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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Freshman Alexis Jones scored a season-high 22 points and fifth-ranked Duke beat No. 15 North Carolina 65-58 on Sunday for its Atlantic Coast Conference-record 17th regular-season league victory.
Elizabeth Williams added 13 points for the Blue Devils (27-2, 17-1).
They overcame a season-high 29 turnovers by forcing the hot-and-cold Tar Heels (26-5, 14-4) to miss 19 consecutive shots during a span of roughly 10 minutes in the second half and beat their archrivals for the sixth straight time.
Tierra Ruffin-Pratt led North Carolina with 16 points on 5-of-23 shooting.
The Tar Heels got as close as six points in the final minutes, clawing to 50-44 when freshman Xylina McDaniel was fouled while making a layup with 3:03 left.
After she missed the free throw, Duke pulled away.
No. 7 PENN STATE 82, No. 20 NEBRASKA 67
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Maggie Lucas scored 34 points to lead Penn State to a victory over Nebraska, clinching the Lady Lions' second straight outright Big Ten championship and ending the Cornhuskers' 10-game win streak.
Lucas made a career-high eight 3-pointers, with four of them coming in a bunch to help the Lady Lions stretch their lead in the first half and three more keeping the Huskers at bay early in the second.
Penn State (24-4, 14-2) improved to 6-1 against ranked opponents and secured its best conference record since going 15-1 in 2003-04.
The Huskers (22-7, 12-4) were playing their last game at the Devaney Center, their home for 37 seasons. They move into a new downtown arena next season.
Alex Bentley scored 13 points and Mia Nickson and Nikkie Greene 10 apiece for Penn State.
No. 10 KENTUCKY 78, NO. 8 TENNESSEE 65
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A'dia Mathies scored 13 second-half points, including back-to-back 3-pointers during Kentucky's 19-6 run, to help the Wildcats pull away from Tennessee.
Mathies, Kentucky's No. 2 career scorer, finished with 16 points in her home finale. Jennifer O'Neill added four 3-pointers for 16 points as Kentucky (25-4, 13-3) claimed the No. 2 seed for this week's Southeastern Conference tournament.
Kentucky set the tone throughout but emerged from a 36-32 halftime lead with a big run set up by three steals and two rebounds by Samarie Walker (10 points). That put the Wildcats up 55-38 and they stayed safely ahead to make Matthew Mitchell the program's winningest coach with 139 victories.
Regular-season champion Tennessee (23-6, 14-2) played without center Isabelle Harrison, who sustained a right knee injury Thursday.
No. 9 MARYLAND 88, WAKE FOREST 61
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - Tianna Hawkins scored 18 points, Alyssa Thomas added 16, and Maryland defeated Wake Forest to snap its first losing streak of the season.
Coming off losses to Top 25 foes Duke and Florida State, the Terrapins (23-6, 14-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) led 38-22 at halftime and coasted to their 14th straight victory over the Demon Deacons (12-18, 5-13).
Maryland will receive a first-round bye in the ACC tournament, which gets under way Thursday. The Terrapins, who won the event last year, will be seeded either second or third.
Playing in her final regular-season home game, Hawkins grabbed 11 rebounds for her 13th double-double of the season and 37th of her career. The 6-foot-3 senior forward leads the ACC in scoring and ranks second in rebounding.
No. 11 GEORGIA 55, VANDERBILT 50
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - Jasmine Hassell scored 16 points and Georgia rebounded from a disappointing Southeastern Conference loss to beat Vanderbilt in each team's regular-season finale.
Georgia's shooters could only improve after shooting 18.2 percent in a 50-38 loss to Mississippi State on Thursday. The Bulldogs (24-5, 12-4) shot 35.8 percent (19 of 53) Sunday, though they only made 2 of 11 3-pointers.
Erika Ford put Georgia up 15-13 with two free throws midway through the first half, and the Bulldogs never relinquished the lead.
Hassell added six rebounds and is averaging 15.4 points and 9.9 rebounds per game over her past seven.
Jasmine James added 10 points and five assists for Georgia.
Jasmine Lister paced Vanderbilt (19-10, 9-7) with 17 points, and Tiffany Clarke added 13 points and nine rebounds. The Commodores will be the seventh seed in the SEC tournament, and will play Thursday in Duluth.
No. 12 DAYTON 73, SAINT JOSEPH'S 66
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Andrea Hoover scored 19 points and Samantha MacKay added 18 points and seven assists as Dayton wrapped up its first Atlantic 10 Conference regular-season title by beating Saint Joseph's.
The Flyers (26-1, 14-0) set a record for victories since moving to Division I in the 1985-86 season. Both teams advanced to Saturday's Atlantic 10 tournament quarterfinals, where Saint Joseph's (20-8, 11-3) will be the host and fourth seed.
A 16-4 run in the final 6 minutes of the first half gave Dayton a 37-25 halftime lead. Kelley Austria hit two 3-pointers during that run.
The Flyers led by as many as 18 points in the second half. Erin Shields and Natasha Cloud led a Saint Joseph's rally that cut it to four, but MacKay secured the win with four free throws in the final 17 seconds.
Shields scored 28 points and Cloud 17 for the Hawks.
LSU 67, No. 13 TEXAS A&M 52
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - Theresa Plaisance scored 16 points and Danielle Ballard had 15 points and 11 rebounds Sunday to lead LSU to a victory over Texas A&M in the regular-season finale for both teams.
Ballard, a freshman, posted her second consecutive double-double for the Tigers (19-10, 10-6 SEC), who have won six in a row entering next weekend's Southeastern Conference tournament. Ballard had 14 points and 10 rebounds on Thursday in a win over Alabama.
Bianca Lutley had 14 points and five assists and Adrienne Webb scored 11 points for LSU.
Kelsey Bone led the Aggies (21-9, 11-5) with 13 points. Courtney Williams scored 11.
Texas A&M led 24-20 at halftime. The Aggies were 0 for 8 from 3-point range.
No. 14 SOUTH CAROLINA 67, FLORIDA 56
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Ashley Bruner scored 16 points and Aleighsa Welch and Ieasia Walker added 14 apiece as South Carolina defeated Florida.
The Gamecocks (23-6, 11-5) set a school record for Southeastern Conference victories in a season and tied their program record for regular-season wins.
Khadijah Sessions' 3-pointer started a 9-2 run that gave the Gamecocks a 53-44 lead with 6:32 remaining. They led 61-49 with 3:41 left after a three-point play and another free throw by Welch and a jumper by Bruner.
Welch also had 10 rebounds for her ninth double-double of the season, and Walker tied her career high with eight assists.
Sydney Moss scored 16 points and 10 rebounds to pace the Gators (17-13, 6-10). Jaterra Bonds added 12 points before fouling out and Jennifer George had 10 points and blocked four shots.
Both teams will begin play Thursday at the SEC tournament in Duluth, Ga.
No. 17 UCLA 68, ARIZONA 57
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Alyssia Brewer scored 22 points on 11-for-14 shooting and UCLA finished the Pac-12 regular season with a victory over Arizona.
Nirra Fields scored 21 and tied Brewer and Jasmine Dixon with a team-high eight rebounds for the Bruins (23-6, 14-4), who have won four in a row. UCLA is the third seed and will receive a bye in the Pac-12 tournament that begins Thursday in Seattle.
Markel Walker had 10 points and seven assists for the Bruins, who played without Thea Lemberger, who injured her elbow in Friday's win at Arizona State.
Davellyn White had 16 points, nine rebounds and seven assists for Arizona (12-17, 4-14). The Wildcats have lost four in a row.
No. 18 DELAWARE 62, DREXEL 57
NEWARK, Del. (AP) - Elena Delle Donne posted a double-double and Lauren Carra scored a season-high 21 points to help Delaware beat Drexel and tie a school record with 21 straight wins.
Delle Donne finished with 28 points and 10 rebounds, her eighth double-double this season, while Carra made 7 of 14 shots, including a 3-pointer that broke a 54-all tie with 1:36 left to play.
Drexel's Rachel Pearson answered with a 3 of her own but Carra and Delle Donne combined to make five free throws over the final minute while the Dragons (20-8, 13-4) went scoreless.
Delaware (26-3, 17-0), which clinched its second straight Colonial Athletic Association regular-season title Thursday, made 15 of 16 free throws in winning its 36th straight CAA game.
Hollie Mershon paced Drexel with 26 points but made just 11 of 30 shots. The Dragons had won four straight.
No. 19 COLORADO 66, OREGON STATE 63, OT
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) - Chucky Jeffery scored 25 points and Colorado rallied to beat Oregon State for the Buffaloes' ninth win in a row.
The Buffaloes (24-5, 13-5 Pac-12) trailed by 16 points in the first half, and by 10 with 11:46 to play. But Jeffery's 3-pointer began a 15-2 run that saw Colorado take the lead for the first time.
Colorado led until Jamie Weisner's 3-pointer with 9 seconds left tied it at 56. In overtime, Brittany Wilson's 3-pointer in the first minute put the Buffs ahead to stay. Arielle Roberson's two free throws with 6 seconds left ended the scoring.
Roberson finished with 10 points and 11 rebounds - eight on the offensive glass. Ali Gibson scored 15 points and Weisner had 14 points and 13 rebounds for the Beavers (10-20, 4-14).
Colorado is the No. 4 seed in the Pac-12 tournament next weekend.
VIRGINIA 72, No. 24 FLORIDA STATE 60
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - Faith Randolph scored a career-high 19 points and Simone Egwu had 17 points and 11 rebounds as Virginia ended a five-game losing streak by defeating Florida State in the teams' regular-season finale.
The Cavaliers (16-13, 8-10 Atlantic Coast Conference) overcame a 22-point performance by Florida State's Alexa Deluzio, whose six 3-pointers tied her career high.
Natasha Howard's three-point play gave the Seminoles (21-8, 11-7) their final lead, 55-53 with 5:42 left, but the Cavaliers ran off the next seven points. Randolph's 3-pointer put them ahead to stay, 58-55, at the 4:14 mark, and they pulled away with 10-for-10 free-throw shooting in the final 2 minutes.
Ataira Franklin scored 18 points for Virginia, which will be seeded sixth and play Thursday at the ACC tournament in Greensboro, N.C.
Leonor Rodriguez scored 14 points for fourth-seeded Florida State, which has a bye into Friday's quarterfinals despite the loss.
No. 25 PURDUE 76, ILLINOIS 65
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Courtney Moses scored 21 points, leading four Purdue players in double figures, and the Boilermakers defeated Illinois.
Drey Mingo scored 18 and Sam Ostarello and KK Houser had 12 points apiece. Ostarello had nine rebounds while Houser contributed seven rebounds and eight assists for Purdue (21-8, 10-6 Big Ten). It was the regular-season finale for both teams; the Big Ten tournament begins Thursday in Hoffman Estates, Ill.
The Boilermakers took control with a 13-0 run midway through the second half that gave them a 60-50 lead.
Karisma Penn had 23 points and eight rebounds to lead the Illini (16-12, 9-7). Adrienne GodBold scored 18 points and Ivory Crawford scored 11.


