text:
#include <panodata/Panorama.h>
#include <wx/xrc/xmlres.h>
#include "GuiLevel.h"
Include dependency graph for OptimizePanel.h:
This graph shows which files directly or indirectly include this file:
Go to the source code of this file.
|run the optimizer. More...
|xrc handler More...
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this software. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Definition in file OptimizePanel.h.


text:
Legal hangings in early American days were readily accepted by the public as a proper form of punishment for serious crimes. It was also accepted and practiced for activities that are not considered crimes at all today, such as witchcraft.
Hangings began in the U.S. pretty much at the same time that settlements began to be formed. The first hanging in the New World was John Billington, who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620. Billington was prone to blasphemous language and the ship's captain had his hands and feet tied together as an example of a sin-struck man possessed of a Devil's tongue. That wasn't however what got him hung. Ten years after landing, Billington became the prime suspect in the murder of another settler, John Newcomer. Soon the man was summarily hanged by an angry mob of pilgrims in 1630.
In 1647 people began being hanged for witchcraft. In 1692 both men and women were hanged after the famous Salem witchcraft trials. One of the cases was a 4-year old, who was convicted of witchcraft and sent to prison. Her mother was hanged, and the little girl stayed in prison for many more months, having lost her mind before she was released.
Skip to the rough justice of hanging in the westward expansion of the 1800's. The state of Montana holds the record for the bloodiest vigilante movement from 1863-1865, when hundreds of suspected horse thieves were rounded up and killed in massive mob action. Lynching found an easy acceptance as the nation expanded westward to the frontier. Vigilante committees summarily made the decision to execute in order to repress crime. Even in areas were law enforcement existed, prisoners were often times dragged from jail by a lynch mob and executed.
In 1876 in Deadwood, South Dakota, Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the head by Jack McCall. McCall was tried, but claimed that Hickok had shot his brother, and where was the crime in killing a killer? The judge and jury agreed and set him free. Arrested again a few months later and hauled before a federal judge, who ruled the first trial invalid because Deadwood was in Indian Territory. This time they produced a witness who testified that McCall had no brother! McCall was hung. When his body was exhumed nearly a hundred years later, a length of rope was still around his neck!
And back on the Civil War battlefields, soldiers were being hanged by the dozens for crimes such as guerrilla activity, espionage, treason and desertion.
Not all hangings were the result of vigilante justice. The most public legal hanging was the execution of the conspirators who were guilty of killing Abraham Lincoln. Mourning Lincoln the government began an investigation, identifying eight members of a conspiracy team, including one woman, Mary Surratt. She was the first woman ever legally executed by the Federal government. Four were hanged before hundreds of spectators.
Public hangings often became social events. Families attended with picnic baskets in hand. Vendors sold souvenirs and photographers took pictures of the event. Public executions were ceased in the United States in 1936.
In no time of our countries history was there more lynchings than the vigilante justice of the KuKlux Klan. In Tennessee lynchings took on epidemic proportions, with prejudices extending from blacks to Native Americans, Mexicans, Asian immigrants and European newcomers. 1892 was the worst year for lynchings in America, with vigilantes still acting as judge and jury in the Old West, and continued racial tensions in the south, one hundred and sixty nine blacks and 69 whites were hung in this one violent year.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
It's hard to believe that it was 30 years ago today. May 29, 1979 was the "official" date of my discharge from the U. S. Navy. After 9 years 6 months and 15 days of service, it was time to move on to another phase in my life.
With three weeks of leave still on the books I departed Yokosuka, Japan on May 1st for separation at Treasure Island, California. After spending a week there (having a final physical, dental checkup, seeing a recruiter who tried to convince me to stay in the Navy, and doing other things that I don't recall) I was bid adieu on May 7th. The next two months were spent traveling and living in my car, a dark blue AMC Hornet Hatchback that I had purchased brand new when I left Iceland in January 1974. "Old Blue" had been put in storage in California for two years. We had an amazing summer and then it was back to "real" life.
My Navy career began on November 14, 1969 with the swearing-in ceremony in Indianapolis and the journey to Bainbridge, Maryland for basic training. But the process had started months before. Since my early teenage years I've struggled with my weight and I had to lose some of those "extra" pounds in order to meet the Navy's enlistment requirements. It wasn't easy and it took a long time, but I finally reached their goal. And then I was on my way towards a "grand adventure" that would take me to many wondrous places and to some places where I really didn't want to be. Such is life, and especially life in the military.
Why the Navy? Well, partially because my older brother had spent three years in the Navy having been discharged in March of 1968, and my younger brother had joined a year later, in the spring of '69. There were other reasons, too, which I wrote about a bit in Two roads diverged... but it mostly had to do with wanting to be somewhere else and the yearning for a change.
And was it ever a change! Like nothing I had experienced before or since. It had it's ups and downs as all things seem to have but I was able to see and do things that I had only dreamed of and some things that I'd never even thought about. It's a cliché to say that a certain experience was life-changing, but it was. I gained confidence in my abilities. I was challenged. I learned a lot about human behavior. Especially when it came to men having to take orders from a woman ;-)
Basic Training was at the Naval Training Center in Bainbridge, Maryland where Waves had been trained since World War II. I was nominated and served as an officer of my company, was a member of the Drill Team, and was honored to carry the Stars and Stripes as part of the Regimental Staff during my company's graduation ceremony. When I enlisted I was "guaranteed" that I'd receive training as a photographer or a journalist upon completion of boot camp – but as I soon learned, there were no guarantees in the military!
After graduation from Basic Training I was sent to the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia and was assigned to Barracks Duty. This consisted of keeping the public areas of the women's barracks clean (toilet areas, showers, community rooms, etc.) and serving as a receptionist answering the phone. Certainly not what I had in mind when signing up!
After about three months I was assigned to Special Services, also known as the Recreation Department. I worked in the base library for a while, then as administrative assistant to the Chief in charge. Some of my other duties included popping and selling popcorn, seating patrons at the base theater, and running the projectors to show the movies. They even sent me to the Great Lakes Naval Training Center for two weeks of schooling to learn how to run the old carbon arc projectors. (YouTube video) Now that was quite an experience! You really had to pay attention to what was going on. More than once the film broke, portions sometimes melted, and then it would take a while to patch the film to get it running again. Believe me, a theater full of rowdy, impatient sailors is not a good thing!
In the spring of 1971, I finally started the training that had been promised when I enlisted - a time I thought would never come! I was sent to Pensacola, Florida to attend the Naval School of Photography. After completion of training in August I found myself back at the Naval Training Center in Bainbridge, Maryland assigned to the base photo lab and one of two photographers for the base newspaper. In January 1973, I was transferred once again, this time to the Naval Station in Keflavik, Iceland. The Naval Station was just a small part of the NATO base, which included personnel from the U.S. Air Force as well as some international military forces.
Just a week after my arrival in Keflavik, Mother Nature's wrath was felt with the eruption of a volcano on the Island of Heimay on January 23rd. The various military forces from the NATO base stepped in and helped airlift out many of the residents, human as well as the animals. After the main eruptions, military personnel were sent to the island to help shovel volcanic ash off of the roofs of the houses and other buildings in an attempt to prevent them from caving in. Several women, myself included, volunteered for this duty but we were not allowed to participate. However, I did make it to the island to take photographs several times over the next couple of months to help document the damage and recovery process.
It was mid-winter when I arrived in Keflavik and the daylight hours consisted of about an hour of twilight – the sun would come up over the horizon and then almost immediately set. There were blizzards and whiteouts and times when you went to the mess hall hanging onto a rope strung between the buildings. A normal tour of duty in Iceland was one year. At the time I didn't think arriving in the middle of winter was such a great thing, but after spending a year there, I felt that I was quite fortunate because I didn't have to spend a full winter there. Summer in Iceland meant 18-22 hours of daylight. Believe me, it was really strange to be playing softball outdoors at 10 p.m. without lights!
I purchased a clunker of a car and, along with a couple of friends, would take day or weekend excursions to see the sights in Iceland. We went to various towns, visited the hot springs and the glaciers and the black sand beaches. All in all it was quite a year.
In January 1974, I returned to the states, taking about a months leave to go home and then to Pensacola, Florida for two months schooling at the Advanced Naval School of Photography. Then it was to Point Mugu Naval Air Station near Oxnard, California. The Photo Lab there was quite large, with about 45 personnel. The lab performed the same basic functions as any commercial photography studio along with tasks that were unique to a military environment. This included some flight crew training, missile testing, and investigative photography. Duties included the gamut of tasks ranging from taking pictures to developing and printing. For the most part, workdays were routine.
One of the assignments I had during this time was to photograph weapons-handling techniques for audio-visual training for Navy personnel. I was assigned to two weeks temporary duty onboard the U.S.S. Enterprise while it was in port in Oakland. This was before women were routinely assigned to shipboard duty, so, technically, I guess that I was the first woman assigned to an aircraft carrier. Days were spent onboard the ship while nights were spent at the women's barracks at the Naval Station. I did eat lunches in the ship mess hall, and, needless to say, got my fair share of odd looks from many of the sailors. There were also a few times when I had to show my orders when reporting for duty in the mornings when the officer of the day didn't believe what I told him. Most days there was an escort from the ship's photo lab waiting to take me to the days work site, partially so that I wouldn't get lost on the ship but also to "protect" me from inquiring sailors.
In May 1977 my tour of duty at Point Mugu ended and I was transferred to the photo lab at the Naval Station in Yokosuka, Japan. Here again, the duties were similar to a commercial civilian photo lab. A year later, an opportunity at the base newspaper became available and I was assigned to the staff of "The Seahawk". This was a really rough job, part of which entailed traveling to various sites in Japan, photographing them and writing about my experiences in getting there and describing the attractions. I climbed Mt. Fuji, went to the winter festival in Sapporo, visited a Sumo wrestling stable, and other attractions, all courtesy of the U. S. Navy! In addition to taking photographs and writing articles, I was also involved with layout and design of the newspaper and occasionally taking it to Tokyo for printing at the office of the Stars and Stripes. The department put together a booklet titled "How to Get There" that included many of my articles and photographs that had been printed in the base newspaper. The booklet was made available to new arrivals at the base.
All in all, I'd say I had a rather interesting career. I've never regretted my decision to leave the Navy and certainly never regretted the decision to join. But, I'll admit, there were times when I wondered what the heck I was doing there! It's still hard to believe that it's been 30 years since I got out. Some days it seems like it was yesterday although other days it seems so long ago, another lifetime. It was the best of times, and yet, it was the worst of times. There are some things that happened that I'd like to be able to forget but so many other memories of my time in the service that I treasure. As with most things in life you have to take the bad along with the good, perhaps so you can appreciate the good stuff even more!
Friday, May 29, 2009
An Anniversary of Sorts
Posted by Becky Wiseman at 11:36 AM
Labels: U.S. Navy
2 comments:
- Cheryl Fleming Palmer said...
Thank you for sharing with us! Very interesting indeed! The experiences you had that you probably never would have had otherwise!Not so sure I could have ever done it! And, time does fly so fast...your official departure date is the day before one of my daughters was born!
- May 29, 2009 at 8:16 PM
- Brenda Joyce Jerome, CG said...
Fascinating reading, Becky. You have had a life of such varied experiences.
- May 30, 2009 at 7:56 AM


