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Mother Nature, Mike Zimmer and a Super Bowl scout teamed up to stop that naturally-occurring phenomenon known as quarterback Tom Brady on Sunday when the Patriots failed to score a touchdown for the first time since the second week of the 2009 season in Cincinnati's 13-6 drip-dry victory at sold-out Paul Brown Stadium.
But only Zimmer got a game ball.
It's the first time the Bengals have been 3-0 at home under head coach Marvin Lewis, the first time since 2001, and all three have come against Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks. It also kept them in a first place tie in the AFC North with Baltimore and Cleveland at 3-2.
When Brady got the ball back one last time at his own 35 with 1:48 left, thanks to a 57-yard tracer by punter
"He walked up to us before the game started and said, 'Hey Cook, Whit. Get ready because It's going to clear when we go to kick the ball off and then it's going to start raining late in the fourth quarter,' " Whitworth recalled. "And we were like, 'Yeah, sure. That sounds like a Coach's weather wish right there.' We were giving him a hard time and then sure enough."
But it was Zimmer, the Bengals defensive coordinator, who concocted a scheme that handcuffed the undefeated Patriots and their offense that has scored more than 500 points in each of the last three seasons by stonewalling Brady on 11 of 12 third downs, four sacks and eight hits. Brady came in with 52 straight games throwing a touchdown pass, two games shy of tying Drew Brees's NFL record of 54, but the only 53 he almost got Sunday was in passer rating at 52.2.
"Those guys had a doughnut today," Jones said with a shake of his head. "How hard is that?"
Jones denied Brady twice in the last 6:30.
The first came on third-and-goal from the 1 after backup linebacker
"I played through his hands. I was able to get it out of there I was so happy," Jones said. "Played it through his hands. I couldn't even see it. I saw when his hands went up, so I just reached for his arm."
But the big one came with 16 seconds left and Brady needing a TD for overtime from the Bengals 27. He went for one of his rookie receivers deep, but Jones leaped in front of Aaron Dobson, tapped the ball to himself and caught it as he went to the ground for his first interception since the second game of 2010.
"Surprised? No, but I was very happy," Jones said. "I was on the ground and I was like, 'Thank you, Jesus.' "
Jones tapped it into the air because he said the rain had made his gloves useless to catch.
"It landed right where I wanted it to," Jones said. "I couldn't squeeze it. Did you see the monsoon? The gloves were gone."
This is the kind of taut game it was. Bengals running back
No one wanted to get very specific about Zimmer's scheme. Jones would only say it was "unbelievable … we were in the right place at the right time."
"We didn't disguise anything," said WILL linebacker
The plan seemed to consist mainly of changing up the looks, making sure the cornerbacks pressed and didn't slack off, and playing sound. The Bengals knew they couldn't fool Brady. It was a win that began and ended up front with a defensive line down
Tom Terrific didn't look like his Cali cool self.
"When you're playing against those guys up front, you have to think a little bit more because they're coming," Jones said. "You see there were a couple of plays where I got pushed by and I was saying, 'They've got to get there,' and they got there."
The plan began up front.
"The plan was to hit (Brady). That was it. The plan was to hit him," said Gilberry, who got Brady twice and also hit him three times but was also called for roughing on the next to last play of the game. "I got over-aggressive on one play. I understand the referee has a job to do. They have to protect the quarterback and I have to be more disciplined in the way I attack the quarterback. I'm not going to say it was a bad call, but it is what it is."
Gilberry got a battlefield promotion with Michael Johnson's concussion and made his first start as a Bengal and fourth of his career. Rookie end
"He did a great job," Gilberry said. "There wasn't a drive in the game where I didn't feel like could do my job 100 percent. We had a great week of practice. We understood where we had to be."
Gilberry came into the league undrafted with the 2008 Giants, where his fellow end, Umenyiora, took him under his wing and they've been close ever since. It was Umenyiora and his Giants defensive front that were the keys in both Super Bowl victories over the Pats, and so Gilberry picked his brain again this week.
"He gave me some great ball tips. Everything he told me came to fruition," Gilberry said. "He gave me some great tips on Brady. Like when he was in shotgun and like when was under center and they all held true. I look up to (Umenyiora). I can call him any time or day and ask him questions. It didn't just start. He's been mentoring me for years."
Which is what Zimmer has been doing for this defense for six years and while this may not be his signature moment, it's close. He also got a game ball three days after wife Vikki died in 2009, when the Bengals beat the Ravens in the last minute.
It has become a theme of the 2013 season: the defense bails out the offense. The Bengals shouldn't have won Sunday because they turned it over twice, once in the red zone, got their quarterback sacked four times, and committed seven penalties to none for the Patriots.
"It was a great accomplishment. It was a great job by the defensive players. The coaches, led by (Zimmer)," Lewis said. "I had never given anybody a game ball before, I guess maybe once before, but I did give Coach Zimmer that ball. It's a hell of a deal."
Lewis did give out a game ball, but it was 10 years ago during his first season. He gave it to Bengals president Mike Brown after a win over the undefeated Chiefs. The Patriots were also undefeated in more ways than one. It was Cincinnati's first win in five tries over the Brady-Bill Belichick New England dynasty.
"Zim doesn't get emotional. He got a little smirk on him. It's good to see Zim laugh, because he's always so serious. He deserves it," Burfict said. "He called some great defensive calls out there, and he just knew what we were expecting from them and called great plays.
"I can't really explain the plan, but coach Zimmer knew exactly what they were going to run and called great defensive plays. We executed, and hats off to him ... (the game ball) is meaningful. I'm with him every day. He yells at me. it's a love-hate thing between us. Every play that he calls I make sure everybody is on the same page because I'm out there playing for him. I'm not really playing for me or my team. I'm playing out there just for him and making sure I execute the call he wants and at the end of the day you know the whole defense is good."


