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Former All Black Norm Hewitt has approached Zac Guildford to offer the troubled winger help in his effort to overcome an alcohol problem.
Hewitt, who overcame his own alcohol demons after a high-profile incident as a player, told the Herald he had been in touch with Guildford.
He said the contact had been his initiative, but would not comment further, including whether it would be ongoing.
"I'm not going to say any more ... I've been in contact, and that's where I'm leaving it until we get something sorted."
Guildford's agent, Simon Porter, said Hewitt's offer of help was welcome.
"The offers of support and assistance for Zac have come from all quarters. From people who have been through this - and that's from all walks of life."
However, Mr Porter was at pains to stress that the cornerstone of Guildford's treatment would be expert and professional.
"The plan isn't just getting him to talk to people who have done it, or been through similar issues.
"That's part and parcel, but obviously we are relying on some pretty specialist, expert, professional advice on the way forward."
Yesterday, Guildford's housemate and friend Stu Bailey thought the offer of help from Hewitt was "fantastic".
"The people who have been through these things themselves are obviously the best people to offer advice," said the 43-year-old bookmaker with the TAB.
Guildford, who has played 10 tests for the All Blacks, has withdrawn indefinitely from the Crusaders for this year's Super rugby season following an incident at a party at a Christchurch house on January 12.
He allegedly punched another party-goer while drunk.
Hewitt, a former All Black hooker, drunkenly broke into the wrong Queenstown hotel room in 1999.
His actions at the time made national news, and he broke down at a press conference organised by the NZRU to apologise for his actions.
It proved to be a life-changing moment, with Hewitt finally realising the extent of his drinking problem.
Yesterday, Mr Bailey said Hewitt's contact was indicative of the strong support for Guildford.
"I'm sure he's going to come out of it an even better person."
Mr Bailey also felt Guildford could take heart from the turnaround of another embattled Kiwi sports star, cricketer Jesse Ryder.
"Zac [knows] Jesse and I'm sure Jesse will offer his support if he hasn't already," Mr Bailey said.
"Jesse is a real example of how you can better yourself.
"He's another sportsman with a terrific amount of ability.
"And if you take the complications out of his life, then you see the benefits of that - he's probably never played better cricket than he is right now."


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Pratt Community Concert Association brings song and dance duo Two on Tap to Pratt the evening of Monday, Dec. 3. The show begins at 7 p.m. at Floyd Carpenter Auditorium at Pratt Community College.
Two on Tap marks the creative collaboration of two celebrated musical theater performers, Melissa Giattino and Ron DeStefano. They feature melodies from Broadway's early days, along with the classic precision of tap choreography. The show is entitled, "A Tribute to Song and Dance," and is reminiscent of iconic song and dance couples such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. They promise lots of audience favorites from the Tin Pan Alley times — "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" and "If You Knew Susie Like I Know Susie..."
Both these performers have spectacular Broadway careers in addition to their Two on Tap tours, according to Allied Concert Services, with whom PCCA contracts its shows.
Giattino began her professional performing career when she was 17 in the national tour of "A Chorus Line." While appearing in the Gershwin musical "Crazy For You" at the famous Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia, she auditioned successfully for the Hal Prince/Susan Stroman West End production of "Show Boat." She made her Broadway debut as an original revival cast member of the tap-dancing spectacular "42nd Street."
DeStafano has an international performance career with appearances in cabaret venues in New York City and many of Europe's lavish opera houses. Originally from South Florida, DeStafano spent his college years balancing classical vocal performance studies at Florida State with professional roles at Seaside Music Theater in Daytona Beach. Following graduation, he soon found himself auditioning for the Broadway stage with an appearance in the Tony Award winning musical "Evita."
Two on Tap's fine piano accompanist will also be featured from time to time, playing piano standards of the era. What a wonderful way to take a trip down memory lane, Allied notes.
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Just got back upstairs from the the postgame locker room scene here at Dolphin Stadium where it is still pouring rain and there are still Canes fans hanging around, dumbfounded at this loss.
Florida State ran for 281 yards Saturday afternoon. Sophomore quarterback Christian Ponder led the way with 144 yards, becoming the first quarterback to eclipse the 100-yard rushing mark against the Canes since Virginia Tech's Bryan Randall did it in 2002.
I expected lots of anger and frustration following a loss in which Miami fell to 2-3 and 0-2 in the ACC. But I honestly didn't get that sense from players or coach Randy Shannon. I'm not saying there wasn't disappointment. But I got the sense players were actually proud of their second-half rally and content with the effort. It certainly wasn't doom and gloom, which I figure is what most of you are feeling.
Here's what Shannon told reporters: "It was a tough loss tonight. It was a great game. Both teams did a great job of finishing. I thought that we did a lot of great things and a lot of bad things tonight. Offensively, we couldn't get the run game going. We kind of struggled with that early in the game. We gave the ball to Graig Cooper early, but we couldn't get the run game cranked up the way we needed to. Our passing game started off sharp and crisp. They were doing a lot of good things. Then they started picking up blitzes and we made some plays of that. Defensively, we weren't able to hold them consistently. We got them to third down a lot of times, but then we couldn't get off the field. The special teams were tremendous. I thought that was the one phase of the game that kept us in it and gave us the opportunity to win. Special teams is the thing that you always say gives you the chance to win the game. That was the one phase we felt going into the game we had the opportunity to capitalize on. We did and it almost gave us a chance to win the game."
"Do we have a long ways to go? Yeah, I think so because we've got to win the game. I'm not going to make excuses for it. We're going to coach these guys hard. We're going to get these guys back to where they need to be. We're going to teach these guys what it takes to win the game and finish."
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EMC and Capgemini Launch Case-as-a-Service Solution to Transform Case Management[1]
Fully-Managed Service, Built on EMC Documentum xCP, Can reduce Costs and Time to Delivery by Up to 30 Percent
By: PR Newswire
Nov. 6, 2012 02:30 AM
PARIS and VIENNA, Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
News Highlights:
EMC® Corporation (NYSE: EMC) and Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services today announced the launch of its joint Case-as-a-Service (CaaS) Solution. This fully-managed offering combines rich technology from EMC with vertical industry and process expertise, global delivery model and proven infrastructure support services from Capgemini. The solution is initially targeted at Public Sector organizations, with plans to rapidly expand across a number of other vertical markets. The solution is being launched at Momentum, the EMC Information Intelligence Group's EMEA user conference.
Organizations across all industries face the requirement of streamlining people-driven processes and workflows to raise efficiency, cut costs, stay competitive and provide better, faster citizen and customer service. Public Sector agencies seek agility to react and respond to political, economic and societal pressures; healthcare and insurance companies require advanced process automation for claims, and banks look to reduce costs and time for processing loans. To address these case management challenges, organizations have typically built heavily-coded custom legacy applications, which can take months to deploy, or business process management applications which prove too rigid. These multiple different applications, even within single organizations, can lead to a high Total Cost of Ownership. Capgemini and EMC joint Service-based model helps to accelerate the move from paper to digitization, reducing time, cost and speeding up processes and moves from Capex to Opex expenditure – by providing an adaptable solution and a single point of contact for information.
Benefits of the EMC-Capgemini Case-as-a-Service Solution include:
The solution could help for example to digitize correspondence within government departments, improve communication and costs for food retailers and speed up access to interview archives for police services.
The EMC-Capgemini CaaS solution is comprised of an integrated technology stack, including EMC® Documentum® xCP, the leading case management platform, EMC® Captiva® for enterprise capture and EMC® Document Sciences® for customer communications management. It also includes EMC virtualization technology based on VCE Vblock, and provisioning and storage. The solution is also "EMC Certified" having been validated by EMC® Proven Professional Certified Architects as well as an independent third party organization for functional completeness, performance and scalability, security and interoperability. Certified status instills high standards of customer confidence in the solution architecture and foundation.
The Case-as-a-Service solution extends the strategic alliance between EMC and Capgemini, enabling customers to reduce costs and gain efficiency and business agility.
