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ATLANTA (AP) - Angel McCoughtry called out her Dream teammates after a lackluster Game 1 loss to the Mystics. She had nothing but praise after a series-clinching Game 3 win.
``In the first game, we didn't have a sense of urgency,'' McCoughtry said. ``(In Games 2 and 3), everyone played with so much heart. It was definitely a big difference, and that is what it takes to win a championship.''
McCoughtry struggled again from the field, hitting just four of 19 shots, but the WNBA's leading scorer found other ways to help her team win, handing out five of her seven assists in the fourth quarter.
``If your shot isn't falling, you have to find other ways to pick up the slack,'' said McCoughtry, who finished with 13 points.
The Dream advanced to face the fourth-seeded Indiana Fever in the Eastern Conference finals, which will begin Thursday in Atlanta. The Fever, who won the WNBA title last season, eliminated top-seeded Chicago in two games.
The Dream trailed 57-55 after three quarters, but a 15-2 run early in the fourth quarter put Atlanta in position to advance to the Eastern Conference finals for the third time in four years. De Souza had six points during the run, emotionally gesturing to the crowd as Atlanta took control.
De Souza helped the Dream to a 39-24 rebounding advantage with 14, including seven at the offensive end. Atlanta also forced 18 turnovers and had 18 offensive rebounds.
``Their experience and willingness to do the dirty work was the difference in the game,'' said Mystics coach Mike Thibault. ``They got so many extra possessions off all those offensive rebounds.''
Tiffany Hayes had 18 points and Armintie Herrington added 14 points for the Dream, while Monique Currie led the Mystics with 22 points.
The Mystics, coming off a horrific 25-percent shooting performance in Game 2, hit eight of their first 10 shots en route to a 22-11 lead in the first quarter. The Dream answered with an 11-0 run that carried over into the second quarter sparked by the play of Herrington. She had 10 points, three rebounds, three assists and three steals in the first half. She had three layups during the run, the last of which came off a steal of an inbounds pass in the backcourt.
Despite shooting 58 percent in the first half, Washington led only 41-39, and when it cooled off in the second half, the Mystics had no answer for the relentless Dream.
``We knew if we lost this game, we would have been fishing instead of hunting,'' said Atlanta guard Alex Bentley.
The Dream will be facing the Fever, who eliminated Atlanta in the first round last season.
``They are a tough team that doesn't beat itself,'' said Dream coach Fred Williams. ``They have some veteran players and they are a team that is going to come after you on the boards.''
For the Mystics, it was a disappointing end for Thibault, who took over a 5-29 team and guided them into the playoffs for the first time since 2010 with a 17-17 record. The loss to the Dream marks the fifth straight playoff series loss for the Mystics dating back to 2002.
``In the final five minutes, they made bigger plays than we did,'' Thibault said.
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—01. Interview with Jockum Hallin & Hannes Hodgeman.
A couple of our friends in Sweden have got together to open a shop. Tres Bien and Our Legacy have had a strong relationship for a long time now so it makes sense for them to join forces in Stockholm. The store is very clean, uses the space nicely and will no doubt be a success with the loyal following both brands have built over the past few years. You should also be able to find the new issue of Inventory on their shelves in the coming weeks too.

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posted by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Mar 2008 21:52 UTC
"When my girlfriend visits me, she has to work on a mini PC while I use my laptop to finish whatever I postponed at the office. Her PC has a 1GHz VIA processor and 128 MB of RAM and runs Ubuntu. You can imagine how slowly it boots, even with Linux installed, and GNOME runs so slowly that it's quite irritating. I didn't want to reformat and install a lightweight Linux distribution like Fluxbuntu because the mini PC doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, and I already had 10GB of data that would have taken a long time to back up. Instead, I found and installed some lightweight software to improve her computing experience."


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White House Says It Had 'No Role' In UK Detention Of David Miranda, But Did Have A 'Heads Up'
from the and-what-did-it-say-in-response? dept
Meanwhile, it's been noted by some that Miranda was, in fact, carrying a USB key that contained some relevant information, but Greenwald has said that he's not worried at all about it, because the data was encrypted:
"We both now typically and automatically encrypt all documents and work we carry – not just for the NSA stories," says Greenwald via email. "So everything he had – for his personal use and everything else – was heavily encrypted, and I'm not worried at all that they can break that."Either way, under the rules in the UK, they could only detain Miranda to determine if he was involved in terrorist activities. Doing investigative journalism is not a terrorist activity unless you're an authoritarian police state. Either way, it really does appear that this abuse of power is likely to backfire big time on the UK (and the US, whatever its role). It's unlikely that it did anything to help stop the dissemination of this kind of information, but did reveal the thuggish tactics and police-state mentality by the UK government.


