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AILA Doc. No. 96062290 | Dated May 22, 1996
May 22, 1996
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training
U.S. Department of Labor
200 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Room N-4456
Washington, DC 20210
Attn: John M. Robinson, Deputy Assistant Secretary
Re: Response to the proposed rule amending Department of Labor regulations regarding labor certification for permanent employ- ment of aliens; researchers employed by colleges and universities, published in 61 Fed. Reg. 17610 (April 22, 1996) [RIN 1205-A152]
Dear Sir:
In response to the Department of Labor proposed rule amending the regulation on labor certification for permanent employment of immigrant aliens in the United States, following are the comments of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), a voluntary bar association of approximately 4,000 lawyers and law professors practicing and teaching in the field of immigration and nationality law.
Our attorney members have extensive experience representing employer-petitioners in all industries, academic and institutional settings as well as immi- grant-beneficiaries in the permanent labor certifi- cation process. We are therefore in a unique posi- tion to provide information based upon collective experience regarding the potential impact of the proposed rule, as well as ways in which it might be improved.
We commend the Department for its proposed rule. We note the Department's acceptance of the distinguishing factors of academic researchers that provide unique challenges, as well as a stated will- ingness to examine additional situations, and en- courage such examination.
Attached are our comments to the proposed rule.
I. The proposed amendment makes no reference to its appli- cation to determination of prevailing wages for H-1B petitions.
As an initial matter, the Supplementary Information to the proposed rule discusses in detail the applicability of the rule to the determination of prevailing wages for researchers employed by colleges and universities in petitions for H-1B status as well as in processing permanent labor certifica- tions. However, nowhere in the actual proposed regulations does it refer back to the regulations governing the prevailing wage determinations of H-1B labor condition applications (LCAs). The absence of any such reference will certainly cause confusion among the general public, as well as those re- sponsible for processing and providing prevailing wage deter- minations for professionals in the H-1B context. We suggest that a reference to 20 CFR § 656.730(e)(1)(ii)(C)(I) be made within the body of the rule in order to clarify its applica- bility to such determinations in the nonimmigrant context for purposes of consistency.
II. The Department should be narrowly interpreting the Hathaway decision, rather than seek to justify exceptions to it.
AILA believes that the Department of Labor's implementa- tion of the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals' (BALCA's) decision in Matter of Hathaway Children's Services, 91-INA-388 (Feb. 4, 1994, en banc) is overly broad and incor- rect.
The Department's acknowledgment of an exception for re- searchers at colleges and universities only underscores the distinctions between jobs where there is no distinction be- tween duties, responsibilities, and knowledge required, and professional occupations that are distinguishable by meaning- ful differences in working conditions, benefits, or other "nonpecuniary" factors. Rather than carving out an exception to Hathaway, the Department is admitting that its application of that decision is overly broad where there is justification for a separate wage system. This is not only true of academic researchers but also researchers in nonprofit settings. It is also true of other professional occupations where a separate wage system is clearly defined and widely accepted.
Hathaway itself shows that it was a particularly inappro- priate vehicle for overturning DOL's previous practice of pro- viding (or accepting) separate prevailing wage determinations for professional occupations which have traditionally had separate wage scales.
Hathaway involved a nonprofit facility and its applica- tion for labor certification on behalf of a maintenance worker. The position of maintenance worker is a lower- skilled, non-professional position, and one for which the na- ture of the employer would not affect job duties, benefits, or non-monetary rewards. A maintenance worker performs the same tasks, requiring the same skills, no matter whether the job is in a nonprofit setting or in private industry.
By contrast, in many of the professions, positions within different industries or different types of employers do provide meaningful differences in working conditions or bene- fits. DOL recognizes this when, in the Supplementary Infor- mation to the proposed rule, it cites the "nonproprietary na- ture of academic research" and other "non-pecuniary factors" as bases for distinguishing scientific researchers in academic settings from their cousins in the private sector. Many Fed- eral district court decisions have also found similar distinc- tions, based on working condition and non-monetary benefits, for particular professional positions. See, e.g., Ratnayake v. Mack, 499 F. 2d 1207, 1213 8th Cir., 1974); Montessori Children's House v. Secretary of Labor, 443 F. Supp. 599, 608 (N.D. Tex., 1977); Golabaek v. Regional Manpower Administra- tion, 579 F. Supp. 892, 895-896 (E.D. Pa., 1971).
All of the reasons put forth by the Department for estab- lishing that Hathaway will not apply to academic researchers only serves to emphasize that the Department should accept a more narrow interpretation of that decision. The Department finds that the factors contributing to its decision - includ- ing precedence of special treatment significant adverse impact on the academic community, and the nonproprietary nature of academic research - are what enable it to make the exception to the rule. Yet these factors themselves illustrate the need to consider the academic research community a separate wage system for researchers, acknowledging that there are employ- ment arenas which require a distinct classification for con- sideration of wages.
Under section 212(a)(5) of the Immigration and National- ity Act, no alien seeking to enter the United States for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor is admissible unless the Secretary of Labor has determined that: (1) there are not sufficient workers in the United States to fill that position, and (2) the employment of the alien will not ad- versely affect wages and working conditions of workers in the United States who are similarly employed. The regulations state that, in considering whether "[t]he employment of the alien will have an adverse effect upon the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers similarly employed," the Certifying Officer "shall consider such things as labor market informa- tion, the special circumstances of the industry, organization, and/or occupation, the prevailing wage in the area of intended employment, and the prevailing working conditions . . . in the occupation." 20 C.F.R.§656.24(b)(3).
The primary purpose of the labor certification procedure is to protect the American labor market and to prevent the "adverse effect" on wages and working conditions which could result from the employment of foreign labor. One of the fac- tors in making an "adverse effect" determination is the pay- ment of the prevailing wage. Other factors listed in the regulations include working conditions and special circum- stances in the industry, organization, and/or occupation. See Ozbirman v. Regional Manpower Administration, 335 F. Supp. 467 (S.D.N.Y. 1971).
The existence of a separate wage system has long been viewed as one of the "special circumstances" to be taken into consideration in making an "adverse impact" determination. Thus, in determining the prevailing wage under 20 C.F.R. § 656.40(a)(1), if the job opportunity is in an occupation which is subject to a wage determination under the Davis-Bacon Act, 40 U.S.C. §§ 276a et seq., 29 C.F.R. Part 1, or the McNamara- O'Hara Service Contract Act, 41 U.S.C. §§ 351 et seq., 29 C.F.R. Part 4, the prevailing wage is the rate required under the statutory determination. See Standard Drywall, 88-INA-99 (May 24, 1988) (en banc). Similarly, the regulations also provide, under 20 C.F.R. § 656.40(a)(2)(ii), that if the wage rate is set in a union contract, it will be considered the prevailing wage.
The Department of Labor's own instructions for determin- ing the prevailing wage, contained in DOL Technical Assistance Guide (TAG) No. 656, Labor Certifications, 111 - 123, also recognize that separate wage systems can exist which have no adverse impact on the wages and working conditions of workers similarly employed. The fact that the Department did not view the examples cited in the regulations as exhaustive is evident from the discussion in the TAG of other sources of useful, prevailing wage surveys which could be employed by Certifying Officers in assessing whether the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers similarly employed were adversely impacted. Examples of relevant surveys listed in the TAG, at pages 120 - 121, are: Municipal Government Wage Surveys, the Coordinated Federal Wage System (CFWS), and the Nonappropriated Funds Pay System (NAF). Undoubtedly, the Department provided these surveys because it felt, as in the case of the NAF survey, that "these survey/wage schedules are important indicators of prevailing rates." (TAG, at page 121.)
The regulations, Technical Assistance Guide, and federal court decisions recognize that there is no adverse impact on the wages of similarly employed workers where separate wage systems exist. In the Hathaway case, the employer failed to establish that a separate wage system existed for a mainte- nance repairer in a nonprofit setting.
To take BALCA's decision in Hathaway and discard it for a specific community on the basis that a separate wage scale ex- ists is a step in the right direction. By examining the fac- tors that make academic researchers different from their coun- terparts in industrial or for-profit settings, the Department acknowledges that many factors contribute to the establishment of a separate wage system in the academic setting. By those principles, however, the academic community of researchers is not the sole beneficiary of an exception to Hathaway. Rather, any situation involving a clearly defined, separate wage scale, taking into consideration job duties, skill levels, and regional wage differentials should be outside the scope of that decision.
III. The Proposed Rule Should Apply to Research Institu- tions Regardless of Whether They are Affiliated with Col- leges and Universities.
The applicability of the proposed rule only to academic research is unnecessarily limiting. The Department has re- quested comments on expansion of the rule to include federal research agencies and their affiliated nonprofit research in- stitutions engaged in basic research which employ postdoctoral fellows and visiting scientists in a manner similar to col- leges and universities. AILA encourages the Department to ex- pand coverage of the rule to those classes of research insti- tutions, and to include in coverage other nonprofit research institutions which may not be "affiliated" with federal re- search agencies.
