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A giant star that teased astronomers into thinking it had exploded three years ago finally blasted itself to bits last year.
When the star produced a mammoth eruption in 2009, astronomers designated it as Supernova 2009ip. Within days, though, they had second thoughts. The explosion faded too quickly for a true supernova, and the material it blasted into space was moving too slowly. Astronomers realized the star had duped them.
After a similar outburst a year later, 2009ip staged a third eruption last July. It remained bright for weeks, and the ejected material was traveling at a few percent of the speed of light. In other words, this outburst really was a supernova.
Pictures snapped over a period of about 10 years before the final explosion revealed that the star was a luminous blue variable. Such stars are dozens of times as massive as the Sun and a million times brighter. 2009ip is the first confirmed instance of such a star exploding as a supernova.
Astronomers aren't sure what caused the earlier outbursts. One possibility is a reduction in the radiation pressure in the star's core, which keeps the core from collapsing. Another is the ignition of nuclear reactions in different layers around the core. Either process could mimic a supernova - and fool astronomers into thinking the star had blasted itself to bits.
The blast probably left behind a tiny, crushed core known as a neutron star. More about neutron stars tomorrow.
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New Haven Register: Pelosi, DeLauro Focus on Women's Issues
By Mary E. O'Leary
Ivy Delgado, a bus driver for ten years, knows firsthand the difficulties parents face when the choice is missing a day's pay to stay home with a sick child, or sending them to school.
Delgado said there are many times a student will become stomach sick on her bus, which likely meant they were also sick at home.
In her own personal experience, if there was a problem with her youngest child, who is autistic, it meant either she or her husband would see less money at the end of the week as they traded off on who would stay home to attend to his needs.
That has all changed now, with the paid sick leave bill that Connecticut has adopted — the first in the country.
"Everyone needs this. For me, this is a big victory," she told more than 200 women who had come together Friday on the factory floor of the Pennsylvania Globe Gaslight Co. to discuss the need for equal pay for women and quality, affordable child care.
"You need to be able to go to work and know that if you get an emergency call and you have to leave, you can and you don't have to worry about missing that pay or not paying that bill," Delgado said.
The woman-owned small business, which supports 15 employees, was chosen as the site for the presentation by U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3, and Democratic U.S. House Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as they campaign on their economic agenda for women. A family business that manufactures street lights, it is run by sisters Michelle Stonier and Marcia Lafemina.
DeLauro said almost half of the men and women in the work force have no paid sick days, while the cost of child care sometimes exceeds the monthly mortgage bill. She said a proposal by President Barack Obama for quality preschool programs for all low- and moderate-income families would be a step forward, as is the expansion of child care tax credits.
"Women are really struggling financially. They are looking for an increase in the minimum wage, equal pay, educational opportunities to raise their families and to have a better qualify of life," DeLauro said.
DeLauro said stories like Delgado's shows the importance of legislation. "It makes a difference in people's lives and that's what the job is all about," she said.
Debra Bonney told the audience that she lost her job, but was able to get back in the work force based on training from the Workforce Alliance and even to negotiate better pay when an outside company tried to lure her away.
Pelosi, the mother of five children, born in six years, she said she began her political career when her youngest was a senior in high school.
She said she was in awe of the young women in Congress who are juggling child care with careers. She said she tells her colleagues on the other side of the aisle, "you could not possibly do yourself what you are asking these young working women to do."
Pelosi said there is no better investment by the government than in education, from early childhood to making college affordable. "That is how you reduce the deficit. Not by cutting food stamps. … It is all connected. When women succeed, America succeeds," she said.
Pelosi said almost every week there are initiatives to undo protections of the water supply and protections against foodborne illnesses where 3,000 American die every year.
The former speaker of the House said she is optimistic that their initiatives on child care and pay equity will be successful if the American voters speak up. "It's about a better quality of life," DeLauro said.
They were asked how they can accomplish this unless the House majority changes from Republican control.
"Understand this: There is out there a groundswell of impatience, urgency to get this done, and that's why this is a very focused, women-in-the-workplace agenda," Pelosi said.
DeLauro said there were many who did not think Congress would pass the Violence Against Women Act, but it did pass because there were a lot of voters across the country who made their voices heard. "These are not partisan issues," she said.
"We made the issue (Violence Against Women Act) too hot for the Republicans to handle," Pelosi said. It was held up for 600 days after it expired before it re-authorized.
On the need for background checks for firearms purchases, Pelosi said, "We will never give up,"
Pelosi was asked if Anthony Weiner, a former New York congressman and now one of the Democratic candidates for mayor, should get off the public stage given his habit of sexting.
"The statement that I've made … doesn't just apply to Anthony Weiner. It applies to other examples that are well known in the country. This is disrespectful to women. Apparently these folks are clueless. … I've said if you are clueless, get a clue. If you need therapy, do it in private," Pelosi said.


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According to http://www.true-to-you.net, his tour will begin in Stockton, Ca. on April 27th.
Is there any chance for a Saturday or Sunday appearance? I don't think so...
According to http://www.true-to-you.net, his tour will begin in Stockton, Ca. on April 27th.
Is there any chance for a Saturday or Sunday appearance? I don't think so...
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Well, there goes that...
surprise surprise....been saying this for weeks
in stockton? buahahahahahahahaha Stockton?!? hahahahahahahaha.
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This changes nothing.
STOCKTON?!!?!?! FGROEYG<GETRK He can be added to saturday though. Moz probably wants a single show before doing Coachella. This abides by the rules of being out of the so cal area so its still very likely. I will be fuming if he doesnt do coachella and he is playing in L.A. while I am in Indio.
Stockton?! Random...
he is not doing coachella. if it wasnt friday, then no need for him to do any other day. maybe sunday but im gonna guess no.
AEversW has friends at Capitol!
Nonetheless I am completely with AEvers on this one, Morrissey for Saturday to put Tiesto where he belongs!
Why would Morissey play Stockton ? particularly during Coachella w/end ?
Well, that puts the kuybash on the kittencaboodle for Morrissey.
Cause he is random like that. I say if he does not do Coachella, he might spare L.A. and not play that weekend but a few days after. So lets say 2 nights at the Warfield to follow Stockton. Then L.A. shows like Tues - Thurs after Coachella. If that happens my week will be booked with too much stuff. Post Coachella recovery, Moz and possibly Stagecoach...
This doesn't mean anything as this is not really an update- we all knew when he was starting his tour and that is was in the LA area. Noting new at all. We won't know for sure till the complete tour schedule comes out, sometime this week.
He could play Saturday or Sunday, I wouldn't put it past him or them (GV). After all, the peeps not so much into Rage and Chilis have to have alternatives.
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Morrissey in the tent on Saturday!!!!
lollipops and crisps
I had that in my post but decided not to say it. But yeah Morrissey "In The Dance Tent" on Saturday. This means Prince could do Friday instead...
i kinda really hope he doesnt play saturday because that would more then likely knock The Decemberists to the outdoor stage and that conflict would be too much for me.
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That totally sucks...
i hope he doesn't play at all...just cos' i'm not going now.
you fuckers get to see the jesus and mary chain....that's enough for you.
Wow...Stockton. Odd choice. I checked the Bob Hope theaters website...says nothing about Moz playing there the 27th but there is some salsa dance show or some crap on the 28th, so at least we know he's not playing two nights in a row there.
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Coachella 99-10 Vet, the run has ended in 2011
He's so not coming to Coachella. Not coming. Not coming. Not coming.
Saturday and Sunday are sold out. Goldenvoice has no incentive to add such a large act on these days, so it's highly unlikely that he's coming unless he was signed on early, but for some reason didn't want to announce it.