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C. Wayne Shuff, 85, of Fort Wayne, IN, and a native of Huntington, IN, died Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, at his home.
Mr. Shuff was employed by General Motors Fisher Body, in Marion, for 37 years, retiring in 1992. He was a member of St. Peter's First Community Church, of Huntington, and a 50-year member of Amity Masonic Lodge 483, York Rite Chapter 27.
He was born in Huntington to Bennie and Lucille Shuff. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Frances Shuff.
Additional survivors include four daughters, Connie Tahtinen and Kelly Tahtinen, both of Atlanta, GA; Beth (Derek) Singer, of Indianapolis; and Brett (James Roberson) Shuff, of Fort Wayne; a son, Kent (Steve Fennimore) Shuff, of Muncie; six grandchildren, Todd Tahtinen, Gunnar Tahtinen III and Alexis Arden Tahtinen, all of Atlanta, GA; Heather Tahtinen, of San Francisco, CA; and Lauren Roberson and Adrienne Roberson, both of Fort Wayne; and a great-granddaughter.
Calling is Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., with a Masonic service at 7:30 p.m., at D.O. McComb and Sons Pine Valley Park Funeral Home, 1320 E. Dupont Rd., Fort Wayne. A service will be held at the funeral home on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, at 1 p.m., with Rev. Richard Strick officiating. Burial will be at Gardens of Memory Cemetery, Huntington County.
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On the latest edition of the cable television show, "Your Voice," Senator Jack M. Martins discussed the proposed New York Cosmos soccer stadium for the south lot of Belmont Park in Elmont. The proposal represents a significant investment in the community. It will bring thousands of new jobs to the area as well as tax revenue with the potentional to spark further economic development for the area.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara women's basketball team will be accepting new and used shoes during the Saturday, Feb. 27 game to donate to Soles4Souls Inc. in an effort to help out the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. This is part of the Gauchos Give community outreach program.
A bin will be set up at the front entrance of the Thunderdome for fans to donate shoes for the cause. UCSB's coaches and players will also donate shoes directly to the cause. The Gaucho coaching staff will wear sneakers on the sidelines on Saturday to bring awareness to the cause.
For anyone who cannot bring a donation to Saturday's game, the bin to collect shoes will be placed inside the Intercollegiate Athletics building's Hall of Champions during the week before sending the shoes to Soles4Souls.
Soles4Souls accepts all types of shoes: athletic, running, dress, sandals, pumps, heels, work boots, cleats, dance, flip-flops - just as long as they are new or gently worn.
"This is a great opportunity for our team and our fans to help out the victims in Haiti," said assistant coach Jaida Williams, who is spearheading the operation for the UCSB women's basketball team. "It is also our way of bringing awareness to the tragedy in Haiti. We are hoping to help in any way we can to those who suffered."
Every 23 seconds, Soles4Souls Inc. gives away another pair of shoes to someone in need. The shoe charity has earned glowing endorsements from Hollywood stars and professional athletes, but the people who truly make the non-profit organization effective are those who partner with Soles4Souls in its mission of changing the world one pair at a time.
Saturday's game will also honor the five Gaucho seniors in a pregame ceremony and at halftime, UCSB Athletics will reveal the final "Legend of the `Dome."
Saturday's game, at 2 p.m., will be Senior Day, when UCSB bids adieu to seniors Jordan Franey, Ariana Gnekow, Jessie Goble, Meagan Williams and Chris Spencer. It will also be the unveiling of the fifth legend in the inaugural "Legends of the `Dome" game as UCSB honors another member of its storied women's basketball history.
And, with Cal Poly in the Thunderdome, the Gauchos and Mustangs renew the Blue-Green rivalry in a series for sustainability.
The athletics rivalry between UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly has grown in recent years, and now the schools plan to put their competition to good use.
As the Gauchos and Mustangs battle it out on the field, diamond, court, and in the pool, the Big West rivals will seek to make fans and students aware of their campuses' recycling and sustainability efforts. The eco-slant to the rivalry fits the colors of sustainability (blue and green) as well as those of UCSB (blue) and Cal Poly (green).
The Blue-Green Rivalry is based on the results of the 16 common sports that the schools compete in. To see the points system and updated rivalry standings, click here.
The creative angle of using games to promote the campuses' sustainability and recycling efforts is the first of its kind in college athletics. To learn more about sustainability efforts at UCSB, click here.
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Virginia Tech captured its first Atlantic Coast Conference wrestling meet championship, outscoring runner-up Virginia 95.5 to 90.5 in the six-team meet.
Needing a victory in the meet's final bout in College Park, Md., to wrap up the heavyweight (285-pound) title and the team crown, David Marone came through with an eight-point triumph.
The other Hokies who won weight classes were Jarrod Garnett (125), Nick Brascetta (149), Jesse Dong (157) and Pete Yates (165). Garnett was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler.
The Cavaliers' lone ACC champion was freshman George DiCamillo at 133 pounds. U.Va.'s runners-up were Derek Valenti (149), Jedd Moore (157), Nick Sulzer (165), Jon Fausey (174), Stephen Doty (184) and Mike Salopek (197).
CAA wrestling tournament:
Though Old Dominion wasn't eligible to compete for the Colonial Athletic Association team tournament championship in Boston because of its impending move out of the CAA, the Monarchs were eligible to compete for automatic NCAA tournament berths.
Chris Mecate (141 pounds) and Billy Curling (174) won their weight classes to gain automatic bids. Alexander Richardson, the runner-up at 149, received an at-large berth.
Rob Deutsch (125) and Brett Miller (165) joined Richardson as runner-up.
Indoor track and field
Virginia Tech's Alexander Ziegler won the NCAA championship in the weight throw, firing it 22.46 meters in Fayetteville, Ark.
Also, the Hokies' Darrell Wesh set a school record of 6.57 seconds in the 60-meter dash to reach the final. ...
CNU freshman Dominique Torres placed 13th in the triple jump at the NCAA D-III championships in Naperville, Ill. Torres leaped 14.2 meters (about 46 feet, 7 inches) on his second attempt. Torres was one of only three freshmen in the triple jump.
Men's lacrosse:
Rob Pannell found Steve Mock in the crease with 13 seconds left for a goal that lifted No. 3 Cornell (5-0) to a 12-11 victory over No. 8 Virginia (5-2) before 2,885 at Klockner Stadium.
The Big Red won six of the game's last seven face-offs and finished the game on a 5-2 scoring run.
Nick O'Reilly led U.Va. with three goals.
CNU, seventh in Division III, won two games at the Leadoff Classic in Columbus, Ga. The Captains beat DePauw 5-1 and Fontbonne 7-4. ...
No. 23 Virginia Tech (15-2) saw its 12-game winning streak with a 3-1 loss to Nevada Las Vegas. ...
Hampton (10-11) picked up its second win in the Lady Pirate Classic, beating Canisius 4-1.
Diamond Ponds batted 2-for-2 for HU, and Jailynn Jackson pitched a complete game for the victory. HU has won five of its last six contests. ...
Norfolk State lost three games at Campbell's tournament in Buies Creek, N.C., including a pair Saturday.
The Spartans (4-12) fell 11-1 to Morehead State and 4-1 to Northern Kentucky.
Alina Moriarty was 2-for-2 against Morehead State, which broke a 1-1 tie by scoring 10 times in the bottom of the third. Against Northern Kentucky, NSU leadoff batter Heather Dunniing was 2-for-2.
Men's tennis:
No. 54 Old Dominion (10-3) won its sixth straight match with a 7-0 home victory over Texas-San Antonio, one of its future Conference USA rivals.
Women's lacrosse:
Christine Rea scored five goals to lead ODU past American 15-11.


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Optional Death of Adam Dimayev
@Orto Dogge: So you are saying that you actually saw Dimayev fighting against you in the same appearance as in the mugshot? 'Cause I passed it ten or more times as well, and I don't think that a hired goon would surrender to you instead of his boss (and therefore have an even slightly more significant role). What I am trying to say is, is that Dimayev may actually have a different design in-game. -- Master Sima Yi 16:30, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
- No, he has the same design as in the mugshot. And if you don't let him go to second floor, he will stay on the first floor and get cover behind the car. If you'll kill all his guards, he'll start to say you something about rotten government, but will not surrender. BUT one of his goons always surrender if he's alone and Adam already killed. I saw it many times. If you never saw Adam personally surrender, how can you argue about it??? I guess, question is closed. Adam must die. Orto Dogge 16:38, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
- "If you never saw Adam personally surrender, how can you argue about it???" "What I am trying to say is, is that Dimayev may actually have a different design in-game." You just ignored that didn't you? And you just claim to have seen Dimayev. And you just close a discussion all by yourself by just saying your own opinion is fact.
- Though you seem certain of your opinion. I've seen your other work, and judging by that, I don't think you would just make this up. I believe you. NOW the discussion can be closed. -- Master Sima Yi 16:45, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
Oh, thank you. I didn't want to insult you, sorry. You always can see Adam with the same design as on the mugshot inside the booth on the first floor. Watch his path while on the mission and you will see, that he is very hard person to discuss with and never surrender. Just like other users of this wiki.--Orto Dogge 16:52, April 29, 2010 (UTC)


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This summer, Wednesdays take a walk on the wild side. Starting July 16, My Wild Affair shares extraordinary stories of the bonds between humans and their animal companions at 7pm and Sex in the Wild tracks the reproductive behaviors of four fascinating species at 9pm on PBS North.
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July 16
7pm - The Elephant Who Found a Mom
Learn how the death of a baby elephant led to the rescue of more than 150 elephant orphans.
9pm - Elephants
Travel to Africa to explore the unique reproduction challenges of the largest animal on land.
July 23
7pm - The Ape Who Went to College
Delve into the story of an orangutan raised as a human child on an American university campus.
9pm - Orangutans
Journey to Borneo with Joy and Mark to explore the reproduction challenges of our orangutan cousins.
July 30
7pm - The Rhino Who Joined the Family
Join the search for clues to the fate of an orphaned rhinoceros brought up in a wildlife vet's home.
9pm - Kangaroos
Join Joy and Mark in Australia to uncover the reproductive secrets of the pouch-wearing marsupials.
August 6
7pm - The Seal Who Came Home
Follow a 25-year human/seal friendship that weathered every kind of challenge, including blindness.
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Learn how animals that breathe air manage to mate, give birth and raise their young underwater.


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... GDP is not the be all and end all of economic success. There are other ways to measure the progress of a society. One way to think about economies is as the aggregate of three sorts of capital: physical (infrastructure and the means of production), human (skills and education) and natural capital. While the first two are renewable (some argue inexhaustible), natural resources such as fossil fuels, soil, biodiversity, and even forests may be depleted, sometimes permanently.
The Inclusive Wealth Indicator, which is scheduled to launch later this year, captures economic growth as the aggregate of a country's wealth including its natural resources. "Our goal is to provide national governments with a bi-annual report to assess transition to the so-called green economy, to create productive and sustainable economic bases for the future," says Anantha Duraiappah, executive director of UNU-IHDP in a release.