A basis for expanding the coverage of the rule to include a broader class of researchers may be found in the expressions of Congressional intent related to the enactment of INA Sec- tion 203(b)(1)(A), governing aliens of extraordinary ability, and INA Section 203(b)(1)(B), governing outstanding professors and researchers, as well as INA Section 203(b)(2)(B), govern- ing aliens of exceptional ability or advanced-degree profes- sionals for whom admission to the United States without job offer, and hence, labor certification, is in the national in- terest.
Legislative history related to these provisions shows that Congress wished to enhance the ability of the United States to attract and retain leading research talent. Con- gress expressly noted that the enactment of the Priority Worker classification was to serve the national interest by enhancing the "ability of such workers to enter the U.S. promptly." See H.R. Rept. No. 101-723, part 1, 101st Cong., 2nd Sess. 59 (September 19, 1990), U.S. Code, Cong. & Admin. News 1990, p. 6710, accompanying H.R.4300, at p. 59. Congress also noted that those provisions were "similar to classifications under existing law that exempt certain occupations from labor certification through the use of Department of Labor sched- ules." Ibid.
It is important to note that Congress did not limit availability of classification in any of these categories to those who would be working only in academic research. In fact, it is important to note that Congress specifically pro- vided that an outstanding researcher could be employed in in- dustrial, private-sector research if the petitioning employer employed three or more researchers full-time and had a docu- mented record of research accomplishments. See INA § 203 (b) (1) (B).
Not all basic research is conducted in academic research centers. By limiting coverage of the proposed rule to aca- demic research, the Department is acting contrary to broader concerns of Congress. Non-academic research centers conduct research for public dissemination. For example, the Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center and the Mayo Clinic are "stand-alone" non-affiliated and nonprofit institutions. Each operates sub- stantial research centers, and each is in the leadership in biomedical research. Neither would be covered by the proposed rule. Similarly, state and federal research centers, such as the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation, not affiliated with academic institutions, would not be covered by the proposed rule.
Salaries in research in the nonprofit sector as well as in academic settings are often governed by, and are limited by, provisions in grants. In addition, salaries in all pub- lic-sector research are frequently governed by statute or regulation. Not infrequently, salary limits in grants and salaries mandated by statute or regulation fall below salaries in the private sector. Additionally, many do not permit wage supplements. Institutions employing researchers subject to such limitations will be unable to engage the services of re- searchers where salaries are based upon comparisons with pri- vate-sector research enterprises. Accordingly, such institu- tions, no matter their affiliation, are just as adversely im- pacted by Hathaway and should be included in the proposed rule.
IV. The rule should take into account disparities in wages among disciplines.
There is no express provision in the rule to permit con- sideration of disparities in wages among disciplines. If, for example, wage determinations are based solely upon title Re- searcher (199.276-034), then wages for researchers in dispa- rate fields will be included in wage determination surveys. Wages for researchers in many field in the sciences are far greater than those in fields such as anthropology, sociology and political science. By failing to provide for distinctions among disciplines, the rule fails to account for disparate wage scales among researchers. This disparity will exist whether the research is being conducted in an academic set- ting, or in the nonprofit sector or public sector.
V. Conclusion.
AILA welcomes this opportunity to respond to the proposed regulations and welcomes the opportunity to discuss with the Department any of the concerns raised in this comment.
Submitted by,
Committee on Outstanding Professors and Researchers
Michelle L. Lazerow, co-chair
Robert S. Whitehill, co-chair
Steven A. Clark
Robert P. Deasy
David Stanton
Elissa M. McGovern
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training
May 22, 1996
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Herrin found guilty of manslaughter
Attorneys share approaches to local abuse case
Sentencing for Doris Herrin, who was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of her daughter, is Oct. 12 at 9:30 a.m. in Dawson County District Court.
After a five-day trial last week, a jury delivered the verdict following nearly eight hours of deliberation on Friday.
Herrin, 28, of Gothenburg, was charged with intentional child abuse that resulted in death after her 3-year-old daughter, Misty, died from head injuries in December of 2010.
The jury could have found Herrin guilty of intentional child abuse that resulted in death or manslaughter or negligent child abuse but chose manslaughter.
Dawson County attorney Elizabeth Waterman, who prosecuted the case, said Tuesday she wasn't disappointed in the jury's decision.
"It was based on the evidence they had," Waterman said.
During the trial, the county attorney said she tried to show that Misty's death was the result of an intentional act on Herrin's part.
"When a child is taken in a violent death like this, people have to be held accountable. It's a crime that affects everyone," Waterman said.
In preparing for the trial, which she said took a tremendous amount of work with a small staff, Waterman said she needed to organize information so it could be conveyed clearly to a jury.
"A lot of it was medical testimony that is challenging to people not used to that kind of information," she said.
The case was also one of the biggest Waterman has tried during her 18 years as county attorney.
Twenty witnesses were called.
Because she said child abuse was involved, Waterman had to try and keep her emotions at bay.
She said the trial was not about the defendant but about the loss of a 3-year-old child in a violent way.
"That's what needs to be remembered in this case," she said. "Nothing I could do could save her but I can make sure she's not forgotten."
Jeff Wightman of Wightman & Wightman in Lexington was appointed to defend Herrin.
Wightman said he tried to show that Misty's fall from a dresser, on Dec. 21, 2010, was caused by accident.
A forensic pathologist testified that the girl's injuries were consistent with a fall as was initially described to police.
Wightman said he also pointed out that Herrin said she was asleep when the injury occurred which could have been caused by Adam Jesseph of Gothenburg, Herrin's boyfriend who was in the house at the time.
Felony child abuse charges were dropped against Jesseph in December of 2011 after Waterman decided the case was not winnable.
At that time, the charge was dismissed without prejudice, leaving open the possibility of refiling at a later time.
"I hate that children are abused or killed but I have to weigh it in terms of what is just and what I can prove with evidence beyond a reasonable doubt," she said.
The abuse case was heard before District Court judge Jim Doyle who revoked bond.
Herrin remains in the Dawson County Jail where she has been held since her arrest in December of 2010.
Under Nebraska law, manslaughter is defined as killing someone else without malice, either upon a sudden quarrel or causing the death of another unintentionally, while in the commission of an unlawful act.
Manslaughter is a Class III felony and carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison or a $25,000 fine or both and a minimum sentence of one year.
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The Gleinbeigh Hospital of Rock Creek, Ohio, has settled a lawsuit with the US Justice Department after the hospital refused services to an HIV-positive individual, which is illegal under the Americans With Disabilities Act. A patient was refused admittance to Gleinbeigh Hospital's alcohol treatment program because of their HIV-positive status after officials claimed that side effects from the patient's HIV medications would put other individuals in the program at risk. The Justice Department determined that the hospital could not prove its claims that the patient would have posed a risk to the health and safety of others and is requiring Glenbeigh to pay $32,000 to the complainant and another $5,000 in civil penalties. Assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division Thomas Perez stated, "The ADA does not tolerate HIV discrimination and neither will the Justice Department."
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With Democratic allies of organized labor under pressure in races from New Hampshire to Colorado, and our new Voter Confidence Index pointing to big losses for the Democrats on Nov. 2, union money and manpower are crucial for Democrats to retain their House and Senate majorities.
So why is organized labor spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and fielding more than a dozen organizers in an Arkansas congressional district that seems very likely to go Republican?
The race in Arkansas' Second Congressional District between Democrat Joyce Elliott and Republican Tim Griffin is for the seat being vacated by seven-term Democrat Rep. Vic Snyder.
Elliott, the Majority Leader of the Arkansas Senate, would be the first African-American House member from Arkansas if she wins on Nov. 2.
Griffin served in the Bush White House as Deputy Political Director under Karl Rove. With Rove's help, he was appointed federal prosecutor in Arkansas after President Bush removed Bud Cummins, one of nine U.S. attorneys ousted in 2006. Democrats charged that Bush was politicizing the hiring of federal prosecutors.
Democrats have sought to make Griffin's role in the U.S. attorneys fracas an issue in the race. The Justice Department concluded last July that "no criminal charges are warranted" against the officials involved in the attorneys' removal.
The non-partisan Cook Political Report rates the race as "Likely Republican," one of four Democratic-held House seats in the nation which Cook puts in that category. Cook also rates 47 Democratic-held seats as toss-ups.
The NBC News Political Unit ranks it as the fourth-most likely House seat to switch parties.
Stuart Rothenberg, another independent analyst, flatly predicted last month that the Arkansas district "will flip to the GOP," calling Griffin "a solid favorite over the liberal Elliott."
Aruna Jain, a spokeswoman for Working America, the AFL-CIO affiliate that has organizers in the district helping Elliott, said, "We really don't think this race is a foregone conclusion. We've been organizing there for more than a year."
She added, "Working people need a voice in Arkansas. There's been a vacuum there."
Elliott's campaign has received more than $180,000 from several labor union political action committees, including $10,000 from the AFL-CIO PAC.
In addition to labor's PAC money for Elliott, since Aug. 1 Working America has spent nearly $50,000 on canvassing and voter contact in the race, according to independent expenditure reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.
It has employed 16 workers on the race, some for stints of a few days. "As is typical for this type of work, there is some turnover as we hire new people and others leave," Jain explained.
The Arkansas contest stands in contrast to almost all the other places where Working America has deployed foot soldiers. The group has spent thousands to bolster Democrats in toss-up races, such as Rep. Steve Driehaus in Ohio and Rep. Dina Titus in Nevada. Both were narrowly elected in 2008.
