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|Groovy in Action
|Dierk König, Andrew Glover, Paul King, Guillaume Laforge, Jon Skeet
|Simon P. Chappell
|A practical how-to book for Groovy
The obvious candidate for this book is the programmer that wants to learn Groovy. What is less obvious, is just who those people are, because programmers who would find Groovy useful are likely to come from quite a wide selection of backgrounds. If you thought that Groovy wasn't for you, read on and consider whether you may have judged in haste.
Current, or former, Java programmers will love Groovy and they will likely make up the greatest proportion of the readership. They will especially appreciate the interoperability of Groovy with Java: your Groovy objects are Java objects, right down to the bytecode level.
As a dynamic language, Groovy attracts a good quantity of the traditional users of scripting languages. Expect to see more than a few system administrators and build managers pick up on Groovy as they realise the benefits it brings. Further sweetening the pot, for build managers, is the ability to use Groovy as a scripting language within Ant. Another group of readers may well come from the dynamic language communities. I think that Ruby and Python programmers may well find this an interesting book to help them understand this new arrival on the scene. With the steady maturing of the Grails project, that uses Groovy as it's implementation and development language, even the Ruby on Rails folks might be curious.
For a book that's setting out to teach you a programming language, the structure is fairly standard. The contents are divided between three parts that theme the Groovy Language, the Groovy Libraries and then wrap up with Everyday Groovy. I like the approach of including guidance for using the language after you've learned it, because it acknowledges that the purpose of learning a programming language is to then use it. This is a very welcome development in programming language books; other publishers and authors please take note!
For the purpose of full disclosure: I had been talking to Manning about writing more of a practical how-to book for Groovy, but with GinA being so good, those conversations stopped almost as soon as they got started.
The first chapter is the standard fare of what Groovy is and why you want to use it. This is important material for those who may be new to the language and it's covered very well. Some book's initial chapters can be a little dry, as if the author was in a hurry to get to the good stuff, but here, Mr. König has recognised that the language is in an early enough phase that explaining why you would want to use it is the good stuff.
I'll save you from a big list of chapter headings and just relate that part one covers the basics, including how to compile and run code and how to run it as an interpreted script. The fundamental Groovy datatypes are introduced and we learn about the joys of optional typing, for those occasions when it's not obvious that the object is a duck. Groovy has all the things you'd expect from a dynamic language: strings, regular expressions, ranges, lists, maps, closures, control structures and finally, to make it in the corporate programming world these days, it has objects.
As we skipped chapter headings for part one, I'll follow precedence and skip them for part two as well. Part one taught us the basics of the language, part two looks to help us now integrate with the Java environment and existing Java code and systems. Builders are an important part of using Groovy to it's full dynamic extent and these are covered extensively. Groovy also brings it's own library extensions for the standard Java libraries, and they are known as the GDK, even though they're technically not a development kit. Groovy works nicely with databases and is able to use any existing JDBC drivers you may have. XML, whether you love it or hate it, is a big part of the life of a corporate programmer these days. Groovy has built in smarts for working with XML and you'll learn about those in this part. There are many useful Java tools, libraries and frameworks available today and Groovy can work with almost all of them. Much good information on integrating with everything from Spring to the new scripting interface defined by JSR-223 is covered.
Part three is the Everyday Groovy part. It starts with Tips and Tricks. Things to remember, useful snippets of code, advice on calling Groovy from a command-line, and writing automation scripts. There's also a full chapter on Unit Testing with Groovy, covering testing of both Groovy and Java code. The last two chapters cover optional stuff for Groovy. Groovy on Windows looks at the use of the Scriptom tool for those who use Windows. (As a Mac user, I admit that I skipped this one.) The last chapter is an introduction to Grails, the web application framework written in Groovy and which can run in any standard J2EE environment.
There are a couple of slim appendixes at the back with installation information, language information and an API Quick Reference for the GDK.
There is much to like about GinA. Mr. König and his co-authors writing is clear and engaging and Manning's layout and typography are up to their usual excellent standards. On it's own, these are good reasons to consider this book if Groovy interests you, but when you mix in the fact that Mr. König is a committer on the Groovy project and has taken an active role in the creation of the language itself, then you have a very compelling reason to choose it.
Groovy in Action is an excellent book, written by one of the designers of the Groovy language. If you have any interest in modern scripting languages at all, I would recommend that you check out this book.
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Naruto-Arena forces you to select 3 characters when you start a new game. This page gives you an overview of all characters available in the Naruto-Arena game. Not only can you view each character's skills, you can also discuss the characters by posting comments.
Asura Path Pein (S)
Asura Path Pein (S) is one of the six paths of Pein. His body style is similar to a puppet filled with hidden weapons.Requirement to unlock: Mission: Asura Path
Chakra Burst
Asura Path Pein (S) uses Chakra Burst and takes flight. One enemy will be dealt 20 damage and damage dealt to Asura Path Pein (S) will reduced by 25% for 2 turns. This skill becomes Crown Shockwave when used.
Cooldown: None
Chakra required:
Classes: Chakra, Ranged, Unique, Instant
Cluster Bombs
Asura Path Pein (S) uses Cluster Bombs dealing 10 damage to all enemies.
Cooldown: 1
Chakra required:
Classes: Physical, Instant, Ranged
Heat Seeker
Asura Path Pein (S) uses Heat Seeker on himself or one ally. If the target of this skill dies the enemy that killed them will take 20 piercing damage that ignores invulnerability.This skill is invisible until triggered. This skill stacks.
Cooldown: None
Chakra required:
Classes: Physical, Instant, Ranged, Unique
Rinnegan Reaction
This skill makes Asura Path Pein invulnerable for 1 turn.
Cooldown: 4
Chakra required:
Classes: Physical, Instant
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The AP: "The U.S. military on Thursday announced the deaths of five U.S. troops in fighting in Iraq, raising to 96 the number of American forces killed this month... The latest deaths raised to 96 the number of U.S. forces killed in October, the highest toll for any month this year and on course to surpass the October 2005 total of 96. Before that the deadliest months were January 2005, at 107; November 2004 at 137 and April 2004, at 135."
The Washington Post on Bush's press conference yesterday: "Bush made the unusual move of calling a second news conference in as many weeks to address the public concern, and then opened the event with a 16-minute speech, knowing television networks would carry it live." After a reporter pressed Bush on whether or not the United States is winning the war, Bush said yes. "Asked afterward whether Bush meant that the United States is winning in Iraq specifically or in the fight against terrorism, White House press secretary Tony Snow said: 'In Iraq.'"
He "used "frank admissions of overestimations, underperformance and flat-out errors... to try to assuage angry voters, who by most election strategists' accounts plan to vote Republicans out of control of Congress in just two weeks," per the Washington Times.
A New York Times news analysis notes that Bush "gambled" with his press conference "that he could rescue Republican candidates who are having a hard time defending the war and an even harder time running away from it."
And yet, in the wake of the press conference come a handful of articles -- in Bloomberg and the Washington Post -- looking at how GOP House and Senate candidates are distancing themselves from Bush on Iraq in increasing numbers, and how what the party had hoped would be a broad, winning issue of terrorism has narrowed to Iraq and turned sour.
In advance of Bush's press conference, the Democratic National Committee released a web ad via YouTube. The ad notes that October is "the bloodiest month for US troops in Iraq in two years" and points out that with the election "looming," the White House has "dropped" its "stay the course" rhetoric.
McClatchy reports that Vice President Cheney told a conservative radio host on Tuesday that the Administration doesn't regard water-boarding as torture and allows the CIA to use the technique. "'It's a no-brainer for me,' Cheney said at one point in an interview. Cheney's comments,… appeared to reflect the Bush administration's view that the president has the constitutional power to do whatever he deems necessary to fight terrorism."


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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Sports books in Nevada took in $81.5 million in
bets on Sunday's Super Bowl and won $6.68 million, state gambling
regulators said Tuesday.
The amount bet on the game was below $90 million for the first
time since 2004, when sports books took in $81.2 million in wagers.
But the 8.2 percent the state's 176 sports books won was an
improvement over last year when they lost a record $2.6 million on
the big game, according to numbers released by the state Gaming
Control Board.
Jay Kornegay, executive director of the race and sports book at
the Las Vegas Hilton, said he was surprised by the low betting
volume and had expected about $90 million in wagers.