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Charlie Li, Global Vice President for EMC at Capgemini said: "We are delighted to be launching this new service which will rapidly help organizations transform their process methods to reduce costs and streamline services. We have packaged our strong sector expertise in content and case management and a global delivery network to provide a compelling business solution, competitive pricing and underpinned by proven technology, methods and tools. Our customers can switch to CaaS and start benefiting quickly with the knowledge that they can refine and adapt business process and workflows in a much more user-friendly and flexible manner."
Chris McLaughlin, Vice President, Channels and Alliances, Information Intelligence Group at EMC:
"Bringing Case-as-a-Service to market is another important step in the journey for EMC and Capgemini to transform our customers' business with end-to-end case management solutions. Initially focused on Public Sector but broadly applicable across all industries, this solution addresses a critical need as every organization requires automated processes for resolving cases, claims and correspondence. The potential cost savings and time-to-value benefits with Case-as-a-Service are only rivalled by the expertise and superior technology of these two market leaders."
Momentum – the IIG European Users Conference
The EMC Capgemini Case-as-a-Service Solution will be on display at Momentum, the IIG European Users Conference, November 5-8, 2012 in Vienna. For more information, please visit: http://www.momentumeurope.com.
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EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.
EMC, Documentum, Captiva, and Document Sciences are registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective holders.
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With more than 120,000 people in 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2011 global revenues of EUR 9.7 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business and technology solutions that fit their needs and drive the results they want. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore ®, its worldwide delivery model.
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Branding is not merely about being able to create an original logo or memorable tag line; it is about matching the creation process to the very ethos of the company. The branding of a company has become one of the most valuable components of the business, and that is one of the aspects where Juicy aims to stand out from the crowd.
"Every member of our staff is not only an expert in creating stunning and memorable logos," said Krzysztof Gilowski the owner and founder of Juicy. "They are also very knowledgeable and understand the concept and importance of branding. When we work with clients, it is a partnership, where we try to embed ourselves within the culture of the company. This allows us to understand and embrace the ethos of that oorganization which is then reflected in the branding campaigns that we create. We believe it is critical that the branding team does not work in separation from the rest of the company, and this system of working will deliver outstanding results.
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ROME—The conclave to elect the next pope will begin Tuesday, the Vatican said, ending speculation over a timetable for the highly anticipated process.
Friday's statement comes more than a week after Pope Benedict XVI left the Vatican in the first papal resignation in six centuries. In recent days, cardinals have been holding preliminary meetings—known as General Congregation—in Rome to discuss the state of the Roman Catholic Church, spend time in prayer and lay out the priorities for their next leader....


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PALOS HEIGHTS – Playing a true road game on Chicago Christian's home floor, the St. Francis girls volleyball team knew it would have to weather a spirited performance from the underdog Knights in Saturday's IHSA Class 3A Chicago Christian Supersectional.
"We just had to be steady – hold on until the emotion goes down a little bit," Spartans coach Peg Kopec said.
That took a bit longer than expected, but St. Francis asserted itself in time to defeat the Knights, 25-22, 25-15, and earn a berth in the state semifinals on Friday at Redbird Arena in Normal. St. Francis will face Champaign Centennial in the day's first semifinal.
The Spartans and Knights – Suburban Christian Conference rivals – played twice during the regular season, with St. Francis sweeping both matches, and the Knights scoring no more than 20 points in any of the games.
But the Knights (24-16) had the Spartans' full attention in the late stages of Game 1, when Chicago Christian erased an 18-12 deficit to tie the game at 22-all.
The Spartans (35-5), though, received kills from juniors Maddie Haggerty and Kristin Acciavatti as part of three straight points to turn back the uprising.
"We let ourselves down a little bit – we wanted to come out stronger, but we pulled through," St. Francis junior libero Sam Dubiel said. "We knew we had to do it."
Chicago Christian coach James Garcia, whose program was moved up to Class 3A this year after making it downstate in 2A five of the last six years, realized it was critical that the Knights take advantage of their chance late in Game 1.
"I thought they did a great job in the first game," Garcia said. "It was right there for the taking. The second game, with the same lineup, right before the game started, they were gassed. They used up a lot of energy, but they were willing to go out there and fight for it. It just didn't work out."
The Spartans' superior depth was enhanced by the availability of senior Michelle McLaughlin, whose return from an unspecified, two-game absence was met by roars of approval from the St. Francis student section.
Haggerty had 11 kills for St. Francis, while senior setter McKenna Kelsay notched 20 assists. Junior Natalie Murison and Dubiel recorded five digs apiece.
The Spartans didn't have much time to refocus after a wild sectional championship win Thursday night against rival Joliet Catholic. The Spartans survived that one by taking Game 3, 30-28.
"Ms. Kopec's really good about getting us calmed down," Spartans senior defensive specialist Lexi Riccolo said. "There's a time to celebrate, there's a time to do business. In practice, we did our work, we got down to business, and we did what we needed to do."
The Spartans are making their second straight trip to Normal after taking third place in 3A a year ago. Kopec, the winningest volleyball coach in IHSA history, has been a Redbird Arena regular during her career, but said the novelty remains intact for the girls.
"I have," Kopec said. "They haven't."
St. Francis girls volleyball earns state berth in hostile territory
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The Timberwolves are the second NBA team to be based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. They currently play at the Target Center. They began playing in the 1989-90 season, 29 years after the Lakers moved to Los Angeles. In 1995, after many losing seasons, the Timberwolves drafted Kevin Garnett with the 5th overall pick. Garnett and rookie Stephon Marbury helped the team finally make the playoffs in 1996.
The Timberwolves' most sustained success came between 1996 and 2004. They made the playoffs each year, for a streak of 8 consecutive playoff appearances. Their best season came in 2003-04: Kevin Garnett won MVP, and the Timberwolves finished as the West's number one seed. The 2004 T-Wolves also made their deepest run in the NBA playoffs, making it to the Western Conference Finals before losing to the Lakers in six games.
Since that conference finals run, times have been tough in Minnesota. The Timberwolves hold the dubious distinction of having the longest playoff active playoff drought in the NBA. They have not made the playoffs since the 2004 run, for a total of 13 consecutive seasons without a playoff appearance. The drought is the second longest of all time, behind a 15 game drought by the LA Clippers.
It isn't easy to win in today's Western Conference, but fans have reason to believe that the Timberwolves could end the drought this season. They have a pair of former first overall picks in Andrew Wiggins and Karl-Anthony Towns. Wiggins and Towns were both Rookie of the Year winners. Both players improved on their Rookie of the Year performances in 2016-17. Wiggins set personal bests in nearly every statistical category, and Towns set the Timberwolves' individual record for the most points in a season. Wiggins and Towns will be joined in Minnesota by former Chicago Bulls star and 2015-2017 all-star Jimmy Butler. Butler will also be reunited with his old coach in Chicago, Tom Thibodeau, a defensive-minded leader who took over in 2016. The T-Wolves promise to be a fun team to watch, and they'll try to reward the Minnesota fans for their patience with a playoff berth in 2017-18.
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Pittsburgh Steelers: Isaac Redman Will Carry Offense Early On
June 19, 2012
Steelers starting running back Rashard Mendenhall suffered a torn ACL in week 17 of last season. The injury hurt the backs chances at his third consecutive 1,000-yard rushing season. Mendenhall finished with 928 yards in 2011.
His chances of returning to 1,000 rushing yards this season are also dwindling as Pittsburghs GM Kevin Colbert guesses Mendenhall will start the season off on the PUP list according to RotoWorld. That would keep Mendenhall out of the first six games of the season.
But Pittsburgh has confidence in Isaac Redman, Mendenhalls backup, who started last years playoff game against Denver. Redman has played in every game the last two seasons and has rushed for a respectable 726 yards as a backup.
Some Steeler experts actually believe Redman could be a huge surprise and play better than Mendenhall did last season. Pittsburgh threw the ball a lot more in 2011 than they did the previous year, but Mendenhall ran too much to his left and right trying to dodge defenders rather than running through them.
Redman looks much more like a Jerome Bettis type back and even if he only gets 15 carries in the new Ben Roethlisberger oriented offense, Redman will punish defenders which will endear him to Pittsburgh fans.