Working America has also spent heavily in the open seat race in Pennsylvania's Seventh Congressional District where Democrat Bryan Lentz is battling Republican Patrick Meehan. On Thursday the Cook Political Report changed its rating in that race from a Toss Up to "Lean Republican."
The AFL-CIO and other unions spent millions of dollars in Arkansas last spring in an attempt to help primary challenger Bill Halter defeat Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said a few weeks ago on MSNBC, "We have a lady by the name of Joyce Elliott running for Congress right now. And in Arkansas, we have more volunteers because people are more excited about what they did in that (Halter-Lincoln primary) election than ever before. We think we're going to get her elected to the Congress from Arkansas. Our members feel good about it. They're energized about it."
"I don't sense or see evidence of any movement" in the Arkansas House race, said long-time Arkansas News political columnist John Brummett. "The race looks fairly comfortable for Griffin at this point. But Elliott is the kind of Democrat who can stir passion in the base and Griffin, as an old Karl Rove lieutenant who horned his way into the U.S. attorney's job, is the kind of Republican who can stir passion in that same base."


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The 45-year-old Uruguayan, a former Chelsea and Tottenham midfielder, ended his first managerial job with Brighton in controversial circumstances back in May but is back with a two-year contract at the Stadium of Light.
Speaking about his predecessor, he told the press conference: "The time of Paolo has come to an end and it is time to move forward. We are all different and I don't think it is right to compare people.
"I know a lot about the players at Sunderland, and I know for them it is going to be even more difficult now with another new manager.
"I have to make sure they are comfortable here and we will make sure they are ready and without excuses."
On the subject of his time at Albion, he said: "My aim was to try and prove that I'm good enough for the Premier League and so here I am. I've got my chance now. It's going to be a difficult challenge, but I'm ready for it.
"When you're at the bottom in the situation that we are, everyone will say it's going to be difficult. The idea here is to believe and to be convinced. From what I see, I do believe that we can get safe.
"I need to convince the players and everybody. I need to make sure that players, staff, fans and directors believe in this opportunity that starts today. I'm going to play my part. I need to make sure everybody commits to the cause.
"You can see that they want to show everything the first day. Everybody wanted to train - even the ones that I wasn't expecting to. I just asked them to pay attention. The next two or three weeks, there's going to be plenty of information both ways.
"I need them to be really aware and to try to understand, to ask questions and to be involved. That will make it quicker. The longer it takes, the more difficult it is going to be. Most of the work now will be mental. It's about getting the right information.
"I've had one job as a manager so far and I was in it for four years. Every time a new manager arrives, he wants to stay as long as possible and prove he was the right choice.
"I am a confident, positive person but it's too easy to talk in advance. I want to prove it. I want to show you. When we get to the end of the season, I hope we are going to be sitting here smiling and I hope I can show I can do it at this level."
With the Black Cats rooted to the foot of the table having taken just one point from their opening seven games, Poyet's first game in charge will be the trip to face Swansea on October 19.
The Uruguayan began his coaching career in England in 2006 at Swindon Town, before joining Leeds United as assistant manager.
After a year at Elland Road, Poyet returned to his former club Tottenham Hotspur as first team coach, before becoming assistant manager to Juande Ramos.
In 2009 he was appointed as manager at League One Brighton and led the club to the Championship play-offs last season where they lost out to Crystal Palace.
He will be joined at the Stadium of Light by his backroom staff Mauricio Taricco and Charlie Oatway.
Sunderland chairman Ellis Short told the club website: "We analysed a wide range of candidates and believe that Gus's track record, experience, commitment and passion make him the right man to take us forward.
"We welcome him to Sunderland."
Short also paid tribute to Ball, who took the role of interim head coach following the departure of Paolo Di Canio.
He said: "I would like to thank Kevin, along with Robbie Stockdale, Mark Prudhoe and Scott Pearce, who stepped in at a moment's notice in what was a very difficult situation and gave 100% to the cause.
"As usual, Kevin gave his all for the benefit of our club and we are very grateful to him for his ongoing commitment."
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Already saddled with one of college basketball's most inexplicable droughts, Virginia opens ACC tournament play Friday burdened with unfamiliar expectations and pressures.
The Cavaliers are the event's top seed for the first time since 1981 and, especially after Villanova's Big East tournament demise Thursday, could earn a No. 1 NCAA tournament seed with three victories here this weekend.
Recent and ancient history say they should survive Friday's noon ACC quarterfinal against Florida State, which dramatically excused Maryland from the tournament, and from the conference itself, with a 67-65 win Thursday.
The recent: Virginia twice defeated FSU by 12 points during the regular season, both in January, baiting the Seminoles into 34 combined turnovers.
The ancient: Only four times in 60 previous ACC tournaments has the No. 1 seed failed to win a game. Maryland in 1975, North Carolina in '78, North Carolina State in '89 and Duke in '97.
None of those teams reached the Final Four. The Terps advanced two rounds, which in the 32-team field of the time, propelled them to the Elite Eight. The Tar Heels exited in the first round, the Wolfpack reached the Sweet 16, and the Blue Devils lost in the second round.
Here's another way to judge the possible impact of an ACC tournament flame out on the NCAA tournament: Since 1985, when the NCAA bracket expanded to 64 schools, 39 ACC squads have advanced to the Elite Eight or beyond. Of those 39, only three lost their opening ACC tournament game – N.C. State in 1986, Florida State in '93 and North Carolina in 2000.
In short, Virginia's NCAA prospects would brighten considerably with a victory over Florida State.
Bizarre thing is, the Cavaliers have not reached the ACC semifinals since 1995, the longest such drought ever endured by an ACC program. Moreover, every other ACC program — newcomers Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame excepted — has made the semis at least once 2006.
The Cavaliers (25-6) have lost early in the tournament as underdogs and favorites, but never during this stretch have they been the outright regular-season champion. In claiming that title, Virginia went 16-2 against the ACC, earning opponents' hosannas at every turn with their unselfish offense and commitment to defense.
Now the first-day lecture in Coaching 101 encourages praising opponents, but Miami's Jim Larranaga, Notre Dame's Mike Brey, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and Syracuse's Jim Boeheim have gone above and beyond, filibustering about the Cavaliers and the likes of Malcolm Brogdon, Joe Harris, Akil Mitchell and Justin Anderson.
Florida State's Leonard Hamilton joined the chorus Thursday after Boris Bojanovsky's dunk with four-tenths of a second remaining advanced the Seminoles and sent Maryland off to its new conference home, the Big Ten, in memorable fashion.
Hamilton said the ACC regular season "just shows a little bit about the maturity of that team, how well they played together. I thought they might be the most unselfish team in America, where they always are playing to each other and creating easy, high-percentage shots for each other. It's like they play without an ego but with a tremendous amount of intensity and focus."
While the Cavaliers seek to improve their NCAA seed and to shed the ACC tournament primate off their backs, the Seminoles (19-12) need a signature victory to enhance their chances of making the NCAA field.
They almost squandered those NCAA hopes with 19 turnovers Thursday, but guards Ian Miller and Aaron Thomas combined for 31 points, while Bojanovsky, a 7-foot-3 reserve, contributed 12 points and 12 rebounds, his first career double-double. The victory was FSU's fifth in the last seven games, and its only setbacks in that time were to top-20 opponents North Carolina and Syracuse.
"At the beginning of the season, we were real young," Miller said. "We really didn't understand how to play against that defense. So it frustrated us a little bit. We forced a lot of things, had a lot of turnovers. They're going to run the clock, put you on defense for a long time, and then they're going to D up, also. We've matured. We're right where we want to be."
The Seminoles shot wildly disparate percentages against the Cavaliers, 30.8 and 45.7, but turnovers were the common denominator, 16 in the first game at FSU, 18 in the second at Virginia.
"They played great (against us)," Seminoles forward Okaro White said. "They played together. They played as a team. They're trusting in their coach. All these guys don't care who's the leading scorer, leading rebounder or who gets the shots. Whatever they're doing, they're brothers out there, and they're doing great."
Hamilton believes Virginia is on a plane few attain.
"We all want to try to get our team to that magic level," he said, "that mental, emotional level that allows everybody to be in sync, and that's the kind of team I think Virginia is."
We'll soon learn if Hamilton's right.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court says legally married same-sex couples should get the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples.
The court invalidated a provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act Wednesday that has prevented married gay couples from receiving a range of tax, health and retirement benefits that are generally available to married people. The vote was 5-4.
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TRISTAN AND ISOLDEPrice: - €
a ballet in 2 acts to the music by Richard Wagner / Henk de Vlieger
Libretto by Krzysztof Pastor, Carel Alphenaar
Henk de Vlieger - orchestral passion "Tristan and Isolde" after Richard Wagner's opera "Tristan und Isolde"
Richard Wagner - "Wesendonck Lieder"
Choreographer Krzysztof Pastor
Music Director and Conductor Modestas Pitrėnas
Conductor Modestas Barkauskas
Set Designer Adomas Jacovskis
Costume Designer Aleksandra Jacovskytė
Light Designer Levas Kleinas
Premiere: 15 September, 2012
"I was absolutely fascinated by the story, it is so strange, even a little naïve – and this incredible love... I also discovered that Wagner had fallen in love with Mathilde Wesendonk, the wife of his patron at the time he was writing about the forbidden love of Tristan and Isolde. It was all so connected!"