"That's a huge drop," Kornegay said. "Going into the weekend
... we were a little concerned. By midmorning Sunday, we were
pleasantly surprised by the volume that we saw coming through the
The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Arizona Cardinals in Tampa,
Fla., but Arizona bettors who bet on the 6½- to 7-point spread won
when the game ended 27-23.
Kornegay said the sports books were able to control betting they
received on either side by manipulating the point spread a
half-point in either direction.
Last year, Nevada casinos took in $92 million when the New York
Giants upset the New England Patriots, 17-14, and handed the
state's sports books a loss on the Super Bowl for the first time
since 1995, when the San Francisco 49ers trounced the San Diego
Chargers 49-26.
The record amount bet in Nevada sports books on the Super Bowl
was $94.5 million in 2006 when the Steelers beat the Seattle
Seahawks, 21-10. Casinos won $8.8 million that year.
Super Bowl Betting in Nevada Down... But Up
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From miss Jia
"Back in 2008, YMCMB rapper, Tyga, was a guest on a corny MTV game show
that was fortunately never picked up. According to TMZ, the show titled,
Bustas had wannabe-rappers compete against each other in games
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Commerce, Sulphur Springs – The Texas Department of Transportation is inviting the public to a public meeting next Wednesday regarding an upcoming project along State Highway 11 between Commerce and Sulphur Springs.
Plans for two upcoming projects will be addressed. One project will rebuild the intersection at SH 11 and Loop 178 in Commerce as well as adding travel lanes and shoulders from that intersection east to the South Sulphur River. The second project will involve the reconstruction of four miles of SH 11 from just east of FM 2653 in Ridgeway and extending east toward Sulphur Springs. This project will add 10 ft. wide paved shoulders and improve the horizontal and vertical design features of the roadway.
Officials with TxDot will be in attendance to address questions and concerns regarding safety along the highway. The informal meeting is to take place Wednesday at 5:30 at the Mt. Zion Church, located on Highway 11, five miles east of Commerce.


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Just saw it on mlbtraderumors.com it says for two relief prospects
Just saw it on mlbtraderumors.com it says for two relief prospects
Barry Larkin = Future Hall Of Famer
Why couldn't the Reds of done that?
Here's the link to ESPN...
I'm a KG fan, too bad I have to hate him now.
^^Yeah if the reds traded for Greene, they would have Alex Gonzalez's contract sitting on the bench so they would essentially be paying 12 million for a SS position that would be worth no where near 12 million dollars. They could have tried to deal Gonzalez, but nobody wants that contract.
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick. ~Thomas Boswell
Having a life is overrated.
2007 he hit 27 Homers and 44 doubles... he was hurt last year...
And he must really suck if the Cardinals want him, right?
This is a guy Cincinnati Should have got and used to get Peavy but I guess Alex Gonzalez and Jeff Keppinger are the way to the Pennant...
The Central Gets Better.... The Reds stay.
Career .304 obp is something id be totally happy to get. Especially when he is goin to be making almost 7 million and coming off a year where he lost all power in his swing.
The guy is a mental case as well.
I think that in a year or two, one of these guys - Frazier, Dorn, Valaika, Cumberland, Stubbs - will be ready to replace Dunn. They won't hit as many home runs as Dunn, but they should have similar OPS. - 757690, July 22, 2008
Alonso will be playing 1B for the REDS and batting 4th one year from today. - Kingspoint, July 9, 2009
Greene came up with great potential,but somewhere he has lost some of it.Hitting a wall with you fist is not a great way to increase your value.i do like Greene but he's not worth the contract,or the return the would have wanted from cincy.But if you remember his name came up early as a trade canidate.Walt shot it down in a heartbeat.I still agree with REDSFANDAN-GO GET BARTLETT.
"Now that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that."
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Reds and Wallaby scrum-half Will Genia will be out for eight weeks after it was confirmed that he requires surgery on an ankle injury.
Reds and Wallaby half-back Will Genia will be out for eight weeks after it was confirmed he will undergo surgery on a right ankle injury this Tuesday.
Scans late last week confirmed a pre-existing injury to the upper part of the 55-times capped international's ankle had not healed sufficiently and as a result medical staff from both franchise and country agreed that surgery would be best.
Genia had initially suffered the injury in the Round 11 Super Rugby fixture against the Hurricanes although has pushed through the discomfort to be available for rugby selection until this point.
Rebels scrum-half Luke Burgess will now join the Wallabies' camp in Sydney, with Ewen McKenzie saying the timing of the surgery would allow Genia to be healthy for the Rugby Championship.
"Will has demonstrated enormous mental fortitude to play through the injury although it has reached a point where it's important he gets it surgically repaired so that he can get back to 100 percent fitness," McKenzie said in a statement.
"We've seen before how committed Will is when undergoing rehab and I would expect him to work hard to be available for selection when we begin our Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship campaign."
Reds coach Richard Graham commended Genia for his attitude since sustaining the injury.
"It's a credit to Will's toughness and character that he was willing to continue playing through the injury for the remainder of the season, but in his best interests we have all come to an agreement that surgery is the best option," Graham said.


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Lemony Green Beans with Lemon Juice and Lemon Zest
In fact, the first time I made it, I ended up eating a whole pound of green beans myself and calling it lunch! Thanks to Cheap Healthy Good for inspiring me to buy Moosewood Restaurant Simple Suppers, which is where I found this idea for my new favorite way to cook green beans!
Drain beans in a colander placed in the sink.
Put beans on a serving dish and sprinkle with lemon zest. Serve hot.
Lemony Green Beans (Green Beans with Lemon Juice and Lemon Zest)
(Makes 3-4 side dish servings, recipe from Moosewood Restaurant Simple Suppers.)
1 tsp. salt
1 lb. fresh green beans, both ends trimmed
one large lemon (lemon zest and lemon juice)
1 1/2 T olive oil
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
Fill a medium-sized saucepan half full with water, add salt, and bring to a boil. When water boils, add beans, reduce heat to a gentle simmer and cook beans about 5 minutes, or until they are barely tender-crisp.
While beans cook, grate the zest and squeeze the juice from the lemon.
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Sales increased by $49 million, or 5.8 percent, in 2013, while consumption increased by 3 percent to more than 12 million gallons, the Ohio Division of Liquor Control announced yesterday.
January 24, 2014
Ohioans performed a record amount of elbow-bends last year as they downed enough liquor to fill more than 18 Olympic-size swimming pools.
Sales increased by $49 million, or 5.8 percent, in 2013, while consumption increased by 3 percent to more than 12 million gallons, the Ohio Division of Liquor Control announced yesterday.
Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey (351,125 gallons) topped Kamchatka Vodka (294,168 gallons) as the best-selling hard stuff by volume.
Total sales of spirituous liquors, those containing more than 21 percent alcohol, reached a record $898 million, continuing a trend in which liquor sales have increased each year since 1994.
"Ohioans continue to trade up, buying more of the premium products as consumer tastes become more sophisticated," Bruce Stevens, liquor-control superintendent, said.
Direct retail sales to imbibers totaled $635 million (an increase of 7 percent) through state-authorized sellers, while wholesale purchases by restaurants and bars increased 2.5 percent to $264 million.
Under a 25-year lease in which it paid $1.4 billion to the state, liquor income flows to JobsOhio Beverage System, the wholly owned subsidiary of Gov. John Kasich's privatized economic-development agency, to fund its operations.
A Department of Commerce news release did not disclose profit figures for liquor sales in 2013. State officials said they did not have those numbers and that they would have to be provided by JobsOhio.
A JobsOhio spokeswoman said yesterday that the organization's total liquor profit for the calendar year will be reported when its annual report is released Feb. 28. It reported $37.5 million in profit for the third quarter of last year.


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lmao Lombardi is a ****ing joke
@AdamSchefter: Update: Michael Lombardi's title in Cleveland will be VP player personnel.
@AdamSchefter: Browns hired Michael Lombardi as GM.
No GM for Cleveland as speculated. Lombardi will be the personnel guy
lmao Lombardi is a ****ing joke
one less media hack to write bad stuff about the jets.
Clearly Cleveland lost the game of offseason musical chairs.
If the Jets had hired a guy like this, the media - including bloggers like Lombardi - would have killed them for it.