New offensive coordinator Todd Haley will, however, have to worry about Redmans fumbling problem. Last season, he lost two fumbles in just 110 carries. But if Redman can correct that problem, he should carry the backfield for the first half of the season. Then when Mendenhall returns, the Steelers could have a deadly one-two punch.
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Independent team of occupational safety experts to examine MSHA's internal review following explosion at Upper Big Branch Mine
WASHINGTON - At the U.S. Department of Labor's request, an independent team of occupational safety experts will examine the process and outcomes of the Mine Safety and Health Administration's internal review in the wake of the explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine. Both the MSHA internal review and the independent analysis of that review will be made public. This independent assessment is aimed at assuring transparency and accountability, and will evaluate the policy, process and outcomes of MSHA's internal review.
By policy, MSHA is required to review its own actions relating to the mine prior to the explosion. To ensure the integrity of that process, the secretary of labor has asked the director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Dr. John Howard, to identify a team with relevant experience to provide an independent analysis of MSHA's internal review.
"I am confident that MSHA will conduct a thorough and complete review of the actions of the mine operator and its own actions at the Upper Big Branch Mine," noted Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis. "To ensure accountability, I've asked for an outside team to review the policy, process and substance of MSHA's internal review. This independent evaluation will help ensure that we're doing everything we can to protect the health and safety of America's miners."
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The photographic imagery made available for display through Google maps is provided under a nonexclusive, non-transferable license for use only by you…Google and/or its licensors (if any) retain all ownership rights in the imagery. The imagery is copyrighted and may not be copied, even if modified or merged with other data or software. (Google Terms)It's possible that Google has a specific problem with letting other organizations use the satellite imagery because of licensing on the images. Perhaps any other service that uses the satellite imagery is fair game as well. Or else Google may be pursuing any terms-of-service infraction. There are some great customized uses of Google Maps out there, and they serve a variety of purposes, though all are likely running without explicit permission from Google. Google has made it easy for developers to change how the maps work. The XML interface apparently makes maps very customizable. One of the best uses of Google maps is attaching real estate listings to a map. When I was looking for rental properties, I wish I would have known about this. As it was, I searched many properties and entered them all into Google Maps anyway to see where they were. There are a few services that automate real estate mapping. They use the flexible XML map system, and when users click on a location, a text bubble can pop up with information and pictures on the listing. One service is Cytadia (cytadia.us). Apparently, it's free to list houses on and free to shop for houses. They don't display ads either. If they did, they'd more likely be a target of Google's legal department. Anyway, the first thing you do on Cytadia is enter information into the box below.
After you've entered the information, you will arrive at a page like he one below. You can navigate the Google Maps and click on the pushpins to display listings.
Cytadia{mospagebreak title=More House Hunting with Google} Although Cytadia uses only Google's maps and not their satellite imagery, Housing Maps (housingmaps.com) does allow users to view satellite imagery. Perhaps that will put this service at risk of receiving the next legal letter from Google. After clicking on a large city in the region you are house-hunting, the site uses a popup bubble to allow you to chose what you are looking for : For Rent, For Sale, Rooms, and Sublets. After that, the results page comes up, which looks like the one below. What's cool about this is that it displays all the houses in the area on the right side, and you can click either the sidebar listing or the pushpin on the map to see the results pop up. Yellow pins mean there are images for the listing; red ones mean it's just text.
The most noteable thing about the service is that it doesn't even have its own housing directory. The service basically connects the houses and apartments listed on craigslist.com and plugs them into Google Maps. The idea is so simple, yet so cool. Below is an image of the listings on a satellite map. Notice the options at the top, which can sort by city and price range.
housingmaps.com{mospagebreak title=Cool Google Mods} Chicago Crime (chicagocrime.org) website locates exactly where all police crime reports happen. It includes as much as possible to show prospective home buyers what kind of neighborhood they may be moving into, or show residents what pool halls might be best avoided. The map has a legend of crime types, which determines what color pushpin is used on the map. The website allows you to filer the crimes by a few criteria: the type of crime committed (armed violence, bribery, homicide), types of locations (CTA Bus, Pool Room, Warehouse), district of Chicago, and finally the date and time of the occurrence.
Chicago CrimeFlorida Sexual Predator (floridasexualpredator.com) shows where sex offenders live throughout the state. Not all areas work, but the metropolitan areas do: Orlando, Miami, Pensacola, and St. Petersburg. Yellow pushpins are where sex offenders are. Red ones highlight sexual predators. Clicking on the pushpin bring up an image of the offender, personal information, and a notation of whether the victim was a minor or not. The site harvests the information from public records, and it posts the information to the map.
floridasexualpredator.com (the image has been altered for use on Developer Shed, but the actual website shows all information clearly)Google Sightseeing (googlesightseeing.com) is a site dedicated to people posting links to Google's satellite imagery of well known lad marks and historic building, such as pyramids and the Eiffel tower. The top-down view aerial view gives a much different perspective than you may be used to seeing in magazines and photographs. The site is quite a bit of fun, and uses the slogan, "Why bother seeing the world for real?" Yep, just one more reason you don't need to leave your house. Google's Maps are even being used by personal blogs. "My Childhood Seen by Google Maps" (website) is basically an interactive map. The blogger took satellite imagery from Google of places he used to live. The he implemented a mouse-over system so that when a person rolls their pointer over certain buildings or areas, text bubbles pop up. The text bubbles have little pieces of personal history relating to the area.
My Childhood Seen by Google MapsApple's OSX Dashboard also has a widget for Google Maps (Google Maps Widget). The widget allows Mac users to connect to Google Maps Marketing via their desktops instead of needing to open a web browser. Although it appears not to have driving directions integrated into it, it does give users the choice of viewing the maps or the satellite imagery. {mospagebreak title=Google Maps as a Development Platform} Designing not only a product, but also a platform for people to develop on, is becoming a superior strategy for developers. It establishes a particular developer, and it also stimulates innovation. Making products double as an object to use in development puts the power in the hands of individuals. While a lot of advanced computer applications these days are designed by large companies (AOL Instant Messenger, Microsoft Office, Yahoo, etc.), software engineers and marketing experts can only try to predict needs for software that they can fill. These traditional companies may also simply look for ways to accommodate people by supplementing existing programs, not developing a very useful resource. People of all sorts who personally have a need to fill can be the sources of truly useful innovation. When trying to do something specific and not finding a program that works adequately, people are forced to design the project themselves (or hire somebody). They know the entirety of what their program needs to do for them, unlike large companies trying to predict usage. If they distribute their program, it is unique and fits a niche market, perhaps even establishing a new market. For instance, Napster has changed music and raised the controversy of large-scale file sharing; although Napster is gone, many similar programs have sprung up. The Napster trend was all started by a university student, who wrote the program when there weren't others like it. Some companies have been designing software that allows users to customize it. Video game companies like id Software saw the importance of user customization years ago. They have made games that are easily modified by customers. The tweakers can even implement new lighting systems, add features not in the original game, design new levels, and change textures and models. Essentially, they can build their own game without working at a software development lab, and they effectively make the existing game more playable. Many games, such as Doom 3 and far Cry, now come with level editors as part of the retail package. Products that are easily customized also allow software companies to lease their technologies to other developers, as id Software does when they charge other developers to use their game's engine in other 3D shooters. Google is on the verge of something much more useful than a game. The way that their services are being adopted into many different applications shows that its XML platform is easy to adopt and integrate into other applications. Some of these customizations of Google's Maps have found unique and very helpful ways to present information. This adaptive technology should be a model for web services, as this is what promotes innovation. It would be a shame to lose the flexibility of these maps due to terms of service conflict. Understandably, Google is probably protecting their own licensing agreements with the satellite imagery and is trying to control their bandwidth and intellectual property. If this service cannot be provided freely, perhaps Google can institute a licensing system to legally allow the tweaking. Google's ads are already displayed across the internet, even here on Developer Shed. Perhaps Google could charge a licensing fee for the technology to distribute it in much the same way as the ads. Or perhaps they could create an exchange system that allows sites to utilize Google's features of they allow Google to place a box of ads at the top of the page. Anything would be better than restricting people to only using features that Google can implement on its own.