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The Italian victory has left French rugby fans shocked but backs coach Jones is well aware of the challenge Wales face.
"It's going to be a difficult task regardless of which side France put out," he said.
"They are a fantastic rugby team, can attack from all areas and are a quality outfit. They have got exceptional ball carriers and can get on the front foot very quickly.
"We are well aware of how good they are."
Wales fell behind in the first half of their defeat to Ireland but roared back into contention with three second half tries.
Alex Cuthbert, the ever impressive Leigh Halfpenny and Craig Mitchell all crossed as Wales came close to a dramatic comeback.
And Jones says Wales are close to putting together an 80 minute performance.
"When we are attacking it's not rocket science, it's about preparing as best as we can," he said.
"In top level sport there is not much in it.
"We are focusing on getting the top two or three per cent things back in our favour and we are not far away from being on a positive run."
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Can acupuncture help you stop smoking? Maybe. Like most smoking
cessation plans, the most important part will be whether or not you
firmly desire to quit using tobacco. If you have the will, then
acupuncture might just have the way.
Actually, smoking
cessation is one of the more long-standing mainstream applications
of acupuncture in the United States. My husband recently asked me
for ideas about the effectiveness for his co-worker who has been
trying to quit, and my mind has been making the connections ever
since. How does it work? Will it work? Which points should be used?
How often will he need treatment? Can he do some of the work at
home between acupuncture sessions?
Naturally, being just a student, I didn't know the answers to
these questions without looking into them myself. Now that I feel
like I have a handle on some of these factors, I'll go ahead and
give you lowdown. Of course, I'm not telling anyone to try this at
home, but this is what your acupuncturist might do if you walk into
the clinic and ask for help in your journey to drop the cigarettes
for good.
First, let's talk about the mechanisms. Why does a needle going
through your skin make you want to stop smoking? Actually, there
are multiple methods to this madness. On one hand (literally, on
the side of your hand, via an acupoint called Tim Mee) a needle can
actually make your cigarette taste bad. Personally, I think they
already taste bad, but apparently people who smoke tend to like the
taste. Moving on, if changing the taste of a cigarette from lightly
ashy to repulsively garbagy isn't strong enough magic for you,
there are other things that might still work for your stubborn
Next, auricular acupuncture can help
control your cravings, addiction, and withdrawal symptoms while
trying to quit. Think ear piercing with a purpose! While ear
acupuncture can sound even scarier than regular body acupuncture to
the faint-at-heart-newbies, rest assured that the needles are
hair-thin and barely felt. I should tell you that
electro-stimulation of these auricular points is also commonplace.
Some commonly used ear points for smoking cessation include the
following: Shen Men, Sympathetic Autonomic, Point Zero, Endocrine,
etc. Your acupuncturist will add additional points depending on
your individualized condition. Nope, auricular acupuncture for
smoking cessation is NOT necessarily a one-size-fits-all
Now, what can the patient do at home to keep these positive
no-smoking juices flowing between acupuncture sessions? Luckily, we
have a plan for that, too. If you've never heard of ear seeds, you
will if you seek help to quit smoking from an acupuncturist! Small
seeds or magnets (fancy name--auricular pellets) with clear tape
backing are stuck on the above mentioned ear points, and then the
patient is instructed to squeeze them several times a day until
they eventually fall off. If you shower regularly, this is
generally in around three days. If you're looser with your bathing
schedule, you might keep your home care going for a whole week I
suppose. But, let's just pretend everyone showers more than once
per week.
Back to the main event: Can acupuncture help you quit smoking?
It really is UP TO YOU. Unless your acupuncturists steals your
cigs, robs you of any available currency, and prevents you from
bartering in the streets for your next nicotine fix, it really is
in your hands. Studies show a variety of outcomes; some are very
positive indeed. If you're ready, call the clinic!
Effect of Acupuncture on Smoking Cessation or Reduction: An
8-Month and 5-Year Follow-up Study. Preventive Medicine, Volume 33,
Issue 5, Pages 364-372. Dong He, Jon I. Medbø, Arne T. Høstmark
Acupuncture to Stop Smoking - Yin Yang
• So What Is Chinese Medicine?
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Whitmer's Me'Gail Frisch hugs head coach Jerry Bell after the Panthers defeated Mentor to advance to the state final.
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MANSFIELD — Freezing temperatures and a determined Mentor defense could not contain undefeated Whitmer on Saturday night during a Division I state semifinal at Arlin Field.
Whitmer played with urgency, and senior quarterback Nick Holley was the masterful maestro in leading the Panthers to a resounding 62-34 drubbing of Mentor to remain undefeated en route to earning a spot in the state championship game.
Whitmer will face Cincinnati Moeller in the D-I state championship contest on Saturday at Canton's Fawcett Stadium.
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First-year coach Jerry Bell has guided the Panthers to the state title game a year after Whitmer fell in the semifinals.
"It's great that we have the monkey off our back finally," Bell said. "We'd gotten here several times already. Now it's time for us to finish what we've started."
Holley rushed for 249 yards on 27 carries, including touchdown runs of 20 and 48 yards. He also completed 7 of 11 passes for 150 yards, including touchdown tosses of 20 and 10 yards to lead the No. 3 Panthers (14-0) past the Cardinals (12-2).
"We were determined, and we came out determined," Holley said. "Honestly, we came out with something to prove because we came out as the underdogs.
"We've got another one to go."
Whitmer running back Tre Reditt-Sterritt rushed for 83 yards on 14 carries, including touchdown runs of 10, 12, and one yards.
"This means a lot," Reditt-Sterritt said. "We came out and got it done this year. For this senior class, this is a dream come true."
Whitmer's Austin Bly, 25, and Marcus Elliott, 24, stop Mentor's Connor Krizancic on fourth down in the second quarter. The Panthers, for the most part, had an answer for the high-powered Cardinals.
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The Panthers defense came away with three turnovers, including an interception apiece by Tylor Schneider and Marcus Elliott. Jacob LaPoint also recovered a fumble.
Holley directed the Panthers on an impressive nine-play, 79-yard scoring drive with the game's opening possession.
The Panthers senior signal-caller handled the brunt of the drive by tucking the football and showing plenty of running skills. He carried six times for 60 yards on the drive, including a drive-completing 20-yard touchdown scamper around the right end with 7:45 to play in the first quarter. Michael Baldwin's extra-point try sailed wide right and the Panthers led 6-0.
But Mentor quickly responded with a scoring drive of its own to take a 7-6 lead after Cardinals quarterback Mitch Trubisky connected with Connor Krizancic for a 30-yard TD completion with 5:12 left in the first quarter.
Mentor placekicker Mike Muzic made good on his extra-point try to give the Cardinals a 7-6 advantage.
However, Mentor didn't hold on to the lead for long before Whitmer put together its second scoring drive in the opening quarter to regain the lead when Me'Gail Frisch scored on a 15-yard touchdown run coming off of an inside handoff from Holley. After Baldwin made the extra-point, the Panthers led 13-7 with 2:17 left in the first quarter.
It looked like Whitmer was going to take that lead into halftime after both teams went most of the second quarter with drives coming to a halt and the defenses beginning to buckle down.
However, Mentor's offense began to get back on track late in the second quarter and was in position to at least tie the score after Trubisky scrambled 29 yards before getting knocked out of bounds at the Whitmer 3-yard line with two minutes left in the half.
But the Cardinals' possession inside the Panthers' 5-yard line went no further after Panthers defensive lineman Jacob LaPoint came through moments later with the most significant defensive play of the game.
Trubisky had trouble handling the snap, and LaPoint rushed in to pull the loose ball out of the air before racing 94 yards for an apparent touchdown that brought the Whitmer crowd to its feet in the freezing temperatures. LaPoint's TD was overturned after a Panther was called for a personal foul during the return.
The penalty only delayed Whitmer from going up 20-7 after Nick Holley found Nathan Holley for a 20-yard touchdown cmpletion with 1:07 left in the first half.
Mentor proved a minute was more than enough time remaining to strike one final time before the break as Trubisky drove the Cardinals down field in 54 seconds and made the halftime score 20-13. Trubisky teamed with Krizancic for a 20-yard TD pass with 13 seconds left in the first half.
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Hi All,
Would you find a specific commuter section to the forum useful? Seems there's some chat on a bunch of different threads about riding to work.
Hi All,
Would you find a specific commuter section to the forum useful? Seems there's some chat on a bunch of different threads about riding to work.
Jamie Darlow
staff writer, mbr
Better still a readers review section!
As we have our bikes longer than you have long termers, it might be nice for all to see the problems that we have had with product X or component Y, what we have worn out and replaced, what "sucked" from the start, and what is likely to go on forever.
It might be an idea to split between components, accessories and entire bikes.
This may help others out there to choose where to spend their hard earned cash appropriately.
Use our collective knowledge for the greater good, as you often say you cannot review every "Manifacturer X" bike in production, why not let us, with an obvious disclaimer that these opinions are ours personally and are in now way endorsed by the magazine (or sweet producers).
You might also be able to pick up on potential weak components, due to number of people who say they are having trouble with X or Y and advise appropriately.
Just a thought, it has probably been suggested before.
Some videos :-http://www.youtube.com/user/MTBLeague
Some Pictures:-http://www.flickr.com/photos/35302057@N02/
Second that.
damn good ideas. OK MBR TOWERS GO FOR IT.
The more the merrier and all that stuff.
I was a teenage werewolf!