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vs. No. 5 Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
Saturday, March 15, 2008
No. 18 UC Santa Barbara vs. No. 5 Hawaii, 3 pm
This Week In Water Polo
No. 18 UC Santa Barbara will travel to Honolulu, Hawaii to face No. 5 Hawaii this Saturday, March 15, at 3 pm. The Gauchos now have an overall record of 4-12, and are 0-6 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. Admidst a twelve-game losing streak, five of which were lost within a two point margin, the Gauchos are eager for a win. With seven more conference games left in the season, Saturday's match-up will be the Gauchos' third to last game on the road. The contest will take place at the University of Hawaii's Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex.
Scouting the Rainbows
The fifth ranked Rainbows currently hold an overall record of 9-3 and are 3-0 in MPSF. Hawaii is amidst a two game winning streak after defeating No. 11 Loyola Marymount (8-7), and No. 10 UC Davis (6-5) on the last day of the UC Irvine Invitational, Sunday, February 24th. Junior utility, Kelly Mason, leads the Rainbows in scoring with a total of 25 goals. She is ranked 7th of MPSF leading scorers with an average of 2.08 goals per game. After a three week break, Saturday's game vs. the Gauchos will begin a long home stand for the Rainbows.
Gauchos Lose Three Straight
The Gauchos suffered three straight losses this past week against No.2 Stanford(14-2), No. 9 San Jose State (6-5), and No. 6 San Diego State (10-8). In the first match up of a two game home stand, the Gauchos struggled offensively against second ranked Stanford, Friday, March 7. The Gauchos finished with only two goals after two scoreless first and second quarters. Gillian Morgan and Kathryn Nelson each scored a goal for UCSB.
Friday's defeat was followed by a one point loss against No.9 San Jose State (6-5) on Saturday, March 8. The Gauchos stepped up offensively scoring a total of five goals. Gillian Morgan, Kathryn Nelson, Lindsay Knott, Claire Buchanan, and Lizzie Rouleau each scored a goal for the Gauchos. Morgan made an impressive pool length shot, putting the Gauchos within one point of the Spartans at the start of the fourth quarter. After a close battle, the Gauchos lost 6-5.
Sunday, March 9, UCSB traveled to San Diego, and lost 10-8 to No. 6 San Diego State. Christie Clark scored an impressive four goals for the Gauchos and Gillian Morgan added two. Katie Kepner and Amanda Tipton each had a goal a piece. Goalie, Jenny Gonzales finished with a total of six saves.
Coming Attractions
Friday, March 28, UCSB will travel to Los Angeles to take on No. 3 University of Southern California. The game will be held at McDonald's Swim Stadium, at 5:00 pm.


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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 at 1:49 pm in Concord, Education, Mt. Diablo school district, Theresa Harrington.
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The Mt. Diablo school district canceled its Young Authors program last year, due to budget cuts, said Rose Lock, assistant superintendent for elementary education.
The program encouraged students to write and illustrate their own books. Awards were given out at a districtwide gala, where a published author gave a keynote address.
In the absence of the district program, some schools such as Silverwood Elementary in Concord have created their own campus Young Author programs. Here's a video of student Vanessa Chena reading her book, "Why Pigs Have Curly Tails."
Curriculum specialist Diane Sargent is looking for ways to revive the program or to support schools that want to develop their own programs, Lock told me today. The district could solicit local sponsors for the program, which cost about $9,000, Lock said.
Expenses included a post-retirement contract with a retired teacher who coordinated the event, refreshments, facilities use and a speakers fee for the guest author.
"We're trying to brainstorm some ideas to bring it back," Lock said. "Maybe we can have some volunteers or librarians who can help us. It was a great program."
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The Town of Petersburg received $194,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds Thursday to implement measures to improve the quality of the Petersburg Water System.
The Town of Petersburg must match the grant with $6,000.
Town officials propose to use the CDBG funds and local funds to make improvements that will benefit 955 people, of which 818, or 85.7 percent, are low- to moderate-income residents.
Petersburg purchases treated water which flows from Fayetteville Public Utilities.
The town has been experiencing difficulty in maintaining the required chlorine residual in the distribution system for several years, said officials, explaining that the grant funds will be used toward the installation a new chlorine booster station at the reservoir; installing a mixer in the tank to maintain a consistent chlorine concentration throughout the tank; maintaining the tank interior prior to mixer installation; and the installation of automatic flushing stations with diffusers and chlorine sampling stations at dead-end lines to improve chlorine residual maintenance throughout the system.
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The oil and gas industry is funding an advertising campaign aimed at stopping new energy taxes, an effort that comes as it faces both a loss of tax benefits and possible new penalties as part of climate legislation.
Industry trade group American Petroleum Institute launched the ads now running in Washington, D.C., and 10 states.
"What would new taxes on oil and gas mean to to you?" one ad asks, followed by a woman who answers: "Well, I'm against it because it would really hurt our economy. It would take money away from businesses and stores. People would just be in more of a bind. I think it's just, it's not a good idea."
Another ad urges: "Tell Washington to say no to energy industry taxes."
The ads target President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget proposal to eliminate tax breaks for petroleum companies, API said. The Department of Energy said the plan would generate $36.5 billion over the next 10 years. The industry says it would cost companies $80 billion over the same period.
The spots attempt to tie the budget proposal to people's pocketbooks, said Adele Morris, policy director for climate and energy economics at the Brookings Institution.
"The purpose with these ads is to make it seem these taxes will be felt by consumers at the pump," Morris said. "It's to try to tell a story that energy consumers will be harmed."
The 15- and 30-second spots refer only to generic "energy industry taxes." While API said they are spurred only by the budget proposal, analysts and critics of the industry say the ads also could be seen as an attack on a climate bill emerging from Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) The bill could include elements of a carbon tax on transportation fuels, something some environmentalists, economists and Exxon Mobil have said they prefer to a program of buying and selling carbon emissions permits, known as cap and trade.
"I assumed they were talking about the climate bill," Morris said of her initial reaction to the API ads.
The ads began running last year before details of Kerry, Graham and Lieberman's bill effort surfaced, API spokeswoman Cathy Laundry said. API first ran the ads in late 2009 when Congress was working on funding bills and restarted them as Congress began voting on the budget. The ads are running in the District of Columbia, Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
"Climate change is important to us, but these taxes are very, very important to us as well," Laundry said. "Taxes is a priority for us."
The industry may get a double hit with the ads because "only a few people in America outside of Washington, D.C., have heard about the president's proposal" to take away the tax benefits oil and natural gas companies now get, said Sierra Club spokesman Josh Darner, adding that many people opposed to cap and trade call it "cap and tax."
Tax benefits at risk
The Obama administration wants to eliminate a series of tax benefits that oil and gas companies receive, including a tax deduction given to manufacturers, deductions for some drilling costs, and credits given for low-volume oil and gas wells. In addition, there would be new taxes on Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production and the reinstatement of taxes to generate revenue for cleaning up hazardous-waste sites.
The same Obama revenue-raising proposal stalled last year. This year it received a cold reception from key lawmakers on important committees, including Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Robert Bennett (R-Utah) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.).
But while that opposition could make it difficult to get that proposal passed in a committee, the oil industry is concerned it could be added as an amendment to legislation other than budget bills. With the large federal budget deficit, lawmakers are looking for revenue sources, analysts said.
The Obama administration is "making the calculation that this is a politically palatable way to raise revenue," said Morris with Brookings.
Obama's proposal this year comes after the Group of 20 world leaders -- which includes the United States -- pledged last year to phase out fossil fuel subsidies.
"Part of this is simply punishing who they view as bad guys," said Kenneth Green, resident scholar at American Enterprise Institute, a think tank favoring market-based solutions. He added, "The public tends to want to punish or distrust the oil industry."
But eliminating subsidies at least in the United States would be unlikely to have the desired environmental impact of lowering carbon emissions, Morris said. In some other countries like China, the government subsidy is given to consumers at the pump, she said, so that even when oil prices rise, gas prices paid do not keep pace. If that subsidy were eliminated, consumers likely would drive less, she said.
In the United States, Morris said, "unless you do something to broadly affect the cost of fossil fuels, you're not going to change consumption ... and how much carbon goes up in the air."
The Obama proposal also would affect the mining industry. But it comes as the Obama administration funds research into ways to capture coal's carbon emissions and sequester them underground.
"It's kind of taking with one hand and giving with the other," said Carol Raulston, spokeswoman for the National Mining Association, a trade group for the industry.
Results debated
In addition to running the ads, API lobbyists are talking to lawmakers and their aides about the budget proposal, arguing that eliminating the tax incentives will decrease domestic production. That in turn, they say, could mean lost jobs as the work is shifted overseas.
"With America still recovering from recession and 1 in 10 Americans out of work, now is not the time to impose new taxes on the nation's oil and natural gas industry," said API President Jack Gerard last month when the proposal was unveiled.
"Imposing new taxes would reduce our nation's energy security by discouraging new investment in domestic oil and natural gas production and refining capacity and pushing those investments -- and American jobs -- abroad," Gerard added.
The National Mining Association is talking to lawmakers about jobs as well, and the cost of power, Raulston said.
The administration argues that the tax benefits do not drive increased production.
Analysts disagreed about whether a change in the tax benefits would shift production and cost jobs.
"It's correct to say that if you increase taxes you're going to decrease profitability, and therefore you're going to decrease investments," Green said. "If you're made less competitive and you wind up doing more of your research overseas, it's going to have repercussions in the U.S. job market."
Changing tax benefits is highly unlikely to affect natural gas production, which is booming, said Morris with Brookings. Additionally, she said, not much natural gas is imported.
Most of the changes also would be unlikely to affect oil production in the short-term, Morris said.
"They're already pumping the oil," Morris said, adding, "it might possibly affect some exploration and production in the future."
The changes, if they occurred, would be unlikely to affect gas prices because oil is an international commodity, Morris said.
Green argued there should not be subsidies for any energy producers.
"The vast majority of these [tax benefits] are purely self-serving to the oil industry," Green said. "To the extent that the oil industry gets more subsidies than other forms of energy, energy markets are distorted. Investment is probably distorted as well.
"Either everybody gets subsidies," Green added, "or nobody gets subsidies."
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Whither Clay Pell's campaign for governor? RIPR political analyst Scott MacKay has some thoughts.
How do you know your campaign is in trouble: When your car is getting more attention than your ideas.
That's what's happening to the infant campaign of Clay Pell, who would like to be our next governor.
The whereabouts of Pell's Toyota Prius has overshadowed everything else in his quest to win the Democratic nomination for governor. It turns out that on two separate occasions within the past few months that Pell and his wife, champion figure skater Michelle Kwan, have reported their Prius missing.
A week before Christmas, Pell called Providence police to report that the couple's car was gone. He told a cop he had last seen his 2010 automobile the night before when he parked it outside his home on the city's East Side. After he filed a stolen car report, Pell found the Prius that afternoon in the parking lot of a CVS a few blocks from his house.
Police said Pell's car exhibited no signs of the damage or tampering usually linked to a vehicle theft.
Then, on Feburary 25, Pell and Kwan again told police their Prius was gone. Kwan told police she and her husband were slated to go to a campaign event and that others were waiting for them. Pell apparently dropped the keys in the car's interior and they fell between the seats. So he left them in the vehicle and didn't lock the car doors.
The next morning, Kwan left the couple's home on Barnes Street and she noticed the Prius wasn't there. Police say Pell and Kwan spent nine hours searching for the car before reporting it missing, a fact disputed by Pell's campaign spokesman.
Whether this is much ado about not much doesn't really matter. At this point in the campaign, it has garnered outsized media coverage and driven talk radio chatter. It's about all the Rhode Island Gang of 500 – you know, the politicians, political insiders and reporters – are chatting about over their beverages at the local watering dens. And average Rhode Islanders have noticed.
You can blame a myopic and silly media for focusing on such piffle. Yet this is the way things always go in the early stages of a campaign, when reporters have pages and newscasts to fill but little on the radar screen except endorsements, the bloodless numbers of pollsters and fund-raising harvests.
The sad truth is that political coverage by trivial pursuit is a factor all campaigns face. Candidates have different ways of dealing with it. Some, like one of Pell's opponents, State General Treasurer Gina Raimondo, simply play along, and feed the silliness with, well, silliness. She touts her Italian meatloaf recipes and Greenville roots, as she asks for yet more campaign cash in her relentless fund-raising emails.
Others try to change the conversation, a la Republican gubernatorial aspirants Ken Block and Cranston Mayor Allan Fung, with 10-point programs on this or that. Providence Mayor Angel Taveras, another Democratic candidate, seeks to link his job in the capital city with programs he vows to advocate if he wins the Statehouse, such as early childhood education.
Pell's campaign has disputed some of the details of the Providence police reports on the Prius. What matters here aren't the details. It's about a campaign that should be talking about how a promising young man plans to make this a better state for Rhode Islanders. Instead it has been put in a defensive crouch over a car.
Pell's car episodes have been magnified because he has never run for office and doesn't have a template to guide the media or voters. Fung, for example, has faced a parking ticket scandal in his police department. When he discovered it, he quickly ordered a state police investigation. The move gave Rhode Islanders a window into how he would act if he faced such a difficulty as governor.
The other problem for Pell is that most voters really don't understand unfunded pension liabilities. And their eyes glaze over at the mention of private-public partnerships. Yet they wonder about how a guy who doesn't know where his car is will handle a prickly, self-serving General Assembly and the $8.5 billion dollar state budget those lawmakers control.
And they ask – has this guy ever heard of Lojack? It isn't unusual for cars to be lifted from Providence's East Side. That's where the late-model vehicles are in a capital city more brutally divided each year among haves, have-nots and have-mores.
It isn't too late for Pell to put his own imprint on the campaign. The first thing he has to do is alter the narrative and immediately begin focusing on his ample resume, White House experience and the policies he will bring to the State House. He would also do well to remind everyone that he suffers none of the baggage of candidates who have been entrenched in Rhode Island politics.
Where is the plan, to, say, amplify the legacy of his grandfather, the revered Sen. Claiborne Pell and make college more affordable and accessible for needy, working-class Rhode Island students? He has begun this effort in a small way by calling for a faster minimum wage increase.
And Pell and his spouse, who has dealt with microphones in her face since she was a teen-ager, had better get used to the rough scrutiny of the 21st century political media, which is a much different animal than the fawning television coverage accorded skating stars. Or the more civilized coverage Pell's grandfather received during a 36-year Senate career that ended in 1997.
Pell campaign manager Devin Driscoll has attempted to put the Prius matter to bed. ``At this point,'' said Driscoll. ``Clay and Michelle just want their car.''
What they really need to get back is their campaign.


