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2004 Baseball
ONU 12, Bluffton 6
Bluffton drops single game to neighbor university
By Ben Risinger, SID
April 21, 2004
BLUFFTON, OHIO - The Bluffton College baseball team (7-23, 2-10 HCAC) dropped a single 9-inning game to their neighbor school Ohio Northern University (13-14) 12-6 on Wednesday afternoon.
Junior Jason Moore (Elida/Elida) went 3-for-5 at the plate for the Beavers with sophomore Tony Gerig (West Unity/Hilltop) going 2-for-4 for the day, respectively. Senior Luke Clouse (Rockford/Parkway) knocked a 1-run homer out of the park in the fourth, and sophomore Riordan McClain (Upper Sandusky/Upper Sandusky) posted a triple.
Heading into the top of the fourth both schools found themselves tied at one each. The Polar Bears bats then came alive as they scored nine runs over the next three innings and two more in the eighth. The Beavers tried to force a comeback in the bottom of the ninth as they scored two runs, but could not make up the eight run deficit for the 12-6 final.
Freshman pitcher Rob Danhoff (Willard/Willard) picked up the loss on the mound. His record falls to 0-3 for the year.
The Beavers have three HCAC series ( Franklin , Hanover , Anderson) to finish off the 2004 campaign. Bluffton will be on the road this Friday and Saturday when they travel to Franklin College . Friday's game is scheduled for with the doubleheader on Saturday starting at .


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If you haven't heard the Gareth Bale to Real Madrid rumours, firstly, where have you been?
Second of all, with all the talk of a world-record transfer in the offing, it got us thinking at GiveMeSport Towers.
Can you name some the previous record-breaking deals from years gone by? If you can't, worry not as we're providing you with an extensive list of the top 10 world-record transfer deals of old.
So, see if you can remember some of these expensive signings and as always, have your say in the comments box provided.
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Baby Laughs at Ripping Paper
It usually doesn't take long for a baby to get famous on the internet, and this little munchkin is no exception. All he needs is a little paper ripping action to set him off, and as of late Monday he had over 300,000 people watching. But, he's not the only famous laughing baby. Check out some others below.


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Transfer News: Wigan want to keep Manchester United youngster Nick Powell on loan
Uwe Rosler is waiting to find out if Manchester United will let Nick Powell stay at Wigan for the rest of the season.
Last Updated: 02/01/14 3:19pm
Powell has scored eight goals in 23 appearances in all competitions for Wigan this term, impressing in the Championship and the Europa League.
The 19-year-old, who can play in midfield or further forward, is due to return to Old Trafford, but Rosler has held talks with United boss David Moyes about an extension.
"I've spoken to David and, so far, there's been no indication that anything has changed," said Rosler after Sunday's 0-0 draw with Burnley.
"On Monday and Tuesday we'll have another talk and I'll know for certain.
"Nick is a player of real quality and I would be delighted if he is able to stay with us for the rest of the season."
However, speculation has linked Powell with a move to a Premier League club for the second half of the season, with Everton, Hull City and Swansea City all reported to be interested.
Powell has made six appearances for United since his 2012 move from Crewe Alexandra and Moyes confirmed last week he is considering what to do with the teenager in January.
Hull have been mooted as favourites to sign Powell, but Steve Bruce would have to consider the futures of on-loan duo Jake Livermore and Danny Graham.
Premier League clubs can only have two players on loan from another top-flight team at one time, with both Livermore and Graham linked with permanent deals at the KC Stadium.


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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Abortion
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has judged this a 'despicable ploy', not only because it threatens unborn children, promotes promiscuity, and undermines public health, but also because it 'insults the child-centred meaning of Christmas'.
One might think that Christmas, when the world remembers the most important baby ever born, might be a time for reflection on the gift of life, the incomparable beauty and wonder of new birth, the importance of family and the innocence of childhood. Millions of pictures of the Madonna and Child are sent and received, and our thoughts are turned to Mary as an exemplar of faithfulness to God whom all nations call blessed.
By choosing such a life-destroying gift pack at this time of the year, BPAS insults the Christian faith and rides roughshod over religious sensitivities. It is as offensive as the 2004 campaign by Schering, manufacturers of the Levonelle brand of morning-after pill, who ran a pre-Christmas campaign entitled 'Immaculate Contraception'.
But Ann Furedi, Chief Executive of BPAS, is not remotely concerned about such things. And she reveals her warped mindset and amoral worldview when she observes: "You don't wait until you get a headache to buy your pain relief, why wait until you've risked pregnancy to get the morning after pill?"
How, in the name of God, can anyone equate a headache with pregnancy? How can a pill to cure a headache be remotely comparable to one which terminates life? The flippancy, the triviality, the contempt for life render Cranmer speechless.
The number of abortions carried out in January of this year compared with December last year was 25 per cent higher. The total number of abortions procured has exceeded 200,000 per annum for the first time since abortion was legalised in 1967.
All facilitated and positively encouraged by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, especially during Advent and Christmas.
Cranmer awaits their Ramadan and Eid gifts...


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Arsenal welcome Liverpool to the Emirates Stadium on Saturday, with Arsene Wenger missing several key senior players.
Cesc Fabregas finally joined Barcelona this week, while Samir Nasri is said to be on the verge of joining Manchester City.
Wenger is also without Jack Wilshere, Kieran Gibbs and Johan Djourou, as well as suspended pair Gervinho and Alex Song.
For Liverpool the only injury issues remain with Steven Gerrard and Glen Johnson.
Chelsea play West Brom on Saturday evening, with Andre Villas-Boas desperate for his first win as Blues boss.
New signing Romelu Lukaku is available, while Hilario will deputise for the injured Petr Cech.
Sunday sees Manchester City travel to Bolton, with both teams coming off the back off 4-0 victories in the first week of the season.
Reigning Barclays Premier League champions Manchester United are not in action until Monday, when they take on Tottenham at Old Trafford.
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Some very good news to all BlackBerry fans out there in India as RIM just marked down the prices of some of their smartphones by up to 26%. Sounds great right? According from RIM, they decided to have this discounted price not entirely because they want to be on top again, but rather, to expand the markets across the globe.
This strategy is a very simple yet an effective way of providing great experience to everyone in India. They have noticed a lot of consumers are younger, so they wanted to make sure that all of them will be able to try and be satisfied with what BlackBerry smartphones can offer. Reducing the price is indeed a risk RIM has to take just to keep up and be available to everybody as much as possible.
These smartphones are the BlackBerry Curve 8520, Curve 9360, Curve 9380 and Torch 9860. All four handsets were earlier available for Rs 10, 990 Rs 19, 990 Rs 18, 990 and Rs 29, 990 respectively but they can now be purchased by up to 26% so you can enjoy the BlackBerry experience.Quote:
"RIM as a brand has moved from just an enterprise device to as a more consumer device. Be it our services or the product, we have seen a strong uptake by the youth and therefore, to get the devices into more hands, we are cutting the prices," RIM India Managing Director Sunil Dutt said.
Moreover, Dutt mentioned that RIM aims to further uplift the presence and leverage the demand for BlackBerry smartphones.
Even the BlackBerry PlayBook started to be sold at a lower price in December of last year that gave 21% market share in India. It was launched at Rs 27, 990 but can now be purchased for only Rs 13, 990 which is almost more than half of the price.Quote:
"The focus is not just on reducing prices, but we want to address a larger number of people and give them the overall experience of BlackBerry. We will continue to focus on bringing locally relevant products, services and applications to Indian consumers," he said.
If they have done that in India, I am pretty sure that there will come a time RIM will follow suit in other countries, such as Canada, U.S., and other Third World Countries. Looking forward to what RIM can offer in the future. This would only mean that RIM is now reaching the hearts of all consumers by cutting down the prices, but still the same top of the line quality to be able to provide the best smartphone experience to everyone across the nation.
Would you want this price reduction in your country? I do!


