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There are some pretty diverse styles and stocks that fall under the heading of "investing," but nothing is more synonymous than growth-style investing and technology stocks.
During the Internet boom and the go-go days of the 1990s, many tech companies were new businesses in sectors and categories not even invented yet. From devices and software to future state-of-the-art equipment, all scream economic expansion, high multiples and fast-moving share prices.
However, times might be changing for the quick-paced sector.
Sure, the fast movers still are there — Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), anyone? But more than a decade after the tech bubble burst and firms like Dr. Koop.com have vanished from the headlines, many of those tech survivors have matured into companies with strong balance sheets and financial flexibility.
That maturity provides another opportunity for investors — big dividends. In an effort to shed their strict growth past, many technology companies have introduced dividends. As a result, the sector has rapidly evolved into a dividend growth story — one that could provide income seekers just what they need.
$26 Billion in Payouts
Today's tech sector is far removed from the dot-com era, when all-hype, no-revenue companies were the primary investment choice. It's quickly emerging as an income hunter's paradise. While the sector is not known for outsized payments — the Nasdaq 100-tracking PowerShares QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) only yields 0.8% — plenty of tech companies have begun using their cash hoards to reward shareholders with something other than acquisitions.
Believe or not, during the past five years, the tech sector has seen dividend growth in the neighborhood of 16.5%. That has bested traditional income sectors — like utilities and health care — by a wide margin. Technology firms currently make up about 14.22% of all S&P 500 dividends. That's higher than the consumer staples sector, another preferred stomping ground for dividend investors.
More importantly, those payouts are continuing to rise.
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) became the latest tech stalwart to up its payout. On the back of record earnings, the networking giant boosted its quarterly per share dividend by 75%. As of the end of FY 2012, the firm had nearly $48.7 billion worth of cash, equivalents and investments on its balance sheet.
Cisco isn't alone in returning its huge cash hoard back to investors. Both IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) have significantly improved their payouts in recent years.
Perhaps the biggest signal for tech's ascension into the world of dividends has been Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) decision to finally pay back its shareholders with a quarterly distribution. While the firm currently only yields around 1.7%, Apple should be in a position to keep increasing that dividend for many years to come, given the fact it has more than $110 billion in cash on the books.
Overall, Moody's estimates that we will see more of the same throughout the next few years. The ratings service predicts that the tech sector will pay out more than $26 billion in dividends in 2012. That is an increase of more than 14% from 2011 and higher than the 10.9% average annual growth of the prior four years.
A New ETF Has You Covered
With dividend payers in the technology sector reading like a who's who of industry stalwarts — including chipmaker Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and productivity software firm Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) — a broader approach may be better for investors. The popular Select Sector Technology SPDR (NYSE:XLK) now yields a very respectable 1.42%. However, a newly issued ETF from First Trust could be a better buy.
The First Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index (NASDAQ:TDIV) will track 59 different tech firms that pay have paid a regular or common dividend within the past 12 months and yield of at least 0.5%. Other restrictions to the fund's mandate weed out dividend-slashers and firms entering bankruptcy.
This focus produces an ETF with an implied yield of roughly 3.3%. That's pretty good considering that treasuries and other traditional income products are paying next to nothing.
TDIV also will be the highest-yielding tech-focused ETF on the market. According to Morningstar, the highest-yielding tech ETF today is the Guggenheim China Technology ETF (NASDAQ:CQQQ) at 2.92%.
For investors, the fund offers a broad and simplified way to target the "tech dividend theme" and the explosive growth in their free cash flow and distribution payments.
While investing in brand-new ETFs always is risky thanks to fund closures/anemic trading volumes, I suspect First Trust will have a hit on its hands with this one. The fund's relatively low expense ratio of 0.5%, coupled with its current high and potentially growing yield, will see to that.
As of this writing, Aaron Levitt did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.


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Joe Kubert was never a superstar comics artist — his work didn't have the necessary bombast or polished edges — but the man who drew ragged, soulful soldiers in "Sgt. Rock," "The Haunted Tank" and "Enemy Ace" did something his characters would have admired: Kubert marched farther and longer than anyone else and proved himself a natural leader.
Kubert, 85, who died Sunday in Morristown, N.J., of multiple myeloma, leaves behind a legacy spread across comic books published in eight decades and built into the walls of the Kubert School. The school, founded in 1976 in Dover, N.J., by the artist and his wife, Muriel, is the nation's only accredited trade school for comic book artists. Its inspiration came from Kubert's earliest days in the business when he was a preteen protege in a comic book production shop in Manhattan in the late 1930s.
By age 13, Kubert was sweeping floors and erasing the pencil lines on pages of inked artwork in Harry Chesler's bustling production studio, which was handling the demand surge that followed the June 1938 debut of Superman in "Action Comics" No. 1. Kubert's own artwork was first published in March 1942 with a six-page tale of Volton the Human Generator, who traveled through electrical wires and protected Empire City.
Volton fizzled but, 70 years later, Kubert was still energized and working at a high level — the octogenarian had been working in recent months with his son, Andy, on the high-profile DC Comics mini-series "Before Watchmen: Nite Owl." Andy's brother, Adam, is also a comic book artist; both teach at the Dover academy.
"We are saddened to learn of the death of our colleague and friend Joe Kubert," DC Comics said in a statement. "An absolute legend in the industry, his legacy will not only live on with his sons, but with the many artists who have passed through the storied halls of his celebrated school."
Instead of the majestic and the muscle-bound, Kubert's art seemed tattered at the edges and populated by rangy heroes with haunted eyes. That didn't suit Metropolis or Gotham City duty, but it made him perfect for the vines of jungle adventure ("Tarzan of the Apes," "Korak," "Tor," "Rima the Jungle Girl") and the foxholes of war comics, none more famously than "Sgt. Rock."
Sgt. Frank Rock, the everyman leader of Easy Company, was introduced in 1959 by Kubert and writer Robert Kanigher, and he would continue fighting World War II on a monthly basis well into the MTV era. Kubert would correct people who mentioned his success in war comics — he considered them "antiwar" comics — and that view was pinned to the page starting in 1967 when the words "Make War No More" became a familiar motto on the closing page of Sgt. Rock stories.
"Joe, in his way, was a primitive; he drew from his gut," said Neal Adams, the artist who shook up comics in the 1960s with a sleek style leaning toward photo-realism. "Joe, because of his gritty style, because of his down-in-the-dirt approach, mixed the heroic with the terribleness of war, and the dirt of war, and the grit of war. He never made it seem appealing, but, to men, the nature of war is that you can be a hero. The cost, however, is one of the things that Joe showed in his work."
The search for authenticity and the eagerness to stay a student himself led Kubert to challenging work into his 80s. In 2010, Kubert completed and published one of his most celebrated works, "Dong Xoai, Vietnam 1965," a war story based on his interviews with veterans of the U.S. Special Forces. Andrew Farago, curator of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, said Kubert's stamina and sustained relevance were amazing to behold.
"He didn't follow trends and never changed his style to fit in with whatever was popular at the time.... The work that Joe created in his 80s was just as strong as the material he produced in his 40s, if not stronger," Farago said. "There were very few artists in Joe's league, and fewer still that maintained that level of quality throughout their entire careers."
Yosaif Kubert was 2 months old when he, his older sister and their parents arrived at New York's Ellis Island in 1926. The family hailed from a village called Ozeryany in what was southern Poland and is now Ukraine.
The family settled in Brooklyn, where Kubert's father worked as a kosher butcher. One day he brought home a life-changing treasure: an artist table for his son, who was obsessed with comic strips, especially Hal Foster's "Tarzan." Decades later, Kubert would draw Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle hero, and earlier this summer he reflected on the power of those newsprint images.
"Reading Foster's 'Tarzan' back in the stone age was one of the very important things that occurred in my life that pointed me toward the things I do today," Kubert said in June phone interview. "When I was a kid, I didn't know why it was so powerful or why I enjoyed it so much. But as I got older and I got into the business myself, I tried to analyze it.... It was his ability to tell a story and do it with images that were still — they weren't moving, not animated at all — but they were living. That character was alive, and for me those images moved even if they didn't."
Walt Simonson, the artist best known for fan-favorite Marvel runs on "Thor" and "X-Factor," said the Kubert version of Tarzan is dazzling to look back on. "Joe Kubert's Tarzan is, for me, the perfect match of artist and subject," Simonson said. "Joe's drawing is beautiful and wild, and he captures the essence of Tarzan's adventures the same way Burroughs does, by appealing directly to the heart."