~ Krzysztof Pastor on "Tristan and Isolde"
The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy, retold in numerous sources with as many variations. The tragic story is of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan (Tristram) and the Irish princess Iseult (Isolde, Yseult, etc.). The narrative predates and most likely influenced the Arthurian romance of Lancelot and Guinevere, and has had a substantial impact on Western art, the idea of romantic love and literature since it first appeared in the 12th century. While the details of the story differ from one author to another, the overall plot structure remains much the same. The story serves as a source of inspiration for countless poets and musicians. One of the most famous adaptations of the legend is Charles Marie Joseph Bédier's novel "Romance of Tristan and Iseult", written in prose. The French writer and researcher of the Middle Ages combined elements of all surviving writings and based his own text on works by Thomas of Britain, Eilhart d'Oberg, Gottfried von Strasbourg and, first and foremost, on Béroul's poems.
And still, the most famous incarnation of the Tristan legend is Richard Wagner's music drama "Tristan und Isolde", written after composer's own libretto (premiere in Munich in 1865). In this work, Tristan is portrayed as a doomed romantic figure. This is probably one of the most "wagnerian" pieces, one of the longest and most difficult operas to perform, and one version that fully reflects the essence of the legend.
Wagner wrote of his preoccupations with Tristan in a letter to Franz Liszt (16 December, 1854): "Never in my life having enjoyed the true happiness of love. I shall erect a memorial to this loveliest of all dreams in which, from the first to the last, love shall, for once, find utter repletion. I have devised in my mind a Tristan und Isolde, the simplest, yet most full-blooded musical conception imaginable, and with the 'black flag' that waves at the end I shall cover myself over – to die."
The author of ballet "Tristan and Isolde's" musical score is a Dutch percussionist, composer and arranger Henk de Vlieger. In 1994 he created a unique arranged symphonic compilation of Wagner's famous music drama. The work is titled "Tristan and Isolde, an orchestral passion" and consists of seven parts.
In 2005 H. de Vlieger was asked to include Wagner's "Wesendonck Lieder" in the score of the passion - this was necessary for K. Pastor's ballet premiere at the Royal Theatre of Sweden. The new ballet was first introduced in the spring of 2006 in Stockholm, accompanied by the orchestra of the Swedish Royal Opera.


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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Youth sports programs that use public school property would have to establish procedures for identifying and handling concussions if legislation advancing in the Virginia General Assembly becomes law.
The House Education Committee voted 16-5 to endorse the bill Monday. The measure has already passed the Senate.
Democratic Sen. Ralph Northam, a Norfolk pediatric neurologist, is the bill's sponsor. He says sports-related concussions are a big problem that needs to be addressed.
Public schools already are required to have concussion policies. Northam's bill would extend that mandate to non-interscholastic sports programs using public school athletic fields and gymnasiums.
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"Michael Craddock studied music at the University of North Texas, where he was the first guitarist to complete the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree. He was also a performer in master classes of Oscar Ghiglia and José Tomás. An interest in early music eventually led him to study the lute and related historical plucked instruments with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland. He has performed as a soloist and member of
several ensembles in Europe and the United States. A former faculty member of Texas Christian University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, he now lives in Switzerland. His first CD, Tabulatures de Guiterne, was recently released on the Cantus label."
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Like I said you didnt even understand what I was saying. I was taking the side of the people calling it.
Sorry if you didnt understand it.
Your choice of wording was obviously conveying your own feelings. "Bailing", "sissy," "a joke"? You obviously didn't like the reason, and now you're backtracking because it was everything that practically everyone else here pointed out. You could have easily said, "I get some fans frustration over the uncertainty of why he left." Instead, you basically made a veiled attack on him as a sissy and a joke. You can say I didn't "understand" but at the time you posted that stuff you obviously felt the same way from what you said and the words you used.
Thats fine dont believe me.
Its not like the stuff you quoted didnt support exactly what im saying anyways.
Whatever you say dude. Maybe some of the others who were in the thread (i.e. practically all Reds fans) could explain it to you. You said he deserves to look bad, I didn't make that up, you said that. What exactly does that mean? So backtrack all you want, we all know what you meant.
It actually wasnt stress, but then again its all you have to cling to so just keep reading what you quoted and only read the bold parts.
LOL okay dude. Everyone knew "stress" was a PR reason, and a ton of people including myself explained the severity of anxiety and depression and the fact his father's death last year affected him a great deal. But yet, you ignored all those responses and refused to believe it, as if he took time off because the guy couldn't get past the last level in Super Mario Bros 3 or something. Then went into a rant about how you could never do that at your job and how he doesn't deserve to get paid.
I give you credit, you left yourself an out by saying "I can easily see how people think he's a sissy, balied out on his team, and want him traded." Saying "I can easily see" pretty much is saying you sympathize with those people.
I mean how would it look if I used that in another context, what would you think? "I can easily see why serial killers think that way and why they would do it!" "I can easily see how people commit hate crimes against blacks!
Doesn't exactly sound right does it? Basically, I think you weren't patient and made judgment before the actual reason came out, and instead of being lenient and waiting and seeing, you made clear what you thought of him leaving. And now once it came out that it was a pretty good reason - which most everyone thought in the first place - you have to backtrack on how harsh you were on the guy. Why can't you just admit you made a mistake and shouldn't have judged him based on what the listed DL reason was?
I didnt refuse to believe it. If you read what I was saying as a defense of why some fans could be reacting the way they were about it I think its pretty easy to see exactly what I was doing.
Just look at it that way and I think it will help you understand what POV I was trying to take with my post.
Speaking personally, I can empathize with Votto. My mother died in Feb 2007 and I'm still having problems dealing with it. It's not to the extent of Votto's depression but I've definitely have had days where I just can't get out of my own way. My work ethic dropped completely to the point where I just didn't care and as for home, I did nothing much beyond sit & watch TV or goof off on the computer. Depression is a sledgehammer to the gut and it will incapacitate you.
Good on Votto for speaking out. To me, the Puritan work ethic and overscheduled world we live in makes instances like losing a family member just a bump in the road. We're men and we're supposed to get over these things mach schnell. Unfortunately, some of us need a little more time and that bothers some people. Feelings about death and illness that are not dealt with will manifest themselves in other ways. Sometimes, getting back in the ol' routine isn't the best bet. Time heals all wounds.
Good luck, Votto.
That Joey Votto is some kind of Man Candy!
"For them to boo me like that, it lets me know they dream about me at night. -- Brandon Phillips on Cards fans.
The one thing I hope is, after the announcement today, is that every idiot and moron who called WLW or Homer and trashed this young man, and every imbecile who made comments on websites (not this one, we did a good job here for the most part) ALL feel like total CRAP right now. You should feel bad. You had no idea what this guy was going through and you did your typical "Joe Lunchpail" reaction. I can sympathize with the guy. I lost my father at a very young age, even younger than Joey. My mother lost her mother over 3 years ago and she's still not right. She functions ok, sure, but she's not the same person I used to know. You just don't know how something like this is going to effect somebody.
Guys, lets keep individual posters out of this. Calling out individuals doesn't serve a purpose - the people who used "sissy" and "wimp" don't need to be reminded of it. They were wrong - and that's a privilege allowed each of us from time to time. Let Joey's own words vindicate him - if they don't nothing will reach them anyway.
RedlegJake.. thanks for 'correcting' the thread title. I intentionally used 'presser' as slang for 'press conference', though your correction works just as well.
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Conor's inquiry prompts me to remind all of you about leaked exit polls. Most of my regular viewers have heard this screed before, but for those who have not, remember that leaked exit polls aren't necessarily "inaccurate" – they are incomplete, and therefore unreliable indicators of the vote. I still recall the early exit polls that were leaked in 2004 – they had Kerry up – and my colleagues went delirious with joy despite my cautions. Of course, when Bush won, they assumed vote fraud. Nothing of the sort happened.
In the recent primaries, of course, the early exit polls almost always overstated Obama's support. I've talked extensively why this is the case, so I trust I need not revisit the issue. Just remember that the raw exit numbers which come in waves are readjusted as the consortium running the polling adjusts for turnout. So Drudge may leak a first wave as early as 1 p.m. – pay no heed!


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Field Guide: Waialua Sugar Mill
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38 Print
Ian Anderson, owner of 38 Print, has been creating decals and signs locally since the early 1990s and has been in the mill for eight years. "When I moved in, I was actually asked by Dole to print a sign advertising the commercial space for rent," says Anderson, adding that he still has the sign in his store.
He's also made decals for Frank Fasi's and Mayor Mufi Hannemann's campaigns, North Shore businesses such as Cholo's and Haleiwa Joe's, as well as the popular "Keep the North Shore Country," bumper stickers. Anderson and his staff also print surfboard laminates for surfboard shapers and glassers. 637-2596.