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Former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor was declared eligible for Monday's NFL supplemental draft but must sit out the first five games after he signs a contract.
The NFL announced Thursday he was eligible, along with five other players. Pryor gave up his final season with the Buckeyes following an NCAA investigation into the football team's memorabilia-for-cash scandal. He would've had to sit out five games at Ohio State if he had chosen to return to school.
"God bless and thanks for support!" Pryor wrote on his Twitter page. "Time to have a little fun!!"
The league informed clubs that Pryor "made decisions that undermine the integrity of the eligibility rules for the NFL draft." Among those, the league said, was his failure to cooperate with the NCAA and hiring of an agent in violation of NCAA rules. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello tweeted that you can't do that "and get a free pass into the NFL."
Pryor may not practice or play until Week 6 of the regular season.
"We accept that voluntarily," Pryor's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, told The Associated Press. "It's a small price to pay for him to have a chance to pursue his dream of playing in the NFL."
David Cornwell, Pryor's attorney, said he was pleased that quarterback is eligible for the supplemental draft — which was his "primary objective" — although having to sit out five games was not the ideal situation.
"Given the range of options, the opportunity to be drafted is better than sitting out until next April," Cornwell said in an email to the AP. "But, obviously, this is not a perfect result."
Other players eligible for the supplemental draft are: defensive backs Torez Jones of Western Carolina and Tracy Wilson of Northern Illinois, defensive ends Keenan Mace of Lindenwood and Mike McAdoo of North Carolina and running back Caleb King of Georgia.
Rosenhaus said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith worked together on the decision. Pryor will have a pro day Saturday in Pittsburgh for all 32 NFL teams, and he'll work out, throw and take part in agility drills — similar to what he would do at the NFL combine.
"I think also he'll score a lot of points in terms of his personality and his maturity," Rosenhaus said. "Wherever he's drafted, we will sign and get a deal done and play ball this year, so we're looking forward to that."
Rosenhaus added that despite having to sit out five games, Pryor will benefit from being at the headquarters for whichever team drafts him and being able to take part in meetings.
"He's putting all of this behind him and he has learned a lot from the mistakes he has made in the past and is excited about starting fresh and getting his career going," Rosenhaus said. "As soon as he gets picked, he'll be on an airplane and be going right to work."
A star with the Buckeyes for three years, Pryor and several teammates were suspended for the first five games of this season for receiving improper benefits from a Columbus tattoo-parlor owner. The quarterback subsequently left school, hoping he'd be eligible for the supplemental draft.
The supplemental draft allows qualified underclassmen who did not request early entry into the regular draft to have a chance at entering the NFL.
The NFL informed all 32 teams last Thursday that the supplemental draft would be held this Wednesday, but then postponed that a few days later. Pryor was not on the NFL's initial list of players, but was included Thursday. In the supplemental draft, teams submit picks and are awarded players if their bid — for which round they would take that player — is highest. Teams then lose the corresponding pick in the following year's regular draft in April.
Some of the more notable supplemental draft picks since 1977 include Bernie Kosar, Brian Bosworth, Cris Carter, Steve Walsh, Rob Moore, Jamal Williams and Jared Gaither.
If he hadn't been ruled eligible, Pryor would have had to wait until next April for the 2012 draft.
"The NFL's concern all along was protecting the integrity of the draft process," Cornwell said. "We understood their concerns, accept that they are legitimate concerns, and worked through the process to demonstrate that Terrelle's decisions regarding making himself eligible were reasonable, if not perfect. The commissioner gave serious consideration to the various issues and decided to balance those issues by allowing Terrelle into the supplemental draft with conditions."
Pryor, regarded as the nation's top quarterback recruit coming out of high school, had three terrific seasons for the Buckeyes. Ohio State's career-leading rusher among quarterbacks also tied a school mark with 57 touchdown passes.
New York Jets wide receiver Santonio Holmes, a former Ohio State star, was wearing a red Buckeyes cap Thursday. He said he didn't follow Pryor closely during the quarterback's time at Ohio State, but was excited when he heard about the decision by the league.
"I'm proud of him," Holmes said. "I thought he did a great job while he was there. The things that he had to overcome thus far can be pushed behind and hopefully he can start a better career here in the NFL."
As a freshman, Pryor led Ohio State to an 8-1 record as a starter and was the Big Ten freshman of the year. He took the Buckeyes to the Big Ten title the following season and a victory in the Rose Bowl. He was named the game's MVP after Ohio State beat Oregon 26-17.
As a junior, Pryor had his best season statistically, throwing for 2,772 yards and 27 touchdowns with 11 interceptions. He also ran for 754 yards and four scores while helping the Buckeyes to a 31-26 victory over Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl.
But shortly before the Sugar Bowl, it was revealed that Pryor and other players traded Buckeyes memorabilia for cash and discounted tattoos. In the following months it became clear that coach Jim Tressel knew about the improper benefits in the spring of 2010 but didn't inform his bosses, as was required under his contract and NCAA rules. Tressel was forced out of his job May 30 and Pryor left Ohio State soon after.
Now, Pryor will get a chance to move forward and start his NFL career.
"He's as good an athlete as there's been at that position," Rosenhaus said. "... I think he's going to be a very accomplished quarterback and a dynamite player in the NFL."


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April Fool rages at El Reg
This is a beauty
FoTW We would like to begin this Flame of the Week by calling the attention of the reader to the date. Yes, today is 1 April. The Fool's day. The day of pranks, cons, japes and other assorted jokes.
Having established that, we would recommend that before reading any further, you all pop along to this nice little story about the Bush twins, and at least skim through it.
You're back? Excellent. Now, we can proceed. This is the gem that dropped into the letters bag this morning. Enjoy:
Re: the Bush twins story.
"They have...positioned themselves as leaders of their generation, setting an example to be envied, and of course, to be emulated."
What the hell is this, the Bush family fan club? I never expected this sort of sycophantic rubbish to appear in your esteemed organ. If there was any remote chance of these airheads being put in any danger, they wouldn't be going. No GI grunt training for them eh? No. Of course not. Daddy must be thrilled that they're trying to make up for his military non-service.
Bullshit. You should be ashamed.
(Name witheld to protect the guilty)
Oh ho! we thought to ourselves. We have a winner!
We emailed our correspondent back post haste (naturally), suggesting that he double check the date at the beginning of the piece. After all, why should he sit and fume for hours, doing untold damage to the inside of his arteries, and quite possibly upsetting his digestion?
To get to the point, he emailed back:
What a mug.
What a mug, indeed, dear anonymous flamer. But because you copped to it so nicely, we won't name and shame. See, aren't we nice? ®
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A flight instructor and a student pilot were shaken up Wednesday evening when their plane made a hard landing at the Stead Airport.
The student pilot told police that he lost power as he was taking off and tried to land the plane. A wing scraped the runway and the plane skidded off the pavement.
The student and the flight instructor got out of the plane safely, but the plane was damaged. Firefighters were called in because aviation fuel was leaking from the plane.
"They fueled before they had taken off so there is still as significant fuel in the wing. We have a drip that's in the interior," said Assistant Reno Fire Chief Marty Scheuerman.
Niehter the pilot not the instructor was identified.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the accident.