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Docno: ADMS-04-07-02-0102
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In all you speak, let Truth and candour shine
That not alone, what to your sense is due.
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Appear the effusions of great Johnsons mind
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Chelsea could be ready to make a January swoop for Fiorentina striker Stevan Jovetic after scouts from the club ran the rule over the in-form striker, according to reports in Italy.
Jovetic has been heavily linked with a move away from Serie A in recent months, and came close to heading to the Premier League during the summer window.
Manchester City have been reportedly trailing the Montenegrin forward for some time now but could face competition from Chelsea, as well as Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, who sent representatives to watch Jovetic as he scored in Fiorentina's 4-1 win over Cagliari according to Gazzetta dello Sport.
Chelsea have been linked with a host of attackers ahead of the January window amidst rumours Daniel Sturridge could be on his way out of the club.
The former Manchester City forward has found first team action hard to come by this season and has been linked with a move to Liverpool and Tottenham ahead of winter window, while Fernando Torres is still struggling to find his best form.
Jovetic may fit the profile of the type of player the Stamford Bridge-based club are looking for given his versatility as both an outright striker and attacking midfielder.
The 23-year-old has six goals in eleven league games so far this season to go with his 14 strikes last time round.
The Citizens may still be keen on landing Jovetic as they continue to struggle in Europe, with their 2-2 draw with Ajax at the Etihad Stadium last night all but ending their hopes of progressing to the knock-out stages of the Champions League.
Whether Manchester City or Chelsea will be able to lure the forward away from Florence remains to be seen however after he turned down the chance to leave in the summer.
Speaking last month Jovetic revealed he stayed put because he was happy with life in Serie A.
He told La Nazione: "What happened over the summer is normal. If a player does something good, they become a target for other clubs.
"There may be offers, proposals, topics for discussion or negotiation, but then you make a decision. That's what I did, I chose to stay at Fiorentina. I heard who wanted me, but I decided to stay here.
"After speaking with the president (Andrea Della Valle), I realised that Fiorentina have big ambition. I now see that the club have kept their promises and I have many great players alongside me.
"It's always nice when a big club want you, but I am happy here and I don't want to think about the future.
"A buy-out clause? We will start negotiations with Fiorentina, but there is no rush and I don't think there will be any problems."
Chelsea will look to get their Champions League campaign back on track when they go up against Shakhtar Donetsk at Stamford Bridge tonight.
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Trick or Treat Plant
This year, greet trick or treaters in a truly original way, with fresh mini purple mums in a bright orange planter and a "Trick or Treat" Mylar balloon. We've sweetened the deal with a bag of delicious Harry London® chocolate treats in the shape of jack-o-lanterns, all wrapped up and ready to enjoy by Halloween lovers of all ages. Get a set of 6 and make your whole party scary and sweet.


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Dumpster Drive: File-Sharing For Your Digital Trash 79
maybe the idea is that you could say to the riaa cops that you didn't share the file, you deleted it..
I don't know, it just sounds like a trojan horse out trolling for personal data.
It's not so far removed from reality. Kazaa users often used to share their whole hard drives.
Kazaa would actually share all your documents by default, it has been a major problem on government systems.
Hell you'd be surprised how many to this very day do this with P2P programs. Just fire up any P2P like Emule or Bearshare or any of the other classic P2P and look for * plus the file extension for various programs like Quicken and Quickbooks and be prepared to be amazed at how many are sharing their data with the world!
As for TFA this idea is so patently dumb the only thing I can do is wear this expression [www.meh.ro] when thinking about it. Granted fixing PCs all day I wear that expression a lot, but this level of
Oh, I get it. Check the site, it's a Apple only thing. That actually makes sense in a lot of ways.
How long before they put the kibosh on this Apple-only thing?
Oh, I get it. Check the site, it's a Apple only thing. That actually makes sense in a lot of ways.
Because Apple users never do anything confidential or top secret? And they anthropomorphify their data and don't want to "kill it" and this will let the nice little bits and bytes "live on"?
Yea. Now that Apple is strongly interlinked with Big Media, i am surprised that they do not remove copy as a easily available file action to promote treating files as more physical. Perhaps with a special "xerox" icon for copying, complete with a cop or lawyer next to it that gives a thumb up or down on the legality of making a copy of that file.
A Recycle bin that means it.
Written with 83% post-consumer ASCII chars
Isn't this about 3 and a half months too late?
Well, they say "information wants to be free" and I've never heard "information wants to be permanently deleted".
I have emo information.
At the risk of sounding cynical
There is absolutely NO WAY that this is real. It's got to be a hoax.
If this is actually real, anyone who uses this has to be absolutely, terminally and utterly Fucking Retarded.
This must be full of bad porn and sensitive documents.
Yeah, I want a copy too.
Well, if one shreds documents properly, it should be full of cryptographically secure random numbers.
I embed my sensitive data in porn.
I embed sensitive porn into bad documents. It livens them up quite a bit.
...or just really stupid.
We already have one of those.
It's called the Internet.
This is only for files you feel have no use and have no relation to yourself, personally.
You'd have to be stupid to want to replace your recycle bin with this. (which it doesn't, well, SHOULDN'T, NOT EVEN AN OPTION FOR IT)
For people who collect random crap from the net and feel like sharing it on, bham, drag it in the recyclenet and be happy someone else might find SOME use for the file.
If not, then you should feel bad for saving it. Yes, that porn too.
I wonder how big this could get to becoming a large d
I wonder how big this could get to becoming a large distributed file server.
It doesn't work that way, once someone downloads a file it is removed from the network.
Maybe it's a generational thing, but the
Maybe it's a generational thing, but the
/. summary writer seems to have missed the point of why people (used to) dumpster dive: collect intelligence that could be used AGAINST the divee.
Speak for yourself. Those of us who were not in the blackmail business did it to scrounge valuable junk.
I'd LOVE to pick through other people's stuff,
I wouldn't. I'd find yours quite boring.
The crap I delete includes material nearly as valuable in terms of PII, PI, and IP as the stuff I keep on my drives, whether home or
Can't see how it could possibly go wrong...
A.) What could I possibly want to delete from my computer that I would actively want to share with anyone? (ie. to my benefit)
B.) Can you imagine the number of copies of "New Folder" and "untitled folder" there would be in there?
Next thing you know is we will have anonymous and distributed recycle bins rather than file sharing. "But your honour, I thought they were throwing it away!"
I think it will be cool to see files added to and passed around through this system, say something like daily journal with one entry from every person that picks up the file.
but in reality I think it is going to end up with full of trolls, p0rn and people looking for another way to "illegally" share copyrighted material.
Thufir's a Harkonnen now.


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Returning to NY for a showing at Gering & López, site of his show in early 2010, Street Market alumni Todd James will be presenting a whole new body of work on March 1st. King of the Wild Frontier will no doubt feature the artist otherwise known as REAS' signature colorful and sardonic takes on various topics including perhaps politics and war.
Discuss Todd James here.


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Storms cause roof collapse, power outages in N. Harris County
Updated 7:01 am, Monday, July 15, 2013
The roof of a Shell gas station partially collapsed due to rain and wind damage in northwest Harris County Sunday evening.
Officers responded to the collapse at the gas station on the 16000 block of Tuckerton and Queenstown at around 8:10 p.m. Authorities said that one female customer was transported to Cy Fair Hospital for precautionary treatment.
Storms also caused several accidents on area freeways. The storms caused more than 9,100 people to be without electricity Sunday night, according to CenterPoint Energy. The number had fallen to around 200 by early Monday morning.
The National Weather Service reported about 2 inches of rainfall and 30 to 40 mph winds in the Jersey Village area late Sunday. The area faces a 60 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms Monday.


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All students will see microscopic biological phenomena up-close with the film Mysteries of the Unseen World in our Rangos Omnimax Theater. A range of interactive experiences will deepen their understanding of biological principles and structures. You'll get pre-visit and post-visit classroom resources, a printed guide to follow step-by-step through your day, and personalized attention at every station.
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Dec 5 - 6, 2013
For speaker contact information, click on Speakers link at left of page and locate speaker profile.
International explorer, photographer, author, and television host Josh Bernstein has traveled more than 1,000,000 miles by train, plane, bus, bike and camel to over 65 countries, exploring the biggest mysteries of our planet in pursuit of knowledge and discovery.
Josh has traced the Ark of the Covenant from the caverns of Jerusalem to the mountains of Ethiopia, searched for the Holy Grail in the bowels of Nazi Germany, and communed with tribal chiefs in the darkest jungles of the Amazon Rainforest. He has ventured deep underground with NASA scientists to explore the origins of life on Earth and has hunted with alleged cannibals by moonlight in the forests of Papua New Guinea--all in a quest to uncover some of the most fascinating mysteries of our planet.
Josh's television career began when he debuted as the host of a new adventure-archaeology series called Digging for the Truth on The History Channel. The series quickly became the highest-rated original series in the network's history. Later, Josh moved to Discovery Channel, where he served as host and executive producer of Into the Unknown with Josh Bernstein. Josh is currently developing a number of new projects.
In addition to his work on television, Josh is also the president and CEO of the Boulder Outdoor Survival School, the oldest and largest wilderness survival school in the world. Josh is a fellow of The Explorers Club and The Royal Geographical Society and a patron of the American Museum of Natural History.
Bill Bott uses a team approach to tackle organizational challenges, such as strategic planning, process improvement, project management, customer satisfaction, and problem solving. He uses the same tools developed by leading private sector companies to facilitate change from within the organization. Bill's specialty is in helping to make elements of square pegs fit into the round holes that make up the work we do.
Bill is best known for his role in consolidating the IT functions and staff in the state of Missouri, which saved the state over half a billion dollars in real costs in less than 10 years. For this, Bill was named a GOVERNING Public Official of the Year in 2007, and in 2008 he was recognized as one of Government Technology's Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers. He also received accolades from the American Business Awards for his innovative approach to IT management and was chosen to represent the United States as a young leader by the American Council on Germany.
Bill joined the Change and Innovation Agency in 2009 and now works with public servants across the country. A regular speaker on Project Management, his message of true process improvement before automation is a frequent theme in his writings and in his workshops.
Friday Dec. 6 9:00AM
Keynote - Becoming a Change Agent: Your Secret to Success
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The Centre for Arts & Artists and Iowa Sculpture Festival have been fundraising to acquire resources for CAA resident artist Herman Deaton to create a lifesize bronze sculpture of Herman's mother, Edna, hanging a towel on the clothesline in the 1930s.
A "Birth of Edna" event, a day when the public will be invited to kick off this project, will be announced in the near future. There will be an open house for community members to come and visit with Herman as he works. Artists' studios will be open at this time, and immediately following will be a special time for sponsoring patrons to help apply clay to the armature.
For many years, Herman and his brother, Neal, were among the foremost museum diorama artists in the United States. About 20 years ago, Herman began to freelance art through his newly created business, H.L. Deaton Studio. Herman created sculptures for some of the most recognized names in the Industries, such as The Hamilton Group, National Wildlife Federation, Successful Farming and the Smithsonian Institute. Herman's bas relief mural, "The Landmark," at the Jasper County Historical Museum is a local testimony to not only his skill and knowledge in history and the arts but to his generosity to his community. More than 1,000 hours were donated on his part to see "The Landmark" completed.
Herman's "Edna" project will use the assistance of other professional artists who may or may not have ever created a sculpture for the lost wax cast bronze process. As Herman is assisted, a learning process will be provided for those professionals and amateurs alike. The project will be very labor intensive and will be filmed, ultimately being edited to be made available for classrooms of all academic and practical application levels. With the annual all-fifth grade art/sculpture tour in Newton, it can be used as pre- or post-curriculum activity to satisfy and enrich district art requirements. The public will be invited to watch the progress during regular CAA open hours. Area colleges and grade schools will be invited to bring students and faculty for observation and learning opportunities.