text:
Beverly Kearney, affectionately known as "Bev," is one of the most successful coaches in the history of track and field. Coach Bev talked about her commitment to coaching in our Women and Girls Lead: Austin project.
Women and Girls Lead: Austin showcases extraordinary women and girls in Austin who are changing our community. Combining independent documentary film, television, new media, and global outreach partnerships, Women and Girls Lead amplifies the voices of women and girls acting as leaders, expands understanding of gender equity, and engages an international network of citizens and organizations to act locally and reach out globally.
Do you know a woman or girl who is making a difference in your world? Someone who embodies the characteristics of leadership or empowerment? She could be a teacher, doctor, student or mother. Nominate a Leader today!


text:
A Phoenix parks employee accused of sexual abuse in a series of crimes against children more than a decade ago pleaded not guilty in court on Thursday morning.
Arthur Rey Juarez, 42, who was scheduled to participate in an Easter Sunday activity with children, was arrested after a police investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct made by three victims in 2001, said Phoenix Police Sgt. Steve Martos.
The children, ages 13, 14 and 15 years old at the time of the alleged crimes, told police then that the abuse and molestations happened between 1995 and 1998. The victims were contacted again in 2013 after a case review by the Child Crimes Task Force, and they said they wanted to pursue charges, Martos said.
The investigation began March 29 and culminated with Juarez's arrest the next day.
Because of his position with the city parks and recreation department and his access to children, detectives asked that anyone with information related to Juarez to call 602-262-4543.
Copyright 2013 CBS 5 (KPHO Broadcasting Corporation). All rights reserved.


text:
2004 Track and Field
Track and Field team ready to make headlines in 2004
By Scott Van Eman, SID assistant
February 26, 2004
After an eventful off-season, including the departure of the head coach, Bluffton is prepared to remain the college's most successful Heartland Conference competitor in 2004. Although the Beavers have placed higher at the HCAC Championship meet in each of the last three years, one thing has alluded them, a conference championship. In 2004, the Bluffton College men's and women's track team are ready to take the challenge head on.
Bluffton's first hurdle of the 2004 track and field season was saying goodbye to their head coach of the past three years, Derek Stanley. Stanley was the catalyst behind Bluffton's dramatic improvements over the past three seasons. "He'll be missed. Derek did a good job building the program to what it is today," said interim head coach and former assistant Nate Smith. The Beavers remain in good hands with Smith, who has more head coaching experience then the average assistant. Besides his four years of experience coaching track and field, Smith was the acting head coach for several track athletes last season. In previous years Stanley and Smith split the squad based on events giving Smith complete control over nearly half the team. He is not worried about those athletes who he didn't oversee last year stating, "Our athletes are focused athletes."
Building on their 2003 3rd place finish in the Heartland Conference the 2004 men's track team is closer than ever to reaching their championship goal. The men will rely on a strong core of sprinters to provide the leadership a championship team requires. Leading the way will be 2002 HCAC 100m dash champion, senior Ryan Nusbaum (Pandora/Pandora-Gilboa), 2003 HCAC 110m hurdles and 400m hurdles 2nd place finisher, junior Troy Baumer (Geneva, Ind./South Adams), 2003 HCAC 200m dash 4th place finisher, junior Jason Lehman (Berne, Ind./South Adams H.S.), and 2003 HCAC 400m dash 2nd place finisher, sophomore Al Pearson (New Bremen/New Bremen). Bluffton also looks promising in long distance with 2003 HCAC 800m run 3rd place finisher Dan Rosebrock (Napoleon/Napoleon) returning for his second year. Bluffton will look to improve their field events in 2004, building off of strong conference performances last season by junior Fred Yoder (Millersburg/Hiland).
Thirty-three is the magic number for the 2004 women's track team this season. The 2003 Beavers were just 33 team points away from conference champion Defiance and a mere six points away from conference runner-up Anderson . Bluffton will look to get those 33 points and then some in their 2004 campaign. Leading the way for the Bluffton women will be 2003 HCAC freshman-of-the-year Rita Muether (Celina/Celina). Muether posted three top five finishes at the HCAC championships last season including a victory in the 400m run. HCAC 100m dash 2nd place finisher and 200m dash 3rd place finisher, junior Jana Hammer (Hamler/Patrick Henry) will also be relied on heavily this season. Bluffton will have the hurdle events covered in 2004 with returning 2002 HCAC 400m hurdles champion, junior Amanda Habegger (Berne, Ind./South Adams) and 2003 HCAC 100m hurdles 2nd place finisher and 400m hurdles 3rd place finisher, junior Laurel Miller (Galion/Colonel Crawford). The Beavers will also feature a strong distance running core helmed by sophomore Lauren Borga (New Philadelphia/New Philadelphia) and a strong group of jumpers led by Miller and sophomores Welch and Dravenstott. Michele Bailey (Spencerville/Spencerville) will lead Bluffton in the throws this year.
With three consecutive years of improvement under their belt nothing seems impossible for the Beavers in 2004. When coach Nate Smith came to Bluffton three years ago he believed drastic improvement was possible. Now he believes the "pieces are in place" for the Beavers to reach their ultimate goal of conference championships for the men and women. "Our success is a testament to the work put in by our athletes", remarked Smith. This year the Beavers believe they have what it takes to make it happen.