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Hammered Again
June 20, 2013
Last year, I wrote about the 1958-1959 TV series Mike Hammer, and wondered who produced the show. Though it would be unthinkable today, MCA at the time omitted producer credits from some of its television programs.
Recently, I took a minute to poke through Variety's digitized archives and solved the mystery (at least partially). As Hammer expert Max Allan Collins suggested in a comment on the original article, MCA lifer Richard (Dick) Irving was the primary producer of the show. Variety first announced the Darren McGavin/MCA package on June 12, 1957, in a piece that noted the earlier Brian Keith pilot based on the Spillane character, but confirmed that neither Keith nor Richard Lewis, the producer of that pilot, would have any involvement in the new series. Rather, "the syndicated private eye skein will be producer by Karl Kramer and Dick Irving, with the latter directing most, if not all of the segments."
Karl Kramer – whose name you'd probably never heard until now, even if you're a TV aficionado – was a senior MCA executive, one of the former band bookers who became, according to Dennis McDougal's The Last Mogul, the agency's treasurer and a member of its "ruling elite." A contender to succeed Jules Stein as the company's president, Kramer instead became the company's chief television executive around 1950. Kicked upstairs shortly after the Mike Hammer launch (his title in 1958 was "honorary chairman" of Revue Productions), he retired in the early sixties and died in 1980. (One of Kramer's daughters was married to sitcom director Jay Sandrich). It's pretty safe to assume, then, that most or all of the creative decision-making fell to Irving, who incidentally ended up directing fewer than a dozen episodes – an early sign that television production, even in the days when a TV show could have but a single producer, would prove more complex than the executives or the press initially assumed. (Irving also directed all the New York City location shooting, even in episodes credited to other directors.)
One of the very first directors associated with MCA's production unit – he started on generic, threadbare anthologies like Stars Over Hollywood and The Gruen Guild Playhouse as early as 1951 – the one-time bit actor Irving stayed with the company as a sort of mid-tier creative for nearly two decades. (He was initially assigned to The Virginian, but bumped when Universal hired a "name" – Rawhide creator Charles Marquis Warren – to oversee the prestigious 90-minute Western.) As a producer and occasional director on the likes of State Trooper and Laredo, Irving may be best remembered as a mentor of young talent: he hired both Sydney Pollack (on Shotgun Slade) and Steven Spielberg (on The Name of the Game) early in their careers.
So that solves that, except that I couldn't find any reference to who produced the second (1958-1959) season of Mike Hammer. It's likely that Irving stayed on, but perhaps not – and it's also possible that he had an associate producer or story editor whose name still remains lost to history.
One other interesting tidbit I discovered is that – contrary to my assumption that one series followed the other – Mike Hammer and Darren McGavin's subsequent starring vehicle for MCA, the Western Riverboat (1959-1961), actually overlapped in production. According to Variety, McGavin shot the first two Riverboat episodes prior to May 23, 1959, at which point he went back to shoot another five Mike Hammer segments. "After the five, he'll continue to shuttle between the two shows, with 11 more Hammers to be made," the trade paper added. And James Garner thought he had it rough on Maverick!
Riverboat premiered on September 23, and a quick check of the TV listings suggests that, at least in the New York City market, new episodes of Mike Hammer were debuting as late as November 1959. So, for a couple of months that fall, McGavin fans could see their favorite actor headlining two different first-run series at the same time. How many other times in television history has that happened?


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Earth to Echo
Two and a half stars out of five
Starring: Teo Halm, Brian (Astro) Bradley, Reese Hartwig, Ella Wahlestedt
Directed by: Dave Green
Running time: 91 minutes
Even the poster has a picture of an extended finger, so if you weren't completely convinced Earth to Echo is a cheaper, less imaginative take on the classic E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, then take a good long look at the marketing materials for this kids' meal of a movie.
The only real difference is the extended finger in this campaign is human, and the cute alien is semi-robotic.
So if you're old enough to remember the first Clash of the Titans, and the bizarre electronic owl created by Ray Harryhausen, then Earth to Echo isn't just a remake of Steven Spielberg's "phone home" story, but a complete tour of memory lane — and a rather sad one at that.
The depression sinks in slowly, only after we realize director Dave Green isn't going to hit any new beats in this otherwise benign family movie about a group of spunky kids who stumble onto an amazing secret.
Alex (Teo Halm), Munch (Reese Hartwig) and Tuck (Brian Bradley, a.k.a. Astro) think their neighbourhood is falling prey to the bulldozers to make way for a new highway, but when their phones start "barfing" the night before everyone has to leave, the boys head into the desert to find the source of the disturbance.
They find a piece of debris caked in dirt, and when it starts to glow, they realize there's a little metallic life form inside. With giant eyes and little wing flaps, the alien life form looks like something off the production line at a Japanese toy factory, but like most alien life forms that crash-land on Earth, he's got mechanical problems.
In need of spare parts and batteries, little Echo has to find a way to communicate with the kids before the evil grown-ups interfere and dissect the alien for reasons of national security.
Now, as a hardcore fan of Scooby-Doo, I have no problem with the idea a bunch of 12-year-olds would be able to outsmart the CIA. Meddling kids are the grammar school equivalent of wholesale social revolution because they circumvent authority for purely moral and emotional reasons.
They aren't interested in politics or superpowers. They care about a vulnerable little creature that is lost, misunderstood and easily victimized by the callous, greedy and largely deaf world of grown-ups. This is the plot point that makes or breaks any kids movie because it draws a line between innocence and experience, and between the world as it could be and the less-than-perfect reality we inhabit on a daily basis.
Because Green gets this central element right, Earth to Echo succeeds at a base level: We go on an adventure with some cute kids who want to make a difference.
The rest of the movie feels flat and hackneyed, no matter how many cheap tricks Green uses to tart things up. From selfie phone footage to goofy kid romance, Green tries to find new angles on a familiar landscape, without success.
You get the feeling Green was looking to make a different version of Holes, but ended up with shallow divots overwhelmed by déjà vu.
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Submission + - Global Hawk downed, but not by Iran (strategypage.com) 1
QQBoss writes: The Air Force is not saying what caused the RQ-170 UAV to crash in Iran, but that Iran's claim to have forced it down is erroneous. At the very least, the plane didn't come down and land gently as Iran had suggested it did. At least Iran got a good photo op, though the more interesting question is what technology will they be able to glean from what they did capture.


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UN Human Rights Council – 20th Session
Item 4: human rights situations that require the Council's attention
Statement by Australia
28 June 2012
Australia raised its concerns at the human rights situation in Syria during the individual interactive dialogues yesterday. I will focus this statement on other countries of concern.
In the Pacific, Australia welcomes the recent steps taken by the Fiji interim government towards holding elections in 2014. Australia has offered $2.65 million to provide financial and technical support to the constitutional and electoral processes in Fiji. We remain concerned that human rights — particularly freedom of speech, assembly and the media — continue to be restricted and call for all those restrictions to be lifted immediately.
In our region, Australia is deeply concerned about serious and systemic human rights abuses in the DPRK. We are concerned with reports of the use of torture and execution, and the prevalence of arbitrary detention without access to fair judicial process. We underline the importance of the DPRK admitting the Special Rapporteur and following his recommendations. We urge the DPRK Government to improve the human rights of its people, including by taking first steps such as improving the human rights of women, children and the disabled, rectifying judicial processes and addressing food insecurity and malnutrition amongst its people.
Australia continues to follow developments in Sudan and South Sudan closely. We were seriously concerned to see hostilities escalate earlier in 2012, which reportedly resulted in numerous human rights abuses. We encourage both sides to continue to work with the African Union to urgently resolve outstanding disputes through dialogue and to consider the safety and welfare of civilians in border regions as their first priority.
We are also concerned by fighting in the Sudanese states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan, which is taking a heavy toll on civilians. We call on all parties to cease hostilities and allow humanitarian access to those in need.
Australia remains deeply concerned by the human rights situation in Iran, including use of the death penalty, the intimidation and arbitrary arrest of human rights defenders and political activists, violation of political and media freedoms, and the treatment of ethnic and religious minorities, including Arab Iranians and Baha'is, as well as religious converts. We urge Iran to stay all executions, respect the human rights of all detainees and ensure all trials are conducted fairly.


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Ebenezer Pastor Celebrates MLK, Blasts Newt Gingrich | News
ATLANTA (WXIA) -- Raphael Warnock, senior pastor Ebenezer Baptist Church, blended religion and politics into Sunday's sermon and took a swipe at Republican Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich.
"He is playing an old game that's part of the southern strategy...I think he's relying on old logic of scapegoating and race baiting," Warnock said.
He was referring to Gingrich's comments when asked about addressing the NAACP:
"More people were on food stamps today because of Obama's policies than ever in history... if you run and ask people if you rather your children had food stamps or pay checks, you wouldn't end up with a majority saying they'd rather have a pay check. And so I'm prepared if the NAACP invites me, I'll go to their convention and talk about why the African American community should demand pay checks and not be satisfied with food stamps."
Attendees of Sunday's service also paid tribute to what would have been the 83rd birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. King, Jr served as co-pastor of Ebenezer from 1960 until his assassination on April 4, 1968.
White House Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President Valerie Jarrett was seated near the pulpit during the service.
She told the crowd that without Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President Obama's term in office would not be possible.
For several weeks now, Ebenezer Baptist Church has offered voter registration after every service. Warnock says that will continue up until the next election.


