and audio cable) and a full featured
solution from Ahead (Nero Express 6, Nero InCD 4, Nero Vision Express 2, Nero
Back IT Up, Nero StartSmart,
Nero Recode 2 and Nero Showtime).
On the drive's front panel, you can see the eject button, the activity led and the eject hole.
There is no volume control or headphone jack.
On the rear panel you will find the analogue and digital audio outputs, the IDE mode selection jumpers, the IDE connector and the power input.
Opening the device's case will void your warranty, so we advise against it.
Instead, use the photos in this review for a closer look under the hood.
Clicking on the image below will reveal a high resolution image.
The RICOH MP5316DA is an OEM NEC ND-3500A drive. This becomes quite
apparent when we compare the photo above with the corresponding photo
of the NEC ND-3500A.
The latest firmware version at the time of this review was 2.B9.
Hence, being an OEM NEC ND-3500A drive, we pretty much know what kind
of performance to expect from this drive, even if it bears the RICOH brand
The device was connected to our test PC and was identified as "RICOH DVD+RW MP5316DAG " under Windows XP.
You can see that the book type option is supported.
In this review, we will be comparing the drive against three other DVD burners
with similar specifications, the BenQ DW1620A, the Pioneer DVR-108 and the
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Research In Motion has been under extreme pressure from its shareholders to shake things up from top of the latter on down. While we've seen a couple of different Senior VPs step down in the last few months, the two headed co-CEO tandem of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsielle has up until this point been left untouched.
Back in July, 2011, RIM said in a statement it would form a committee to investigate how the structure of the company could possibly be changed in order to improve it. Today, the Financial Post is reporting that this shake up will indeed happen and that Barbara Stymiest (pictured above) is the leading candidate to be appointed lead chairman of RIM's board. According to their sources, the investigation is still under review and the company could opt to go a number of different ways but Stymiest is being considered the top choice due to her background work as COO of Royal Bank of Canada and later head of the TSX Group Inc.
The decision and outcome of the evaluation process will be announced by the company's independent directors recommendation report on January 31st of this year. With news of this possible structural change for RIM, their stocks have risen 8% this morning to $15.67.


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Katie Holmes: First Post Divorce Announcement Pictures!
Katie Holmes is a beauty in blue while taping an appearance for Project Runway: All Stars at the Parson's School of Design on Monday (July 2) in New York City.
These are the first pictures of the 33-year-old actress out and about following the announcement of her split from husband Tom Cruise last week.
Just three days ago, Katie filed for divorce from Tom and has since fired her old security team because they were too close to him, according to TMZ.
Katie was spotted with a new security detail today of 5-6 bodyguards.
FYI: Katie is wearing a Holmes & Yang Color-Block Camp dress from the Fall 2012 collection and Roger Vivier shoes.


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Nigerian communities in Texas look home in grief
HOUSTON (AP) — Pastor Michael Osifo recalls being able to play soccer until nightfall as a child in Nigeria. Augusta Ekong remembers sleeping in her boarding school bed, with no fear and no need for security workers.
That Nigeria is gone, they say, replaced with violence, bloodshed and fear.
Thousands of miles from their home countries, in Houston and Dallas — which have large Nigerian populations — Osifo and Ekong are gathering their communities, seeking to help resolve a crisis in which nearly 300 girls were kidnapped from a school by Islamic militants and more than 100 others were killed in a marketplace in Borno state in northeastern Nigeria.
Osifo, pastor of The Redeemed Christian Church of God gathered his congregants Friday in Sugar Land, Texas, to address the tragedy. Ekong is working with other groups, including a Muslim organization, to hold a rally Sunday in front of Dallas' City Hall.
"What can we do?" Osifo said ahead of Friday's service. "We need ideas. How can we take this thing to the next level?"
"We know the Western world has agreed to help us," Osifo said, referring to U.S. and British assistance in helping to obtain the release of the 276 girls being held by the Boko Haram militants. "But that's not enough."
Boko Haram, a Muslim extremist group that aims to impose Islamic law in Nigeria, kidnapped the girls April 15. On Monday, the group attacked a market in Gamboru, and estimates of the death toll range from 100 to 300. On Friday, British security agents arrived in Lagos to assist Americans and Nigerians in the search for the girls.
Osifo grew up in Benin, the capital of Edo state in southern Nigeria. He left about 20 years ago and moved to California before coming to Houston in 2002.
