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Theoretically, the recipes in Dinner Tonight are supposed to be fast and healthy. And Tom Mockensturm, who sent in this recipe for what we will call Not Really Reese's Bars, readily admits "these are not healthy" — or fancy. But, he says, "we always bring home an empty pan after taking these to a potluck."
We can see why. The recipe came from his son, who lives in Greensboro, N.C.
Not Really Reese's Bars
1 cup (two sticks) butter, melted
1 cup plus 4 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
2 cups powdered sugar
2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1½ cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips
Mix the melted butter with 1 cup of the peanut butter, the powdered sugar, and the graham cracker crumbs. Press into a 9-by-13-inch pan.
Melt the chocolate chips and the remaining 4 tablespoons of peanut butter in the microwave (about 30-45 seconds on high). Spread over the crust.
Cover and chill to set.
Yield: 24 bars
— Tom Mockensturm
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Teamlist Tuesday is here with #NRL Teamlists and officials for Round 12 confirmed.
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Inaugural Melbourne Storm prop Robbie Kearns could be sidelined for up to six weeks after it was revelled today that the former Test forward has a fractured left eye socket.
Kearns will undergo surgery tonight to have a plastic plate inserted in the socket after tests today confirmed that the 31-year-old suffered a fracture following an accidental clash with Panthers substitute Shane Rodney, during last Friday night?s 55-point win over Penrith.
Kearns is expected to miss between four and six weeks after he was forced from the field with the injury just before halftime last week, he has been suffering blurred vision ever since.
?Today?s results have shown that Robbie?s eye socket has an orbital fracture in the bottom of it where the eye-ball sits,? Storm doctor Michael Makdissi said.
?There?s no injury to the eye itself, it?s just a bone-related injury which is actually quite fortunate because he got a whack on the eye-ball.
?He?ll have a plastic plate inserted to support the bone in the socket and at this stage it looks like he?ll be out for between four and six weeks, the key will be how swollen his eye is after surgery and how long the eye muscle takes to recover.?
The injury means the former Storm captain will miss Sunday?s clash with the second-placed Bulldogs in Sydney.
After rocketing into the NRL?s top four following last Friday?s record-breaking win over Penrith, Melbourne will be looking to record its first win over the Bulldogs in four years.
STORM TRAINING THIS WEEK Tuesday: 11.30am, Gosch?s Paddock Thursday: 1.30pm, Olympic Park Saturday: 10am, Olympic Park

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At 167,000 panels covering 450 acres, Phase 1 of the Alamo project is now the biggest photovoltaic solar farm in Texas, but its really only about 10% of the entire project. "Alamo I is an interesting milestone because it's now the largest solar farm in Texas, but it's still a small part of what is to come," OCI Solar Power President and CEO Tony Dorazio said. "Alamo I is only step one to Texas' rise as a big player in solar."
The next phase of the project, Alamo II, is expected to be completed in early 2014. Alamo II will bring another 4.4 megawatts on line to San Antonio.
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2004 Baseball
Community service
Baseball reads to third grade students at Bluffton elementary
By Ben Risinger, SID
December 10, 2003
In the mood of the Christmas season, baseball head coach James Grandey wanted a way for his players to give back to the town and people that support him throughout the year.
Grandey made arrangements with Bluffton elementary school teacher Andy Armstrong for his team to come and read to his third grade students. The project will be an ongoing service day for the Bluffton College baseball team. Grandey's players will go back to Armstrong's class starting in the second semester to keep the program running throughout the end of the year.
"Not only is it beneficial for the children that we read to, but it is very fulfilling for our players in becoming young men," Grandey said. "The opportunity to read to a third grade class was a great way to give back to the Bluffton community."
The players met with students in Mr. Armstrong's class and read a book about helping at home and then went over a lesson after hearing the story. The children were very attentive and talked and joked with the players throughout the time they were in the classroom.
"I think this is a great idea for my kids to see the college students," Armstrong said. "I think it's good to have a positive influence for children. Having the players read is a great influence for them."
The players will rotate who will read each time they return to the classroom. With a larger size team, only six can read a day. By the end of the season Grandey wants his players to understand and have the fulfillment of giving back.


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2011: Embarks on his sophomore year with the Spartans ... spent 2010 as a distance runner but has converted to high jump beginning this year ... the transition should prove fruitful for the squad during the season ... quality athlete who will have a great opportunity to contribute.
Personal: Is a public relations major ... is the son of Gary and Jeanne Quill ... born on October 25, 1991 ... names his grandmother as he person he most admires ... hobbies include snowboarding, running, and skateboarding ... favorite athlete is Shaun White ... chose York because it's "not too far of a drive, great business area, great track and athletics program ... most significant athletic achivement is running in college ... most memorable athletic moment while with the Spartan program is his first college race ... after graduation he plans on public speaking and advertising for new technology.