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BreastFest 2014 kicked off on a brisk Saturday morning at 8:30 sharp with a 5K walk.
"I'm here for these people who support breast cancer," Lisa Branch said. "I believe this is for cancer patients and survivors and for those that have passed. My sister died from breast cancer five years ago next month so I'm walking for her this year."
"After two years at Pine Island Center we are back at the St. James City Civic Center," Mary Scott said. "This year's event centers around the theme 'It Takes an Island.' This event, the morning walk and the afternoon celebration, is held to raise money for the prevention and detection of breast cancer for island residents who are uninsured or underinsured."
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At the Partners for Breast Cancer Care booth there was a pink bench with messages from breast cancer survivors, victims and their families.
From Our Hearts joined forces with Partners for Breast Cancer Care and Regional Cancer Center/Lee Memorial Health System for the procedures necessary for those islanders who qualify and are facing possible breast cancer.
"It's all about raising money to help women and men right here in our community," Barb Adams, president of Partners for Breast Cancer Care, said. "Everything we raise for Partners stays right here in Lee County and we're supporting the women of Pine Island and From Our Hearts because they support us. Our organization raises money for diagnostics for people who are uninsured or underinsured and can't afford to get a diagnosis.
"Recently we're finding out that many of the women that need help can't get out to get it and that's the reason we're partnering with organizations like the Beacon of H.O.P.E. to take the mobile unit to those communities," Adams said."
"We have an event planned on March 25," Betsy Haesemeyer, director of the Beacon of H.O.P.E., said. "The Beacon will be theirs (Partners for Breast Cancer Care) from 10 (a.m.) to 2 (p.m.). Pine Islanders get introduced to the nurse navigators, physicians will be there to do what may be their first breast exam in years. For some reason St. James City does not register in the system and women that live there are not receiving services possibly because they don't have transportation or they don't know who to talk to, so this is an opportunity for them to be able to take advantage of these services."
Partners for Breast Cancer Cares "Breast Health Caravan" will be at the Beacon of H.O.P.E. on March 25. It will offer:
Private no-cost breast examination by a volunteer physician
Intake process with bilingual case manager for qualification for mammogram
Self-breast examination demonstration
No cost screening mammogram
Informational hand-out packet
To qualify you must have:
Lived in Lee County for the last 12 months
A Social Security card and Lee County photo ID
A prescription from a doctor for breast care
No health insurance
Meet the financial guidelines ($1915 a month or less for a single person; $2585 a month or less for a family of two; $3255 a month or less for a family of three; $3925 a month or less for a family of four; $4595 a month or less for a family of five or more)
"And for people that don't quite qualify we at the Beacon of H.O.P.E. will see that they get a mammogram," Haesemeyer said. "The same thing goes for people here today."
"Also it's about education and teaching women about doing their own breast exam and how hard you need to press to determine whether something is there," Adams said. "People can visit our website at www.pfbcc.org for more information. They should also call 454-8583 to make an appointment or attend the event."
On display at the Partners for Breast Cancer Care booth there was a pink bench with messages from breast cancer survivors, victims and their families. For a donation people can leave a message on the bench: "To all warriors keep up the fight," "We all miss you, Lois."
The Beacon of HOPE is located at 5465 Pine Island Road, Bokeelia, FL 33922; 239-283-5123


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Campus Engagement: A Trustee Priority
Despite a weekend full of committee meetings, members of the Hamilton Board of Trustees still found many opportunities to engage one-on-one and collectively with students, faculty and staff during the Board's quarterly meeting March 1-2 in Clinton.
Beginning Thursday night, trustees who arrived early joined the college's varsity head coaches for dinner and conversation at the home Dean of Faculty Pat Reynolds. Athletic Director Jon Hind commented that coaches are often viewed from afar, but this kind of event allows both coaches and trustees to meet each other in a casual, relaxed environment. He classified the event as "outstanding."
Students had several opportunities to meet trustees on Friday beginning with a coffee and dessert meeting with Jennifer Hill '87, who is chief financial officer of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Susan Skerritt K'77, who is executive vice president & chief strategy officer of the Bank of New York Mellon. The gathering was arranged for female students interested in talking about careers in business with a focus on finance and consulting. According to Associate Director of Employer Relations Abby Taylor, "The discussion was great -- lots of questions from the students and answers from alumnae. It was 45 minutes before anyone really mentioned anything about women in finance . . . until that point, it was just about finance." Several students had already established connections with the trustees or with their employers; one student had secured a job at Bank of America and another had made plans to shadow Jennifer Hill as part of HamiltonExplore.
At lunch trustees listened to Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley describe the new online course she is teaching for alumni, Music in American Film 1900-1977. Hamessley showed clips from a taping of a class, so the trustees could see precisely what the course participants view. She also explained the "behind the scenes" computer layout for the class, which includes sharing video clips, chat boxes, a space for instructor notes and a place for class polls. Hamessley was "very pleased that the audience was so enthusiastic and positive about the course. … One trustee said that after even my short presentation, she was going to experience films differently since she felt more aware of the role of music in film."
Seniors met with trustees at a networking reception Friday afternoon. "I thought the reception was a great way for seniors to engage with trustees whom they might not have the opportunity to meet otherwise," observed Galia Slayen. "The briefing made it easier to introduce yourself to a trustee with similar interests."
Senior Rebecca Shields said, "It was awesome being able to talk with trustees and hear about their experiences. They are still so proud of this school and community ... they really care about the school and are so willing to give back to aid in our experience here."


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Coker College softball coach David Hanna announced today that Lauren Phillips has signed a national letter of intent to play for the Cobras.
Phillips, a pitcher, is transferring from the University of South Carolina at Sumter, where she posted a 10-8 record with a 1.37 ERA, 108 strikeouts and 26 walks in 143 innings.
"We are expecting Lauren to come in and help us with pitching right away," said Hanna. "We've played against her a couple times, and she's tough. We're looking forward to having her on our side."
Phillips is originally from West Columbia, S.C., where she attended Airport High School and lettered in softball and volleyball. She is the daughter of Fred and Kim Phillips.
For more information, contact Chris Dougherty, manager of athletics media relations, at 843-383-8018 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Coker College readies undergraduates for personal and professional success through a distinctive four-year program that emphasizes a practical application of the liberal arts as well as hands-on and discussion-based learning within and beyond the classroom. Coker is ranked among the "Best Colleges" in the South by U.S. News & World Report as well as The Princeton Review. Located in Hartsville, S.C., Coker is within two hours of the cultural, financial and recreational resources of Charlotte, Columbia, Charleston and Myrtle Beach.


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Submission + - Why Google needs to pull the plug on Chrome OS (jfplayhouse.com)
judeancodersfront writes: It's time for Google to realize that it is way too early to be pushing an OS that only provides a browser. If Chrome OS fails on netbooks it will just make OEMs even more hesitant to use a Linux based OS instead of Windows. Google should instead build upon their already successful Android platform and provide a system that offers local applications.