The Nigerian community there has formed churches and opened ethnic grocery stores and restaurants, where they now gather and talk about the crisis.
"It burns my heart because the Nigeria I left many years ago is no more," Osifo said. "Today we are seeing more of that violence everywhere. People are being killed, homes are being destroyed, churches, schools."
Ekong, 52, also grew up in southern Nigeria, in the delta town of Uyu in Akwa Ibum state. The strife in the north and the strict Islamic lifestyle that discourages women from getting an education is foreign to her. But like most girls, including those who were kidnapped, she went to a boarding school at the age of 12.
The thought that she could be snatched at night and taken away is frightening, said Ekong, who teaches Nigerian and African culture at schools and museums in Texas.
"Our sisters in the north are suffering, and we want it to stop," she said.
Ndidi Wozichi Ananaba, a registered nurse who is originally from Port Harcourt, Nigeria, attended Osifo's service Friday night.
"I feel kind of helpless, like, 'Well, there's nothing I can do. I'm over here,'" she said. "So it's not easy — you feel a little bit of shame, to be honest.
"It's very, very hard, very sad, and we just keep those girls lifted up on prayer," she said.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — NRG Energy Inc. said Thursday it was buying New Jersey-based Roof Diagnostics Solar, in what the giant energy company called "a big step" in the growing U.S. residential solar market.
Roof Diagnostics Solar was privately held. The company is among the top ten U.S. residential solar installers, with customers in the northeast and plans to expand to California and other states. Roof Diagnostics will begin operating under NRG Residential Solar Solutions within a month.
Terms of the transactions were not disclosed.
"With the price of residential solar increasingly competitive with the retail price of power in multiple states, the time is now for NRG to ramp up its efforts to bring the benefit of self generation to NRG's millions of present and future retail electricity customers," David Crane, president and chief executive of NRG Energy, said in a statement.
"With residential solar sales expected to take off in the next few years, NRG wants and expects to meet the demand of Americans in every state who are seeking to benefit from the inexhaustible supply of clean energy provided by the sun while affording themselves greater independence from an increasingly less reliable electric grid," he added.
NRG NRG, +0.44% shares rose 0.5%. The company said Friday its solar portfolio surpasses 1,000 megawatts of capacity through its subsidiaries NRG Yield Inc. and NRG Solar. Through these companies, NRG provides solar power to 1 million homes. The company's solar portfolio has more than doubled since the end of 2012.
Meanwhile, shares of most solar companies gained Friday, but not enough to end the week in the black.
Shares of SolarCity Corp. US:SCTY the U.S. leading solar installer, rose 3.2%. SunEdison Inc. US:SUNE shares advanced 4.1%. SolarCity was an early adopter of offering a lease on rooftop solar systems, which has helped popularize residential solar systems as they can be installed with little to no upfront costs for homeowners.
On a weekly basis, however, SolarCity was looking at potential losses around 4%, while SunEdison was poised to decline 5%.
Shares of solar-panel maker and solar developer First Solar Inc. FSLR, +1.47% added 0.1%. On the week, the company has lost 8% so far.
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This update is mainly for people who subscribe to updates by email, but it's also a general notice for everyone.
Believe it or not, a sequel to The Just Bento Cookbook will be here soon.
What is "noodle harassment" and is it real?
Why I haven't been updating this site much.
A friend was wondering out loud on Facebook, why the kanji characters for fugu (pufferfish) are 河豚. She was pondering the use of 豚, the second character, which means "pig", but the first character 河 is a mystery too, since it means river - and the fugu that we know and eat today (or get all het up about how dangerous it is, depending on where you are from) is an ocean fish.
Valentine's Day in Japan is rather different.
ChefCuisine is a new method of delivering top restaurant quality meals to the home. It's intriguing...but will it succeed?
There's a rather extensive interview of me on Culinary Exchange. It has quite a lot of photos that are pretty nostalgic for me from the archives of JustHungry and JustBento, chosen by the interviewer, Matthew. I hope you enjoy it reading it. ^_^
A refreshing chilled summertime soup using eggplants or aubergines and fresh ginger.
A recipe for a very simple, tender cherry clafoutis with browned butter. No nuts or other additions.
And it's about time too! The site has been totally redone from the bones up. It should finally look and work like a mid-2015 site rather than a mid-2005 one!