Photo: David Croxford
Farmers' Market
The small Saturday farmers' market is a great excuse for a weekend venture in the Waialua Sugar Mill. About 16 tables along the mill's front parking lot gate cram in fresh local produce, flowers and lunch items. From 8:30 a.m. until noon, the market offers apple bananas, papayas, assorted greens, tomatoes, garlic and taro, as well as fresh bird of paradise, heliconias and potted plants. Some of the vendors are part of the Waialua Farmers' Cooperative, which was founded by former sugar mill employees when the mill closed. Buy Thai food or a roasted huli huli chicken for lunch.
North Shore Soap Factory
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What started off as a small operation in their home has turned into an international and wholesale business for Debora and Jerry Driscoll. "They started off selling handmade soaps at craft fairs," says Shanell Grilho, the store's retail manager. In 2004 they opened Hawaiian Bath and Body in the Waialua Sugar Mill's Bagasse Bin, a cone-shaped building that once held bagasse, the fiber that remains after sugar cane is processed. The bagasse was burned and released through a smoke stack at the mill.
The soap factory sells 10,000 bars of soap a month at $5.49 each. "We use kukui, macadamia nut, coconut, soybean, olive and palm oils," says Grilho. The process takes six weeks, and all the work, from pouring the soap mixtures, cutting them into bars with guitar strings, and packaging them, is done in-house. The shop also carries lotions, oils, lip balms, and body scrubs and washes. 637-8400.


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More Wollongong business owners are volunteering their walls for use by street artists after a recent festival brought masters of the craft to the city.
Noted street and graffiti artists from interstate and abroad painted nine sites in Wollongong last weekend at the inaugural Wonderwalls festival.
Works included a portrait by Melbourne street artist Rone, two storeys high on the side of Keira Street's Dion Building.
Event organiser Simon Grant, of Verb Syndicate, said owners of four or five other businesses had volunteered walls for use in future festivals.
Mr Grant hopes to build Wonderwalls into an international-standard event.
"There's some really massive projects happening around the world with this sort of stuff. We did a 15 to 20-metre wall - in some of these European countries they're doing 15-storey buildings," he said.
"We always want to be pushing the boundaries."
Wonderwalls included a gallery exhibition and talks by artists including Meggs, Yok, Numskull, Roach and Phibs - believed to be speaking publicly about his work for the first time.
The talks drew audiences of up to 70 people, with some lingering to collect the autographs of artists who remain little known in the mainstream but lauded by street art enthusiasts.


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By Sam Mamudi
Futures for the leading stock indexes are down more than 0.2% ahead of Monday's bell, in the wake of worse-than-expected GDP numbers from China, which showed the country's growth slowing to 7.7% in the first quarter. As The Wall Street Journal noted, the state of the global economy is so poor that any concerns about China could really hurt:
With the recovery in the U.S. economy still weak, and problems in Cyprus underscoring Europe's lingering debt issues, disappointing growth in China could cast a pall over the global investment outlook. Asian markets fell broadly after the data release Monday morning.
There was a lot of corporate news premarket, including M&A activity: Shares of Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO) are up about 4% after it said it had won the bidding to buy Life Technologies (LIFE) for $76 a share — Life's stock is up 8% at the latest:
Thermo Fisher, based in Waltham, Mass., is a big maker of lab equipment, with annual sales of some $12.5 billion and a market capitalization of about $28 billion. Combining its lab business with that of Life Technologies could allow the company to notch big savings in areas like sales and administrative costs, analysts have said.
Life Technologies was formed by a series of deals including the merger of Invitrogen Corp. and Applied Biosystems Inc. roughly five years ago. The company, which had sales of $3.8 billion last year, makes more than 50,000 products, including equipment used in forensics and to help develop drugs and improve food and water safety.
Also rising are shares of Sprint (S), up more than 15% after Dish Network (DISH) launched a bid for the wireless carrier:
Dish said Monday it is offering to pay $4.76 in cash and about $2.24 in Dish stock, based on Friday's closing price, for every share of Sprint.
Sprint shares closed at $6.22 on Friday. Dish argues that the deal represents a 13% premium to Softbank's complicated proposal to buy 70% of Sprint for $20.1 billion.
"Sprint is in play," Dish Chairman Charles Ergen said in an interview in New York. "We think we've made an offer that's much more compelling than the Softbank transaction."
Dish's stock is off 1.7%.
Citigroup (C) stock is rising, up 2.5% after reporting good first-quarter earnings:
Per-share profit of $1.23 handily beat Wall Street consensus of $1.17. Excluding a $198 million charge for a valuation adjustment on Citi's own debt, it would have been $1.29 per share.
Net-interest income, or profit from lending and investing, remained flat from a year earlier. The measure, a key metric for banks, is under pressure across the industry because of low interest rates and the slow economic recovery


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Marjorie M. Scardino, board chairman, MacArthur Foundation
Marjorie M. Scardino has been elected to chair the board of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Scardino, who has served on the foundation's 15-member board since 2005, will begin her role after its June meeting. She takes over from Robert Denham, who has served on the board for 12 years and chairman since 2007. Scardino is chief executive of the London-based education and media company Pearson and serves on the boards of Nokia Corp. and the Carter Center. She is also and is a fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has a degree from Baylor University and a J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law.
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(RNN) - The woes of potty training are well known, but technology is helping kids who can't master the toilet. It's called the iPotty.
The child's toilet training potty with a built-in iPad stand was first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.
The base of the iPotty looks like a traditional potty with a removable bowl, seat and a pee-guard.
But … wait for it ... it also holds an iPad.
It was designed to help children learn to use the potty by keeping them entertained when nature calls.
The stand can be rotated between vertical and horizontal views and adjusted to three positions.
The iPotty is marketed for children from 6 months to 3 years. There's also a removable screen guard cover to protect it from any "accidents."
It can also convert to a child activity seat with the included seat cover so they can safely play apps, read and watch videos at any time.
"We've been delighted and overwhelmed at the response we've had; apparently we hit upon something that could be quite useful for many frustrated parents," said Steve Stern, CTA Digital's VP of sales, in a news release.
While Stern speaks highly of this techno-training potty, many user reviews on Amazon beg to differ.
"So I bought this potty trainer with every intention of teaching my toddler the joys of pottying while fully distracted by technological media," K. W. McCade wrote.
"Everything was going just wonderfully until, in a fit of excitement and hand-waving over the wonderfully detailed graphics on my pads HD screen - my 2-year-old sprayed the walls, the floor, me - and my iPad!
"It was too late to return the iPad and unfortunately my insurance does not cover urination-by-toddler, but I am most DEFINITELY returning this pee magnet."
Other buyers jokingly say it's good for contingencies ranging from airplane travel to increased productivity.
Maker CTA Digital said the iPotty is compatible with the iPad 2 and the third or fourth generation iPad.
There are dozens of helpful potty training apps and interactive books already available in the app store that will work well in conjunction with the iPotty, according to CTA Digital.
This potty training seat is now for sale on Amazon for $39.99. Sadly, the iPad is sold separately.
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PHILADELPHIA — The Sixers have a plan, an obvious one, brazen and cold.
The Sixers have a plan, and they are implementing it, one irresponsible short-term basketball move at a time.
The Sixers have a plan to rid themselves of players, of wins, of fans, of dignity.
The Sixers have a plan, they say, that will make them better later.
The Sixers have a plan that might even make them so popular one day their owner can demand a new arena, so his team won't have to be the city's only big-league tenant, and can be a landlord instead.
The plan might work. The fans, who have resisted booing even the most atrocious commitments of basketball, clearly are armed with patience. The NBA, and the way it has mangled its regulations for personnel finance, is a major reason why some franchises must crumble before they succeed.
The plan might work.
But it might not. Plans to build champions have failed before.
So, remember these:
• The Phillies had a plan, one celebrated and saluted, one splashed all over the front of baseball magazines.
The Phillies had a plan to collect not one, not two, not three, but four recognized No. 1 major-league starting pitchers, believing that would enable them to suffocate opponents, denying them the pleasures of playing in tight Citizens Bank Park.
The plan was saluted as brilliant, as aggressive, as historic. Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels and Roy Oswalt — Joe Blanton, too — all in the same rotation? Order the world-championship caps, the kind with the dangling tags.
Turned out, there wasn't a 20-game winner in the bunch, largely because 76 times — 76 of them — the Phillies scored three or fewer runs. They did win 102 regular-season games, but went scoreless in the final nine innings of a 1-0 loss to the Cardinals in Game 5 of the first playoff round.
The Phillies had a plan.
The plan ultimately disappointed.
• The Eagles had a plan, or at least Andy Reid did — literally pounds of a plan, it was reported, a stack of papers and binders and books that he rammed before Jeffrey Lurie, who bought every one of Reid's sales pitches, hiring him despite a shallow resume. Reid's obsession with the long-snapper, legend says, is what made Lurie believe.
By then, Lurie was already deep into his own plan — a plan to make the Eagles look like the San Francisco 49ers when they were in a tidy NFL dynasty. It was built upon the innovative West Coast offense, first tried by Ray Rhodes, then embraced by Reid.
Thus, the equation: That irrepressible offense plus that dedication to detail must equal a championship. For that, Lurie gave Reid 14 years to try and never did win one Super Bowl.
The Eagles had a plan.
The plan ultimately disappointed.