Kubert's work often reflected his faith, whether it was "The Adventures of Yaakov and Yosef" strip he did for Moshiach Times or "The Bible," a tabloid-sized project he did in 1975 for DC Comics, which promised "the most exciting tales from the beginning of time" with images of Cain, Adam and Noah's ark on the cover. There were plenty of superhero comics in his body of work, of course, and his years of drawing Hawkman's wide, gray wings created the resonant image of the enduring DC hero.
This summer IDW Publishing in San Diego announced that a lavish new hardcover reprint of Kubert's Tarzan comics would be coming in September. For Kubert, that news was a valentine to "a very special highlight" in his career — and he was pleased it would come in the same calendar year as his "Before Watchmen: Nite Owl" collaboration with his son.
In addition to his two artist sons, Kubert's survivors include two other sons, David and Danny, and a daughter, Lisa Zangara. His wife, Muriel, died in 2008.
The father of five said the only thing better than seeing the name Kubert on a comic book cover was seeing it there twice.
"It's the cherry on top of the whipped cream," Kubert said in June. "You know this business is not something you can push people into, but once bitten, it's not something you can pull them out of.... The fact that my two boys Adam and Andy love what they do as much as I do, well, you know what that is? That's purely a miracle."
Joe Kubert was never a superstar comics artist — his work didn't have the necessary bombast or polished edges — but the man who drew ragged, soulful soldiers in "Sgt. Rock," "The Haunted Tank" and "Enemy Ace" did something his characters would have admired: Kubert marched farther and longer than anyone else and proved himself a natural leader.

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"iXsystems announced today a distribution agreement with Fry's Electronics whereby all Fry's stores nationwide will carry PC-BSD Version 1.4, Da Vinci Edition. The agreement marks the first time that the PC-BSD operating system is made available for purchase at Fry's Electronics. PC-BSD is a fully functional desktop operating system based on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. FreeBSD is one of the most used UNIX-like operating systems in the world. It is widely renowned as the most stable and secure server operating system."


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Zubrowka or 'Bison Grass' Vodka is an original Polish Vodka distilled at the Polmos Bialystok Distillery located 200 km northeast of Warsaw. In this region of the world, Vodka(or at least a spirit similar to Vodka) has been flavoured with Bison Grass for over 600 years. The Bison grass (Hierochloe odorata or Herchloe Australis) grows in the Białowieża Forest (which lies in Northern Poland and Belarus), although distinct varieties of this herbal grass grow in other locations as well including North America where the plant has been known as 'Sweetgrass' or 'Holy Grass'.
I should mention that received a bottle of Zubrowka Vodka from Ashley Calapatia, who is with the PR agency representing Zubrowka Vodka in Canada. I was requested to provide a review of the spirit here on my website, and here is an excerpt from that review:
"… The vodka carries a light herbal aroma in the glass but identification of any particular scent was remarkably difficult. Descriptors like vanilla, sage, thyme, rosemary and cinnamon were tossed back and forth amongst us, but I think it is somewhat safer to say we discerned a lightly pungent herbal quality on both the nose and the palate that was quite different from what any of us had encountered before…."
My full review may be read here:
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Just finished my last cuda unit :( still have 14 complete to upload :(
Dont let my graphics card drop below 85C or it will think its holiday time. My upload list is finally looking smaller but no new work yet.
Hope the indigestion goes soon.......keep up all the good work anyway.
At least now i know its not just me i'm happier......how does that work
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I'm doing my bit.
Successfully crunching some WUs but got SETI and SETI beta on NNW until this dies down.
I've got 17 other projects to crunch for (all on one PC) so I'm not gonna run out of work.
Hope it gets sorted soon....
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Thanks for filling us in on the latest hiccup, Matt.
I have a little to add, though:
My laptop received a message to the effect that a newer version of BOINC was avalailable.
I downloaded the new version, and upon installing it, lost my entire cache of WU's, including a "long distance" AP unit which had almost finished.
Not only that, I found my laptop had to be re-attached to the project.
All the lost WU's will have to be resent again, adding to the bottleneck.
It might be a good idea to try two things here:
1) During times of high bandwidth usage, turn off the downloading to clients of updated BOINC versions.
2) Installing a newer version of BOINC never used to cause a PC to detach from the project. Can we please return to this state?
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Astropulse v5 was rolled out Wednesday February 11 at about 5 pm Berkeley time. No obvious problem for 9 days, then whammo!
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2) Installing a newer version of BOINC never used to cause a PC to detach from the project. Can we please return to this state?
Upgrading to a new BOINC does not detach you from your projects. But what can happen is that the data is not migrated to the correct place, or you put in a wrong place for the Data directory to be in, one that BOINC is not allowed to read.
Please post a question of help about that anywhere else, let's not do that in this thread. I am sure that the old work is still on your computer and it could possibly be gotten back.
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But then there's problem 2. An application download checksum error (a) doesn't cause exponential backoff and (b) causes all workunits also requested by this particular client to be errored out and resent.
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Not the same problem as yours.
In the problem Matt was referring to, no processing could be done because the application which does the crunching had not been downloaded yet.
If you did a week of processing then you must have already downloaded the application!
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All uploaded but still having troubled downloading...
Would it be possible to move the servers closer to the node. $80,000 would buy a small trailer to put the equipment in if there is a place to locate it.
( My dumb ideas are flowing far more freely than WU's lately. )
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Thanks Joe.
I certainly agree with the whammo bit, but what changed? Did we just hit some limit or tipping point in the system after 9 days that suddenly pushed things over the edge? Things just don't suddenly go bump in the night by themselves.
Oh well, as has been correctly pointed out by many, there is no lack of other projects to run.
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'whammo' happened at about 23:00 lab time on Friday 20 February (07:00 UTC Saturday 21 Feb). The '-200' errors started much earlier - e.g. task 1166928853, 18 Feb 2009 1:45:56 UTC.
So I suspect it wasn't a deliberate change, but a tipping point - the only other possibility is that I think I've seen an increase in the amount of Astropulse_v5 v5.03 being sent out, perhaps as Astropulse v5.00 WUs clear out of the database, which might have nudged the system into instability.
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Maybe that was the length of time it took for the problem machines to get to them. When they tried to work on the new WUs and found the client missing and started returning them as -200.
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Maybe that was the length of time it took for the problem machines to get to them. When they tried to work on the new WUs and found the client missing and started returning them as -200.
Considering the number of 10 day queues out there, "9 days later" would make a lot of sense. Interesting observation!
[edit] and Murphy would account for the fact that it happened on a weekend [/edit]
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Maybe if CNS finishes up drawing up the plan to get Gigabit Ethernet between Hurricane Electric and the Space Sciences Laboratory, maybe it could submit the plan to compete for the stimulus package money :-D . (The closest SONET speed near one gigabit would be OC-24, but that speed is apparently not commercially viable. The closest commercially viable speed apparently is OC-48.)
However, it would be a long shot, because California probably needs all that money to stay out of needing to file for bankruptcy due to the subprime mortgage crisis that started in California and Florida that is currently destroying the tax base.
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2/24/2009 12:04:52 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your settings on the web site.
Erm, not seem that one before, took 3 update requests to finally get some new work and even then some of them had http errors and are download pending.
Will be patient and wait and see what happens after the outage which should be starting sometime soon California time.
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I certainly agree with the whammo bit, but what changed?
In my view, the tipping point came right after Lunatics released the new optimised AP 5.03 app, then everyone started downloading new AP WUs to run on the new (r112) opt app.
I myself am making a specialty of running only the older AP opt app (r103) and cleaning up many of the old-version WUs that are being returned late or aborted. I am keeping my 4-day cache filled easily.
Three cheers and thanks to those wonderful, skilled programmers who can take full advantage of the CPU hardware features and get both MB and AP WUs to complete in half the time. THANK YOU !!!
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I certainly agree with the whammo bit, but what changed?
The release posts for Lunatics r112 (v5.03 equivalent) are timed at 23:32 UTC on 21 Feb (Lunatics site), and 00:13 UTC on 22 Feb (here) - at least 16 hours after 'whammo'.
Although some of us have been running r112 since 13 February in an attempt to confirm accurate validations (unfortunately v5.03 was never tested at Beta, so no pre-release validation tests could be carried out there), I don't think you can say that the Lunatics release 'caused' this event.