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As they say, "all good things must end." For me, this blog has definitely been a good thing. It's been an outlet for my thoughts over the last several years, and I've learned a lot from the experience. This blog will continue to be available as an archive, but I do not intend to write here anymore.
Going forward, I will be writing on the new Abstract Edge blog and I sincerely hope you'll join me there.
The main theme of the new blog will be to help those who must choose and hire a marketing agency make the best possible choice. Then, once hired, how do you get the most out of the relationship?
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Transgender female intends to run for seat she vacatedBy SIMÓN RIOS
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December 20. 2012 12:28PM
NASHUA - Former state representative-elect Stacie Laughton intends to run in the special election that was scheduled in the wake of her resignation.
"This is purely based on what my supporters, my friends, my family have asked me to do," said Laughton, 28, D-Nashua, who was elected in November to represent the city's fourth ward.
Laughton identifies as a transgender female. She resigned before taking the seat after revelations of her criminal background, which included a felony conviction in Laconia that landed her for 4 1/2 months in the county jail.
Ringing a bell for the Salvation Army Thursday morning, Laughton said she decided after resigning to give politics a break. But supporters from around the city and state told her she shouldn't have bowed out.
Meghan Owen, a transgender Green Party candidate who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House seat in Texas' 25th district, is one of those supporters, Laughton said.
"She said I shouldn't have given up. It was a major inspiration for the trans community and I should've stuck in there," Laughton said.
Laughton also said she enjoys the support of the mother of a transgender third-grader in Nashua, who made headlines when she switched schools, and the district agreed teachers would address her as a female.
"I told her that I was able to declare and put my name on the ballot; she says, 'You put your name on that ballot, you hear?' That started to get me thinking, do I really want to do this?" Laughton said.
She recognized that she can't necessarily count on the support of Democratic leaders in the state, and she speculated that they probably don't want her to run.
Asked if she stands a chance, Laughton said, "We'll see. I think time will tell."


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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's National Guard stormed suspected militants in two houses in a seaside suburb of Tunis on Tuesday to end a daylong standoff, and seven radicals and one member of the security force were killed.
The firefight began Monday afternoon when National Guard anti-terrorist units surrounded a house believed to contain militants in the Raoued suburb, said Interior Ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui.
He described the militants as members of an ultraconservative sect of Islam, known as Salafis, who are increasingly at odds with the state.
Radical Islamists also have been implicated in the shooting deaths of two left-wing politicians in 2013.
In a final shootout Tuesday afternoon, seven militants and one member of the anti-terrorist unit were killed, a security official said. He did not say whether any of the radicals were arrested.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Hundreds of masked members of the anti-terror units flooded Raoued during the standoff, filling its streets with armored vehicles. Snipers were seen on the roofs of the buildings around the besieged area.
Sahbi Jouini, a member of the law enforcement union, said the militants had been holed up in two adjacent houses, one of which was stormed by the masked anti-terror units early in the morning Tuesday.
After Tunisians overthrew their secular dictatorship in 2011, the conservative Salafi movement took a hostile attitude to the new post-revolutionary government for not being pious enough. Last year its largest such group, Ansar al-Shariah, was declared a terrorist organization.
Sandwiched between Algeria, birthplace of al-Qaida's North African branch, and Libya, a source of weapons following its civil war, Tunisia has had to deal with the rising threat of armed militants.
Nearly every month, there is news of a shootout between security forces and militants, many of whom have smuggled in weapons from Libya.
One of the main flashpoints has been a string of low mountains along the border with Algeria, where militants have been discovered. At least a dozen soldiers have been killed in clashes around Mount Chaambi in particular, near the city of Kasserine.
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BREEZEWOOD, Pa. (AP) - March 11, 2013 --Officials say a charter bus taking Penn State students back to campus after spring break caught fire on Interstate 70, but no one was hurt.
It happened around 4:30 p.m. Sunday near Breezewood and the bus was safely evacuated. Penn State spokeswoman Lisa Powers says it was one of three buses bringing students from Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., back to the University Park campus after spring break.
Powers says the bus was sponsored by the Washington DC Alumni Association.
She says students smelled smoke on the bus and the driver pulled over and the students evacuated. Much of the luggage was removed before the fire spread, but some left onboard was damaged when the vehicle was later engulfed in flames.
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