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Mayfield motorcyclist Craig Hyde has been remembered as "fun loving" and "a role model to younger riders" after being killed in a race at Timaru.
The 46-year-old was apparently run over by a following rider after coming off his bike at about 12.30pm on Saturday while racing on the International Motor Raceway at Levels.
Mr Hyde was in a race of about 25 riders for four stroke bikes up to 250cc. He was riding his Suzuki FXR 150 bucket bike, when his rear tyre slipped on the third bend. He fell and rolled down the track.
A following rider, who did not want to be named, said because it was the first lap of the five-lap race, the riders were still tightly bunched, so when Mr Hyde came off his bike it was impossible for another one of his fellow riders to avoid Mr Hyde, who died at the scene.
The man said the incident had been a terrible event for him to witness after he had seen another fatal crash earlier this year at the same race track. In that accident a 20-year-old rider died 26 days after being injured.
"My wife's been onto me (to give up motorcycle racing)," he said.
"What do you do, wrap yourself in cotton wool and die of obesity or get out and do something," he said.
He said the bucket bikes which Mr Hyde rode "should be at the safer end of the scale" as they reached maximum speeds of just 150 kilometres per hour. They could however go faster around corners, and the third corner of the track on which yesterday's accident had happened, he believed the bikes would be travelling about 80 kilometres per hour.
He said Mr Hyde had been friendly, a "good fun loving guy" with a great sense of humour.
Mr Hyde was a family man with children, and a self-employed motorcycle mechanic based at his home garage. He had recently taken on a staff member as his business grew.
He had recently returned back to motorcycle racing after a stint at car racing, enjoying the sport more and believing the people to be friendlier.
"He was just having so much fun doing it."
Motorcycle Canterbury secretary Wendy Ashmore said Mr Hyde was a good rider and the accident had been an absolute tragedy.
He was a valued member of the club, giving fellow members mechanical advice, and would support the club at events at Ruapuna in Christchurch and at the Levels.
The club was family orientated, and Mr Hyde had been a good role model to younger members.
"He had a very caring attitude. He was a mentor, would ride with younger members on the race track just to help them," she said.
The incident has been referred to the coroner.
No other person was injured during the accident, although in a separate crash a motorcyclist received serious chest injuries and was taken to Timaru Hospital, where he was reported to be in a stable condition.

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XCA is an interface for managing RSA and DSA keys, certificates, certificate signing requests, revocation lists and templates. It uses the OpenSSL and Qt4 libraries. Certificates and requests can be created and signed and many x509v3 extensions can be added. XCA supports multiple root and intermediate Certificate authorities. The CAs can be used to create CRLs and extend certificates. The following file-formats are supported: PEM, DER, PKCS#7, PKCS#8, PKCS#10, PKCS#12, and SPKAC.
EncFS is an encrypted pass-through filesystem which runs in userspace on Linux (using the FUSE kernel module). Similar in design to CFS and other pass-through filesystems, all data is encrypted and stored in the underlying filesystem. Unlike loopback filesystems, there is no predetermined or pre-allocated filesystem size.
conexus is a generalized C++ I/O library that includes network support for IPv4 and IPv6 sockets, serial/TTY communications, kernel message queues, pipes, and files. Objects use sigc++ for signaling property changes and other information. Sub-libraries include conexus-gtkmm (provides a set of gtkmm widgets), conexus-dbus (provides dbus support for endpoints), conexus-nspr (provides NSPR endpoints), conexus-nss (provides NSS endpoints), and conexus-ssl (provides OpenSSL endpoints).
Secluded Notes is a simple text editor that keeps each document as a part of its own executable. That part is called an "attachment", and the program encrypts/decrypts it on the fly with an AES 128-bit cipher. As long as you close the application, it automatically updates itself for the next run.
Cardpeek is a tool to read the contents of ISO7816 smartcards. It features a GUI to represent card data in a tree view, and it is extendable with a scripting language (LUA). The goal of this project is to allow smartcard owners to be better informed about what type of personal information is stored in these devices. The tool currently reads the contents of: EMV bank cards, Calypso public transport cards (such as Navigo, RavKav, and Mobib), Belgian eID cards, GSM SIM cards, the French Vitale 2 health card, some Mifare cards, and Moneo electronic purse cards.
AS2Secure is a PHP library that allows you to send and receive AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) messages from partners. The project is split into two parts: a client to send one or more documents to a partner and a server to receive one or more documents from a partner. Its main features are asyncronous and syncronous MDN, partner setup, digital signatures, message encryption, secure transport (using OpenSSL), support for SSL client authentication, and multiple attachments (AS2 1.2).
sxmppd is a server for the XMPP (Jabber) chat protocol. While other, functional XMPP servers exist, they are not as simple or have many dependencies. It supports user authentication, SSL, roster management, presence updates and subscriptions, messaging (local users), group chat, and file-based server configuration.
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that is completely decentralized, without the need for a central server or trusted parties. Users hold the crypto keys to their own money and transact directly with each other, with the help of a P2P network to check for double-spending.
Fullscreen display of a short text.
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About RBC > Media Newsroom > News Releases > RBC Global Asset Management Inc. Appoints New Sub-Advisor for RBC Private U.S. Growth Equity Pool
TORONTO, May 28, 2012 RBC Global Asset Management Inc. today announced that Brown Advisory, LLC ("Brown Advisory") has been appointed as sub-advisor for RBC Private U.S. Growth Equity Pool. This change will be effective as of June 11, 2012.
Brown Advisory is the primary investment advisory affiliate of Brown Advisory Incorporated, an independent investment firm owned primarily by its employees and directors with principal offices in Baltimore, Washington, Boston and London. Since its founding as an affiliate of Alex Brown & Sons in 1993, the firm has grown strategically, with approximately $29 billion in private and institutional client assets. Brown Advisory's investment capabilities include a wide array of U.S. equity and fixed income strategies in addition to alternative investments, open architecture and asset allocation capabilities.
About RBC Global Asset Management and RBC Wealth Management
RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM) is the asset management division of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) which includes institutional money managers Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management (PH&N), RBC Global Asset Management (U.S.) and BlueBay Asset Management. RBC GAM is a provider of global investment management services and solutions to individual, high net worth and institutional investors through mutual funds, pooled funds, hedge funds, segregated accounts and specialty investment strategies. RBC GAM group of companies manage more than $250 billion in assets and have approximately 1,000 employees located across Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia.
RBC Global Asset Management is part of RBC Wealth Management which directly serves affluent and high net worth clients in Canada, the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia. RBC Wealth Management provides integrated and diversified international wealth management expertise and solutions, asset management and trust services to high net worth individuals and to corporate and institutional clients. Services provided by RBC Wealth Management consultants, advisors, private bankers and trust officers include trust and estate planning, tax advice, discretionary investment management and investment advisory services, structured solutions, banking, lending and global custody. RBC Wealth Management has over $560 billion of assets under administration, over $322 billion of assets under management and more than 4,300 financial consultants, advisors, private bankers and trust officers.
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CHAPEL HILL – U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (Rep.-Banner Elk) announced Tuesday that she will not run in next year's Republican U.S. Senate primary. Public Policy Polling's Tom Jensen says that with Foxx out of the mix, the Republican nomination is even more up for grabs than it was before.
Jensen says PPP consistently found in their monthly polls that Foxx was the top choice for North Carolina Republicans to challenge incumbent Senator Kay Hagan (Dem.- Greensboro).
"I think the key number on our last poll is that 40 percent of Republican voters didn't know who they wanted their nominee to be," Jensen says. "With Virginia Foxx, who was at the top of the heap, now not running, I could see that being up to now 50 percent of Republicans not knowing who they want when we do our September poll. I think it is really wide open, and I think there is a lot of room for more candidates to get in this race."
Jensen says a recent PPP poll showed that 18 percent of Republicans said that Foxx would be their top choice as candidate to nine percent for both N.C. Senate Leader Phil Berger and Jim Cain, and eight percent for N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis.
Of those who have already announced, Jensen says a sleeper may be Greg Brannon, a Cary gynecologist with political roots in the Tea Party movement. Jensen says Brannon has support from "the Ron Paul types."
Jensen says voters have mixed feelings about Hagan, with 42 percent approving; 41 percent disapproving.
"Even though you see Kay Hagan with pretty substantial leads over all the Republicans at this point, they do have a chance to make this a closer race as they become better known in the state over the next year and three months," Jensen says.
Hagan was first elected in 2008, defeating then-incumbent Republican Elizabeth Dole the general election.