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The lights are on
Music, games, and movies - you got a PSP because you are always on the go and always ready to be entertained. Take a break from your travels and share a few stories with some of these other media hogs.
The way I have it figured with the NGP having dual analog sticks, they will start porting over PS2 titles to it.
I would imagine it would be Sony exclusive titles at first. However later on who knows what they could have on the NGP.
I am looking forwards them releasing the Jak and Daxter series on it and the SOCOM series. what are you looking for?
thank goodness for those hostess twinkies
I would love for Metal Gear Solid 3 to be ported, but I doubt that will happen due to it already being ported to the 3DS
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Self-encapsulate fields
Within the implementation of a class, it's common to refer directly to private fields. There is another style, in which all internal references to fields are indirect, and proceed through the appropriate get and set methods. This is called self-encapsulation.
- is needed for lazy initialization
- is slightly more difficult to read than direct field access
- can establish a synchronization policy for the field
- allows subclasses to override the get and set methods, and provide their own definition of how fields behave
public final class Infant { public Infant (final String aName, final int aWeight, final String aMood){ setName(aName); setWeight(aWeight); setMood(aMood); } public void becomeHungry(){ //instead of fMood = "Cranky", use: setMood("Cranky"); } public String toString(){ //use get methods instead of direct access final StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(); result.append("Infant - Name: + "); result.append(getName()); result.append(" Weight: "); result.append(getWeight()); result.append(" Mood: "); result.append(getMood()); return result.toString(); } public String getName(){ return fName; } public void setName(String aName){ fName = aName; } public int getWeight(){ return fWeight; } public void setWeight(final int aWeight){ fWeight = aWeight; } public String getMood(){ return fMood; } public void setMood(final String aMood){ fMood = aMood; } //..other methods elided // PRIVATE private String fName; private int fWeight; private String fMood; }
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If you are the Park Service, and your budget gets cut, one ploy is to close the Statue of Liberty and the Washington Monument, not some campground in South Dakota, hoping to get a reaction and thus get the money back.
Sounds like the University of Florida did the same thing.
The Statue of Liberty is not going to go to California, while the professors from the CS department might.
statue of liberty is not moving to calif.
its too afraid of the mega-grope it might get from TSA should it attempt to travel...
She may be a terrorist after all, you never know.
I'm surprise nobody has melted her down for the copper yet. The US has pretty much given up on the whole 'give us your poor, your downtrodden, etc...' thing which she stands for.
The Statue of Liberty is not going to go to California, while the professors from the CS department might.
No one is going to California anymore. People are leaving California now. Witness the growth of the surrounding states. Most of it is from Californians leaving. Even the illegals from Mexico are beginning to pack up and head back. California is an economic hellhole, and it's not going to get better anytime soon.
They could have just closed the Department managing Journalism degrees. Instead, they picked the one most relevant to tomorrow's economy.
Similarly if you are a school district, the first thing you cut is bus service, which irritates the hell out of parents, who now have to drive their brats to school.
Or they will will have Union sponsored adds, explaining how these budget cuts, will reduce books, or teachers... Not the Second Assistant to the Administrator Assistant to the Assistant Principal. Or cuts to Guidance Counselors who are basically the dumbest people in the world, who cannot figure out basic concepts like filling out a schedule, or the fact that there is are Middle Ground of colleges between Harvard Level schools and The Local Community Colleges.
Well your grade are not straight A, you have onl
Hell, you Can get into Harvard with B+ averages. It takes a really good SAT and a bit of showing off, but its certainly doable. Very few doors are permanently closed just because you screwed up in High School, I hate the fact that Guidance Counselors and the media in general make adults think they can't get a good education just because they didn't do awesome when they were in high school.
Statistically they're right though
Hell, you Can get into Harvard with B+ averages. It takes a really good SAT and a bit of showing off, but its certainly doable. Very few doors are permanently closed just because you screwed up in High School, I hate the fact that Guidance Counselors and the media in general make adults think they can't get a good education just because they didn't do awesome when they were in high school.
I understand the feeling. Guidance counselors were totally useless for my siblings and I (who end up choosing careers in CS, STEM and Health.) But I can understand them, their inability that is.
The way I see it, college-level guidance counselors are an extension of the HS concept of daycare. We shove droves and droves of youth through HS without methodically and systematically exploring their options in a post-HS life. That is the type of discussion that should occur when nearing the end of Middle School (and that's what is done in many countries.) It should not be occuring when a 17-18 year old kid is out of HS asking himself for the first time "now what?".
Guidance is a years-long process that starts early on. It cannot be pigeonholed into a 30-minute stop-by session with a counselor in college. That is too little and too late, in particular for kids who would have been better off *NOT* going to college. Some of the young people we see nowadays with useless degrees, they would have been much better off if they had just worked a lot and explore what the world had to offer (before committing to 4 years of grief and student loan debt.)
Or they will will have Union sponsored adds, explaining how these budget cuts, will reduce books, or teachers... Not the Second Assistant to the Administrator Assistant to the Assistant Principal. Or cuts to Guidance Counselors who are basically the dumbest people in the world, who cannot figure out basic concepts like filling out a schedule, or the fact that there is are Middle Ground of colleges between Harvard Level schools and The Local Community Colleges.
Well your grade are not straight A, you have only maintained a B+ average grade, You should look into community college, or vocational schooling. As those B+ grade will not get you into Harvard, thus you will not succeed in life.
Bro, the amount of grammatical mistakes seem rather anachronistic (for lack of a better word) when they occur in a message admonishing people for not getting straight As.
In OH, they first cut buses and sports. Obviously, it worked.
This happens all the time imho.
In my home state of NJ the education system is chock full of small school districts, each with their own set of administrators and highly paid superintendents. My hometown put on the ballot a tax increase to cover junior high sports, the Knowledge Bowl, and various and sundry interesting programs. It passed.
Now, if they put on the list "a secretary we don't need and a huge raise for the principal" I doubt it would get passed.
Cities also do this with threatening police and fire
I agree, it seems like UF was playing a game of chicken with the state legislature by using a key STEM program as a ploy in response to their frustrating cuts to the school's budgets by ~25% over the last 5 years. Hopefully some backroom deal was made with the legislature to stop further cuts, but on the face of it it just looks like UF flinched first. If there is no backroom deal then not only did UF fail at playing chicken but they also have severely damaged the institution's academic credibility in a f
If you are the administration and your goal is merge the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), and the Department of Electrial and Computer Engineering (ECE) and you know that poltics in both departments will resist your call for a merger you instead try a the football version of the statue of liberty play.
With one hand, the administration fakes a "pass" proposing that both departments cut their CS funding causing the defenders for separate CISE and ECE departments to get ou
Why would you even consider getting a CS degree here now?
Where there is smoke
A local "college" here was having issues for a few years, yet they sponsored a huge Xmas light show every year costing millions. There were rumors of accreditation issues for years, parole, then halfway through a spring semester, it folded. Teachers didn't get paid. Water and power didn't get paid and all the students were told that because the school was under parole, their credits would not transfer. This hurt the seniors most.
Similar things have happened to high schools around
no accreditation just list the school and tell people the full story that you did your classes and the school messed up. Also sue for a full refund.
Calling bullshit - here's why:
High schools are governed and accredited by the state, not by an accreditation authority. If a school is failing to meet standards, the school is taken over by the district and the relevant staff and teachers are replaced. If an entire school district is that crappy, the state board of education usually comes in and takes over.
In either case, students in such a situation still have to pass state-written tests and meet minimum state standards. Otherwise, they don't get the diplo
I'd imagine that varies from state to state.
In georgia, SACS accredits high schools. [yahoo.com]
That is Ok because Math and CS majors look down on CPEs/EEs
Nonsense, the Math majors look down on everyone else, and the CS majors know they would have trouble existing if the EEs didn't pull their asses out of the fire from time to time.
... the engineering department (though, typically this is not a good idea, since CPEs/EEs look down on CS).