[We did think of claiming that the release timing was deliberate - "download from Lunatics if you can't get an official copy from Berkeley" - but that would have untrue: the timing was pure coincidence].
BTW, congratulations on the effort to clean up v5.00 - but it is possible to run both versions together until the cleanup is complete.
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Over 1500 Mahalos to You! Tanks yea for all you guys doing. Also hope we can help for make more bandwidth. Everything seems 5x5 now. Got all work uploaded and got nearly full caches on all 3 machines. Woo hoo, life is good. Take care everyone! -Brandon
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Reader Brian says he saw the above pictured infomercial on CNBC this Sunday, and is wondering how they get away with such a "blatant attempt to take advantage of those same mortgage consumers who where hoodwinked in the first place."
We took a look at the infomercial and it's just about as shady as it could possibly be. It opens with a fake news report about the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, then slowly transitions into a sales pitch for "FHA loans." The anchor even stages a fake interview with the mortgage company pitchman. He's introduced as an "expert."
"Joining us to offer his expert advice and insight into all of this…," says the fake anchor from the "MLN Studio," while the screen is festooned with the same kind of tickers and gizmos that you'd expect to find on CNBC.
And what does the mortgage pitchman suggest that you do with your "FHA loan?" Whatever! Pay for "college tuition, home improvement, start a savings plan… Anything you want!" How much can you borrow? "97.75% of your home's value!"
The infomercial then instructs consumers to call what seems vaguely like an official government information "hotline," but which doesn't go to the FHA at all. Sophisticated consumers won't be fooled, of course, but we suspect that the lender isn't targeting them with this advertisement.
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The timing of a concussion suffered by starting cornerback Brandon Facyson is odd, considering it happened the same week Antone Exum expects to be back on the field, but that's the situation Virginia Tech is dealing with this week.
Facyson sustained a concussion in Sunday's practice and was in a green jersey indicating no contact in Tuesday's practice. He's hopeful he can play Saturday against Duke (5-2 overall, 1-2 ACC), but there's no guarantee. On the other hand, Exum is ready to go.
"That's the plan for me to play this week, and that's how I'm preparing to be the starting corner on Saturday," said Exum, a 6-foot-1, 220-pound senior who was a second team All-ACC cornerback last season.
Exum was cleared Sept. 30 to participate in full contact practices and play in games after completing nearly eight month of rehabilitation on his surgically repaired right knee. In January, he suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament, torn lateral and medial meniscus and bone fracture in his knee while playing pickup basketball.
Though he was cleared more than three weeks ago, he hasn't felt ready to play in games until now. After last week's off week on No. 16 Tech's schedule, Exum finally feels fully prepared.
"I made huge strides," Exum said. "That week that I was cleared I wasn't ready to play at a high level. I would've been OK, but I wouldn't have been able to do a lot of the things that I'm doing right now, so I've definitely made strides. That's just come with continued hard work."
Tech defensive backs coach Torrian Gray agreed with Exum's assessment that he's ready to return to the field on game day.
"I'm pretty positive Exum is going to go," Gray said. "I think he feels excited he's going to start the game, and then we'll evaluate there as to where to go, but he's definitely prepared mentally and physically to start the game here."
Exum will be stepping into the spot that has been occupied by Facyson, a true freshman who has played extremely well in Exum's absence. Facyson is tied for third in the nation with four interceptions, and he's third in the ACC with nine passes defended.
Facyson said he was in a passing drill in practice covering tight end Kalvin Cline when he intercepted a pass Facyson thinks was thrown by quarterback Logan Thomas. Facyson believes Cline was trying to rip the ball away when Facyson fell, snapping his neck back and hitting his head against the ground.
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"I got up feeling a little woozy, took a couple plays off and then that's when I knew something was wrong," said Facyson, who added it's the first concussion he's ever had. "I wasn't in my right state of mind. "If I'm ready (Saturday), then I'll definitely go at it. If I'm not, I don't want to jeopardize myself. We have many great DBs here, so they'll pick up the slack. We'll kind of judge it on how I feel."
Facyson added Tuesday evening his neck was a little sore. Though Exum's return coincides with Facyson trying to get a handle on his injury status, Facyson insists he's excited for Exum joining the team on game day, even if it means taking the starting job for now.
"Whatever happens, happens," said Facyson, who added he's worked some in practice at wide receiver, but he hasn't done it recently. "He's a great player. Honestly, I just want to make myself feel better. I just want to get 100 percent before I go out there and risk anything else.
"I'm excited for him to come back, so if that means taking time from me, then so be it. We're going to do what's best for the team. I'm not a selfish person."
Gray said Exum's return does create the need to juggle personnel. In addition to Facyson's role, true freshman Kendall Fuller could see his playing time affected. Fuller has starting all seven games, playing primarily outside linebacker in Tech's nickel package, and some cornerback.
"It is an adjustment," Gray said. "You've got Kendall's role that's got to change. You've got Brandon's role that's got to change, but you communicate with everybody and we've had good chemistry about it, but it does change it."
As for Facyson's concussion situation, Gray is in wait-and-see mode.
"You never know how these things go," Gray said. "I guess you've got to get an evaluation (Wednesday) and just see where he's at and see how much he improves."
Exum said he's not worried about how Tech (6-1, 3-0) will deal with the shakeup in the secondary. He's confident having a surplus of quality defensive backs will be an asset.
"I think you just go full bore and make sure everybody is on the same page," Exum said. "We're trying to win ballgames and play great defense. Some situations can be unfortunate, but it's never a problem when you have too many good defensive backs. I haven't heard any one defensive backs coach in the country complain about that situation. I think that's understandable between all of us, and we just want to play good football."
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I looked at many sites and pictures to get the above list. A lot of the names are from the articles that you wrote in the past. Thanks goes to you Terry for keeping my interest going with the Adana Dewlaps. Okay its agreed that Safi is the faded gene!
I will be breeding out of six pairs this Spring. Last year I raises 23 babies out of four pair. Lets hope I do as well this year.
Last week I got on face book and I joined "Adana Dewlap Breeders" group. There are other Adana Güvercin groups as well.


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By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans
As the significance of the Russian espionage network in Syria becomes clearer, exclusive information suggests Center S wasn't only housing Russian SIGINT (Signals
Intelligence) experts before its capture, but also Iranian experts in
this field.
An ex-SAA conscript now residing in Turkey
and speaking on the basis of anonymity told Oryx Blog he frequently
visited the base as part of his conscription in 2006 and 2007 and not only saw Russians there, but also Iranians. He stated that the base
housed Iranian equipment, which was regularly checked and maintained by
Iranian personnel usually staying there for around ten days.
goes on that Russian experts used to visit the facility every three or
six months, but does not recall if these were replacements for other
Russian experts working there or just personnel providing maintenance
for the equipment at the base.
This new information shows the signifance of the joint spy effort on Israel in the light of escalating tensions in the Middle East. As the Syrian Civil War is once again pushed further from the prospect of a possible ceasefire with the rise of the Islamic State, both Iran and Russia appear to be consolidating their stakes in the Assad regime, as possible new Russian equipment showing up in Damascus testifies.
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Roselyn Myrle Marbaugh, age 80, of Sturgis, passed away Saturday afternoon, Aug. 31, 2013, at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo.
Roselyn Myrle Marbaugh, age 80, of Sturgis, passed away Saturday afternoon, Aug. 31, 2013, at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo.
She was born April 16, 1933, in Sturgis, a daughter of the late Fred and Wilma Snider.
Roselyn resided most of her life in Sturgis. On
Feb. 23, 1963, she married Jerry Marbaugh in Sturgis.
She retired from Sturgis Molded Products following more than 18 years of dedicated employment. She had also worked at Kirsch Company in Sturgis.
Roselyn enjoyed crafts, reading and loved crossword puzzles and was an avid and dedicated fan of the Detroit Tigers.
She is survived by her loving and dedicated husband of 50 years, Jerry; a daughter, Lori Marbaugh of Sturgis; a son, Martin Marbaugh of Plano, Texas; two grandchildren, Kayla Marbaugh and Jessica Marbaugh; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents and sisters.
In accordance with her wishes, cremation has taken place. A gathering of family and friends to share memories and celebrate Roselyn's life will take place 2–4 p.m. Saturday at Hackman Family Funeral Homes —
Hackman Chapel, 114 S. Nottawa St., Sturgis. Private burial of the ashes will take place at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Sturgis at a later date.