text:
A social security number is given to American citizens at birth. It is a number that will later be used for financial and employment reasons. The social security number has become a form of identification.
It is necessary to have a Social Security number to be employed on campus. To obtain a driver's license you will also need a social security number and most banks will require it as well.
You will have the opportunity to apply for a Social Security number during International Student Orientation.
Their telephone number is 1-800-772-1213. ISS can provide you with transportation to the Social Security Office. You must bring your passport and form I-20 or DS-2019, there is no charge. If you are in J-1 or F-1 status you must bring a letter from ISS that authorizes you for on-campus employment at Bucknell University.
Directions from Lewisburg: take Route 15 South to Selinsgrove (about 20 minutes). Just past the Susquehanna Valley Mall, turn right onto Susquehanna Valley Mall Drive. The Social Security Office will be on the right.
The following links are virtual breadcrumbs marking the 27 most recent pages you have visited in Bucknell.edu. If you want to remember a specific page forever click the pin in the top right corner and we will be sure not to replace it. Close this message.


text:
At a time when many folks are struggling to just get by, saving money for retirement may not seem like a top priority. In fact, as reported in a recent Fox Business News article, almost half of Americans aren't contributing to any type of retirement fund. That's a scary thought when you consider around 26% of the population, the Baby Boomers, are already at or are rapidly approaching retirement age.
If you've yet to start saving or are not contributing to a defined retirement fund, don't assume you can, "worry about it later," or simply "plan to work longer." Time has a way of slipping through your fingers, and you never know what unforeseen circumstances may keep you from working into your 70′s or 80′s.
Whether you're starting young or are late to the game, there are a few retirement saving practices everyone should follow. Adhere to these three strategies to get the most out of your efforts.
Save More
True, this is hard to do if cash is already tight, but most people find, with some sacrifices, they actually do have leftover money to save. Scrutinize your lifestyle and start to eliminate the money-draining things you don't really need.
For instance, if you claim to have no money for retirement, can you truly justify living in a 2500 sq. ft. foot home when you could scale down and save a bundle by fitting your family in a small 1,100 sq. ft. apartment? It may seem small, but in keep in mind, in many parts of the world whole families live happily in 600 sq. ft. or less — it's all about perspective. In addition to your house, look at your car, entertainment, food, and more. There's no point pretending to be rich now if it's going to lead you to poverty later.
Choose Investments Wisely
With the recent drops in annual returns, you can't afford to squander away money on fees and expenses. Even something like a tenth of a percentage can seriously add up over decades, so do your homework before choosing an investment service, and make sure you know exactly where all of your money is going and why.
Also, considering the uncertain economic climate now is not the time to start making risky investments (especially if you're working with limited funds). Conservative investments with assured long-term payouts are your best option. However, if you'd like to play around with something riskier and with the potential for more aggressive growth, make sure you only devote a very small portion of your savings to this area.
Plan to Live Longer
One of the biggest mistakes people make in regards to retirement is underestimating their life expectancy. Today, people are living longer than ever, and you don't want to get to you 90′s or older, when going back to work is out of the question, and realize you're out of money. Of course, everyone wants to live as long as possible, so plan for it! Your golden years are not the time for worrying about money or how to make ends meet. Do yourself a favor, and take the steps now to ensure a happy, comfortable retirement.


text:
Ruckus Media Group has partnered with Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) to offer digital downloads of narrated e-books in the U.S. and Canada, beginning with a seasonal selection of titles via the Ruckus universal app for iOS devices.
The Ruckus/WBCP launch will offer a variety of brands, with more than 100 Read-Along titles rolling out in subsequent months. Multiple narrated e-books will be included from brands such as Batman, Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo, The Wizard of Oz, and more.
Ruckus titles download directly to mobile devices, and they are also commercial-free and airplay-enabled, allowing users to view them on all iOS devices. Should they register for free, parents are provided with feedback on their child's experiences within the Ruckus app, and kids and parents can also follow word highlighting, as well as read, record, and save their own voices reading the stories.


text:
TIA is an ncurses-based console IDE for GCC, G++, Java, Perl, PHP, BASH, BUSH, HTML, and GNAT (Ada 95). It has integrated support for CVS, SVN, and ncurses compatible mice. Features include a ddd-style console debugger, automatic spelling correction, keyword hilighting, project statistics, automatic backups, and keyboard macros. The project window controls optimization and debug settings all in one place. TIA supports make, cook, and gnatmake project builders. For large projects, each user has a separate preference file.
NARC (Netfilter Automatic Rules Configurator) is a free firewalling package for Netfilter/Iptables, released under the BSD license. It attempts to simplify the setup of a firewall (stateful packet filter) via the iptables tools. It is a bash shellscript that generates (hopefully) sensible and secure rules for Netfilter based on a simple configuration file. It features quick setup via a simple configuration file, connection tracking (and fragmentation reassembly), customized logging, probe detection (TCP & UDP), and much more.
burnCDDA is a console frontend to cdrdao, cdrecord, MPlayer, mpg321, oggdec, mppdec, flac, normalize, and mp3_check. It can be used to create audio CDs from an M3U playlist (the playlist format of XMMS and amaroK) or from files inside a directory. It supports MP3, OGG Vorbis, Musepack, FLAC, WMA, M4A, and WAV files, and it might be the easiest way to copy an audio CD.
FireHOL a simple yet powerful way to configure stateful iptables firewalls. It can be used for almost any purpose, including control of any number of internal/external/virtual interfaces, control of any combination of routed traffic, setting up DMZ routers and servers, and all kinds of NAT. It provides strong protection (flooding, spoofing, etc.), transparent caches, source MAC verification, blacklists, whitelists, and more. Its goal is to be completely abstracted and powerful but also easy to use, audit, and understand.
GeeXboX is a standalone media player Linux distribution, similar to MoviX. It's a small bootable CD that allows you to play your favorite video (DivX, XviD, H.264, MPEG 1/2, VCD, DVD, OggMedia, Windows Media, RealMedia, etc.) and audio (MP3, Audio CD, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, etc.) files. It also supports networking, and is able to play media from Windows/Samba share, NFS, UPnP A/V Media Servers, RTP/RTSP servers, or SHOUTcast. It supports TV-out, TV tuners, DVB cards, and WiFi cards. It is based on MPlayer, and can be used on any x86, x86_64, or PowerPC computer. It's easy to modify the source to build your own GeeXboX or use an alternative boot method.
The GUIShell project is a collection of utilities facilitating the use of the GTK+ toolkit in shell scripts through the gtkshell utility. The ACE configuration environment provides sample scripts utilizing gtkshell for desktop utilities. rootcat provides the ability to display messages to the root window using Xft, allowing one to write status display scripts.
LinuxConsole is a live and modular Linux distribution that can be started from CD/DVD, hard disk, floppy disk, USB disk, or network card (PXE). The use of "console" in the title doesn't mean that it is started in "console" mode, but is meant to symbolize the simplicity of using it. This distribution is as simple to use as a game console: you can start applications without installing them. It is modular: there is a common base (device detection, GUI) and optional modules for multimedia, communication, and servers. The goal is having a very fast startup (less than 20 seconds), very good hardware detection, and many applications available (not just games).
A flexible cellular automaton editor.
A modified version of Usermin just for IMAP Web mail.