Reminds me of a joke my EE professor told us (our CS department is in the engineering school): Why is the CS department part of the engineering school? Every school has to have a special-ed program
Still? I saw EE contempt for CS 25 years ago. Engineers in general display contempt for, oh, the entire school of business, the law school, and all the art and half the science of Arts and Sciences, in particular, science such as History, and Library Science and other disciplines that sound like they attached "science" to the name to give it more legitimacy. EEs are the elite of the elite, sneering even at their fellow engineers, especially civil and agricultural. Possibly the contempt for CS stems fro
My various degrees were EE and Computer Engineering, but I have a CS minor. My first semester undergrad I took the CS Assemblers course before I could even take the EE courses (pre-reqs), since it looked interesting and was part of the minor.
The course was excellent. The material was good. The professor was good. The TA was (IMHO) even better than the professor. The projects were cumulative and built on other in such a way that if you wrote crappy code that was hard to re-use you'd experience why that was b
Why would you even consider getting a CS degree here now?
The curriculum from that university is decent; the pay to be received in the field is equally so, and tuition costs are relatively modest for FL residents. For North FL residents, it might be the best option in terms of location. It should not be the case that people living close to this flagship university having to move out of state or to central/south Florida just to pursue a STEM degree. It should never be the case in any state, to force its residents to pursue an education somewhere else (specially if
Univ. of Florida Announces Plan To Save CS Department
Please tell me that a complex plot is involved, possibly involving George Clooney in disguise.
Lots of politics and intramural rivalries involved. It's tied to the creation of Florida Polytechnic, the STEM school recently separated from USF.
The chairman of the Florida Senate budget committee, JD Alexander, pushed hard for the conversion of USF Polytechnic (campus is in Alexander's district) to a separate university. At the same time he proposed cutting the USF budget by 58%. The budget cuts were significantly modified after it was discovered that USF was to suffer close to 80% of all the cuts to the
$70k/yr CS grads don't send multi-million dollar thank you checks to the University Fund, businessmen do.
And most of the MBAs and Finance majors are doing just fine on Wall Street again. The market has almost doubled in 4 years, so big bonuses all around! The smart ones in the back room are trying to figure out how to pop this current bubble to they can take 2 quarters off without the obscene bonuses, and then have another 100% runup to skim another 10% off the top. Stability is not profitable, volatility is!
70% of Fortune 500 CEOs are engineers, let alone STEM in general. They're the ones sending those multi-million dollar thank you checks.
As has already been said, STEM is the future. You said nothing to refute that, though it seems you think you did.
Just so you are aware, Wall Street bonuses have little to do with the market being up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/business/29bonus.html [nytimes.com]
It is the investors who generally gain the most from the market being up, the largest investors typically being pension funds, university endowments or 401K accounts belonging to individuals.
So learn a little before shooting off your mouth.
The mere thought of cutting the CS department shows the thinking of a group of weak minds. These are the sort of people who don't save any grain for the next spring's planting.
Your post is filled with meaningless hyperbole and babble, and is way off base anyway. The university announced a restructuring of the CISE department so that computer engineering was moved in with other engineering disciplines and planned to eliminate doctorate-level and research-based CS work. The BS and MS programs were to remain as is. The post-grad and research work in computer engineering would continue in the engineering department.
But, hey, none of that matters, right? What's important is churni
No. I speak as someone with a MS in CS, so I may be a little biased, but saying CS should just be Math & Engineering is much like saying Physics is just applied math, or chemistry is applied physics. While one is built on the other, there are basic tenets taught in CompSci that would never come directly out of Engineering or Math. While there is a lot of overlap, subjects such as Data Structures or Autonoma Theory (off the top of my head) are VERY different than anything that would be thought of as engineering or math. Core concepts such as these affect the very way that CS majors view the world. It is a different level than just applied math & engineering.
.. like saying Physics is just applied math, or chemistry is applied physics.
When I was at University, my Physics professor told us "chemistry is just outer orbital physics".
Computer science isn't about computers. It's about computing. Computer science is not computer or software engineering.
Many computer science departments teach some elements of software and computer engineering, and I've heard many in the US are actually software engineering departments, but that's not what CS actually is.
Yes, computer science itself is very mathematical, but so is physics.
This probably explains why so few people working in software engineering have a computer science degree and those that do typically aren't very good software engineers. Most real world software engineering really has very little to do with math or science. It's much more akin to digital carpentry.
Yes. Physicists are not civil or mechanical engineers. Computer scientists are not software engineers. They're separate disciplines, and shouldn't be conflated. But for some reason people like to do it when talking about CS.
Think of it this way - first year physics students and first year engineering students both learn Newtonian mechanics. The civil engineering students then go on to learn about solving real world problems using Newtonian mechanics. The physics students learn other things, like relat
Tech / TV / CARs need a TECH / vocational school. The hard fact is that they really don't fit that well into a 2-4-6 year College plan. It is the relic of an older time that they try to fit into. Now it's real issues when you have places like TRIBECA FLASHPOINT ACADEMY that is a 2 year tech like school. Some of the class plans are Film + Broadcast, Recording Arts, ECT but the issues is that it's only 2 year (that should be good to get a job)
But at one TV channel they want a 4 year degree in communications
Tech / TV / CARs need a TECH / vocational school.
That depends on what you're trying to do with the "Tech / TV / CARs" -- if you're trying to repair existing ones, then a vocational school may be a good option. If you're trying to design new ones from scratch (or even design significant modifications to one that already exists) that I'm going to use, I'd kind of like at least one (ideally most) of the designers to have advanced engineering or science degrees.
That's why the May 2011 data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics [bls.gov] (the first set of data I found;
Actually I find that Computer Science is one of the most narrow disciplines. Compare computer science, say to the curriculum that a Chemical Engineer gets:
Physics 1 year
Calculus 2 years
Numerical Algorithms
Control Theory
Organic Chemistry 1 year
Physical Chemistry 1 year
Mech and Electrical Engineering intro
Separation Phenomena
Unit Ops
Process Economics
It can be used for many careers - some of the people I know who went through that are now in geology, or used it as pre med.
Actually I find that Computer Science is one of the most narrow disciplines.
I disagree; having any sort of thorough knowledge about computers requires at least some education from almost all parts of the STEM curricula. Any person who actually gives a shit about computers should know (with at least some rudimentary level of competency) a whole spectrum of things from semiconductor theory to abstract models of computation. The set of sciences and fields of mathematics you need to now master to have a solid
Nonsense. I've looked at the curriculum in Computer Science. Absolutely minimal basic science. One semester of physics, chem and calc which if you were any kind of high school student you would be able to place out of anyway. How can you do more than lightly scratch the surface in something like semiconductor theory with one semester of physics and no physical chemistry or thermodynamics?
Can't remember the last time a maths lesson covered the most efficient way to search for a string in a large body of text, or parallel programming techniques, or any of a million and one REAL COMPUTER SCIENCE techniques that have little relevance elsewhere.
I did Maths & Computer Science. Coding Theory - mathematical base but almost 100% computer science applications. Graph Theory - 50-50. Logic - Almost entirely computer science.
There really is a vast distinction there that, if you don't grasp, proba
The SCIENCE of computING, of creating ever more intelligent machines, of how to build better ARCHITECTED machines based on a better understand of the nature of data, its inherent structure, and methods to transform its usefulness (algorithms, etc) is far, far from
Universities don't have a "Automobile Science" dept. They don't have a 'Radio Science" dept. They don't have a "Television Science" dept. They don't have a "Pharmaceutical Science" dept. If you want to enter those fields, you study mechanical, or electrical, or chemical engineering, etc.
Others have already pointed out the flaws in your other examples. I thought I'd offer a link that shows why the one I bolded is a spectacularly bad example for the argument you're trying to make:
Pharmacology Departments World-Wide [meduni-graz.at]
(You may also find the Wikipedia article on pharmacology [wikipedia.org] useful to understand why it's a rather large field of study.)
Let's see here...Computers are typically more complex than automobiles and radios. That's just the hardware. The programs themselves are another level of complexity, on top of that.
"In reality it's just math and electrical engineering." -> And flying is just flapping your arms really fast.