Best news of the morning. We will no longer be subject to that disgusting toupee on NFL network every night.
What amazes me about this is that I've never come away from watching ML thinking "wow, this guy is smart." Maycock, Mangini, and maybe a couple of other guys always are specific and thoughtful in what they have to say about players and teams.
Put Cleveland down for another lost decade.
Totally clueless hire. In all his time on the NFL Network he NEVER brought
anything to the table on breaking down players. CLE would've been better
hiring Mayock
I love hearing JI hacks act as if they know the 1st thing about Lombardi's qualifications....always good for a chuckle
Nonetheless, I hate that guy, and hope he fails miserably in Cleveland
But I agree, most of the animus comes from him being anti-Jet.
! would love for Mayock to be in the Jets scouting dept.....
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Have to trust Lombardi knows his sh1t.
I hope what we see on NFL network is what the Browns get, and opinionated jerkoff. Somehow, I believe the guy has to be a brilliant guy. I mean, he was hired by an NFL franchise.
Still, hope he fails
I'll say one thing about him. He was 100% correct about Gholston from day one. When every one else was pumping the guy up he said he was a total stiff and maintained that from day one until gholston was out of the league.
"Warren Sapp, told ESPN Radio that at the NFL Combine two months before the draft, he met with then-Cleveland coach Bill Belichick and heres what was said:
He said I wanna draft you so bad that I have an erection right now. But [GM] Mike Lombardi will not let me draft you. I just want you to know it is not on me. I want you in Cleveland.Cleveland initially had the 26th pick in the draft, but traded up to the 10th spot, where it could have drafted Sapp. But Lombardi was scared of Sapp so he traded down to the 30th spot and took Craig Powell (bust)."


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|Windows 7: The Missing Manual
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|This book illuminates its subject with reader-friendly insight, plenty of wit, and hardnosed objectivity for beginners as well as veteran PC users.
Windows 7: the missing manual is organized into 8 parts, comprising 27 chapters and 4 appendices.
After an introductory section describing the book's layout, Part One deals with the Windows 7 desktop. Comprised of 5 chapters, Part One gives the basics of manipulating windows, programs, and files. Chapter 1 describes the Start menu, jump lists (frequently used documents) and the Run command. Next comes Explorer, the Taskbar, and general window controls. Most of chapter 2 is devoted to the eye candy provided by Aero. The third chapter discussing searching and organizing files follows that, with a good discussion of the much-improved Windows Search. Chapter 4 covers personalization (wallpaper, color and sound themes, screensavers and desktop icons), and the last chapter of part 1 explains the ways you can get help (Microsoft's Help system, Remote Assistance, and getting help from Microsoft).
Part Two uses 3 chapters to cover Windows 7 Software. After talking about opening and closing programs, opening and closing documents, and dialog boxes, David Pogue explains how to install and uninstall software, as well as handling compatibility issues. Speech recognition and gadgets got thrown into this chapter, but seem a little out of place. The next chapter discusses various freebie applications supplied with Windows 7, and those available as part of Windows Live Essentials. Most of those are explained in sufficient detail to use, but a few are deferred to later chapters. This part is closed out with rather brief coverage of Control Panel.
The next 5 chapters comprise Part Three, which is devoted to Windows 7 Online. After chapter 9 explains how to get hooked up to the Internet, chapter 10 is dedicated to Internet security. Microsoft Security Essentials, the Action Center, as well as Windows Firewall and Windows Defender are all covered, along with methods of protecting your privacy while you surf. This all leads into the grand tour of Internet Explorer 8, which is talked about in detail in chapter 11. The last two chapters go over Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Services.
Part Four is the media-centric portion of the book. David broke the discussion into three broad chapters: Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Media Player, and Windows Media Center. Windows Live Photo Gallery is Microsoft's challenger to Google's Picasa. While Picasa is more mature, Photo Gallery is not shabby by any means, and chapter 14 gives excellent explanations on how to get the most from the program. The next chapter goes over Windows Media Player, which has been around for a long time. There have been some minor changes to it, including streaming media to other computers and handling of more types of audio and video files. Windows Media Center was originally designed for the Media Center Edition PC, but is now available for any version of Windows 7 from Home Premium on up. You get a lot of information on how to set it up and use it for all sorts of media. You'll also find out how to use your PC as a DVR (assuming you have a TV tuner card or USB tuner).
The next part is all about hardware and peripherals. First printing, then Windows Fax and Scan, and finally general device handling are each given their due. The third and final chapter of Part Five covers laptops, tablets, and touchscreen computers, and their special capabilities and limitations.
One thing all computer users need to handle are the inevitable problems. Part Six covers various maintenance and trouble-shooting topics across three chapters. First, general maintenance and speed tweaks, followed by an in-depth discussion of disks, compression and encryption, and finally a chapter on backup, restore and trouble-shooting. All have just enough information to be useful, and not too much to absorb.
The last main part covers networking and homegroups. Windows is the most useful when it's part of a network, and Part Seven explains how to connect it and use it. After discussing setting up accounts, workgroups and domains have their own chapters, so home and office users can focus on what they need. This part ends with chapters on sharing files and remote control (including VPNs and Remote Desktop).
There is a set of 4 appendices that comprise Part Eight. Included are how to install and upgrade to Windows 7, how to use Regedit, and my favorite two chapters – Where'd It Go?, and the Master Keyboard Shortcut List.
Overall, the book does assume you've at least seen a previous version of Windows, as a lot of text explains how Windows 7 is different. I personally would have preferred the author keep the focus on Windows 7 and less on the differences from prior versions. There are a lot of attempts at humor. On the plus side, it keeps the tone of this fairly large book accessible to the novice to intermediate user. On the minus side, the occasional joke usually seems out of place.
I found Windows 7: the missing manual a valuable reference to the many offerings in Microsoft's latest incarnation of Windows. While the writing style varies from simple reference to the occasional attempt at light-hearted guidance, it is a comprehensive, informative and (most importantly) useful manual of the ins and outs of using Windows 7 in all its flavors.
You can purchase Windows 7: The Missing Manual from amazon.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to see your own review here, read the book review guidelines, then visit the submission page.


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AMD 'R600' DirectX 10 GPU spied on web
Bigger than R580 despite smaller fabrication process?
AMD's anticipated upcoming ATI-branded, DirectX 10-supporting graphics chip, the R600, appears to have made an unscheduled and ahead-of-time stop on the web, revealing itself to be a rather larger part than its predecessor, the R580.
The pics appear in a story on Chinese-language site Zol.com.cn, which claims the chip will ship at the end of January 2007, with an official release window of Q1 2007. Here's one shot - the site has plenty of others.
The R600 is likely to be fabbed at 80nm, and Zol.com.cn reckons it's got over 500m transistors on board. The story presents a side-by-side shot of the R580 and R600, with the latter scaled down to match the physical chip size of the former. If that's an accurate assumption, then the R600's die size is 12-24 per cent bigger than the R580's, despite being fabbed using a smaller process. ®
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"Very cold wind chills this morning," the National Weather Service said in an advisory for Wisconsin, warning about the possibility of frost bite and hypothermia if precautions weren't taken.
The combination of frigid air and high winds would produce wind chills of up to 35 degrees below zero from the Dakotas into Minnesota and northern Wisconsin, it predicted.
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|2007-06-22, 16:23
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Now, aside from over dozens of millions of people vanishing in an instant, there would be still aftermath that could kill off another dozen millions more, if not in hundred millions. Not to mention populations of countless species on the planet, some of them being completely wiped out.
Now, Arc-en-Ciel may not be a planet destroyer weapon, but it certainly would qualify as a civilization-destroying weapon, wouldn't it?
EDIT: I may be wrong with my calculations, but since math isn't my forte, I mostly used google and wiki. ^^;;
|2007-06-22, 16:32
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about the Arc-en-ciel ~ imo it is like an "eraser" cannon in that once it hits it completely erases the existance of anything in the area enclosed by the beam...and if you are to take that area damage even though it may not seem much when compared to the landmass of a planet ~ the planet itself isnt really that deep...if it completely hits spot on a weak tectonic plate you can expect the world to blow up with natural disasters ~ as the "balance of nature" is destroyed something has to happen to try and equalize what has been done...and this is where water rushing in to fill the rather large pot hole comes in ~ in the form of huge tsunamis...
|2007-06-22, 16:32
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Certainly. So, despite the lukewarm response, why was it considered a viable response?