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This is a large puzzle and very beautiful. Mine has a nice two-tone coloring. It is not at all obvious how it holds itself together, and I spent a lot of time tugging on various areas, and peeking through holes at its construction. I was afraid to pull too hard for fear of breaking the puzzle. After spending an hour or two with it I finally got it apart and immediately reassembled it. A very elegant puzzle, although I didn't experience any "Aha" moment when I got it apart.


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Yesterday, we brought you the new B1G logo after Maryland was added to the league. But with new B1G teams popping up faster than another corner Starbucks, we knew that logo wouldn't last long.
And we were right.
Today Rutgers will join the league and friend of the MZone 5th and Long has obtained this exclusive sneak peak at the new B1G logo will look like (although it may change again tomorrow after Delany reaches into his burlap sack and pulls out another random name -- only if it's located near a bunch of TV sets, natch).
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
New Big Ten Logo Post-Rutgers
Posted by Yost at 1:58 PM
Labels: B1G, Jim Delany Can Suck My Hairy Nut Sack, rutgers
3 comments:
- Tom C said...
I like my Crab cakes Charleston style
- November 20, 2012 8:14 PM
- phil said...
It's an honor and privilege to welcome Rutgers whose most famous graduate is Mr. Magoo (Class of 1903). If that isn't adding prestige to the Big Ten, what would?
- November 20, 2012 9:27 PM
- Dennis said...
Haven't see a similar report for NYC, but you guys lead in metro DC.
- November 21, 2012 1:48 PM
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Sir Bobby Charlton hailed "the perfect send-off" for his fellow footballing knight Sir Tom Finney as thousands of people turned out for the former England winger's funeral.
The city of Preston held a civic funeral for its most famous son with a funeral cortege procession from Deepdale Stadium to Preston Minster.
Inside, 600 invited mourners - many drawn from among the great and the good of British football past and present - paid their respects to honour the passing of Finney, who died two weeks ago aged 91.
Afterwards, Charlton, who made his England debut when Finney was the veteran star player, said: "It has been a very nice occasion - the perfect send-off for a sensational player.
"He would definitely be in my top group of the best there has ever been - maybe even in the top two or three."
Roads in the centre of Preston were closed for the procession, with thousands lining the streets and local schools giving children time off to attend. The service itself was transmitted outside the Minster, and shown live on a big screen at the Deepdale stadium - yards away from the street in which Finney was born in 1922.
Sir Trevor Brooking, the former England international who represented the Football Association at the funeral service, said: "He was one of the most genuine individuals you would ever be likely to meet, everyone admired and respected him.
"To come to this event today over 50 years since he played and see all these people both here in the Minster and on the streets, I can't think of many who would get the same reaction.
"As a player he was the matchwinner, the crowd-pleaser, the one who could make the difference - I was a youngster in primary school when he was playing, I would watch him on a black and white telly and then go out into the garden with my brother to try to emulate him."
The service included the hymn Jerusalem, a performance of Amazing Grace by Louisa Stirland, the BBC young chorister of the year, and finished with the singing of Abide With Me, the FA Cup final hymn.
Jimmy Armfield, England's former World Cup captain who played against Finney when he was at Blackpool, delivered an address in which he paid tribute to his attitude.
He said: "Tom didn't dive, he didn't feign injury, that wasn't part of his repertoire. He was the footballers' footballer.
"He was a real all-round athlete and in my opinion one of the real sporting icons that has ever come out of these isles.
"He was world famous but he never won a Championship medal or an FA Cup winners medal - though he won something much of important: the hearts of his team-mates, the supporters, opposing players even and of the whole country."
Tommy Docherty, the former Scotland and Manchester United manager who was a team-mate of Finney's at Preston, gave the eulogy.
He said: "In my opinion he was the greatest player I have ever seen. When I see Lionel Messi on the television playing for Barcelona I think maybe you could be as good as Tom.
"He was quiet and modest but he was amazing, he had two great feet and made ordinary players on his team look good - and I should know."
The funeral cortege travelled from Deepdale with a mounted police escort from the Lancashire Constabulary to the Minster.
The Preston and District Veterans' Association also joined the cortege to mark his service as a tank driver in the Royal Armoured Corps during the Second World War.
Finney was nicknamed the 'Preston Plumber' - his father insisted he train as plumber and he continued working in the family business throughout his career: useful extra income in the days of the maximum wage for players.
He was regarded as one of the true greats of English football - and his record of caps and goals came despite having lost six years to the war.
Preston chairman Peter Ridsdale said Finney had "touched the hearts" of the community.
He said: "What I think is wonderful is that so many people not only from the game but also from the city have turned out to say farewell. This is a player that truly touched the hearts not just of football, but the whole community."
There will be a minute's applause in honour of Finney before England's friendly against Denmark at Wembley on March 5 and manager Roy Hodgson, speaking at the squad announcement on Thursday, hopes it will be a fitting tribute.
"It is a great loss, my condolences to his family," he said.
"But we will be celebrating the life of a fantastic man and a fantastic footballer on Wednesday night and hopefully he will get even more attention and a bit more credit - you can't heap enough praise on a person like Sir Tom Finney."
David Moyes, the Manchester United boss who began his managerial career at Preston, and former Everton manager Howard Kendall, who began his playing career with the Lilywhites, were also among the mourners.
Finney won 76 England caps and scored 30 international goals, and played for Preston all his career, making 569 first-class appearances.
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1981 GL, 4wd wagon, EA81 engine
MSD module is a 5200 -- came on a 1967 landrover that's going to disel so I don't need it there any more. I'm wondering if I could put it on the suby. We're talking about selling the '99 and using the '81 as the daily driver instead (finances.....one of the two has to go, and the '81 actually handles the winters up here better -- low range in the snow). So trying to get the stock '81 running as well as possible.
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Will an MSD ignition work in an '81 suby?
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Posted 11 August 2012 - 04:35 PM
yes. mcbrat has a diagram on how you wire it, but its really simple. i have one in my vehicle as well.
basically, you connect the factory coil wires to the red and white small gauge wires, and the orange and black wires to the coil. supply the unit with power and ground and you are done.
basically, you connect the factory coil wires to the red and white small gauge wires, and the orange and black wires to the coil. supply the unit with power and ground and you are done.
Posted 11 August 2012 - 06:50 PM
Not much gain to be made, if any. All you are doing is making for a hotter spark. Thats assuming the factory coil isnt providing a hot enough spark as it is.
To get the most gain out of it, you will need to open up the gap on the plugs as well.
To get the most gain out of it, you will need to open up the gap on the plugs as well.
Posted 11 August 2012 - 08:06 PM
I'm pretty sure that most of the MSD boxes also have a multiple-spark event, where you get several quick sparks as opposed to one from the factory system. It only works up to like 3000rpm, but could help in some cases.
Posted 15 September 2012 - 12:37 AM
I'm not entirely sure if this is the right diagram that you are looking for (found it by searching for MSD products wiring diagrams)but I still posted as it "may" be of some use. at least that's what I think
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Less than half an hour before the Agusta 109 hit a crane in Vauxhall, Richard Caring, the owner of the Ivy, advised Mr Barnes not to take off.
Mr Barnes, 50, an experienced helicopter pilot, died along with Matthew Wood, 39, who was walking to work.
According to the initial report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch, Mr Barnes was due to collect Mr Caring and another passenger from Elstree, Herts and fly them to the north of England.