Might have been a Boston high school or something, but it's kind of irrelevant to WHERE.
The principal/school board were faced with big budget cuts, and so instead of cutting arts and sciences or liberal arts, they cut all the sports programs. They did this because they knew that parents would complain more loudly about the sports being cut than educational programs.
Sad state of affairs, though our public education system is pretty dismal nowadays, at least in the US.
This was stated in the last front page article, but top schools (MIT, for example) have combined CS with other departments. Can't Florida be like these other schools?
Because MIT probably did it for other reasons than trying to save some money? It's MIT.
When I first read about their CS department going away, I wondered immediately if there is more to the story than meets the eye. At my university we have a hugely dysfunctional CS department - many faculty blatantly abuse their tenure. They just got their MS program cut, in fact, but nobody's complaining because everyone knows it was a lousy program due to lousy faculty. I have to wonder if there are reasons for dismantling the program that go far beyond budgetary issues. If it were a healthy department I d
Then maybe being forced to FIX the problem (which is likely to be cultural and systemic rather than some random event) rather than just ignore it and sack people is a good thing.
Now you have to tell people they are sacked because they do a crap job, not just "because we don't want a CS department any more". You can best do that by hiring better people and not renewing contracts.
And "tenure" is really the most ridiculous concept I've ever encountered. It seems to be a US-only thing, too.
"As many of you know, the proposal has been met with overwhelming negative response, much of which I believe has been based on misunderstanding. Nonetheless, it is clear that the University of Florida must figure out a way to make it through these financially difficult times in a productive manner. I am optimistic we can do that."
That statement sounds like contentless spin. I would like to know just what the misunderstanding is. Yes there still will be a CS *program*, but my (mis)understandin
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State of the Union: The Poverty and Inequality Report 2016
This is the third annual report from the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI), examining the "state of the union" on poverty, inequality, and labor market outcomes.
Explore social sector research organizations that aim to alleviate poverty. This can include research on the social, economic, and political causes and effects of poverty as well as charity or public policy work that addresses economic inequality.
This trend line represents foundation funding for research & publication in this specific issue area. Data are from grants awarded by the FC 1000, a national sample of 1,000 of the largest grantmakers by total giving
Graph represents all funding for this issue area; the highlighted arc represents the proportion awarded explicitly for research and publication.
Squatting Rights: Access to Toilets in Urban India
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What's Behind the Increase in Inequality?
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Interesting story here. What do you think?
A's management said Friday that it does not plan to sell 20,878 of O.co Coliseum's 55,945 seats next week for the A's division showdown with the Detroit Tigers. Those seats account for about 37 percent of the Coliseum's baseball seating capacity, and A's management has sealed them off with tarps since 2006 due to low attendance.
But now the Oakland A's are drawing sellout crowds. So many fans showed up for the last game of the season on Wednesday that A's management warned people to stay away because there were no tickets left.The A's rationale is that most games are far from sellouts, so they want fans to gather in the lower decks rather than scatter throughout the stadium.
"Here's a team that says they need to leave Oakland because there's no support. Yet here you have thousands of people who are begging to put money in the A's pockets, and they tell fans, 'Sorry, you have to watch it on TV,' " said Doug Boxer, a former Oakland planning commissioner and organizer of an A's fan group called Let's Go Oakland. "It doesn't make any sense." So far this year, the A's have sold out only seven of 79 games in the 35,067 seats in the non-tarp area.Longtime sports marketer Paul Siri of Redwood City, a former executive with IMG, said he'd never seen an owner say "no" to the chance to sell more tickets, hot dogs, beer, T-shirts and other merchandise at a high-profile game that's sure to sell out.
The move makes sense only if Wolff is trying to convince Major League Baseball he can't build a successful team in Oakland, Siri said.
"Looking at this from his point of view, this is the worst thing that could happen," Siri said. "His team wins, media exposure increases, the stadium sells out, and suddenly he loses his leverage to move. It kills his argument. ... I don't blame the fans for being upset."


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'''Fresh Meat''' is a mission in [[Grand Theft Auto V]] given to and for [[protagonist]] [[Franklin Clinton]] at the [[Strawberry Safehouse|Strawberry safehouse]] in [[Strawberry]], [[Los Santos in GTA V|Los Santos]]. The player can also use [[Michael De Santa]] during the mission.
'''Fresh Meat''' is a mission in [[Grand Theft Auto V]] given to and for [[protagonist]] [[Franklin Clinton]] at the [[Strawberry Safehouse|Strawberry safehouse]] in [[Strawberry]], [[Los Santos in GTA V|Los Santos]]. The player can also use [[Michael De Santa]] during the mission.
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|3:30 minutes(to save Michael, for gold medal completion)
|Solid Gold, Baby! (can be a part of)
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Fresh Meat is a mission in Grand Theft Auto V given to and for protagonist Franklin Clinton at the Strawberry safehouse in Strawberry, Los Santos. The player can also use Michael De Santa during the mission.
Franklin drives up to his aunt's house and finds his Aunt Denise and her friends leaving the house on a walk while doing a feminist chant. Trevor Philips shows up shortly thereafter and tells the feminist group to shut up. Trevor greets Franklin, and Trevor trips on the fence while trying to jump over it. Franklin laughs at Trevor's misfortune, and Trevor blows it out of proportion, threatening to kill Franklin if he ever laughed at him again. Franklin apologizes to Trevor and tries to calm him down.
Lester Crest told Franklin that Trevor had information about Michael's whereabouts. Trevor reveals that Michael was kidnapped by the Wei Cheng Triads back in North Yankton. Franklin wants to rescue Michael; however, Trevor refuses to do so, stating that Michael is dead to him, and the next time he sees Michael, he will be dead to everyone else. Trevor walks off, punching a Families member in the process.
Franklin calls Lester and tells him what he found out from Trevor. Lester sends Franklin the Trackify app to locate Michael via his mobile phone. The game shift's to Michael's perspective, who is hanging upside down in a slaughterhouse. He tells Wei Cheng that he and Trevor are not lovers, and Trevor is mocking him. When Cheng realizes that Trevor is not coming, he has his goons turn on the machines to kill Michael. Franklin traces Michael's cell phone signal to the Raven Slaughterhouse. After wiping out several Triads, Franklin finds Michael and hands him a handgun. After gunning down more Triads, Franklin runs ahead to clear the corridor and is ambushed by a Triad with a Knife. After Michael kills Franklin's attacker, he frees himself, and he and Franklin shoot their way out of the slaughterhouse.
After getting an escape car, Michael and Franklin drive back to the De Santa mansion. On the way, Michael asks how did Franklin find him and knew about the ambush in North Yankton, and Franklin reveals that Lester helped him, and Trevor told him about the ambush, respectively. Franklin asks how Michael got kidnapped, and Michael states that Trevor freaked out and the Chinese jumped him. After Michael states that he doesn't want to talk about Trevor, Franklin talks about how Devin Weston hasn't paid him for delivering the cars they stole for him. Michael tries to reassure Franklin that he will get paid; however, he has to complete work on Meltdown before he can have any leverage with Weston on Franklin's work. After arriving, Franklin asks about Michael and Trevor's falling out and Michael's involvement with the FIB. Michael tells Franklin that he made a judgement call in the past, telling Franklin he had a young family to think about, and he was running with a crew of "crazy motherfuckers with nothing to lose" and saw an out. Franklin accuses Michael of betraying his friends. Michael tells Franklin that he might sound cold, and tells him that he will understand once he has ties of his own. Franklin tells Michael to watch his back before he leaves, not knowing what Trevor is going to do when he finds out Michael survived.
Secondary objectives
|Switch Limiter
|Switch no more than three times.
|Finish with a shooting accuracy of at least 70%
|Kill at least ten enemies with a headshot.
|Swift Rescue
|Rescue Michael within 3:30.
|Sense of Direction
|Do not use a map waypoint.
Video walkthrough
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Macon, GA - Top-ranked Valdosta State tallied 454 yards of total offense as the Blazers defeated Fort Valley State 36-21 in NCAA Division II football action at Henderson Stadium Saturday afternoon.