The Arc En Ciel, even if it's a civilisation threatening event, is small change compared to the Book of Darkness, which ex[pands infinitely and is therefore fully capable destroying entire Universes (as we use the term)...and then causing it's own dimensional dislocation to shift to new Universes ( possibly destroying a few more in the process) to start it again...and that's without considering the unlimited reincarnation thing...
Thus, it's a choice...kill off six billion (roughly) innocents on Earth to save a potentially infinite number of potentially infinite numbers of other innocents in other dimensions...
|2007-06-22, 17:23
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Right - this is why Adm. Graham was dumb. ;p
Of course, a lot of that was probably to assuage his own conscience - he basically picked out a little girl to die (well, frozen sleep for eternity, whatever). Doing that and then making her live in the butt-end of nowhere as well? Might have gotten him caught, too...
Not much point in speculating how much actual destructive power it represents - we've only seen it fired twice, both at targets in space, which were wiped out each time. No telling how big the "splash damage" would really be. Of course, if it really is "leaves a hole in the planet the size of a small moon", then having one of the knights say "that would be bad for Hayate's house!" would be extraordinarily stupid, no? So maybe it's not -that- bad.
|2007-06-22, 18:08
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|2007-06-22, 19:16
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Ah, my bad. I'm actually rewatching A's now, but not to that ep yet. ;p
Still dumb of him - he obviously knew it was there the whole time, he's the one paying the bills... "Hey, why don't you move out here, away from the big city?" would not have been beyond the pale. You can't even say "he just doesn't care about the lives of the indigenous people", he's from -Britain-. (And just too young to have picked up a bunch of WW2 anti-Japanese sentiment, too...)
|2007-06-22, 20:33
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Of course he never planned that he'd need the Arc's firepower back then. It might be even safe to say that the Arc might not have been invented back then, and the most powerful battleship gun at that time wasn't a planet cracker.
|2007-06-22, 21:36
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Location: In a vacuum
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Either way, it wasn't in his plan to use Arc-en-Ciel, after all he has painful memories of it.
And not to mention it doesn't seem to work when used outright
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|2007-06-22, 22:01
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It's like fighting with your fists when your opponents are using tanks or fighters, and the conditions are in their favour.
|2007-06-22, 22:11
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|2007-06-23, 00:12
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So I would figure he's been spending all those time trying to figure out alternative salutions to the problem.
PLUS, it would take time to create Durandal.
|2007-06-23, 00:26
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Location: United States
I distinctly recall the Masked Men (just before they were de-masked by Chrono) mentioning that they were hoping that Nanoha and Fate would last long enough until Book of Darkness starts going out of control, at the very least.
That leads me to believe that that was the specific timing they were looking for in order for their operation to be successful. That's what makes no sense to me; why gamble everything by waiting until the very moment BoD goes berserk to put their plan into action? SO many things can go wrong...
|2007-06-23, 00:48
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Don't hold me on it, since I am unable to rewatch A's, but I recall that a major requirement for it to succeed without it respawning itself was for Hayate to be in complete, actual administrative control of the Tome...and since it was mildly corrupted to begin with, it means the timing where it goes berserk. I think the idea was to seal it at the moment where having passed complete administration to the Meister, both of them are to be flashfrozen at the instant of awakening, before she could think or even command anything, and then later seal her in a prison dimension to prevent someone from melting the ice.
Basically, the idea is to complete it, but at the same time, to permanently put it in a situation where neither the Book or the Meister can do anything about it without destroying it, and effectively cancelling it's Auto-Revive haxx that has caused TSAB problems over the decades.
Of course, the long-term viability of it may be questionable, since Chrono did say that it might find its way out...probably, but if you consider what the "generic" method is, it actually held some weight. Technically killing one girl to save many more in the coming years.
Let's face it...had the Meister of the Tome be the same old power-hungry jackasses the Wolkenritter had served over and over for god knows how long... there would've been more deaths involved, and the happy ending of A's is quite improbable.
True, many things can go wrong...like Chrono finding out, but when even if Graham's plans fail, there's still Arc to use. It just means that 11 years later, they'll have to face another incident. Same ol' same ol'.
|2007-06-23, 04:56
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Location: Singapore
Age: 35
Look people, it would be to your benefit to actually WATCH the episodes where the explanations and reasons are divulged for Graham's course of action. Making asinine assumptions are not to your benefit when discussing the matter. It kills your credibility a fair bit.
1) Freezing Hayate before she merged with the Tome would be pointless because without the unison between Tome and Master, the Tome will be free to hop on to the next master. Cue massive headache because they need to search for the next spawnpoint AGAIN.
2) This is the reason why they needed the program to go "berserk", because that is when the total unison occurs. Trapped by its bond with Hayate, freezing Hayate with Durandal would have sealed the Tome as well.
3) Graham paid for Hayate's expenses because he felt guilty for what he was about to do to her.
4) The Arc-en-Ciel was not what Graham wanted to do, because it would have solved NOTHING.
5) Hayate seizing control of the administrative program and separating the Defence Program from the main program was what made the Arc-en-Ciel viable. This was not something that Graham could have anticipated.
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Those are some of the main points. You can find out more by watching the relevant episodes.
|2007-06-23, 06:55
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Jokes aside... while I am unable to rewatch the episode where the explaination were explained to due "unavoidable reasons" (( such as where I am atm )), it's fairly nice to see that my credibility...or whatever's left of it wasn't that badly killed.
One needs to understand that the "conventional" method that had been used to deal with the Tome in the past, and even in the A's timeline, before Graham's intervention, and Hayate's readministration...never solves anything. It was the "right" thing to do, but it never solves it, just delays. Hayate would've lived on had the Tome be destroyed before completion, but the Wolkies would dissapear only to reappear again, someday. And probably in the hands of an evil bastard...as usual.
And while the Hayate's incident involves very little casualty that "matters", one have to note that Hayate is probably the only Meister that was good. From the way the Wolkies spoke, it's clear 99% of their lives involved killings and book-completions.
And it wasn't just something that Graham couldn't anticipate. It was something no one could've anticipated, just by looking at previous records of such incidents.
If this was the case of when Clyde died, or even before... we would've rooted for Graham, no doubt. It was just a painful twist of fate that it had to be Hayate of all Meisters.
|2007-06-23, 08:02
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But I get it now; the frozen Hayate was basically going to be the anchor to keep the tome from escaping and finding a new master.
Of course, that was before you pointed out about the total unision, which it now makes sense to me.
|2007-06-23, 08:52
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Spherical Cow
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Since Arc-en-Ciel doesn't solve the problem Permanently.
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THE personal details of motorists will no longer have to be handed over to private car park operators chasing ''fines'', under changes to laws that have passed state Parliament.
Charlestown MP Andrew Cornwell and Newcastle MP Tim Owen declared the change good news for shoppers who had been stung at Aldi car parks in the region.
Several shoppers hit with ''fines'' had complained about being pursued by parking operators and debt collectors.
Under the new legislation, Roads and Maritime Services will no longer be compelled to provide information on registered vehicle owners, having previously released details of more than 150,000 people under local court orders.
Roads minister Duncan Gay said the government was concerned about the practices of some pay and display operators who issued payment notices when a ticket was not displayed even during a free parking period.
Among those pursued for fees was Cardiff South resident Joy White, who was issued a notice for not having a ticket displayed at Aldi's Cardiff store while she was getting one from a ticket machine about three years ago.
''I was ropeable,'' she said.
Mrs White complained to the store and its parking contractor, Australian National Car Parks. She thought the notice had been waived, but received a fine for $84 about six months ago.
''I was surprised they got access to my details,'' she said.
She complained to Mr Cornwell, who succeeded in getting the parking operator to abandon the fee notice.
''This is typical of the complaints I've received,'' Mr Cornwell said. ''They're not a statutory authority, people should get advice before paying.''
Mr Owen said he'd also received similar complaints from residents about notices for parking at Aldi's Cooks Hill and Hamilton stores, also run by Australian National Car Parks.
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He was plugged into the ethernet. I was in another corner of the room, not plugged in and unable to pick up any WiFi. Had I been able to get on line, I would have blogged, but I wouldn't have blogged for help. I'd have been happy enough just to be able to get on line and to blog. As it was, I really needed help more than Gordon!