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[looking around nervously] Hush! No one tell him that the college biology departments are still teaching evolution.
And this is another way the middle-class gets fucked -- I've seen it happen again and again. Poor students get help because their parents make less than a magic number of income. Richer kids don't have to worry about money cuz parents rich. But the middle-class students who are college material but unable to secure scholarships are either stuck getting loans or becoming a significant burden on their parents(who aren't doing as well as you'd think, especially in this economy of layoffs).
And yeah, perhaps a student could work a full-time shit-job while putting themselves through school and graduate late and scraping by with rote memorization and a lackluster GPA instead of really learning, burned out, and missing out on what should have been one of the fondest personal and professional experience of their lives.
-- Ethanol-fueled
If you think being poor and getting help is better than being middle-class and having loans, then you have never been poor before.
You also seem to have very little idea about how the financial aid system works. The poorer you are, the more help you get. There's no "magic number" of income below which you get a bunch of grants and above which you get none.
If you think being poor and getting help is better than being middle-class and having loans, then you have never been poor before.
No, but not having the incorrect ancestry and/or not having been born a male certainly doesn't hurt.
Apparently two wrongs do make a right.
A relative of mine who is a Mexican-American female is now a science major at [big expensive school] which encouraged her to go there and assured her that, being hispanic and female, she would be able to get financial aid.
After she got there, it turned out they didn't have any aid at all. It's now a real financial problem and she may not be able to afford next year.
Please tell me exactly where females and hispanics studying science can get financial aid.
No vague generalities, please. We've looked. What did
And yeah, perhaps a student could work a full-time shit-job while putting themselves through school and graduate late and scraping by with rote memorization and a lackluster GPA instead of really learning, burned out, and missing out on what should have been one of the fondest personal and professional experience of their lives.
Well, I guess you have to decide what's best for you. Four or five years of fun and a pile of debt, or a more stable future which is somewhat less fun and maybe took a bit longer.
The primary reason tuition keeps going up at the STATE university I work at is that fact that the state cuts its support for higher education every damn budget cycle. Add the ever dropping state subsidy to everything else that keeps going up, like heath care coverage for employees, physical plant maintenance...but is sure ain't going onto the salaries of anyone below vice-president level.
Nope, the availability of supposed " infinite buying power." has little to do with the cost of tuition.
It is a shame that those highly paid administrators outsourced so many core functions so now we are over a barrel when Blackboard, IBM, or Oracle jack their rates through the roof at renewal time.
I don't support the next generation getting the free ride, particularly for students who are the most likely to have no trouble paying their loans back! This is silly popularism striking again.
The only solution I see that satisfies this belief, is a two-fold change:
1) Gov't backs loans up to different amounts based on the undergrad degree or area of study. Just pulling some numbers out of the air, say you major in liberal arts, max student loan is $40K. major in STEM, max student loan in $60K. major in something that feeds into business/law/medicine, max student loan is $80K. Grad degrees will work similarly.
People will moan and groan, but the bottom line is corporations already set the value of various degrees - it's called the average starting salaries they pay. If students on permanently on-hook for their loans (can't be shed in bankruptcy proceedings, etc.) then the natural response is to limit the loan amount based on the field of study.
2) Universities will also moan and groan, but fundamentally they aren't pricing their products fairly. Not throwing liberal arts under the bus, but every college I've heard of charges the same per credit hour, no matter what the class. Yes there are different fees for private vs public, in-state vs out-of-state, but a 3 credit history class costs the same as a 3 credit science class. Ergo, a natural change, reflecting the actual value on the degree (which is again as stated in #1, what corporations actually pay for holders of those degrees), is to charge different amount for courses. Pulling numbers out of the air again, liberal arts classes will cost $500 per credit hour, stem classes cost $800 per credit hour, whatever it works out to.
As for your attitude towards the next generation - honestly ask if your attitude scales up to serve the entire nation.
A lot of engineering schools have a surcharge for engineering courses to cover higher costs.
WHAAAA.. WHAAAA I paid a lot so everyone else should WHAAAA.
You should have needed to pay that much, and neither should any generation.
You're argument overlooks all the people who couldn't become engineers and scientist due to cost.
The future will be built on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Everything will be based on that, it's critical for global competition.
Why no party fission? Doesn't each side of the fundamentalism issue think their party would be better off without the other side?
Is it just a matter of each one thinking the other should have to give up the trademark, because they don't want to have to establish their own brand (which is very expensive)?
I wonder if Republicans could be persuaded to back election reform (e.g. approval voting) at their state and local levels, so that elections could support multiple parties. If they would be willing to work
You'd be surprised how many Republican-leaning voters are not social conservatives at all
No, I'm just surprised at how little influence they seem to have over the party. Fiscal conservatism, that makes plenty of sense to me. Social conservatism makes absolutely no sense to me. But it's all the republicans seem to be serious about on at the national level, gay marriage and abortion. I thought after W that "Cut taxes, worry about cutting spending when it's someone else's problem" would have run it's full course. Yet even with the debt ceiling and other issues, the party wasted it in favor of
Great idea. Wrong implementation. There are many pitfalls with making science degrees cheaper, like for example what happens when you switch majors?
The best implementation for this is to leave tuition prices alone and reward students who graduate with a degree in a preferred field and who then go on to work in that field with loan forgiveness. So for instance, if you get a CS degree from the University of Central Florida (like I did in '91), every year you work in the CS field you would fill out a form and the government would pay off a certain dollar amount of your student loans, up to a prescribed maximum. Say for instance they pay off $2500 a year in loans for 10 years.
like for example what happens when you switch majors?
Good point. I bet everyone will be a science major for their first few semesters of gen ed stuff. Not a freshman to be seen in other majors. Of course, there will also be a lot of people suddenly switching majors after their first 2-3 semesters of cheap tuition...
So then gen-ed stuff should be at a lower cost... often times it is, and available thru community colleges (or renamed former community colleges).
$300 for ENC1101 at Santa Fe, vs. $600 at UF
Great idea. Wrong implementation. There are many pitfalls with making science degrees cheaper, like for example what happens when you switch majors?
After you have a couple of semesters of credits in science and math? Mission accomplished.
I agree that the implementation is poor, but your proposal might not help much either. Imagine a student two years in who discovers he can't hack the chemistry major, but knows he can do well in business administration. If he was taking his loans out counting on the payback, he's stuck and doesn't want to risk changing majors, even though that would be the best outcome for everyone.
I think it's better to do nothing and let the market decide. Few people going into a dance program can realistically expect a
Also supporting picking winners (or at least winning industries). A foolish consistency is, after all, the hobgoblin of small minds...
I agree. What we should do instead is make college educations affordable for all.
Do you want to lower costs, or do you want your tax dollars going to tuition for interpretive dance majors?
Having that diversity where we CAN fund the arts is really important to my enjoyment of life, although I am employed in a math/science field. A lot of cool things happen because artists think of and create new and wonderful things, and part of developing more artists is funding a formal education for them.
Also, I think in a lot of cases, any college education at all is really helpful to people and to society, even if they don't end up making interpretive dance as their career. In any case, it's not like the
I'd have to agree. I'd rather see the 'state' fund interpretive basket weaving and make higher education open to as many people as can hack it. Yes, there will be waste - English PhD's waiting on tables and whatnot. That's OK, there is more to life than the paycheck.
If nearly universal post secondary education does absolutely nothing other than improve the general political discourse in this country, it will be absolutely worth it (and I think there are several other important advantages). You cannot help steer this society through the 21st Century with a 14th Century mindset.
There's radio ads here in California targeted at families making $75K a year or more to help their kids get onto colleges of their choice by... doing something. Not sure what. It almost sounds like PR consulting for kids so they have the right array of trendy things in high school. That actually bothers me more than tuition. With such an emphasis on extracurricular activities many universities seem to be hell bent on filtering out certain personality types when they have no damned business giving a flying f
This isn't pick wining industry, it makes the foundation for ALL industries easier to get into.
Everything should be lower priced! Amirite?
Tuition should be zero. It works in Germany.
Just to throw a bit of rain on the parade: you can't just say "Free school for everyone!" without doing everything else that Germany is doing.
#1: University is for the brainiacs. Technical school is for mechanics and electricians. Apprenticeship is for the ones who need a job now, can hold on to a wrench and are willing to learn.
#2 Heavily subsidized child care. You can go to school and raise a family.
#3 Subsidized or communitized housing.
#4 Schools that are generally ok, but where there is little stratification. You won't get a Harvard/Stanford/MIT/Berkeley, but you also won't get University of Phoenix.
I love the German system to death, but you can't just import the tuition system into the US, and think that everything will work out the same. You need to import the attitude and the attendant support systems as well.
Germany used to have free university education and liberal financial aid, but that was back when only a few percent of Germans went to university. Back then, your primary school teachers effectively decided whether you'd be able to go to university a decade later.
Today, many German universities do charge tuition. Furthermore, most Germans don't get financial aid for living expenses. There is a student loan program, loans are partially subsidized, and many Germans are left with student loan debt.
Does the sys
Grants would only apply to state residents. This solution would apply regardless of the home state of the student. Thus this solution can draw in STEM students from other states which is a boon for Florida since if you have the business environment to support those graduates then you can keep them in state rather than losing them to another.
"ou cannot have "selective pricing" of tuition in a public institution for specific fields
That already happens. How many STEM course are 4 to 6 credits? how many class in those other fields you list?
STEM is ALREADY more expensive then other fields.
All the other fields you list can be achieved with s STEM based degree.
Yeah, it is different in Florida. State universities charge per semester hour, so the more hours your degree requires, the more you have to pay... and most STEM degrees require more hours than the standard requirement. On the other hand, though, it's not a lot more - usually something like an additional 8 to 10 semester hours over the general requirement of 160, so it's only about 5-10% more total.