At 7.18 Mr Barnes, who was due to set off from Redhill, Surrey, discussed the flight and weather Mr Caring, who said he would drive to Elstree.
"At 0731 hours, having noticed how poor the weather was during his journey, the client called the pilot to suggest that he did not take off until he had reached Elstree and observed the weather," the report says.
"The pilot replied that he was already starting the engines. The client stated he repeated his suggestion that the pilot should not take off."
According to the report Mr Barnes, who was unable to land at Elstree, turned back towards central London where he was given permission to land at the London heliport only 15 seconds before hitting the crane.
The helicopter's rotors were detached following the collision with the jib, then the tail section broke off the fuselage after it hit St George Tower, a huge residential Thameside development.
A final report, which is likely to take several months to complete, will also examine rules governing flights across London, the lighting of obstacles and planning guidance for buildings near aerodromes.


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|2012-09-18, 17:41
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 34
EDIT: Where do you all play? I'm on the N.A. servers and typically hang around in the "Penny Arcade" channel
|2012-09-18, 19:44
|Link #2847
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Derping in League of Legends
Age: 24
I'm in the EU.W server.
I'm never in any channel I mostly play Normal draft
And VS a.i to try out champions i bought and never used before.
And i'm only 3 (4 if you count the new champion) away from having all the champions
|2012-09-18, 20:45
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Don't Call Me Bro
Honest question - how many different champs did you use in ranked? Wanting to know how deep a repetoire people need on ranked. Also, what is the rating to get the gold level on ranked?
More importantly...how the hell do you stop from lagging like hell on choice screen...there are too many choice screens I don't even get to pick and get stuck with a random due to freaking PvPnet dcs. And they happen only during choice screen.
|2012-09-19, 00:18
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Senior Guest
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Athens (GMT+2)
Age: 29
|2012-09-19, 00:50
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Age: 27
Gold is 1500 for solo q, 1450 for ranked teams.
I usually like at least 3ish champs in each role.
Although it's also probably a good idea to also find that one champion you really like and get really good at him/her.
|2012-09-19, 01:11
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Senior Guest
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Athens (GMT+2)
Age: 29
Both team and solo seem to be 1450 this year.
Rating tiers for S2
|2012-09-19, 02:22
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
I'm playing on the European Nordic East servers.
Mid: Morgana, Lux, Orianna (Usually counterpicking the enemy)
Bot: Ashe, Sona, Leona, Blitzcrank
Top: Riven (Once - lost top)
Jungle: Shyvana
And I have no trouble with the champ select. :d¨
Anyone here who visits lolking.net? A great site the check out your or others accounts' statistics etc: http://www.lolking.net/
Also, if you're playing draft; here's a great site for you to know what to pick: www.championselect.net
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|2012-09-19, 03:39
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Itadaki-nyaaa !!
Join Date: Apr 2008
EUW S2 ratings
...guess they really want more people on the EUNE server.
|2012-09-19, 07:45
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Itadaki-nyaaa !!
Join Date: Apr 2008
I don't think i'll make it to gold this season. I've either become too bad or too old or have extremely bad luck with my teams but having a losing streak of 5-6 games every week is just frustrating, dunno if I can endure this for long. Within a week I've lost 200+ elo.
It's almostl ike last season finale when I was at 1518 (1520 being gold) and then dropped for like 150 elo - It broke me so much I couldn't play lol for half a year or so.
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Location: In front of my computer
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|2012-09-20, 02:10
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mt. Ordeals
Just finished my placement matches, went 7 and 3. Now 62 elo away, and I'm confident I'd get there by next week depending on my schedule (being sick put me behind in a lot of ways >_>).
Game 1 - Jungle Amumu
Team didn't lose their lane horribly. Won through Amumu ult and teamfighting.
Game 2 - Jungle Amumu
Lost this pretty bad due to team comp. Even when helping getting double kill at top, Ashe (yes TOP Ashe) couldn't do shit against Nidalee. Since I was so busy top, enemy jungle Xin camped bot and dragon was easy pickings for them. Realized by now that I need a champ that has good presence pre 6, as soloq even at 1300 needs them to be babysat most of the time. Thinking I'll go jungle Ali next time but...
Game 3 - Jungle Xin
Xin is sleeper OP in soloq I tell you. He's the next Alistair (which I wanted to play but got banned), but way more snowbally. Wasn't able to convert kill at top with my first gank, but set the enemy top and jungle far behind for me to snowball
Game 4 - Jungle Xin
Was snowballing bot lane until Graves DC. Put up a good fight, but was too far behind in farm when he reconnected
Game 5 - Jungle Xin
Wasn't even worth playing IMO. Cheese strat for the enemy with Twitch + Eve double stealth, but their lank of a frontline made them easy pickings even with Twitch being fed (our Ashe decided to always fight him in lane rather than farm ><)
Game 6 - Jungle Skarner
Wanted Xin, but enemy picked him. But I got good counter in Skarner, in that as long as I can survive early jungle phase I can make his life miserable by peeling him off my carries. Frozen Heart + permaslow made quick work of him
Game 7 - Jungle Xin
Enemy mid picked Zyra presumably because she has highest win ratio for AP mids. Since our mid was Viktor, I made sure to camp her lane. She finished something like 2/11, and dying at least half a dozen times to my ganks. Was a nonfactor, so I just stacked armor for the rest of their team
Game 8 - Support Taric
Our captain was stupid and first picked Malphite even though no one wanted him. Wouldn't give me jungle Malphite as he didn't want to play support, DESPITE needing advice on what to skills to max in what order. Lost us the game after getting caught in their jungle even when we told him to back off, because we were baiting baron. Frustrating to say the least, especially when we shut down the enemy Vayne liek 40cs to 130 by the 15 mins mark, but she finished 15/5.
Game 9 - Support Taric
Oh we were losing this so bad, as our mid got creamed and a jungle GP was outjungling our Mundo (go figure huh?). Lucky their ADC and mid DC, though they did reconnect and they were still ahead 7-2. I think internal squabble led their Sona to afk after losing a teamfight or something
Game 10 - Support Taric
Our Vlad so bad. Good thing we creamed bot, and our Ez carried us to victory.
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Community Updates/2011-03-01
From Openmoko
Period 2011-02-01 to 2011-02-28
GTA04EA (Early Adopter)
Since the last community update there has been some progress in the project. Nearly all critical components arrived. The only missing part should now be the CPU, so they even got the very critical POP-memory which was hard to find. So the component "changelog" is the following:
- MT29C4G96MAZAPCJG-5 IT (512 MB RAM, 512 MB NAND Flash)
- DM3730CBP (800 MHz version)
- TPS65950A3 (latest version of the power controller)
- TFDU6301 (IrDA module substitutes the previous HSDL3602)
Due to two reasons the PCB layout is being reworked:
- canceling out power supply issues
- add shielding and tunnels for the most critical audio signals to make sure there is no buzz-fixes are needed.
For more infos see and recent updates see the mailing list at http://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/gta04-owner
|GameRunner [v0.3]
GameRunner is an Openmoko Linux distribution. It aims to convert the
Freerunner phone into a Linux-based handheld game console.
It is simple, and contains cool and suitable open source games for
Linux mobile devices.
New Applications
|barom 0.3
barom uses the bmp085 pressure sensor to report weather/altitude information..
SensMon is a Vala-based monitor for sensors that can be used to visualize the sensor values on the handheld (but not only). The software is very experimental and does not include any kind of exception handling. You are using it at your own risk :) Its main purpose is to test the sensors included in the Freerunner Navigation Board and Freerunner Navigation Board v2.
General News
- Benjamin Deering of FreeRunner skiwax program fame (http://jeepingben.homelinux.net/wax/) is back with temperature metering. See photos of his infrared thermometer mlx90614 fitted into Neo FreeRunner case at http://jeepingben.homelinux.net/index.php?level=album&id=26 and a report at http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2011-February/064277.html