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The Kansas City Chiefs have had theyre fair share of injuries this season and it looks like theyve got another one to add to the list.
RB Jackie Battle is apparently in a walking boot, according to interim head coach Romeo Crennel.
As far as our roster is concerned, Jackie Battle got banged up in the game, Crennel said on Monday. He is in a boot. Were doing x-rays, MRIs and second opinions to try to figure out what his situation is.
Right now, hes not practicing today so right now if I had to list him Id list him as doubtful. Until we can get a determination from the doctors, Ill make a determination at that time what we need to do, if anything, as it relates to the roster.
This is bad news for the Chiefs because no Jackie Battle means MORE Thomas Jones. Jones has had a moment or two this season but he isnt the kind of guy you want shouldering the burden of your running game any more. If Battle sits, well likely see a lot McCluster and Jones.
If Battle is likely to be out, the Chiefs might want to consider placing him on IR so they can promote RB Shaun Draughn to the active roster to give him a look. KC will need some extra RB help next season and they have a pretty good idea of what they have in Battle. It might not hurt to get a look at Draughn before the season is out.


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Senior Tyler McIntyre was named the Northeast Conference baseball Player of the Week on Monday. McIntyre and the Blue Devils went on the road to Navy and won three out of four. McIntyre played a big role in each game for the Blue Devils.
McIntyre was the Blue Devils' top run producer in a season-opening series victory at Navy. The reigning all-NEC first team first baseman started his senior season by going 8-for-16 (.500) at the plate with five runs scored and five runs batted in over a four-game set with the Midshipmen.
He opened the series with a 3-for-5 performance at the plate and again went 3-for-5 in the finale. McIntyre's first plate appearance of the season resulted in two runs for the Blue Devils. Going up against preseason all-Patriot League hurler Ben Nelson, CCSU's first baseman lined a two-run single to centerfield and the Blue Devils would not look back in an eventual 7-1 triumph. He added an RBI double in the ninth inning for insurance.
McIntyre was held hitless during the first half of Saturday's doubleheader, which ended as a 3-2 setback for CCSU. The 6-foot-4 thumper came back with a pair of hits, including a third-inning single that plated Dylan DelaCruz with the team's fourth run, to help CCSU to a 4-2 win in the nightcap. His three hits and three runs scored led Central Connecticut to a 6-4 victory in Sunday's series finale.
McIntyre's eight hits and five RBI led all players in the four-game series. He flawlessly fielded his position as well, playing four error-free games at first base.


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Big Rapids, Mich. - For the third consecutive year, Ferris State
University fans across the world will have an opportunity to keep
up with Bulldog Spring Football action as local journalist
Sandy Gholston will cover selected practices and
scrimmages for his Bulldog "Spring Ball Blog", which will appear on
the official FSU Athletics Website
An award-winning reporter and a current marketing specialist within FSU's University Advancement and Marketing Division, Gholston will keep fans up-to-date throughout the spring season with periodic blogs, features and recaps of scrimmages. He'll also correspond with photos from the workouts as the Bulldogs prepare for the 2010 gridiron campaign.
The Bulldog football team will hold 15 official workouts during the spring football period starting with its first practice on Tuesday, March 30. The spring season will be capped off by the annual Crimson & Gold Game on Friday, April 23, at FSU's Top Taggart Field in Big Rapids, Mich.
Gholston is the current author of two popular blogs focusing on FSU Athletics called the "Bulldog Athletics Blog", which is available at www.ferrisstateathleticsblog.blogspot.com, along with the recently-launched "Crimson & Gold Report" available on MLive (http://blog.mlive.com/crimson_and_gold_report/index.html).
Previously, he served as a sports reporter for the Big Rapids Pioneer. A native of Detroit, Mich., Gholston has covered Ferris State athletics for more than 14 years. He started covering Bulldog athletic events as an undergraduate student at FSU in 1996, working as a sports reporter for the campus' student newspaper, The Torch.
Gholston began his career in May 1997 with The Pioneer. In that time, he won several awards for his coverage of FSU Athletics including a first-place Associated Press Award for "Sustained Coverage of a Single Sports Event" in his reporting on the tragic death of a Ferris State Football student-athlete in the fall of 2002. In addition, he also received the 2003 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Media Service Award and the 2002 United States Tennis Association's Fred Burns Journalism Award for his coverage of Ferris State Athletics along with being a finalist for the 2004-05 American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Grant Burger Media Award after being chosen as the national recipient in the print journalism category.
Gholston has also been active in the community, serving as a basketball coach at Reed City along with officiating at Ferris State summer basketball camps.
Gholston's Bulldog "Spring Ball Blog" will be available for fans to read by clicking the "Spring Ball Blog" banner icon and corresponding page links located on the FSU Football homepage at http://www.ferrisstatebulldogs.com/sports/fball/index. The articles and stories will be linked to content created on both of Gholston's current blog sites.
To access the "Spring Ball Blog" site, you may also use the direct link below:
Bulldog "Spring Ball Blog"


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Where are the women?
Updated 8:38 pm, Thursday, July 28, 2011
On our family vacation this summer we took the kids to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., and I pointed out to my teenage daughter how forward it was in 1975 when first lady Betty Ford said she urged her husband to appoint a woman to his Cabinet. And if a vacancy came up, she would nudge him to name a woman to the then all-male Supreme Court.
Her comments on CBS' 60 Minutes, which are among the museum's exhibits, drew headlines at the time.
That seemed remarkable to my 17-year-old daughter, Charlotte, who has seen a woman serve as speaker of the U.S. House and another come close to becoming the Democratic nominee for president.
But she and other young women coming of age today would be hard-pressed to name many high-ranking female business executives.
And that doesn't necessarily reflect youthful inattention to the corporate world. If you look at the list of the 100 highest-paid executives in Houston, it's hard not to notice that they're all men.
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You have to get all the way to No. 150 - Janet Clark, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Marathon Oil Corp. - before the first woman pops up, according a list of top-paid public company executives published in the Chronicle on Sunday.
'It's pretty sad
Longnecker & Associates compiled the data for the Chronicle, based on corporate documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Clark is one of only four women in the top 200.
"It's pretty sad, isn't it?" said Leanne Atwater, who chairs the Department of Management at the University of Houston's C.T. Bauer College of Business.
But it's not just Houston, said Atwater, who has done work in the area of gender and leadership.
Only 12 of the CEOs leading Fortune 500 companies are women.
Executive recruiter Stephen Newton, area manager for the Houston office of Russell Reynolds Associates, said his clients expect a diverse slate of candidates for top positions.
But Houston is an energy town, and that industry is historically male-dominated, he said.
At the same time, he said, women are making in-roads as senior leaders in professional service firms including law, accounting, business consulting and engineering.
They're also joining more corporate boards, said Newton, who estimated that the number of women on local corporate boards has more than doubled in the past decade.
Marathon's Clark said she has seen progress at her own company.
When she joined the company in 2004 - putting her into the top 100 of Houston's highest-paid executives that year - she was one of two female executives at Marathon.
'Ahead of the game'
Today there are six, including the general counsel and the heads of global exploration, international production, technology and public policy. Two of Marathon's eight board members are women.
One of the big selling points for those top women was that Marathon is a place where women can succeed, said Clark, who spreads the message when she gives presentations at energy conferences, alumni groups and universities.
"That clearly puts us ahead of the game," she said, as more highly qualified women are attracted to the company at a time when the industry is recruiting new talent.
Women made up only 13.8 percent of the labor force in mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction companies in the Fortune 500 last year, said Mary Boughton, director for research group Catalyst's west region in Sunnyvale, Calif. Catalyst works with companies to advance women in the workplace and recently released its energy workforce analysis. At the executive level, women hold only 11.6 percent of the top energy jobs, Boughton said.
That means women coming into the industry have fewer role models and often don't have access to the senior leaders who are instrumental in promoting the careers of subordinates, she said.
Stereotyping continues
Women also suffer from gender stereotyping, such as assumptions that a female employee can't accept an overseas assignment because of family responsibilities.
Atwater suggested that some women may take themselves out of the running because they don't want to work 65 hours a week or spend most of their time traveling. But women aren't victims, and the fact women haven't reached the C-suite in great numbers is not the fault of men, she said.
Other factors likely are at play. Atwater is just finishing some research in which women and men were asked to rate their leadership skills and said the initial results are "scary."
When asked to rate their own skills, men and women rated themselves at about the same level, she said.
They differed wildly, however, in predicting how their bosses -who also filled out surveys - would rate them. The men predicted correctly that they'd get good scores. Women speculated that their bosses wouldn't give them high ratings, while in fact the bosses rated the women about the same as the men.
That disparity leads Atwater to believe women tend to undervalue themselves, which has repercussions down the road.
"Women didn't think their bosses will see them as good compared to their male counterparts," she said. "So how willing are they to go ask for a raise?"


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Elementary Schools Celebrate Kindness
Jefferson and Washington Elementary Schools will celebrate Kindness Week from Monday, Feb. 11 to Friday, Feb. 15.
Organized by elementary counselor Vanessa Kocka, Kindness Week is a way for kids to understand that "kindness is empathy, compassion and human connection; it's a smile or a comforting word. The smallest gesture can brighten a dark day or ease a heavy burden," according to the Valley City Public Schools newsletter.
At Jefferson School, students began planning for Kindness Week in January, when they read the book "Beads on One String" in guidance class and then enjoyed a concert by the book's author and folk singer Dennis Warner. "Beads on One String" teaches children that we are all the same even though we may look different, Warner said in January.
Later, the children were asked to discuss how to increase the level of kindness in their classroom, and how to address the level of kindness in the entire school. Then teachers were then asked to pick a Kindness Week theme and classroom projects from the responses.
Some of the themes include ; "Use Nice Words," "Don't Tattle," "Don't be Bossy" and "Don't Interrupt Others."
At Washington School the theme will revolve around a life vest because "kindness keeps the world afloat. By living kindly and believing in the good of each individual, change is possible," according to the newsletter.
The school will offer a kindness box where students will be encouraged to offer examples of the kind things they have witnessed in school. The kindness box will also provide a way to recognize students who have shown kindness.
In addition, students will view a movie about kindness on Wednesday.
On Monday, Feb. 11, at 2:15 p.m., Washington School will host a pep rally, complete with kindness cheers and music from the Jr./Sr. High Pep Band.
Students will give a presentation describing the kindness that takes place in school and the world around them. Parents and others are invited to the pep rally.


text: SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Australia's jobless rate remained steady at 5.4% in January, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported Thursday. Seasonally adjusted employment increased 10,400 to 11.55 million while unemployment increased by 2,000 to 659,600. The country's labour-force participation rate decreased by 0.1 percentage points to 65.0% in January, according to the statistics body. Economists had been expecting the jobless rate to remain steady at 5.4% and employment to rise by 12,500 according to data compiled by Dow Jones Newswires.