Honestly, the big thing that irks me in Florida schools is the "athletic fee". At FSU, at least, all studen
should be glad. Strong STEM education is the foundation for a robust economy, which gives people the extra money to go see their dance performances. Would they rather be debtless and unemployed?
Shouldn't schools charge more for degrees that cost more? Science requires expensive labs.
Now if institutions, both public and private, want to subsidize those costs, that would seem to be a more economics-based approach.
What you are describing is unbridled free market economics, not economics. It's a common misconception that unbridled free market economics is the only kind there is, but this is not actually the case. What is being described in TFA is an incentive-based economic system, where government decides which industries are most likely to need new workers in ten years, and provides incentives for students to learn the skills they need to get jobs in those industries.
I hate to say it, but I think that a better plan would be to continue with the current system, where we don't ask the government to predict the future, and instead let students decide what to do, but make sure that whatever decision they make doesn't lock them into a career, as we currently do, by maximizing their post-college debt. The best thing to do, IOW, is to minimize the cost of making a mistake. If you get a degree in biochem, and later realize that there are far too many people with those degrees, you ought to be able to spend another couple of years in school, building on your first degree, to get a second one that's more useful.
The way it works right now, unless you have substantial financial resources, if you blow it and choose the wrong career track, you wind up waiting tables to pay off your giant student loans.
This reminds me of the healthcare debate, where most of the discussion seems to be about who pays what, various neat ideas for handling the funding, etc. Yet when people look at how much of whose time people use, as they take advantage of these two services, the amount of the bill is totally out of whack with expectations, and looks very weird next to pretty much every other industry, except for maybe defense/aerospace where you expect immense waste and corruption.
You could hire a personal valet who would
If you want Americans to study STEM, you need to provide jobs for them. Why get a degree in engineering just to train to your H1B replacement, or to have you job offshored.
Wish I had a million mod points for you, sir.
Slashdot: a million mod points for stating the bloody obvious.
If you want Americans to study STEM, you need to provide jobs for them. Why get a degree in engineering just to train to your H1B replacement, or to have you job offshored.
As somebody who was once an H1B (or the way I like to think of myself: a human being making his living), I noticed how recently there is a lot of anti-immigration sentiment on Slashdot. Referring to somebody by their immigration status is just not nice. It seems H1B is the new buzzword here spoken with attitude described for "Okies" in The Grapes of Wrath.
College educated people who come to USA to work really don't deserve that kind of attitude. They go there either because they like America enough or because they can't make decent living elsewhere and both causes are respectable.
I respect that you may think immigrant engineers are lowering your hourly rate and robbing you of the job you were entitled to, but please keep in mind that it's a sign of proper upbringing to value all people equally regardless of where they were born.
You just had your elections and neither one of two major presidential candidates talked in support of labor rights and collective bargaining. If these issues are not important enough for Americans, then it would be nice to refrain from bashing "H1Bs" whenever they get a chance.
It's not about political correctness, it's about politeness and respect of other human beings who want the same thing as you do: to work and be respected for who they are, regardless of where they were born. I wish all slashdotters to never be in a situation where they have to choose between their work being valued appropriately (i.e. working in a foreign country) or not being referred to by their visa code.
P.S. I apologize for using your post for this rant.
College educated people who come to USA to work really don't deserve that kind of attitude. They go there either because they like America enough or because they can't make decent living elsewhere and both causes are respectable.
The former reason is fine, but the latter, not so much. White relocating due to economic necessity is understandable, often people from other cultures do not seem to want to assimiliate to any degree. Note that I do not expect people to give up their heritage, but far too many time
Don't tell me what I should think; if you try that in mixed company here in the states in person you may get your ass handed to you post-haste.
I am asking you to consider my arguments when you decide what to think. I don't know about company that you keep, but people I like usually don't hand one's ass to one just because they don't like their views.
Now, onto the H1-B thing: I do believe it is used to drive down wages. For this reason, I think a new type of probationary visa that runs for a year should be used, and if the worker (in a LEGITIMATELY understaffed field) performs well, they should be offered citizenship, full stop. They either then accept US citizenship, or leave.
That's how it pretty much already works. To quote Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]: It allows US employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. If a foreign worker in H-1B status quits or is dismissed from the sponsoring employer, the worker must either apply for and be granted a change of status t
I don't think people here really resent the people who come here on H1B visas, I think they resent the way the system for H1Bs is set up.
A foreign-educated engineer who comes to the USA on an H1B visa cannot be faulted for wanting to have a better standard of living than they would otherwise have access to in their native country. That's what used to be called the "American Dream"; we are, after all, a nation of immigrants. But there are problems with the system as it currently exists:
1) Employers do not pay H1B visa holders the same amount as native workers. They're supposed to, but they don't, because :
2) H1B visa holders are beholden to their employers for the opportunity to continue to live here. All employees are at a significant disadvantage to their employers in the USA, but a native worker exercising the only real right they have in employment conditions (finding another job and quitting) does not face immediate deportation. Also, employees that complain about working conditions get fired, so H1B visa holders don't complain about mistreatment, legal or otherwise. A right that you cannot assert is not a right.
3) The employer, not an impartial (government or otherwise) agency is allowed to determine what the "prevailing wage" is for a given position.
4) Enforcement of existing rules intended to protect both native workers and H1B visa holders is largely ineffective, and that's if the regulating authorities even hear about the violations; see 2) above.
5) H1B visas are intended to allow employers to hire for positions that they cannot find native workers for. However, there is significant evidence [wikipedia.org] to suggest that there is no actual shortage of native workers in the fields that H1B visa holders traditionally see the most use. The truth is, that employers COULD fill these positions with native workers (as there are more than enough native workers to fill the open positions in a given field) but would rather use H1B visa holders to save money and exploit their willingness to put up with substandard treatment.
6) There is a phenomenon of foreign agencies sending workers over here to gain experience in how an American business is run, then repatriating them in order to encourage American companies to outsource to cheaper foreign labor.
You might be right about that. However, have you ever considered off-shoring yourself. Yes, I know, in the long run that will not help the US, as you would leave the country, which would cause a brain drain, which results in even worse economics. However, on a personal perspective it still might be a good idea. For example, due to the present crisis in Spain a lot of Spanish people move to Germany, as this is (at the moment and only for the moment) a thriving economy compared to its neighbors. Maybe you hav
There should be no government funding in education that's how the prices would fall, once every Jim, Tom and Sally can no longer afford going to college for a sociology major, because no bank would give them a loan to go for such a useless degree. All of a sudden without government guaranteed loans there are only people going to college that can afford it and tuitions fall in price.
As tuitions fall in price, people once again can afford college by working summer jobs as they have done for decades before gov
A paper and pencil study, like education, math or sociology costs about € 3000 per year, while engineering and sciences with a lot of lab work go up to € 10000 or more. At least in Germany that is. If you stop having sociology, this would have no effect on the cost of all the other topics available at a university. However, you would not be able to study computer science and sociology together, because there wouldn't be any good sociology teacher left. Thanks god, we (in the upper mentioned countr
'We're trying to introduce some semblance of a market dynamic information in an environment where there is none,' Brill says.
Really? Well, in high school I took AP Calculus, AP Music Theory and AP Computer Science. My freshman year in college, I took 20-24 credits each semester to continue on the paths to majoring in those fields. In fact, I took two more semesters of music theory. But then came the time when many of my general requirements were completed and I needed to specialize in one of these majors. I loved them all with a passion but realized I didn't have the time or money to do all three. So, being from an below po
STEM degrees, as well as law and medical doctorals help people from low-income backgrounds and families have rich and successful lives.
I've seen and worked with many people who came from humble beginnings growing up and putting themselves through college for that engineering degree or medical degree has surely helped them have the rich life they now have.
By rich I don't mean just money, but stability, low stress, etc. - it sure makes life easier.
I'm also one of them. Partially put my self through school wi
what about cutting the # of filler / required class for all Major's to cut costs???
I think lot's stuff can be slimmed down to 2-3 years. As well added more trades / tech school based planes to the schooling.
IT / Tech can use less classroom time (at least in the up front) part and more apprenticeships and on going classes (not tied down to the college time table)
We aren't using the technical people we have. Why subsidize the production of more? It just gives employers more candidates to reject.
If Florida employers are demanding these degrees, they can pay more for holders of those degrees. Instead, this proposal allows employers to justify lower pay for holders of those subsidized degrees.
Yet another "free market" proposal from a Tea Party politician.
The economic incentive for a STEM major is STEM jobs. Full stop.
If those jobs aren't being filled, the jobs are paying too low of a rate for the market. This is a straight up manipulation of the labor supply in order to lower prices.
There's no point in training people in STEM jobs when as a country we're actively killing the market for STEM in the US. Students from other countries come over here for best in world education, and then leave.
The reason behind all of this is that STEM jobs are outsourced and sent overseas. Worse yet is that companies can get tax breaks for doing so!
Science majors in high-demand fields should be given subsidized loads because they are likely to get good paying jobs and will be able to pay off the loans. What the science majors are doing is going to directly benefit themselves the most.
What we should be doing is given lower tuition to liberal arts majors that are unlikely to get good paying jobs. Their degrees benefit society (by way of having an educated, informed electorate) more than the degree holder.
Before you mod me down, realize that this is the position of (conservative/libertarian and award-winning economist) Milton Friedman.
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein


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mid-13c., from Old French seisir "to take possession of, take by force; put in possession of, bestow upon" (Modern French saisir), from Late Latin sacire, which is generally held to be from a Germanic source, but the exact origin is uncertain. Perhaps from Frankish *sakjan "lay claim to" (cf. Gothic sokjan, Old English secan "to seek;" see seek). Or perhaps from Proto-Germanic *satjan "to place" (see set (v.)).
Originally a legal term in reference to feudal property holdings or offices. Meaning "to grip with the hands or teeth" is from c.1300; that of "to take possession by force or capture" (of a city, etc.) is from mid-14c. Figurative use, with reference to death, disease, fear, etc. is from late 14c. Meaning "to grasp with the mind" is attested from 1855. Of engines or other mechanisms, attested from 1878. Related: Seized; seizing.


text: Photos: Beyoncé turns 31FREDERIC J. BROWN, AFP/Getty Images 05.01.2012Beyonce celebrates her 31st birthday today. The wife of hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and new mom was born Beyoncé Giselle Knowles in Houston, Texas on Sept. 4, 1981.FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP/Getty ImagesBeyonce and Jay-Z and hubby Jay-Z chillin' out. The snapshot is from Beyonce's personal photo album posted on the "I AM" section of her new web site, beyonce.combeyonce.com / beyonce.comBeyonce's personal photo album is revealed online at beyonce.tumblr.com.beyonce.tumblr.com / beyonce.tumblr.comBeyonce headlined the final night of England's Glastonbury Festival Sunday, June 26. The hits and haireography would've been enough to grab headlines, but the 90-minute show was also an instance of history in the making. Beyonce is the first woman to ever headline the festival in its more than 40-year history.Getty Images / Getty ImagesSinger Beyonce Knowles performs on NBC's "Today" at Rockefeller Center on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008 in New York City.Scott Gries / Getty ImagesBeyonce graced the cover of the 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.Reuters / Sports IllustratedBeyonce (left) first made her name on the pop scene with group Destiny's Child.Frank Micelotta / Getty ImagesSinger Beyonce Knowles performs onstage during the 2011 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena May 22, 2011 in Las Vegas.Ethan Miller / Getty Images for ABCSinger Beyonce performs "Ave Maria" at the BET Awards '09 in Los Angeles June 28, 2009.xx / xxBeyonce's performance of "Sweet Dreams," inspired some dreams of a different variety.Getty Images / Getty ImagesBeyonce and hubby Jay-Z make a stylish appearance, with Jay keeping things simple in a white tuxedo jacket while Beyonce nails the va-va-va-voom factor in an intricate Emilio Pucci gown. So what that he dress was so tight she needed two people to help her up the stairs?Getty Images / Getty ImagesBeyonce and sis Solange Knowles hanging out. The snapshot is from Beyonce's personal photo album posted on the "I AM" section of her new web site, beyonce.combeyonce.com / beyonce.comBeyonce looks radiant in this file photo.Mike Coppola / Getty ImagesBeyonce announces baby – Singer Beyonce didn't issue a press release when telling the world she's expecting with hubby Jay-Z. The singer simply showed up at the MTV Video Music Awards sporting a fabulous belly bump.Jemal Countess / Getty ImagesWhen Beyonce gave birth to her daughter there was immediate buzz about the baby's name: Blue Ivy.Clive Brunskill / Getty ImagesSinger Beyonce Knowles poses for a photo with her waxwork figure at the 'Beyonce: Beyond the Red Carpet'.Frank Micelotta / Getty ImagesBaby Blue Ivy, born on January 7 in New York, was shielded from the public by Jay-Z and Beyonce. The couple shunned the popular celebrity choice to unveil their offspring in lucrative magazine deals and opted to make the pictures available at no cost on the Internet.helloblueivycarter.tumblr.com/ / tumblr.comBeyonce poses with her Grammy Awards.tk / ScreengrabBeyonce and Jay-Z and hubby Jay-Z chillin' out. The snapshot is from Beyonce's personal photo album posted on the "I AM" section of her new web site, beyonce.combeyonce.com / beyonce.comBeyonce's ready for some snorkeling! The pop star, who's known for being secretive about her private life, has revealed a selection of her personal photos online to the "I AM" section of beyonce.com.beyonce.tumblr.com / beyonce.tumblr.comAh, the good life. The famously private singer has posted personal snaps online to her new site beyonce.combeyonce.tumblr.com / beyonce.tumblr.comNew mom Beyonce shows off her incredible curves in a daring Givenchy creation.Getty Images / Getty ImagesBeyonce Knowles has been named the World's Most Beautiful Woman of 2012 by People Magazine.Screengrab / People.comU.S. singer Beyonce performs on stage during her "I Am ...Sasha Fierce" concert at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona May 20, 2009.Getty Images / .ShareAdjustCommentPrint xSharePhotos: Beyoncé turns 31 Email Twitter Facebook Pinterest Google Linkedin


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Awful, awful, awful… I have no other words but awful. Actually, that's I lie. I have plenty to say.
I went to see "Spring Breakers" late last night with one of my oldest friends. Much like everyone else in the theatre, we had a high expectation coming into this film. There had been so much hype leading up to the premiere, that I was really disappointed in how much it SUCKED. It was a terrible attempt to be an artistic film. Throughout the whole movie I kept thinking, "Why am I here?", "I paid for this?", "What is even going on right now?"
In case you hadn't heard anything about this disaster film, I will do my best at trying to explain it for you. Brit, Faith, Candy and Cotty are sick of seeing the same things every day. It's spring break and everyone is going down to Florida for this huge college rager. They are short on cash, so three of the girls decide to rob a local restaurant— total badasses right? Once they get down to Florida, they are immersed into the party of a lifetime. Drugs, alcohol, and excessive partying, lead them to getting arrested. They think they will be caged up forever, until they are bailed out by a major drug lord/local rapper/arms dealer named Alien. If getting arrested wasn't MY first 'get outta town' thought; then meeting this guy would have been.
In addition to the clichéd party scenes, there was an unnecessary amount of nudity and I sat in the theatre feeling cheap and dirty. I just couldn't wait to get out of there. There were so many scenes shot with an oblique camera angle that it made me feel dizzy and unfocused. The really was no plot to this film, other than trashy girls going on spring break to see if they could get even MORE trashy.
The film was directed by Harmony Korine, and starred Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Heather Morris, Selena Gomez, and James Franco. I will say that it was interesting to see Franco play a creepy drug lord. The film definitely proved that he isn't limited to any particular roles. I was actually even impressed by Selena Gomez. She did a great job at displaying emotion through her innocent character. From seeing her in this film, I kind of take her more seriously now and believe that she can do A LOT better in picking the right films for herself.
If I were to rate this film, it's obvious that I would give it a half a star. You can be the judge for yourself, but don't say that I didn't warn you! Here's a trailer for the film, along with a cast interview. Let me know your thoughts!


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Florida Steals The Show In Identity Theft
Yes, we know, Florida is not a company. But this week we learned that Florida has the highest rate of identity theft than any other state -- 361.3 complaints per 100,000 people. That's according to an Equifax analysis of data about identity theft and fraud-related complaints compiled in a recent Federal Trade Commission report.
Equifax said Florida's dubious distinction could be due to the state's more transient population, the large number of visiting tourists and the high percentage of elderly people in the population.


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Meet the triple-cork, the gravity-defying star of slopestyle skiing
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Just one more triple-cork story. It's impossible to overstate the historical importance of ski slopestyle's explosive unveiling at the Sochi Winter Olympics on Thursday. It will be remembered as the day freeskiing graduated to the world stage and showed its athletic legitimacy.
Long dismissed as the domain of mumbling, whirling teens, Thursday's show exposed freeskiing for what it is: the most robustly athletic, innovative camp in skiing.
While Park City, Utah's humble Joss Christensen won gold in the Olympic debut of slopestyle, the star of the high-flying pageant was the intimidating triple cork.
Skiers have been spinning doubles for years, but the triple just emerged in competitive skiing last month. The thrice-inverted trick — thrown with as many as four full rotations and both launched and landed switch, or skiing backwards — was a necessary ingredient for Olympic glory on Thursday. Just about every finalist spun one. But few were as lofty, flawless and inspiring as Christensen's switch triple 1440.


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The "Cobra Spotlight" is a weekly highlight of a student-athlete at Coker College. Each week we take a different athlete from a different sport and display some facets to get more familiar with them. This week we take a look at Martin Moncayo, a member of the men's tennis team.
Name: Martin Moncayo
Sport: Men's tennis
Hometown: Quito, Ecuador
Year: Sophomore
Major: Business administration
Why did you choose Coker? I chose Coker because of the weather and the tennis program.
What is your best memory at Coker (athletic related)? Best athletic related memory has to be when we won the Conference Carolinas regular season tennis championship against Mount Olive last year.
What is your best memory at Coker (non-athletic related)? I don't have one in particular.
Which athletic team would you play on at Coker other than your own? Men's soccer
Favorite class: Religions of the World
Favorite professor: Rabbi Ronald
Plans after graduation: To pursue a master's degree in healthcare business
Favorite movie: Angels & Demons
Favorite type of music: Pop
Favorite food: Italian food
Favorite sports team: Real Madrid and Emelec
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite TV show: The Mentalist
Most prized possession: My family
What is something people may not know about you? The city that I live in is exactly in the middle of the world.
Do you have a nickname? If so, how did you get it? Monkey, and it is because of my last name, I assume.
One word that describes you: Calm


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The TIGER grant was originally awarded in September 2013. The project will repair a 42-mile section of rail to allow for 286,000-pound. rail car shipments to travel the full length of the rail corridor and improve safety and reliability while increasing the speeds of trains.
"[New Hampshire] Northcoast Railroad is an important economic link for southeastern and central New Hampshire, connecting the region to the national freight rail network with a connection to Boston at its southern portion," stated New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan. "Industrial sector companies depend on this railroad and the repairs and upgrades made possible by this TIGER grant will directly impact existing customers and greatly assist our efforts to bring new industry to the region. Strengthening our transportation infrastructure is critical to our long-term economic growth and I thank the New Hampshire Congressional delegation for their advocacy, as well as USDOT for this critical investment that will help keep our economy moving in the right direction."
In 2013, Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH-01) and the entire New Hampshire delegation urged then-USDOT Secretary Ray LaHood to support New Hampshire Department of Transportation's competitive grant application for the project, which will enable the railroad to expand its freight service on the line and operate it more efficiently.