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One of my dreams was to someday own a brand-new Corvette. This was the American dream when I was growing up, and I wanted to be part of it. After being honorably discharged and putting my service days behind me, I went back to work (at a large optics firm in Rochester, New York, where I've been for 33 years), and began saving my money. In March of 1969, I went down to a local Chevrolet dealership and ordered a silver '69 350/four-speed Corvette. They told me it would take 12-16 weeks to come in. About three weeks later, I received a phone call from the dealership saying the Corvette plant in St. Louis was shut down and on strike. I was devastated. My dreams had been crushed. They also said that I should pick up my deposit and wait until 1970 to order a new Corvette. They felt the strike would not be settled in time and that the Corvette plant would probably gear up with '70 models.
So with my dreams shattered, I went down to the Chevrolet dealership to retrieve my deposit. As I was driving home, a truck, the kind that carries new cars, drove past me. One car had canvas over it. It looked like a Corvette, under the canvas, because of the little rear ducktail that stuck out like a sore thumb. So I followed the truck to another Chevrolet dealer in Rochester. As it pulled around the back of the dealership I watched the truck driver uncover this beautiful '69 427/390, Le Mans Blue Corvette. I was petrified. I fell in love with this car and wanted it. I didn't know how they got this car out of the Corvette plant with a strike going on, and I didn't care, either. I just wanted the car. I immediately went inside to talk to the new car manager. As we sat down and he heard how I wanted this new Vette that had just arrived, he quickly made it clear to me that it was not available. He showed me a list that had 14 names of guys ahead of me who were interested in this car and told me, in not so many words, to "get lost, kid you have about a snowball's chance in hell to ever buy this car." He didn't even want to put my name on his list. At this point I was very frustrated and angry. I took a piece of scrap paper and scribbled my name and phone number on it. He replied by laughing.
Never expecting to own a '69 Corvette, I decided to wait for the '70 models. About two weeks later the phone rang. Guess what? It was the Chevy dealership with the blue '69 Vette. The same guy who laughed and showed me a list with 14 guys ahead of me asked if I was still interested in the Vette. I played it cool and somehow started to feel that all of a sudden I was gaining the upper hand. I said yes, and drove down to the dealership. When I arrived I went to his office. He wasn't laughing anymore-he was serious. All of a sudden he said I was at the top of the list. I asked him what happened to the 14 guys ahead of me. With a red face he slowly went down the list of what happened to each prospective buyer. So since you're probably interested in what happened to those 14 other guys, I will tell you. It was 1969 and the Vietnam war was going on hot and heavy. Thousands of young men were being drafted at an alarming rate, like I was in 1965. Of the 14 guys on the list, seven were drafted, five got married to escape the draft, and two could not get insurance for a Corvette. So with my military obligation behind me, a good solid job, and a good driving record, I was able to purchase this car (with insurance, naturally) and become a proud owner of a '69 Corvette.
This 427ci/390hp, four-speed came with a 4.11:1 rearend setup. The chrome Cragar mags and a little extra chrome on the engine give it a nice '60s look. Now, almost 30 years later, I am still the owner of this '69 Corvette. A lot of people find it hard to believe that I am the only owner this car has ever had. In our local Corvette club, I am the only person who has purchased a new Corvette and kept it for this many years. As a matter of fact, it took the Survivor Award at a recent Rochester Corvette show. Unless you look really close, you'll see it's showroom clean. The paint job is original, so is the interior, and also the complete motor. Many people have asked how a car so old could look so good. I answer them by saying, "With a lot of waxing, scrubbing, cleaning, and tenderloving care, and with the grace of the Lord."
When I first bought this car I drag raced it on many tracks, and it turned times in the low 12s. That is without headers, and running slicks. In order to get the maximum power out of this engine I add 5 gallons of 106-octane racing fuel to every tank. This keeps the engine running as good as it did in the '60s. It is one of those cars that gets a lot of looks at cruise nights around Rochester. The air shocks also give it a nice raised look.
I have antique plates that go along with this antique car. As a matter of fact, to make this situation even more unique, these old plates have been with me through most of my teenage years. They were on my '64, '66, and '68 Chevys. When I bought the Corvette I transferred them onto it and kept them until New York changed the color of the plates to yellow. I then took off these old plates and tossed them into a box in my garage rather then the garbage.
Anyway, when I found out you could go antique with your car if it was 25 years or older, I called the DMV and asked if I could put my old '60s plates back on like when I bought it. They said that I could as long as I had antique insurance and met all the other criteria. So I went through all the necessary paperwork, and I proceeded to dig out my old plates to put them back on the car where they belonged. With a little scrubbing, buffing, and waxing, my old '60s plates looked almost new. The final touch was to find a '69 sticker to go on the plates for an authentic look, which I did. They look perfect on the car, right where they belong.
Well that's my story and my love affair of three decades with my Corvette. I thank God that I have truly been part of the American dream.
Editor's Note: This series spotlights reader experiences with their own Corvettes, described in their own words. To be considered for publication, submit a selection of pictures and your own typewritten Corvette experience in 500 words or less to: Me & My Vette, Vette Magazine, 774 S. Placentia Ave., Placentia, CA 92870. Please send your submission on computer disk when possible. If we use your story, we'll pay you $75.


