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PHILADELPHIA - Four LSU football standouts will have a shot at earning college football's national defensive player of the year honor in 2012 as Tyrann Mathieu, Sam Montgomery, Barkevious Mingo and Eric Reid have been named to the watch list for the Bednarik Award, the Maxwell Football Club announced on Monday morning.
LSU joined Alabama and Michigan State with the most representatives on the watch list that kicked off the National College Football Awards Association's 12-day watch list unveiling of individual awards for the 2012 season.
The Tigers have produced back-to-back Bednarik Award winners, joining Northwestern and Penn State as the only schools to do so. LSU has produced more Bednarik Award recipients than any program in Southeastern Conference history. In 2010, Patrick Peterson captured the honor as a junior. After a spectacular sophomore season, fellow cornerback Tyrann Mathieu walked away with the award at last year's ESPN College Football Awards show.
Mathieu seeks to become the third repeat winner in the award's history, joining Northwestern's Pat Fitzgerald and Penn State's Paul Posluszny. A 2011 Heisman Trophy award finalist, Mathieu heads into his junior season having created a total of 14 turnovers during his career. His 11 forced fumbles rank seventh in NCAA history and are just three shy of the NCAA career record. Mathieu currently owns the NCAA career record in forced fumbles per game with 0.42.
The junior tandem of Montgomery and Mingo give LSU arguably the nation's most outstanding defensive end production. Montgomery, a finalist for national defensive end of the year in 2011, has recorded 19.5 tackles for loss and 11 sacks in two seasons. Mingo holds a team-best 20.5 career tackles for loss to go along with 10.5 sacks and 15 quarterback hurries. He ranked third in the SEC last season with 15 tackles for loss.
Reid, also a candidate for the 2012 Lott Trophy, is one of the top safeties in all of college football. The hard-hitting Reid was a second-team All-American as a sophomore after tying for the team lead in total tackles with 76 in 2011. He has tallied four career interceptions.
Semifinalists for Bednarik Award will be announced Oct. 29 and the three finalists for each award will be unveiled Nov. 19. The winners will be announced as part of the Home Depot ESPN College Football Awards Show held on Dec. 6. The formal presentation of the award will be made at the Maxwell Football Club Awards Gala in Atlantic City on March 1, 2013.
2012 NCFAA Preseason Watch List Calendar
Monday, July 9 - Maxwell, Bednarik Awards
Tuesday, July 10 - Mackey Award, Rimington Trophy
Wednesday, July 11 - Lou Groza Award, Ray Guy Award
Thursday, July 12 - Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Outland Trophy
Friday, July 13 - Jim Thorpe Award
Monday, July 16 - Butkus Award, Lombardi Award
Tuesday, July 17 - Biletnikoff Award
Wednesday, July 18 - Davey O'Brien Award
Thursday, July 19 - Doak Walker Award
Friday, July 20 - Walter Camp Award


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Monday on Access Utah we feature an encore presentation of a program first aired in July 2013:
Rich Cohen writes in National Geographic magazine's August 2013 cover story titled "Sugar Love (a not so sweet story)" that sugar was the oil of its day. The more you tasted, the more you wanted. In 1700 the average Englishman consumed 4 pounds a year.
By 1900 he was up to 100 pounds a year. Today the average American consumes 77 pounds of added sugar annually, or more than 22 teaspoons of added sugar a day. As lands with oil and gas are greatly sought after today so it was with lands for sugarcane that needed tropical, rain-drenched fields to flourish. In school they call it the age of exploration, the search for territories and islands that would send Europeans all around the world. In reality, it was a hunt for fields where sugarcane would prosper. Cohen reviews the fascinating role sugar has played in the history of the world and how it affects our health today. With all the low-fat, non-fat, low salt, and no-salt foods available, Cohen asks whether sugar is at the center of America's health crisis. Rich Cohen is a New York Times best-selling author, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, and author, most recently, of "Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football."

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CALGARY, Alberta, December 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Oando Energy Resources Inc. ("OER" or the "Company") (TSX: OER), a company focused on oil exploration and production in Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with ConocoPhillips to acquire ConocoPhillips' Nigerian businesses for a total cash consideration of approximately US$1.79 billion, subject to customary adjustments (the "Proposed Acquisition").