text:
XSPF v1 Notes and Errata
This page lists errata of the XSPF version 1 document and also gives advice on using and understanding XSPF.
<trackList> and <trackNum> spelling
Please not that trackList and trackNum elements MUST NOT be written in all lower-case since XSPF is case-sensitive. These two are the only elements containing capital letters so just remember trackList and trackNum and your XSPF will be fine.
Absolute vs. relative URIs in key attibutes
The attributes rel (<meta> and <link>) and application (<extension>) are by XSPF v1 specification allowed to hold relative URIs. For example this meta element is legal in XSPF v1:
<meta rel="playCount">14</meta>
While this might look elegant it comes with several drawbacks:
- You might easily forget that this string is a URI and include non-URI characters like spaces by mistake (e.g. rel="play count" is not valid)
- You lose the namespace concept: nobody will know what or whom this key belongs to or came from
For these reasons it is strongly recommended to use absolute URIs as keys instead:
<meta rel="http://example.com/track/meta/playCount/1/0/">14</meta>
Version information in key attributes
When defining you own extensions to XSPF you will have to choose an application URI for your onw extensions:
<extension application="http://example.com/myext/"> .. </extension>
Please consider including version information in your application URIs and increase it whenever the structure of your extension changes:
<extension application="http://example.com/xspf/track/1/0/"> .. </extension>
This enables others to properly distinct different versions of your extensions without the need to do version guessing. Adding version information to rel of <meta> and <link> is a good idea as well:
<meta rel="http://example.com/track/meta/playCount/1/0/">14</meta>
184.108.40.206.12.2 content
This paragraph describes the content of playlist.meta. It also reads "xspf:playlist elements MAY contain exactly one" which does not make sense for the content of an element and can be safely ignored.
184.108.40.206.22.214.171.124.12.2 content
This paragraph describes the content of playlist.trackList.track.meta. It also reads "xspf:playlist elements MAY contain exactly one" which does not make sense for the content of an element and can be safely ignored.


text:
Part 1 of 4: First segment of 'The Narrative Spark: Leveraging the Instructional Power of Story', an encore presentation by Jon Revelos at the 2009 ISPI Performance Improvement Conference that discusses the how the proper use of Stories within instructional designs can help improve three of the key objectives of successful training - Comprehension, Retention, and Application.
Here's a 25 minute video about using stories/narratives in training and education. It's an excellent piece and here's how to use it in your business:
- Mine the video for tips to make when giving presentations on the power of stories in business.
- Mine the video for tips on giving your own presentations in marketing, sales, and branding efforts.
- Mine the video for tips on using stories to transmit knowledge, values and wisdom in workshops, trainings, and learning activities.
This is another great example of different appliations for business storytelling.


text:
Oh, yeah. G-Flex, not J-flex... I don't know my J's from my G's - no wonder my wife was complaining... :-(
I am not sure about the heat-resistance of G-Flex. I do know that Acraglas was engineered to be a bedding compound in rifle-stocks and rifle barrels do get hot and it is made to withstand that.


text:
Apple fans -- including co-founder Steve Wozniak -- lined up on Friday morning for a chance to buy the iPhone 4S, the latest in the company's line of "Jesus Phones," which includes many under-the-hood improvements.
The lines, which drew thousands, were part exercises in tech commercialism and part homages to Steve Jobs, Apple's other co-founder, who died last week following a battle with pancreatic cancer.
In New York, Apple fans created a makeshift memorial to Jobs that included flowers, photos, iPad boxes and apples (as in the fruit).
And in Atlanta, some people said they were lining up for the phone in part because of Jobs.
"I wanted it anyway, but (Jobs' death) made me sort of want it more because this is the last one I know he worked on," Dwight Hill, from an Atlanta suburb, said of his decision to buy the phone. "I just hope the company keeps going in the same direction."
About 200 people had lined up in the wee hours of the morning in New York to buy the new phone, which has a faster processor and a "digital assistant" that responds to voice commands and talks back to phone owners, answering their questions.
Long lines also formed in Asia and Europe as people waited for the phone.
In Silicon Valley, California, Wozniak, the Apple co-founder who, along with Jobs, helped create the world's first truly personal computer, sat in an armchair at the front of a line that began forming Thursday afternoon. He tapped on his iPad, sipped Diet Dr. Pepper and took photos with fans while he awaited the phone's release.
"I want to get mine along with the millions of other fans," Wozniak said. "I just want to be able to talk to my phone."
The iPhone 4S initially was panned by critics, who said it was more of a facelift to the iPhone 4 than a new product. The phone's exterior looks the same as its predecessor, but the guts are new. Inside there's a faster A5 dual-core processor, an improved 8 megapixel camera and a voice assistant named Siri, who will respond to voice commands and answer questions.
When Brian X. Chen, a tech writer at Wired, tested the phone, he found Siri to be quite the helpful -- and hilarious -- assistant.
He published a series of his conversations with Siri.
"Me: 'I'm drunk,' " he wrote.
"Siri: 'I found a number of cabs fairly close to you.' (Perfect; it didn't dial my ex-girlfriend.)"
Aside from Jobs, Siri seemed to be one of the main draws for people waiting in line for the iPhone 4S.
"I just want the personal assistant," said Teresa Sparks, 41, an Atlanta nurse who had been waiting in line for the phone since 4:45 a.m.
Scott England, who also waited in an Atlanta line for the phone, teased a friend of his who said he was buying the iPhone 4S because of the camera. Clearly, he said, "Siri is a big deal," not the camera.
"He's got a secretary -- I don't," he joked.
Becky Waddell, a 33-year-old real-estate agent, also praised Apple's new digital assistant, which is only available on the iPhone 4S, and which has been compared to HAL 9000, Skynet and other fictional computer overlords.
"I love Siri," she said. "We played with it in the store. I know for sure it will make me a safer driver. I don't have to scramble through my phone while I'm driving. If I can talk to it and get answers, it's going to cut out so much time for me."
Plenty of excitement seemed to surround the phone's release.
In true Apple-head fashion, two Apple fans in New York said they arrived at the flagship Apple Store 18 days before Friday, and blogged about the experience on a site called iPhoneWhatever.
Another person arrived at that store on crutches.
"I got hit by a car and had surgery a few weeks ago. There's tons of metal plates in my foot -- it shattered," David Betz, a 26-year-old bartender. "Is it worth it? We'll find out."
Apple CEO Tim Cook helped unveil the 4S last week a day before Jobs' death.
Pre-orders of the phone started on October 7 and beat expectations. Apple sold 1 million of the phones in the first 24 hours via its website and carriers AT&T, Verizon and -- for the first time -- Sprint. By comparison, Apple reported 600,000 iPhone 4 pre-orders last year in 24 hours, but that included orders placed with overseas carriers.
The iPhone 4S went on sale Friday at all 245 Apple stores in the U.S., in addition to the following countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. The new iPhone will be available in 22 additional countries by the end of October, Apple says.
Apple stores and other retailers opened at 8 a.m. Friday. Online orders can be made at Apple's online store as well as on AT&T, Verizon and Sprint's websites.
If you were hoping to pre-order now and pick up the phone Friday, you're out of luck. Pre-orders at AT&T, Sprint and Verizon are sold out, and phones ordered through Apple's website may not be delivered for several weeks.
All of those brick-and-mortar retail stores also will carry the phone, along with select Apple-approved retailers: Radio Shack, Best Buy, Target and Sam's Club. (Word of warning: Check availability before lining up at one of those third-party sellers. Inventory is limited, and some will be filling pre-orders before selling whatever stock may remain.)
Customers who buy the phone at an Apple retail store will be offered free in-store setup service, personalized instruction on how to set up e-mail and download apps.
The phone sells for $199 for 16GB of storage, $299 for 32GB and $399 for 64GB, marking the first time an iPhone has had that much memory.
It also seems impossible to separate interest in the iPhone 4S with news of Jobs' death last week.
Among the legions of Apple's diehard fans, some have taken saying the "4S" in the phone's name represents the words "For Steve."
Although it's virtually impossible that the company would have done that on purpose (the phone's development happened largely when Jobs was still CEO) it speaks both to the long reach of Jobs' legacy and the cult-like devotion that some Apple loyalists feel toward the company and its products.