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Environmentalists are generally enthusiastic about Massachusetts Senator John Kerry's appointment to the cabinet post of Secretary of State. Historically, Kerry probably has the most stellar voting record on environmental issues of anyone who's served in the office, including votes for increasing CAFE fuel efficiency standards, promoting hydrogen fuel and ending federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry; and votes against oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and stripping the EPA of the power to regulate greenhouse gases.
Since the State Department has a say in all things international, the most immediate decision before him with big environmental implications will likely be to approve or reject TransCanada's proposal for the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, an issue which has already brought scrutiny of his predecessor and her potential conflicts of interest because of existing personal investments.
Kerry—who with a net worth of $184 million is the wealthiest man in the U.S. Senate and has broad investments through multiple trusts—has vowed to divest holdings in stocks that might be similarly scrutinized, including two energy companies that could benefit from approval of the pipeline. In something of a twist, however, some conservative critics have pointed to stakes in "greentech" and alternative energy companies that could also be considered suspect—investments that would thrive if, say, the Keystone pipeline project is nixed, or if Kerry tinkers with tariffs and other international trade policies that have broad effects on global energy markets.
Fair enough—and were the federal government a place where purist ideals flourished, the truthier-than-thou left would laud its opponents' demand for honesty and transparency. But cynical veteran tree-huggers might secretly cherish this opportunity to turn the tables on their long-spoiled nemeses, preferring not to demand too rigorous an inquiry into Kerry's "green" holdings. Why?
Though his direct influence might be less at State than it was in the Senate, Kerry seems to be tugging for control of environmental policy-making using much the same rationale as Bush and Cheney did for oil: national security. In recent confirmation hearings, he referred to climate change as "among the top international threats facing the United States," prompting conjecture as to whether invoking that same specter, which for generations served to shore up government support for oil interests, could be used to justify an environmental "defense" agenda.
In fact, funding alternative energy development through the national defense budget is not so outrageous a proposition; the U.S. Navy already has extensive solar projects in the works. Some, like the one at California's China Lake research center, even turn a profit. That's something the Navy—and the government—could certainly use more of, especially in the age of deficit aversion and sequesters.
So far, Kerry seems to be sticking to his strong environmental record, and it's clear that both he and President Obama have at least a relatively progressive attitude toward steering the nation (and hopefully the world) toward cleaner, greener solutions to our energy needs. It's also clear that both are believers in climate change, the science behind it and the threat it poses to people everywhere through increasingly extreme weather, food insecurity and disruption of the world's oceans and other sensitive ecosystems. Responding to a not-so-subtle suggestion from Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso to lay off environmental regulation in favor of economic relief, Kerry countered "The solution to climate change is energy policy. You want to do business and do it well in America, we've got to get into the energy race." He also went on to cite Massachusetts and California as examples of clean energy policy that have actually helped their economies, saying the industry was "growing faster than any other sector" and calling it "a job creator."
For decades, presidential administrations have included many people like Dick Cheney, whose revolving-door relationship with the oil industry has (besides enriching himself) delayed America's advancement in cleaner, more renewable energy technologies and put us at a competitive disadvantage in those global markets. What's more, the historic push for the fossil fuel agenda has engendered hatred for America abroad and racked up a breathtaking cost in money and lives through foreign wars that protect and further the capital interests of that industry. If Kerry happens to profit from crafting energy policy that ultimately saves lives, the budget and the planet, it would be ironic if conservatives claimed the right to cry foul.•