The family suggests those wishing to make a memorial donation in Mrs. Marbaugh's memory consider the charity of one's choice.
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AIKEN, GA (WRDW) -- When you're viewing the historic eclipse coming up on August 21st, safety should be your first priority.
"As the sun begins to get darkened by the moon, what happens is our eyes don't notice that there is a problem with this bright light," Gary J. Senn, Director of the Ruth Patrick Science Education Center said.
He says you could be harming yourself while watching the eclipse and not even realize it.
"The same energy that causes the damage to your eyes is still there, even though it's not as bright, and that's where the danger comes in," Senn said.
For anyone viewing the eclipse in areas without totality, eye protection will be needed at all times.
"Only in those places where there's going to be totality, where the moon will totally cover the sun, will it be safe at that brief moment to take the glasses off and enjoy the corona," Senn said.
The good news is that viewing is easy with the proper tools, and those tools might be easier to find than you think. Household items like colanders, cheese graters or index cards with holes punched in them can project mini eclipses on the ground without you needing to look directly at the sun.
"You're not looking at it directly, so you're holding it out, the sun shines through it and you're looking at the ground behind that object," Senn said.


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The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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Table of Contents
Foreword by Sandra Ingerman
NEW: Preface by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
1. Reclaiming the Feminine Mystery of Creation
2. The Contribution of the Feminine
3. Patriarchal Deities and the Repression of the Feminine
4. Feminine Consciousness and the Masculine Mind
5. The Sacred Feminine and Global Transformation
6. Women and Healing the Earth
7. The Energy of Matter
8. Anima Mundi: Awakening the Soul of the World
9. Invoking the World Soul
10. The Light of the Soul
Appendix I: The Inner Feminine and Her Dual Nature
The following introduction is essential for the reader
The assembly is filled with fragrance
The following chapters are a compilation of my writings on the feminine from 1991 until 2008. Over these years I have written, lectured, and given interviews on the subject of the feminine principle, the sacred feminine. My earliest writings concern my own experience of the feminine from a psychological perspective, the anima or soul figure within my own psyche as she expressed herself in dreams and images, her darkness and light, her power and beauty. From this inner reconnection with a feminine that has only too often been rejected, misunderstood and mistreated, I began to value and understand the role of the feminine on the spiritual quest, the importance of listening, receptivity, and sacred space that is needed for spiritual rebirth and living the longing of the soul.
These feminine qualities belong to both men and women, and they draw us into the depths within us, into the mysteries of the soul whose wisdom is called Sophia. They also reconnect us with the primal pain of the feminine that has been so abused by our masculine culture. We come to experience her tears and wounds, her pain which is also the pain of our own soul. In the realm of the feminine everything is connected, nothing is excluded. And working with people, especially women, listening to their dreams and stories, I began to see how this pain, this denial, is a wound in each of us that needs to be understood and forgiven if we are to reclaim our true spiritual heritage, the innate knowledge of the feminine and the wisdom of the earth.
My own journey took me beyond my individual quest into the drama of the whole, feeling the suffering of the earth and its longing to reawaken from this nightmare of exploitation and patriarchal greed. Here I experienced the pressing need to reclaim the wisdom and power of the Goddess, Her healing and transformative potential. And I glimpsed how this energy is especially present within women, and how women have a crucial role to play in redeeming the sacred feminine and learning once again how to work with her. Although the feminine is an important part of a man's psyche, women carry her wisdom and power in every cell of their body, and they have a responsibility in reawakening her potential.
In the story of our relationship to the earth I was drawn further, back to the ancient understanding of the anima mundi, the soul of the world, the divine principle within creation. Throughout history, in different times and cultures, there has been a relationship with the anima mundi, and ways to work with her, to bring her into daily life, particularly through art and the imagination. This feminine consciousness within all of life needs our attention in order to redeem our civilization and our world. Her cry needs to be heard, her knowing brought into our consciousness.
My own spiritual journey has followed the Sufi path of love, whose mysteries of the heart have always had a central place for the feminine. For the Sufi wayfarer it is love's feminine quality of longing that draws us back to our Beloved. The mystic lover waits in a deep space of feminine receptivity and unknowing for the Beloved to reveal Himself. This inner love affair of the soul with God has taught me much about the relationship with the feminine, and the Sufi tradition of images and mystical poetry has helped me to articulate some of her mystery. The fragrance of this tradition of lovers will be present in these pages.
Although this material comes from my own personal journey, I have stressed how the work of the feminine belongs to the healing and transformation of the whole. The book begins with chapters that focus on our need to revalue the feminine, to understand how she has a central part to play in the work of global healing and transformation. Her natural consciousness holds a deep understanding of the interconnections of life, how all the different parts relate together: how her awakening oneness can unfold. And every woman has in her spiritual centers the sacred substance of creation that is necessary for life's regeneration. Without the full participation of the feminine nothing new can be born. The reader is then taken into the dimension of the anima mundi, whose ancient wisdom and understanding of life's oneness is needed if the world is to be redeemed. I have included as an appendix a psychological and spiritual perspective on the feminine that began this exploration, how the journey to the soul of the world began with my own soul.
Part of the difficulty of understanding and describing the feminine is her very elusive nature, the veils that surround her, as well as our patriarchal repression and denial of her wisdom and power. Also the ancient feminine mysteries, her initiations and teachings, were never written down. She is not easily fixed and defined, but is mysterious in her continual movement and change. She belongs to the silvery light of the moon and its many reflections rather than the harsh glare of masculine sunshine and its rational constructs. She is more easily alluded to and hinted at, expressing the mystery and matrix of creation that is always a wonder rather than something to be explained. So these chapters do not attempt a rational, linear explanation of the feminine, but are more facets of a mirror reflecting different feminine qualities and ways of being. In this gathered material there are many repetitions, as each chapter treats a repeated theme from a slightly different perspective, and so over the whole book a more rounded and complete picture of the repeated theme subtly emerges. This is also part of the mystery of the feminine, whose creation is an eternal round of evolving repetition. Each moment the same divine wonder is expressed in a slightly different way.
Also repetition in itself has a value: after such a long time and such a deep conditioning of neglect and forgetting of the nature and quality and value of the feminine in our culture, there is a need to bring her back into consciousness. In a culture that is so steeped in masculine values as ours is, articulating these long-forgotten themes only once may not be enough. There is a need to emphasize her again and again until her qualities once again become part of our relationship to life. The more we are reminded of her, the better she will find a foothold again in our individual consciousness and in our collective culture.
The feminine belongs to the inner worlds as much as to the outer world of creation. She is part of the mystery of the soul, of the womb of the world. Our masculine culture has focused on an external, definable and measurable world, but the feminine knows a different dimension—what is hidden within, often in the darkness. Much of these writings belong to the inner worlds, which are traditionally the home of the mystic and shaman, the poet, the priestess, and the seer. These realms, often rich in symbols, feelings, and images, accessed through visions and the imagination, are not well known in our culture, and our language is ill equipped to describe them, just as our language itself belongs to a masculine, rational culture, one that likes things to be defined rather than just alluded to. In reading this book it is important to recognize the limitations of language, and allow what is beyond the words to speak to you.
Rather than explain the role of the feminine in a logical, linear manner, these chapters attempt to draw the reader into her wisdom and mystery. There is no single definition of the feminine, but there can be an awakening to her ways, to her qualities and powers. Sometimes I have called her "the divine," or "the Goddess" or "the feminine principle" or the "anima mundi." The feminine does not like to be caught in any single name or fixed explanation. She is a way of relating to life and to oneself and to the divine.
It is also important to remember that the divine feminine is not in any contrast or opposition to the masculine. Within her sacred wholeness everything is included. And when I refer to the unknowable aspect of the divine that is beyond all form or knowing as He, It has no gender: that "He" is not masculine as opposed to feminine. Although we may live in a culture dominated by separation, the divine is beyond any division. Yet the feminine has her own fragrance, her particular magic. Hopefully in these pages something of her true nature will come into consciousness. She will reveal some of her qualities, lift some of her veils.
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Panic sets in as soon as I walk into a mall. I realize I parked a mile from the one store I wanted to visit, and that I'll have to part the sweaty seas of tweens to get there. With its new mall directory maps, however, Bing Maps just made my mall shopping—and maybe yours—a little less excruciating.