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Release Notes: Introducing Symfony's Dependency Injection Container and Namespaces. The autoloader has been improved, and mailer is now a service.
Release Notes: Can easily import an Wordpress blog and export theme templates. Several bugs were fixed, and there are some extra small improvements.
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Makeshift Society Offers All the Perks of Working in an Office (Without the Terrible Boss)
It's nice not to have to go into an office for 40 hours every week, but the work-from-anywhere lifestyle has its drawbacks. Sure, you never have to change out of your pajamas, but the lack of human contact provides a quick path to insanity. The Bay Area has plenty of coffee shops, but despite all the Macbooks you'll see open at your local purveyor of Blue Bottle, they aren't always the best places to work. And sometimes, you just want to have a conversation with a co-worker, maybe to bounce ideas off of them, maybe to vent about a problem, maybe just to complain about the weather.
Increasingly, subscription-based shared workspaces are popping up around the Bay Area, offering freelancers, entrepreneurs, and other office-less nomads a place to plug in their laptops and chat with their fellow members. What sets Hayes Valley's Makeshift Society apart from other shared workspaces is its emphasis on encouraging creative work and collaboration.
Nestled on Gough Street between Oak and Fell, Makeshift Society is a cozy space. Members can channel their inner feline and curl up in the cushioned window seats, enjoy the interactivity of the long table at the front, meet in the private conference room, or quietly work on the couches or at one of the smaller tables. If you're a dog owner, you can even bring your well behaved pooch. But Makeshift offers more than just a place to work; a lending library of books on art and design fill the shelves. Bikes are available for members running local errands. A rotating pop-up shop highlights the wares of various local makers (and is open to the public.) And there is a full slate of lectures, lunches, and mixers designed to help you get to know your coworkers.
"It's for people who are craving that camaraderie that you don't get at a coffee shop," says team member Christina Bohn. Bohn says that Makeshift attracts a variety of professionals, including graphic designers, interior designers, visual artists, entrepreneurs, programmers, and frequently members will collaborate on projects. People with specific expertise will hold office hours to answer questions about everything from design to how to license your artwork. Members at all levels also get access to the Makeshift Society's Google Group, where members can throw out questions to the entire membership, post job listings, or just promote themselves and their latest works. Even if members opt not to come into the "office," they can still enjoy the resources that come with being part of a diverse group of people with a diverse knowledge base.
Even if you aren't a member of the Makeshift Society, you can enjoy much of what Makeshift has to offer. You can peruse the pop-up shop, attend office hours, or take their classes—ranging from crafty crash courses on knitting and collage to business-focused classes on managing your finances and writing snazzy copy. If you have a special project in mind, you can also apply for three months of free access through Makeshift's residency program. Last quarter, Makeshift offered a residency to Hunter Franks, who used it to launch the SF Postcard Project, in which he asks residents of neighborhoods like Bayview and the Tenderloin to write postcards about the things they love about their neighborhoods and then mails them to random occupants of the city.
Supporting memberships to the Makeshift Society start at $60 per year and grant members the Makeshift newsletter, access to the directory and Google Group, 15% off sponsored courses and events. If you'd like to work at the Makeshift space on a regular basis, access memberships start at $90 per month for one day a week and top out at $350 per month for fives days a week. Makeshift also offers salon memberships and day pass options. Be sure to check out the event schedule for upcoming classes and events, many of which are open to the public.


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Rank, from best to worst, the presidents since 1900. You can do a simple best to worst or more specific like Good, Medicore, Bad, etc. I'm curious to see people's rankings =)
My list, in order from best to worst:
Theodore Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Ronald W. Reagan
Harry Truman
Bill Clinton/George W. Bush
George H.W. Bush
Gerald R. Ford
John F. Kennedy
William H. Taft
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
William McKinley
Jimmy Carter


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July 30, 2008 > Washington Hospital Hosts Blood Drive on August 4
A blood donation is the gift of life from one human being to another. On Monday, August 4, Washington Hospital invites the community to join in their annual blood drive to give this gift to those whose lives depend on it. One blood donation can save up to three lives and one out of three people needs donated blood in his or her lifetime. Donating blood is a simple process that saves more than four million American lives each year. The process of donating blood from registration to blood drawing takes about 45 minutes. It's quick, safe and painless. There is no substitute for blood to aid in recovery and healing of a sick or injured person. Blood is always needed for treatment of accident victims, cancer patients, hemophiliacs and surgery patients. According to the American Red Cross, donated blood is used for someone every two seconds. One out of 10 hospital patients needs a transfusion. To be a blood donor, you must be healthy, at least 17 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds, and not have donated blood in the last 56 days. Being healthy means that you feel well and can perform normal activities. Those with a chronic condition such as diabetes or high blood pressure are considered "healthy" if they are being treated and the condition is under control. Before any blood is collected, you will be asked about your health history, and your past and present lifestyle. This interview will be kept private and confidential. If you are allergic to iodine, tape or natural latex, tell the interviewer, so that the donation staff can substitute other materials. A pint of blood will be drawn from your arm as your donation. The donation staff will clean an area of the arm from which they will draw the blood, using clean and sterile supplies used only for you. It will take about 10 minutes to draw the pint, and your body will replace the plasma, or liquid part, of your blood within a few hours. The blood cells will be replenished in a few weeks.The Washington Hospital Blood Drive will be held on August 4 from 1 to 6 p.m. in the Conrad E. Anderson Auditorium, Room C, Washington West, 2500 Mowry Ave., Fremont. To make an appointment to donate, you can register online at www.beadonor.com. Click on "Find A Drive" from the menu and enter the zip code 94538 on the "Find A Blood Drive" page and scroll down until you see the Washington Hospital link. You may also call and schedule an appointment at 1-800-GIVE-LIFE (1-800-448-3543). Walk-in donors are also welcome. For more information on blood donation, visit the Web site of the American Red Cross, www.redcross.org.


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Archive: News / Entertainment / Entertainment News (18 Stories)
Game review: 'Valiant Hearts' a grim WWI tribute
07/03/2014 5:50amone that fully appreciates the grim ironies of "the war to end all wars."
Universal spokesman: Louis Zamperini, war hero, subject of upcoming film "Unbroken," has died.
07/03/2014 7:10amUniversal spokesman: Louis Zamperini, war hero, subject of upcoming film "Unbroken," has died.
Old Crow Medicine Show teams with Bob Dylan again
07/03/2014 7:30amFor years, Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show has been thanking Bob Dylan from afar for "Wagon Wheel," the multiplatinum hit based on an unfinished Dylan song. The Americana band made it a fan favorite through their live shows over the past decade, and then Darius Rucker turned a cover into a No. 1 country song.
UK sends Sherlock Holmes to woo North Korea
07/03/2014 8:30amCan Sherlock Holmes help unlock the mystery of the insular enigma that is North Korea? The British government considers it elementary.
Gregg Allman film director, 2 others indicted in Georgia train crash that killed 1 crew member
07/03/2014 9:00amGregg Allman film director, 2 others indicted in Georgia train crash that killed 1 crew member.
John Williams to debut new version of US anthem
07/03/2014 9:30amAmerican composer-conductor John Williams is debuting a new arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner," featuring choirs, trumpets, an orchestra and cannons on the National Mall for the nation's birthday.
Mexican tenor Javier Camarena marks 10-year career
07/03/2014 9:51amMexican tenor Javier Camarena is making a quick trip home after hitting some high notes on the road.
Broadway prize on 'So You Think You Can Dance'
07/03/2014 10:51amThis season's winner of Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance" will be crowned "America's Favorite Dancer," get a cash prize and something else — a possible Broadway role.
Former 'Bachelor' winner writes of finding love
07/03/2014 10:51amWhen Courtney Robertson appeared on ABC's dating competition series "The Bachelor" in 2012, she was quickly elevated to villain status.
Disneyland Paris getting Ratatouille attraction
07/03/2014 11:32amA new attraction inspired by the Disney movie "Ratatouille" is scheduled to open July 10 at Disneyland Paris.
Savage's 'World' comes full circle with spinoff
07/03/2014 2:20pmBen Savage says that when production wrapped on "Boy Meets World" in 2000 after seven seasons, he and his young co-stars were ready to expand their own worlds.
Correction: People-Josh Groban story
07/03/2014 3:01pmIn a story July 2 about Josh Groban, The Associated Press reported erroneously that "Rising Star" allowed for real-time viewing instead of real-time voting.
Director, 2 more indicted in fatal Ga. train crash
07/03/2014 3:03pmThe director of a movie about singer Gregg Allman and two other executives on the project were indicted Thursday on felony charges stemming from a fatal crash in which a freight train plowed into the film's crew in southeast Georgia.
Libyan rebels fly to Bosnia to see revolution film
07/03/2014 3:12pmMore than a hundred Libyan rebels, sporting new suits, chartered a plane on Thursday to travel to the Sarajevo premiere of a documentary about their revolution.
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
07/03/2014 3:41pmGuest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
King, Tartt among those backing anti-Amazon letter
07/03/2014 3:51pmStephen King, Nora Roberts and Donna Tartt are among the hundreds of authors who have added their names to an online letter criticizing Amazon.com for restricting access to works published by Hachette Book Group.
Life term upheld for killer of guitarist's mother
07/03/2014 5:11pmA state appeals court has upheld the life sentence for a man who killed two Southern California women three decades ago, including the mother of guitarist Dave Navarro.
Grammy-winning jazz flutist Paul Horn dies at 84
07/03/2014 6:50pmPaul Horn, the Grammy-winning jazz flutist and New Age music pioneer, has died at the age of 84.
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The IDF has targeted a significant number of long range rockets sites (over 40 km) owned by Hamas. This deals a significant blow to the terror organizations underground rocket launching capabilities and munitions warehouses owned by Hamas and other terror organizations.IDF website:
The aim of targeting these sites is to hamper their rocket launching weapons build up capabilities.
The Gaza strip, has turned it into a frontal base for Iran firing rockets and carrying out terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens.
The IDF will continue to target terrorist sites that are used to carry out terror attacks against Israeli citizens.
Brig. Gen. Mordechai added that "the Chief of Staff is in the [defended underground war room] and the Air Force continues its surgical strikes. We are in the midst of an attack that will continue and grow. There is no hourglass. We received the green light from the Prime Minister and the Minster of Defense. If I were a senior Hamas activist- I would look for a place to hide."
The IDF Spokesman did not rule out the possibility of a ground invasion and emphasized that all options that exist are on the table. "Infantry brigades have been shifted in preparation for the operation," said the IDF Spokesman. "All options that allow us to cause seriously damage to Hamas and the other terrorist organizations are on the table."