text:
NetMotion Mobility and NetMotion Locality from AT&T Mobile VPN Solution
Do you have a highly mobile workforce that needs secure reliable wireless access to crucial data and applications? Whether workers visit multiple locations in a single day or roam between floors and offices, they need to maintain authentication into applications while they access different networks, cross coverage gaps, or suspend and resume connectivity with their devices. NetMotion® Mobility and NetMotion Locality from AT&T are built specifically to address the challenges of mobile environments.
NetMotion Mobility from AT&T is a client-server software-only mobile VPN for the most popular operating systems. It's designed for highly mobile workers who need secure, reliable wireless access to critical data and applications on their enterprise networks and systems. Workers can conduct business from many sites, or roam between buildings on one site, like a corporate campus, and still maintain authentication into applications while they access different networks, cross coverage gaps, or suspend and resume their devices.
The NetMotion Locality from AT&T wireless network performance management solution helps eliminate guesswork while saving costs. NetMotion Locality gathers real field data to help your organization make informed business decisions about your wireless investments that can help reduce support costs, help boost mobile worker productivity, and proactively optimize your mobile data deployments. Whether you choose NetMotion Locality as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution with subscription-based pricing (Locality Hosted) or as an on-premises solution, NetMotion Locality from AT&T measures and monitors the devices in your mobile deployment and the wireless networks on which they operate.
NetMotion Mobility can:
- Increase effective throughput across wireless networks.
- Protect the VPN tunnel and applications from data loss or multiple logins when suspending and resuming devices or transitioning across networks, without having to reauthenticate.
- Provide support for all of the most popular operating system devices: laptops, tablets, pocket PCs, and smartphones.
NetMotion Mobility Key Features
- Single sign-on authentication
- Two-factor security and strong encryption
- Application session persistence
- Software-only solution
NetMotion Locality can:
- Improve productivity through optimal network technologies.
- Reduce costs through device management.
- Increase efficiency by eliminating chronic issues.
- Improve productivity through real-time access.
NetMotion Locality Key Features:
- Field data gathering
- Device and network measuring and monitoring
- Centralized control
- Robust reporting and deployment options
Optional Management and Reporting Modules
- Mobility Analytics Module—Provides proactive management and visibility into mobile deployments.
- Mobility Network Access Control Module—Enforces mobile device security and compliance policies.
- Mobility Policy Management Module—Allows you to create and enforce security policies based on business needs.
Annual Maintenance
Maintenance is required for the first year on all NetMotion Mobility purchases through AT&T. After the first year, maintenance is optional on perpetual license purchases.
Get Set Up for Success
At AT&T we understand that your mobile data deployment is unique and has its own set of challenges. From the system environment to related applications, to user acceptance, all play a role in creating a successful deployment. That's why AT&T offers you access to Professional Services from NetMotion Wireless. It's the best way to ensure you get the most out of your NetMotion Wireless from AT&T software solution from day one.
Next steps
Have a business
solutions expert
contact you.
Spotlight on savings
See the latest wireless
deals and phones from
Why shop Premier?
Great offers on
the latest phones


text:
It was seven long years ago that Michael Campbell was on top of the golf world.
After a scrappy start to his 2005 season, he held off Tiger Woods to win the U.S. Open when reigning champion Retief Goosen stumbled with a closing 81.
Goosen's struggles opened the door for the New Zealander, and he shot 69 in the final round to beat Woods by two at Pinehurst No. 2.
Later that year, Campbell won the HSBC World Match Play Championship. That week, he beat Geoff Ogilvy, Steve Elkington, Goosen and Paul McGinley en route to the title. Better said, he took down two majors champions (Elkington and Goosen), a future major champion (Ogilvy) and a three-time Ryder Cupper (McGinley).
Prior to winning the U.S. Open, Campbell had missed the cut in his first five starts of the year. Unfortunately for him, the following season resembled more the start of his '05 season than the middle part.
He missed six cuts in 19 events in 2006 and nine in 24 stroke-play events in 2007. From 2008 on, his play really bottomed out. Campbell finished 10 of 21 events that year, and got paid in only three of 21 events in 2009.
If that wasn't the low point, 2010 was. Campbell earned official money once, in 19 tournaments, as he finished 79th in France.
Early last year, it looked as though Campbell was on his way to contending on a regular basis again when he made the cut four times in a five-event span.
Turn the page to 2012, and it was more of the same for Campbell. He missed the cut in 11 of his first 14 starts, posted just 10 under-par rounds, while carding four rounds in the 80s. In those tournaments, Campbell earned just over 62,000 euros.
After a missed cut at Gleneagles, he shared 14th at the European Masters on the strength of three under-par rounds. The last time he had three subpar rounds in one event prior to that was at the 2011 European Masters.
Campbell stumbled to a missed cut the following week, then shared 47th at the Dunhill Links. The best was yet to come.
The 43-year-old not only carded four under-par rounds last week in Portugal, he notched four rounds in the 60s to take third place. The last time Campbell had four rounds in the 60s? Try the 2003 German Masters.
When asked about making two cuts in a row, Campbell offered, "It's been a long time, yes, it's been at least three or four years. I'm not counting. I just want to focus on this week."
In his last four starts, Campbell has made over 186,000 euros. If you combined his official earnings from 2009, 2010 and 2011 with his first 14 events this year, you still wouldn't match his total from the last four events.
That shows you the depths to which Campbell's game has fallen.
Since his 2005 U.S. Open title, he has battled through injury and swing changes. Despite his struggles, he has averaged 21 events a year. When he bottomed out, Campbell had fallen to 1,325th in the world rankings.
Campbell has risen back to 361st in the world. Among those ranked near him in the standings are Shiv Kapur, Chris DiMarco, Chris Couch and Fred Couples.
Outside Couples, that isn't exactly the company you want to keep. Campbell is a long away from the top 25 in the world rankings, a number he reached after winning the U.S. Open.
If he continues to play the way he has the last few weeks, Campbell may soon return to the winner's circle for the first time since 2005. If he does that, it would be one of the all-time comeback stories.
Mi Hyun Kim was once one of the most successful LPGA Tour players from Asia. Her eight wins rank as the sixth-most on tour by an Asian-born player.
Kim is playing this week's Hana Bank Championship on a sponsor's exemption, and it will serve as her final tournament.
After Se Ri Pak burst onto the LPGA scene in 1998, Kim won twice in 1999 and was named the tour's rookie of the year. She played the last 13 years, but her body has started to break down.
Kim hasn't competed this entire season on the LPGA Tour while she has tried to get healthy. Combine that with her short length off the tee, and Kim felt now was the time to step aside.
"I played in the U.S. since 1999. For all my Korean fans, I thought it would be good if I close my career in Korea," Kim said. "To be honest, I didn't qualify for this tournament because I didn't play enough to qualify post- season. But LPGA KEB���HanaBank Championship gave me an opportunity to finish my career. I'm very appreciative for that."
In her retirement press conference, she noted injuries, her inability to compete with the top players and her family as reasons for her retirement.
Happy trails to Mi Hyun.
* Condolences to the family of LPGA rules official Doug Brecht on his passing. Brecht died from complications of West Nile Virus.
* The European Tour started the year with nine straight events outside Europe and ends the season with seven in a row outside that continent starting this week.
* Woods' World Challenge field was released this week and the 18-player field includes 13 Ryder Cup players, 11 from the U.S. team, and two of the season's four major champions. The really good to great golfers make a lot of money, but why wouldn't they play this event? You only have to play against 17 other guys, and a last-place finish still got that golfer $140,000 last year. Easy money, for sure.


text:
Corey Hart and Aramis Ramirez both hit three- run homers to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 10-1 win over the Houston Astros in the middle tilt of a three-game series at Miller Park.
Ramirez finished the game 3-for-4 with four RBI and Nyjer Morgan knocked in two runs with a pinch-hit single in the eighth inning for the Brewers, winners in three of five.
"That's what I'm here for," Ramirez said. " I'm here to drive in runs and I've been doing that lately."
Yovani Gallardo (9-8) earned the win after allowing just one run on three hits and striking out five over seven frames.
" It was a nice ball game, (Gallardo) was really good," Brewers manager Rob Roenicke said. "Great offense today. (Gallardo) wanted to go another inning, but I was iffy either war. His stuff was really good but his command was a little off."
Chris Snyder homered for Houston, which is 2-17 since the All-Star break.
Dallas Kuechel (1-4) was pegged with the loss after giving up seven runs on seven hits over just four-plus innings. Kuechel walked a career-high six and struck out just one.
"What was tough for us was (Kuechel's) command," Astros manager Brad Mills said. "Six walks is tough, and so was getting behind in the count. We have to readdress those issues."
The Brewers went up 1-0 in the first. Norichika Aoki singled, moved to second on Carlos Gomez's sacrifice, then scored when Ramirez roped a single to left.
Milwaukee added another run in the second. With Rickie Weeks on third, Gallardo laid down a perfect bunt to execute a safety squeeze. Gallardo pushed the ball up the first base line as Weeks broke for home. He scored without a throw and Gallardo had a base hit.
Snyder's homer in the third got Houston on the board.
The Brewers came back with three more in the home half to extend their lead to 5-1. Gomez doubled and Braun walked before Ramirez crushed a three-run shot into the seats in right-center.
Milwaukee added another trio of runs in the fifth when Hart lifted a homer. Ryan Braun and Ramirez singled to set the table for Hart who hammered his 20th homer of the season off the scoreboard in center.
Game Notes
Gallardo has won his past eight starts against Houston...Hart has appeared in 56 games at first base this season without committing an error. He is the only player in the majors to make at least 45 starts at first without committing an error...The loss gives the Astros their 10th consecutive series defeat. Houston has not won a series since it took two of three from the Cleveland Indians June 22-24.