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Menzies Centre for Health Policy new appointment
18 September 2013
The Menzies Centre for Health Policy and HCF Research Foundation have joined forces to attract Associate Professor Adam Elshaug, an academic with an increasing reputation in the field of disinvestment in low value health care.
The Menzies Centre for Health Policy and the HCF Research Foundation are pleased to announce the appointment of Associate Professor Adam Elshaug as the HCF Research Foundation Principal Research Fellow and NHMRC Sidney Sax Public Health Fellow at the University of Sydney. Associate Professor Elshaug's appointment is made possible by generous support from the HCF Research Foundation.
Professor Andrew Wilson, Director of MCHP said: "The Menzies Centre is very excited about this appointment. Associate Professor Elshaug has an increasing reputation in the field of policies related to reducing waste and optimising value in health by promoting care which is effective, appropriate and efficient.
"In essence the delivery of the right care at the right time in the right place. It is highly topical and important given the concerns in health systems around the world to improve the value for money spent in the health care sector and with improving patient outcomes."
Professor Wilson is confident that Associate Professor Elshaug's expertise will enhance the academic profile and competitive standing of the University of Sydney in health policy and health service research.
About Associate Professor Elshaug: Adam Elshaug is an internationally recognised health services and policy researcher with expertise in reducing waste and optimizing value in health care. He was a 2010-11 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow based at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in Washington DC. From mid-2011 to mid-2013 he then served as NHMRC Sidney Sax Public Health Fellow in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston. In parallel, he became The Commonwealth Fund's Inaugural Visiting Fellow for 2012-13. Previously he was Senior Research Fellow in the School of Population Health, University of Adelaide, where he earned his MPH and PhD. In addition to a strong program of primary research, Associate Professor Elshaug works closely with government and third party payers in health care to design and implement reforms aimed at optimizing heath care safety and value.
About the Menzies Centre for Health Policy (MCHP): The Menzies Centre for Health Policy is the leading scholarly voice on health policy in Australia. It operates from nodes at the University of Sydney and Australian National University (ANU) and brings together scholars and practitioners with broad expertise in health policy, economics and health services research.
About the HCF Research Foundation: In June 2000, HCF established The HCF Health and Medical Research Foundation, a not-for-profit charitable trust established to encourage health service research for the benefit of HCF contributors and the public generally. The Foundation considers the main goals of health services research are to identify the most effective ways to organize, manage, finance, and deliver high quality care; reduce medical errors; and improve patient safety.
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Racing, the kind that occurs on tracks, doesn't happen much during New England winters. There is a annual off-season fete, however, that salutes the region's very best in motorsport. The New England Auto Racing Hall of Fame will enshrine its latest inductees on January 25, 2009, joining the 102 luminaries already so honored.
The NEAR Class of 2009 numbers eight: The fabled Vermont stock car champion Bobby Dragon, four-decade supermodified winner Paul Richardson, chassis genius Rollie Lindblad, New Hampshire Motor Speedway builder and all-around old car guy Bob Bahre, winning modified owner Art Barry, the ageless John Fitch and Maine racing pioneer Jim McConnell, whose involvement in the sport surpasses 60 years.
This is a huge event, especially if you're a New England native or transplant. NEAR's induction is sited at the LaRenaissance Banquet Hall in East Windsor, Connecticut, north of Hartford. Tickets are set to go on sale November 1 on the NEAR Web site.
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R. Scott Durcanin flies the OHIO flag on top of Mount McKinley in Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. At 20,237 feet, Mckinley is the highest mountain peak in North America.
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Durcanin and his daughter, Arielle, junior at the Art Institute of California in San Francisco, visit Notre Dame in Paris, France. The pair shares a love for travelling the globe.
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While surfing the California coastline and climbing Mount Everest and Kilimanjaro, R. Scott Durcanin, College of Business 1985 graduate, asked himself, "What have I done to give back in a meaningful way?"
And so, in appreciation for his years of "critical development" as an Ohio University student, he has established The Scott Durcanin Sales Centre Endowed Scholarship Fund, which will benefit students accepted into the Schey Sales Centre Sales Certificate program in the College of Business. The Centre aims to be the most transformational and student-centered collegiate sales education experience in the country.
"The College of Business and the Sales Centre are developing their students in a very specific, targeted way—I like that," said Durcanin, current vice president and senior financial consultant at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. "These programs will put students about 3 years ahead of fellow graduates. Because of the interactive environment, they are getting real world experience; they are going to learn a lot more from that collaborative approach than they would studying alone with the door closed."
Earlier this year Durcanin paid a visit to Ohio University's College of Business and heard presentations from students involved with the Schey Sales Centre. He left Athens feeling inspired by them and was excited to give back to a program that has grown so much in the past 30 years.
"They probably wouldn't have had me [as a sales centre candidate] in the current day, that's for sure," He laughed. "The caliber of students and impressiveness of the program and everything they are doing today—I was just really blown away. The level of professionalism and dedication of and for these students is really inspiring."
While touring the Schey Sales Centre, Durcanin was surprised to see students in suits on a Friday afternoon, delivering polished presentations to a full-house audience.
"My whole career has been in sales. Where these students are professionally—while still in school—will really reduce their years of trial-and-error experience. I didn't think that this level of dedication could exist in college. It impressed the heck out of me," he said.
The Schey Sales Centre certificate program is an 18-credit hour cross-disciplinary classroom experience, with a mandatory 300-hour sales internship component. Approximately 200 candidates are selected for the program each school year following a competitive selection process, with an overall acceptance rate of 60 percent.
Durcanin is originally from Akron, Ohio. Following graduation, he moved to Miami, Florida, where he landed a position with 3M selling copiers door-to-door.
"That was a tough job," he said. "In fact, when I contacted Merrill Lynch on a sales call I said, 'if I can sell copiers door-to-door, I can sell anything!' They told me to win some awards and come back to them, so that is exactly what I did."
After 3M, Durcanin moved to San Francisco, where he joined Merrill Lynch & Co. as a financial consultant in 1989, and "really learned the business." Following Merrill Lynch, he became a regional director for Sterling Bank & Trust/Linsco Private Ledger (LPL), and that business developed into a private practice in New York City.
After nearly a decade of success with LPL, Durcanin sold his business to rejoin the corporate culture of collaboration. In 2005 he joined Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., as vice president and senior financial consultant, with a portfolio of clients waiting there for him. Today, Durcanin is consistently awarded the Circle of Excellence Award and is a member of multiple Chairman's Clubs.
Whether it is starting a business, climbing Cotopaxi in Ecuador, mountain biking or learning to surf—as far as Scott Durcanin is concerned, success comes with a can-do attitude.
"'Can't' is a word you've got to be allergic to. Whether it is professionally, or doing something crazy like attempting Everest, it can be done," he said. "I am a professional disruptor and it's my job to challenge the status quo."
Durcanin's gift is part of OHIO's The Promise Lives Campaign, which reached its goal of raising $450 million in support of students, faculty, programs, outreach and facilities in April—14 months ahead of the June 30, 2015 deadline. Having secured more than $464.4 million, the Campaign will continue through June 2015 and focus on increasing scholarship gifts.


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Apr 28, 2014
From staff reports
To further support the work/life balance for Ohio University staff members, the University encourages departments to offer staff members flexibility in their hours of work during the summer term. For further guidance, the departments are encouraged to refer to Policy 40.053, Flextime and Flexplace Scheduling to consider further options for Classified Staff and Policy 40.063, Flexible Work Schedule, Flexible Hours, and Flexplace for Administrators.
The Summer Hours Guidelines are as follows:
1. Departments are to be open during the normal University operating hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Departments with only one employee should collaborate with other departments to provide crossover coverage and ensure coverage during the University's hours of operation, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
2. Summer hours will begin the Monday after graduation, May 5, 2014, and end on the Friday prior to the beginning of fall semester, Aug. 22, 2014.
3. Work start times may be varied and staggered within departments to maintain University hours of operation. The one-hour lunch period may be reduced to a half-hour lunch.
4. Summer hours are intended to provide flexibility for staff members, but adherences to working a full shift is required.
5. Summer hours may be discontinued by the department for operational reasons prior to the official end date.
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Born January 21, 1929 in Rockland, Maine, Sprague grew up on nearby Islesboro. After graduating from Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine, in 1946, he entered the University of Maine as a journalism student. He was recognized for his talent in photography and won an Associated Press award for photo journalism.
After graduating in 1950, Sprague worked at the Bangor Evening Commercial newspaper, until joining the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict. Following his honorable discharge, he joined BAR in 1952 as assistant director-news bureau. In 1970, Sprague moved to the railroad's headquarters in Bangor where he was promoted to vice president public relations. He subsequently was named vice president personnel and public relations in 1981 and senior vice president in 1988.
During his 39-year career, he started the company magazine, The Maine Line, which received several national and international awards for excellence. After retiring, he wrote and published a collection of his best works, The Past is a Different Place, which mirrors his love of Aroostook County and the BAR people.