• The Flyers had a plan. It involved doing anything to acquire the prospect believed to be the next NHL superstar. The plan would include spending money, moving players and, if necessary, getting the esquires involved.
Their plan was to hustle Eric Lindros into orange sweater No. 88, then clear space for more championship flags. It sounded good — good enough, even, to hurl Peter Forsberg into the mix to acquire Lindros' rights from the Quebec Nordiques.
Lindros proved to be a fine player, the fulcrum on a line with John LeClair and Mikael Renberg, the famed "Legion of Doom." But he was prone to injury and to postseason struggle.
The Flyers had a plan.
The plan ultimately disappointed.
Occasionally, plans work. Harold Katz had a plan to add Moses Malone to a front line that included Julius Erving and Bobby Jones, and the Sixers won a championship. The Flyers once had a plan to disturb all NHL peace by bullying their way to success, and they won two Stanley Cups. The Phillies were patient enough to not trade Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, Hamels or Chase Utley for shorter-term chances, and they won the World Series in 2008.
But in sports, no plan guarantees a championship.
And that's why it is less than amusing every time the Sixers use one to drape some truly horrid pro basketball.


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - Still steaming over the Super Bowl loss, Colin Kaepernick packed up his belongings in the 49ers locker room and made plans with teammates to work out this offseason.
Kaepernick said Tuesday that he'll be training in the Atlanta area within a week, and the strong-armed and fleet-footed quarterback will bring some of his receivers along with him. All of it is part of Kaepernick's quick evolution from backup to starter that will continue when he enters training camp as the unquestioned franchise star.
After losing 34-31 to the Baltimore Ravens in New Orleans on Sunday, Kaepernick summed up his breakout second season ``as not being good enough.'' He said the Super Bowl loss will stick with him ``for the rest of my life.''
``It's good to get the experience,'' Kaepernick said. ``We should have won that game regardless, though.''
A man of few words and a lot of yards, Kaepernick's potential might give 49ers fans reason to be optimistic more than anything following the first Super Bowl loss in the franchise's storied history.
Kaepernick threw for 1,814 yards and 10 touchdowns with three interceptions in the regular season, starting seven games after taking over for Alex Smith, who will likely be traded or released in the coming months to clear salary-cap space. He also ran for 415 yards and five touchdowns.
Kaepernick really ran away with his new role in the playoffs.
As San Francisco started utilizing more of the Pistol offense he made famous at Nevada, Kaepernick threw for 798 yards and four touchdowns in three postseason games. He also ran for 264 yards and three scores, including a quarterback-playoff record 181 yards rushing in a divisional-round victory over Green Bay.
``He was fantastic the entire season,'' 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said. ``The stage was not too big for him. He competed at the highest level and played extremely well. He showed a lot of poise, a lot of leadership the entire game. I can't say enough, really. With Colin, it's always just appropriate.
``He's got the appropriate amount of competitive fire when you need competitive fire. He's got the appropriate amount of happy and joy when it's the right time to have that. He plays the game. You just really feel him playing the game, upset when it's the right time to be upset. And he does that with his own personality. I really believe that's the way people should play.''
Coming up 5 yards short in the Super Bowl will still haunt Kaepernick forever.
He added only a few more new details on the final, fourth-down play. He said he audibled to the corner fade to Michael Crabtree once Baltimore showed blitz.
Crabtree got tangled up with cornerback Jimmy Smith, and Harbaugh begged and pleaded with officials from the sideline for a flag that never came. Kaepernick remained testy and defiant when questioned about his decision.
``I'll take Crab one-on-one with anybody,'' he said, tersely.
A year after losing 20-17 in overtime in the NFC title game to the eventual champion New York Giants, one thing the 49ers no longer have to worry about is a long-term quarterback.
All of 25 years old, Kaepernick knows he has time to join Joe Montana and Steve Young as Super Bowl winners in San Francisco, which had been 5-0 in the NFL's marquee game. Being the only quarterback in 49ers history to lose a Super Bowl is still something that will simmer no matter how many titles he wins.
``We had a good team,'' Kaepernick said. ``We just weren't quite there.''
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I would like to take this time to wish everyone Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or whatever seasonal greeting trips your trigger.
May you and your family have a happy and safe holidays.
Eat lots of good food, watch some Bowl games, and take frequent naps.
Our familyt still likes to break out all the Christmas classics and watch them this time of year. It's been a tradition in our house, on Christmas Eve, to watch Christmas Vacation. LOL


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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Saints would prefer to see less of rookie quarterback Tuesday, May 16, 2006 John DeShazie, Times-Picayuner 312. That's not only an area code for Chicago, but it's also the registered scale reading for the poundage mounted on the 6-foot frame ...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
John DeShazie, Times-Picayuner
That's not only an area code for Chicago, but it's also the registered scale reading for the poundage mounted on the 6-foot frame of a quarterback -- which, if you care to use the imagination just a little, actually might have given Bruce Eugene a body proportion worthy of its own area code.
"Just eating," Eugene said, before adding that the stress of having family members displaced from New Orleans by Hurricana Katrina move into his place in Grambling contributed to the problem. "And eating. But that's not an excuse. It was taking my body for granted."
Which, more than anything, helped place a burdensome weight on Eugene's star-studded college career that now, as a free-agent rookie for his hometown Saints, he has to shed.
See, a player can compile all the impressive numbers in the world -- and Eugene did -- at Grambling State, including a Division I-AA-record 140 touchdown passes, a school-record 13,530 passing yards and 30 victories in 38 starts. But when he's carrying around so much excess baggage that college teammates and coaches nickname him the "Round Mound of Touchdown," it's catchy and cute to everyone except NFL coaches.
"I know it was an issue," Eugene said.
One that, thankfully, is becoming less and less of one.
The former Cohen star now is at 255 pounds and plans to trim off at least another 15 to 20 before the Saints get to training camp.
No, no one yet has taken to calling him "Slim" and his weight loss doesn't guarantee him anything with the Saints, who already have four quarterbacks on the roster (Drew Brees, Todd Bouman, Jamie Martin and Adrian McPherson).
But it's a start. More, it's a focused exhibit of discipline that, perhaps, helps ease a concern that teams logically had about him.
"He has a strong arm, and he is a guy that when we had him in our local workout, he was impressive," Saints coach Sean Payton said. "You could see his arm strength throwing the ball. He just had to work a little bit on his accuracy and location.
"Part of that is foot related, and we have to get him in shape because he is too heavy right now. He is close to being a guard and not a quarterback, but he does have a strong arm, and we will see."
What they already have seen, and likely will continue to see, is talent. A player doesn't post the numbers Eugene did, on any level, without having talent.
Obviously, he'll require polish, and t[B]hat's going to be the tricky part, because acquiring polish takes time. And the Saints might not have much of it to give Eugene.
The undrafted rookie needs reps, but he won't get them at the expense of the starting quarterback (Brees) who is returning from injury and hasn't played in Payton's offensive system. And he's not going to get them at the expense of Brees' backup, Martin or Bouman. He might not be able to take away many of them from McPherson, either, a fifth-round pick in 2005 who has awed with his physical ability.
So he has to get all he can while he can during sessions like the rookie minicamp, and hope to turn a head with the Saints or somewhere else.
"I learned a lot about the NFL, about the (Saints') system," Eugene said. "I didn't feel out of place. Where you went to college doesn't matter; football is football.
"I feel like as long as I get a chance to show what I can do, I'll make that impression. I feel like I have a good chance, but that's out of my control. All I can do is perform as well as I can, to the best of my ability."
So far, it's easy to like what we see -- mainly, because we see a lot less of it.
Now, all Eugene has to do is make sure his talent stands out just as well.
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Saw Eugene play a couple of times at Grambling. Yeah, he's a hoss! He's also got a very strong arm. I'm glad to see the Saints picked him up as a free agent. He could very easily beat out Bouman and Macpherson for the 3rd string position, IMO
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I love how Eugene's weight is considered a problem, but Pep's isn't. Just goes to show you what a name can accomplish.
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This summer, both Mediacom and Charter will migrate WDSE•WRPT channels to new locations. Mediacom subscribers in the Cloquet area will find PBS North on channel 8, on or around June 25. Charter subscribers in the Twin Ports will continue to find PBS North on Charter channels 12/782. However, on or around August 12 Charter will move PBS 2nd Chance to channel 193, Create to channel 194, and the MN Channel to 195.


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WWF Scholarship sharpens my Green Pen
Yes, I have extensively reported on issues such as biodiversity preservation, cleaner production, wetlands protection and sustainable development and won several environmental journalism awards, but it wasn't through being familiar with definitions of terms such biodiversity, ecosystem, environment, keystone species, etc. But now I have a much deeper understanding and knowledge of wildlife issues.
I know now how rivers are formed, what acid rain is, an ecotone an edge, island ecology, coastal ecology, geographical realms, how to collect plant species and how to make a herbarium, while the Conservation Geography module has shown me how to do energy analysis. All this has sharpened my environmental journalism pen, as shown in the latest articles I have written, such as the one to raise awareness on the importance of preserving wetlands such as Lake Oponona in northern Namibia as it plays a critical role for the local people.