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From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones
BRIDGETON, Mo. -- Hillary Clinton began a rally here Sunday by arguing this election represented an opportunity for America to change direction and avoid "more of the same."
"This election has the turning point potential. It can either get us back on the right track or to continue down the road that's labeled more of the same," she told a crowd of a few hundred at a town hall outside St Louis.
The New York senator has been spending a lot more time in recent days talking about the future and the need to focus on the next generation rather than simply the next election and while her line today wasn't totally new, it sounded like an effort to co-opt her rival's main message.
Obama often talks about the need to "turn the page" on what he calls the divisive politics of Washington and his latest pitch centers on the theme that this election is about the past versus the future. This past week, he said voters should resist the temptation to build "a bridge back to the 20th century". It was a way of arguing against another Clinton presidency. (The phrase was a play on Bill Clinton's line about building a bridge to the 21st century.)
Polls show Clinton leading Obama in Missouri, but the race is tight and today, it seemed that Clinton was trying to use Obama's argument to win points with voters who want change.
She also spoke about what she believes is necessary to win the next election.
"There is no doubt we will have a clear contrast in the general election. I know that in order to win we have to have a united Democratic Party, which we will. We have to have a candidate with the good ideas and the experience to make the case that we can have a country that once again delivers results for the vast majority of Americans and we have to have someone who is ready to go toe to toe with the Republicans," she said.
Clinton spent the rest of her speech hitting all the points she usually makes and reprising her criticism of Obama for offering a healthcare plan that doesn't cover everyone.
She closed with an appeal to voters to choose her as the candidate who can best bring change to the country. It was a fresher, more to-the-point line than we often hear from her.
"For those undecided voters in the "Show me" state, we have two candidates left after a vigorous and intense year of campaigning. Either one of us will change history," she said to applause. "That is not the question. The question is who will change America and who will deliver results for America? Who can, on January 20th 2009, walk into the Oval Office, begin turning the economy around, be the commander in chief to bring our troops home safely and responsibly and get our country moving once again into the future with confidence and optimism."
Clinton's voice was weak and she joked: "It is clear from my voice that I've been talking a lot, but there's a lot to say, because there's so much at stake in this election."
She spoke for about 20 minutes and then answered audience questions on NAFTA, Iraq, ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", helping retired workers, global warming, No Child Left Behind and other issues
One woman sparked amusement and applause in the crowd when she stood and called Bush a bastard. She went on to say that in 2005, the president reached an agreement that would join America, Canada and Mexico together by 2010 to create a single country. Clinton, who stood smiling as the woman asked her question, said the story was a myth.
"I've heard that story and there's not a lot of truth to it. So let me put your mind at rest. There were agreements signed to increase cooperation among our three countries, but so far as I know, there is no such agreement. Now, when I'm president, if I discover there is such an agreement, it'll be gone in a bird dog minute," she said to applause.
Another woman said she felt Clinton would make the best person to lead the country but was "just really scared" about her electability.
"It's always better to vote for the person you think would be the best president, because in the cauldron of a campaign, I think that's the most important factor. If you think that I would be the best president, you have to believe that I can demonstrate that to the rest of the country," Clinton said, before going on to talk about the election wins in New York, having been tested and her ability to work across the aisle.
She ended with what seems to be her new favorite line about how it takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush. It was a winner at the LA debate. It would also seem to play handily into her rival's past versus future argument for choosing him instead.


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Euclid Beach Park, 16250 Lakeshore Blvd.
Panic Steel Ensemble, the Community Arts house band, entertains at 7:00 p.m. at the 4th annual Euclid Beach Blast. Celebrate Euclid Beach Park from 5:00–9:00 p.m. with an evening of art, live music, games, food trucks, and summer sunsets; free fun for the entire family.


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Annual 'Great American Smokeout' Held Nov. 15
Special to the Times-Record
Nov. 15 marks the 37th Annual Great American Smokeout ― a day when everyone is encouraged to lead tobacco-free lives to improve their overall health and quality of life.
"We're serious about protecting the health of North Dakotans, and the Great American Smokeout is a great opportunity to advance the most-powerful disease-prevention strategies we know: smoke-free policies," said Vicki Voldal Rosenau, tobacco prevention coordinator at City-County Health District (CCHD).
Strong smoke-free policies are proven to prevent illnesses known to be caused by smoking and secondhand smoke, said Voldal-Rosenau, "This deadly list includes COPD, stroke, heart disease, heart attacks and other serious health issues," she added.
Every year in North Dakota, tobacco use kills over 800 people and costs us $247 million. That's why CCHD and the Center for Tobacco Prevention and Control Policy (the Center) are focusing on proven tobacco prevention strategies, including smoke-free public places and tobacco-free schools.
Studies have shown that smoke- and tobacco-free policies have immediate health benefits for smokers and non-smokers alike. A recent study by the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences demonstrates a 30.6 percent decline in heart attacks in Grand Forks within four months of the city's comprehensive smoke-free law taking effect.
"Smoke-free and tobacco-free policies are beneficial because they create a tobacco-free culture that prevents young people from ever starting to use tobacco," said Jeanne Prom, executive director for the Center. "When we prevent people from starting to use tobacco, we save lives and reduce the taxpayer burden for treating tobacco-related diseases."
Smoke-free policies are also proven to reduce the number of cigarettes tobacco users smoke and can help to encourage users to stop using tobacco.
To learn more about tobacco prevention, contact CCHD at 845-8518 or visit www.breathend.com.


text: For a few years, Randy and Lori Arnold, owners of Akron Hardware, sponsor a tree decorating contest for the high school classes at Akron High School. The trees are provided by Akron Hardware and the classes decide on a theme and provide the decorations. The trees are decorated by the first week in December and then the public is asked to come in and vote for their favorite. The trees will stay up until after the first week in January, so if you have not see them you have time. This year, the junior class placed first and they will receive $100 from Akron Hardware. The seniors received second in a very close contest, as they won over the sophomores by only one vote. The seniors will receive $50, the sophomores and freshmen will each receive $25. Randy Arnold first came up with this idea and as Lori said, "It's his baby, so he counts the votes." About 100 people voted this year for their favorite tree. This contest will take place again next year, so be sure and vote once the trees are decorated.


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On Saturday, then league leaders Liverpool slipped to a shock 1-0 home defeat at the hands of Southampton, bringing an end to their short spell at the top of the Premier League table.
Arsenal's win at Stoke the following day meant that Brendan Rodgers' side slipped down the league standings, with the Anfield chief calling on his troops to make an immediate response by returning to top form on Wednesday night.
Liverpool travel to Old Trafford to take on Manchester United in the Capital One Cup third round, with David Moyes' side fresh off the back of a humbling defeat of their own - 'noisy neighbours' Manchester City quietened United with a 4-1 win over their fierce rivals at the weekend.
Yet, despite the Merseyside club losing their seat at the top of English football's table, here's three reasons why the Anfield giants can return to form and pull off a win at Old Trafford.
Scroll through the pages and see if you agree - and feel free to have your say in the comments box provided...
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1963: The original DOCTOR WHO series premiered on the BBC.
1964: On ANOTHER WORLD, Pat (Susan Trustman) sent a letter to the Baxter family which said she did not kill Tom.
1984: On DAYS OF OUR LIVES, Andre (Thaao Penghlis) presumably died when he fell into quicksand following a fight with Tony (Thaao Penghlis).
1992: On GUIDING LIGHT, Blake (Elizabeth Keifer) asked Alan-Michael (Rick Hearst) for a loan.
1993: On THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, the Abbotts were concerned about John (Jerry Douglas), and Paul (Doug Davidson) was worried about April.
1994: DAYS OF OUR LIVES theme co-composer Tommy Boyce died at age 55.
When songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart were first approached to write the theme to DAYS OF OUR LIVES, Ted and Betty Corday asked them to come up with something that sounded similar to "Sunrise, Sunset", a song which the Cordays had just seen performed in the Broadway play "Fiddler on the Roof."
Boyce and Hart's first two submissions to the Cordays were quickly rejected. Boyce was ready to call it quits, but Hart told Boyce he had one last idea before they abandoned the project. They went to a recording studio, and Hart played music on an organ that sounded like music he remembered hearing when his mother listened to various radio soap operas. Boyce gave some additional suggestions and they returned to the Cordays for their third and final attempt. This time, they were a success. Announcer Ed Prentiss spoke the following lines over the instrumental theme: "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. DAYS OF OUR LIVES, a new dramatic serial starring Macdonald Carey.
1994: On ALL MY CHILDREN, Dixie (Cady McClain) found out she was a kidney donor match with Del (Winsor Harmon).
1999: Heather Olson debuted as Jan Spears in DAYS OF OUR LIVES.
2006: Longtime daytime soap writer Anne Howard Bailey died at age 82. Along with creating HOW TO SURVIVE A MARRIAGE, her writing credits included GENERAL HOSPITAL, DAYS OF OUR LIVES and SANTA BARBARA.
2009: On AS THE WORLD TURNS, Noah (Jake Silbermann) was released from the hospital.
2011: Prospect Park released a statement which said the efforts to create online versions of ONE LIFE TO LIVE and ALL MY CHILDREN were suspended and it was "now becoming clear that mounting issues make our ability to meet our deadlines to get OLTL on the air in a reasonable time period following its January 13, 2012 ABC finale impossible." Read the statement here.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Jerry verDorn (Clint, ONE LIFE TO LIVE; ex-Ross, GUIDING LIGHT) - 63
David Wallace (ex-Tom, GENERAL HOSPITAL; ex-Todd, DAYS OF OUR LIVES; ex-Minister, DAYS OF OUR LIVES) - 55
Maxwell Caulfield (Richard, DEVANITY, ex-Mark, EMMERDALE; ex-Jim, CASUALTY; ex-Pierce, ALL MY CHILDREN; ex-Miles, THE COLBYS/DYNASTY; ex-RYAN'S HOPE) - 53
Robin Roberts (Herself, NASHVILLE) - 52
Michael Brainard (ex-Joey, ALL MY CHILDREN; ex-Ted, SANTA BARBARA) - 47
Salli Richardson-Whitfield (Reed, THE SECRET LIVES OF WIVES; Allison, EUREKA) - 45
Page Kennedy (ex-Caleb, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES) - 36
Sara Jane Henriques (ex-Tina, ALL MY CHILDREN)
Ricky Whittle (Charles, SINGLE LADIES; ex-Calvin, HOLLYOAKS; ex-Daniel, HOLBY CITY) - 31
Lucas Grabeel (Toby, SWITCHED AT BIRTH) - 28
Kelvin Cook (Brother Ray, ANACOSTIA)
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During the 2005 legislative session, the General Assembly mandated that GEFP, under the auspices of the Office of Management and Budget, conduct a review of all executive level agencies (See Public Law 246–2005, Section 255). The purpose of these reviews is to identify opportunities for aggressive government-wide reforms. These reforms will both improve Indiana State government's service to Hoosiers, and create a more transparent, performance-informed budgeting process.
In order to implement the broad scope of the legislative directive while still at a level of detail to be meaningful, OMB decided to focus on the programs for which executive branch agencies and departments are responsible. We developed a measurement instrument called Program Results: an Outcome-Based Evaluation (PROBE), which was based on the federal OMB's Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART). The PROBE seeks to ascertain the effectiveness of Indiana state programs in achieving desired results and outcomes while considering the efficiencies in which program services are delivered. The objectives of the PROBE are to:
The PROBE will allow OMB, along with the appropriate budget analysts, to systematically ask agency program managers questions about key program characteristics:
It consists of eighteen "yes/no" questions and seeks explanations and evidence to support the responses. Each section's score is then weighted and summed for an overall program effectiveness rating. While the questions are standard across all programs to promote consistent application, OMB recognizes that there will be elements of subjectivity and the rating will not be the result of "exact science." The scores should not be used as a comparison to other programs but rather as a benchmark to measure program improvement.