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Are you tired of petty partisanship, of red/blue bickering, of the enthusiastic embrace of blatant falsehoods generated for political gain?
Well you can cross another enemy off the list, because Senate Republicans have finally stood up to the reprehensible grandstanding of … the Library of Congress.
Yes, dear citizens! The library's reign of terror is over! No more will they plague our government with "reports" of "findings," especially when their "research" — if you can call it that — dismantles the entire economic ethos of half of the American political spectrum.
The report we speak of this time is one from the Congressional Research Service, a nonpartisan agency that analyzes policy and legal issues for Congress. It was founded in 1914 and employs more than 600 lawyers, scientists, librarians, and economists, all working to help legislators better understand the issues around which they are crafting laws.
You know what that means — they cannot be trusted.
They wrote up a report, see, about how there isn't any measurable influence on the economy from changing the tax rates of the wealthy. That's right: They found that increasing taxes on
the rich "job creators" doesn't harm the economy. What a buncha maroons!
And what "evidence" did they use to conclude this, New York Times?
The report received wide notice from media outlets and liberal and conservative policy analysts when it was released on Sept. 14. It examined the historical fluctuations of the top income tax rates and the rates on capital gains since World War II, and concluded that those fluctuations did not appear to affect the nation's economic growth.
"The reduction in the top tax rates appears to be uncorrelated with saving, investment and productivity growth. The top tax rates appear to have little or no relation to the size of the economic pie," the report said. "However, the top tax rate reductions appear to be associated with the increasing concentration of income at the top of the income distribution."
Egad! Who do these economists think they are, using 65 years of data to inform politicians about the consequences of their policies? It's almost like they want things to be decided using informed reasoning instead of pseudo-patriotic platitudes! It's almost like… they hate capitalism. And eagles.
Don't worry though, Republican senators gave 'em the ol' what-for:
The Congressional Research Service has withdrawn an economic report that found no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth, a central tenet of conservative economic theory, after Senate Republicans raised concerns about the paper's findings and wording.
Well, they SHOULD be concerned about the findings, as they make the Republican rhetoric of the past decade or five look kind of ridiculous. But this is America, where we are well beyond economic research or labor statistics or believing people who are paid to research things. Everybody knows anyone who disagrees with Republicans is just a liberal in a labcoat. Plus, "evidence" sounds an awful lot like Sharia law.
So Sen. Mitch McConnell and a few of his pals "raised concerns about the methodology and other flaws," and he should know, because if there's anybody qualified to critique the methodologies of congressional research economists, it is a dude who graduated law school 45 years ago and immediately became a politician.
"There were a lot of problems with the report from a real, legitimate economic analysis perspective," said Antonia Ferrier, a spokeswoman for the Senate Finance Committee's Republicans. "We relayed them to C.R.S. It was a good discussion. We have a good, constructive relationship with them. Then it was pulled."
Yes, there's nothing like a government agency having a "good, constructive relationship" with a bunch of people who got elected by making lists of government agencies they want to blow up. At least everybody's happy now, right?
A person with knowledge of the deliberations, who requested anonymity, said the Sept. 28 decision to withdraw the report was made against the advice of the research service's economics division, and that [report author Thomas L.] Hungerford stood by its findings.
Ah, so the economist guy is kind of pissed, but who cares? He's only the guy who knows what he's talking about. Clearly he has no place in Congress. [NY Times]


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All started with the HER series many years ago, then the Epic Frontlines Mod to Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare was born with the most complete and vast gameplay options that ANY game or mod reached before. Now everything it's beeing ported to Call of Duty Black Ops to become the new beast in FPS history. Fear your Enemy! Enjoy the War!


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/05/cell_site_data_disappears_into_bureaucratic_hole/
Cell site data sinks into black hole of local bureaucracy
The perfect solution... for the network operators
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It seems that UK mobile operators do publish the location of every base station, but they then mail that information to local authorities who do almost nothing with the data.
The data is collected by the Mobile Operators Association (MOA), and converted into the standard-but-little-known Easting and Northing coordinate system before being sent out to 402 local authorities. But the MOA won't share the data directly, and when we contacted those local authorities, we discovered most of them just sit on the files, while a quarter reckon the information is secret and 10 per cent deny ever receiving it.
The existence of the annual compilations came to light following our comments on Everything Everywhere's ongoing boycott of the Sitefinder database. Our suggestion that operators were reluctant to share locations prompted an indignant response from MOA, which pointed out that it sends the data out annually.
This data isn't as much as Sitefinder holds: it includes only the location and the owner of the site, not the emitted radiation or frequency, and the information is also in that oh-so-useful Easting and Northing format. But it still might seem that one could build a national map showing every cell site in the country.
Only one can't, as a significant proportion of the local authorities simply delete the data on receiving it, while others keep it for their own reference despite the covering letter which states that it should probably be shared. About a third of the local authorities who have so far responded to our enquiries say they have the files, but as no one has ever asked to see them they are unsure what should be done. Several asked for our advice on the subject.
So far we've heard from nearly half of the 402 receiving bodies
A handful do make use of the data, with websites allowing search and navigation – notably Wychavon and Sefton – but others require a personal visit to view the paper copy, or a formal request under the Freedom of Information legislation, before they'll share.
We couldn't possibly; it's simply too complicated
The authorities cite different reasons, some claiming the use of Northing and Easting makes the data too complicated to use, or that they haven't the money to make it available, but generally there's very little confidence in the information. Several of the planning departments pointed to specific errors of which they were aware, and as the data doesn't distinguish between planned and existing deployments it is of very little practical value.
But it does enable the network operators to claim, with a clear conscience, that they compile and send out the data, while simultaneously preventing anyone from creating a national map of base stations across the country.
This is what the ongoing boycott of Sitefinder is all about; T-Mobile argues, on behalf of the industry, that it would be counterproductive to allow anyone to create such a searchable map. That's despite that being one of the central recommendations of the Stewart Report into the risks posed by mobile telephony, which was completed in April 2000:
"A first requirement is for reliable and openly available information about the location and operating characteristics of all base stations" the report unequivocally states, continuing that "this information should be readily accessible by the public, and held in such a form that it would be easy to identify, for example, all base stations within a defined geographical area, and all belonging to a specified operator."
The result of that report was the Sitefinder service, now run by Ofcom. But rather than pass legislation, the government permitted the operators to submit their data voluntarily: a decision which has enabled T-Mobile's boycott. That boycott has been successfully challenged in the UK, but Everything Everywhere (which subsumed T-Mobile) has taken the fight to the European Court of Justice.
Sitefinder allows one to look at a location and see if there is a base station there (as long as it is not one put in by T-Mobile since 2007, or Orange in the last 12 months), but it does not permit one to download a complete data set for analysis as the Stewart Report recommends.
One doesn't have to think mobile phones cause cancer to think the data should be shared – simply putting the information into the public domain would enable all sorts of analysis to be conducted. Those concerned that phones are killing bees might also find some analysis useful, or to prove that mobile coverage saves (or costs) lives in mountainous regions. No matter what effect you think mobile telephony might or might not have, it is just easier to prove it with access to the data.
Not that this is just about mobile phones. Last year Ofcom announced it would be creating something very similar to Sitefinder for all those other radio transmitters around the country. That was mandated by the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, and was supposed to go live in February this year, but Ofcom tells us that it has been overworked dealing with all the requests from companies that don't want their locations to be listed and now hopes to have the data public in the summer.
Meanwhile concerned citizens are setting up their own databases using data culled from iPhones (Crowdflow) or Android Apps (OpenSignalMaps).
What's weird is that no one seems to contest the public's right to know about the radio antennas that are multiplying across the country, but at the same time they all appear to be working to ensure we don't get access to that data, or that if we do it is not in any form we can actually use. ®