I could not have acquired this knowledge if WWF International had not granted me a WWF Prince Bernhard Scholarship for Nature Conservation to enable me to do a four-month Special Course in Wildlife Management at the College of African Wildlife Management in Mweka, Tanzania last year. This course really taught me a lot about wildlife that will help me report on environmental and conservation issues to the core, as I believe it is mother nature that sustains our livelihood and destroying it will be at our own peril.
My commitment to environmental journalism has so far earned me four environmental journalism awards and has also encouraged me to initiate an environmental journalism training workshop for journalists from other media houses in my country, because environmental journalism still has to take roots. Journalists lack the training needed to work in this field and many editors treat environmental stories as something very different from those on politics or the economy.
Following a workshop on the reporting of climate change in April last year, a network of environmental journalists in Namibia was formed and I was elected chairperson. Under my leadership, our network has managed to get environmental and conservation experts to give talks on how best we can report on the environment, agriculture and sustainable development. Our network has also established relationships with Nedbank's Go Green Fund as well as with the Lusaka-based Panos Institute of Southern Africa. The Strengthening of Protected Areas Network (SPAN) project of the Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism has also expressed willingness to financially help us in the future. With 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity, I am developing a proposal for a green project of the Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism to fund a training workshop on reporting on biodiversity.
If His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (Founder President of WWF) was still alive he would see how his dream "investing in people is one of the most promising ways in which can contribute to the future success of conservation" is coming true, through people like myself and other Prince Bernhard Scholars.
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Campaigning for Policy Wins - Annual Report 2013
Twenty-five years ago it was becoming clear that the WWF's traditional 'muddy boots' field project approach was important to win some conservation battles, but it was never going to win the wider environmental war. Tackling the causes of environmental loss and not just the symptoms was the new mantra.That meant identifying laws to safeguard the environment – laws that, in many cases, simply didn't exist at the time. It was against this backdrop that the WWF European Policy Office (EPO) was born in 1989.
The European Community had just received new powers over the environment through the 1986 Single European Act. No longer did you need to struggle to justify why you needed a particular environmental law. Suddenly, there was a rationale to act and tackle the problem at source.
WWF didn't waste any time getting organised across Europe. It wasn't enough simply to be present in Brussels – then as now Member States were making the ultimate decisions. From the EPO office in Brussels and through links with our national offices, WWF pushed hard for new environmental legislation. We started with the Habitats Directive (passed in 1992), which led eventually to the formation of a network of protected areas in Europe, known as Natura 2000, covering 18% of European land mass.
WWF's policy work didn't stop there. We turned our efforts towards integrating environmental considerations into other policy areas. For example we targeted the Common Agricultural funds, arguing that farming subsidies should be switched towards environmental and rural development measures and away from food production alone. We spoke-up for reform of the Common Fisheries Policy. And as the climate change crisis deepened over the past two decades, WWF has become deeply involved in the future direction of energy policy and the need to break-free of our dependence on fossil fuels.
A quarter of a century later, new challenges are emerging. But their complexity requires more than the integration of environmental considerations into other policy areas.
Mobilising the public and other advocates to call for stronger environmental laws through targeted campaigning is one such challenge. That is why the examples in this annual review of effective WWF campaigning are so inspiring for the future of our work in Europe.
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...then raise your dominant hand and slap yourself silly with it. Internalized chains are the hardest to break, and what the ruling class can't do any longer with religion they now do with plain old fear.
It's almost as if the government's conduct can be discerned as a violation of our most basic human rights as guaranteed by the contract that allows said government to exist.
Show the incumbent protection machine (98% incumbent reelection rate) how much you despise them. Vote independent, and if that isn't a choice, vote for the challenger, regardless of party.
This is hilarious.
What makes you think the opposition to the incumbent shares any different views? Say it's democrat and republican. They share identical views! There is almost no nuances or differences whatsoever. Both sides vote against citizens when money is involved.
Taking some action is better than your suggestion of doing nothing. The best action would be to petition for people you know and trust, and get them into offices. Barring that, vote for people other than established politicians and change will begin to happen.
If you stop telling everyone they are wrong, and teach them to do _SOMETHING_ then things overall can improve. It's shitbags like you claiming that no action is the answer. How well has that worked out for people over the last 3 decades of shit ass
Yeah, there seems to be an inordinate amount of off-topic or intentionally offensive comments. This problem seems to be getting worse.
Only on new threads. Give it a little time and they are down to -1 and benieth your threshold.
Let me guess, you're new here? A decade or so ago the GNAA was able to flood the comments section with troll posts (complete with Last Measure links). Other copy-paste posts like the interview with CmdrTaco who had become a "nullo", pitches for MyCleanPC, and BSD is Dying often brought mirth to the comments. If anything, there is too high a proportion of on-topic posts these days, and the few trolls you get are boring one-sentence attacks on African-Americans. In a way, that's a more poignant sign of Slashd
Don't forget the page wideners. For some reason, those always cracked me up. Don't know why.
Let's not blow this out of proportion. Sure, it would be the bomb if the NSA stopped spying on everyone, as all this spying is a plague on our freedoms. But let's not burn any bridges here.
Would it kill the President to take a stand here?
Would it kill the President to take a stand here?
Given what we now know about corruption and lawlessness in the US three-letter agencies, I'd have to say that it just might.
Back in the 90s it wasn't uncommon that my IRC client said something like nuke USA kill the president terrorist bomb
I still wonder whatever that have affected my possibility of getting into the US =P
Back then of course there was talk about Echelon. Did it really exist? If so it was fun to type stuff like that.
I guess now we know it existed =P
Since I have nothing to hide I may just as well say it even though they are listening?! Or how do the saying go? =P
What if Google is just conveniently forgetting to log more of those terms so that they don't have to do as much work snooping on people? I mean, if you don't have as many terrorist suspects showing up on your search engine you surely wont have as many illegal search warrants to process.
google (et all) are the government's bitch.
they will do as they're told.
or else.
google (et all) are the government's bitch.
they will do as they're told.
or else.
Exactly. What if this is their way of conveniently getting out of having to do more work? "Oh look at that, our flags on anthrax bomb searches only turned up 50 people this month instead of 100, yay, half as much snooping to do!" Surely the more clandestine parts of Google's infrastructure would be so far from scrutiny that no one would have any way to tell if the flags only worked half the time.
Brilliant! The desired effect is achieved!
Remind me again, wasn't the Internet hailed as a game-changer that would bring people together, make us better human beings, or at least different.
Where is this profound change? It did not happen. Perhaps the optimists have underestimated people's distrust for the different? So, even though James and Ivan could chat while being 10000 miles away, and learn how for instance the media that feeds them is biased diametrically opposite, most of the time they didn't.
But just to make sure, you know just in case the impossible happened, all governments in the world made sure we won't talk with each other. Let me not recount the endless torrent of censorship all over the place across the whole world - this is
Where is this profound change? It did not happen.
It did not happen because the software and distributed infrastruture needed to support it was never written or developed. The blame for this can be placed solidly at the feet of the global hacking community, which hasn't created a truely disruptive technology since Bittorrent back in 2001 (IMHO, the jury is still out on Bitcoin (2009) ).
The reasons for this are largely socio-economic. The rise of Google and Co. has meant that "disruptive" software is now pri
Where is this profound change? It did not happen.
Clearly you haven't been on Tinder.
This is not a problem due to the Internet, it's due to people being ignorant. I'll argue that the dumbing down of people is by design, but that's not even relevant. People don't have a clue about human nature, politics, or how a Republic is supposed to work. How many high school kids have read Plato's "The Republic"? That is the blueprint for our type of Government, including all of the moral lessons required to get there. How many have read and understand the Constitution and Federalist papers? The R
Because if someone thought you liked the band, that would be horrible.
Oh the embarrassment! On your permanent record, no less.
"You confessed that you tried to make biological weapons despite just being a fan of some trash metal band?"
"Y... yeah...."
Ashamed of "I'm the man?" Why do you hate freedom?
I've stopped searching on the word Constitutional.
Unfortunately, so has Congress.
searches for terms deemed to be sensitive to government or privacy concerns have dropped "significantly" in the months since Edward Snowden's revelations in July.
It is hard for me to find this shift to be acceptable. The government's oppressive surveillance must not lead to people changing the information they consume. That is the very epitome of cultural programming, the cost of which is far to great for our society to suffer.
I think we have a solution; decentralized distribution of the very kinds of information that is being chilled. Copies of Wikipedia, Eroid.org, The Anarchists Cookbook (OK, I'm dating myself, and showing my ignorance of modern anarchist material online, but whatever the modern equivalent of that book is), and similar materials, written to 16 Gig USB sticks, and available for purchase at your local hackerspace for $20. Pop it into your computer, and read whatever you want without the goverment spying on you. Maybe even make it a bootable distro, with networking disabled, so you can be truly locked down (except for airgap-jumping attacks, of course, but those are still pretty esoteric). Maybe call it "Thoughtcrime On A Stick". Hmm, actually, I like that name so much I'm grabbing the domain names.
Don't get me wrong, I don't relish the idea of making that sort of information more readily available; what peaceful minded person would? But if the alternative is chilling human knowledge, and the empirical evidence shows that it is already happening, what choice do I have?
Maybe even make it a bootable distro
The problem here would be trust - way too easy to make a complete spy-ware distro and tell people that it is your "truly locked down" one instead.