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Aug. 30, 2007
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - With the season opener at Georgetown looming just 15 days away, the Yale Bulldogs got a chance to measure their preseason progress Thursday afternoon against the team they shared the 2006 Ivy League title with. The Princeton Tigers visited Yale Bowl, Class of 1954 Field for the two teams' annual scrimmage, over four hours of football designed to help both teams prepare for the regular season.
Ultimately, the scrimmage served its purpose of helping the Bulldogs identify their strengths and weaknesses as the title defense gets underway. Jack Siedlecki, Yale's Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Football, noted some of his team's miscues and costly penalties but expressed the belief that the day was a learning opportunity.
"That's why you're out here scrimmaging," Siedlecki said. "Georgetown's going to be in game three [when we play them]. They're not going to make those mistakes. Today was our day to make them, and we've got to move on."
After a series of situational drills, the teams scrimmaged for five quarters. Two early hits by the Yale defense got the crowd going, including a loud pop from sophomore cornerback Paul Rice and a sack from senior defensive lineman Stephen Schmalhofer. Still, the Tigers got on the scoreboard first with a touchdown at the 6:20 mark as quarterback Bill Foran threw to wide receiver Will Thanheiser from six yards out.
Yale tied the score early in the second quarter, driving 76 yards for a 17-yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Ryan Fodor to junior wide receiver Ken Ebeling. Junior tailback Mike McLeod had the key play of the drive, stutter-stepping past a series of attempted tackles to convert a third-and-four at the Yale 30 on the third play.
That was the last significant action for most of Yale's starters in the game, as the Bulldogs began working in younger players.
"I thought that last offensive drive with the ones, that was a 13-play drive, was a very good drive," Siedlecki said. "I think the offensive line really had a nice series."
The Bulldog defense provided a series of highlights midway through the quarter. On a third-and-inches at the Yale 40, junior defensive lineman Shane Jones wrapped up Tiger quarterback Bill Foran behind the line of scrimmage. When the Tigers went for it on fourth down, junior linebacker Matt Plummer burst through the line to bring down running back R.C. Lagomarsino for a four-yard loss.
Princeton's next drive ended with a leaping interception by defensive back Andrew Liyana at the Tiger 32. The Yale offense turned that into a 23-yard field goal by senior place-kicker Alan Kimball for a 10-7 lead at the 7:31 mark.
The Tigers tallied just before the end of the second quarter on a 24-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Brian Anderson to wide receiver Adam Berry. They added another touchdown in the third quarter -- a five-yarder from quarterback Greg Mroz, brother of former Yale captain Jeff Mroz '05, to wide receiver Andrew Kerr.
The defenses took full control after that, including an interception by junior defensive back Rylan Spence that ended one Princeton drive after just one play. The Bulldogs came up with a goal-line stand in the final quarter, stopping three Princeton tries from the 1-yard line. The final Tiger drive was stymied by a pair of nice plays from freshman defensive back Gio Christodoulou, who stopped one Princeton receiver with a bone-jarring hit immediately after the catch, then denied another on the very next play by batting away a pass.
The Bulldogs have 13 more practices scheduled before they visit the Hoyas to open the 135th season of Yale Football.
"We've had a really good camp and a really strong summer," said senior defensive lineman Brandt Hollander, the team captain. "I think we're headed in the right direction."
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As some had already anticipated when Nokia acquired Trolltech, the next version of the Maemo platform will have its application framework based on Qt instead of Gtk+. This news was announced at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. While the switch to Qt may seem a major defeat for the GNOME community, this isn't exactly true, as many of the underlying technologies will still be GNOME-centric.
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RE[3]: Comment by Mark Williamson
by vivainio on Mon 6th Jul 2009 18:56 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Comment by Mark Williamson"
GLib is an optional dependency of Qt. I think Qt can share even loop and some other part with glib so only one will run in the background and be loaded in memory, even if both Qt/KDE and Gnome apps are used at the same time.
Yes, Qt can (and does) use the glib event loop. This is a big deal, since it means you can use libs from gnome/glib crew that interact with the event loop (register timeouts, use dbus, poll on sockets...) without modifications.
Conserving memory is besides the point.
It might be cool to factor the event loop out from the rest of the glib, and establish it as a lean "Unix event loop" :-). Rest of the glib is pretty pointless when you have QtCore around.
Incidentally, I'd like too QtCore & C++ pushed forward in Linux userspace "core" development much more now that it's LGPL, instead of being systematically shot down in favor of glib; see


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Feb. 19, 2008 - Coalition and Iraqi forces killed nine suspected terrorists, detained 56 others and destroyed terrorist safe havens and training grounds in Iraq over the past four days, military officials said.
In Iraq today:
-- Coalition forces southeast of Samarra detained two suspected terrorists, including an alleged leader of the al Qaeda in Iraq network in Jalam who is linked to kidnappings and terrorist financing. The suspect allegedly arranges meetings between senior leaders from Tigris River Valley terrorist networks.
-- Troops nabbed two suspects during an operation in Mosul targeting an alleged senior leader for the al Qaeda networks in northern Iraq.
-- Coalition forces captured an alleged associate of the senior al Qaeda in Iraq commander in Baghdad who leads cells responsible for suicide and car-bombing attacks, and other terrorist activities. The suspect reportedly facilitates transportation for senior terrorist leaders in the area, military officials said.
In Iraq yesterday:
-- Coalition forces captured a suspect with alleged links to senior-level al Qaeda members in Mosul near Ashura. The suspect reportedly commands a group of foreign terrorists and suicide bombers responsible for killing five coalition soldiers in a Jan. 28 attack. Troops killed one suspected terrorist and detained another in the operation.
-- Insurgents fired a series of rockets on Victory Base Complex and West Rashid in southwestern Baghdad, killing five Iraqi civilians and wounding at least 14 others, and injuring two U.S. soldiers. Coalition and Iraqi quick-reaction teams swept the area and captured six insurgents at the scene of the rocket launch, military officials said.
-- Coalition troops captured a suspected Iranian-trained "special groups" leader and detained one other suspect during operations to disrupt criminal networks in the Iraqi capital. The targeted individual reportedly was in charge of all special groups criminal elements in western Baghdad and supplied members with armor-piercing explosively formed penetrators and other munitions.
-- Forces in Mosul captured two suspects, including an alleged military leader of the local al Qaeda in Iraq network. Reports indicate the targeted suspect previously served as a leader in the Beiji network, but was relocated due to recent coalition forces operations that have degraded the leadership presence in Mosul, military officials said.
In Iraq Feb. 17:
-- Coalition forces near Khan Bani Sad conducted an operation targeting a senior intelligence leader involved in the al Qaeda in Iraq network in Baqouba. The targeted individual brandished a weapon with the perceived intent to fire on coalition forces. The assault force engaged, killing the wanted terrorist and an additional suspect.
-- Members of a "Sons of Iraq" citizen security group killed two al Qaeda in Iraq members transporting homemade explosives and improvised explosive devices in Adhamiyah. Military officials said the members took appropriate measures by firing on a minivan that failed to reduce its "high rate of speed" while approaching a checkpoint. A coalition forces explosive ordnance disposal team determined the vehicle was being used to transport explosives.
-- Troops conducted an operation in Sharqat targeting an alleged founder of an anti-coalition insurgent group tied to the leader of the al Qaeda in Iraq network in Beiji. Coalition forces killed a suspected terrorist and detained two others in the raid.
-- Coalition forces conducted an assault on a suspected special groups finance network south of Baghdad, killing an armed suspect in self-defense. During the assault, troops discovered large amounts of Iraqi currency, military officials said.
-- Troops caught seven suspects in Baqouba and southwest of Samarra during operations targeting associates of the regional al Qaeda suicide-bombing network. Coalition forces also nabbed an associate of the al Qaeda in Iraq leader who operates in the Jazirah area.
-- Coalition forces captured an alleged associate of the terrorist network in Kirkuk. Military officials said the suspect is linked to three high-ranking terrorists captured by troops in recent operations. Forces detained four additional suspected terrorists in the raid.
-- Troops detained five suspected terrorists during two operations in Mosul targeting associates of foreign-terrorist and weapons facilitators, military officials said.
-- Forces detained three suspected terrorists in western Baghdad, including an alleged weapons smuggler who specializes in transporting IED and car-bomb supplies in northern Iraq. Military officials said the individual is associated with another suspected car-bomb smuggler, who coalition forces captured Feb. 15.
-- Coalition forces in the Iraqi capital nabbed an alleged senior-level car-bomb smuggler for al Qaeda in Iraq networks throughout Baghdad and north to Tikrit. The suspect is believed to be a direct associate of al Qaeda senior leaders in Baghdad and surrounding areas. Troops detained one additional suspect on site, military officials said.
-- Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers captured a top lieutenant of Arkan Hasnawi, an Iranian-funded and -trained special group in northern Baghdad. The suspect is accused of attacking Iraqi and coalition troops with explosively formed projectiles and mortars and for kidnapping and murdering Iraqi civilians.
-- Coalition forces in Abu Ghraib detained one suspected terrorist with alleged ties to the al Qaeda in Iraq network operating in Arab Jabour, military officials said.
-- Iraqi and U.S. special operations forces detained a suspected terrorist leader during an operation in Mosul. Military officials said the suspect is responsible for improvised-explosive-device attacks against Iraqi security forces in the city and for distributing insurgent propaganda.
-- Coalition air strikes north of Baqouba destroyed 17 structures believed to house al Qaeda in Iraq operatives and booby-trap ambushes and function as terrorist training grounds. Troops based the targeted structures on intelligence gleaned in previous operations, military officials said.
In Iraq Feb. 16:
-- Coalition troops observed two men fleeing a targeted area northeast of Samarra near the Hamrin Mountains. The men failed to heed troops' instructions to stop and instead continued in opposite directions. Coalition forces followed one, engaging and killing him. The other was found hiding with a pistol, prepared to fire at ground forces, who engaged and killed him, military officials said.
-- Troops targeted an alleged aide to foreign terrorists who is associated with an al Qaeda in Iraq senior leader in Mosul. Coalition forces detained nine suspected terrorists and discovered a cache containing improvised-explosive-device materials during the operation.
-- In a separate operation on the east side of Mosul, coalition forces captured an alleged leader of the city's al Qaeda in Iraq network. Reports indicate the suspect is associated with several senior leaders in the area, including a judge of an illegal terrorist court system and the radical Taliban-like spiritual advisor for the city's al Qaeda in Iraq networks, military officials said. The ground force detained one additional suspect.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Troops in Iraq Kill Nine, Capture 56, Destroy Terrorist Hideouts
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Wild Recalls Scandella, Reassigns Dumbaby Staff Writer / Minnesota Wild
The Minnesota Wild has made a few roster moves pertaining to the blue line.
The Wild has recalled defenseman Marco Scandella from the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League (AHL) and reassigned defenseman Mathew Dumba to the Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League (WHL).
Scandella, 22, has tallied 12 points (1-11=12), 13 penalty minutes (PIM) and a plus-2 rating in 24 games with Houston this season. The 6-foot-3, 210-pound native of Montreal, Quebec skated in 63 contests with Minnesota in 2011-12 and collected 12 points (3-9=12) and 19 PIM. He ranked second among NHL rookies in blocked shots (106) and TOI/game (21:46) and logged a franchise-record 35:32 in ice time vs. Chicago on April 5, 2012. Scandella also appeared in nine games with Houston last season and recorded five points (2-3=5). He notched two assists in 20 games with Minnesota and added 19 points (3-16=19) in 33 games with Houston during the 2010-11 campaign.
He joined the Wild at morning skate in St. Louis, as the team faces the Blues tonight. The game will be broadcast nationally at 7 p.m. on NBC Sports Network.
Scandella was selected by Minnesota in the second round (55th overall) of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft and wears sweater No. 6 with the Wild.
Dumba returns to his junior team after participating in Wild Training Camp. He was a healthy scratch in the club's first four games. Dumba was the Wild's first-round selection (seventh overall) in June's NHL Entry Draft.