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For the Oracle users out there looking for an easy way to pull those tags together and make a handy little cloud out of them, Maggie Nelson has posted about a simple Oracle function that can help - NTILE.
For example, check out the documentation for the NTILE Function. Yeah, sounds kind of boring. What good could it be in the wonderful world of web development? After all, who manages employee or sales tables anymore... Answer: generating tag clouds.
Her SQL statement categorizes the tags for you automatically, dropping them in to "buckets" of font sizes. This makes it simple to loop through them (like with a foreach) and output your tags with a little help from some CSS. You can even specify how many buckets you want it to fill (how many different tag values to get and compare).


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Wales will be without the services of Craig Bellamy for their upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Scotland and Croatia.
Bellamy, who missed Wales' opening two Group A matches after suffering a calf injury while playing for Cardiff, has not been included in Chris Coleman's 21-man squad.
The 33-year-old has started Cardiff's last three matches and scored the opening goal in their 2-1 victory over Birmingham on Tuesday before being substituted later on. Without the 70-cap striker, Wales suffered a 2-0 defeat to Belgium in their opening qualifier last month before being thrashed 6-1 in Serbia in their second outing.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Illinois coach John Groce found the silver lining after a 68-55 loss to Ohio State and back-to-back road losses to end the regular season.
"I thought our toughness was really good. … I thought our leadership was good today," Groce said. We're going to stay poised."
The Illini were without Joe Bertrand, who suffered a shoulder injury in practice. Groce said he hopes Bertrand will be ready for Thursday's game.
Brandon Paul led the Illini (21-11, 8-10) with 21 points, while D.J. Richardson added 10.
Illinois led by four points midway through the first half, but the Buckeyes (23-7, 13-5) closed the half with a 12-2 run.


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Under-fire manager Mark Hughes bemoaned the worst display of his QPR tenure but vowed to fight on after the 3-1 defeat to fellow strugglers Southampton.
Rickie Lambert and Jason Puncheon goals but Southampton in control before Junior Hoilett clawed one back four minutes into the second half. However, Southampton ensured a 3-1 victory courtesy of a late Anton Ferdinand own goal, leaving the Rs without a win this season and their manager under increasing pressure.
Asked if it was the worst QPR performance of his time in charge, Hughes said, "Yes, without a shadow of a doubt. "Today there was not that intensity. We weren't on the front foot, we weren't anticipating anything, we weren't aggressive enough. All the fundamentals that you need to build a performance [were not there]."
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Creative Documentation 136
FuriousCurio writes "Linux kernel hackers appear to be an endlessly creative group of individuals. In response to previous documentation attempts not having been read by many people, KernelTrap is reporting about how the lguest documentation was prepared to be something of an adventure story. Self-proclaimed to turn you into an lguest expert, lguest being one of the new solutions for running a virtual instance of the Linux operating system as a user process within a real instance of the Linux operating system, the documentation mixes humor and wit into puzzles, poetry, and of course source code and a low-level understanding of virtualization. But the questions remains, will making documentation more entertaining actually work to get people to read it?"


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It's already a bad year for the flu. And making matters worse, the weather has brought an influx of cold virus cases, according to Dr. Jean-Paul Romes, an emergency room doctor and owner of Romes Urgent Care Services in Stroud Township.
This season may go down as the perfect storm for winter illnesses.
It's already a bad year for the flu. And making matters worse, the weather has brought an influx of cold virus cases, according to Dr. Jean-Paul Romes, an emergency room doctor and owner of Romes Urgent Care Services in Stroud Township.
His practice has seen a few dozen mostly Type A flu infections and a couple of Type B.
Together, the flu and cold viruses have created a large group of infected patients this year.
Cases of the flu were virtually nonexistent last year, he said. "This year it came back with abundance," he said.
Most of the country is experiencing high levels of influenza-like illnesses, according to the Centers for Disease Control. And the rate of infection continues to increase.
Influenza was reported to be widespread in Pennsylvania, according to the CDC.
"This is at least a moderately severe influenza season," said Dr. Lisa Esolen, director of infection control for Geisinger Health System. "So far, we have hospitalized nearly 200 individuals in our health system just because of influenza and complications of influenza."
This year's flu strain is milder than last year's. It can range from mild cold symptoms to full-out body aches, feverish chills, congestion and cough. In some cases it involves gastrointestinal symptoms including nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
The flu vaccine, for the most part, has been a success, according to Romes.
"There were many circumstances where the only member of the family not to get the flu shot was the one to get the flu full-out," Romes said. "The others may have had only mild symptoms."
The widespread cases of colds can be blamed on the weather. This year's cold weather kept people indoors more often.
"It usually happens after the holidays when families come together and spread the illness," he said, "and then they come back home and it spreads in the community like wildfire."
Pocono Medical Center and its affiliated immediate care centers showed a peak of 19 cases that tested positive for the flu during the week of Dec. 23, 2012. That figure tapered down to three last week. The hospital reported five patients had to be admitted for treatment.
The flu hit at the end of December, according to Romes. "Usually it comes into the later part of January and becomes full-fledged in February," he said.
But because it hit earlier this year, it will probably continue longer because it's spread so much.
This year it's hard to tell the difference between the flu and cold viruses since the current flu strain is relatively mild. Many people seeking help for the flu are waiting too long.
"The antiviral helps only within the first two days of onset of symptoms. The antiviral isn't a huge benefit. It helps a little. It lessens the severity of symptoms."
Almost half of all children between six months and 17 years received the influenza vaccine over the past 12 months, according to the CDC. Yet just over one out of four adults between 18 and 49 were vaccinated.
How dangerous is this year's flu?
"Influenza always has a range of severity with fatalities as little as 3,000 per year and as high as 49,000 per year (nationally)," Esolen said. "We expect this year to be on the high end. Right now the individuals who appear to be most severely affected are those with asthma, neurologic disorders and immune suppression."
Monroe County reported 60 cases of lab-positive flu cases between October and December 2012. Pike reported just 12.
Only patients afflicted early with flu-like illnesses are normally tested for the flu for medical baseline information.