UPDATE: Professor Bainbridge is awed by the free-spirited ways of the Madisonians:
Do Gordon and Ann take laptops to the faculty meeting and just whip them out in plain sight? I've occasionally used my Treo to blog from a faculty meeting or, more often, to check email, but even that is pushing the outer limits of the group norms of my faculty. Blatantly working on a laptop while paying only partial attention, at most, to my colleagues' endless rambling thoughtful comments probably would be way over the line of what's acceptable here.I have another question: Does anyone work somewhere where prolonging meetings with superfluous, new issues and philosophical reflections is considered beyond "workplace civility norms"? If not, and if, at the same time, rapt attention must be paid to everyone who takes the floor, you've got a major dysfunction. I think you have to go one way or the other. If you want to require rapt attention, you've got to make the meeting very crisp and fast. To the extent that the speakers want to be tolerated as they luxuriate in extended discourse, they need to show mercy by allowing a lot of freedom to the rest of us folks. We have the mutual tolerance approach here in Madison ... at least as far as I can tell.
I've written about the role of group norms play in determining in how corporate boards make decisions and remain curious about the role of norms in governing behavior. So I pose a question: If your job requires endless meetings, do your workplace civility norms allow one to blog from the meeting?
Is using a laptop worse than doing crosswords or reading -- the traditional methods of staving off madness? Maybe it is. There's that clicky keyboard sound, and the screen seems to be a barrier, walling you off from the communal spirit so many of the professorial types seem to believe they are generating with all the back-and-forth.
And then, the possibility of blogging... that must be especially disturbing. Many faculty do not understand blogging and imagine all sorts of odd or abusive things going on in this little 'sphere of ours. Is Althouse taking quotes out of context, satirizing us, holding us up to the mockery of her right-wing groupies?


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Title: Cinema Pacific video tape
Dates: 2001
Collection Number: 2001C77
Creator: Cinema Pacific
Collection Size: 1 manuscript box. (0.4 linear feet)
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Abstract: Interviews with American World War II servicemen, relating to American military activities during World War II.
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When Benni's stepson announces his plans to marry into the wealthy, influential Brown family, she and her husband are invited to the Browns' sprawling ranch, Seven Sisters, to celebrate the engagement. But the party takes a tragic turn when a member of the esteemed family is murdered. While trying to unravel the feuding clan's tangled past, Benni uncovers a shocking pattern of tragedy—and stitches a hodgepodge of clues into a very disturbing design. . .
Seven Sisters, a challenging pattern that features a single six-pointed star surrounded by six identical stars, was most likely inspired by an observation of nature—the Seven Sisters is a loose grouping of stars in the constellation Taurus. Although the stars in the cluster appear to be close together, they are, in fact, quite far apart.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Patrick Corbin's success has come from a simple formula — be aggressive and throw strike one.
The Diamondbacks' left-hander allowed two runs over 6 2-3 innings and Arizona beat the Colorado Rockies 4-2 on Sunday. It was the Diamondbacks' fifth win in six games.
"I thought today I was as sharp as I've been," said the 23-year-old. "I got a couple of fastballs up and that hurt me a little bit but I was able to keep us in it."
Corbin (3-0) scattered nine hits — four coming in his final 1 2-3 innings — and struck out five. Corbin didn't walk a batter for the second straight outing and hasn't allowed a base on balls in his last 15 innings.
"When you're getting ahead with that first pitch, the second pitch you can throw whatever you want," Corbin said. "It makes it 100 times easier."
Corbin became the second Diamondbacks pitcher to throw at least six innings and allow two runs or fewer in his first five starts of the season.
"He just keeps the ball in play," said Arizona manager Kirk Gibson. "He just competes. He works on things and understands the tools that he's acquired."
Gerardo Parra tripled and scored twice, and Josh Wilson had a run-scoring double for the Diamondbacks, who at 15-10 are off to their second-best start since 2006.
Rockies All-Star shortstop Troy Tulowitzki was lifted in the bottom of the third inning because of a strained left shoulder.
J.J. Putz pitched the ninth for his fifth save for the Diamondbacks.
Colorado has two wins in its last eight games after opening the season 13-4, falling into a first-place tie with Arizona in the NL West.
"As long as you continue to go out on a day in and day out basis and play good hard baseball and continue to do the right things, it will definitely workout" said Rockies starter Jon Garland. "We have already seen what we are able to do when we get some guys hot offensively and we are throwing the ball good."
Tulowitzki reached on a fielder's choice in the first inning and was attempting to score two batters later on a single by Michael Cuddyer when he slid awkwardly into home plate. Tulowitzki was easily tagged out by Miguel Montero from a throw by left fielder Jason Kubel.
"I didn't know he got hurt on the play," said Rockies manager Walt Weiss. "It sounds like he jammed his shoulder sliding into the plate."
Top Colorado prospect Nolan Arenado was called up from Triple-A Colorado Springs and went 0 for 3 with a walk while starting at third base.
The 22-year-old Arenado hit .364 with 11 doubles, three homers and 21 RBIs in 18 games for the Sky Sox. He was taken in the second round of the 2009 draft.
To make room, the Rockies designated INF Chris Nelson for assignment.
Arizona broke through against Colorado starter Jon Garland (2-2) in the third, scoring twice.
Cliff Pennington singled to right, went to second on a sacrifice and moved to third on a single to left by Gerardo Parra. After Cody Ross grounded out to advance Parra to second, Pennington scored on a passed ball charged to Wilin Rosario.
Three pitches later, Garland threw a wild pitch to score Parra for a 2-0 lead.
"You try and be aggressive without running into outs on the bases," Gibson said. "We're aware of what guys throw in certain counts and when to be aware to dirt-ball reads. `G' made a good read on that because they were playing way off at third place which allowed him to come further down the way."
Paul Goldschmidt extended the lead 3-0 in the fourth when he singled and scored on Josh Wilson's double off the left-center field wall and Parra tripled to lead off the fifth and scored on a Ross single to make it 4-0.
The Rockies cut the lead in half in the sixth. Eric Young Jr. doubled for the third time in three at-bats and scored on a single to left by Dexter Fowler. Fowler later scored on a one-out wild pitch to pull Colorado to 4-2.
Colorado chased Corbin after putting runners on first and second with two outs in the seventh. But Matt Reynolds retired Young on a short popup in front of the dirt cut around home plate on the third base side to end the threat.
Garland allowed four runs — three earned — on eight hits with two walks, one intentional. The right-hander, who entered the game 3-3 with a 4.60 ERA against his former team, struck out two.
"He could have went out there for another inning if we don't get to his (lineup) spot," said Rockies manager Walt Weiss. "It's another one of our starters that gave us a chance to win the game."
NOTES: Colorado is 1-9 in its last 10 series at Chase Field. . Putz threw six straight balls and bounced a throw to first base. … Parra extended his career-best hitting streak to 13 games. … Arizona INF Martin Prado, mired in the midst of a 1-for-22 slump, was given the day off. … Garland has pitched past the sixth inning only once in five starts. . Before the game, the Diamondbacks activated OF Jason Kubel off the 15-day disabled list and placed SS Didi Gregorius on the 7-day concussion DL. Gregorius was hit in the head with a pitch by Josh Outman on Friday. … Kubel, who started in left field, was 10 for 30 with two doubles, two homers and six RBIs before he was placed on the disabled list with a strained left quad on April 13.
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There is another view of the Canadian Genealogy Survey given by British Columbia blogger M. Diane Rogers on her site "CanadianGenealogy, or, 'Jane's Your Aunt'" on August 9th at http://canadagenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/08/another-genealogyfamily-history-survey.html
Do you agree or disagree with her views?
She says in part that "I've already submitted my answers, and yes, I knew right away I couldn't agree with some of the broad assumptions apparently being made. Has there been a recent "surge of interest" in genealogy/family history as the Cape Breton Post put it? If so, when, where and what forms has it taken? Or are some paying more attention to television ads than perhaps is wise. Remember how long the widely heralded show 'Who Do You Think You Are' lasted in Canada?"
What are your views? Is she right, or is she too critical of the survey?