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Garrett Gomez has learned much in two rides on Grazen, the even-money morning line favorite for Saturday's $200,000 California Cup Classic presented by City National Bank.
"In a word, he's talented," said Gomez, who won his second straight Eclipse Award last year as the nation's outstanding jockey. "He's a completely different horse from the first time I rode him to the last time I rode him."
"Mike's done a great job with him just getting him to settle," Gomez continued, referring to Grazen's trainer, Mike Mitchell. "He's learned to be a race horse. The first time I rode him, he was very aggressive. He almost left me in the gate. He's pretty quick and I didn't know what to expect. I just went by his first race (10th after a slow start last Sept. 28). Nobody told me anything about him.
"His first race, he didn't show anything, but when I rode him the first time, he left the gate so hard, he just dragged me around the race track. He matured a lot the last time I rode him; he learned how to be a race horse. He's moving forward."
Grazen, a 3-year-old gray son of Benchmark, has a 4-1-0 record from six starts, with earnings of $245,400 for owner Nick Alexander of Los Angeles.
The field for the Classic, which is the sixth race on a 10-race program: Bold Chieftain, Russell Baze, 122, 5-2; Star Nicholas, Michael Baze, 119, 4-1; Grazen, Garrett Gomez, 117, 1-1; Lethal Heat, Alex Solis, 118, 7-2; Blackbriar, Brice Blanc, 112, 30-1; and One Chin Again, Rafael Bejarano, 111, 30-1.
Kieren Fallon will be in Southern California to ride Team Valor International and Gary Barber's Gitano Hernando in the Grade I Goodwood Stakes at 1 1/8 miles Oct. 10 in what is shaping up as a highly competitive field led by Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird and Santa Anita Derby and Travers winner Colonel John.
Fallon, based in England, rode the 3-year-old colt to a track record-breaking win two weeks ago going 1 1/16 miles on Polytrack at Wolverhampton for Newmarket-based trainer Marco Botti.
Fallon will ride Gitano Hernando in his final work at Newmarket on Saturday before the Hernando colt is sent to California on Tuesday. Fallon and Team Valor have combined previously to win the Group 3 Dee Stakes at Chester in England with Dr. Greenfield and the Grade 2 Mrs. Revere Stakes at Churchill Downs with River Belle.
"Team Valor likes Kieren and asked if he would ride the colt in California," said Botti. "Fallon was extremely complimentary of the colt after his win. He said he was very excited and said that the colt impressed him at Wolverhampton."
Gitano Hernando has run six times. After finishing sixth in his debut at two, he has three wins and two seconds. Two of his wins have come on Polytrack, one on turf. In his only stakes race, the chestnut was beaten a nose in the Group 3 Dee Stakes on grass at Chester.
Barry Irwin of Team Valor said, "Admittedly, it looks like we are putting the cart before the horse, but this colt may be special on synthetic surfaces. On turf he is probably a Grade 3 horse, but on the synthetics he may be better than that.
"The colt really wants a minimum of 10 furlongs in top company and has not even won a stakes. This is the colt we had earmarked for the Belmont Stakes until he was jarred on hard turf last May. We are bringing him out West to see how he acts on the Pro-Ride."
In other Goodwood news: Chip Woolley said Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird galloped two miles Thursday and will work "either Monday or Tuesday."
Probable for the 28th Goodwood: Chocolate Candy, Victor Espinoza; Colonel John, Garrett Gomez; Gitano Hernando, Fallon; Mine That Bird, Calvin Borel; Monzante, Joel Rosario; Parading, Rafael Bejarano; Richard's Kid, no rider, Tiago, Mike Smith, and Tres Borachos, Joe Talamo.
It Tiz has given trainer Mark Glatt good reason to think she will fare well in Sunday's Grade I Oak Leaf Stakes, a "Win and You're In" race at 1 1/16 miles that will entitle the winner to automatic entry to the $2 million Breeders' Cup Grey Goose Juvenile Fillies at 1 1/16 miles on Nov. 6 at Oak Tree.
The 2-year-old daughter of 2000 Horse of the Year Tiznow won her debut race, at Del Mar going 6 1/2 furlongs, then finished a creditable fourth in the Grade I Darley Debutante at seven furlongs on Sept. 5.
"I think she has a good style to get a distance," Glatt said. "Pedigree-wise, everything suggests she can go further. She ran in her sprint races like she'd appreciate more ground, and she trains like a filly with a lot of natural air. Hopefully, she'll improve quite a bit going a distance." It Tiz worked seven furlongs on Pro-Ride Saturday in 1:26.60.
"She had a perfect trip when she broke her maiden, but in the Debutante she kind of got trapped down inside from the eighth pole to the 16th pole," Glatt continued. "There was a spot to go through, but she was a little intimidated about running through there. She just needed the experience. If she had clear sailing throughout the stretch, she'd have been real close to winning."
Owners Allen and Susan Branch of Los Gatos paid $170,000 for It Tiz at the Keeneland yearling sales.
For the first time in its 40-year history, the Oak Tree Racing Association will institute a full menu of "Free Fridays" throughout its six-week meeting.
Tomorrow will mark the first of five "Free Fridays," which all will have a special first post time of 2 p.m. All fans attending Fridays will receive free general admission with the exception of the first day of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, Friday, Nov. 6.
In addition to free general admission, fans will be offered free box seats, while supplies last, along with $1 beers, sodas, hot dogs, popcorn and coffee.
"This promotion was a resounding success and extremely popular with our fans at the Santa Anita winter/spring meet and we're very confident it's going to be a big hit here at Oak Tree," said Oak Tree director and executive vice-president Sherwood Chillingworth.
"We also like the idea of two o'clock first post time," he added. "We feel this is going to make it easier for people who are getting off work to come out, have a good time and get their weekend off to an enjoyable start."
Oak Tree will offer advance wagering Saturday on the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
from Longchamp on Sunday. Wagering will be offered on several stakes from the Paris track, with the Arc going as race six.
On Sunday, Clockers' Corner will open for Arc wagering at 6:45 a.m., 30 minutes before the scheduled running of the Arc. In addition, simulcast sites will offer wagering at that time.
Also, HRTV will present live coverage of the prestigious Arc and additional races on the program. The $5.8 million Arc, the richest race in Europe, will be headlined by one of Thoroughbred racing's brightest performers, Sea the Stars. The five-time Group 1 winner is expected to be the odds-on choice in a big field slated to go postward in the 11/2-mile turf race.
HRTV's Sunday coverage will begin at 6 a.m., with estimated post time for the Arc slated for 7:15 a.m. here. HRTV will show a number of other outstanding races on the Longchamp card, including a pair of Group 1 events.
FINISH LINES: Bob Baffert is cautiously optimistic about the chances of his unbeaten colt, Lookin At Lucky, going a distance for the first time in Sunday's Grade I Norfolk Stakes at 1 1/16 miles. "I think he's going to be OK," Baffert said. "He's going two turns for the first time, so we'll find out. You never know until they go two turns." Lookin At Lucky, owned by Mike Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman, won the Grade I Del Mar Futurity at seven furlongs last out, coming from seventh after breaking from the rail to win by a length. Baffert will be seeking his fifth Norfolk victory. He won it with Souvenir Copy (1997), Flame Thrower (2000), Kafwain (2002) and Roman Ruler (2004) . . . Richard Migliore said he plans to start riding full time at Oak Tree next Wednesday. Agent Craig O'Bryan has his book . . . Todd Pletcher will wait on a decision about the Breeders' Cup Classic for Quality Road until after the Florida Derby winner runs in Saturday's Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational at Belmont Park. "I don't know," Pletcher said by phone Thursday morning. "That would be a little premature to say. We're going to go in the Gold Cup first." Pletcher also said he would wait until after Saturday's Vosburgh Stakes at Belmont before firming up plans for Munnings, but added he will have a string at Santa Anita during the Oak Tree meet under the direction of assistant Mike McCarthy . . . Dennis O'Neill, brother and associate of trainer Doug O'Neill, said come-backing Lava Man is scheduled to work four furlongs tomorrow at Hollywood Park . . . Victor Espinoza will be at Hoosier Park Saturday to ride Swaps Stakes winner Misremembered for Baffert in the Grade II $500,000 Indiana Derby at 1 1/16 miles.


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2010 volleyball
Beavers take down Earlham and Hiram
Bluffton moves to 16-5 with wins over Earlham and Hiram
October 9, 2010
By: Erin Oberly, sports information assistant
Earlham box score I Hiram box score
RICHMOND, Ind. - The Bluffton University Beavers rolled to victory on Saturday, October 9 when they defeated HCAC foe Earlham College in three sets, 25-13, 25-21, 25-15. Each player saw action as the Beavers increased their record to 15-5 overall and 3-1 in conference play.
The Beavers next opponent will be HCAC foe Transylvania University on Friday, October 15 at 7 p.m at home. They then host another conference opponent the following day in Founders Hall when they welcome Hanover College on Saturday, October 16 at 1 p.m.


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Bad Hotel Review
Tower defense is one genre that has traditionally worked well on iOS for a number of years. Whereas many genres beg for traditional controls, touch screen interfaces are arguably the best way to manipulate tower defense games. There is a certain intuition that comes along with using your finger to place your units and defenses over using a 10+ button controller. Bad Hotel is a unique twist on conventions, but does it do enough different to warrant a spot next to Fieldrunners and Plants vs. Zombies on your home screen?
Bad Hotel kicks off by introducing its inconsequential story. You play the role of a businessman trying to establish your hotel in an area that is dominated by the 'Texas Tyrant.' Plotting to ensure you don't get your feet underneath you, this cantankerous guy is hell bent on throwing all kinds of hazards at your hotel to see it blown to bits. Instead of simply worrying about making money, you must also fend off the relentless attacks of the tyrant.
"All our rooms have a lovely view of your impending death."
Each level starts you off with a core building that you build off. You can opt to add rooms and/or weapons to fend off attacks from the tyrant. The top of the screen charts length of the level and oncoming waves. We enjoyed the risk reward aspect of the action. If you build rooms, you can earn more money to pocket or invest in weapons. Should decide to focus on artillery, you will not net as much money since no-one wants to check into a room that's filled with weapons.
On the topic of weapons, each of them has unique properties. You can invest in guns, double-barrel guns, ice bombs, and mines amongst other items. There are roughly 5-7 levels in each stage, and some interesting boss battles await you.
An element that is being heavily promoted in the marketing of Bad Hotel is the music. As you place rooms and launch weapons, musical cues and sound effects come into the equation. Everything makes a sound, and listening with the backdrop of a very art deco landscape coalesces into something unique, something different. There will be folks that are turned off by the highly stylized look and weirdness of it all, but we are fans of the visual/audio experience.
"We're happy to have you as our guest, but please do not attempt to make love to our hotel."
As a hybrid of tower defense and music rhythm, Bad Hotel mostly gets it right. However, there are some mechanical flaws in the game. Placing hotel units and weapons exactly where we want, for example, is a hit-and-miss proposition. Since you can build your hotel vertically or horizontally, we would find several gaps that look prime for new development only to see a placement that wasn't where we expected it to go. That breaks a long-standing requirement of the tower defense genre for us. Also, there's little incentive to keep coming back once you blow through the levels in just a few hours. There are no connected leaderboards, shareable levels, or any social hooks to extend the life of the game.
There is much more good than bad in this game. Bad Hotel is a clever take on a genre that has countless representatives on the App Store. If you are up for an interesting graphics style, cool music, serviceable mechanics, and a silly story, look no further.