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Those microtransactions in Dead Space 3 that you've grumbled and griped about? Don't worry, EA says, you won't need to use them to beat the game. Heck, they're not even meant for you! Supposedly the option to buy crafting materials was added so mobile gamers who, presumably on a whim, buy a console and a copy of the game will feel at home coughing up even more cash.
"We would never make a game you have to pay to win," producer John Calhoun told CVG. "There are genres of games where that is the answer, and you know what? The world has spoken, they suck."
Pay-to-win is bad, Calhoun says, and developer Visceral Games is made of the sort of "hardcore" players who "are reluctant to spend money outside the purchase of the game." So why are these microtransactions in there at all? Because of those people who "need instant gratification," he says. They need it. Absolutely need. Cannot be denied. Game design be damned!
"We need to make sure we're expanding our audience as well. There are action game fans, and survival horror game fans, who are 19 and 20, and they've only played games on their smartphones, and micro-transactions are to them a standard part of gaming. It's a different generation. So if we're going to bring those people into our world, let's speak their language, but let's not alienate our fans at the same time."
Who is giving these 19 and 20-year-olds so much money, and why?


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TICKETS for tonight's Port Fairy's rodeo are still available.
The rodeo, which will be staged at the town's showgrounds, is a fund raiser for the Port Fairy Football Netball Club. Gates open at 4pm for a 6pm start.
The rodeo - the first in the town in 20 years - is being held as animal welfare groups target south-west communities in a campaign calling for a boycott of the events.
The RSPCA yesterday used advertisements urging residents to boycott the events.
RSPCA Victorian president Dr Hugh Wirth said Victoria was likely to lead the way with a blanket ban on the sport.
"The animals are not built for that sort of activity, they are forced to do it," Dr Wirth said.
Victoria is the only state where rodeos are subject to statutory regulations.
Calf roping and mutton busting have been banned.
The RSPCA has taken its case to state Agriculture Minister Peter Walsh.
Most south-west rodeos are organised by Woodall Rodeo promotions, which is based in Winnap, near Dartmoor.
Promoter Tony Woodall rejected the RSCPA's claims.
"There's no cruelty to our animals — they are treated better than racing horses," he said.
"I can't remember any major injuries that we've had.
"There's definitely no stress on the animals, they like what they're doing."
He said veterinarians attended all Victorian rodeos.
Just over 200 people live in Dartmoor on the Princes Highway, which was hard hit when the Carter Holt Harvey timber mill closed in 2008.
Since then the Dartmoor rodeo has kept many of the town's community groups alive and has become the biggest event on the calendar.
Wendy Dowling from the Dartmoor Progress Association said at least 2500 people would attend next month's event.
"You couldn't see better conditions," Ms Dowling said.
"It keeps our football club afloat. It's purely run to support the club."
"I don't think they would survive without it."


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Friend of Stockroom, Miss Crash stars in the disturbing and extremely hot teaser video for the new Marilyn Manson album, "Born Villian", directed by Transformers star Shia LaBeouf. It's full of fun stuff like medical play, amputees, domination, shearing, strap-ons, piercing play, suspensions and lots more!
Manson had this to say about . . . → Read More: "Born Villian" – New Film By Marilyn Manson & Shia LaBeouf