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Wednesday, August 8, 2007
15 comments:
- uberstrickenfrau said...
You are a lucky lucky Dawg!!!
I think the coolest part is the hoopty van! How cool is that van?
Never let it be said Ruth doesn't know how to show a knitter a good time!
- August 8, 2007 at 12:02 PM
- Yarnhog said...
Oh, wow, that sounds like so much fun! All my knitting friends are imaginary, so I've never done a yarn crawl. As for the hair...well, hair styling is temporary, yarn is forever (which explains the grey-rooted mess piled on top of my head).
- August 8, 2007 at 2:44 PM
- knitnzu said...
Whoa mama! That sounds like a hootin good time!! And that hoopty van owned by your 80 yr old FIL??? Wow! Did you ever ask what kindof hoopty he'd got himself up to in that thing? Or would that just be tmi?
- August 8, 2007 at 4:13 PM
- sophanne said...
I've taken to cutting the dead ends off of my hair myself- It seems to work-
The yarn crawl sounds like it was grand fun. I too like something being called hoopty.
- August 8, 2007 at 4:55 PM
- Nell said...
Looks like you guys had a great time! I love that hoopty!
I also sneak yarn into my house. I used to sneak in shoes but now it's definitely yarn.
- August 8, 2007 at 6:11 PM
- Gingersnaps with Tea... said...
oooh Jitterbug AND Cadenza, lucky you. Don't ask don't tell is definitely the best policy when it comes to yarn. Sounds like you had a blast.
- August 8, 2007 at 8:01 PM
- Chris said...
It sounds like SO much fun!
- August 10, 2007 at 9:00 AM
- Diane said...
That sounds like a fun day for sure.
- August 10, 2007 at 8:37 PM
- Yarn Thing said...
AWESOME...makes me want to do it again :-)
I had so much fun!
- August 11, 2007 at 8:14 AM
- Sheepish Annie said...
Wow! How I yearn to go on a yarn crawl in a hoopty van...I never get to do anything cool. :( Sounds like a great time!!
- August 11, 2007 at 7:28 PM
- Romi said...
I am *so* jealous! It looks like a great time. :)
- August 12, 2007 at 8:36 AM
- WandaWoman said...
It was a fun day, thanks for inviting me!
- August 12, 2007 at 11:32 AM
- Quail Hill Knits said...
Sounds like you had great fun. I've done one yarn crawl and had a blast with all the people i met. It is amazing houw many came up and just introduced themselves. Knitters are generally a great group of people.
- August 12, 2007 at 5:38 PM
- Wen said...
You know, I've noticed that NO ONE involved with the yarn crawl mentioned La's purchases...I'm beginning to think she's making up for lost purchases after her KFYS...
Speaking of the KFYS yarn fairy...she quit, unfortunately. The last time I saw her she was flying around mattering something about "damn knitters" and some other things not really mentionable here, and off she went.
- August 13, 2007 at 4:38 AM
- La said...
I had such a blast! And what a wonderful surprise when Rachel and Wanda joined us!
Thank you so much for co-arranging everything, for picking my ass up, and for such wonderful driving conversation! I only wish we could have filled up that Hoopty!
Looks like you made it home! I sure hope the electrical problem is fixable.
Oh, and pressure Rachel to start blogging!
- August 13, 2007 at 2:46 PM


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Goal reported on Wednesday that Chelsea had stolen ahead of Manchester United in the race to sign the Colombian, who is excited by the prospect of playing for Jose Mourinho.
While United manager David Moyes had sent representatives to Italy to discuss a deal, agent Marcelo Ferreyra has admitted that he has already been in London to talk to the Blues.
"I can confirm Chelsea's interest in Fredy," he told Caracol Radio. "It's now up to the clubs to discuss a deal. We'll open talks once they have agreed terms. We have already been to London with Inter and met with Chelsea directors to make their interest formal.
"There have been talks as part of negotiations. If both clubs reach an agreement, a transfer is an option, but Fredy is happy at Inter as well if they don't agree terms. Fredy feels important under [coach Walter] Mazzarri. The upcoming World Cup also plays a role. We will also meet with [Inter owner Erick] Thohir to see what Inter's project looks like."