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On mended kneeJune 22, 2014 at 8:57 pm | Posted in Me, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 3 Comments
Tags: aches, Eye, joint pain, knee, R.A., rhematoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
Thanks for all the comments. Well, we made it back today, and successfully collected the fabric. (If you have no idea what I'm talking about then you'll need to read the previous post!) Run4Joy – not sure about 'spry', the knee isn't perfect … in fact neither knee is as good as it was a couple of days ago, but both are much, much better than yesterday!
Maggie, good point! We made it back and this time we got to the nature reserve – and very lovely (and flat) it was too. You can't see in the picture above but between us and the church there's a lovely river (the River Dove), teaming with damselflies and dragonflies. Most of the (very small) reserve is a wild flower meadow, so a jolly nice place to visit in the summer!
Carla, I'm sure you're right – I had been overdoing it, so we had a very short and leisurely walk around the reserve and then headed back home and put our feet up. Poor Hubby, having done all the driving two days running … not to mention the drive up to the coast on Friday night for a walk around Cromer, Blakeney and Wells (did I mention I might have overdone it lately?), was more in need of a feet up afternoon than I was!
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Get the Recipe
I'm not really into the super-green juices that taste like fresh lawn, but that doesn't mean I don't like green. This drink is the most refreshing green juice combination that I know. Lemon makes an important appearance here to add some brightness, and cucumber serves as the cooling core. It's essential to include a pinch of salt: without it, the cucumber flavor gets lost and the juice tastes a little flat.
How green-colored your juice will be depends on whether you've peeled the cucumber or not. It's up to you: you may want to taste a bit of peel and see if it's bitter, and avoid juicing the peel if it's been waxed.
To round out the flavor, I added celery and fennel, and though I expected the fennel flavor to stand out, this isn't a juice that anise-phobic folks need avoid. The predominant flavor here is the cucumber, backed up with bright lemon and the mingled flavors of the other vegetables. If you're into garnishes, a dollop of Greek-style yogurt would be very appropriate here, with a fennel-frond stalk or a celery stalk as a stir-stick.


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I don't recall ever seeing Doug Dutch on the field. Despite being one of the country's best receivers coming out of high school--#12 according to Scout and #10 according to Rivals--he caught only four passes for 34.5 yards in his entire Michigan career before switching to cornerback, where he continued to sit on the bench.
What's the story behind him? Was he just buried on the depth chart behind a bevy of more talented receivers (Edwards, Avant, Manninghham, Arrington)? Did he suffer from the injury bug? Off-field problems? Something else?


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Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones is active for Sunday's game against Tampa Bay.
Jones was listed as questionable on Friday's injury report because of a sore ankle that has hampered his play each of the past two games. He has not yet missed a game because of the injury, which occurred during a loss to New Orleans two weeks ago, but exited last Sunday's game against Arizona in the fourth quarter.
The 2011 first-round draft pick managed just three catches for 33 yards against the Cardinals and had 75 yards on four grabs in the New Orleans game.
A pair of defensive starters, linebacker Sean Weatherspoon and cornerback Asante Samuel, are also active after being questionable on the injury report.
Weatherspoon, who's dealing with an ankle sprain, hasn't played since Atlanta's Week 9 victory over Dallas, while Samuel left last week's game with a right shoulder injury.


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Submission + - 'Marine' Fossils May Instead Represent Early Land Dwellers (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: The fossils of various frondlike and sacklike organisms that supposedly lived at the bottom of ancient oceans may actually represent some of the earliest organisms to dwell on land. That's the controversial interpretation of a new study, which suggests that rocks long thought to have been formed from sediments deposited on ancient seafloors may actually be the remnants of early soils. If true, the finding would push back life's transition from sea to land by tens of millions of years—and possibly by 100 million years or more.