If you haven't taken the survey yet, it is on http://www.cusurveycentre.ca/gensurvey


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What is a Go-to Gal Designer Challenge you may ask? Once a month the Paper Crafts magazine Go-to Gals will challenge each other to create a project focusing on products from a particular manufacturer. We plan to feature one manufacturer the last Wednesday of each month. Just for fun! This month we are featuring Avery Elle stamps!!
Its not a secret how much I love Avery Elle stamps (and all of their products! Fresh, stylish, classy, and completely on trend! A couple of their latest sets were sitting on my desk and I knew combining them would be perfect!
I started by stamping the wreath from Winter Wreath.Then I added pine cones, pine sprigs, berries, and the sentiment.
Feeling a need for some gold, I stamped the small flower center from Laurels in gold ink. It adds a touch of sparkle in little star shapes!
To finish off the holiday look, I die cut felt with the coordinating die set for Laurels. (I get all giddy when stamp companies have dies to match some of their images!)
Stop by and see how the rest of these fabulous ladies used Avery Elle products. I know I cannot wait as they constantly amaze me with their creativity and talent!
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Mustangs trample Tigers to end slide
SNYDER — After losing four games in a row to fall near the bottom of District 4-3A, the Sweetwater boys basketball team took out its frustration with a dominant 44-27 win at Snyder on Fri-day to keep its flickering playoff hopes alive.Led by Kaleb Hoover with 22 points and Dylan Ben-nett's 13, Sweetwater — now 2-5 in district play as well as 13-5 overall — excelled against the last-place Tigers in most areas, especially on defense. But it was competitive early in the game. Snyder — which fell to 0-7 in district — was holding a 7-4 lead when Sweetwater's defense keyed a 19-1 run over the final 9:45 of the half. Snyder went without a field goal for over 13 minutes of game time to turn the game into a rout by the third quarter, allowing Sweetwater to build up a 27-8 lead, and was behind 30-11 entering the fourth quarter.By that point Hoover, with 14 points, had actually outscored Snyder's entire team. Sweetwater led by as many as 22 points in the final stanza until the Tigers — who got scoring from just three players — managed to cut the lead somewhat late in the game. Snyder was held to only nine field goals an attempted just 22 shots. Sweetwater connected on 19 of 37 shots — a very healthy 51 percent — and dominated Snyder on the boards as well. Hoover hit 9 of his 13 shots, while Bennett was 6-of-10, and they combined for 16 rebounds "We played our tails off on defense," coach Al Hunt said. "We did what we were supposed to do offensively by getting to the basket and took the shots we wanted to take, but defense and rebounding was the key."Marquees Jenkins (five points), Rhett Torres (two) and Michael Hunt (two) also scored for Sweetwater, which goes to first-place Wylie on Tuesday before playing its home finale vs. Big Spring this Friday.


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Rio workers accused of taking London info
LONDON (AP) - In an embarrassing episode for the host of the next Summer Olympics, 10 employees of Rio de Janeiro's 2016 committee have been fired after being caught stealing computer files from British organizers during the London Games.
British and Brazilian organizers said Friday that the Rio employees, working alongside London staff in the technology department, had downloaded internal documents without authorization. The Brazilians were working with London organizers during the July 27-Aug. 12 games as part of an official "transfer of knowledge program" between Olympic host cities.
"I can confirm there was an incident involving members of the Rio team who accessed and removed files without permission," London spokeswoman Jackie Brock-Doyle told The Associated Press. "We reported it to Rio management. They acted quickly to resolve the issue and return the files."
The Rio committee said the 10 employees were engaging in conduct "contrary to the ethical principles and mutual trust shared by the two organizations."
"Those involved were identified and the leadership of Rio 2016 and LOCOG acted jointly and quickly to repair the situation," the Brazilian organizers said in a statement. "All of the documents were recovered and returned, and the employees were dismissed by Rio 2016."
The committee called it an "isolated case," noting that about 200 Rio employees were represented in London during the Olympics and Paralympics.
"All of the activities of Rio 2016 are guided by the principles of ethical behavior, responsibility and transparency," it said.
The nature and content of the London files was not immediately known. However, London officials said the documents likely would have been provided to the Rio team had they requested them.
The Rio committee didn't identify the employees fired but said none were in a managerial position.
Top-level London officials were notified of the downloading and informed Rio organizers, headed by Carlos Nuzman and Leo Gryner.
The incident was first reported Thursday by Brazilian journalist Juca Kfouri on the UOL.com web portal. Kfouri also is a columnist at the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, Brazil's largest. His report said the London files included information about strategic planning and security.
"It's an issue between Rio and London which they have dealt with," International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams told the AP.
Rio, the first city in South America chosen to host the Olympics, sent teams of staff to London during the games to monitor the operations.
Disclosure of the stolen files comes two months before London and Rio officials gather in Brazil for the official "debrief" of the 2012 Games, a meeting where previous organizers provide the next hosts with all the information they need for staging the event.
AP Sports Writer Tales Azzoni in Sao Paulo contributed to this report.


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Business System Analyst - Bristol - Up to 45k
I am representing a company based in the Bristol area that is urgently looking for two Business System Analyst's. Background and experience in Financial services / Insurance is extremely beneficial as well as an understanding of working in a regulated environment ideally under FSA.
They are a market leading organisation, working with cutting edge technologies and leading the way in innovation.
This is fantastic company to work for with excellent staff benefits and a great opportunity to progress your skills and your career to the next level.
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Financial / Insurance sector experience
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Technical accreditation or qualification in Business Analysis; ISEB, IIBA, ITMB
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This career opportunity that will see you make a real impact on the business and will provide the scope for you to grow with the company. The Analysis team is likely to increase in size and you will have the chance to drive change and the direction moving forward.
The role is paying between £30,000 - £45,000 + Excellent Benefits, this is an urgent role for my client and they are keen to interview suitable candidates. To apply, please reply to this email with an updated copy of your CV.
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By Teresa Rivas
Salesforce.com (CRM) was up 0.6% at recent check, outperforming a downbeat market.
The bullish sentiment could be linked to Piper Jaffray's Mark Murphy and his team, which put out a note today of a survey they did of four dozen of Salesforce.com's partners, which found that these partners finished 6.9% above plan, on average, in the second quarter, better than their expectations.
They call the feedback, while mixed "noticeably better" than the first quarter survey data: "Importantly, contacts suggest a stronger APJ performance (which has stung many other technology vendors recently) and a better Commercial (i.e., midmarket) performance. We believe Keith Block, CRM's recently hired president and vice chairman, will effect significant change on the company's Enterprise sales strategy, introducing some short-term unknowns, but setting the company up well for FY15."
Murphy and team reiterated their Overweight rating on Salesforce.com, with a $52 price target, calling it a core long-term holding and "the best" way to play cloud computing.
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Partners Finished 6.9% Above Plan for Q2. Partners were 6.9% ahead of plan versus 4.6% ahead of plan for Q2 one year ago and 1.6% ahead of plan for Q2 two years ago. The Q2 outperformance, which is the highest in the last 15 quarters we have tracked this metric, is greater in magnitude than we could have reasonably expected, and we think it suggests a better performance in the Commercial (i.e., mid-market) segment following a somewhat muted Q1 performance.
Observed Pace of Business Slightly Softer than Year-Prior Q2. 50% of the partners indicated that the pace of business was better in the past three months relative to the prior three months, while 4.2% indicated the pace of business was worse. This results in a "Net-Better" score of 45.8%, versus 54.7% one year ago and 40% two years ago. Although the "Net-Better" score is slightly softer as compared to a year ago, it is the strongest reading in the last 4 quarters, including Q4 (Jan). Also, partners indicated that they expect to grow their salesforce.com practices nearly 26% y/y in FY2014 CY13], an improvement from their expectation in the prior survey, and a good result considering we primarily speak with contacts in North America, the most mature and presumably slowest-growth geography for salesforce.com.
Detailed Comments Highlight Encouraging Deal Pipeline and Customer Activity Levels. We asked partners to describe the deal pipeline and customer activity levels during salesforce.com's Q2. A majority of partners indicated a healthy/growing pipeline and increasing customer activity levels. The more optimistic partners characterized activity levels as "much better," "seems solid" and "stronger than in the past."
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A LACK of iodine may partly explain why Australian schoolchildren are being beaten in international tests by their counterparts in Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, an expert on iodine deficiency says.
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has set the goal of Australia's school system being in the world's top five by 2025.