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The 35-6 Express is leaving the station. The bandwagon car is nearly empty.
35-6 - Ain't nothing but a Wishbone C thing.
The 35-6 Express is leaving the station. The bandwagon car is nearly empty.
35-6 - Ain't nothing but a Wishbone C thing.
When T-Dave starts a game thread, I am all in. Let's do this.
I heard your record..it's alright.
Reds are the Free Game of the Day on MLB.TV. I don't really know how to make that happen but if you don't get to see the Reds on television that often it sounds like a good night to do so.
Reds baseball and Red Baron pizza. It's gonna be a good night.
Reds jump out to a 2-0 run. Stubbs singles. Votto walks. Bruce and Razor drive in runs with back-to-back singles.
Yonder "The Statue" Alonso. LOL. G-Nats leadoff batter reaches. I am convinced. Alonso is not a leftfielder.
Renteria with a nice effort but all hands are safe. Two on, one out.
Ball goes over Bruce's head for a double and Washington halves the lead. 2nd and 3rd.
Werth walks to load things up. Laynce Nix to the plate.
Nix whiffs. That was clutch by Leake.
Two-out, two-run single by Ian Desmond. LOL. At least the Reds know what one looks like. 3-2 Washington.
Frazier leads off the second and reaches on an error by Ryan Zimmerman. Leake moves him along to second with a nice sacrifice bunt.
Alonso should have caught that first ball. Renteria...nice play then blew it. Janish or most anyone else makes the play and possibly a double play. Bruce took 2 steps in; should have had it easy. Then, again Janish catches that ball fairly easily on the soft liner past Reneteria. Defense has been dreadful lately.
Why does Marty think anyone cares about his personal life? Call the game. That is what you are paid to do.
Whew! The line up is CF, SS...and lefty, righty, lefty, righty...and our 300 hitter is batting 6th...Check, check and check. Now if we only had a manager who wanted to win everynight... sigh.
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Don't worry about Open-Xchange, OpenChange + SOGo is the real open source alternative:
- OpenChange Server is a transparent and native Exchange replacement for Microsoft Outlook users working on top of Samba 4. With OpenChange, you don't need costly MAPI connectors anymore.
- SOGo is a reliable groupware server with a focus on scalability and open standards. Let your Mozilla Thunderbird/Lightning, Apple iCal/iPhone, BlackBerry and now Microsoft Outlook users collaborate using a modern platform.
No per-seat CALS or license fees whatsovever.
OpenChange is very promising, but hardly production ready.
SOGo is not a feature per feature match for OX, Scalix, Zimbra or Zarafa. These are all mature projects with a large installed user base. If you are worried about license fees (which usually include paid support), you can always use the free editions of these projects and not use Outlook.
OpenChange seems to be a layer for implementing the proprietary exchange protocols used by outlook, so how difficult would it be to make openchange talk to the free versions of these other projects instead of having a plugin on the client?
This is also the case for many of the commercial open source offerings. I know at least Zimbra supports the four protocols you mentioned. These protocols are really great and completely open, but their biggest drawback is increased configuration on the client side - not very user friendly.
It should be possible. I know it has been done for z-push (open activesync, originally from Zarafa) and Zimbra, an unrelated product. Implementing OpenChange for these projects might not be in the best interest of the involved companies, since most of their revenue comes from charging for their specific Outlook plug-in.
Here's the direct link to go read about it if you don't want to go through the networkworld blogspam article: http://www.open-xchange.com/ [open-xchange.com]
The "Server edition" is $1300, and they make you open a blind link to a PDF to figure that out.
Here's a handy feature matrix but noticeably absent is the free "community edition": http://oxpedia.org/index.php?title=OX_Product_Matrix [oxpedia.org]
Also, the activesync thing (oxtender) is completely non-free and only available in the licensed versions.
As opposed to:
Which only has the free/freedom community edition.
This is why all the Exchange "alternatives" are doomed to failure. The free/inexpensive options all lack the critical functionality of Activesync or Outlook interoperability.
When software makers add these worthy functionality, they immediately try to start pricing their product at the same level as Exchange.
This is obviously some sort of shared greed complex. "We have the same functionality as this really expensive (overpriced) software, so we can charge a lot for it too...."
Well, they're not Micro
Zarafa has free activesync support...
Support for outlook is usually non free because they have to pay a per seat license fee to microsoft in order to write a plugin to outlook...
Wow, I thought this was a Slashvertisement for OpenXchange and your specs detail that for me. Those specs. seems to match the business model of Zimbra, another Exchange competitor, right down to the community edition being available for free unsupported. Yet I see no mention of Zimbra in TFA. And I think Zimbra has a lot of users too.
For example, I think Slashdot needs to come up with an alternative logo for Microsoft stories. Sure, the old one was really stale - but at least it looked like a Borg. With the new one, it just looks like Gates is wearing a really poorly-designed Bluetooth phone headset.
Well, but I thought everything was better with Bluetooth...
For example, I think Slashdot needs to come up with an alternative logo for Microsoft stories.
Just use the legit corporate logos, anything else is nothing more than flamebait.
Just use the legit corporate logos, anything else is nothing more than flamebait.
I actually agree with you - but, this being Slashdot, it's unlikely to happen. So at a minimum I'd prefer to see a logo that visually represents what it's supposed to represent. This new Microsoft "Borg" icon only works for those of us who were here in the days of the old icon - for anyone new coming in, it's unlikely they'll be able to figure out what it's supposed to be. From a branding perspective, that's a fundamental failure.
First of all, it is technically open source, but the license the community edition uses means it cannot legally be used by businesses.
It is definitely not a free alternative to M$ Exchange.
Each user license costs $52 for this product, an M$ Exchange CAL costs about as much, maybe a few bucks more.
Whoever designed the web access GUI went icon crazy and they are not very meaningful either.
Outlook Web Access is simple, this contraption had me guessing at what buttons do.
I manage an Exchange 2007 environment with roughly 700 users depending on it.
Originally having no experience, I got a test server up and running within a day.
The administrator tools are simple, powerful, and reliable; overall we have not had any serious issues in the past three years.
I also know that if something goes wrong, there is M$ support, service packs, backup software, DB repair tools, forums, etc.
Here is what happens with an open source product:
You install the product and spend the next couple of hours wading through text config files.
When you do manage to get the product to work, the thing does not work as expected.
You spend the next couple of hours cranking up debugging output and wading through source code.
If you are really masochistic you end up compiling your own build after you have found a bug.
Now in some cases going open source is worth the pain, especially when it brings additional functionality and cost savings.
Unfortunately, this open source product has the goal of duplicating functionality at a similar price point.
An additional thing to consider is that most open source products need more maintenance and labor.
This additional labor is highly in demand and is not at all cheap, which might make this an even more expensive solution than the original.
I can't say for the functionality, benefits, complexity, etc.. of the article's software, but I can think of many better things to spend 36K on than licensing Exchange. Don't even mention the server side licensing (Unless they've subsequently dropped server CAL requirements for exchange boxes), server first time costs, and yearly subscription fees to keep up to date with all the latest updates and support features that you list so highly. Throwing money at a problem may be -a- solution for -some- companies, but that can't be said for everyone. Of course that all assumes that Exchange is the better maintenance system, but as I see nobody doing empirical analysis, or even anecdotes, its hard for you, me, or the rest of the mob to come up with any sort of rational discourse.
"Here is what happens with an open source product:"
I really like how you pulled the old bait and switch here. Instead of listing the behavior of quoted product, you instead drill into why open source software is bad. Well, if you just took the software and didn't pay a dime for it, then maybe a few of those points apply. Maybe if you paid for the software, you could get paid support and the assurance that when a problem is found that it can actually be addressed without waiting quarters before a company decides to release an update to fix a bug. For real money, you can (for a lot cheaper seemingly) get a system that does more or less what Exchange does. As said earlier, I'd like someone who's actually used both systems in a real world scenario to talk about pros and cons, but since that isn't happening yet, lets keep the rhetoric to ourselves.
"Here is what happens with an open source product:"
I really like how you pulled the old bait and switch here. Instead of listing the behavior of quoted product, you instead drill into why open source software is bad. Well, if you just took the software and didn't pay a dime for it, then maybe a few of those points apply.
Too bad he's more right than not.
Not that a similar thing doesn't happen with closed source products, and be more or equally frustrating.
I've seen this with Apache, with several other softwares, where 1) doesn't work 2) can't figure out why 3) the darn software DOESN'T SAY WHAT'S WRONG
And that's really frustrating.
Back on topic, Exchange may be crap, but the alternatives suck more. At least I've heard nothing good about Zimbra, for example.
I really wish I could recommend Mozilla Thunderbird for example, but
The thing about Exchange competitors is unfortunately playing nice with Microsoft's monopoly which means outlook is *everywhere*. Microsoft never makes efforts to support open standards, therefore Outlook will never work well with something like citadel (sure, imap is there, but doing anything more than that requires, surprise, a commercial add-on).
The problem for groupware is not that Exchange is so fundamentally awesome beyond hope of competing on a level playing field, it's that it rides on the success
(sure, imap is there, but doing anything more than that requires, surprise, a commercial add-on).
It's Exchange!. I'm surprised being able to send more than one mail per day doesn't require you to buy an additional add-on.
Citadel is ancient, and it looks that way. I wouldn't feel comfortable showing the web interface to my boss. Look at Roundcube for comparison.
Here is what happens with an open source product:
Here is what happens with an closed source product:
you install it with 1 click, but then spend the next few days going through GUI config screens./
When you do manage to get the product to work, the thing does not work as expected.
You spend the next week persuading your boss to send you on a week's training course, for only ten thousand dollars.
You come back with a couple of thick binders full of documentation that you already can't remember.
You spend a few mo
Exactly right. Wish I had mod points for this. One of the numerous advantages of many open source solutions is that they are designed by hackers and when things go wrong, usually there are very distinct error messages and good logging capabilities. Coupled with some googling and/or IRC rooms, things usually get resolved very quickly. If you're a hacker yourself, you can usually resolve issues pretty quickly.
A common experience for me with closed source has been more along the lines of a message-box-
I think your point is accurate on some open source projects on their own, but a lot of projects work quite well. The same applies to commercial products, sometimes they are solid, sometimes they are hard to use/counterintuitive, and when you have a bug, you don't even have the 'masocist' option of fix it yourself. I have had commercial vendors want to charge me a $200 incident support fee to let me send them a stack trace from their poroduct crashing without an error message. Similarly with support, we h
First of all, it is technically open source, but the license the community edition uses means it cannot legally be used by businesses.
That is not technically "open source" by any common definition, most particularly not that of the Open Source Initiative [opensource.org], which prohibits discrimination against fields of endeavor.
It's not that impressive, really. Zimbra has gone from six million paid mailboxes in 2007, to 40 million in 2009, to 65 million in 2010.
I do believe all these commercial open source projects should work together on the OpenChange project to finally get rid of those Outlook connectors.
Citadel doesn't speak like Exchange, which is what this story is about. Thank you, please drive through [openchange.org].
It's nice that the source on these hosted applications is open - no sarcasm intended. But since they're hosted, the source is open "read only": as a user, if I change the source to do something different, I can't commit it to the source of the hosted app to change it. Only the hosts can. Unless some host is running instances of the server per hosting customer that can be revised, which I've never heard of.
And then who's going to be the newly featured server admin? That's the really expensive and hard part o
The common argument against open source is the requirement to have someone who knows how to run it (but this applies to anything), using a hosted service solves that at the expense of flexibility.
If you have staff on hand who are capable of modifying sourcecode than chances are you already have people capable of running the server, and so a hosted service isn't your best choice.
OSS is a no brainer for a decent hosting provider, it scales financially (no extra software costs as you get more customers), and y
If you have staff on hand who are capable of modifying sourcecode than chances are you already have people capable of running the server, and so a hosted service isn't your best choice.
That statement is quite incorrect. Development and operations are two very different things. I have a development department, but I don't want to spend any of their time on the time sink that is operating a server, even if we've developed some of its code. Developer time costs more than operations time, and losing it to opera
With these hosted servers, is the administrator they provide any good (skilled, responsive)? Does their customer service quickly resolve issues that can't be immediately processed by the GUI?
Do any of these hosted Exchange replacements allow custom app development to the server's API? Or are they just another black box that just replaces Exchange with some other magic box?`
it would be hard to call them open if they didn't.
i for one know that i'm much more interested in Sogo than OX.
If you publish the source code, it's open source. Which doesn't mean that you get to write to the source from which the executable is compiled. Or, for that matter, execute the binary at the hosting service, which can require payment or other requirements to do so.
If I switch my 50 user office from Exchange to Zimbra, what will I lose in functions? Will I be able to point Zimbra at a database whose schema I can edit and populate with other apps, whose objects I can CRUD from other apps, including ones I write?
Anyone offering hosted Exchange or an alternative "Outlook server" integrated with support for desktop VOIP phones (US48 unlimited minutes, or $0.02:min), at under $35 per month, that has 99.999% annual uptime and good customer service? With an API for integrating my custom apps to its features?
While it makes sense to have outlook support without requiring a plugin, they don't have native activesync support so you now need a plugin on many types of phone handsets... Last i checked, the funambol plugin was quite sucky...
And sure an iphone will sync using caldav/carddav/imap but it won't do push email and you can't remote wipe the device this way...
Every time groupware/Exchange related topics appear on Slashdot (often as not an "open" replacement solution that isn't quite open, or not quite there, or both), I see a couple of references to the Citadel project:
http://www.citadel.org/ [citadel.org]
This appears to be a very interesting offering, and I've never understood why it doesn't generate more buzz. Can anyone knowledgeable in this subject explain what is lacking in Citadel to make it a serious contender in this domain? It is compatibility with Outlook/Exchange
At a glance, they have no commercial entity trying to spam it all over the news for one. For another, they too require some commercial add-on to be 100% outlook compatible. Lastly, they make no effort to use buzzowrds like 'SaaS' or 'cloud', which I suppose ties into the first point.
It might also suck, I have no idea, I don't do groupware stuff anymore so I have no reason to try it out.
This is an area I have been following with interest, as a number of clients have asked me about ditching their Exchange servers. There are several "open source" alternatives to Exchange, all with their own drawbacks. The main ones I know of are Scalix, Zimbra, Zarafa, OpenXchange, Citadel, and OpenChange/SOGo, although there are others.
OpenChange looks the most promising in the long term, as I believe it's the only one that promises 100% open source compatibility with Outlook. All the others require some ki
Open-source Challenge To Exchange Gains Steam
Wonderful. When did Valve get into Groupware?
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