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On July 15th the latest Android super-phone was released by Motorola and Verizon Wireless. All hail the Droid X. The release was not without controversy though. The Droid X, while greatly raising the bar for Android phones in general, does so at the expense of the very power users and community that made the original Droid the gotta-have phone it became. Alienating this group may have far reaching consequences for Motorola.
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RE[2]: Don't freakin buy the damned thing then
by LighthouseJ on Wed 21st Jul 2010 12:12 UTC in reply to "RE: Don't freakin buy the damned thing then"
To use your own argument against you: if you don't like articles like this, then simply "don't freakin read the damned thing"!
I used this argument just previously, below this in the threaded list.
The logical error with your argument is that if we didn't read the article, then you'd still complain that we didn't read the article in the first place and thus wouldn't have any ground to discuss on.


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More than 350 people came out to compete in the second annual PDX Cartathlon!
*Complete photo album coming soon*
Working in teams, Portlanders raced around the city deciphering riddles and performing food-cart challenges.
City buses were packed with Cartathlon participants in costumes, including the Anchorman-inspired Action News Team and the winner of the costume contest Cirque Du Souffle.
After four hours of action, the top four teams went head-to-head in a deal or no deal meets Jeopardy and Double Dare final challenge to determine who would win the grand prize of free cart food for a year and a pair of Keen shoes for each member of the team.
Best team name went to "I Sharted When I Carted," which won a gift pack from Secret Aardvark Trading Company.
A big thank you goes to Big-Ass Sandwiches, EuroTrash, Flavourspot, Grilled Cheese Grill, Koi Fusion, Oregon Ice Works, Potato Champion, Whiffie's Fried Pies and all our volunteers who made it possible!
Cartathlon was generously supported by: Keen Shoes, Red Bull, Secret Aardvark Trading Co., Google Places, Hop Works Organic Brewing, Brewvana, Kind Healthy Snacks and Food Carts Portland.
Team results:
1st Place: The Dirty Ashleys
2nd Place: Sloppy Jerry's
3rd Place: Who Carted?
4th Place: Carte Asada
Top 25 Teams:
Who Carted? 69481
Dirty Ashley 67992
Carte Asada 67881
Sloppy Jerry's 66642
Ramblin Rod's Bad Touch Bunch 59571
Fashionably Late by Jorge 56071
Radagascar 54071
Dukes of Pancetta 53802
The Breakfast al la Cart 53322
The Shart Sharks 52371
Cart's Angels 52111
Gluttons for Punishment 51361
Tenderloins 51151
Cirque du Souffle 46801
Deliberate Divas 46681
Tarts n Assets 46151
Five Little Puglets 44681
Hell's Bells 44341
Captain Beefcart and his Magic Ham 43351
Fu Man Chew 37221
Carts of Darkness 35591
Broken Carted 33851
'Til Death Do Us Cart 31721
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Thanks to Cart Compass PDX, we've got the photos you submitted throughout the day.
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Onde estão os catastrofistas? Eis aqui mais uma evidência de que o mundo não vai acabar!
E ela vem de um dos mais respeitados economistas americanos, C. Fred Bergsten. Vejam o que ele escreveu recentemente no Financial Times!
Trade Has Saved America from Recession
by C. Fred Bergsten, Peterson Institute
Op-ed in the Financial Times
June 30, 2008
© Financial Times
The global economy has clearly decoupled from the United States, and world growth remains close to 4 percent in spite of the absence of any increases in domestic US demand. Continued expansion abroad, especially in the emerging market economies, has in fact cushioned the slowdown and so far prevented recession in the United States. Hence we are also experiencing the first episode in history of reverse coupling, in which the rest of the world pulls the United States forward rather than the opposite.
The most striking feature of the current global economic situation is that the United States is the only major country that is seriously contemplating recession and that has adopted aggressive expansionary policies to combat that risk. Most other countries are more worried about inflation than slower growth. Many are experiencing reduced growth, to be sure, but part of their slowing is a natural cyclical reaction to four years of near-record global expansion, at more than 4½ percent from 2004 to 2007, and the need to focus on price stability. The additional losses because of the housing and credit crises in the United States amount only to a couple of tenths of 1 percent in most areas, including Europe and Japan. It will reach a full percentage point or more only in the fastest growers such as China, where expansion will remain near 10 percent. Many of these cuts are in fact welcome as their central banks are tightening monetary policy rather than easing it.
Global growth is thus still likely to approach 4 percent in both 2008 and 2009 in spite of the sharp slowdown in its largest single economy. The emerging market economies, which now account for half of world output calculated at purchasing power parity exchange rates by the International Monetary Fund, are still expanding at 6–7 percent. Even the nearest neighbors of the United States—Canada and Mexico—are nowhere near recession and have altered their policies much less forcefully. In spite of the international transmission of substantial financial as well as real economic shocks from the United States, the traditional relationship where "the world catches cold when the United States sneezes" no longer holds.
The second striking feature is the reverse coupling of the global economy. Over the past two quarters, the United States has recorded positive growth at an annual rate of 0.8 percent (in spite of the pronouncements of many observers that recession had already set in). Its "net exports of goods and services," the gross domestic product equivalent of the current account balance, have strengthened at an annual rate of almost 1 percent of GDP during that period. Hence the totality of recent US expansion has been provided by the strengthening of its trade balance. Domestic demand has been falling, but the United States has been saved from recession by the rest of the world.
The improved US trade performance of the past two years is due partly to the substantial, if lagged, restoration of the country's price competitiveness as the dollar declined by a trade-weighted average of 25–30 percent since early 2002, reversing most of its excessive run-up during the previous seven years that produced unsustainable current account deficits exceeding 6 percent of GDP. Equally important, however, is the continued robust growth of the world economy. Every percentage point by which the rest of the world expands domestic demand faster than internal growth in the United States produces gains of about $50 billion (€32 billion, £25 billion) for the US external balance. Weighted by US exports, foreign growth exceeded US growth by about 2 percentage points in 2007 and will do so by an average of about 1.5 points this year and next as decoupling persists. Taken together, these currency and comparative growth factors have already improved the real US trade balance, and hence GDP, by almost $150 billion since 2006, with gains of another $150 billion or so likely through 2009. (The nominal US trade and current account deficits will not improve as much because of the sharp rise in the price of oil imports.)
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's new Economic Outlook projects that more than 80 percent of all US growth in 2008–09 will derive from continued strengthening of its external position. Exports have been climbing at an annual rate of about 8 percent, at least six times as fast as imports. Unless domestic demand takes an unexpected further fall in the quarters ahead, reverse coupling of the global economy will thus have prevented the US recession that was so widely predicted and feared. Presidential candidates and members of Congress who believe that the United States is losing from globalization should take note of this export-led growth and its creation of excellent new jobs, and recognize the folly of backing away from international trade at a time when it is providing critical gains for their country.
These international macroeconomic developments also provide another telling indication of the shifts in global economic power. As noted, the emerging market economies make up about half the world economy, so their growth of 6–7 percent assures reasonably strong world output increases even if there were no expansion at all in the rich countries. China alone accounts for 10 percent of the global total, so its annual expansion of 10 percent generates a full percentage point of world growth all by itself. The steadily rising diversification of global economic leadership is paying huge dividends to all its participants, most dramatically during this episode to the United States as export-led growth saves it from at least the worst ravages of its housing bubble and associated policy errors.