Here's how it works: supported malls will show up in the "Mall Map" link in the Bing Local results, and show you where each store in located. Today's release is still limited, so unless you live in the Boston, New York, or the Seattle metro area, your mall probably hasn't been mapped yet. Over the coming weeks, though, Microsoft intends to continue rolling out maps, beginning with the largest malls and adding support for major cities.
Each mall map features clickable stores from which you may access phone numbers, Web sites, and addresses (not that they'll do you much good in a mall). You can send store information to your phone or e-mail address. One curiously absent feature is store hours; here's hoping they bundle that in with future releases.
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Muglia made his comments during his speech at the Stanford Accel Symposium. Alfresco CTO John Newton posted some parts of Muglia's speech on Twitter. Muglia said that "at some point, almost all our product(s) will have open source in (them)." He went on to say that "if MySQL (or) Linux do a better job for you, of course you should use those products."
Various Microsoft products already contain open source code, such as MSN Messenger and Visual Studio, and the company also works closely with the Mono guys on improving Silverlight and .NET support on non-Microsoft platforms. A lot has changed since the days Microsoft would vigorously disparage anything related to open source.
Microsoft still has a long way to go, of course, and I hope that one day they will finally acknowledge open source in a more official way, and work with open source developers to improve their own products as well as open source products. A promise not to sue any open source project using vague patents would be a start. I mean, if the US patent office can't fix their own patent system, maybe companies ought to step up.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A sacrifice fly from junior Ricardo Perez (Vienna, Va.) with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning proved to be the difference in the game as MIT edged past Wesleyan University by a final of 4-3. Junior Henry Zhu (Overland Park, Kan.) held off the Cardinals over the final two innings to pick up his third save of the season.
Wesleyan (13-13) struck early in the game, scoring twice in the first inning with two outs. Freshman Donnie Cimino (Westwood, N.J.) doubled to deep left before Joe Giaimo (Gillette, N.J.) parked a pitch over the fence in right center to put the Cardinals up 2-0.
MIT (15-13) starter, freshman K.J. Parent (Knoxville, Tenn.), recovered from the two-run first and allowed just one more run over his five innings to keep the Engineers in the game, giving up a total of eight hits and fanning one. MIT tied it up quickly, putting together its own two-out rally with the bottom third of its order in the bottom of the second. Freshman Parker Tew (Chapel Hill, N.C.) singled ahead of a walk to freshman Karl Sorensen (Blacksburg, Va.). Senior Torre Swanson (Redding, Calif.) lined what appeared to be a single to right, but the ball veered away from the Cardinal right fielder into a bad-hop triple that tied the game.
Wesleyan went back on top in the fifth when Giaimo singled with one down. Parent retired the next hitter on a fly to center, but senior David Skura (Beverley Hills, Calif.) doubled down the third base line to bring in Giaimo with the go-ahead run.
Like Parent, Wesleyan's starter, sophomore Chase Levi (Somers, N.Y.) kept the Cardinals in the game by scattering eight hits over 6.1 innings. In the bottom of the sixth he gave up a pair of singles, one to Perez and another to freshman Hayden Cornwell (Newport Beach, Calif.) to put two on with one down. Levi got Tew to hit one into the ground that could have been the inning-ending double-play, but the relay to first from short sailed high, allowing Perez to score.
In the bottom of the seventh MIT drew three walks off Levi to load the bases and bring in sophomore Chris Law (Dover, Mass.) out of the Wesleyan bullpen. Perez greeted him with a fly ball to center that was deep enough to score Swanson from third.
Zhu came on in the top of the eighth and walked Skura to open the inning. After getting a pop up to short, freshman Sam Goodwin-Boyd (Florence, Mass.) singled to deep center and freshman Luca Cobucci (Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.), who pinch ran for Goodwin-Boyd, attempted to come all the way around to score. The relay throw home from the outfield was in time, however, and preserved the MIT lead.
Wesleyan put the leadoff hitter aboard in the ninth as well, when junior Steve Moran (Swampscott, Mass.) reached on an infield single. Cimino followed with a shallow fly to right that sophomore Creed Mangrum (Sandy, Utah) made a diving catch on. His throw back in to the infield caught Cimino between first and second, and he was tagged for the second out of the inning. Zhu then struck out Giaimo to end it.
Sophomore Brandon Lowe (Brier, Wash.), who faced two hitters and got a double-play ball to end the seventh inning, was the winner for MIT. He improved to 2-1 on the season.
MIT will play again at home tomorrow when it hosts Worcester State University at 3:30 p.m. Wesleyan will also play tomorrow, hosting the U.S. Coast Guard Academy at 4:00 p.m.


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Wainwright burns Braves, joins six-win club
ATLANTA -- Adam Wainwright has not let the Braves forget their loss from a deal made more than a decade ago. The Cardinals' ace has started 10 times against the hometown team that shipped him away as a prospect, and he's tallied a quality start in all but one of those outings.
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ATLANTA -- Adam Wainwright has not let the Braves forget their loss from a deal made more than a decade ago. The Cardinals' ace has started 10 times against the hometown team that shipped him away as a prospect, and he's tallied a quality start in all but one of those outings.
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Helping his own cause with a pair of hits and runs scored, Wainwright pitched the Cardinals back on track with a 7-1 victory in front of 21,796 at Turner Field.
"Typical Waino," manager Mike Matheny said afterward. "We need something, he delivers."
Help actually came from all over, as Peter Bourjos, Matt Holliday and Matt Carpenter each produced three-hit games on a night when the Cardinals reached the 13-hit mark for the fifth time this year. The team scored four of its runs with two outs and went 5-for-12 with runners in scoring position.
The offense was unrelenting, too, scoring in five separate innings and chasing Atlanta starter Mike Minor out of the game with one out in the fifth.
"I wish we didn't have an off-day tomorrow because of how well we swung the bats today," Bourjos said. "It would be nice to keep this rolling."
Bourjos had fingerprints all over both of the Cardinals' wins in this three-game series, and the contributions, Matheny said after the game, have likely earned the center fielder at least a temporary stay in the lineup. Bourjos had started only one of the team's previous 10 games.
A start Friday against lefty Francisco Liriano is likely. Bourjos hopes for a longer leash, too, in order to maintain some of the momentum created with a five-hit series.
"Coming in the last few days when I hadn't been playing, I just wanted an opportunity to go out and take advantage of it," he said. "I think when you go eight, nine days without getting a start, it's tough. When you get to start two games in three days, it obviously helps out a lot. You get a lot more comfortable in the batter's box and a lot better rhythm and timing."
On Wednesday, Bourjos jumpstarted the offense with a first-pitch homer in the second inning.
"That was a big spark for us," Matheny said, "and sometimes that's what a pitcher like Wainwright needs to realize that we're going to do something offensively."
Wainwright didn't need much more.
Coming off his shortest outing of the season, Wainwright returned to form against a Braves team that fell to 2-8 against its former farmhand. The right-hander spent the time between Friday's substandard start at Wrigley Field and his Georgia homecoming reviewing tape, from which he pinpointed problems with his delivery.
He righted those with relative ease as he became the National League's first six-game winner with Wednesday's eight-inning gem.
"We got a little bit of momentum going last night, and then you run into a brick wall in that guy," said Atlanta's Chris Johnson. "It's like every single time you go up there, he throws you something different and then in a different spot and it's uncomfortable."
The Braves mustered five extra-base hits -- including back-to-back doubles by Justin Upton and Freddie Freeman in the third -- but Wainwright did well to minimize other damage.
Freeman's RBI hit was all that marred Wainwright's third start of at least eight innings this season. He exited with a six-run lead.
"It's never easy pitching against a team like that," Wainwright said. "I had several pretty big jams early on that ended up probably being key to our win. Getting out of those early jams and only allowing one run instead of crooked numbers was huge."
So too was the offensive production from a pitcher whose stated preseason goal was to win his first Silver Slugger Award.
After Bourjos matched the Cardinals' production from one night earlier with one swing, Wainwright sparked a third-inning scoring opportunity with a leadoff double. He'd later score on a double play.
A three-run fourth would then give the Cardinals a cushion that they have mostly lacked with a slow-starting offense. After a one-out single by Bourjos, the Cardinals saw four consecutive hitters reach with two out. That included Wainwright, whose single was his eighth hit in 20 at-bats this season. No pitcher in the Majors has more.