With the win, VSU improved to 1-0 while Fort Valley State fell to 0-1.
Fort Valley State opened the scoring on its first drive of the game as it took over at the 50-yard line after a short punt by VSU. A pair of Eugene Smith passes moved the ball to the Blazer six before Smith kept the ball off right end for the touchdown. On the extra point attempt, Jeremy Grable burst through the line and blocked the extra point attempt, scooped up the ball and returned it for a defensive two-point attempt to give the Wildcats a 6-2 advantage.
Valdosta State took the lead on its next possession as Regginald Lewis returned the kickoff to the FVSU 35. Four plays later Cayden Cochran found Lewis from 16 yards out for the score to post VSU to a 9-6 lead.
The Blazer lead grew to 15-6 at the 2:07 mark of the first quarter when Cedric O'Neal took a hand-off and broke a tackle before rushing 69 yards for a touchdown.
After the VSU defense stopped Fort Valley State on four straight rushes inside the VSU 5 yard line, O'Neal was tackled in the end zone for a Wildcat safety to cut the FVSU deficit to 15-8, but Valdosta State responded with a pair of touchdowns over the remainder of the half.
On Valdosta State's next possession, Cochran completed a pair of passes for 19 yards and Austin Scott picked up 37 more on a run before a pass interference call in the end zone gave VSU the ball on it's the FVSU two. On the next play, Cochran faked a hand-off and scored untouched to push the Blazer lead to 22-8.
Cochran threw a sideline completion to Willie Downs, who stiff-armed a defender and raced 42 yards to the end zone on VSU's final drive of the half to give a the Blazers a 29-8 halftime advantage.
Downs added a second touchdown reception on Valdosta State's first possession of the second half as he hauled in a pass from Cochran and ran 38 yards for a score to push VSU's edge to 28 points.
Fort Valley State took advantage of another short punt to cut the Blazer lead to 36-14 as it took over on the Blazer 35 yard line. The big play on the drive came on a third-and-six when Smith found Jevon Watson on the VSU three. Two plays later, Jonquez Sanders scored off right end, but the two-point conversion attempt was unsuccessful.
The Wildcats continued to chip away at their deficit in the fourth quarter as they took advantage of a roughing the kicker penalty on a punt to score another touchdown. After the penalty, Smith hooked up with De'Angelo Smith for 72 yards and then scored on a five-yard run to close FVSU to within 36-21 with 7:38 to play.
Valdosta State tallied 169 rushing yards and 285 through the air. O'Neal led the Blazer rushing attack with 94 yards and a score while Downs had three catches for 97 yards and two scores and Lewis tallied six receptions for 95 yards and a touchdown. Cochran completed 20-of-32 passes for 285 yards and three touchdowns while rushing for seven yards and another score.
Justin Williams had 10 tackles, including three for loss, to lead VSU defensively while Lance Holder finished with eight tackles and an interception.
Fort Valley State tallied 358 yards of total offense, including 287 through the air by Smith, who completed 17-of-37 passes. Smith caught four passes for 122 yards while Smith led the team in rushing with 41 yards. Ja'Bioas Glenn led the Wildcat defense with eight tackles and an interception.
Valdosta State has a bye next week and returns to action Saturday, September 21 when it hosts Shorter in the Blazers' Gulf South Conference and home opener. Kick-off is slated for 7:00 p.m.


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Each month, KLRU chooses a program for your family to enjoy together. This month's Family Choice program, MARIACHI HIGH, will give you a glimpse into the lives of a teen mariachi ensemble.
Friday, June 29, 9-10 p.m.
Sunday, July 1, 3-4 p.m.
Mariachi High presents a year in the life of the champion mariachi ensemble at Zapata High School on the Rio Grande in South Texas. As they compete and perform with astonishing musical virtuosity, these teens, and the music they make, will inspire, surprise, and bring you to your feet.


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Barbara Kingsolver and her family set out on a journey to live a year eating locally, and they did just that! Not only did they achieve this gastronomical feat, but they've told a compelling story for aspiring locavores everywhere. Kingsolver, with her husband Steven and daughters Camille and Lily, takes the locavore lifestyle to the extreme in her newest book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - A Year of Food Life.
The Kingsolver family packs up and moves from Tucson, in her words "a bountiful source of everything on the human-need checklist," to Virginia, a plan in the making for many years. The main reason for leaving their Arizona home is that Tucson "might as well be a space station where human sustenance is concerned." In her mind, human sustenance is more than a trip to the grocery store or a meal at a chain restaurant. Sustenance for her family means being able to grow food themselves, to buy food raised by their neighbors, or to know they could do without it.
This is a beautifully written account of the year in which her family did just that - they grew most of the food that they ate, or bought their food from local farmers, either directly or at the farmer's market. The story is told by Kingsolver, who is a willing and determined locavore. Her husband Steven Hopp is involved, not only in the process of growing food on their farm, but also in writing the book. He contributes facts about local eating which are welcome bits of reality in this slightly unrealistic set up of theirs. He gives us information on the Farm Bill G, an overview of what pesticides and herbicides are doing to the environment, and more. Their daughters also participate in this locavore family affair, one contributing essays and recipes to the book, while the other starts a business selling eggs.
The "slightly unrealistic set up" refers to the idealistic way in which this year comes together for the Kingsolver family - a point that Kingsolver notes in her book. Moving from a city to farm land capable of growing vegetables enough to support a family of four, is not a luxury many of us have. They have intentionally arranged their lives so that making pasta and cheese and raising turkeys is essential to their existence. But their point is well made and inspiring, and the rest of us can pick and choose which lessons to incorporate into our lives when we have time.
Kingsolver makes the hard work sound inviting and peaceful (minus beheading the family turkeys) and backs up her family's local eating with information that all should know. It's about getting back to basics, teaching kids (and adults) where their food comes from, how it grows, who grows it, and how it ends up on our plates. This very important information seems to be missing in our culture. Kingsolver quotes a friend who said, "Wow, I never knew a potato had a plant part!" It is this food blindness that she demystifies by sharing her year of food with us.
Kingsolver's year of extreme eating makes the point that it can be done, and it also educates her readers as to why it should be done. If you aren't inspired to start reading labels and thinking about the consequences of food miles, or raising your own chickens for eggs, maybe you will be inspired to at least seek out the closest farmers' market.


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Lorrie Moore presents the annual Robert B. Silvers lecture, entitled "Watching Television."
Moore examines some of the connections and disconnections from stage to page to theatre to screen to small screen -- with an emphasis on what seems to be happening currently with narrative on the small screen. Expect a free-wheeling and highly personal contemplation of storytelling and how it has landed with a certain success onto the screens of cable TV, while remaining literary and serving as a reminder that we will still always go to books for what only the written word can deliver.
Lorrie Moore is the author of the story collections Birds of America, Like Life, and Self-Help and the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Anagrams. Her work has won honors from the Lannan Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Irish Times International Prize for Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the PEN/Malamud Award. She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
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Ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? Its because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.
* In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You dont immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
* 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (Theres plenty of that at this particular moment)
* 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dialate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
* 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
* >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
* >60 Minutes: The caffeines diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that youll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
* >60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down youll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. Youve also now, literally, passed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.
This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if youre a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, itll make you feel better.
Whoa.. what do you guys think of this? I think it's pretty weird.
I only drink Diet, though, so I wonder if it has the same effects?
Guides, if you think it is necessary, you may close this.
*edit for typos*
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Bulldogs Build Character in the Pouring Rain
ANNAPOLIS, Md.- The No. 3 Bulldogs finished ninth at the Navy Spring Women's Intersectional won by No. 2 College of Charleston. Because of lack of wind and travel complications, the Bulldogs were unable to sail on Thursday and Friday in Charleston, S.C. causing them to have to get their sailing feet back under them.
The blustery wind predicted for Saturday only hung around for a few races before dropping from 15 knots to below five knots by lunchtime. The northwesterly breeze from the morning shifted all around in the afternoon, causing a few race cancellations when the upwinds all of a sudden became downwinds. After eight races, the wind completely died and the sailors came off the water dripping wet for a barbecue put on by the Naval Academy.