text:
Shhh! It's a Secret!
Thursday 4th February, 2010 - Sunday 28th March, 2010
Price: Admission Free
Behind every object lies a story and with the help of the young curators from St. Vincent's Catholic School you can become a detective and unravel the secrets behind the paintings, armour, ceramics and furniture. So if you love a secret and want to know how the beautiful Madame de Sérilly escaped the guillotine or what a snuff box can tell us about the playwright Voltaire then satisfy your curiosity and come to this must-see event.
An exhibition especially for families.
Press clippings and media for this exhibition.
Shh... it's a Secret!, an exhibition produced with schoolchildren at the Wallace Collection in London, is a lovely example of co-creation that demonstrates the multiple benefits of inviting audience members to act as partners in arts organizations.
Nina Simon
What a brilliant exhibition and warm opening. You and your team are to be thoroughly congratulated on such pioneering, inclusive and imaginative work. To have ten year olds talk with such passion and knowledge about Dutch paintings and French ceramics is extraordinary. Other museums have a great deal to learn from your project. Thanks for inviting me tonight. I'll definitely be coming to the Wallace again soon.
Dea Birkett, Director, Kids in Museums
- Such a Wonderful Exhibition!! P.S. It needs to be bigger
- This exhibition is really useful and creative for children and adults. I'm from Turkey!
- It's an amazing work. I hope one day my daughter will be like one of you with this great imaginative project.
- Thanks for this collection, it's really impressive. I'm from Taiwan and I've never seen this type of exhibition before. I love it, especially as children did it. Secret!!!- What a good idea.., thank you.
- Absolutely great exhibition. Will you repeat it? An extremely imaginative and creative journey for children.
- We are old children (70 and 71) and enjoyed your Shhh! gallery.
- Thank you- we are a group from University of the Arts, we spent one hour with your objects and we loved it. WELL DONE! Good work.
- A really great idea! Congratulations!
- It's good to know about old things; history has shown us many kinds of ideas. Thank you.
- I wish there was a whole armour set.
- Coolness!
- I think it's good because you can find things and see things.
- I love secrets!
- Thank you for letting us draw pictures.
- The museum is beautiful.
- ..the Wallace Collection is fantastic and nice.
Visitor comments from Tuesday 9 February 2010�


text:
Vendee Globe : Leaders in the Doldrums as Beyou starts his engine
Monday, 19 November 2012
Alex 'The Grinder' Thomson: "I know how it feels."
Fleet News:
The front six enter the Doldrums
Mike Golding: "There's no to time to practice Gangnam style dancing"
News Flash:
Jérémie Beyou (Maître CoQ) became the fifth skipper to abandon the 2012-13 Vendée Globe yesterday after he was unable to find a safe solution to secure his broken canting keel. Beyou has arrived safely Mindelo harbour in Sao Vincente, one of the Cape Verde islands, where he had diverted on Saturday night to find shelter.
"The situation is clear, the way the keel head is tied right now will resist the tide and has allowed me to go find a shelter," Beyou said. "But it won't be enough to stand all the pressure and weight throughout the race around the world. I've started the engine. The race is over."
"There's so much frustration and disappointment, for myself and people who trusted me, especially Stéphane (Maître CoQ chief executive, Stéphane Sallé) and the Maître CoQ staff. I'm angry too, there are so many things than can make such parts of the boat more fragile. We'll need to dive under the boat to see what happened exactly. It's too early to say. The breakage definitely made me nervous, I was laughing hysterically, then I got really mad but remained focused on repairing. I couldn't sleep, no way. Eventually, I was so exhausted that I fell asleep last night. We'll go to the port, dismantle and remove the hydraulic jack which will be studied and analysed."
It is the second time he has been forced to retire from the Vendée Globe, having abandoned his previous attempt after 16 days in the last edition in 2008-09 with serious mast damage.
Beyou, skippering the old Foncia boat that won the last Vendée Globe, suffered a broken hydraulic jack in his keel on Saturday night. He was in seventh place at the time and part of the leading group and had enjoyed a keen battle with Alex Thomson.
The 36-year-old skipper is one of the most talented skippers in France and was contender to win this year. He underlined his credentials by winning the Solitaire de Figaro in 2011, joining an exclusive of club of those to have won the event twice.
The grief of the skippers who have departed the race is clear. Four years of hopes and dreams – eight in the case of Beyou and Kito de Pavant (Groupe Bel) – has been clear. Like Olympians, this is their moment and it brings to mind the images such as Britain's Phillips Idowu at the London 2012 Olympics Games or Liu Xiang, the Chinese Olympic hurdler pulling up injured in the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
Alex Thomson (Hugo Boss), who had just saved his own hopes and underlined the importance of a good team to the skippers by fixing his broken rudder, said he knew how Beyou feels.
"That is very sad I did suspect that might be the case when I found out that his keel (jack) had broken," Thomson said. "I feel very sorry for Jérémie, it's his second Vendée and second time retiring, I know how it feels." Thomson was forced to retire from the last two Vendée Globes.
"It's not only your dreams you take people with you. There is so much work and commitment that goes into it not just by him, but by his family, his friends, his team, his sponsors. Jérémie is going to be feeling absolutely gutted for all of them. It's a tough race this one, the same with Sam Davies and all the guys who've had to retire like Kito (de Pavant), it's a very sad day when it happens."
Thomson revealed that he still has some more repairs to make to fix his starboard hydrogenerator that had ripped off and broken the tie bar that connects to the starboard rudder.
"The repair seems to be fine, we still have to repair the hydrogenerator bracket," he said. "I might make start on that today if I can make some progress thought the Doldrums."
Fleet news:
The top six boats have entered the Doldrums and from making over 15 knots 24 hours ago, the leader, Armel Le Cléac'h (Banque Populaire), was down to 1.8 knots in the hour before the 1600hrs (French time) ranking. Le Cléac'h had really been enjoying the trade winds too, as he showed in this video.
The Intertropical Convergence Zone, known better as The Doldrums or le Pot au noir, as the French say, will be the first test of the skippers routing skills. The compression in the fleet has been immediate with from Francois Gabart (Macif), closing to 26.8 miles and Thomson in sixth winning back 50 miles in sixth, 62.4 miles behind. But it is the time that it will take to get south-west rather than miles that count now. The first through to the trade winds on the other size will pull away quickly.
The Doldrums are a lottery with conditions changing by the hour as the skippers try and jump from cloud to cloud. But the thunderstorms, that are to be avoided at all costs and can appear as quickly as they disappear, greeted Le Cléac'h as he arrived in the zone this morning.
The Doldrums had looked less active the day before but that could be the nightmare scenario as it might mean the leaders face the beginning of a cycle. But it remains guesswork for meteorologists and the boats could emerge on Tuesday morning.
270 miles back in the trade winds, Mike Golding (Gamesa), in seventh, found more pressure in the west of the chasing group of three and took a slight lead over Dominique Wavre (Mirabaud) and Jean Le Cam (SynerCiel).
Golding said that despite his good start he has had no time to practice the Gangnam Style dance that his nine-year-old son, Soren, taught him before he left.
"Ah, well, yes (laughs) dance steps might be overstating it a bit," he said. "There's not a great deal of opportunity to practice Gangnam Style on the boat right now, we're a bit busy. But I did manage to earn him (Soren) 25 Euros by doing it on the canal on the way out.
I'd say I'm in the Doldrums, I currently have about four knots of wind and I think out here to the west is a good place to be. But to some extent it's a bit of a lottery because it can change so quickly. The priority now is to try and get south, clear of the Doldrums and into the tradewinds.
Alex Thomson (Hugo Boss), GBR
Everything's fine for me on board, I cleaned up the boat a little bit, the conditions make it possible. I did my laundry too. I had never slept as well as last night. I have bad memories of the Doldrums, especially on multihull. But I think it's less dangerous on a monohull. I'm glad to still be on the race, especially when I see what's going on for other skippers. I'm in the middle of an international group with a Swiss and a Brit. Go France!!! I don't want to say too much about that strategy we worked on, the three of us (he laughs). Now, let's be frank, one thing is for sure, I don't have any strategy going on with Mike Golding, we can't agree on anything (he laughs). With the two guys I have around me, I know I'll never get bored! I'm thinking of a Swiss-French alliance against England.
Jean Le Cam (SynerCiel)
(asked about and Jean Le Cam's proposal of a Swiss-French alliance with Dominique Wavre against the English): "Good luck with that!" Golding said. "We are 100% focused on the Doldrums strategy because it is all about where we are going to enter the Doldrums and each evolution of the model gives a slightly different outcome, we only have a limited amount of time, very limited now, to adjust our course to hit in the optimum place. Right now the Doldrums are front and centre of our minds and not the boats around us. The reality is that it is possible (editors note: to close the gap), but it is not looking great for the Doldrums, but we'll see. We have one file one day, each evolution of the file shows a different outcome. Sometimes I run their routes and we make a little catch up and other times we don't. It is changing because the doldrums are so dynamic, it changes literally from hour to hour.
Mike Golding (Gamesa), GBR
I'm in trade winds, 12 knots of east wind, I'm sailing south with my gennaker. I use binoculars to check the top of the mast or other parts of the boat, especially after the tough winds Sam and I faced when she dismasted. I received many messages today (it is his birthday), more than usual.
Tanguy de Lamotte (Initiatives-coeur)
No more swimsuit for me, but a lot of rain and clouds instead. Big thunderstorms, too, and strong winds. I'm manoeuvering a lot. The satellite data said the sea was going to be calmer but it's not, it's rougher than expected. The heavy rain is a good opportunity to take a shower!
Armel Le Cléac"h (Banque Populaire)
I'm right next to Jean-Pierre Dick, we had a bath on our respective decks (laughs), and now there's no wind. I'm keeping an eye on Jean-Pierre, I think we're both trying to find an opportunity to sail away. There is no real strategy involved at this point, we just need to go south and hopefully, we'll have some luck. We know the doldrums will help some boats go up in the rankings and others will go down.
François Gabart (Macif)
See Vendée Globe images
Last Updated ( Monday, 19 November 2012 )