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Talk to any long time Harbor Freight Tools customer and they'll probably chew your ear off with all the great things they've bought and all the great things they've done with those great things they've bought from us. Among the conversations about saws and wrenches and racing jacks and multipurpose tools what you'll learn is that Harbor Freight Tools is much more than just the sum of its tools.
From time to time we here at the Harbor Freight Blog are going to be sharing the stories that show just how true this statement is. Today I bring you a great example of a customer who know how to spot a good Harbor Freight find when they see one.
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In a competitive market like Singapore, many businesses are struggling to market their products or services among others. With a limited budget, many business owners might perceive branding as a good-to-have or only for companies that are cash rich.
Here's what I love about this article -- the author's advice that these days, a business does not need a Unique Selling Point (USP) but an Emotional Selling Point (ESP) for branding and marketing instead.
What a good point! I also like his sage advice to craft an attitude and a belief.
Read the article for more insights on how to incorporate his ideas into your business. It's a short read, but worth it!
This review was written by Karen Dietz for her curated content on business storytelling at www.scoop.it/t/just-story-it


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So here's the deal, my character is as follows.
Region: US
Server: Argent Dawn
Name: Helgrave
Class: Death Knight
Spec: Unholy
My Death Knight is an Unholy Tank, but WoW-Heroes recommends DPS upgrades/enchants instead of tanking enchants, thus lowering the score of the enchants I currently have on my character, and lowering my gear score as a result.
I'm not sure if this is a bug or if it is working as intended, but I hope it gets looked at


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The City of Monticello is without a city manager after an emergency meeting of the Monticello City Council on February 2.
After meeting in executive session for nearly two and one half hours, the city council opened a public session with a motion to discontinue the employment relationship with longtime city manager Trent Schafer.
With a motion by Walter Bird and a second by Jeremy Hoggard, the vote was three in favor (including Brad Randall) and one against (Jerry Ward). Councilman Scott Shakespeare was not in attendance.
A group of approximately 30 Monticello residents had waited for the public session and were eager to ask questions about the decision. However, Mayor Doug Allen said that the city would not answer questions about the decision, aside from making a statement that an investigation found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Schafer.
Allen explained that the council had two interests to consider and respect: the interests of the city and the interests of Schafer. As a result, he said that he and the council would not answer questions about the decision.
The city has been without the services of the city manager since Schafer was put on paid administrative leave in mid-December. A team of auditors from the state of Utah completed an investigation of city finances in January.
Allen said that the findings of the investigation may never be made public, aside from the statement that it found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. "I wish that I could make a statement, but we are advised by legal council that we cannot," said Allen.
When asked how the city can operate without a city manager, Allen said that it would continue to limp along, like it has during the administrative leave of Schafer.
Allen said that the city is likely to hire a new city manager and then move toward filling the additional open positions in the city. The Assistant City Manager has remained unfilled since the departure of Greg Martin in November, 2007. The Hideout Golf Course does not have a director of golf. Public works director Nathan Langston and assistant recorder Debbie Rush have announce their resignations, but apparently have agreed to stay on for the short run.
In addition, the city is involved in a number of projects that require the attention of a city manager, including the rebuilding of the city water collection system on the Abajo mountains, landscaping at the visitors center, and construction of a new city shop and maintenance facility.
At the February 2 meeting, the council also addressed the salaries paid to city employees and the offer by several city residents to volunteer their services through the current crisis.
Schafer is being represented by Moab attorney Steve Russell, who said, "They set this thing on Saturday and people stayed there for an hour and a half while the council did whatever they were doing. Then they came in and were not given a chance to hear the answers to their questions."
"They not only didn't tell the people why Trent was terminated, they didn't tell us," added Russell. "They sent a two or three page memo outlining their concerns. We made sure that we answered all their questions before we left. Then they went into session for an hour and a half and seemed to come to a conclusion that seemed pre-ordained."
Schafer was hired as Monticello city manager in 1994, soon after the death of prior city manager Dan Shoemaker. He served for more than 13 years, during which time a host of issues and controversies besieged the city.
A firestorm of controversy erupted when the City Council announced their intent to purchase the community electrical system from Empire Electric. Four community members filed a lawsuit. More than 60 percent of registered voters in Monticello signed petitions asking that the electric system decision be put on a ballot.
Several years (and several hundred thousand dollars) later, Empire Electric signed another 20-year extension to provide electrical services in Monticello.
The U.S. Department of Energy completed a $250 million superfund cleanup of the Monticello Mill tailings during Schafer's tenure. The massive project was completed with the construction of waste repository south of town and city ownership of a large tract of land at the site of the old vanadium and uranium processing mill.
Schafer was also involved as city manager during the construction of the 18-hole Hideout municipal golf course on the site of the nine-hole Blue Mountain Meadows. Construction of the multi-million dollar course took place in 2002, during one of the worst droughts in memory. The course has operated near a break-even point for the past two years.


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High levels of misplaced proteins may worsen the disease process in myasthenia gravis
Stepped-up production of fragments of acetylcholine receptors, the microscopic "landing pads" on muscle fibers that normally help process signals from the nervous system, may provoke the immune system and worsen myasthenia gravis (MG), new research shows.
In mice with an MG-like disease, these receptor fragments (which are proteins) are abundant but nonfunctional, and they end up in the wrong place in muscle fibers.
Matthew Meriggioli, who has MDA support to study new ways to regulate the immune system in MG, coordinated the study team (this study was conducted before his MDA grant took effect).
About MG
In most cases of MG, which is part of a large class of diseases known as "autoimmune," or "self-immune," disorders, the immune system mistakenly attacks the acetylcholine receptors (AChRs), destroying them faster than the body can replace them.
The result is that the nervous-system chemical acetylcholine, which normally lands on these receptors as the first step in transmitting nerve signals, often fails to do so. Signal failure causes fluctuating weakness in patients.
Current treatments for MG include suppression of the immune system, direct removal of immune-system proteins called antibodies, and enhancing the transmission of acetylcholine signaling with a medication that slows acetylcholine breakdown. These treatments can usually control the disease, but they often have unwanted side effects and don't always work as well as desired.
About the new findings
Investigators at the University of Illinois-Chicago have found that, in mice with a disease closely mimicking human autoimmune MG, nonfunctional, mislocated pieces of AChR produced in an effort to compensate for AChR loss, appear to stir up the immune system and may sustain the disease process. The results are published in the August 2009 issue of Muscle & Nerve.
MG occurs when the immune system destroys acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) on muscle cells (fibers), using antibodies as weapons. Treatments include immune-system suppression; siphoning off antibodies; and blocking the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE), which normally breaks down acetylcholine (ACh) after it moves from nerve to muscle fibers.
New research suggests abnormally placed fragments of AChRs could be the result of the body's attempt to compensate for the loss of AChRs but could actually make the disease worse.
Previous studies in human MG patients have noted the presence of similar nonfunctional protein pieces of AChR, although their role in the maintenance of the disease has been unclear.
The investigators cite evidence from other autoimmune diseases that shows changes in the structure, location or level of a protein can alter the way the immune system responds to it.
In the MG mice, the new AChR pieces were not integrated into receptors (as they normally would be) and may therefore have appeared "misshapen" to the immune system. They were not able to provide landing pads for acetylcholine.
In addition, they were in some instances located extensively along the muscle-fiber membrane, not just at the correct place, which is where nerve and muscle fibers communicate, the so-called neuromuscular junction. That could be another red flag for the immune system.
MG mice with the most severe disease had the highest muscle-tissue levels of these AChR pieces. In the severely affected mice, proteins of the immune system were seen in similar locations as the receptor pieces, suggesting the pieces had become immunologic targets.
Reducing production of AChR pieces could become therapeutic option
Preventing or reducing production of the new AChR pieces, if their role in the disease process is confirmed in humans, could become a new goal for therapeutic development in MG.
In a study published last year, Meriggioli and colleagues describe a new approach for regulating the immune system in MG mice, using a compound called granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF). This compound activated regulatory cells in the immune system, dampening the autoimmune response and lessening disease severity in the mice.
Meriggioli's current, MDA-supported work aims to move this strategy closer to application to human MG. "Essentially, our work will try to harness the immune system's own regulatory network to bring MG under control, and possibly bring about long-term remissions," Meriggioli said.
Meaning for patients
The new findings about the role of abnormal AChR pieces in mice with an MG-like disease have not been confirmed in human MG patients. If that occurs, treatment strategies that prevent the overproduction of AChR subunits could be investigated.
Homing in on abnormal immune responses to AChRs and AChR fragments, while leaving the rest of the immune system alone, by using GM-CSF or similar compounds, could allow more "bang for the buck" -- more benefit with lower doses and fewer side effects than in current MG therapies.