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Penn Law Commencement 2013
On Monday, May 13, Penn Law hosted its graduation ceremony at the Academy of Music. The Class of 2013 Commencement Address was delivered by Christopher J. Dodd, the longtime Democratic Senator from Connecticut and Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America.
Dodd encouraged the graduating class in his remarks to become educators in their communities and face the world's problems head-on. "The ultimate form of happiness is to make yourself useful to others," Dodd said.
Other speakers from the event included Dean Michael A. Fitts, Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence recipient Professor Gideon Parchomovsky, and class speakers Judes Abboud LLM'13 and Madeline Gitomer L'13.
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Or will the DOJ indict President Obama, too?
He's catering to the publishers because he has to. It's politics, he's making positive steps in some areas but doesn't want to step on publisher's toes so they won't come after him with pitchforks and foil any other plans he has.
He has a lot on his plate, and you can't just go pushing everyone around in politics and expect to get everything you want.
I don't really understand this comment. I also don't understand the "national security" language in the order. I would find it hard to believe that a government as ridiculously secretive as ours has become, would rely on a paywall like lexis/nexis as a way of keeping information secret. What's a few hundred bucks between spies for a subscription to access to all the latest secrets about black projects? Obviously nothing -- that research won't be showing up anywhere.
I would like to know exactly why these
Reading the Government is a bit like reading smoke signals in the rain but I am guessing that this snippet in section 3 of the memorandum is pushback:
"Agency plans must also describe, to the extent feasible, procedures the agency will take to help prevent the unauthorized mass redistribution of scholarly publications."
That suggests to me that they do not want to vindicate Aaron Swartz.
It's started happening in some areas. It's easiest in fields (like mine) where it's already standard for researchers to provide publication-ready final PDFs, usually typeset with LaTeX using a template provided by the journal. In that case, the publisher is not adding much value: they are just shuffling PDFs around, and as academics we are already quite capable of shuffling around our own PDFs.
JMLR [mit.edu], which has displaced Machine Learning to be the top machine-learning journal within only a few years after the latter's editorial board resigned [sigir.org] to form it, is one of the success stories.
Many of the journals we have now started as academic controlled publications like JMLR. It's fine to start over with new publications, but it's naive to think that doing so will solve the fundamental problems of access to research information.
JMLR, for example, is still under the control of a private publisher, which is affiliated with a private university. There's no real incentive for them to keep the information freely available any longer than is fashionable. In the several hundred year history of a
The peer review system is not dependent on academic publishers. Reviewers and editors are volunteers under the current system, and would continue to do their voluntary work without the publishing industry.
How does that work in practice?
Lets say Joe Biologist has a paper he wants to publish, how does he get it reviewed by peers without the appearance of hand-picking his own reviewers? I always assumed the publishers solicited these reviews. Is there another mechanism?
Disclaimer: Not a scientist, so I have no knowledge of how this happens, but I've seen a lot of total quack "science" published as if it were real on the web.
Academic journals typically have an editor or group of editors who work for little or no pay. These editors decide whether a submission should proceed to peer review, select the reviewers, and oversee the communication between the reviewers and the submitting authors. Academics do this work for free because it is considered to be part of the vocation [chronicle.com] of creating and expanding knowledge. Publishers were necessary in the past because they handled the logistics of typesetting and printing and distributing the
It's still a journal, with a board (as you pointed out, JMLR is successful because it inherited an experienced editorial board), editors, a database of reviewers, etc.
Journals DO useful things. There probably isn't any point in having large aggregate publishers like Elsevier anymore, but there certainly is still a reason to have journals with staff, volunteer or otherwise.
Some Slashdotters seem to think that academic publishing is just a matter of sticking some PDFs up on a web page. It's not. Publishers
Umm, try volunteering for some of the editing work done on such publications (assuming you can, many of them used paid editors, even though the reviewers are volunteers). They certainly do provide a meaningful, and very difficult to perform service. I know from experience from just trying to manage a small conference proceedings that was peer-reviewed that was all managed by volunteers. Thankfully, it was not a periodic publication, as the time it took was a lot more than I expected, and not always easy
Who modded this up? Was it because it was denouncing copyright? Otherwise the comment seems to be a load of crap modded up by people who either don't actually deal with publishers or who only go through the motions of publishing papers without thinking about what they actually do. I do think there is a lot of problems with copyright and paywalls, and that journal publishers siphon too much money out of research projects, but saying they do so while not providing any service isn't going to help you find a
Apply it to private-sector companies who receive funding, and their patents as well, imo.
The second article notes that agencies can withhold papers that for protection of economic or national security. While this limitation might be reasonable if the order covers all Government-sponsored research, it only covers that research which has been published. If by "published" the order means "published in a public-domain journal" and the aim is to simply bring Government-sponsored research out from behind journal paywalls, then the research had already been screened by the funding agency to make sure nothing that needed such protection was released. So, any "bad guys" would already have access to the information simply by having a subscription to the journals in question. Thus, this is, or should be, a non-issue. If "published" includes reports submitted to the Government as part of contract requirements (status and final reports), that could be more problematic as these are not all generally releaseable. However, I think what's being addressed here is the issue of bringing research out from behind paywalls, something that should not have any problems meeting "protection of security" issues and has been a long time coming.
If the research is behind a paywall, the Chinese are likely the only ones who have access to it anyway (and not because they're paying for it), which gives them a first-mover advantage over everyone else. Getting research out from behind a paywall simply levels the playing field.
No. You can go to any decent University. Go into one of a dozen libraries and access all those articles for free. Both in print and on line. You don't have to be a student or anything. You just have to care enough to bother.
Like, in 5 years, finish your plan which calls for a 20 year rollout of the information.
This doesn't DO anything.
It's not perfect, but it's a big step forward. The first year of a paper's "life" is important, to be sure, but it doesn't mean the time after that is unimportant--I just submitted a paper with citations going back to 1970! So far the NIH open access policy has worked out pretty well. And the simple fact is that without some embargo period, the journal lobby would have gone insane
If there's anything I'm worried about, it's the usual list of "security" exemptions. There's some research which, for security reasons, never gets published in any journals, of course. (I've heard rumors that NSA has its own list of "journals" that are only ever seen by NSA mathematicians--they run exactly like journals in the outside world, just with a very limited audience. I have no idea if this is true, but it's believable given the sheer amount of brainpower NSA employs.) That's understandable, if annoying. But if an article is published in a journal that's available to the world as a whole, then claiming that keeping it paywalled contributes to "national, homeland, and economic security" in any way is absurd.
To give the journal publishers time to make money. That's pretty much all there is to it. Like I said in my previous post on this story, it's not a perfect solution by any means, but given the strength of the journal lobby it's the best we're going to get.
The government evaluates research projects by the number of publications weighted by the "impact" of the journal. Many researchers (myself included) would be very happy to only publish in open journals, but if we did, our projects would appear less successful so our funding would suffer. The delay is probably an agreement with the major journals to give them exclusive rights. fro a while.
I don't like it, but it isn't easy to come up with a different way for funding agencies to evaluate R&D.
Exactly what the President promised us in his memorandum titled "Transparency and Open Government ".
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment [whitehouse.gov]
Yes well, the most interesting paragraph is the last one:
This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
Combined with the use of "should" instead of "Shall" in all the directions to agencies means the directive is effective null.
Nah, I'm sure it will work this time.
Awesome. Come into the lab and we'll do an MRI on you, gather some medical history, and publish it all. As a text file!
spend your tax dollars developing it, and if its something useful its sold to suck the most profit out of your wallet by the now private company who developed it.
I like paying for stuff twice
of saying "no brainer".
Calling something the obvious thing to do and practically risk-free hardly counts as criticism in my book.
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A former McDonald's restaurant employee in Olean, N.Y., says she was fired after picking up the tabs for several local fire departments.
Last week, Heather Levia, 23, paid an $83 bill for food ordered by several local fire departments who were working to put out a house fire in the area in sub-zero temperatures, WIVB-TV, Buffalo, N.Y., reported.
"Just because I appreciate everything they do," said Levia, a single mother and 8-year McDonald's employee.
Later in the day, another group of fire fighters came in to her McDonald's and ordered $70 worth of food. Levia called her boss to ask if the company could cover the cost, noting that it was regular practice to give police officers who came in free meals.
"It's very common in our store," she said.
However, Levia was told no by the store owner and again by the corporate office, so she and several coworkers decided to pay for the firefighters' food out of pocket.
When word spread that Levia had paid the bill, some firefighters called her boss to complain, alleging that Levia felt obligated to pay for them.
The next day, Levia was fired. She was told she was let go because she swore at a superior.
"I did say this is 'freaking' ridiculous. But it was not implied to anybody," she said.
Tom Meyers, the owner of the Olean McDonald's, issued the statement: "The Meyers Organization has always valued the employees who serve our customers every day. We likewise continue to be an ardent supporter of our police and fire departments, along with other first responders. They are always welcome in our restaurants, and we will continue to support them in the future.
"We are aware that certain allegations have been made concerning the reasons for Heather Levia's termination. Out of respect for Ms. Levia and her privacy, it would not be appropriate to comment in detail on the reasons she is no longer employed by our organization. Still, it should be pointed out that the allegations are absolutely not true. We would never penalize an employee for showing appropriate gratitude for the work of our firefighters."
Levia said since she lost her job, she has received several job offers. (UPI)


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Talk:Appeal to consequences
From Iron Chariots Wiki
Merge with Argument from adverse consequences?
I created this page because the title of Denis's The Non-Prophets intro was "Appeal to consequences". But since it's the generalized case of the argument from adverse consequences, should that article be folded into this one? --Arensb 08:16, 29 August 2007 (CDT)


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IBM and Nvidia entered a partnership Monday to push the power of the supercomputer deeper into the heart of enterprise data centers. The partnership centers around Nvidia's latest Tesla K40 GPU, also announced Monday, which Nvidia says is 40 percent faster than its predecessor -- the K20X.
IBM says the GPU will be integrated into its Power System line of servers. IBM and other high-performance computer makers such as Cray, Supermicro and Hewlett-Packard are increasingly building systems with GPUs. Systems that blend traditional CPU with GPUs can more easily juggle large data-intensive workloads for certain kinds of computational tasks such as visualization and simulation.
The processors, according to Nvidia, give companies a "new class of technology that maximizes performance and efficiency for all types of scientific, engineering, big data analytics and other high-performance computing workloads."
[Related: Nvidia Debuts GPU-Based Surveillance Platform For Threat Detection]
Nvidia and IBM introduced the partnership at the Super Computing 2013 (SC13) conference being held this week in Denver.
"This puts IBM back into the high-performance computing game," commented one IBM partner who preferred not to be identified. He said that IBM had fallen behind competing high-performance computer makers that use Intel and AMD processors, which have both taken a lead in supercomputing architecture.
"Legacy data is doubling every year, making it increasingly difficult for companies to leverage data efficiently," said Chris O'Malley, CEO of VelociData, an IBM partner based in Chicago. Companies are losing control of data, and [they] need to be able to take advantage of data in real time."
Technology research analyst Joe Clabby, president of Clabby Analytics, said IBM is following a growing trend by supercomputer makers of integrating graphical chips along with field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chips with traditional RISC and X86 systems. "This is one of the biggest changes in the supercomputer market we've seen in a while," Clabby said. And one, he said, we'll be seeing a lot more of from IBM and other supercomputer makers.
As part of the partnership between Nvidia and IBM, the two companies agreed to share technology that will be used in IBM's Unix-based systems that use Big Blue's Power8 processors. IBM's Power8 Unix systems have been seeing steep competition from less expensive Linux competitors that use competing Intel and AMD chip architecture.