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This is what I wore to an Oktoberfest party today. I love the mustard color of the tights paired with the prettily printed jacket.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
This is what I wore to an Oktoberfest party today. I love the mustard color of the tights paired with the prettily printed jacket.
23 comments:
- monica burnett said...
perfect oktoberfest outfit! great tights!
- October 17, 2009 at 10:07 PM
- Laura Gerencser said...
Love this!! Especially the tights!!
- October 17, 2009 at 10:41 PM
- Dylana said...
I love your hair and your tights!
- October 17, 2009 at 11:31 PM
- piglet said...
Love the colours of the tights and jacket together.
- October 18, 2009 at 12:23 AM
- TIFFANY thegirlwithafeather said...
Your hair and outfit is absolutly adorable! I love it.
- October 18, 2009 at 1:50 AM
- Delightfully Tacky said...
I love all these colors together. I've been trying to obtain the perfect pair of mustard tights and have yet to lay my hands on some! These are wonderful!
- October 18, 2009 at 4:36 AM
- Suzanne said...
beautiful colors for fall!
- October 18, 2009 at 4:57 AM
- caramelizedvintage said...
Your hair ties in your entire outfit!
I love your tights with that printed blazer as well. It's a modern take on Oktoberfest and it works so well. :}
Cute booties too!
- October 18, 2009 at 6:19 AM
- simone! said...
Oh, those moccasins ♥
- October 18, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- Lexie said...
i agree, the hair really completes the look for me, and that jacket is just so pretty!
- October 18, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- Sarah Clarke Gaudet said...
What a perfect outfit for a perfect time of year. Love the color of your tights!
- October 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM
- junebabie said...
I'm very into that colour yellow lately. I really like your jacket, too. you always look so lovely!
- October 18, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- theapartmentkitchen said...
Loving your fall looks.
Loving your dogs. (We have what the vet thinks is a chihuahua/golden retriever mix...I know...didn't think that was possible)
Most of all - I love knowing you're in Lawrence in your photos...I miss my hometown!!!
- October 18, 2009 at 4:08 PM
- Charmalade said...
I'm very much loving the fall look as well: braids + bright tights! :) gotta love it.
- October 18, 2009 at 6:47 PM
- calivintage said...
wow, the colors are divine and you look adorable in those braids1
- October 18, 2009 at 7:58 PM
- Clare said...
That jacket is great! Love your hair too.
- October 18, 2009 at 7:59 PM
- Maria G. said...
I love all of your looks! Ill keep on visiting you, kisses!
- October 19, 2009 at 7:31 AM
- Steph said...
You remind me of Ivana Milicevic, do you hear that a lot? I mean for it to be a compliment, just fyi.
- October 19, 2009 at 9:31 AM
- Taylor Sterling said...
Great outfit! You look darling!
- October 19, 2009 at 12:35 PM
- Madeleine said...
i love the hair on you
- October 20, 2009 at 1:06 PM
- ITSOLA said...
seriously crushing on your tights. I love the punch of color.
and I love oktoberfest too.
- October 21, 2009 at 5:52 PM
- Pedro Garcia Millan said...
La estafa automotriz mas grande en el territorio Mexicano…
Para MAS informacion pinche:
Hasta lueguito y cuidense amigos mios (L)(L)(L)
- October 21, 2009 at 9:41 PM
- Kimberellie said...
You got those shoes at Payless? Awesome! I'd love a pair like that! And I love Payless (unfortunately my feet are "too big" for most shoe stores-but Payless treats me right!).
- November 22, 2009 at 11:25 PM


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Official Blizzard Quote:
Hold on to some of those currencies you've been earning over the course of patch 5.2. The gear-upgrading Void Binders are returning in patch 5.3, but it will be cheaper to upgrade items using Valor and Justice Points. Upgradeable PvP items from Season 12 will be eligible for upgrade once again at their original costs. In addition, Heirloom items will be cheaper to upgrade, whether you're using Justice Points, Honor Points, or Darkmoon Faire tickets. We're also speeding up the leveling process from 85 to 90. Here are the details:
- The experience required to level from 85 to 90 will be reduced by 33%. Time to dust off those alts!
- The Void Binders are coming back!
- Items upgraded with Valor will now cost 250 Valor Points to upgrade per 4 Item Levels, for a total of 500 Valor for 8 Item Levels per item. This applies retroactively to all items that can be upgraded using Valor.
- Items upgraded with Justice will now cost 750 Justice Points to upgrade for 8 Item Levels. They can only be upgraded once, for a total of 750 Justice and 8 Item Levels per item. This applies retroactively to all items that can be upgraded using Justice.
- Malevolent Gladiator's Conquest (Season 12) items that have upgrades available will still be upgradable at their original Conquest Point costs (750 Conquest Points per 4 Item Levels, with two upgrades possible).
- Dreadful Gladiator's Honor (Season 12) items that have upgrades available will still be upgradable at their original costs (one upgrade at a cost of 1500 Honor Points for 8 Item Levels).
- No other PvP items will be able to be upgraded.
- The amount of Justice, Honor, and Darkmoon Faire tickets needed to upgrade Heirloom items will be reduced by 60%.
PvP Season Update
PvP Season 13 is still in full swing. We discussed many of the changes coming to PvP gear in our PvP Gear in 5.2 and Preparing for PvP in Patch 5.3 blogs, and the changes below are explained in greater detail there. As a reminder, the 7,250 Conquest Point requirement to purchase non-elite Conquest Point weapons is being removed with patch 5.3.
A number of significant changes are coming to PvP and PvP gear:
- All characters now have a base Resilience of 65%.
- Battle Fatigue now reduces the effectiveness of healing and absorb spells and abilities by 45% (was 30%).
- PvP Power bonus to healing is now based on class and specialization.
- Healing specializations receive a 100% bonus to healing from PvP Power.
- Damage specializations for Druids, Monks, Paladins, Priests, and Shaman receive a 70% bonus to healing from PvP Power.
- All other specializations and classes (including tanking) receive a 40% bonus to healing from PvP Power.