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Cowboy Neil buys them all and archives inane Slashdot comments, like this one.
Cowboy Neil buys them all and archives inane Slashdot comments, like this one.
20 stories a day.
400 posts per story.
99% are inane.
Average post size? 850 characters (thanks to gnaa c&p trolls)
6.4 megabytes per day
1.4 megabytes per disk
4.5 disks per day
365 days in a year
1642 disks per year
100 disks for $25 =
~$411 per year on backups
Max write speed: 1000 kilobits / second (7.7 megabytes per minute)
Time to fill storage:
314 minutes + 1 minute to toss each disk in an unsorted box (hey, they're using low paid interns of course) ~ 2000 minutes
33 hours
$8.00 an hour
$264 per year
Grand Total: $675.00, or about 3.375 hours with a decent, geeky prostitute
Seems economical.
Seems economical.
Until they try to restore the backup.
Supporting old stuff means tougher standards, higher compatibility. Floppies were a pretty terrible standard, but they lasted forever basically because nobody could ever agree on a new standard. SuperDisk LS-120 was late, plus didn't catch on. But. Old phones work fine on today's network.
Mobile phones? Pre-GSM ones don't work in the UK (and presumably other countries), they turned off the old network.
Landline phones? The ones that only do pulse dialling don't work with most "Press 5 to do X" systems.
Cars work with today's gas and roads.
No they don't -- many old cars required petrol with added lead.
Old televisions work with today's services and electricity.
Many countries have switched to digital TV.
Old stuff often only works if some parts are upgraded. Your old TV works (with a digital converter box) and your old car works (if you add a special chemical to the petrol).
Old Linux binaries can be made to work (I assume you're referring to problems with shared libraries?). It probably helps to know what system they're supposed to work with. It might require some technical knowledge.
If old closed-source stuff doesn't work, good luck fixing it.
in the lab:
oscilloscopes, network analysers, pulse generators etc.
Last time this came up on slashdot, someone brought up this handy little device that looks and acts like a floppy drive (to the controller) but lets you use usb sticks instead:
http://www.floppytousb.com/ [floppytousb.com]
This should work on all the synths, CNC machines, sewing machines, etc.
1.It may not be using the standard floppy disk controler interface and may not be able to support that particular gizmo
2.Are YOU going to be the one to tell the boss that the really really expensive piece of equipment has failed and that they cant get warranty service for it because of an unauthorized third party modification just so you dont need to keep floppy disks around?
3.What do you do about things that actually come on floppy disk (for example the manufacturer may ship new firmware on floppy that you
(Side note: This is why I read Slashdot. You have to wade through the muck but there're still nuggets of pure gold here and there.) Sorry
1.It may not be using the standard floppy disk controler interface and may not be able to support that particular gizmo
Well, if you RTFL (I know, I know
The device connects to your existing power and data (ribbon) cables.
The soundless drive emulates your existing floppy drive to act as if the floppy drive was never removed. This drive will replace most any existing 720k/1.44MB capacity IBM format floppy drive or your money back. Do away with the painfully slow and obsolete floppy disks. Not only will this device work in PCs but, it will also work in machinery or devices that still use floppy drives. This device completely replaces the universal floppy drive of computerized system. If you are not certain this device will work in your equipment, then just ask! 1 Year Warranty. This device also emulates NON IBM type drives (TEAC, etc) and can also be setup as a DRIVE 0, DRIVE 1 configuration
Back to your points:
2.Are YOU going to be the one to tell the boss that the really really expensive piece of equipment has failed and that they cant get warranty service for it because of an unauthorized third party modification just so you dont need to keep floppy disks around?
I agree this is a good thing to consider. It may not always be a good idea even if it works. Definitely a YMMV solution.
3.What do you do about things that actually come on floppy disk (for example the manufacturer may ship new firmware on floppy that you insert and have the machine read). Yes you could reinstall the disk drive for those rare occasions (or find a way to make the floppytousb device work with a USB floppy so you can read the disk you need to) but that's a lot of work.
I wonder if one of the USB floppies would work. While it most likely wouldn't, I sort of like the Goldbergian aspect of running a floppy controller -> USB converter -> USB floppy drive emulator when needed. Hehe. In reality, I'd probably go with a floppy cable that supports 2 drives [amazon.com] and run the floppy drive on one and the FloppytoUSB device on the other, just in case.
Nonetheless, this is quite an interesting device. I'll probably pick one up just to fiddle with. I'd love to have the option of USB sticks being available in such odd DOS environment for some clients.
What about something like this?
http://www.memorysuppliers.com/smartdisk-flashpath-smartmedia.html?CAWELAID=327820619 [memorysuppliers.com]
Stick a SD card into a floppy shaped device that your drive can read like it's a real floppy. The drive can still read floppies, and there's no evidence for the warranty people.
i wonder, how much space do the drive see?
do it only see the first 1.44MB of the SD card?
in the theatre:
Lighting control desks normally use them for letting you save lighting plots (most also have hard-drives for normal use). Lighting plots are a tiny amount of data that easily fit on a floppy.
Most are just DOS PCs with a digital desk and DMX connections to the dimmer packs and other gear.
I would like to be able to use a USB key, but that's more because I don't have a floppy drive for my laptop so can't get the data onto it to edit.
Gods, remember the damn digicams that had full floppy disk drives on them? I used to work with someone that swore up and down that was the "easiest" way to get pictures off a camera and onto a computer. Apparently she had never heard of media readers....
No reason not to use it.
Except that your cell phone probably takes better pictures.
Except that your cell phone probably takes better pictures.
Bigger != Better
"Except that your cell phone probably takes better pictures."
Probably not. Cellphone cams have tiny sensors and tiny low-quality lenses that don't correct for sencond- or third-order aberrations. The resulting image is usually a low contrast, distorted image image with color fringing, coma and veiling glare. That 640x480 image, taken through a relatively high-quality optical system, most likely looks much better than your typical cellphone image, no matter what the relative resolution is on paper.
Sony Mavica.
640x400 pixel resolution. No EXIF data. And we liked it.
Nice back in the day, but grainy as hell now.
(Yeah, we have one too.)
The Sony Mavica used to be the bee's knees for this reason. This was before most computers had USB or media readers, so a standard digital camera would plug into your serial port and you'd run through a set of batteries trying to download the pictures to your hard drive. So, for a while, the floppy was the "easiest" way to get pictures off a camera.
Gods, remember the damn digicams that had full floppy disk drives on them? I used to work with someone that swore up and down that was the "easiest" way to get pictures off a camera and onto a computer. Apparently she had never heard of media readers....
Remember, these were made in the late 90's early 2000s. Floppy disks were CHEAP, a box of 10 would run you $10 if not less on sale. A meager 16MB card would cost $100+ easily. So you could go with a camera that required $100+ memory cards to use, or went wit
I modified all my synths. I found that most have a IDE header inside and you can slap a hard drive on it (was made for a ZIP drive) so instead of having 80,000 floppies that fail the 3rd time you use them all my maps and samples are on the hard drive..
I love older E-mu gear, at least they were smart and made them hackable.
I use them for my music keyboard and some firmware updates (mostly from Dell) which still require them.
That's exactly why I have 3.5" double-sided double-density floppies - an Ensoniq Mirage, and Ensoniq EPS and a Cheetah SX16. Of that three only the EPS has SCSI - and still needs to boot from floppy to format a new SCSI disk.
I know we buy them at my lab-they are necessary for controlling the software of our scintillation counter. That thing (no joke) is running DOS 2.0 under the hood! I'm sure there's lots of industrial equipment in small/noncompetitive markets that has never felt pressured to update. It's the same reason why we have so much $500,000 equipment running unbelievably crappy software.
Actually there are some good reasons to use DOS for something like that.
Modern OSs are great and have all sorts of functionality that a lot of devices just don't need. They also have a lot of code and services which can cause you issues.
DOS is great for any device where you need a realtime single tasking OS.
You can do all you development on a PC and use PC debugging tools that you are used to using.
You see lots of CNC machines and such that use DOS for that reason.
Or look at it this way. Does the device you use work? Does it do what you need it to do?
If so then the software isn't crappy. Nothing sucks more than you replace a piece of software that works but isn't pretty with pretty bug ridden software.
...crappy software.
Would you really rather have that $500,000 piece of equipment running DOS 2.0 move to Windows Vista?
When was the last time your DOS 2.0 machine needed a security patch, or rebooted itself randomly, to for that matter did anything unexpected?
Simple... yes
Outdated... yes
Crappy... not so much.
I wrote a real-time data acquisition system about 10 years ago. It was written to run on DOS. Why? One, and only one reason: under DOS, you have complete control of the hardware. Total, utter control. There's no OS that's going to interrupt with housekeeping, respond to network packets, check to see if there's another thread that wants a slice, or other crap. Only one thread executes at a time (unless you work really really hard to allow that to happen). For instrumentation that cannot tolerate a 20, 50 or even 100 ms pause every now and then, this is vital. DOS, crappy though parts of it are, has a lot of support in the embedded / instrumentation market. It isn't a lack of pressure to update so much as the ability to do exactly what you want, no questions asked, with the hardware. Worked great. As far as I know, that system is still in operation.
More recently, I've written a different real-time data acquisition system, under Windows 98. Almost as much control of the hardware, but not quite. There were gremlins I never figured out that were stealing segments of time every now and then.
And just this year, I ported that second system to Windows XP. Holy crap. Still haven't had time to chase down all of the HUGE number of timing problems now. If W98 drivers were available for the fast modern hardware required for the current project, I'd have stuck with the older OS.
That $500k may have been the price when it was new in 1992.
But if you try to sell it now you might get 79 cents a pound for it.
There are probably old procedures at companies that still are written to call for using them as backups or storage of application software and the politics at such companies are that they don't easily allow those procedures to be updated.
It's me. I don't have a DVD or CD burner, so I've been trying to get my pirated material onto other medias.
I just can't figure out why people don't want the latest Star Trek movie on a simple, small, and affordable 720 three and a half inch floppies collectors set!
There are about a million XP SP2 users who have SATA disks and keep finding their driver floppy doesn't work when they try their yearly reinstall.
Mod this guy up. There are lots of issues like this that keep me using a usb floppy drive. Some software still use floppies for license disks.
Google Keyword: "slipstream"
I would think that anyone smart enough to know about reinstalling XP constantly for performance would know about this. I make unattended install disks for my parents so I don't have to mess with it. Just pop the CD in, boot, format the drive and tell XP to start installing. Then walk away. Almost as nice as installing Linux.
Of 10,000,000 XP users less than 100 of them knows what slipstream is or has the skills to even do that. It will not happen, you can barely get a windows user to not click on every popup, you think you can get them to slipstream SP3 into their XP install Disc?
Tax returns dating back to the 80's.. WHY???
It's a personal liability to have any records that are older than 7 years. Burn those things in a fire or at least run them through a strong shredder.
I have AOL and Windows 3.1 disks all over my desk, always ready for use as a coaster under my coffee.
Can't remember the last time I bought one, though. But if anyone needs a coaster, I am happy to sell you some.
DriverPacks are your friend: http://driverpacks.net/ [driverpacks.net]
They have a very nice tool that slipstreams (among others) mass storage and network drivers into Windows installation media. I've used it for XP and 2003 and have found that DriverPacked install media will pretty much find your storage controller even on recent machines.
The truth is the 3½-inch, 1.44 megabyte floppy - the disk that made it big - has always defied logic. It's not floppy for a start. The term was a hangover from its precursor, the 5¼-inch floppy, which had a definite lack of rigidness about it. However, its smaller successor held 15 times as much data.
1) so, what is the proper term for this then? "hard disk"? ARGHHH
2) 15 times as much data in a 3.5"? ARGHHHHH
ok, fine, i didn't stop reading. i only continued reading, but irritatedly.
Ya obviously TFA-author has never taken apart a 3.5".. they are still floppies to me because of the internal media isn't rigid, at least last I checked.
As for use, I've used them in the last couple years to:
- Install drivers on a Win box during install.. (WHY does VMware need a WINDOWS vCenter box?! Why can't it just be a thin-OS like ESX is?! it makes no sense!)
- Update BIOS firmware drivers on some older servers (at the time it was easier then doing it via CD, although it did take me a short wihle to find
Lots of older motherboards can only boot of floppies, not of USB sticks. They need floppies with FreeDOS to boot for the occasional BIOS update, firmware flash and other similar maintenance. Memtest86+ is another popular stuff to boot on a floppy. And some antique mother boards can't even reliabily boot CD-ROMs requiring a floppy boot-loader.
Installer of older versions of Windows XP can't use drivers on anything but floppies. Vista's installer is the first able to use other media.
As long as such older machi
Brand new computer controlled machine tools being sold today, using floppy drives:
http://www.americanmachinetools.com/cnc_milling.htm [americanmachinetools.com]
Just ask google... "Results 1 - 10 of about 13,200 for Floppy CNC mill. (0.29 seconds)"
G-Code is kind of a CLI for machine tools. Remember Logo in the 80s? Well, theres only so many ways to design a language to do Cartesian stuff. Being vaguely text like, you can figure ten bytes per line. Figure maybe twice as many non-cutting operations as cutting operations. Gaze upon a machined part, perhaps a hard drive case, whatever, and contemplate most jobs will have a couple hundred cutting operations. So, you're going to need hundreds of cuts times about 3 to account for non-cutting lines (config, comments, etc), times about ten bytes per line of G-code, figure 15K file per part. An easy fit on a floppy drive.
Now something really complicated, like a turbine or fancy rims for a ghetto car, that might fill a floppy disk.
Right from the article.
The truth is the 3½-inch, 1.44 megabyte floppy - the disk that made it big - has always defied logic. It's not floppy for a start.
Really come, it's been around long enough everyone should have peeked behind that little window and seen the disk actually is a floppy little piece of plastic.
So that alone shows that the article was written by an idiot.
It's me. I've been buying those millions of floppy disks. No. I don't know why. I just like them. You got a problem with that?
I am just imagining a stack of 34,000 floppies... used to back up 1 blu-ray disc.
At an eighth-inch a piece (rough estimate) that would be a stack more than 350ft tall!
While you're mourning the loss of the floppy, I'm waiting for the death of the CD/DVD. They're big, they scratch, they're not optimal for read/write. More and more of our devices are mobile and CD readers are both large and heavy.
Digital distribution and flash media replace the necessity for the CD. Of the 3 CD/DVDs I've bought since 2005, two were Apple OS upgrades and one was a video game. The video game is now available on Steam. The OS upgrades could be easily transferred and sold on flash media, or sold online and transferred by the user either to DVD or flash media, as to their preference.
Right now, the CD/DVD format is enjoying the same obsolesce, yet pervasiveness, the floppy enjoyed circa 1999. They'll be (practically) dead soon enough...
Quite often the write-once nature of optical disks is a positive. Burn an OS install disc once, finalize the disc, and run a verification on a separate computer. You can be reasonably certain the install is "clean", and it can't really be tampered with. But if you instead put that installer on flash media, what's to keep compromised software from later rewriting the bootloader or modifying the installer in some way?
Systems do get rooted, and sometimes reinstalls from known clean media are necessary. If y
Flash dies. So do magnetic media. Optical might suck but it's hardy, and it's cheap too! Costs pennies to press out and volume is negotiable. If you need 10k units? Do able. Need 1m units? Do able. I don't think magnetic media has that kind of flexibility.
I am more bored than you could ever possibly be. Go back to work.