Sunday brought with it a lighter drizzle but colder temperatures. The sailors were sent out to bob around while the wind built gradually. Throughout the morning the northerly breeze built from five knots to 10 knots. After lunch, racing moved from Triton point to the Severn river to avoid the other fleets out sailing. The river presented extremely shifty racing but allowed for the completion of the complete rotation of 17 races.
Freshmen Claire Dennis and Heather May finished 12th in A division with 162 points. They finished in the top-10 in 10 of the 17 races.
Sophomores Genoa Warner and Stephanie Schuyler finished 7th in B division with 136 points. They finished in the top-10 in 11 of the 17 races, including one win.
Despite the frustrations caused by the weather and inconsistent wind as well as an extremely long travel day on Friday involving one flight cancelation, three flight delays, one airline switch and three lost bags, the Bulldogs saw through the rain drops to find the silver lining.
May said, "It was a great regatta because it provided a wide variety of sailing conditions. It ranged from choppy, breezy, and rainy to glassy and puffy. This created inconsistencies throughout the fleet."
Next weekend the Bulldogs will take to the waters at the St. Mary's Women's Intersectional. Right now, Mother Nature is supposed to bring sun along which will be a nice respite for the rain drenched Bulldogs.
Report filed by Margot Benedict '12, Yale Sports Publicity


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NEW ORLEANS — The Ravens arrived in New Orleans Monday after a raucous sendoff in Baltimore, with thousands of fans gathering in a cold drizzle to wish their team well before it headed off to the Super Bowl.
"Today our fans showed us that they've always had our back; it was raining and cold in Baltimore and I think the streets were just jam-packed flooded," running back Ray Rice said. "They just showed us today what it really is all about. They're just proud of us."
Where many 49ers came off the plane Sunday dressed casually, in plaid shirts and jeans, the Ravens were in suits and ties, attired in their Sunday best, as many teams require for road games.
And where John Harbaugh's younger brother, Jim, in his arrival news conference Sunday night seemed at times annoyed with the process (he was far more genial Monday), John, the Ravens coach, was smiling and said his team is "thrilled" to be here.
"This is pretty cool; this is pretty exciting," he said. "We had an incredible sendoff down at the Inner Harbor this afternoon. Our organization, our Ravens staff putting together this trip has been flawless. We're just excited to be here and we're looking forward to going to work."
Harbaugh added that the realization of what his team had accomplished in getting to the Super Bowl happened days earlier, as his team was relishing its AFC Championship game win against the Patriots.
"It really set in on the ride down the interstate on the way to Providence [to T.F. Green airport] from Gillette Stadium," he said. "That's when it set in. We already knew our opponent so that was kind of embedded in our minds. It was time to get ready at that point.
"We've been getting ready for these guys for weeks, so we understand the challenge. It's the Super Bowl. It's a big deal. We're going to enjoy that part of it, but enjoy the football part of it more than anything. Our guys are football players, they love football, they love everything that goes with it and that's what we'll be focused on."
This is the fifth straight year the Ravens have been in the playoffs, though the first time they've made it to the Super Bowl during that streak. Despite not having experience in the big game, Rice thinks Baltimore's postseason experience has been a positive.
"The last few years have definitely helped out,'' Rice said. "I didn't know what playoff football was about my rookie year. The second year was good, but after my third season, that's when I really started to understand what playoff football was about. We started getting guys on the team that hadn't been to the playoffs and they've been in the league 10 years.
"I can't even tell you how the experience has been because you grind all season, and everybody was talking about us when we lost a couple games, but we knew we only needed one. You grind to get into the playoffs. And everybody knows when you get into those games, it's totally different."
After three straight losses in December, Baltimore was 9-5 and seemed headed for an early vacation.
But the Ravens' win against the Giants in their 15th game helped them to the AFC North crown.
Center Matt Birk, in his 14th season, said the character of the team got it to this point.
"I think we have great leadership. I think Coach Harbaugh is a great coach and a great leader," said Birk, a Harvard product. "I think the guys in this room, their performance and their careers speak for themselves, but they're not guys that are just in it for themselves. They're team guys; they lead and the rest follow.
"Everybody's going to have bumps in the road. You're going to have downs in the middle of the season and we understand that and you try your best to avoid them, but it's going to happen. I think when we had ours nobody panicked because players still believed in players and in coaches and coaches believed in players and we still believed in the way we were doing things.
"Our philosophy is just to come to work ready to work and try to work as hard as you can to get as good as you can and that's basically all we do."Shalise Manza Young can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @shalisemyoung.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 21st Jan 2006 19:18 UTC
The second release candidate of PC-BSD 1.0 has been released. From the announcement: "The latest cut of PC-BSD, version 1.0RC2 is now available! This update adds KDE 3.5 support, as well as some additional features/bugfixes. ISO's may now be downloaded from our main download page. Users currently running under PC-BSD 1.0RC1 can also download a self-installing system update, which upgrades the system to 1.0RC2. This file is available on our Updates page, as Patch #6."
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Ohh nooo... that's the crazy one .. On a good old 17"CRT-monitor i stick to 4:3 resolutions.
1600*1200 is small. That's why I'm using a slightly higher nominal DPI. This means text gets large enough to be easy readable, while being made out of a lot more pixels, thereby looking even better (except when I'm really tired - then everything is a blur) :p
EDIT: Fixed a typo in fouth line. "I" became "I'm".
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Anyone looking through a list of the most popular automobile manufacturers would notice one thing very quickly. Along with Mercedes Benz, BMW and Volkswagen, Audi makes for four German companies among the instantly noticeable ones. This is no coincidence, as German automobile engineering immediately makes one think of terms such as �reliability�, �durability� and �precision�. While the Italian marques have a reputation for being sporty, speedy and a little bit temperamental, German manufacturers have an equal one for craftsmanship. Audi is just one more brand that embodies that reputation.
Driving an Audi is an experience in comfort and surety. Not only that, but some of their models are downright chic and highly desirable like any German automobile you can feel safe behind the wheel, but there is obviously no such thing as the perfect car. Your Audi may develop faults. If and when it does, it will help you to have a service manual in situ which tells you where to find the fault and whether you can repair it or need to take it to the mechanic to have a look at it.
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Although it is possible to buy service manuals for just about any marque, you may find that your best bet is to download one from this site free of charge. It contains all the information you need and will save you the modest but substantial outlay that you would require to buy a hard copy in a book store. Just download the service guide from here and print it out, and you�re ready to go.
2000 Audi A8 3.0 Specifications
Make: Audi
Model: A8 3.0
Year: 2000
Car Category: Large / Luxury Cars
Car Engine: 2976 ccm (180,69 cubic inches)
Car Engine type: V6
Car Valves per cylinder: 5
Car Max power: 220.00 PS (161,19 kW or 215,92 HP) at 6300 Rev. per min.
Car Max torque: 300.00 Nm (30,45 kgf-m or 220,19 ft.lbs) at 8200 Rev. per min.
Car Bore stroke: 82.5 x 92.8 mm (3,18 x 3.7 inches)
Car Compression: 11.0:1
Car Top speed: 245.0 km/h (151,44 mph)
Car Fuel: Gasoline, unleaded 98
Car Transmission: Manual, 6-speed
Car Power per weight: 0.1317 PS/kg
Car Drive: Front
Car Seats: 5
Car Passenger space: 4990 litres (1311,41 gallons)
Car doors: 4
Car Front tire: 235/55-R17
Car Rear tire: 235/55-R17
Car Weight: 1670 kg (3663,29 pounds)
Car Towing weight: 1900 kg (4167,86 pounds)
Car total length: 5060 mm (198,20 inches)
Car total width: 1900 mm (74,43 inches)
Car total height: 1450 mm (56,81 inches)
Car Max weight with load: 2270 kg (4979,48 pounds)
Car Wheelbase: 2950 mm (115,52 inches)
Car Cooling: Liquid
Car Cargo space: 500 litres (131,34 gallons)
Car Fuel with mixed drive: 9.6 litres/100 km (24,38 miles per gallon)
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