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Please feel free to voice concerns or questions (or support) but read this post in its entirety before doing so. We've received some positive feedback from members of all levels who are aware of the changers, but I don't expect everyone to have the same point of view.
POTM (Photo of the Moment):
This is 100% automated and based on member votes. There is a pool of photos and every time you visit or refresh the home page a completely random selection is taken from the pool to be displayed as POTM. This is why there are repeats. All photos in the POTM pool are submitted from different individuals in the recent past and are the highest scoring photos (member votes determine the entries). No one gets two entries at a time, though the eligible photo can change as time goes on. There are no considerations with respect to who the member is, the type of photo, whether it is attached to anything, etc…
Featured Photos:
This is a new feature at the bottom of the home page which hopefully will make the page more dynamic and interesting for members. It may also encourage folks to scroll down and view the whole page. Nothing critical or special here… just a couple photos picked by elves. Currently one photo is updated daily by a different elf each day of the week, and this bumps off the one that is two days old. No special criteria is used, it is up to the elf. Some prefer scenery shots, action shots, humor, recent shots, just missed POTD, buried old photos, etc…
POTD (Photo of the Day):
This is the reason for this post… first I want to stress… this process is 100% automated. No elf, mod, or admin has any say in the winner whatsoever (beyond the same vote every member gets to place). Also the previous week or two a different mechanism was in place that had a randomization component. This didn't work very well and was soon removed. There is no randomization component to the selection. The current process has been in place since Saturday. It will take a few weeks to level things out, so please be patient.
I, and some others, believe POTD can be a great asset to the site if it is fairly and properly worked, but when it isn't perceived as a fair process or something that is solely in the hands of the membership it becomes less meaningful and less interesting. The current process tries to balance those two items.
Note that there are no considerations with respect to who the member is (except as noted below), the type of photo, whether it is attached to anything, etc…
- 1. POTD has changed so that instead of the best photo in the last 0-24 hrs, it is now the best photo from 24-48 hours ago.
- a. This allows more members time to vote on what they like, especially if they are used to using the best photos in one day link on the bottom left of the home page.
b. This removes some (but not all) of the incentive to post photos just after midnight. Now pics submitted at 8:00 AM, or noon, or even in the afternoon have more time to rise to the top. Previously afternoon submissions were at a more severe disadvantage which was especially unfair to new members since they are unaware of this aspect.
c. Also, in the event of a tie (pretty rare but it can happen), the most recent photo is selected. This also slightly removes the incentive to post just after midnight, and it makes sense because the more recent photo got the same number of votes in less time.
2. Some consideration is given to members who haven't won POTD or haven't won in an extended period of time, and based on how recently they previously may have won it. This is to make it a fair process to everyone, so no one feels like this system is gamed, no one is excluded, or anyone favored. It increases the variety for the POTD too. I've observed many times that a new member signs up and submits a spectacular shot, but we all know that previously they had pretty much no chance because they were an unknown entity. At the same time, we did not want to block out people or recent winners from getting POTD. Folks should always feel free to contribute.
- a. I'll stess again here, this is 100% automated.
b. Also… NO ONE IS EVER EXCLUDED FROM WINNING POTD. There is NO blackout period. But if you recently won POTD your margin of victory is considered against others and weighed against how recently they won POTD. But votes still have a huge component.
c. This factor only impacts the necessary margin of victory, and is NOT intended to discourage anyone from submitting photos as often as they like. Don't let that be the effect.
d. With a good enough shot you could still get POTD two days in a row, but it won't be easy (note that this was rare even under the old system). It just depends on what sort of stuff others submit and how close they are.
Examples: To better explain the process, and at the risk of pissing people off, I will use some of the first few days as an example…
- Sunday: Afzal got POTD on Sunday. His photo had the highest score and he hadn't gotten POTD since December, so it's no surprise his photo came out on top. We need to see more submissions though Afzal!
Monday: AlbertoRampini got POTD today. It wasn't the highest score at the time, but was close enough. Alberto's photo was selected since he hadn't gotten POTD in 29 days, and the member with the top photo got POTD 9 days ago, 19 days ago, and 23 days ago. With more votes the top photo still could have won, but with three recent appearances the margin of victory wasn't quite high enough.
Wednesday (two days from now): Currently the top photos are submissions by Vitaliy M., Noondueler, SenadR, and myself. I might not get it even if I come out on top, since I had POTD 17 days ago and we all have pretty much the same number of votes right now (Vitaliy M. and SenadR haven't won in a long time if ever, and Noondueler hasn't in 26 days). For me to win, I need a few more votes since some folks are so close yet haven't won in ages… but I didn't add the photos solely for POTD. They are nice pics and necessary for my latest route page overhaul... POTD was not my objective. If I had submitted a more spectacular shot I might have gotten enough votes to win over the others even though I won 17 days ago, but my goal last night was to improve my route page.
For me personally, this makes me feel more empowered to submit photos regularly, since it shouldn't be seen by others as simply an attempt to get POTD. Vote on them if you like, and if you don't... oh well!
The objective here is to have high quality results from a diverse group of members including those who have won it before and for this to be selected solely based on member votes without anyone having more say than another. Vote on the photos you like, and keep submitting great content!
POTW (Photo of the Week):
No real change here, except that it is the photo with the most votes submitted in the last 9 days. This is because a photo less than two days old has pretty much zero chance because it takes that long just to reach POTD status.
Hopefully most members like the changes. And hopefully no one is discouraged from contributing who has been (and new people should feel encouraged to contribute more). If you are already a regular contributor, keep submitting photos as I am sure the better ones will come out on top often enough!