International test results released in December placed Australia 27th in the world in year four reading, 22nd in science and 18th in maths.
Writing for Fairfax Media, Cres Eastman, a professor of medicine at the University of Sydney and an internationally noted expert on iodine deficiency, says the top-performing education systems, including Singapore, Korea and Hong Kong, have diets that are rich in iodine, because of salt iodisation, and the consumption of fish and seaweed.
In contrast, he says a national survey of schoolchildren in 2003-04 has confirmed the re-emergence of iodine deficiency in Australia after an absence of almost half a century.
The main cause is that the dairy industry has stopped using iodine to sterilise milk containers, but this has been compounded by the reluctance of consumers to buy iodised salt for home use, and the fact that the local food industry makes only limited use of iodised salt in food manufacturing.
A spokesman for the Australian Food and Grocery Council said the dairy industry had stopped using iodine - a micronutrient essential for normal thyroid function - as a sterilising agent because of the fluctuations it caused in iodine levels.
Since 2009, Australian regulations have required iodised salt be used in all bread except organic bread.
The World Health Organisation has identified iodine deficiency as the ''commonest global cause of preventable loss of intellectual performance''.
Professor Eastman says research from New Zealand has shown the intellectual performance of children improved after they were given an iodine supplement.


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Northwestern added a pair of highly ranked players to its offense Wednesday as part of its 2013 recruiting class.
Both the Rivals.com and Scout.com recruiting services give quarterback Matt Alviti of Maine South High School four stars. And Scout.com considers running back Godwin Igwebuike from Pickerington North High School in Pickerington, Ohio, a four-star recruit, too.
"We as a staff are confident we've signed a group of young men who are tremendous fits for our program athletically, academically and socially," coach Pat Fitzgerald said. "These 21 individuals are joining a program with a lot of momentum and I look forward to the contributions they'll make toward helping us achieve our goals in years to come."
Northwestern finished last season 10-3 (including 5-3 in the Big Ten, third in the six-team Legends Division). The Wildcats beat Mississippi State 34-20 in the Gator Bowl.
Rivals.com considers Northwestern's class the ninth best in the 12-member Big Ten and 52nd in the country. Scout.com ranks the Wildcats' class eighth in the Big Ten and No. 45 in the country. Ohio State is considered No. 1 in the conference by both recruiting services.
Alviti is a dual-threat quarterback who had 9,750 passing yards in high school and 2,040 rushing yards. The 6-foot, 185-pounder threw for 85 touchdowns and ran for 43.
Northwestern returns last season's starting quarterback, senior Kain Colter, who was an honorable mention All-Big Ten player as a junior.
Igwebuike has 1,985 rushing yards as a high school senior and 29 touchdowns. The 6-foot, 190-pound back was also a talented safety.
Other highly regarded members of the signing class include offensive lineman Sam Coverdale, a 6-6, 265-pound tackle from Kenston High School in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
The class includes 10 offensive players, eight defenders and one special teams player. Five of Northwestern's recruits are from Illinois and five more from Ohio.
The Wildcats' class includes two other running backs, 6-0, 180-pound Warren Long from James Logan High School in Union City, Calif., and Xavier Menifield, a 5-10, 190-pound back from Sierra Canyon High School in Valencia, Calif.
The `Cats added only two other linemen, one on each side of the ball: 6-3, 250-pound offensive lineman Blake King from Minooka High School in Shorewood, Ill., and defensive tackle Eric Joraskie, a 6-4, 260-pounder from Mount Carmel (Pa.) High School.
Northwestern's recruiting class:
Matt Alviti, qb, 6-0, 185, Maine South HS, Park Ridge, Ill.
Sam Coverdale, ot, 6-6,265, Kenston HS, Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Tom Fuessel, wr, 6-4, 185, Lincoln-Way East HS,Mokena, Ill.
Matthew Harris, cb, 5-11, 180, Lyons HS, La Grange Highlands, Ill.
Godwin Igwebuike, rb, 6-0, 190, Pickerington North HS, Pickerington, Ohio
Eric Joraskie, dt, 6-4, 260, Mount Carmel (Pa.) HS
Blake King, ol, 6-3, 250, Minooka HS, Shorewood, Ill.
Tyler Lancaster, dt, 6-3, 275, Plainfield East HS, Romeoville, Ill.
Warren Long, rb, 6-0, 180, James Logan HS, Union City, Calif.
Marcus McShepard, cb, 5-11, 185, Cleveland Heights HS, University Heights, Ohio
Xavier Menifield, rb, 5-10, 190, Sierra Canyon HS, Valencia, Calif.
Hunter Niswander, p/pk, 6-5, 210, Woodridge HS, Peninsula, Ohio.
Brad North, ol, 6-2, 280, Allen (Texas) HS
Kyle Queiro, wr/db, 6-3, 190, Bergen Catholic HS, Verona, N.J.
Jayme Taylor, te, 6-4, 225, The Woodlands (Texas) HS
Anthony Walker, lb, 6-1, 200, Monsignor Edward Pace HS, Miami, Fla.
Brett Walsh, lb, 6-1, 205, Monrovia (Calif.) HS
Keith Watkins II, cb, 5-11, 170, Archbishop Moeller HS, Cincinnati, Ohio
Macan Wilson, wr, 6-0, 185, Kinkaid HS, Houston, Texas


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Join a dynamic and caring team! Council for Educational Travel USA, a non-profit student exchange organization, is now recruiting Community Coordinators in your area. Our mission:" . . . reaching out to encourage a lifelong journey of global peace and understanding"
• Valid driver's license and reliable transportation a necessity.
• Telephone and good phone skills a necessity.
• Flexible Schedule a plus.
• Flexible attitude a must.
• Must be able to pass a Criminal Background Check.
• Good relationships with school and community a plus!
• Experience with teens and/or other cultures a plus!
• Attend Training Meetings when scheduled.
• Weekly phone contact with Team Leader.
1. Seek and qualify VOLUNTEER families in your community and assist with their selection of an international student to host.
2. Assist with Arrivals and Orientations. Provide ongoing supervision/support for student, host family, and school during the student's stay, reporting on placement monthly, and issues as they occur.
Some of our best coordinators also host international students! Join us as we share our experiences with our communities!
REWARDS: Compensation, international travel incentive and the knowledge that you are making a difference.
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1. This is a contract position. You will be compensated for the students you place in good homes and again for supervising those students when they arrive. Although you will be provided training, do you believe you have the networking skills and knowledge to find good host families in your area who are willing to volunteer their home for a school year?
2. All community coordinators are required to complete a host family registration of their home as part of the training with our organization. Although you are not required to host a student, it may become necessary in an emergency situation for the local coordinator to remove a student from a home and provide a safe place for the student until a new host family can be found. Are you able to meet this requirement?
3. We will provide you with the technical training needed for the position, however, your ability to network in your community, love for talking with people in person and on the phone and commitment to a work schedule weekly is what will determine your success. We are looking for self-starters, people able to work independently and committed to our mission. New coordinators should plan to place three students in their first 30 days. Are you confident you have the skills and ability to achieve this?
Council For Educational Travel USA has been a part of the exchange industry for the past 25+ years. We are a non-profit organization headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We adhere closely to all of the US Department of State regulations governing student exchange and practice higher standards, than those set forth in the regulations. We are also fully accredited by CSIET (Council for Standards for International Educational Travel). CETUSA places 1,000+ students annually from 40+ countries, forming extended families all across the USA.
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DeKALB – Questions about public safety and economic development ruled the night as DeKalb's mayoral candidates gave their thoughts to members of the DeKalb Area Rental Association.
Each of the mayoral candidates – Jennifer Groce, former director of Re:New DeKalb; David Jacobson, First Ward alderman; Mike Verbic, member of the DeKalb School District 428 board; and John Rey, a former school board member and former DeKalb Ag/Monsanto employee – promised at a meeting Wednesday to make the city more business friendly.
The solutions for public safety were wider, with candidates suggesting text alert systems and community policing as ways to crack down on crime. Both Rey and Groce said they supported adding more police.
"I don't think it's a perception. I think we absolutely have a crime and safety problem," Groce said. "We've got to get our police department to proactively react to crime, because right now we're reacting."
The candidates for alderman and DeKalb mayor fielded questions from the landlord association at a private forum. The Daily Chronicle and other local media were invited to attend.