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I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. Coming up: The designers are sending their creations down the runway at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City. And just in case your invitations to some of those big-name shows got lost in the mail, we will bring the runway to you. We'll talk with a reporter who's in the mix to tell us what's hot and what's not. That's later in the program.
But first we want to talk about what's hot on the campaign trail. The conventions are over, and the polls still show a very tight race. We've called upon two seasoned political operatives to help us understand what's happening now and what we're likely to see in the next few weeks.
Ron Christie's a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush. He's now the president of Christie Strategies. That's a media and political strategy firm. Also with us, Anita Dunn. She is the former White House Communications director for President Obama. She's a managing director at the strategic communications firm SKDKnickerbocker.
Thank you both so much for joining us.
RON CHRISTIE: Always a pleasure.
ANITA DUNN: Thank you for having us on today.
MARTIN: So let's start with some good news for President Obama. Both Gallup and Rasmussen reports show President Obama leading the horse race. Now, you could argue this is - I mean, it's still very tight. It's beyond the margin or error, but it's still very tight. But Ron Christie, I have to ask, you know, Mitt Romney did not see the same bump coming out of his convention. And those unemployment numbers on Friday - disappointing. So what's the analysis? I know you're not speaking for the Romney campaign, but what's your analysis of why this is, given those factors?
CHRISTIE: Well, I think, Michel, he's exactly where he needs to be right now. Governor Romney needed to introduce himself to the American people. For the last several months, you've heard pro-Obama groups, superPACs, the president himself trying to define Mitt Romney as rich, out of touch and an elitist who really can't lead America forward.
I think what Governor Romney needed to do, and I think what he succeeded in doing, was giving a different narrative, giving a different side of himself. And now, as we have 57 days to go before the election, I think the debates coming up on October 3rd are really going to be the defining critical issues and the factors that are going to decide who's going to be the next president of the United States.
MARTIN: Anita Dunn, it's been well established that President Obama wins on likeability. Is that enough? And how do Democrats address this criticism that the president didn't offer anything new?
DUNN: Well, you know, I don't think likeability is enough, but I think trust and who can really lead this country forward in a path where we rebuild a vital middle class is important. And I think that that's what people who listened to President Obama's speech, who have been following the campaign and who watched the Democratic Convention heard very clearly, which is that this is a president who clearly believes that the way forward for this country is to invest in our middle class and that our economy is built on a strong middle class.
And that is a strong contrast with Governor Romney's view. I don't think, at the end of the day, this is a personality contest. But I think it is a trust contest, a trust contest about who do you trust to really look out for middle class families in this country, and that voters are comparing the two.
You know, Ron mentioned the October 3rd debate. It is going to be the next opportunity and a good opportunity for voters to see them side-by-side. And in an election year with as much noise and clutter and spending as this one, I think that those debates take on even more importance, Michel.
MARTIN: You know, Ron, you mentioned that this was an opportunity for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to rebut some of the criticisms that the Democrats have been leveling, you know, at them. One of the criticisms is that the Romney-Ryan ticket has been very vague about how they'd pay for their proposed tax cuts.
Now, here's Paul Ryan on ABC's "This Week" addressing that. Here it is.
PAUL RYAN: High-income earners use most of the loopholes. That means they can shelter their income from taxation. But if you take those loopholes, those tax shelters away from high-income earners, more of their income is subject to taxation, and that allows us to lower tax rates on everybody.
MARTIN: But, Ron, as you know, the criticism is still that these - that they're still not being very specific about which loopholes they would close. And is that problem, particularly given that Mitt Romney still hasn't made his own taxes available for scrutiny to see which loopholes he'd been - loopholes, whatever, you know, that they benefit from. You know what I'm saying.
CHRISTIE: I do. And I think it's a distraction. I think the whole why won't Governor Romney release more of his tax records - he's released what he's legally obligated to do. The Obama campaign has said: Well, why don't you release X number of years? And we won't make this an issue. The issue of the matter is exactly what Chairman Paul Ryan said.
We need to have structural and fundamental reform of our tax code. We have far too many loopholes going to people, frankly, as Ryan said, who don't deserve them, and we could use that money to pay for different things. Anita is exactly right when she says that this campaign is going to be a contrast of trying to grow the middle class.
And the way that we can do that and we can invest in our future is to make sure that all tax revenue that is available could be diverted for these purposes. So you can lower the marginal tax rates in one point, and you can also close many of these loopholes that I think we need to have a bipartisan discussion, not just what does Romney propose by way of loopholes. But I think this is a bipartisan discussion between the Congress and an incoming administration to really clean up our tax system.
MARTIN: We're speaking with former Bush administration advisor Ron Christie and former Obama White House communications director Anita Dunn. We're catching up on the weekend's political news, and we're also talking about what we're likely to see in the next couple of weeks.
You know, Anita Dunn, Mitt Romney did talk health care specifics on an appearance on "Meet the Press" this weekend, and what he said might surprise some people. Let me just play that for you in case everybody missed it. Here it is.
MITT ROMNEY: I'm not getting rid of all of health care reform. Of course there are a number of things that I like in health care reform that I'm going to put in place. One is to make sure that those with preexisting conditions can get coverage. Two is to assure that the marketplace allows for individuals to have policies that cover their family up to whatever age they might like.
I also want individuals to be able to buy insurance, health insurance on their own, as opposed to only being able to get it on a tax advantage basis through their company.
MARTIN: How do you interpret that?
DUNN: Well, you know, it's not for me to interpret. It is for, actually, the people who followed the campaign yesterday to point out that Governor Romney's campaign clarified this "Meet the Press" statement to say, oh, but we're not actually talking about what Obamacare does, which is to make sure that nobody can be denied who has preexisting conditions.
We have the same position we did in March, which is to say that people with continuous coverage can't be denied because of preexisting conditions. They actually did this last night, which means that 89 million Americans - according to a recent article in the Washington Post posted this morning - 89 million people could still be denied because of preexisting conditions.
So what he said on "Meet the Press" yesterday morning perhaps wasn't as precise in terms of what he was actually endorsing as it could have been, because as it turns out, it's not the same thing as the president's plan. It wouldn't guarantee that coverage to people with preexisting conditions unless they've had continuous coverage.
And if you have continuous coverage, you actually don't have a problem.
MARTIN: Ron, I don't want to get lost in the weeds here, but, again, how do you interpret this? I mean, it sounds as though he's walking back his very strong statements that he's made to this point on the campaign trail that he would repeal...
DUNN: That he would repeal Obamacare on...
MARTIN: That he would repeal Obamacare, but now he's saying - so Ron, how should we - how do you interpret this? How should we interpret this?
CHRISTIE: Well, I think Governor Romney has been very consistent in saying that he wants to repeal Obamacare, the over-arching statute that's out there. But you just can't say that I'm going to repeal and have nothing in place. I think you need to have a repeal-and-replace structure in place.
And I think beyond what Governor Romney said, obviously, we need to address those who have preexisting conditions. There's no question about that. I think another thing that you've heard the governor talk about is the ability to purchase insurance across state lines. Our current statutes don't allow us to do so.
We need to make sure that people - and another popular provision, if you will, is that children are allowed to remain on their parents' coverage until age 26. So I think there are a handful of areas where there is bipartisan agreement with what the president and the Congress sought to do.
DUNN: But Ron - Ron. He would not...
CHRISTIE: I just think the conservatives think that there is another alternative.
DUNN: But Ron, he wouldn't actually pass a law saying insurance companies had to do that. That's what the campaign said last night. What he has said and how they clarified is that he thinks, quote, "competition and market" will take care of that. And if competition and market conditions allowed for this, we wouldn't have to pass a law to make insurance companies do it.
CHRISTIE: Well, Anita, I don't disagree with that. I do think, however, that the current statutes that are on the books are far too complex, far too complicated. I think you and I would probably even agree that you should have more flexibility, as I mentioned a few moments ago, to be able to buy insurance across state lines.
This just shouldn't be a Democratic or a Republican health care sort of fix-all. I think that we didn't come together on a bipartisan basis the last time, and I think there's many areas of common ground that we can do it on a bipartisan basis in the days to come.
MARTIN: Well, let's talk about that. We have a couple of minutes left. Congress is back in town and they're facing some challenges, including resolving the so-called fiscal cliff - a number of tax increases and spending cuts that are scheduled to go into effect in January. You know, it's an election year. It's obviously a very hard fought, you know, campaign.
Is there any - what's the likelihood that they can actually come to agreement on this in the time that they have available? Ron, I'll go to you first and then, Anita, I'll give you the last word since I gave Ron the first word. So, Ron.
DUNN: Thanks.
CHRISTIE: Well, I think Anita and I both know, working in the White House and being in a very delicate time, particularly with a fiscal deadline of October 1st coming up for the new fiscal year to start. I think the one area of agreement that you'll have bipartisan consensus is having a stop gap measure that will get us well in the next year to pay for the appropriations bills.
Other than that, the tax extenders, to social security payroll - I think that's all going to come up in the lame duck session after the election and it's really going to be a critical time and one I hope the parties can come together on.
MARTIN: Anita?
DUNN: Obviously, I agree with Ron. I think the real test for Congress and for the political parties will be after the election when the serious decisions are going to have to be made and at the beginning of next year. And I think it's important, because of that, that the next 57 days that the two presidential candidates are clear and honest with the American people about what their plans and proposals are.
You know, Governor Romney has been campaigning for the presidency for two years now and has yet to name one tax loophole he would close to fund his plans. I think, over the next 57 days, he's going to have to be more specific, as President Obama has already been, about what exactly he proposes to do for this economy.
MARTIN: And so one of the things I think you both agree on is the next thing we all want to be paying to is the debates, the first one being October 3rd. Is that right?
CHRISTIE: No question.
DUNN: Absolutely.
MARTIN: That's critical for both.
DUNN: Yes.
MARTIN: All right.
CHRISTIE: Critical for both.
MARTIN: Anita Dunn is a former communications director for President Obama. She's now a managing director at the strategic communications firm, SKDKnickerbocker and we caught up with her in Washington, D.C. Ron Christie is the founder and president of Christie Strategies, a media and political strategy firm, also a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush, a frequent guest on our program, and he was with us from our bureau in New York.
Thank you both so much for speaking with us.
CHRISTIE: Thank you.
DUNN: Thank you for having us on.
MARTIN: Coming up, master violin maker, Howard Needham, helped his clients make sweet music with his creations, but the sour notes of this economy have made it harder for him and craftsmen like him, even as their work has soared in quality. His story is featured in this week's Washington Post magazine. It's called "The Ballad of Howard Needham" and we'll talk about it in just a few minutes on TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin.
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United Way fundraiser kick-off Wednesday
BLACKFOOT — The Bingham County United Way kickoff is from 5—7 p.m. Wednesday in the Southeastern Idaho Community Action Agency (SEICCA), 1010 W. Bridge St., Blackfoot.
United Way is sponsoring the Chamber of Commerce After Hours, said kickoff chair person Diane Tauscher. After Hours is open to community members. Refreshments will be served.
Last year Bingham County raised $100,000, Tauscher said. United Way has been in Blackfoot for about 20 years.
Money raised, "goes to agencies in Bingham County," she said.
When making a donation, each person can designate where the money will go, for example, to a specific agency, said Gayla Paulk, one of the United Way organizers.
United Way-funded services directly touch lives of 62 percent of Bingham County residents each year.
During fiscal year 2010, 28,065 individuals were served by United Way in Southeastern Idaho. Twenty-one agencies received funds to help people. Some of these agencies included the Civil Air Patrol 096 Composite Squadron, the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, foodbanks, senior citizen centers and SEICAA.
The amount of money raised and distributed last year in Southeastern Idaho totaled $625,000.
This year's theme is Every ONE Counts. Members of the Blackfoot United Way organizing committee are Keith Gardner, Tauscher, Paulk, Marty Wallace, Colin Folsom, Kathleen Hall, Kathy Weiser and Cindy Slomkowski.


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Anyone else here use Nationwide Bldg Society?
They have just changed their on-line banking website, and broken it for me on Suse 11.4 running Firefox 3.6.18; I can log in, but FF crashes after a minute or two. However, on my other PC it seems OK on Ubuntu running Firefox 3.6.11
They have a list of "supported browsers" in which they say they support Firefox 8 on Windows, but specifically say they do not "support" anything on Linux.
I thought the days of websites depending on specific browsers was over. Looks like I shall switch my main finances to Lloyds.


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Onions and celery forms the base for many of the soup recipes, but here is a simple and comforting soup that uses this basic veggies, just right for the cold winter evenings.
Also stay tuned for some more of these soup recipes throughout this month.
Carrot Celery Soup
2 medium carrots peeled and chopped.
1 medium onion chopped
2 large celery stalk chopped
2 cloves of garlic
salt and coarse pepper powder as needed.
Add about a tblsp of olive oil in a sauce pan.
Saute the garlic and onions till translucent (do not brown)
Now add the chopped garlic and celery, give it a stir.
Add some salt to taste and 2 cups of water. Close with a lid and simmer for about 30 mins.
Let it sit for about 15 mins and then blend it using a hand held blender or transfer it a blender.
Add coarsely ground pepper before serving. Coarse pepper gives a better taste and flavor than powdered pepper.
Sending this soup to Priya's own event 'Healthy Diet - Warm Soups'