The solution isn't going backward in technology (sneaker instead of fiber), the solution is restoring privacy and anonymity with better technology.
What we need are nickel pages in a book. For some reason Thomas Edison thought he could store 1000s of books in the same space as a paper book, although his invention never came to be, and so I don't really know what he was talking about.
First of all, the cost of distributing information is fixed at the cost of distributing information. Those $20 DVDs? Bullshit, those cost $1 at most.
Secondly, have you examined your racism? You are opposing the President of the United States, who is just as peaceful minded as you. If you're opposed to him, you are quite likely a racist. You need to stop doing that. You're wrong.
Those $20 DVDs? Bullshit, those cost $1 at most.
Oh, yeah, for sure (though I'm thinking memory sticks, not DVDs, since optical drives are going the way of the dinosaur). But I'm also helping launch a hackerspace, and I figure if you let the hackerspaces generate a little funding, at a price that people would be happy to pay, everyone wins.
I also assume most would also let you bring your own stick and write a copy on demand. Just the idea of having a wicker basket full of sticks ready to subvert the masses a
The problem is that every one of those SUB sticks comes pre-loaded(for your convenience...) with all manner of NSA spyware.
I don't know about your local hackerspaces, but the ones I go to all have at least a few people who are pretty hardcore about infosec. If one of those guys says he did is best to make it clean, I would trust both his integrity and ability.
But, the truth is your point still has a great deal of merit. Potentially you could also sell a Raspberry Pi box for the true tinfoil hat afficionado.
Post Snowden? Can we stop blaming the one guy that did the right thing for uncovering the mountain of shit our government had piled up for itself? He didn't even release it all, a lot of the revelations have come from FOIA requests!
It'd would be like calling "Post Woodward, Nixon was impeached" That Woodward jerk! How could he do such a thing!
I'm fairly certain this "Post Snowden" line was written wholesale by the NSA. Way to perpetuate propaganda Slashdot.
This is why I keep my full 1992 set of Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia handy. Just incase I need to look up Anthrax, or Bomb or Detonator.
I can do it safely, without anyone knowing.
Or, one could go to the public library and look at the stuff in the Reference section, one cannot even check those books out!
I recently considered getting back into model rocketry, but using more high-end rockets rather than little Estes kits. Since I've read plenty about rocket chemistry (read "Ignition!" if you like chemistry at all - it's worth it), I quickly figured out that a relatively easy* one to build would be a hydrogen peroxide monoprop - H2O2 decomposes into H2O + O2 in an exothermic manner, which can be used for thrust. It an also be used as an oxidizer with most fuels. For both you'll need high-strength peroxide - the CVS stuff is just a solution of like 1% H2O2 in H2O, but you'll want 80% or higher for rocketry. I decided to see how readily available it was, and how expensive it would be. It wasn't too expensive, and could be found fairly easily, but I wonder if I'm now on a watch list just for looking at a chemical that honestly wouldn't make a good terrorist weapon at all.
* This would be easy in comparison to, say, one using nitric acid or liquid oxygen. It would still be a very difficult thing to build, which is why I'm probably not going to actually build one.
We're ALL on the "list." The only difference is what degree of escalation your monitoring is at. And, we're mostly accepting that. I listened to some comments last week by Samuel Jackson rephrasing the old "hey if you're not a terrorist you have nothing to worry about" refrain.
Very disheartening and depressing. People are just whistling past the liberty graveyard.
Oh, I'm aware of the danger (as well as the German use of it - I actually got the idea from the V-2 missile, which used an H2O2 monoprop rocket in the fuel pump).
It's still less dangerous than many alternatives (like nitric acid), particularly since I'd only be using a quarter-liter or so at most. And the marginally-safer oxidizers like LOX would be harder to handle.
But I can't really say that the safety issues didn't play a part in deciding not to go through with it.
OTOH, the list you're on is probably the one of "people who know something about chemistry and are pretty unlikely to do anything worse than blow up their garage with it".
I don't want to be flagged just because the latest OS from MS is a total bomb!
So, let me get this straight.
The same search engine we are actively not using, out of fear that someone is watching what we're searching, is used to run a search to generate a report to reveal what we are not searching for.
Uh, you know that chilling effect we're all talking about here? Yeah, that would be Mr. Don't-be-Evil over there...
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Just in case you're wondering why the work DHS analists seems so ineffective, from TFA (page 50):
I didn't realize that Homeland Security had employees just to do anal. Your tax dollars at work.
What did you think the enhanced airport screenings were for?
A good point! (pun intended)
For what wrong he has caused, more than you think, a certain lese majeste effect has surrounded him. People will try to disappear criticism, something that they think would happen to their idol.
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by eactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. . . . The process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for commiting thought-crime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. . . . Has it ever occcured to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?"
- George Orwell, 1984
Oh, right, the tinfoil demographic that characterizes Slashdot won't laugh because it plays right to their biases. When that happens, Slashdot's usual capacity for at least a little more critical thinking than the average Joe goes right out the window and the Two Minute Hate commences.
Seriously, the 'study' verges on being joke. The words used were determined to be "sensitive" based on whether or not a bunch of random people would be "embarrassed" or thought "it would get them in trouble" - about as unsci
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Square Enix has announced that it plans on using Unreal Engine 3 on "multiple games." The deal was brokered in part by Epic Games Japan.
"Many Western games have achieved great success with the Unreal Engine, and this milestone reflects the Japanese development community's trust in our technical prowess," Epic Games Japan's Taka Kawasaki said in the announcement. "We can't wait to see how Square Enix fuses the power of Unreal Engine 3 with its beautiful characters, enthralling storylines and fantastic gameplay."
The announcement is odd, given the company's investment in its own proprietary engines, including Crystal Tools used on Final Fantasy XIII, the unrelated Crystal Engine for Deus Ex and Tomb Raider, and the Glacier Engine for IO Interactive's games. The company is also working on a next-gen DX11 engine currently called the Luminous Studio.
It's also not the first time the company has used the Unreal Engine. The Last Remnant (pictured above) was an internally-developed RPG using Epic's tech, and was critically panned for its various technological shortcomings.
Given the company's focus on its own internal engines, and its poor history with Unreal Engine, it's surprising that the company is giving the engine a second chance. It's likely that whatever projects utilizing Epic's toolset will be very multiplatform. Unlike Square Enix's own tools, Unreal Engine 3 can be deployed on a number of platforms, including PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, Vita, and (probably most importantly of all), iOS.


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"Untangling the Social Web" is a multi-part whitepaper from Integer that attempts to quantify the relationship between social media and busi...
Personas are a great tool for helping you craft your biz stories and connecting more effectively with your customers.
Personas are basically little stories you create about your main customer types (with lots of pics!).
This article shares 4 social networking Personas and how they interact on line. With this information you can start crafting your stories to connect with the Personas that fit best with your business.
Oh, and by the way -- which Persona are you? I'm the Professional I think :)
As the author says, "Take a few minutes to review the full whitepaper (it's free!) Think about your customers and which of the four types suits them best. Then, take a look at your social media posts over the last few weeks. Are you speaking to your audience? If not, it's time for a new plan."
But before you do that, also check out Carol Pearson's book "The Hero & The Outlaw" (http://www.amazon.com/The-Hero-Outlaw-Extraordinary-Archetypes/dp/0071364153/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331399222&sr=1-5) which is all about how to identify and use specific archetypes of your customers and how to shape your marketing content and stories towards them.
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UH West O'ahu's Derrek Choy publishes case analysisUniversity of Hawaiʻi-West Oʻahu
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University of Hawaiʻi–West O'ahu's Dr. Derrek Choy recently published a case analysis in the book "Consumer Behavior by Babin and Harris", third edition. The case entitled "Does Culture Affect Sales? A Hawaiian Perspective," analyzes how organizations coming into a market need to understand the culture of a city prior to entry into the market. This case specifically evaluates the Hawai'i market and what key issues need to be evaluated to be successful in the marketplace.
Choy is an associate professor of business administration in marketing at UH West O'ahu. He is the coordinator of the marketing program, teaches marketing courses and advises on marketing issues in the community. Choy's area of expertise is marketing strategy and consumer behavior in the world market.
About UH West O'ahu
UH West O'ahu became a four-year, regional comprehensive university when it served its first class of freshmen in fall 2007. The University offers quality education, small classes and personalized attention at convenient locations. Construction began in August 2010 on the first phase of a new, state-of-the-art UH West O'ahu campus in the City of Kapolei. It is expected to serve approximately 2,000 students for fall 2012 classes. For more information, visit uhwo.hawaii.edu, twitter.com/uhwestoahu, facebook.com/uhwestoahu or call 454-4700 or toll-free (866) 299-8656.


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We've used our last 3 1st round picks on defensive players. 2 turned out to be excellent (Mo and Coples) 1 is a JAG (Wilson). What makes or breaks our defense next year is whether or not Idzik figures out a way to bring back either Revis or Landry and we get some speed at ILB so we can get back to stopping the run.
Stop trying to swing for the fences to get a pass rusher. Coples had 5.5 sacks playing limited snaps as a rookie and you don't want another Gholston, Dewayne Robertson or Bryan Thomas.