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As Christmas day approached, a large storm system was developing across the southwest United States. In the image to the right, one can see the intensity of this 500mb trough of low pressure on Christmas morning as it approached west Texas. In its advance, strong southwesterly flow was helping to pump in plenty of moisture across the southern United States.
At the surface, an area of low pressure was developing across south central Texas with a warm front extending eastward along I-10. The track of this surface low would ultimately determine the locations that would receive either severe or wintry weather. Areas to the south were primed for severe weather, with dewpoints in the 60s as well as high instability and wind shear. To the north, much colder air was wrapping around the system. Another feature on the surface map is a strong cold front moving through the area from the northwest. The front helped move colder air in from the north and also helped to concentrate thunderstorm activity as the entire system moved off to the east.
As mentioned before, the severe weather threat for Christmas day was great for much of the southern and southeastern United States. A moderate risk for severe weather extended from Houston, Tx eastward to Jackson, Ms as well as to Mobile and Birmingham, Al. As the day progressed, a few instances of severe weather were noted in the Shreveport, La NWS county warning area, but the brunt of the severe weather reports were found to the east.
|Rain was another welcome aspect of this storm system, with most of the area seeing between one half and 2 inches. Some locations received in excess of 3 or 4 inches of rain. Fortunately, no flash flooding was reported to the Shreveport, La NWS office.
Below is a graphic that displays the amount of snow that fell across the four state region of the Shreveport, La NWS County Warning Area.
A heavier band of snow developed across portions of extreme northeast Texas, southeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas. These areas from De Kalb, Tx to south of Idabel, Ok northeastward to Nashville, Ar experienced 7 to 8 inches of snow, which were the highest totals from this event for the forecast area.
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Chelsea are in a sticky situation. After Southampton came from 2-0 down at half-time to earn a 2-2 draw in last night's clash at Stamford Bridge, Rafael Benitez's problems appear to be worsening.
Luckily, Chelsea have an owner who is willing to spend big to achieve success, but there's one problem - Chelsea's track record of successful, high-profile additions has been poor in recent years. Think Fernando Torres, for example.
A few have hit the ground running, however. Juan Mata, Eden Hazard and Oscar have all impressed since making the move to Stamford Bridge. So if Abramovich does decide to invest this January, who should the Blues be looking to recruit?
Willian - Shakhtar Donetsk
Chelsea saw first-hand what Willian could do as he helped knock the Blues out of the Champions League group stages.
The 24-year-old primarily plays on the LW where Hazard has settled in nicely, but he can also operate as a central attacking midfielder or even as a centre-forward. Exactly what Chelsea want and need. They could even adopt Spain's false number nine formation, which would suit Willian well.
Marouane Fellaini - Everton
The whole Premier League has seen what Marouane Fellaini can do. He is strong and powerful in the air, and he can pick a pass nicely.
The Belgian starlet would be the ideal person to replace Frank Lampard who looks increasingly as though he's heading for the Stamford Bridge exit door when his contract expires this summer.
Iago Aspas - Celta Vigo
Iago Aspas is relatively unknown in England, but don't let that fool you.
The 25-year-old Spaniard plays for Celta Vigo and has drawn similarities to the Premier League's newest superstar, Michu.
Last season, Aspas scored 23 goals in 35 league appearances, and has followed that up with eight goals in 19 outings this term.
That record proves he'd be a valuable asset to the Chelsea squad, and he would be available at a reasonable price too, with reports suggesting the sought-after frontman has a release clause around the £8 million mark.
Radamel Falcao - Atletico Madrid
Chelsea fans everywhere are well aware of Radamel Falcao's ability, after he tore the Blues' defence apart during the Super Cup final, scoring a sensational hat-trick and single-handedly beating Roberto Di Matteo's side.
There's only one problem with him though - his high price-tag doesn't guarantee success and Roman Abramovich may be hesitant to splash out a significant sum of money after the Fernando Torres disaster.
For me, Willian should be the number one target for Chelsea this January. He is familiar with a number of the Brazilian players already at the club, so settling in should be no problem.
On the pitch, Willian has bags of potential and a forward line of Hazard, Mata, Oscar and Willian is enough to strike fear into defenders all over the world.
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The preservationists of Timbuktu's centuries-old artifacts have been holding their breath for weeks, waiting for the moment when the French military would seize back Mali's ancient northern capital from the Islamic militants who have occupied it for 10 months. At stake were the city's most precious treasures: tens of thousands of centuries-old, priceless calligraphed manuscripts, whose fate under the jihadists' rule was deeply uncertain.
On Monday, that moment finally came — and by nightfall, the state of Timbuktu's treasures was as confused as it had been before.


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You Can Get Cooties From An iOS Device
Posted by Blake Grundman on April 26th, 2011
iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
That's right folks, the scourge of the kindergarten playground is back and this time it has manifested itself on the the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. Mothers lock up your daughters and fathers try to warn your sons about the newest outbreak of this horrible condition that has now advanced beyond being a more than just a figment of your imagination into an actual iOS game.
In what looks to be fun for the entire family, players have to gather stars and dodge cooties, as they attempt to clear every stage. Following the Angry Birds trend, three stars are the goal, but just remember to avoid those noxious kisses, because everyone knows that they are super gross!
Easily the best part about the game is that it is currently on sale for free until May 1st, so be sure to download it before all of your friends get infected. Next up, I want to option the rights to a kindergarten version of Pac-Man and call it "Chill Pills." You know where to send the royalty checks, Namco.


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From NBC's Lauren Appelbaum
While a new poll among Pennsylvania voters shows Clinton leading by 18 points, both Obama and her lose to McCain in head-to-head match ups. According to the Strategic Vision (R) poll, which will be released tomorrow, Obama fares better in a contest with McCain.
In the Democratic contest in the Keystone State, Clinton leads Obama outright in Pennsylvania, 56%-38%.
But in hypothetical match ups for the general election, McCain is ahead of Obama, 47%-44%, with 9% undecided. Against Clinton, the Arizona Republican leads 48%-42%, with 10% undecided.


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Eliana Vigil, Narong Tintamusik, and Gabriela Rivas, three students in the Visual Arts program at UT Dallas, will exhibit their work in the Visual Arts Gallery during Summer II. The show opens with reception July 26th and the exhibit will be on display through Saturday Aug 10th, 2013. The opening reception is 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Friday evening, July 26th.
The exhibition contains mature content. Sexuality and Identity are themes explored in paintings by both Eliana Vigil's work and Narong Tintamusik, while Gabriela Rivas' sculptures tackle material and process.
by Gabriela Rivas
Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition
July 26 - August 10, 2013
Visual Arts Building, Main Gallery
Opening reception: Friday, July 26 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
image: Untitled, screenprint on plastic sheeting, 30 x 20 x 15 in. and 24 x 23 x 12 in., 2013
Recent graduate Gabriela Rivas presents "Screenworks", a Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition. Her soft sculpture, fabric, and pastels echo the history of the Feminist Art movement and Minimalism. She was inspired by Glasgow artist Karla Black's recent "Concentrations 55" exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art.
She writes: 'ScreenWorks' is a point of departure for me in screenprinting, an on-going process to incorporate three-dimensional aspects into my work. I am interested in how printed images transform when they are printed onto unsubstantial, refuse like materials such as plastic that are then molded to create soft sculptures. In this sense this group of works is very much process-driven. Alongside the process of experimenting with printing on various materials, my intent is to express how femininity and feminism relate to working with ephemeral materials.
Ódiame Más: Hate me more
by Eliana Vigil
Senior Honors Thesis
Exhibition July 26 - August 10, 2013
Visual Arts Building, Main Gallery
Opening reception: Friday, July 26 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
image: Glamour Mug Shot/YAIR Trade, acrylic on canvas, 3'x4', 2013
A recent graduate, Eliana Vigil's Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition "Ódiame Más: Hate me more" explores the private self in the public forum of visual imagery and text.
She explains: The title of my thesis is "Ódiame más." This phrase translated from Spanish is "Hate me more." Though I am still preoccupied with the self-image I project to people, I find myself gradually straying from that inclination and damning those that care. I accept this feeling of being misunderstood and not belonging, embracing it as part of my individuality. I am no longer afraid to say my truths and risk offending people who may not understand where I am coming from or who find what I have to say uncomfortable. Though I primarily focus on my own psyche or experiences as a subject, my paintings speak to the complexity of the individual human being in general. Every person has a flaw or issues that they must face and by exposing my own, I invite the audience to confront and discuss what may lie dormant or rage on within them. My work is a critical processing of self examination through influences, personal backgrounds, and aesthetic experiences and thus seeks to act as a cathartic trigger for my audience.
Eliana Vigil has interned with the community art outreach programs offered by the Dallas Contemporary. She enjoys sharing art with children and adults who may not have had the opportunity or time to understand or appreciate art as a powerful visual and intellectual experience.
by Narong Tintamusik
July 26 - August 10, 2013
Visual Arts Building, Mezzanine Gallery
Opening reception: Friday, July 26 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
image: Entourage, acrylic on paper, 38"x 50", 2013
Biology Major/Visual Arts Minor, Narong Tintamusik, will display paintings on paper from his Independent Study Project during the Spring 2013 Semester. He has been a recipient of UT Dallas's Art and Humanities Bryce Jordan Scholarship, an award for excellence. His exhibition "Discretion" explores a limited color palette of thalo greens and alizarin crimson reds, colors that imbibe his gestural figures with heat and coolness, rest and action, sensuality and objectivity.
He writes: The word "discretion" means to have the power of individual judgement or choice. This very word became the foundation of my paintings. My figurative artworks focuses on human sexuality derived from pornographic media. Using paint as a medium of investigation, I created a body of work that invites the audience to re-formulate their own opinions on the topics of sexual intercourse or simply become more conscientious of them. Whether the viewer receives a negative or positive response from viewing my sexually-charged artworks is not the utmost importance to me. My personal goal is that the audience will be able to locate their own comfort zones within the realms of their own sexuality. My artworks may be considered filthy, grotesque, beautiful, mundane, or natural. All adjectives are valid, truthful, and personal. That is why I called my show, "Discretion."
Gallery Hours: Mon. - Fri., 9 a.m. - 10 p.m.; Sat., 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Patrons should access the Visual Arts Building via Synergy Park Blvd. and Rutford Ave. Visit utdallas.edu/maps. For more information, ah.utdallas.edu or call 972-UTD-ARTS.
For assistance call 972-883-2982 or Texas Relay Operator 1-800 RELAYTX. UT Dallas is an equal opportunity/affirmative action university.
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