"I know my second hit was one that kept the inning going," Wainwright said. "That was a big point in the game."
It was made bigger when Carpenter followed with an RBI single and Holliday with a two-run single. Bourjos' RBI single in the fifth was the final run scored off Minor, who was unable to finish five innings in what was his second start since coming off the disabled list.
"When we score three runs, we know that we have a pretty good chance with [Wainwright] on the mound," said Carpenter, who went 6-for-11 in the series after starting his career 1-for-12 at Turner Field. "Then when we were able to extend the lead we had like we did, we knew we were in a good spot."
Carpenter and Holliday teamed up again to push home a ninth-inning run and punctuate the pair's three-hit nights. The three-RBI night for Holliday bumped his team-best total to 22.
With the bookend victories during their visit, the Cardinals travel north to Pittsburgh with a road-trip record of 3-3 and a season record back above the .500 mark. They've also pulled to within four games of first-place Milwaukee, the tightest the top of the NL Central has been since April 23.
"We had the timely hits today, guys with two outs driving them in, doing the little things," Matheny said. "I saw good defense today. It was more of a well-rounded game. That's what we have been looking for."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB.


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MACs, Maxxyzâ"¢, Maxediaâ"¢ team up on mother-daughter duo's final tour. Designer John Featherstone turns to MAC III Profile
Grammy award-winning country music duo Naomi and Wynonna Judd bid their fans a final farewell on an 18-city tour that saw the reunited mother-daughter act performing beneath a large rig that included 17 Martin MAC III Profilesâ"¢, 22 MAC 2000 Wash XBsâ"¢, and 20 MAC 700 Washâ"¢ fixtures, among other automated luminaires, all provided by Upstaging.
Production Designer John Featherstone of Lightswitch turned to a classic design, one that reflected the duo's 1980's popularity, yet with updated contemporary elements. The design also fulfilled The Judds' wish to create an intimate setting suitable for more personal narrative, despite the fact the tour played in large venues.
Featherstone's design for "The Last Encore" tour consisted of curved trusses lined with MAC III Profiles, MAC 2000 Wash XBs and other automateds, with MAC 700 Washes mounted on an array of vertical trusses. A large arched video wall backdrop was lined with more MAC III Profiles, as well as moving mirror fixtures.
An avid user of Martin gear, Featherstone incorporated the 1500-watt MAC III Profile into one of his designs for the first time. He stated, "With a big, bright LED wall we needed something that would slice through that with defined beams, something that could overcome a lot of light competition. The MAC III Profile provides the crispest, sharpest beam and gobo looks."
He also appreciated another key component of the MAC III Profile's feature set, a wide-range CMY color mixing system with fixed color wheel. "From super saturated colors that are rich and thick to feminine pastels, the MAC III allowed us to cover the wide variety of songs that The Judds sing, from ballads to rock and roll. The color mechanism in the MAC III gives you both."
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30 U.S. Code § 1024 - Inclusion of geothermal leasing under certain other laws
As to any land subject to geothermal leasing under section 1002 of this title, all laws which either (a) provide for the disposal of land by patent or other form of conveyance or by grant or by operation of law subject to a reservation of any mineral or (b) prevent or restrict the disposal of such land because of the mineral character of the land, shall hereafter be deemed to embrace geothermal resources as a substance which either must be reserved or must prevent or restrict the disposal of such land, as the case may be. This section shall not be construed to affect grants, patents, or other forms of conveyances made prior to December 24, 1970.
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Rafa Baca stopped by the Kick, Lead and Dream Soccer Camp at Cherry Chase Elementary on Wednesday to talk to the campers about overcoming adversity and finding success.
Baca shared his inspiring journey as a Mexican immigrant that moved to the states to attend school and become a successful soccer player. Baca stressed the importance of education and college as the key to achieving your dreams.
At the end of his speech, Baca led the kids in chanting "Si Se Puede!" which translates to "Yes We Can!" in English.
The Kick, Lead and Dream Initiative is a program where motivated teenagers serve as role models to at-risk kids. The fun day camp provides an opportunity for the kids to hone their soccer skills while learning leadership skills from the teen mentors. To find out more on the program visit: http://kldsoccer.com/


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Marketing guru Godin warns against being average
Seth Godin thinks people take away the wrong message from the myth of Icarus.
Yes, Daedalus warned his son not to fly too high, because the sun would melt the wax that held together his wings, but he also warned Icarus not to fly too low, because the sea mist would soak the feathers.
So it's OK – in fact, it's absolutely necessary – to take risks and avoid conforming, in life and in business, said Godin, a prominent marketing blogger, author and entrepreneur.
"If failure is not an option, then neither is success," he said Thursday at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, in a fast-paced and humor-laced talk hosted by the Advertising Club of Buffalo and presented by Eric Mower and Associates.
The Buffalo native spoke for an hour and took questions afterward from Ad Club President Charlie Fashana and the audience of 170 marketing, advertising and communications professionals.
His wide-ranging lecture on the new "connection economy" included references to Betty Crocker, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, singer Bob Marley and the FarmVille social media game.
He also labeled Henry Ford the 20th century's most important person, because Ford's innovations in mass production enabled companies to make items faster, cheaper, more reliably and on a larger and larger scale.
But cracks are showing in the industrial economy, Godin said. He pointed to the music-recording industry, which he deemed the "perfect" industry for 1975 but one that saw massive upheaval in the 2000s, when just about every song ever made became available free online.
"The industry is gone. We don't need the industry anymore," Godin said.
The new economy is founded on building connections, not things, he said, and this leaves our country, and our society, at a crossroads.
We have to think of communities such as Buffalo as connection hubs, Godin said.
"So don't call Buffalo an industrial city. That was a momentary population," he added. "Buffalo is actually a cultural connecting place."
The key is creating communities, or networks, where people who share similar interests can connect.
But in creating these networks, you can't just try to do what everyone else does, and you can't simply aim for competence, Godin said.
"Average is never beautiful. Average is just average," he said, observing that no one ever recommends an "average" restaurant.
Don't be afraid to take risks, Godin said. He asked where we would be if Frank Lloyd Wright, Steve Jobs or the Wright brothers had listened to their doubters.
Jobs wasn't a particularly skilled computer programmer, or graphic designer, Godin said. "What Steve Jobs had was grit," he said.
People in business need to embrace failure, he said, adding, "The guy who invented the ship also invented the shipwreck."
Doing things the way they've always been done, in advertising and marketing, led to an emphasis on quantity over quality and left us with average products made for average people, said Godin, who believes this all started with Betty Crocker, the "patron saint" of marketing. "We branded ourselves to death," he said, showing a slide of a baby covered in company logos.
Mass marketing doesn't work today, when it's impossible to reach everyone with a single TV ad and people self-segregate into groups of common interest. Marketers need to connect with these tribes of people, whether they are the Red Hat Society, "Star Wars" fans or triathletes. But the connection has to be genuine, or tribe members will see right through it, Godin said. "You need a micro channel to talk to the people who care," he said.
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Of Armenian descent, Angela Sarafyan (June 30, 1983), sometimes credited as Angela Sarafian, appears in Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as Tia. She initially auditioned for the role of Irina.
She plays "Stormy" on Sex Ed: The Series. She has played guest-star roles in several television series such as Judging Amy (2000), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002), The Shield (2004), The Division (2004), 24] (2006), South of Nowhere (2006), CSI: NY (2006) and The Mentalist (2008).
In 2007, she guest-starred on the series Cold Case, in the episode "Torn".
She has also acted in several feature film productions: On The Doll (2007), Kabluey (2007) (with Lisa Kudrow and Teri Garr), The Informers (2008) (with Billy Bob Thornton), and A Beautiful Life (2008) (with Dana Delany).
In 2008, she had a recurring role in the USA Network series In Plain Sight. In 2010 she appeared in a nation-wide commercial for State Farm Insurance, as well as a commercial for Captain Morgan's Lime Bite.
In 2010 she joined the cast of The Good Guys. Her role is the offbeat and socially awkward Samantha Evans.[1]
She currently portrays the android Clementine Pennyfeather in HBO's Westworld in which she stars alongside Julia Jones.
- ↑ Exclusive: Angela Sarafyan Joins The Good Guys. TVGuide.com. Retrieved on August 24 , 2010.