text:
St. Charles North senior pitcher Ankur Shah is much more self-assured about his baseball career now compared to this time last year. For one thing, the left-hander made an offseason college commitment to Illinois-Chicago. For another, he's added about five miles per hour to his heater, and is now throwing in the mid-80s. In this week's Weekend Chit-chat with Chronicle sports editor Jay Schwab, Shah touches on a childhood injury that became a blessing in disguise, his offseason progress and the 2013 North Stars' prospects. The following is an edited transcript:
How old were you when knew pitching was the right path for you?
I knew ever since when I broke my wrist [in fourth grade]. I broke my wrist and when I came back, that's when I knew I wanted to be a pitcher because once I broke my wrist, my ball started moving a lot better. My wrist was broken and then my dad actually set it at a 15-degree angle because my dad is a doctor. … It's not really straight so I can't really throw without having movement on my fastball.
So it was kind of a conscious decision on you and your dad's part?
A little bit. He knew I played baseball and he said 'Why not try it?' Let's see that happens.
Have you heard of other pitchers trying that intentionally?
No, I haven't. I'm not really sure, but all I know is I haven't really heard of anybody getting it set like that but I guess it's turned out for the good.
In what areas do you think you've made the most progress leading up to this year?
I think I've made the most progress in velocity. My velocity has increased [substantially] from last year to this year. I'm on a velocity program us pitchers at St. Charles North are doing this year. I think we're going to surprise some people with our velocity this year because all of us pitchers have made a huge jump.
What's your sense of what kind of pitching staff you guys are going to put out there this year?
A lot of people are underestimating our ability. Everyone thinks we don't have as much talent as we've had [in the past] … But I think our pitching staff is going to keep us in a lot of games this year. Cory Wright is going to be a good one, Sawyer Chambers is going to be good. … I think we have some strong guys coming out of the bullpen as well.
North has been so consistently good, year after year. Is that a lot to live up to?
Yeah, every class is different. We just focus on us. We can't focus on what's happened in the past, what is going to happen in the future. We're just worried about this year's team and how this year's team can make a difference. Last year we had a heartbreaking loss in the regional championship, but it's a new year.
Any guys on the team who have caught your eye swinging a good stick in the preseason?
Ryan Thomas has been doing an excellent job, he's going to [Elgin Community College], he's going to be a big bat in our order, same as Jack Dennis and Frankie Farry and Cory Wright as well. And Kurt Barbeau is a stud – he's playing shortstop this year. I think we have a pretty good lineup and we're going to put some runs on the board.
Once the games do get going do you think it's advantage for a pitcher this time of year before it warms up?
Especially since it's cold outside now, our pitching staff is going to be at a lot of an advantage because obviously pitchers are way ahead of hitters [early in the season]. Especially going down to Marion [to start the season] where it's a little warmer, we can get some good work in.


text:
Bougiee Cosmetics
Regular price
Intense Purple Blue
Pearl eye shadows are soft and satiny eye powders.Perfect for an all day event /gathering/occasions.Longwearing formula has incredible blendability, and color will not fade or change on the lid.These are the ideal eyes shadows for everyday wear.
Tips: The Perfect highlighting colors because are formulated to attract light Ingredients:Talc, Mica, Octyldodecyl Sterate, Octyldodecyl Stearate, Zinc Stearate, Phenoxyethanol, Boron Nitride, Silica, Capryly Glycol, Sorbic Acid. May contain: Iron Oxides, FD & C Yellow #5 Lake, FD & C Blue #1 Lake, FD & C Red #40 Lake, Titanium Dioxide, Bismuth Oxychloride, Chromium Oxide Green, Chromium Hydroxide Green, Ferric Ferrocyanide, Manganese Violet, Ultramarines, Tin Oxide, Bronze Powder, Aluminum Powder
Sold Out


text:
Medical News
Gilead Adds Discount, Price Freeze for AIDS Drugs
June 14, 2010
Adapted from:
Gilead Sciences recently announced an extension of discounts and price freezes for several HIV drugs used by clients of AIDS drug assistance programs. Many state ADAPs continue to face budget shortfalls, and as of May there were 1,143 individuals on waiting lists for ADAP assistance, the drug maker noted in a statement issued jointly with the ADAP Crisis Task Force. Discounts and price freezes cover Truvada (emtricitabine and tenofovir), Viread (tenofovir), and Emtriva (emtricitabine) through December 31, 2013. In addition, Gilead said it is expanding its patient assistance program and eliminating minimum payments for patients in its co-pay assistance program. The ADAP Crisis Task Force was formed in 2002 by several state AIDS directors to respond to fiscal emergencies affecting ADAPs.
Silicon Valley Business Journal
This article was provided by CDC National Prevention Information Network. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
Add Your Comment:
(Please note: Your name and comment will be public, and may even show up in
Internet search results. Be careful when providing personal information! Before
adding your comment, please read TheBody.com's Comment Policy.)