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"If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd pay for the operation straight away. But we don't have the money. People can have their own beliefs on whether they think this is a good use of NHS money but I just want what will make my child happy."This is the case of a 16-year-old boy who "began researching sex change operations last year" after the kids at school "taunted him for being gay and... he was excluded from school after getting into fights."
"The psychologist said she was satisfied that Bradley knew his own mind and was eligible for a sex change and immediately put him on a waiting list for an operation."What an insane way to solve problems! I suppose it's easier for the government to pay £10,000 for an operation than to deal with the harassment of a gay kid at school. The poor mother is eager to "make my child happy," but why would surgery be the first choice or even any kind of choice if the truth is that the child is gay and surrounded by people who don't know how to behave with any sort of decency?
Notice how this is a problem with the government running everything — not only the school, but also the medical treatments. When it's all a matter of economics, look at how evil it can get. It's easier to lop off body parts that to persuade groups of young people to treat each other kindly. There is one victim, and there are many harassers, so go after the victim, but call him "patient," and keep up the pretense of a caring, all-embracing government-parent... who only wants to make us children happy.


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After 92 years as Boulder Community Hospital, the local nonprofit medical care organization has a new name: Boulder Community Health.
The name change was instituted to better reflect the organization's transformation into a regional health system with 540 physicians and 18 locations in Boulder and Broomfield counties, officials announced Tuesday.
The hospital's foundation also is rebranding and changing its name to Boulder Community Health Foundation.
The new name comes just months from the expected completion of Boulder Community Health moving its acute care services to the newly expanded Foothills campus from the hospital at 1100 Balsam Ave.
The expansion of Boulder Community Foothills Hospital, 4747 Arapahoe Ave., and the move of the acute care services is slated for completion in October.
"We thought that it was important to have the branding, or name change, now," said David P. Gehant, president and chief executive officer of Boulder Community Health. "For years, we've been more than a hospital."
During the past 20 years, Boulder Community Health has expanded from a single hospital off Balsam to 18 facilities across Boulder and Broomfield counties.
Services have grown as well, Gehant said, noting that more than 102,000 patient visits occurred at affiliated primary care clinics and nearly 14,000 in-home patient visits were made in the past year.
The "Health" name properly represented the organization's efforts in providing care for more than just a single episode, he said.
"We're really concerned about the whole continuum of care," he said.
The name change is expected to cost the hospital about $220,000, Gehant said. The costs include marketing, research and signs.
Maintaining the BCH acronym should help to maintain consistency and save on expenses, he added.
The adoption of the new name is expected to be incremental with the website going live on Wednesday, stationary and paperwork being replaced only after the existing stocks are depleted, and signs being installed as facilities come online during the $125 million expansion project.
Boulder Community Health officials say the new name also should help residents and people outside of Colorado understand the organization's breadth of services.
"I think the more they understand about what we have, the less out-migration we'll see," said Rich Sheehan, a Boulder Community Health spokesman.
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A NEW airline offering direct flights to and from Melbourne is set to take to the skies in Dubbo.
The airline, which wishes to remain unnamed until its official unveiling within the next month, aims to fly to Melbourne via Albury or Griffith, and if successful could well turn into direct flights from Dubbo to Melbourne.
The mayor of Dubbo, Mathew Dickerson, said the council had been in close discussion with a representative from the airline, and statistics indicated the airline would have about 23 definite passengers to Melbourne on its daily flights.
Cr Dickerson said the council had been trying hard to get an airline to serve another port in Australia other than Sydney, which was already served by Regional Express (REX) and QantasLink.
"It's clear the city of Dubbo has an advantage with our 132 flights a week to and from Sydney, but we have been trying to service our community by providing flights to other parts of Australia, and Melbourne was a popular choice," he said.
He said he had contacted Virgin Australia, REX and QantasLink for flights to other ports in Australia, with no such luck.
It was "out of the blue", Cr Dickerson said, that another airline had contacted him and proposed a new route to Melbourne.
"After conducting a survey with passengers at Dubbo City Airport, we concluded that about 23 people fly to Melbourne every day, something the new airline was impressed with," he said.
"I want to make it very clear there will be no undermining of REX and QantasLink, as they do such a good job with their flights to Sydney and Broken Hill... but 23 is a good number of people to support daily flights to Melbourne.
"If it's a success, we will be looking at direct flights from Dubbo to Melbourne."
A proposed Dubbo to Melbourne flight schedule saw a flight leaving Dubbo at 6.10am, stopping in Griffith at 6.40am, refueling for 20 minutes in time for departure to Melbourne at 7am, arriving at 7.40am, in total taking just over 90 minutes.
"If there is sufficient space on the jet, there is an opportunity for cargo to go on board as well... the progress is obviously a good thing but of course it can fall over."
The proactive nature of the Dubbo community has helped move this along, and with Dubbo's support, it could turn into a regular thing for the city.
"I'm very happy about it, we have been pushing for it for a long time and it really will be a great thing for Dubbo."
Member for Dubbo Troy Grant commended the decision to bring in a new airline, and said regional air routes were vital services for connecting families that live apart from one another.
"The prospect of a third airline entering the market would improve competition for passengers and should provide a more cost effective service for regional customers," he said.
He said the key to any air service was their ability to secure landing priority in the key airports that they serve.
Survey highlights demand for more variety
THE Dubbo Airport Terminal User Satisfaction Survey was released in June 2012, and was conducted by Aurora Research for Lindsay Mason, airport operations manager for Dubbo City Council.
About 300 people in the departure lounge were interviewed, with 35 per cent of people happy with the range of flights on offer, with 65 per cent after more variety.
The survey indicated the final destination of 69 per cent of passengers was Sydney, with eight per cent flying to Melbourne.
About 24 per cent of people wanted direct flights to Brisbane, and 14 per cent to Melbourne, indicating a stronger demand for Brisbane and making Melbourne the third most popular city of choice.
It also saw REX offer 82 flights per week to both Sydney and Broken Hill, compared to QantasLink which only offered 50 flights to and from Sydney.


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Melba Jean Clemons Christensen, 97, passed away Sunday, April 28, 2013, at her home surrounded by family. She was preceded in death by her loving husband of 54 years, Alfred.
She is survived by her daughters, Jackie (Tim) Corkhill and Linda (David) Fore; a special niece, Gina (Scott) Peterson; grandchildren, Brian Curls, Aaron Curls, Kristin Corkhill, Nathan Corkhill, Lindsey Peterson, Scott Ryan Peterson, Tyler Peterson and MacKenzie Peterson; six great-grandchildren; siblings, Norman F. Clemons and Marie Waggoner; stepson, Charles (Enrica) Christensen; step-grandchildren, Michael Christensen, Greta Young, Michelle Mohr, and Greg Christensen; and many loving nieces, nephews and friends.
She was born in the Florida panhandle Nov. 10, 1915. The third of seven children, she moved with her family to Fort Myers in 1924. After time spent in Miami, she returned to North Fort Myers in 1949 with her husband Al to raise their family. With her brother Norman, they owned and operated Trail Dairy Farm and Trail Dairy Mill in North Fort Myers. Jean and Al retired in 1972 to a life of travel and time spent with family.
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Mrs. Christensen lived her 97 years to the fullest. She was a strong, loving woman who was an example to everyone who knew her. She enjoyed staying active and challenging her mind. She debated politics, actively followed the stock market and welcomed all into her home. Her happiest times were spent with family and her greatest loves were her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She leaves behind a family that will love and miss her forever.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today, May 1, at Coral Ridge Funeral Home, 1630 Pine Island Road, Cape Coral. A funeral will be held at 1 p.m., Thursday, May 2, at Grace Church, 13 S.E. 21st Place, Cape Coral, with the Rev. Wayne Godsmark, officiating. Burial will follow at Coral Ridge Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to Grace Church. Please visit www.coralridgefuneralhome.com to leave thoughts and memories for her family.