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Bill Clinton may have brokered an Irish peace deal and bridged warring parties in the Mideast — but his negotiation skills are apparently no match for the irascibility and fractiousness of aging British rockers. The surviving members of Led Zeppelin reportedly rebuffed a direct request from the 42nd president himself to perform at a charity concert in December.
The band broke up after the death of drummer John Bonham in 1980. The remaining members — Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones —
Like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin's breakup has probably enhanced the group's allure, since fans never had to endure the sight of the band croaking out all the old tunes on endless farewell tours. Nonetheless, fans continue to yearn for a reunion. Next time, try sending Jimmy Carter.


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It's been a two-man race for NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year since the day the Indianapolis Colts and Washington Redskins used the first and second overall picks in April's draft on quarterbacks Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III, respectively.
They've both obviously mounted excellent campaigns.
Luck overtook ex-Colt Peyton Manning (3,739 in 1998) for the second-most passing yards by a rookie in NFL history last week. He needs 260 today against the Houston Texans to knock Cam Newton (4,051 in 2011) out of the top spot.
More importantly, the Colts are 9-4 and contending for a playoff spot after having gone 2-14 last year.
The Colts are on the verge of becoming the fourth team ever to win at least 10 games after having two or fewer victories the previous season.
The Redskins, at 7-6, are also in contention for the playoffs thanks to the dynamic Griffin. He leads the league with a passer rating of 104.2, has thrown 18 TDs — same as Luck — against four interceptions, and ranks 20th with 748 rushing yards.
But Russell Wilson, excluded from the conversation to this point, deserves serious consideration from voters as well.
Wilson, taken in the third round with the 75th overall selection due to his undersized 6-foot frame, has the Seattle Seahawks at 8-5. They'd be the fifth seed in the NFC if the playoffs started today.
Wilson has 20 touchdown passes, which checks in fourth all-time for a rookie QB behind Manning (26 in '98), Charlie Conerly (22 in '48 for the Giants, in 12 games) and Newton (21 in '11). Considering he's thrown 12 TDs in the last six games, he stands a good chance of overtaking that trio.
Wilson is also seventh with a passer rating of 94.9 — Luck is 31st, by the way — and has rushed for 310 yards, placing him fourth among quarterbacks. His passer rating in the red zone is fifth, right behind Tom Brady.
"I think I always expect greatness and always expect an opportunity," Wilson told the Seattle media Thursday. "That's all I ever wanted and once I got my opportunity, just go as far as I can with it. Take it one day at a time and continue to grow and continue to have the desire to do great things.
"I think the biggest thing is to keep pushing myself and go for those challenges and go for those goals."
But, as was the case at the draft because of small stature, Wilson is likely to get overlooked in Rookie of the Year voting. Where he publicly ranks among his first-year peers is of little concern.
"It's a great quarterback class and I think it will be great as time goes on," Wilson said. "But I don't worry about what other people are doing or other people are thinking or saying. I never have and never will. You have to focus on what you can control and how you play the game and how you approach the game and your teammates and being a leader.
"I think the great quarterbacks have great leadership, great attention to detail and are great competitors. I try to bring that every time I step on the field. I think that's the biggest thing."
Nate Solder played all 19 games as a rookie last season, making 13 starts at right tackle in place of the injured Sebastian Vollmer.
With the retirement of Matt Light, who protected Brady's blind side for the better part of 11 seasons, Solder was shifted to the left side.
The 6-foot-8, 320-pound sophomore hasn't missed a game or a beat with the move, which is more difficult than you might think. That's earned him the endorsement of the player he replaced.
"I think how he handled last season and being able to, look it's not easy playing both sides," Light, now an ESPN analyst, said last week. "I tried it. Bill (Belichick) did it with me and it didn't work. He's extremely athletic and I think this season you've seen a lot of (eyes opened).
"Maybe early on nobody knew, but all the rest of the people in this organization understand he comes to work every day. He's got a great attitude, he's extremely gifted and he's done a heck of a job out there."
Solder, who joins center Ryan Connolly as the only linemen to start every game for the Patriots, will be challenged this week when he goes up against San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith, who leads the league with 19.5 sacks. Nothing new there.
Solder has also dealt with the likes of the Texans' J.J. Watt (16.5), the Broncos' Von Miller (16), the Dolphins' Cameron Wake (14), the Rams' Robert Quinn (9.5) and Chris Long (7.5), and the Colts' Robert Mathis (7) to name a few. And he's stood tall against them all.
Some quick hits and (hopefully) useful numbers with regard to this week's games: The Giants defeated the Falcons, 24-2, in New York in the playoffs last year. Falcons QB Matt Ryan is 32-4 (.889) all-time at home. That's the best record for a quarterback in the Super Bowl era. … The Ravens are 15-1 (.938) in their last 16 home games. … The Packers have won four straight and six of the past seven meetings against the Bears, by 6, 7, 7, 7, 10 and 14 points. They've also won 11 straight NFC North games. … The Browns have won four of their past five home games, topping the Bengals, Chargers, Steelers and Chiefs. … The Texans have won nine of 11 against AFC South opponents. … The point total in the last 20 games between the Saints and Buccaneers has reached only 50 once. … The Seahawks rank fourth in the league in rushing. The Bills are 28th in run defense. … The Panthers are 4-9 with seven of their losses by six points or less. The Chargers are 19-4 (.826) under coach Norv Turner in December. … In their last 15 home games, the Cowboys are 2-13 (.133) against the spread. … The Chiefs have won eight of the last nine games against the Raiders in Oakland. … The Jets are seeking their third straight win, which would get them to .500. The Titans have lost five of six.
Fourth and One
Some random thoughts in no particular order: •The 49ers weekly notes highlight the accomplishments of nine individuals, including punter Brian Lee . Nothing on quarterbacks Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick , though. Hmm.
•There's been a lot of chatter out of the NFC about the championship merits of the 49ers, Falcons and Giants. Meanwhile, the Packers — a preseason favorite by many to win the Super Bowl — have quietly won seven of eight to move to 9-4.
•Pretty confident the Patriots would beat a team made up of the best players from the Bills, Dolphins and Jets. That's how mediocre the rest of the AFC East is, particularly at quarterback.
•As much as I wish it were true, those obits about the demise of the Los Angeles Lakers are premature. You watch what a healthy Steve Nash brings to that team.
•Kevin Youkilis sold his soul for $12 million. Most of us would. As an added bonus, the pinstripes should make him look slimmer.
Material used in this report was collected from personal interviews, wire services, websites, and league and team sources. Contact Rich Garven at email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Peter J. Uglietto, 58, priests of the Archdiocese of Boston and both seminary
rectors, as auxiliary bishops of Boston. The pope also accepted the resignation
of Boston Auxiliary Bishop Emilio Allué, SDB, 75, from the office of auxiliary
The appointments and resignation were publicized in Washington, June 30, by Msgr. Jean-François Lantheaume, Chargé d'Affaires, at the apostolic nunciature in the United States.
Bishop-elect Kennedy has been rector of St. John Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts; Bishop-elect Uglietto has been rector of Blessed John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, Massachusetts.
Arthur Kennedy was born January 9, 1942. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1963 from St. John's Seminary College; a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Gregorian University, Rome, in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion from Boston University in 1978.
He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Boston in 1966.
Bishop-elect Kennedy served as associate pastor at St. Monica Parish, Methuen, Massachusetts, 1967-1969; and at St. Joseph Parish, in East Boston, 1969-1974, before joining the faculty of the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1974-2007. While at St.
Thomas he also served in Holy Trinity Parish, St. Paul, 1974-1982; Assumption Parish, St. Paul, 1982-1986; and director of the Office of Ecumenism for the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis, 1986-2003. He served as executive director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2003-2006, and was named rector of St. John's Seminary in 2007.
Bishop-elect Uglietto was born September 23, 1951, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston College, a Master of Divinity degree from St. John's Seminary, a Master of Arts degree in Christian Spirituality from Creighton University, Omaha and a Licentiate and Ph.D. in Sacred Theology from the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington.
He was ordained a priest for the Boston Archdiocese in 1977.
After ordination, Bishop-elect Uglietto served as associate pastor in St. Francis Xavier Parish, South Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1977-1978; St. Gregory Parish, Dorchester, 1978-1984; and St. Margaret Parish, Dorchester, 1984-1988. From 1986-1988, he was also director of the archdiocesan permanent deacon program. He pursued degrees at the John Paul II Institute, 1988-1990, and worked in campus ministry at Regis College, Weston, with residence at Blessed John XXIII Seminary.
He pursued higher education, 1993-1996, and joined the faculty of Blessed John XXIII Seminary in 1996. From 2001-2005, he was director of pastoral field education at the seminary and was named rector in 2005.
Bishop Allué, a native of Spain, is a member of the Society of Don Bosco, also known as the Salesians. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Don Bosco College, a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome and a Ph.D. from Fordham University.
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NORRISTOWN – A Royersford man has admitted to having inappropriate contact with two girls under the age of 16 who were in his company on separate occasions in Royersford and Upper Providence.
Richard Daniel Reed, 38, of the 200 block of Washington Street, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court to charges of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and corruption of minors in connection with his contact with a 15-year-old girl and to endangering the welfare of a child and indecent assault in connection with his contact with a 6-year-old girl between 2007 and 2012.
"They were open pleas. What that means is we do not have an agreement with the commonwealth as to what the sentencing will be," explained defense lawyer Gregory Nester. "I think (the plea) indicates he has accepted responsibility. He saved the victims in both the cases the difficult process of going through trial and testifying in court. His guilty plea saves them that burden."
Judge Joseph A. Smyth deferred sentencing so that court officials can complete a background investigative report about Reed and so Reed can undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Reed, who remains in jail without bail pending sentencing, also must be evaluated by the Pennsylvania Sexual Offender Assessment Board, which will determine if he meets criteria under the state's Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act to be classified as a sexually violent predator. Those classified as predators must report their addresses to state police once they're paroled.
Reed faces a possible maximum sentence of 19 ˝ to 39 years in prison on the charges.
An investigation of Reed began in October 2012 when the mother of a 15-year-old girl reported to Royersford police that she became aware that Reed had sexual contact with her daughter. A subsequent search of phone records uncovered text messages, which were sexual in nature, between Reed and the girl. When interviewed by authorities, the girl revealed a sexual relationship with Reed, according to the arrest affidavit filed by Royersford Police Officer John O'Keefe.
Around the same time, the mother of another girl reported to Upper Providence police that her daughter had disclosed that Reed touched her inappropriately when she was about 6 years old and was in Reed's company in Upper Providence, according to an arrest affidavit filed by Upper Providence Detective Raymond Bechtel III. The girl subsequently told authorities that Reed's conduct made her feel "really scared," according to the arrest affidavit.
Reed allegedly told the girl not to tell her mother about the incident but the girl later confided in her mother, according to the criminal complaint.
Assistant District Attorney Jordan Friter, who leads the district attorney's sex crimes prosecution unit, is prosecuting the case. Reed's sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
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Submission + - Which licensing model for a "free to use" application? 1
Doug Otto writes: I work for a small defense contractor. We provide long range cameras and control systems to the military. We've developed an application to aid in configuration and maintenance of these systems that we'd like to distribute with the camera systems. The idea is to provide the application with a "free to use and distribute" license that doesn't give up ownership. Any thoughts?