Pursuant to the Proposed Acquisition, OER will indirectly purchase all of the issued share capital of POCNL, PBL, CEPNL and PDENL. Upon closing, the effective date of the Proposed Acquisition will be January 1, 2012.
In connection with the Proposed Acquisition, OER has retained The Petroleum and Renewable Energy Company Limited ("Petrenel"), OER's independent reserves evaluator, to prepare a report on the reserves and resources of OMLs 60, 61, 62 and 63 (together, the "Onshore Assets") and OML 131 and OPL 214 (together, the "Offshore Assets") proposed to be acquired under the Proposed Acquisition. As at the date hereof, Petrenel has prepared preliminary estimates of some of the reserves and resources to be acquired (the "Petrenel Preliminary Estimates"). The Petrenel Preliminary Estimates have an effective date of December 31, 2011 and have been prepared in accordance with National Instrument 51-101 standards and the guidelines set out in the Canadian Oil and Gas Evaluation Handbook. OER expects an Independent Reserves Report to be completed and issued by Petrenel during the first quarter of 2013.
"This potential transaction represents a transformational step forward for our Company and is in keeping with our overall strategy to grow our portfolio of Nigerian-based assets by focusing on those opportunities that deliver high quality growth in reserves and production," said Pade Durotoye, CEO of Oando Energy Resources. "Our management team is familiar with the assets contained in this proposed transaction and, we believe, possess the regional experience and technical expertise necessary to capture and unlock their future value for our shareholders."
Also commenting, Mr. Wale Tinubu, Chairman, OER said "Upon closing, we expect that this will be a transformational transaction for OER, as the company has only been listed on the TSX for about 5 months and now has an opportunity to execute its strategy and materially increase its production and reserves base. In our view, the combination of the right timing, right assets and the right company can lead to significant value creation in the Gulf of Guinea.
About Oando Energy Resources Inc. (OER)
OER currently has a broad suite of producing, development and exploration assets in the Gulf of Guinea (predominantly in Nigeria) with current production of approximately 3,300 barrels of oil per day from the Abo Field, (OML 125) and an additional 1,500 barrels of oil per day from the Ebendo Field, (OML 56), once a damaged export pipe line has been repaired or replaced (which is expected to be completed early 2013).
OER has been specifically structured to take advantage of current opportunities for indigenous companies in Nigeria, which currently has the largest population in Africa, and one of the largest oil and gas resources in Africa.
Source: Oando Energy Resources Inc.
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The influence of Johan Cruyff looms large over every club the great Dutchman once laced his boots. But at Ajax, back where it all began in 1957, he casts the longest shadow.
The story of Ajax's triumph this season belongs as much off the pitch as it does on it, and that's largely down to the presence of Cruyff. Boardroom battles, racist remarks, defamation lawsuits and mass resignations have haunted Holland's most successful club but somehow, through the dim of smoky backroom deals, the team has emerged to seal an unlikely Eredivisie title.
Such success looked a distant dream in December as the club slumped to defeat in the Dutch Cup and stuttered desperately in their title defence. Ajax took eight points from a possible 24 between September and the end of November as Frank De Boer's side struggled with injury, form and fortune. Elimination from the Champions League group stages swiftly followed before a spirited but ultimately futile display at Old Trafford hinted at the squad's undoubted potential in February.
That potential was finally realised in a stunning second-half of the campaign. Following defeat at home to FC Utrecht on 5 February, Ajax went on a 13-match Eredivisie winning streak.
The former-Dutch international has done it the hard way, using 27 players this season, as injuries to Kolbeinn Sigborsson, Derk Boerrigter and Gregory van der Wiel forced adjustments upon him. Thankfully for Ajax, the club's fabled youth academy has bailed them out; 11 players from the youth and reserves squad have stepped up at some point this campaign.
Injuries certainly forced De Boer's hand but he, along with youth coaches Dennis Bergkamp and Wim Jonk, deserve credit for the performances of the youngsters. All this was also without an established goalscorer. Their top marksman, Siem de Jong, has only 13 goals, less than half the Eredivise top scorer's total.
Instead, Ajax's 90 league goals have been shared by a whopping 18 players, and their second-half surge has been a real team effort. Unfortunately for Ajax, such unity on the pitch has not been replicated off it.