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Difference between revisions of "Shizuoka"
Revision as of 15:14, 10 May 2012
Shizuoka (静岡) is the capital city of Shizuoka prefecture in Japan's Chubu region. In 2005, Shizuoka absorbed the neighboring city of Shimizu (清水).
Get in
Shizuoka is a stop on the Tokaido Main Line and Tokaido Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Osaka, and on the Tomei Expressway.
By plane
Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport (IATA: FSZ) [1] opened in June 2009 between Makinohara and Shimada. Startup carrier Fuji Dream Airlines [2] is based at the new airport. Flights are limited: there is no service to Tokyo, Nagoya or Kansai; only a few international flights to Seoul and Shanghai plus domestic connections to Kyushu.
Buses run from Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport to the Shizuoka train station in about an hour at a cost of ¥1000. Interestingly, the airport was built right over the Tokaido Shinkansen line, but there is no train station serving the airport.
The nearest major airports are Haneda and Narita Airports in Tokyo, and Chubu International Airport in Nagoya. It takes approximately two hours to reach Shizuoka from Haneda or Chubu on the fastest train services, a little longer from Narita.
By train
You can ride all of these trains for free with the Japan Rail Pass.
By bus
JR Kanto Bus and JR Tokai Bus run frequent daytime services to Shizuoka on the Tomei Expressway between Tokyo and Nagoya. Shizuoka-bound Tokkyū buses from Tokyo reach the Shizuoka train station in about 3 hours, at a cost of ¥2850 one way (¥4500 round-trip). JR/Shizutetsu Sunpu Liner buses run several times per day from Shinjuku Station; this service also takes 3 hours and also costs ¥2850, but makes fewer stops.
Buses not terminating in Shizuoka will only stop at the Shizuoka interchange of the expressway. Local buses run frequently to Shizuoka station from another bus stop close to the interchange (15 minutes, ¥180).
Get around
There is a rotemburo (unisex communal bath) for those brave enough to try it in beautiful surrounds on the coast called Fujiyoshi Onsen.
Each Saturday there is a flea market at the shrine in central Shizuoka. The vendors sell mainly Japanese knick knacks such as tea sets, lacquerware and the like. You can haggle about 30% off their asking prices without working too hard, or try for more if you`re especially stingy.
Near the port, we can eat fresh fish, such as sushi.
Get out


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SRT Motorsports Keys for Success: Phoenix
PHOENIX (Friday, Jan. 11) – Each race weekend, SRT Motorsports provides insight on the 'Keys for Success' for the upcoming AMA Monster Energy Supercross Series race. This week, RCH Racing's Tony Berluti, mechanic for the No. 20 Dodge/Sycuan Casino/RCH Racing/Bel-Ray/Suzuki RM-Z450, discusses Round 2 in Phoenix.
Track: Chase Field
Race: Phoenix (Race 2 of 17 in the AMA Monster Energy Supercross Series)
Trivia Question: (Answer Below) Dodge/RCH Racing's Broc Tickle finished eighth in the 2012 SX rider standings. How many top-10 finishes did he score? (Answer below)
TONY BERLUTI (Mechanic, No. 20 Dodge/Sycuan Casino/RCH Racing/Bel-Ray/Suzuki RM-Z450)
Drop the Gate: "RC (Ricky Carmichael) has been working really hard all week with Broc (Tickle) on improving his starts when the gate drops. We changed our setup a bit to help Broc get out of the gate and we think it should make a big difference on Saturday in Phoenix."
Don't Slip: "The Phoenix track is really, really slippery towards the end of the night. The track doesn't split and allow moisture to come out. The track gets really, really hard and slippery. We have to work hard on tire selection. If we can come up with the right tire and setup on Saturday, that will be key."
Whoop-de-do: "A shorter whoops section than we had last week in Anaheim will make the racing really fast. I think the track will be faster which is great for the riders and the fans. More riders will be in the hunt because the whoops are a section of the course that a lot of riders struggle with during a race. Shorter whoop sections will allow more riders to go faster. You have to be prepared in your approach knowing that speed through the whoops will be key."
Trivia Answer: 9


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Directors: Chan-Wook Park
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode
Running Time: 99mins
Consumer Advice: Contains strong sex, violence and sexualised violence
Starring Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode with direction from 'Oldboy' auteur Chan-wook Park 'Stoker' is released in UK cinemas 1 March 2013 from Fox Searchlight UK.
After India's (Mia Wasikowska's) father dies in an auto accident, her Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother (Nicole Kidman). Soon after his arrival, she comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives, but instead of feeling outrage or horror, this friendless girl becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/samsung_lower_voltage_server_memory/
Samsung bakes lower-voltage server memory
When every watt counts
Posted in The Channel, 20th September 2011 19:00 GMT
Those hyperscale data centers that are trying to cram 10 pounds of servers into a 5-pound rack have gotten a little more help from Korean memory maker Samsung Electronics.
The leading edge, low-voltage DDR3 main memory runs at 1.35 volts and burns a bit less juice than normal 1.5 volt memory modules. And now, Samsung is pushing the power envelope down with its 1.25 volt DDR3 "green memory", which it was showing off last week at the Asia Pacific Datacenter Leadership Council in Singapore.
Like other DDR3 memory modules, the new green memory sticks, aimed specifically at ultra-low-power servers, are based on registered dual inline memory modules (RDIMMs). Like some of the existing 1.35 volt sticks, the 1.25 volt green memory uses what Samsung inscrutably calls its "30 nanometer class" fabrication processes, which means it can range from 30 to 39 nanometers. Other 1.35 volt modules are based on "40 nanometer class" processes, which means anywhere from 40 to 49 nanometers.
Up until now, a 16GB RDIMM based on the 30-nanometer-class processes and implemented using 4Gb memory chips running at 1.35 volts had the lowest power profile. But the 1.25 volt parts, which hum along at 1.33Mb/sec of bandwidth, consume only 3.7 watts – compared to 4.35 watts for the 1.35 parts of the same density. And 1.35 volt 16GB DDR3 parts – based on cheaper and older 2Gb memory chips etched with 40-nanometer-class processes – burn a wonking 9.25 watts. That means the new green memory from Samsung will consume 60 per cent less juice than these older parts.
And that sure does mount up, as Charlie Sheen once said about his exorbitant hooker bill. In the DDR2 days, memory capacity using 1Gb chips made in 60 nanometer processes and running at 1.8 volts would burn 102 watts to deliver 48GB of capacity using 4GB memory sticks. Now, for around 14.8 watts, you can cram the same 48GB into one-quarter the number of slots and run the memory considerably faster, too. It also means that within the same thermal budget, you could put memory capacity greater by nearly a factor of seven into a server. This is surely going to come in useful for fat servers running hypervisors and loading up dozens and dozens of virtual machines on their threads.
Samsung says it will wire the 1.25 volt memory chips into 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB after its OEM partners qualify early samples. Volume production is not expected until next year, and hopefully early enough to be concurrent with the next rev of server processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. ®


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Literature of the Wounded
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Voices from the Whirlwind: An Oral History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
In Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic, Bette Bao Lord's memoir of her three years in Peking as the American ambassador's wife, she recalled that "all Chinese were in pain, and taking their pulse, reading their temperature, charting every change and finding the cure took all the effort they could muster." I believe this illness was largely fear, so intense that it frightened some Chinese out of their wits; others simply stopped thinking. Long before the Cultural Revolution, Jung Chang, the author of Wild Swans writes, "Many people had been reduced to a state where they did not dare even to think, in case their thoughts came out involuntarily."
One of the informants in Voices From the Whirlwind, a chilling anthology of Cultural Revolution memoirs, remembers how in August 1966 she waited in a completely dark room with her father and mother for the Red Guards to return and continue tormenting them: they had already had their heads shaved and been badly beaten with belts. "Suddenly we had somehow become enemies of our country. Just cringing there. No idea of what our monstrous crimes might be." So the narrator, a young woman doctor, decided that she would kill her parents and then herself by puncturing their carotid arteries with a penknife. In a scene that is almost unbearable to read, the three sat in the dark holding hands. "My mother said how lucky they were to have a doctor daughter to help them die."
She managed to kill her father, but the Red Guards burst in, and she and her mother leaped from a window. The mother died and the young doctor, crippled for life, was jailed for twelve and a half years for "committing the crime of murder in opposition to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution."
This story is terrible enough, but perhaps more terrible still is the victim's confusion twenty years later when she tries to think about it. Feng Jicai, the eminent Chinese writer who compiled these accounts, observes at the end of the doctor's story, "In dehumanizing times, the highest expression of human nature is destroying oneself." But the victim of those dehumanizing times says, "Who in their right mind could stab their own father to death?… And what about my mother? How can I make up for that? If I hadn't done what I did, my parents would perhaps be enjoying life today. If I'm not to blame, then who is…. It must be my fault alone…. I can't say any more. Please don't ask me to go on."
In his introduction to Voices from the Whirlwind Robert Coles says:
The "Cultural Revolution" was at heart a crazed, wanton assault on one part of a country's people by another part—an effort of some to frighten and intimidate others, to drive them into a land of fear and trembling, to use accusation in hopes that endless self-accusation would follow.
Over the last ten years the many painful accounts of the Cultural Revolution—the doctor's story is…
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How Google Glass Is Evolving As It Heads For Release To Developers 140
hypnosec writes "Babak Parviz, the founder and head of Project Glass at Google, has revealed that the feature set of Google Glass and state of apps is still in flux and that there is a lot of testing going on at the moment. In an interview with IEEE Spectrum, Parviz provided insights into Project Glass, the reasons behind having such a gadget and what's there for the project in near future. Parviz said that they are trying out new ideas and ways in which the platform can be used while also trying to make the platform more robust. There is no specific feature set that Google has been talking about and 'It is still in flux.'" My favorite question / answer pair: "IEEE Spectrum: What kind of business model is associated with Google Glass? Babak Parviz: This is still being worked on, but we are quite interested in providing the hardware."