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- Angela Sarafyan on Wikipedia
- Angela Sarafyan at the Internet Movie Database


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== Getting Started ==
== Getting Started ==
, let's run a battle to see what the game looks like. Simply click the '''Battle''' menu, then select '''New''', as shown on the picture here:
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[[Image:NewBattle.png|Starting a new battle by selecting New in the Battle menu]]
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Getting Started
After installation first, let's run a battle to see what the game looks like. Simply click the Battle menu, then select New, as shown on the picture here:
You'll be presented with the New Battle screen, where you pick the robots and options for a battle. For this battle, we'll try out MyFirstRobot, RamFire, and Tracker. Add them in by double-clicking on their names (or selecting each one and clicking Add) The screen should now look something like this:
See the Number of Rounds box in the middle?
In Robocode, each battle consists of a number of rounds, as you'll see soon. For now, we'll leave it at the default of 10.
Finally, click on the Start Battle button to begin! Watch for Tracker's little dance as he wins rounds.
See also
- System Requirements
- The anatomy of a robot
- My First Robot Tutorial (Java)
- Create a .NET robot with Visual Studio
- Robocode Game Physics
- Scoring in Robocode
- Using the robot console
- Downloading other robots
- Learning from other robots
- Package your robot (Java)
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Articles about Robocode
- Starting Robocode from the command line
- Graphical debugging
- Using Eclipse as IDE
- Creating a project for your robots in Eclipse
- Creating a robot in Eclipse
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Magneplanar 1.7 vs 3.6r (with a little bit about 3.7s and mini maggies)
dyl1dyl posted a topic in Headphones & SpeakersHi guys, I recently picked up a pair of Maggie 1.7s for my second system. However, prior to purchasing them, I was actually offered a pair of used 3.6Rs for "just" 800 more and decided to investigate the differences. I have a friend who has a pair of 3.6Rs in his main system and I managed to borrow a pair of 1.7s from another audiophile for a week (in exchange for a week with my LCD-3 Headphones) so I brought the 1.7s over to my friend's place and started the comparisons. Firstly, the room dimensions were rectangular with about a 8 meter long front wall and about 10 meter depth. Height was roughly 3-3.5 meters. So, anyway, there was quite a lot of space. His standard set up for the 3.6r which we agreed sounds best consists of the speakers about 2 meters from the front wall, about 1.5 meters from each side wall and toed in about 10 degrees. The listening position was centered, about 6 meters from the speakers. For the 1.7s we experimented a bit but interestingly, found that placing them in a similar spot to the vacated 3.6rs provided the best sound. The source equipment we used were my friends Audio Research CD5, my Moon 750D and my NAD M51. Amplification was his Audio Research DSi200 integrated which pumps 300 watts into 4ohms so power was there aplenty. So as not to make the comparison too complicated, I refrained from bringing my Moon 700i into the test. After experimenting with both speakers , we came to the conclusion that the Moon 750D uses as a full CD player had the best sound (kinda expected from the price) with the most detail and most holographic soundstage. Have to say the AR CD5 and NAD M51 were no slouches either and both were very satisfying too. So, anyway, all impressions from here on are based on the Moon 750D>Audio Research DSi200>Magneplanar 1.7/3.6R. Cables used were all audioquest, not sure about the models as they were my friends though I do remember that the XLR interconnects between DAC and amp were the Columbia model. The music we used to test the two speakers was from a wide range of sources including pop, rock, jazz, blues, electronic, modern folk, country, classical and some choral music. We listened to some great tracks from various artists like Diana Krall, U2, Crystal Castles, Swimming with Dolphins, Louis Armstrong, Steely Dan, etc etc. Anyway, lots of great music from a swathe of genres. Some stand out tracks were the ones from Jason Mraz's new album, Love is a four letter word as well as the tracks from the explorations in space and time album from a laptop as this was a high res 24/176 track download. Now, finally moving on to the comparisons. I won't be doing a track by track breakdown as both speakers are actually not too different and their inherent strengths and weaknesses against each other seemed to be replicated across most tracks. The first stand out difference between the two speakers and I mean really stand out is that the 1.7s are a lot more coherent. This might not seem like a huge thing to most but it really stands out, the 1.7s almost sound like good point source monitors while the 3.6rs though not bad sound like conventional loudspeakers and are about average in this regard. This leads me to the next point, that the 3.6rs as some others have pointed out, utilize full ribbon tweeters and quasi ribbon mid and bass modules. This causes the crossover points to stand out more and make the transistion between the treble to the midrange stand out more. This was especially evident on vocal tracks as the 3.6rs just lacked the brilliant coherency and smoothness of the 1.7s. Moving on to the next point, the 3.6rs just have better bass thump and this is very evident too, probably the most evident difference apart from the difference in coherency. In this respect, the 3.6rs are just better, having better bass impact and reaching deeper, helping them reproduce bass notes more realistically from drums, bass guitars, etc. Furthermore, the 3.6rs also seem to be able to better retain their bass reproduction at various listening positions throughout the room. Do note, that the 1.7s bass is not poor and is actually very fast, tight and detailed down to about 40-45 hz. A very pertinent point that people might question is whether the significantly more expensive (when available) 3.6rs are more detailed. I'd have to honestly say yes and no. They do have slightly more treble detail which is especially appreciable from female vocal tracks. However, something interesting we found out is that through the heart of the midrange, the 1.7s are actually more detailed and helped uncover more layers of musical information. This was really quite interesting and though the 3.6rs seemd more detailed upon first listen due to their slightly protruded treble response and better treble detail, after more listening, the 1.7s midrange dos indeed offer more insight into the music. We surmised that this is probably due to the newly designed quasi ribbon panels that the 1.7s use. The next interesting thing that we found out is that when configure with spacers installed to tilt the 1.7s backwards slightly, they actually have greater soundstage height than the 3.6rs though they sacrifice a touch of detail when set up like that. All in all though, my friend and I came to the conclusion that it sounded better with the spacers installed to tilt the speakers backwards as the increased sound stage height was beneficial in more accurately conveying the the stage and scale of large orchestral pieces and most live music. This configuration also helped the speakers sound better when we listened while standing up. All in all, we came to the decision that the 1.7s are indeed the superior speakers on balance. The 3.6rs do indeed live up to their reputation as better bass performers and their full ribbon tweeters do produce slightly more airy and detailed treble. However, the 1.7s impressive midrange performance, significantly better coherency as well as their unexpected triumph in the soundstage department (very small difference though) lead us to crown them the unexpected winners of this shootout. My friend has decided to try and sell his 3.6rs now and pick up a pair of 1.7s as he found them better too. He's also thinking of adding some subs or maggie dwm bass module panels to augment the 1.7s bass performance. I happily decided to get a pair of 1.7s for my second system, passing up the chance to pick up the used 3.6rs. I am very happy that I made this descision now as the 1.7s are really enjoyable and I can always head down to my B and W 802Ds for bass when I miss some thump. Final notes. I would really strongly recommend anyone in a similar situation to me (deciding between the 3.6r and the 1.7) to try and get a chance to A-B them. However, if you do not have the opportunity to compare them, trust me and get the 1.7s, you won't regret it. One last thing is that being the curious person I am, I headed down to my local dealer to try the 3.7s (and mini maggies) just for fun. I have to say I was very impressed. They largely combined the strengths of both the 1.7s and 3.6rs and notched up the detail a bit more compared to the 1.7s from memory. However, this was in the dealer's room so not exactly a fair comparison but the 3.7s did indeed seem to have all the strengths of the 1.7s and 3.6rs with none of the weaknesses. The mini maggies were pretty good too, sounding slightly more detailed than the 1.7s but I didn't like them as they had so so sound stage width and poor soundstage depth. I actually preferred the cheaper (due to built in amp) focal studio 6BE monitors for desk/nearfield use. On the whole, I am extremely satisfied with my 1.7s and can honestly say I feel no urge to upgrade to the 3.7s, which really says a lot about just how brilliant the 1.7s are. Absolutely fantastic value for the money!


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by lollerbuny August 13, 2007
Did you see the outfit that girls was wearing?
Yeah! She should definitely put some pants on, she's got skankles!