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Skip to comments.Swing-state stunner: 'Dreams' mailed to 2.7 million
Posted on 10/07/2012 5:51:43 PM PDT by wesagain
"Election battlegrounds will soon see 'true story' of Obama's radical origins"
Filmmaker Joel Gilbert has mailed 2.7 million copies of his full-length documentary DVD, Dreams from My Real Father, to households in key swing states, with 1.5 million going to Florida, 700,000 to Colorado and 500,000 to Iowa.
This follows an earlier mailing last month, in which Gilbert sent 1.38 million DVDs of Dreams from My Real Father to households in swing state Ohio and an additional 100,000 to New Hampshire and 80,000 to Nevada.
Joel Gilberts Dreams from My Real Father is available at WNDs Superstore
Gilbert told WND the direct mail program is aimed at bypassing the mainstream media blackout on his film.
Its shocking that in the land of the First Amendment, in the information age no less, a state of censorship exists on so many levels in the American media today, Gilbert said.
By mailing millions of DVDs to households in swing states, Gilbert aims to get his message heard despite the media blackout: As long as the major media refuse to cover my film, we are going to continue this publicity campaign by shipping DVDs ....
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I believe this film can play both ways. A young child is never responsible for a parents behavior. The film portrays him as a fatherless little boy, treated as a pawn, raised in an adult world by grandparents and a mother who occasionally drops in to his life. Not to mention the man who was bribed to be his father of record.
In which of these images of Frank Marshall Davis can you see a resemblance to zero?
WND is not the most authoritative site, by any means. They have printed claims by sketchy people about Obama with no evidence whatsoever. They have some good content, but then they allow some stuff that I consider just speculation, and treat it as news.
You're right...but I guess it is NEWS when someone makes a movie that claims the father of the POTUS was a chinless wonder with a barrel chest and communist party membership, and that his mother posed for photographs that ended up in numerous exotic magazines...so it's wise for Corsi to use the term CLAIMS - because Gilbert hasn't any proof for either.
The girl in the photographs hasn't been identified and the resemblance between Frank and zero is nothing but a figment of his imagination.
With nothing but a forged BC to go by, no one knows for certain who has parents are or where he was born, or what his real birthdate is...
taken from HER FBI files---???
Freeper FRED NERKS has exhaustively disproved any purported evidence that FMD took pornographic photos of Stanley Ann Dunham here, here, and here.
While not conclusively proving that FMD is NOT Obama's biological father, there is considerable debunking of Gilbert's additional documentary "evidence" on those same threads (and other FR threads).
Nevertheless, there is overwhelming evidence that FMD was one of Obama's several ideological (communist/marxist) mentors. It is one of two defining threads that run through his entire life.
That's right, the father who abandoned him. Apparently Senior didn't see any future living with him and his `chicken-head' mother.
On a somewhat related note, I just watched "Hope and The Change" on Hulu (Free). It is 40 dems who voted for him remarking on their disappointment etc. It's actually somewhat annoying because I got the impression that, based on their responses to some questions, I was hearing the self congratulatory attitude I always suspected drove the gushing over how good people felt when they voted for him (one person said"I was so proud that I helped"). But, it does document their growing dissatisfaction with him (vacations, spending, repetitive empty promises).
Here's the link but I am mostly just remarking on the fact that it is indeed a different election this time- I can't imagine Hulu making this available prior to the 08 election.
Joel Gilbert is nothing but a fraud.
Fever Dreams From My Real Father #1: The Nude Photos Debunked
Barackryphal ^ | 10/03/12 | Loren Collins
Posted on 10/03/2012 7:12:56 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
At the center of Gilbert's theory that Frank Marshall Davis is Obama's father is a series of nude and fetish photographs. They were the focus of his second promotional video for the DVD. They're featured prominently on his website, and he consistently references them in radio interviews. Radio host Peter Boyles has called them the "Rosetta Stone" that will unlock Obama's secret past, and Alex Jones declared "It's her in these photos."
The "her" to which Jones refers is Obama's mother Ann Dunham, who Gilbert claims is the woman depicted in these photos. Three of the photos were originally posted on the website of The Astute Bloggers in October 2008, where it was claimed that they had been forwarded by a reader. Even though one photo plainly bore a watermark of "free-vintage-porn.com", some people were convinced that the photos were of Ann Dunham. Over time, the claim evolved so that it was Frank Marshall Davis who was said to have taken the photos as well (perhaps an unsurprising development, as The Astute Bloggers website was also responsible for starting the rumor that Frank was Obama's father).
Here's what the narrator of Dreams From My Real Father has to say on the matter:
"At some point, she agreed to pose. These photos were taken a few weeks before Christmas 1960, when Mom was about five weeks pregnant with me. There's no mistaking: this is MY mama."Gilbert has further elaborated on the photos outside the film itself. In his website Q&A:
I also obtained seven indecent photos of Ann Dunham, Obama's mother, taken at Frank Marshall Davis' house, suggesting an intimate connection between Dunham and Davis...On the 'Breaking News' portion of his website:
What new revelations are in Dreams from My Real Father?
First, I make the case that Barack Obama's real father was Communist Frank Marshall Davis. Next, the relationship between Davis and Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, is illustrated with seven indecent photographs of Dunham, some including other women, taken at Frank Marshall Davis' house in Honolulu.
Racy photos of Barack Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, have recently surfaced in vintage fetish and bondage magazines. The photos, taken at Frank Marshall Davis' house in Honolulu, appeared in Bizarre Life, Exotique, Secret Pleasures, and Battling Babes.And in interviews:
But if you look at the many, many photos of Ann Dunham and the naked girl in the pictures -- especially you can see her teeth; she has some recessed teeth on the left side -- it's very obviously Ann Dunham.
Most people didn't take the photo claim very seriously, because the woman in the pictures doesn't really look all that much like Ann Dunham. Sure, she bears a passing resemblance, in the same sense that as a bespectacled young white guy, I bear a passing resemblance to Daniel Radcliffe. Frankly, the woman in the photos looks a lot more like Joan Collins than Ann Dunham.
Since their original appearance in 2008, some have attempted to debunk the photos by identifying the model. This has proven fruitless, and unsurprisingly so; many mid-century nude and fetish models were nameless faces, anonymous to the world at large.
To his credit, Gilbert did somehow locate additional photos of the mystery woman he claims is Ann. And as noted above, he named several magazines where he claims they appeared. Both on his website and in Dreams, he shows the covers of six specific issues, and the website (on the right) flatly states "Frank Marshall Davis' photos of Ann Dunham appear in these vintage men's magazines." The magazines Gilbert shows are:
Exotique #2
Exotique #4
Exotique #6
Exotique #14
Secret Pleasures
Battling Babes
Bizarre Life #9
The last three magazines were published in 1958, 1957, and 1969, respectively. Exotique was published between 1955 and 1959.
Curiously, though, the pictures Gilbert shows appear in NONE of the issues he identifies. I consulted with the owner of a fansite for these magazines, who checked and confirmed that Gilbert's photos are nowhere to be seen in these issues. I personally reviewed copies of Exotique #14, Battling Babes and Secret Pleasures, and they included NO pictures of the mystery model.
What Secret Pleasures DID feature, on page 26, was this photo:
Who is the woman? I have no idea. But look at the chair she's seated on. At the pillow in the chair. At the window behind her. At the record player to her right, and the records peeking out below her leg. At the cabinet behind her, and at the floor beneath her. Look familiar?
That's right, it's the exact same setting as the 'Ann' photos. Published in a 1958 men's magazine. And it's not the only one. From Exotique #25, pages 7 and 40, respectively:
Again, does that setting look familiar? Same couch, same floor, same picture on the wall, even the same random pillow arrangement on top of the couch as seen in other photos in Gilbert's videos. The woman is even wearing the same spiked-ball earrings as Gilbert's 'Ann'. Who is she? I don't know, but she looks an awful lot like the woman who appears with Gilbert's 'Ann' in several photos in his movie.
Now granted, these photos alone don't prove that the mystery model couldn't be Ann. Perhaps Davis took these in 1958, and he didn't change the arrangement of his room for two years. That's odd, and hardly the most compelling explanation, but it's not impossible. (Even though Gilbert himself would likely concede that these are from the same photoshoot.)
Unfortunately for Gilbert, that's not all. Further up this post, there's a screenshot of Gilbert's own website, with a video still that shows the woman he claims is 'Ann' sitting on a couch, pulling a black opera glove onto her left arm. That image appears in Gilbert's Dreams and in his promotional videos as well, but he's never released a full-size copy of that photo.
I found one, however:
This picture appeared in Exotique #23, on page 22. In 1958. When Ann Dunham was only 15 years old. Two years before Ann Dunham even moved to Hawaii.
It can also be found reprinted in volume 2 of the 3-volume Exotique hardcover collection.
We may never know who the mystery model is. But the Dunham family didn't move to Hawaii until the summer of 1960. Unless Ann Dunham had access to a time machine in the 1960s, it simply cannot be her.
Moreover, Joel Gilbert knows this. He found that opera glove photo; it was not circulating the web as an 'Ann' photo prior to his videos. He knows it came from Exotique, a magazine that ceased publication in 1959. From WND: "Gilbert found that several of the photos in the collection appeared in a magazine called Exotique, published by pin-up photographer Leonard Burtman, who worked in New York City."