text:
Labour dissidence January 24, 2013Posted by WorldbyStorm in Economy, Irish Politics, The Left.
There's a great point in the most recent Backroom column in the Sunday Business Post where in a discussion of the travails of the Labour Party (and it is soon approaching the point where any sentence about the LP will have to include that term 'travails'. That said it's not the only formation to which the term can be applied at this moment) and consideration of the dissidents it argues that:
What the leadership needs to do is a lot more straight-talking, show a bit of humility and back down less in the face of Fine Gael's obsession with the tax rate on higher earners. If Labour is going to take the hit for breaking its big promises, Fine Gael should be seen to do so as well.
Whether the Labour leadership is capable of doing this is quite a separate thing.
And it continues:
Eamon Gilmore and the highest profile Labour minister, Pat Rabbitte are not men known to do humility. They are also not men known for allowing a bit of flexibility when it comes to party discipline. What they've never done before though is lead a party of nearly 40 TDs through such difficult times.
They are not instinctively inclined towards valuing internal debate. Dick Spring, who saved the modern Labour Party, faced down and threw out the Militant Tendency, but he always understood that Labour is a broad church and it was not possible or desirable to stop all dissent.
This is an under considered thought, is it not? That those able to manage small enough parties of less than a few dozen public representatives simply have not been equipped with the skill set to manage (and/or lead) parties touching on 40 TDs and a score more Senators. It's something that on the left is well worth thinking more deeply about. Because if there's any seriousness to the efforts to grow the left then it is essential that there are structures in place to ensure the cohesiveness of those platforms (or parties or whatever) as they develop and grow.
Another interesting aspect of the Backroom column is the negative spin put on Colm Keaveney, something that suggests that it has a genuinely problematic aspect for the LP:
The Colm Keaveney affair returns to bother the party every Sunday and sometimes also during the week. It may well be a distraction from the serious business of government, but it keeps rumbling on and causing major damage.
To be clear on this, there is virtually zero sympathy for Keaveney in Labour or in any party. There were just as many broken promises and 'anti-Labour values' measures in last year's budget when he was happy to vote Yes. He has sought every opportunity to escalate the dispute and to talk about his deep connection to the voters of Galway East.
In contrast, the other Labour rebels have been more consistent and less prone to self-promotion. Tommy Broughan and Patrick Nulty went overboard the first time they were asked to vote against what they saw as core Labour values.
Róisín Shortall gave up ministerial office and the chance of ever getting to cabinet because she would not quietly sit by as Fine Gael worked its magic in Health.
There's more than a measure of truth in that, though it's not the whole story. Minds change over time. Though for all the lack of sympathy for Keaveney tellingly Backroom doesn't actually disagree with most of what he's saying:
While you can question Keaveney's motives, it doesn't mean that whatever he says is wrong, and this is a point the party leadership should take time to appreciate.
And Backroom suggests that three aspects of Keaveney's critique are worth considering, firstly that the party has reneged on its electoral promises, that the leadership appears 'rudderless' and that unless the LP starts to 'deliver' on those promises it will be in deep trouble. Backroom disagrees with the last – Backroom being wedded to the notion that 'the only thing this government can point to as … achievements… [would be] getting the deficit down and returning to the bond markets'. Perhaps that will be sufficient to haul the LP and FGs coals out of the fire, but I wonder. I think that those issues are such abstractions to the day to day enterprise of running the administration that they will be so much fluff to the electorate. The deeper problem is that even were the government able (or willing) to rescind the changes made – and let's not forget that there's been so much talk of 'reform' and 'change' for its own sake as a part of the discourse in the past few years that to muddle that message would be highly problematic, not to say contradictory – that it will be insufficient to reverse them. Taking something away, even when it is projected as a good in and of itself is rarely the best way to win friends and influence people. And eschewing giving any of it back doesn't help any, either.
But here is where the TINA argument enters the equation.
Perhaps if Labour had refused to go into government and insisted that Fine Gael go alone or pucker up to Fianna Fáil it would be in a better place.
Today there is no option but to go all-in on the strategy of taking the punishment and praying for the day when the economy really turns around. Anyone who makes this more difficult is not serving the interests of the Labour Party.
Hmmm… well. Hmmm… Given that under the current approach the LP is likely to see its representation halved at the next election, at best – given current polling data – that's an interesting definition of 'interests'. But then there's little evidence that there's much consideration for the post-election environment other than a pious hope that the figures will stack up for a return to power with Fine Gael. That might work, but with an LP so diminished and an FG not looking entirely healthy either it would seem like that others will be necessary to make up numbers, and somehow one doubts that those others will be that left-leaning. Which makes Backroom's parting thought more than a little academic:
Talk of an Old Labour/Workers' Party divide is much overblown. What is significant though is that this talk still exists. This government is rock solid for at least two more years. Labour is going nowhere because it has nowhere to go.
Anyone who genuinely wants to run as a Labour candidate next time out should understand this and act accordingly.
If Backroom believes that Keaveney is partially correct in his analysis and the LP leadership is incorrect to not to allow for 'flexibility' in dissent then it seems odd for her or him to argue that LP candidates must essentially keep schtum… and how far will that get people in the future?
- 2. hardcore for nerds - January 24, 2013
On the last point of contradiction, isn't it more that 'dissent' is valued in the abstract, while the political and economic bases on which that dissent would or could be made are excluded from the argument? Seems like the Swiftian paradox of our democracy currently.
- 3. 6to5against - January 24, 2013
Embedded in the article is the belief that an exit from the bailout and a return to the markets would be considered a success by the electorate, and might therefore pay an electoral dividend. But any exit from the bailout will only allow us to borrow money internationally, probably at rates higher than we are now paying.
That can only be considered a success if it allows us to follow a different economic policy, and it is often presented in that light. But what different policy are we even considering?
In order to ram through the austerity over the last few years, all parties (FF,Greens, FG and Lab) have portrayed their actions as necessary and good in their own right. The IMF might have been blamed when all other arguments fell, but we have constantly been told that we needed paycuts, welfare cuts, tax rises (of sorts) service reductions, less hospitals etc. regardless of any programme. In that light, its hard to see how they will be able to tell us things are looking up when we continue with similar policies while paying higher interest rates.
It really is a political mess – as well as an economic one – on a grand scale, and one that will damage all politics here for a generation.


text:
Wollongong police want young people who cross their path to know they really do care this Christmas.
Crime manager Tim Beattie said that one way law enforces showed their soft side was by handing over bucket loads of presents to Wesley Community Care Centre.
''This is something tangible to show that we care,'' detective inspector Beattie said as he joined officers in presenting the presents for distribution yesterday.
The gifts would show people in the community who are struggling to make ends meet at this time of year that police too consider themselves part of the community, he said.
This year Wollongong officers , with the help of Uncle Pete's Toys and Priceline, managed to rustle up about 100 presents for disadvantaged people in the community.
All up, Wesley has provided presents for 250 Illawarra children this Christmas.


text:
Canada breezes to berth in Four Nations Cup final
Natalie Spooner, Wakefield lead attack while Szabados earns shutout vs. Sweden
The Canadian women's hockey team will enter the championship game at the Four Nations Cup on a high after closing out an undefeated round robin with a 9-0 rout of Sweden on Friday at Valtti Areena.
Natalie Spooner and Jennifer Wakefield scored two goals apiece and Shannon Szabados made 27 saves to help Canada post its third straight victory.
"It's always nice when you score a bunch of goals," said head coach Dan Church from Tikkurila, Finland. "It gives the forwards some confidence. I think on the back end, it was a good performance by our [defence] and goalie to get the shutout.
"Overall, a great way to head into tomorrow."
Canada will play the United States in the title match while Sweden and Finland play for bronze.
Gillian Apps, Catherine Ward, Jayna Hefford, Tessa Bonhomme and Vicki Bendus also scored as Canada fired 64 shots on the Swedish net. Canada has outscored the opposition 18-1 over the three games.
Playing with confidence
The Canadian roster includes almost all the players from the team that won gold at the 2012 world championship last spring. Canada beat the Americans 5-4 in overtime in the championship game.
Church likes that his team is playing with confidence.
"I think the players have really battled hard," he said. "Just the consistency in their approach to the little details in the game I think has made a big difference for us.
"Things like our physical play, backchecking and just the commitment by everybody to play for their role in whatever role they're given for that game. I think they've all done a great job of that."
Canada last won the Four Nations Cup in 2010, defeating the Americans 3-2 in overtime. The United States beat Canada 4-3 in a shootout in last year's final in Sweden.
"I think the players are ready. They're ready for the challenge of regaining the gold medal at this tournament," Church said.
Canada has won this event 12 times over its 16-year history. The tournament also serves as an evaluation opportunity for team brass ahead of the 2013 world championship in Ottawa this April.