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When Scott Hudson joined San Joaquin County as an agricultural inspector in 1979, he was looking for a way to get out of Santa Maria, where he'd been working at a wholesale nursery.
When Scott Hudson joined San Joaquin County as an agricultural inspector in 1979, he was looking for a way to get out of Santa Maria, where he'd been working at a wholesale nursery.
He'd joined the nursery after graduating from the University of California, Davis, with a bachelor's degree in plant science, but he wanted to get back to the community where he'd attended Lodi High School and San Joaquin Delta College, and where his family still lived.
"I thought I'd come back here and work for a little bit," he said, foreseeing his long-term career in ornamental horticulture, "which would be kind of an interesting way to go."
But what he found at the San Joaquin County Agricultural Commissioner's Office wasn't just a job; it proved to be a mission.
Hudson handled many of the day-to-day tasks the agency still provides today, such as egg inspection, parcel inspection at the Postal Service and commercial package companies, nursery inspection and export certification. It's all aimed at ensuring a smooth commercial flow of agricultural products and protecting California farmers from unwanted pests and diseases.
"You feel you're doing a service to the agricultural industry out here," he said.
So he stayed with the county, studying to gain expertise in various aspects of agriculture, pesticide regulation and public administration and rose through the ranks to become the county agricultural commissioner on June 6, 1996. Now, after nearly 18 years as the county's top farm official, Hudson, plans to retire March 28.
During his tenure as commissioner, Hudson, 59, saw the farm production value in San Joaquin County - typically ranked sixth or seventh in the United States for dollar value - reach nearly $2.87 billion in 2012, more than double the $1.35 billion in 1996.
He also helped plan the county Robert Cabral Agricultural Center, a multipurpose building that hosts community events and can serve as an emergency services headquarters, as well as housing the Agricultural Commissioner's Office and University of California Cooperative Extension.
Hudson also supported the highly regarded AgVenture program that annually introduces thousands of San Joaquin County third-graders to farming and nutrition. An extension of that program this year brought a farmers market to fourth-grade classrooms around the county, raising awareness of nutrition and eating local foods.
Spray Safe, a voluntary pesticide education program aimed at farm owners and managers and other professional applicators, is another program backed by Hudson's office. He also helped coordinate local, state and federal efforts at eradicating infestations of the European grapevine moth and Oriental fruit fly, which were discovered in the county during his stewardship.
Phil Brumley, past president of the San Joaquin Farm Bureau Federation and an agricultural consultant, said Hudson's influence went well beyond just San Joaquin County.
"Scott has been a tremendous leader and supporter of agriculture, not just here in San Joaquin County but across the state," Brumley said. "He's been a leader, as far as working with other ag commissioners throughout the state whenever we've had ... issues the counties have to work together on."
He also applauded Hudson's support for public education programs, such as Spray Safe, AgVenture and Select San Joaquin, the latter a labeling program to highlight San Joaquin County produce at area groceries.
"Scott was the one who originally went out and worked with other people to bring the initial funding for the AgVenture program to San Joaquin County," Brumley said. "That program is still actually run through the county ag commissioner's office."
Whatever the accomplishment, Hudson was quick to say he did it in a collaborative, team approach, whether working with other county employees, with leaders of the county's farm industry or with farm and pesticide regulators at the state and federal levels.
One example of that came in dealing with the European grapevine moth infestation. Federal protocols initially required truckloads of grapes be covered during transport and delivery to wineries, but because of the demands of harvesting and handling grapes, and a scarcity of covers as harvest was about to begin, that would be unworkable, Hudson said.
"We finally came to an approach that they would just not fill the trucks up to the top," he said.
The decision was reached as growers met with local, state and federal farm officials. "It was everyone sitting around the table, discussing these things." Hudson recalled.
And it's all done with the goal of protecting and promoting agriculture.
"That's why I enjoy the job," Hudson said. "That's the most satisfying part of what I do."
He's also satisfied that the industry and community he served is doing well.
"There's a lot of reasons to be very optimistic about the future of agriculture in San Joaquin County," he said.
He recalled early in his career in the 1980s, "Agriculture was struggling big time, and farmers were having a hard time making a dollar."
Hudson said farmers tried alternative crops, developed new markets, boosted export programs and began to come back in the 1990s, particularly with winegrape demand and growth. That has continued in the 2000s, as prices and demand for all sorts of farm commodities strengthened.
"Agriculture is probably as strong as it has ever been during my (more than) 35 years with the county," he said. "Agriculture is always going to find a way to thrive here in San Joaquin County. I don't see that changing."
Hudson, who also holds a master's degree in public administration from California State University, Stanislaus, has no grand plans for retirement.
He will remain on the board of the Hanot Foundation, a Lodi nonprofit group that maintains homes near for developmentally disabled adults.
After catching his breath from the demanding commissioner's job, Hudson said he might seek other volunteer work as well as put more time into his hobbies, such as fly fishing and travel.
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An old man tells his granddaughter his personal story of the Second World War. Brimming with strange characters, his tale conjures up a world beyond the little girl's comprehension. Director Pjotr Sapegin has taken a true story and transformed it into a tongue-in-cheek epic peopled with clay puppets. The animated short is dedicated to Sapegin's mother.
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Neko Case is awesome, as you will discover when you read this NYT article about her.
Along with being a quietly beautiful songwriter, she is also an outspoken advocate for reproductive rights. She was born to two young parents who had difficulty taking care of her, and she left at fifteen. She got her GED, enrolled in school, and music took her from there.
After she was voted "hottest indie rocker" by Playboy (who knew hipsters read playboy, anyway?), the magazine asked her to pose for them. She said no and later elaborated, "I didn't want to be the girl who posed in Playboy and then—by the way—made some music. I would be really fucking irritated if after a show somebody came up to me and handed me some naked picture of myself and wanted me to sign it instead of my CD."
My favorite Neko Case song is "Margaret vs Pauline" which ends with these haunting lines:
Two girls ride the blue line
Two girls walk down the same street
One left her sweater sittin' on the train
The other lost three fingers at the cannery
Everything's so easy for Pauline
So, basically, read the article and go listen to this amazing (feminist) artist. Also, I can guarantee Amelia and I will be play her on our radio show tonight at 8pm central time!