Thus he knows this picture was published two years before Ann first stepped foot in Hawaii, years before she could have met Frank Marshall Davis. And yet he explicitly claims, multiple times, that the photo was TAKEN at Christmastime 1960. This is not a lie of ignorance or mistake; it is a lie of pure, fully-informed malice.
And that's the BEST-case scenario for Gilbert. Gilbert knows that Ann was born in 1942, and he knows he found these pictures in 1958 magazines. If Gilbert truly believes that these ARE somehow pictures of a 15-year-old Ann, then he's been distributing hundreds of thousands of DVDs featuring nude and erotic pictures of someone he believes to be an underage girl.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Gilbert has thus far refused to disclose the actual sources of the erotic photos he put in his videos. He identified six issues, none of which checked out, and five of which contradict his 1960 date anyway. As shown above, to disclose the true issues would be to destroy his own claim that the photos are of Ann, and to let his audience know that he's lying to them. And so he refuses to cite his sources, even when they're just magazine issue numbers.
So there you have it. The people who've said 'Frank Davis took naked pictures of Stanley Ann Dunham in December of 1960' are provably wrong. The woman they claim is Ann was having her photographs from this very shoot published at least as early as 1958. When Ann was a 15-year-old in Washington, years before she ever stepped foot on Hawaii or could have conceivably even met Frank Marshall Davis. Joel Gilbert has unnecessarily obscured the actual publication dates of the pictures he found, because he knows those simple facts will prove to everyone that he's lying about them being taken in 1960, and lying about Frank Marshall Davis taking them of Ann, and lying about them being evidence of an intimate relationship between Frank and Ann.
As I wrote in my first post in this series, "I can't promise that I'll convince everyone that Joel Gilbert is a charlatan and his film is a joke, but I think by this time next week, anyone who continues to trust Gilbert has some depressingly low standards for what they'll believe." I'm sure some people will still prefer to believe in him and his photos, and nothing will convince them otherwise. To them, I can only say this: just as Joel Gilbert has known for months, you now know that his photos were being published in 1958. Possibly even earlier. So if you still want to believe that the woman in those photos is Ann Dunham, that means you also have to believe that the woman in those photos is no more than 15 years old. Keep that in mind as you talk about them, and post them online, and save them on your computer. I know you're not doing anything illegal or morally disgusting (because it's not Ann), but what are you telling yourselves?
Finally, even though I've reached #1 in this series and I think I've solidly proven my case, I had two more research developments on Monday that I'll be typing up in the next few days. So be sure to keep an eye out for those to come.
The rest of the story...
Fever Dreams From My Real Father #3: Factual Failings, #2: "Anne" vs. Ann
Fever Dreams From My Real Father - #5: Joel Gilbert's Phantom Evidence & #4: Family Portraits
Fever Dreams From My Real Father #6: The Omniscient Joel Gilbert
Fever Dreams From My Real Father (#7)
And Loren even talked to the actual owner of the home...
The entire affair gets weirder and weirder. I fervently hope a book will be/is getting written.
Agree. This type garbage usually backfires. Mitt doesn't need this kind of help.
Then Romney should do what Obama won't do when the MSM and Obamazombies falsely smear Palin and other GOP candidates - denounce the video.
Win/win for Romney.
Meanwhile, the MSM loves this kind of dirt and some will get on Obama, true or not.
Yeah, too bad.
But after what the MSM and Obama did to Palin, a taste of their own medicine might stop them from being "sick" in the future.
Until someone posts O's alleged mother's photographs with the actual covers of the magazines with the dates that proves they ere taken prior to the time she was living in Hawaii the debunker could just as well be paid by Obama to forge another lie to make it look like Gilbert is lying on this matter. What the debunker "forgot" or omitted was that there were some albums in those photos that were also seen in photos taken in FMD's residence. He didn't mention that.
I predict that Gilbert will have a sudden heart attack after shaking hands with someone after this dies down a little.../s
Says a lot about us and our society that the most powerful man in government is non-verifiable, his past hidden and covered up with two "auto"biographies and the tireless efforts of a relentless obama mainlining media.
I do my best not to hate him and I'm almost successful sometimes, but for the rest of his enablers and supporters I can't find many reasons to hold it back, not for what they've done to me and my country.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The Giants added five Minor Leaguers to their 40-man roster Tuesday night, increasing the contingent to 35: right-handers Jake Dunning and Chris Heston, infielder Nick Noonan, outfielder Juan Perez and left-hander Edwin Escobar.
The moves protect the quintet from being plucked by other teams in the Rule 5 Draft, to be conducted Dec. 6 at the Winter Meetings in Nashville, Tenn.
Dunning, 24, finished 5-2 with a 4.10 ERA in 44 relief apppearances for Double-A Richmond this year. A 33rd-round selection by the Giants in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, Dunning continued his ascent through the organization, having pitched for Class A San Jose in 2011 and Short-Season Class A Salem-Keizer in 2010.
Heston, 24, was named an Eastern League midseason and end-of-season All-Star while posting a 9-8 record with a 2.24 ERA in 25 starts for Richmond. Rated the organization's 17th-best prospect by MLB.com, Heston struck out 135 and walked only 40 in 148 2/3 innings.
Noonan, 23, had perhaps his strongest season in six years in the Giants' system. Formerly a second baseman, the left-handed-batting Noonan played primarily shortstop for Triple-A Fresno and hit .296 with nine homers and 62 RBIs in 129 games.
Perez, 26, led Richmond with a career-high .302 average in 126 games, to go with 10 home runs, 53 RBIs and 18 stolen bases in 33 attempts.
Escobar, 20, improved dramatically this year while going 7-8 with a 2.96 ERA in 22 starts for Class A Augusta. Opponents batted .241 against him, compared with .319 in 2011 when he pitched in the Arizona League and Augusta. Escobar recorded an enviable strikeout-to-walk ratio, striking out 122 and walking 32 in 130 2/3 innings with Augusta.
Major League Baseball's deadline to protect players was Tuesday at 8:59 p.m. PT. Players first signed at age 18 must be added to 40-man rosters within five years or they become eligible to be drafted by other organizations through the Rule 5 process. Players signed at 19 years old are to be protected within four years.
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Over 250,000 tortoises once roamed these islands. "They were everywhere," says herpetologist Cruz Marquez of the Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS). But in the 19th century, tortoise populations tumbled when sailors on whale hunts captured shiploads for food. Then, fishermen and farmers in the 1950s introduced goats to the islands to serve as an alternative food source. As the goat population boomed, they beat out tortoises for vegetation. Today, about 50,000 tortoises remain all endangered species.
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Larkin blitzed Cary-Grove with its brand of skill and athleticism for three quarters in a 71-32 victory at the Hoops for Healing Boys Basketball Tournament in Woodstock Tuesday, but it was the Royals mediocre second quarter that drew coach Deryn Carters focus at halftime.
Larkin (2-0) jumped to a 23-8 lead after one period on the strength of 2 3-pointers apiece from senior guards Quantice Hunter and Quentin Ruff and another from junior guard Taylor Boley, but Cary-Grove (1-1) held its own in the second period, which Larkin narrowly won 13-12.
That simply wasnt good enough, according to Carter, who holds higher expectations for his deep, talent-rich team.
We talked about worrying about the process and not worrying about the results, Carter said of the halftime conversation. I thought in the second quarter our guys were scoreboard watching instead of playing in the moment. Great teams dont do that and thats why were not a great team. Were trying to be one, but thats why were not there yet.
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Junior Drew Jones (6-foot-6) led the charge by scoring all 10 of his points in the third quarter, and Hunter ignited the fast break with 2 steals and 6 points en route to game-highs of 23 points and 4 swipes. Larkin outscored the Trojans 23-7 to take a 59-27 lead heading to the last eight minutes.
We wanted to focus on getting good stops on defense and valuing the ball on offense, Jones said. We kind of heard it a little bit at halftime, about that and our intensity, too.
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They are athletic at every position, Cary-Grove coach Ralph Schuetzle said of Larkin. We just didnt have much of an answer. Were not used to playing against that kind of quickness. If youre not used to playing against that quickness, how do you simulate it? You cant. Obviously, theyve got a handful of college players on that team. When youre overmatched, youre overmatched.
Senior center Dean Lee led scored 5 points and grabbed 7 rebounds for the Trojans, who will play twice Friday in light of the schools participation in Saturdays Class 6A state championship football game. Cary-Grove will face Woodstock at 10:30 a.m. and Marian Central at 1:30 p.m., both at Woodstock.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Shares of Utah's Zions Bancorporation stood out as the big financial-sector loser Tuesday, as investors reacted to management's updated outlooks for future performance.
The shares fell 2.3% as analysts at Sandler O'Neill cut their earnings estimates for Zions ZION, +1.00% following the update.
"Directionally, the updated guidance management offered in this most recent investor presentation was mostly consistent with that provided on the third quarter conference call. However, the specificity of 4Q12 expectations has caused us to revisit our own model," the analysts said in their report.
In the broader sector, the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF XLF, +0.67% which tracks financial components in the S&P 500 index, fell 0.4%. The four financial stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average were split: Bank of America Corp. BAC, +1.11% and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM, +0.77% were on the rise as American Express Co. AXP, +0.65% and Travelers Cos. TRV, +0.21% gave ground.
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