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by JMSMD AKA CHOMP October 27, 2007
n. a skank with cankles (cankles are legs that are so fat there is no difference between the calf and the ankle hence-->cankles) a skankle can be a whore, hussy, or skank, but with a little more baggage. she might blame this extra weight on children she's had in the past years, but in reality, a skankle's overweightness is largely contributed to depression caused by a man or lack thereof. so really her "baby weight" is nothing more than the heartbreak thus inflicted from being a skankle. a skankle can quite often be a cockblock or cockblocker but is most commonly just a plump version of a skank
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MoDOT will pay for new signage, but has not decided about addressing road woes in west OB
The good news is that MoDOT has agreed to pay for new signage along the expressway to focus more on the Osage Beach business community.
What remains unresolved, however, is what type of roadway ― if any ― will be built at the west end of Osage Beach to help improve the traffic flow to struggling businesses, and who will pay for the construction.
MoDOT District Engineer Dave Silvester had a two-fold mission when he addressed the board of aldermen last week: To update the city on options for some type of roadway to service the dead-end Osage Beach Parkway, and to report the state will foot the bill for new signs that have been sought by aldermen, city staff and the community.
The city will be given six options for signs by MoDOT. A letter from Silvester was expected this week outlining the cost of each and the variations in wording. A special meeting will be called to consider the options if the state responds before the next meeting, Oct. 6.
Cost to MoDOT could range from $47,000 to $251,000, depending on which option the city chooses. To simply replace "Osage Beach Parkway" with "Business 54" wording would cost the state about $47,000. To replace the existing signs with new, larger signs that said "Osage Beach Parkway/Business 54" is estimated to cost a quarter million dollars, Silvester said.
If signage is only improved for the west end of the city (west of the Grand Glaize Bridge), the cost would be between $16,000 and $85,000, the MoDOT engineer said.
"I committed to those fixes," he told the board regarding changing out the existing signs.
Without seeing the options, aldermen seemed to favor the Osage Beach Parkway/Business 54 wording. Completely renaming the stretch of roadway from the east city limits to its dead end at Lazy Days Road would force businesses to once again change addresses, signage, stationary, business cards, etc., which they did when the roadway was named Osage Beach Parkway.
There are two concepts being discussed:
1. An outer road, which is an extension of Osage Beach Parkway to Y Road.
2. A slip ramp of two eastbound lanes from Y Road to near HMI Fireplace (Spring Valley). Because Executive Drive would not connect to an off-ramp, a parallel outer road from Lazy Days to Executive Drive is a possibility to complete the connection to the Parkway.
Silvester surprised the board by saying MoDOT would not share in the cost of a slip ramp after telling the aldermen at a previous meeting there could be a third-third-third cost share with the city.
That news caught the board of aldermen by surprise.
"I'm furious that you think it's the responsibility of the city and its citizens to pay for this," Kahrs said. "You guys screwed up."
Kahrs, who has been an outspoken proponent on behalf of west end businesses, said "we have a west end that's dying. What we have there now is a joke."
MoDOT is only agreeing to help pay for the Outer Road option, not the newly created and revised concept.
"MoDOT will look at the revised design provided by Alderman Kahrs, but they do not know if that will work or not," City Administrator Nancy Viselli said.
MoDOT will "think about" cost-sharing of the slip ramp if that is the direction the board takes, but Silvester's comments indicated that probably won't happen, she said.
As aldermen began to discuss the options, there was considerable discussion over the best scenario. Some felt the Parkway extension should be a two-way road and others felt a shorter slip ramp might be workable.
But there was unanimous agreement that something needs to be done to address the deteriorating business climate west of the bridge, and especially west of Rt. KK.
"If we can only do something with eastbound traffic, and not east-west, we're only accomplishing half of what we want," Alderman John Olivarri said. "These folks are looking for an answer, and they're looking for a quick answer."
Alderman Ron Schmitt concurred.
"Relief is needed now. The longer we dance around with this the worse it gets. There may not be any businesses left," he said.
Silvester said work could begin next spring on some type of solution if right-of-way can be obtained and some of the more difficult terrain can be managed. Construction estimates range from $2 million to $5 million, again depending on variables.
Key Largo
Regardless of which direction the city and MoDOT go on the outer road/slip ramp project, Silvester said MoDOT plans to move forward with building a $156,000 right-turn-only acceleration lane from Key Largo east onto the Expressway. It is a promise made to Parkway businesses, he said, and he anticipates work will be done by Thanksgiving.
Traffic counts taken in March showed 1,100 cars turn off the Parkway onto the Expressway at Key Largo. Silvester said a slip ramp probably would not immediately improve the traffic count on the Parkway.
He agreed, however, that as traffic on the Expressway (estimated at 12,000 to 13,000 daily one way) increases over time, so will the use of the Parkway.


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Mannion paces Oregon State to rout of Cal
Corvallis, OR – Sean Mannion threw four first-half touchdown passes, Terron Ward ran for two scores and the 15th-ranked Oregon State Beavers cruised to a 62-14 triumph over the California Golden Bears.
Mannion registered 325 passing yards and Ward totaled 128 yards on 14 carries for the Beavers (8-2, 6-2 Pac-12).
"He had a great week of practice, prepared hard and studied a lot," Oregon State coach Mike Riley said of Mannion. "He came out very aggressively. He played with confidence, was fast and went after it. Good things happened."
Allan Bridgford had just 132 passing yards with one interception and added a rushing touchdown for California (3-9, 2-7), which ended the season on a five-game slide.
"It's obvious we have work to do," said California coach Jeff Tedford.
Mannion was intercepted on Oregon State's first drive of the game, but he rebounded to find Markus Wheaton for an 11-yard touchdown after Bridgford was picked off.
The Golden Bears countered on the ensuing drive when Isi Sofele ran for a 9- yard score.
From that point on, it was all Beavers. Oregon State scored 42 straight points to take control.
Tyler Anderson added a 1-yard plunge in the first quarter before Mannion connected on scoring strikes of 48 yards to Brandin Cooks, 14 yards to Connor Hamlett and six yards to Micah Hatfield, giving the Beavers a 35-7 halftime lead.
Following the break, Storm Woods ran for a 1-yard TD and Ward scampered 47 yards to the end zone.
Bridgford scored from a yard out with 58 seconds left in the third quarter before Ward registered his second touchdown.
Oregon State backup quarterback Richie Harrington capped the onslaught with an 8-yard TD to Malcolm Agnew.
Game Notes
Oregon State outgained California 559-322 in total offensive yards ... The Golden Bears committed four turnovers ... Sofele had 104 yards on 18 carries.


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President: Bujar Nishani (2011)
Prime Minister: Edi Rama (2013)
Land area: 10,579 sq mi (27,400 sq km); total area: 11,100 sq mi (28,748 sq km)
Population (2012 est.): 3,002,859 (growth rate: 0.28%); birth rate: 12.38/1000; infant mortality rate: 14.12/1000; life expectancy: 77.59; density per sq mi: 340
Capital and largest city (2009 est.):Tirana, 433,000
Other large cities: Durres, 113,900; Elbasan, 97,000
Monetary unit: Lek
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Albania is situated on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, with Montenegro and Serbia to the north, Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south. Slightly larger than Maryland, Albania is composed of two major regions: a mountainous highland region (north, east, and south) constituting 70% of the land area, and a western coastal lowland region that contains nearly all of the country's agricultural land and is the most densely populated part of Albania.
Emerging democracy.
A part of Illyria in ancient times and later of the Roman Empire, Albania was ruled by the Byzantine Empire from 535 to 1204. An alliance (1444–1466) of Albanian chiefs failed to halt the advance of the Ottoman Turks, and the country remained under at least nominal Turkish rule for more than four centuries, until it proclaimed its independence on Nov. 28, 1912.
Largely agricultural, Albania is one of the poorest countries in Europe. A battlefield in World War I, after the war it became a republic in which a conservative Muslim landlord, Ahmed Zogu, proclaimed himself president in 1925 and king (Zog I) in 1928. He ruled until Italy annexed Albania in 1939. Communist guerrillas under Enver Hoxha seized power in 1944, near the end of World War II. Hoxha was a devotee of Stalin, emulating the Soviet leader's repressive tactics, imprisoning or executing landowners and others who did not conform to the socialist ideal. Hoxha eventually broke with Soviet communism in 1961 because of differences with Khrushchev and then aligned himself with Chinese communism, which he also abandoned in 1978 after the death of Mao. From then on Albania went its own way to forge its individual version of the socialist state and became one of the most isolated—and economically underdeveloped—countries in the world. Hoxha was succeeded by Ramiz Alia in 1982.