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You are invited to attend Board of Education meetings and take an active role in the education provided by the school district. We appreciate your interest and participation. Your viewpoint is important in keeping our public schools responsive to the needs of the community. We also encourage you to visit any one of the Newark Unified School District schools.
Your Board and how it functions
Five Newark citizens are elected to serve overlapping terms. They are elected at-large by the registered voters in Newark. The Board functions as the legislative body of the school district and establishes policies by which the school district is operated. Programs and policies are governed according to laws and regulations as set by the Constitution of the State of California, State Education Code and California Administrative Code, Title 5. Board members can be contacted via e-mail or mail addressed to them c/o NUSD, 5715 Musick Ave., Newark, CA 94560.
|Tom Huynh
|Term Ends: 2018
|Nancy Thomas
|Board Member / Clerk
|Term Ends: 2018
|Jan Crocker
|Board Member
|Term Ends: 2020
|Francisco Preciado
|Board Member
|Term Ends: 2020
|Ray J. Rodriguez
|Board Member
|Term Ends: 2020
Assistance will be provided to those requiring accommodations for disabilities in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Interested persons must request accommodations at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting by contracting the Superintendent's Office at (510) 818-4112
Board Meetings
The Board shall hold regular meetings each month on Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. at the District Office according to the posted schedule. Closed sessions will begin anytime between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. (Newark Unified School District Office, 5715 Musick Avenue)
- Notices of all meetings, both regular and special, are posted at the District Office, 5715 Musick Ave., in advance of the meetings.
- All meetings are open to the public with the exception of "Closed Sessions," which may be held to discuss confidential personnel matters, matters pertaining to an individual student, labor negotiations and legal matters.
- Board meetings are televised live on the local cable channel, as well as U-stream and will be posted on the district website within a week following the regular public meeting.
- Special meetings are open to the public; however, only business for which the meeting was called can be discussed.
- Adjournment time will be no later than 10:00 p.m. for all regular and special meetings unless extended to a specific time as determined by a majority of the Board.
- For accuracy, all regular meetings of the Board of Education are video recorded.
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- Each speaker wishing to address the Board is asked to fill out a speaker card.
- Speaker cards are available at the meeting on the back table and must be submitted to the Executive Assistant prior to the beginning of the meeting. If arriving late, please fill out a card upon arrival.
- Speakers are limited to three minutes each.
- Each person may only speak once on a topic. If there are more speakers than time allows, remaining speakers may be heard at a public comment period at the end of the meeting.
- Individuals may address the Board of Education concerning school business not on the agenda, but public comment cannot be acted upon or discussed by the Board unless placed on an agenda at a subsequent meeting, in accordance with the law (Brown Act).
- The Board may request staff to respond orally at the meeting or in writing at a future time.
placing an item on the agenda
Requests for an item to be placed on the agenda shall be in writing and submitted to the Superintendent or designee with supporting documents and information, if any, at least two weeks before the scheduled meeting date. The Superintendent determines whether the request is or is not within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Board and will determine whether the agenda item is appropriate for discussion in open session or closed session of the Board.
- Members of the public may request that items be placed on the agenda of a future regular Board meeting.
- The items must be directly related to school district business.
- The request must be made in writing and be submitted to the Superintendent with supporting documents, if any.
- The Superintendent shall be the sole judge of whether the request is or is not within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Board and will determine whether the agenda item request is appropriate for discussion in an open session or closed session.
- All items placed on the agenda by the public will be for information and discussion so that the Board may be advised of the views of the community.
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While the Kansas City Chiefs qualified for the playoffs weeks ago, on Sunday, they learned who their first-round opponent will be during Wild Card Weekend, the Indianapolis Colts.
It was just one week ago that both teams met, with the Colts leaving Arrowhead with a 23-7 victory, despite 13 carries for 106 yards and one score by RB
The Chiefs return to Indianapolis for the first time since their 28-24 victory over the Colts on Oct. 9, 2011. Chiefs WR
The last time the Chiefs and Colts were matched up in a playoff game also occurred during Wild Card Weekend, in Indianapolis on Jan. 6, 2007, when the Colts topped the Chiefs, 23-8.
In that contest, Chiefs LB
Since 2005, the Chiefs and Colts have met six times (1-5), including the Wild Card matchup in 2007.
Of the six contests, four have been road games, while the last two matchups were played at Arrowhead Stadium.
But, as we all know, the most important game is always the next one, which takes place this Saturday.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- All in all, Monday proved to be a painful night for the Boston Celtics.
Not only did the Celtics have their seven-game losing streak snapped at the hands of the NBA's worst team, but they might have suffered yet another costly injury in their 94-91 loss to the Charlotte Bobcats.
Charlotte 94 Boston 91
Backup guard Leandro Barbosa, who has seen increased playing time since the season-ending injury to Rajon Rondo, injured his left knee late in the third quarter and had to be carried to the locker room by a trainer and teammate.
Coach Doc Rivers said Barbosa will have an MRI on Tuesday.
"It doesn't look great but we'll see," Rivers said.
In the seven games since Rondo's injury Barbosa had averaged nine points while playing an average of 22.5 minutes. The Celtics had won all seven games.
All of that came crashing down Monday night.
This night belonged to Charlotte's unheralded big man, Byron Mullens.
The four-year NBA veteran turned in a career game with 25 points and 18 rebounds as the Bobcats snapped a seven-game losing streak.
The 7-foot Mullens hit 10 of 16 shots from the field, including 4 of 5 from 3-point range. Ramon Sessions had 19 points for the Bobcats, including the go-ahead jumper from 18 feet with 25.7 seconds left. Kemba Walker had 18 points, six assists and six rebounds, and Gerald Henderson chipped in with 16 points.
Mullens was playing his fifth game after missing 19 with an ankle injury.
"It's big time," Walker said of Mullens' effort. "We need that from him. We need that from Byron and he can do it. We know he can do it every night. He is very capable. When he has big games like that, you know, I think that gives us a much better chance."
Mullens said he was more pleased with his rebounding than his scoring "because that is not what I'm known for.
"I just have to show the league and this organization that I can rebound," he said.
Kevin Garnett had 16 points and 13 rebounds for the Celtics, but missed a key 18-footer that would have given Boston the lead late in the game. Paul Pierce and Avery Bradley had chances to send the game into overtime in the final seconds, but missed open 3-pointers.
Jeff Green had 18 points for the Celtics and Pierce finished with 13 points, eight assists and eight rebounds.
"We had a win streak going and we had momentum going," Celtics guard Courtney Lee said. "We wanted finish out the rest of these games going into the (All-Star) break. So it's definitely a letdown. This one hurts more because we had the lead with one minute to go."
It was a back-and-forth game throughout.
After Henderson gave the Bobcats an 85-84 lead with 3:58 remaining, Jason Terry made a 3 from the wing and Garnett followed with a turnaround jumper in the lane to push the Boston lead to four.


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Manchester United face a tricky FA Cup fourth round tie with the visit of fellow Premier League side Fulham.
It has been billed in part as the return of former Old Trafford striker Dimitar Berbatov and it will be intriguing to see whether he can trouble his firmer employers defence.
Costing £30million from Tottenham Hotspur in 2008, many have labelled the Bulgarian a failure for not dominating at United as he did in north London but Red Devils boss Sir Alex Ferguson refuted that claim.
Whether he was or not, Ferguson will be making contingency plans in a bid to stop him from becoming a nuisance on Saturday evening.
The Scot may be less inclined to rest players with the tie being against Premier League opposition, but an important league clash with Southampton the following Wednesday may prompt him to rotate somewhat.
Manchester United's stars were whisked off to Qatar this week for some warm weather training and to get away from the wintry conditions in the UK.
Ferguson's men are leading the league by five points and will be prioritising that competition, but the pressure of a home FA Cup tie could well mean a very strong team is announced.
The only injuries United have to deal with are those being carried by winger Ashley Young and centre-back Jonny Evans, both of whom will not be available for selection.
GiveMeFootball have predicted the Manchester United line-up for the late kick-off below:
David de Gea; Rafael, Patrice Evra, Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand, Anderson, Michael Carrick, Tom Cleverley, Valencia, Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie.
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Pair Pine Scholar's Signs
What is the difference between long scholars' signs such as these and pole signs? Much of China's traditional house architecture is comparable to the West's post and beam construction. In China, the posts are round, and pole signs are always rounded so that they tend to wrap about half way around the post. No, I have never had a pole sign that said, "Look out! Don't walk into me." Long scholars' signs were meant to be displayed on a flat wall.
These signs read, "Like an Energy Wave From a Dragon on Earth," and "A Wave of Clouds Like a Phoenix." By now you probably know that in China, a dragon represents a very large, powerful force for good. It is never to be feared. The dragon is so powerful that it can fly into Heaven. The dragon lives in the mountains or sometimes the sea, but with its vast powers, it brings happiness, wealth and longevity.
The phoenix does not have the western concept of rising from the ashes; rather it symbolizes joy and peace. Clouds signify heavenly blessing. No, we're not done yet. The phoenix and the dragon together symbolize a happy marriage with many sons. So here is what you have: A very powerful force bringing you wealth, happiness and longevity (dragon) coupled with an equally powerful force (phoenix) bringing you the heavenly blessings (clouds) of joy and peace together insuring that your physical union with another will be joyful and create your posterity. Somehow seems a lot richer than "Good Luck."
Wood: Unknown
Province: Zhejiang
Dimensions: 69" x 8" x 1"
Price: $1,950 pair


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Konferenz der nordwestdeutschen Mennonitengemeinden
The Konferenz der nordwestdeutschen Mennonitengemeinden (Conference of Northwest German Mennonite Churches) is a union of the Mennonite congregations in Emden, Gronau, Leer-Oldenburg, and Norden, formed to facilitate the services of a single pastor. When the congregation in Leer was unable to support a minister financially in 1920 and the Norden congregation faced a similar situation in 1931, Abraham Fast (1886-1962), who had been pastor of the Emden congregation since 1918 and of the Gronau congregation since 1922, was invited to serve these congregations also. The union occurred in 1942 and was integrated into the Vereinigung der deutschen Mennonitengemeinden in 1953. Legal incorporation of the union followed in 1973.
See also Niedersachsen
Mennonitisches Jahrbuch (1984): 141.
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Cite This Article
MLA style
Fast, Heinold. "Konferenz der nordwestdeutschen Mennonitengemeinden." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1987. Web. 27 May 2018. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Konferenz_der_nordwestdeutschen_Mennonitengemeinden&oldid=88762.
APA style
Fast, Heinold. (1987). Konferenz der nordwestdeutschen Mennonitengemeinden. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 27 May 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Konferenz_der_nordwestdeutschen_Mennonitengemeinden&oldid=88762.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, p. 497. All rights reserved.
©1996-2018 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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Tough Day on the Lanes Lands Aggies in Seventh
GREENSBORO – The North Carolina A&T bowling team finished in seventh place at the Virginia Union University (VUU) Invitational on Sunday after posting a 1-2 record in bracket play.
The Aggies headed into bracket play as the No. 1 seed but dropped its first two games on Sunday to Virginia Union 4-1, sending them to the loser's bracket where they lost to Virginia State 4-3 in a close game. A&T finished the day with a 4-1 win against Winston-Salem State.
A&T closed out the tournament with the highest total pinfall through three days with 4,673. The Aggies won nine straight games in the first two days of the invitational.
St. Francis won the tournament, followed by Bowie State, Sacred Heart, Virginia Union, N.C. Central, Va. State, Winston-Salem, St. Augustine's, New Jersey City, and Chowan.
The Aggies will compete in the second MEAC Meet beginning on Saturday, Dec. 7 which will be hosted by Bethune-Cookman.