There were nuances to the candidates' answers on economic development. Verbic said he wants to help existing businesses before attracting new ones. Groce's scope for economic development was larger than the city.
"When we're talking about retaining businesses, it's not just about our city," Groce said. "It's about all businesses in our community and our county. What are we doing to keep them here in our region?"
Like the alderman candidates before them, the mayoral candidates also were critical of the funding and inspection mechanisms included in the new housing ordinances the city council passed in November. DARA has opposed those measures as well, arguing that landlords are being double-taxed to support another layer of government.
"The renters don't want it, the landlords don't want it, but for some reason, the mismanagement of the city says that's the way we need to go," said Jacobson, who voted against parts of the new ordinances while on the council.
With regard to public safety, Rey said he supports Lowery's 20/20: Vision for the Future initiative, which would add four more police officers, a K-9 unit, a mass arrest vehicle and a host of other programs to the department. Jacobson added that community policing, or "having people stand up for their neighborhoods," is necessary.
Verbic said he would like DeKalb to set up a text alert system similar to one at Northern Illinois University, to be used in emergencies. He said there is a lack of information-sharing between the university and other community leaders on potential threats in the area.
The council's role with the city staff also was discussed. Each candidate vowed to lead the council and direct the city staff on different policy issues.
"Everyone will be accountable to do their job, and do it at council direction," Rey said.
As a member of the current council, Jacobson was more pointed in his criticism, arguing that the council's inability to effectively tackle issues has led to too much delegation to the city manager and staff.
"It's easy for a mayor or city council member to sit back and say 'City manager, you handle that.' 'City staff, you handle that for us,' " Jacobson said. "I think that's what got us into the situation we're in. Mismanagement, bad management, bad decisions, poor planning. It's where we are."
DeKalb mayor candidates talk crime, housing
DeKALB – Questions about public safety and economic development ruled the night as DeKalb's mayoral candidates gave their thoughts to members of the DeKalb Area Rental Association.


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As part of our mission statement, the BioMicro Center is designed to assist users in computational challenges. One key aspect of this is providing our users with the bioinformatics support to interpret their data readily and to assist them in analyzing data for publications and grants. To accomplish this, the BioMicro Center has a team of informatics scientists on staff able to assist labs with experience in a broad number of methodologies. Bioinformatics consultations are available by appointment for CORE lab members. Bioinformatic projects are undertaken by the BioMicro Center on a collaborative basis. Prices for Bioinformatics support are available.
Vincent Butty, MD, PhD
Dr. Vincent Butty is the newest member of the core. He is an MD/PhD with a strong background in RNA sequencing methodologies and immunology. Vincent obtained his MD at the University of Geneva and received a PhD in Immunology from Harvard where he studied the population genetics of autoimmune diseases such as Type-I diabetes. Vincent did his postdoctoral training here at MIT in Dr. Chris Burge's group, where he investigated the regulation of RNA processing across a broad variety of disease contexts using RNA sequencing. In the core, Vincent is currently involved in the analysis of long non-coding RNAs, the role of chromatin in development and the response to genotoxic and infectious stresses. Specialties
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Ryan has recently joined the Biomicro center as a bioinformatics scientist with a strong background in genetic and genomic analysis. He received his undergraduate education in computer science from the College of Idaho. He received his PhD in biomedical informatics from the University of Utah where he studied genetic influences on breast cancer. Ryan then did his postdoctoral work at the Mayo Clinic where he modeled relationships between DNA sequence variation, gene expression and cytotoxicity traits for pharmacogenomic biomarker discovery. He has been involved in a range of projects including Chip-seq motif finding, de novo mutation identification, and the role of transcription at enhancer sites.
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Huiming is the longest serving member of the team, joining just over a year ago. He received his PhD in Physics from Jilin University in China before working for nearly a decade as a senior research associate in bioinformatics at the University of Toronto where he supported the work of Dr. Charlie Boone in studying cellular networks and pathways using synthetic genetic array (SGA) and synthetic dosage lethal (SDL) screens. Huiming has significant experience in deriving interaction networks and in creating statistical scoring algorithms and databases. His current collaborative projects involve the study of functional interaction networks from time course data and generation of genome-scale metabolic pathway models. Specialties
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If you are looking for informatics support, the easiest way to begin is with an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with a brief description of your experiment. One of the members of our informatics staff will reach out to you to schedule a one on one meeting. This meeting is free for CORE lab members. Once an experimental plan is approved we will begin work on your project, checking in with you at regular intervals to be sure the project is on track. The project can be paused at any time by the researcher.
Significant portions of the informatics staff salaries are paid by direct support from faculty members. As such, these "sponsors" of the informatics groups have priority access on their projects. Additional blocks of time are reserved for each informaticist to work on projects that are billed hourly with priority given to CORE labs. A small number of hours may remain to assist non-MIT labs with data analysis but such projects are always considered low priority. Labs interested in sponsoring the informatics staff at the BioMicro Center should contact Stuart Levine.
Informatics projects through the BioMicro Center are considered collaborative efforts. Publications resulting from statistic or bioinformatics work frequently merit co-authorship: the order of authorship is not of concern. Placing BioMicro Center staff on publications significantly increases our ability to obtain financial support through grants and is helpful in the renewal process for CEHS and KI core grants.
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Morris took the lead before it made an out Tuesday and held it to the finish in an 11-4 home victory over Rochelle Tuesday afternoon.
For much of the game, however, the Redskins were not as comfortable as those parameters would seem to stipulate. Their 3-0 lead after two innings nearly evaporated in the third, when the Hubs scored twice, and when Rochelle got two players on base in its half of the fourth, Morris looked to be in trouble.
Morris reliever Christian Niewinski, who came on for starter Nick Evola after a hard-hit ball by the Hubs sent Evola to the hospital in the first inning, got out of that jam. In the bottom of the fourth, some Rochelle errors set the table for Morris catcher Jake Capko, who hit a grand slam — the first of his career — to make the home team much more comfortable.
"With the bases loaded, I knew we had to have a hard-hit ball," Capko said. "I got the kind of pitch I was looking for, a fastball on the outside part of the plate. I hit it out in front, but I got a lot of it, and it got up into the wind and carried out of here. ... When the wind is blowing out like this, it's always a good day to hit."
Evola struck out the first two batters he faced before getting ahead 0-2 on Rochelle's Luke Manning. The next pitch was drilled and hit Evola squarely. In obvious pain, Evola was clearly conscious in the immediate aftermath of the incident; he tried to get up before being instructed to stay down by Morris coach Todd Kein. The game was delayed until an ambulance arrived, and Evola eventually walked to it on his own with EMTs by his side.
"We don't know anything now, which obviously has made getting to now very difficult," Kein said when asked about Evola after the game. "You obviously hope for the best. He was alert when it happened, which was a good sign.
But it's extremely difficult to have that happen and then have to go back to playing baseball. I'm proud of how our guys handled an extremely difficult situation."
Niewinski, who pitched an inning at Rochelle in Monday's season opener, struck out T.J. Maynard to get out of that inning and navigated through a quiet second. Rochele touched him up for two runs on three hits in the third and added a pair of unearned runs in the fifth. Niewinski worked 4 2/3 innings in total, with a line that included six hits, two walks and four strikeouts.
"I definitely didn't expect to pitch after three batters. That was a tough thing to see. I don't really know what else to say about it," Niewinski said. "I couldn't let the team down. You have to go out there and throw strikes and keep them in position to win."
Brock Kukman pitched the final two innings for Morris. He limited the Hubs to a lone hit.
"That's one of the toughest spots a pitcher can be put into," Kein said of Niewinski's outing. "He was the obvious choice. When what happened happened, Christian was the first one out of the dugout, saying he was ready to go in and do the job. And he did it. Brock also did an excellent job behind him. It was good to see those pitchers step up when we needed them."
Jason Matteson and Trevor Lines both singled and scored for the Redskins in the bottom of the first inning. In the second, they plated another run when Grant Schluntz came home on a Lines RBI groundout.
Grant Davis, Preston Miracle and Ryan Borgstrom all came home on the Capko slam in the fourth; Matteson and Lines had already scored in that inning. Schluntz added a sixth-inning RBI single to score courtesy runner Ricky Pelnarsh, and the final Redskin run was scored by Ryan Bernickus later that inning on a passed ball.