The return of Cruyff in February 2011 preceded much of the distrust and tension that currently permeates the club's boardroom dealings.
The Ajax and Barcelona legend came back to implement his "technical revolution", but a bitter feud between Cruyff and his arch-rival Louis van Gaal plunged the club into crisis. The feud ultimately stems from Cruyff's criticism of van Gaal's Barcelona team of the 1990s but in truth, the two have never got on.
Cruyff's penchant for an advisory role saw him bring his revolutionary zeal to Ajax after watching his boyhood club get taken apart in the Bernabeu last year. Frustrated and upset by what he saw, Cruyff felt compelled to act; but not before he penned an article in De Telegraaf, with the headline "This is not Ajax anymore".
History tells us that revolutions are usually bloody affairs, and this one had plenty of casualties.Cruyff's return threw the board into crisis, which escalated even further in November when Cruyff was accused of a racist remark directed against supervisory board member, Edgar Davids.
More drama was to follow when Louis van Gaal's was appointed without Cruyff's consent. The former-Barca player alleged that the board had attempted to oust him in a coup. Cruyff, a member of the club's supervisory board, had missed the crucial vote as he was celebrating his daughter's birthday in Barcelona when his peers appointed his rival, van Gaal, as club chief executive.
A courtroom battle followed, and 'Cruyff v Ajax' was the key fixture, with the Dutch legal system eventually declaring Cruyff the victor. The defeated board, including Davids and club chairman Uri Coronel, quit in protest, with a new board put in place to execute Cruyff's revolution.
However, the boardroom battles simply served to overshadow Ajax's mid-season renaissance, leaving Frank De Boer caught awkwardly in the middle of a power struggle between two club legends.
"It was not a pleasant period as the club was divided into two groups and several people acted strangely and were avoiding their rivals," De Boer told Voetbal International.
"For me, it felt like I had to choose between a son and a daughter in opting to take the side of either Cruyff or Van Gaal."
De Boer may not have liked picking a favourite sibling but he did so anyway. Like most, the Ajax coach backed Cruyff and the European Footballer of the Century has emerged victorious but bloodied by the affair.
The unsavoury tussle even prompted admonishment from the club's sponsors, who did not pay so handsomely to be associated with such petty infighting. Ajax's kit sponsor, Adidas, issued a public statement declaring their unhappiness and shirt sponsor Aegon said they were "extremely concerned."
Their concern also reflected unease at the poor performances on the pitch, but De Boer never shirked from his commitment to the Ajax brand of Total Football. After replacing Martin Jol last season, De Boer brought Eredivisie success to Amsterdam for the first time in six seasons - their longest Erevidisie drought - and the former Dutch international buys into the "football vision" of Cruyff completely.
Like Barcelona - where Cruyff also enjoys considerable influence - Ajax play a free-flowing, possession based 4-3-3 formation. Cruyff may now claim this title as vindication of his vision and commitment to the academy, but it is De Boer who deserves the credit.
"For me and my staff this one feels more beautiful seeing what happened this season," said the Ajax coach.
"All the injures we had and then the turbulence through all the problems in our board, but we stayed loyal to our vision."
Although he resigned from the board in March, Cruyff has strengthened his hold over Ajax. His "technical revolution" is still in place, and Ajax latest crop of youngsters underlined their potential in this year's NextGen series, dismantling a highly-rated Liverpool side 6-0 in the semi-final.
Cruyff's most recent return to his boyhood club was full of drama, but you would expect nothing less from someone who evidently cares so deeply about the club. His vision for Ajax may have come at a cost but it could set the club up for years to come.
Ajax are once again focused on the future and with De Boer at the helm the Dutch club may be ready to shine once again on the European stage.
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Imagined in the 1920s.
'Candies for cuties' LMAO! Yep, they definitely work.
I have degrees in biology and biochemistry, a passion for genetics, history, and philosophy, and shrimp is my favorite food. In relation to nationality I'm a American Northwesterner, in politics I'm a reactionary, and as for religion I have none (I'm an atheist). If you want to know more, see the links at http://www.razib.com


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I tend to keep loads of books and magazines by my bedside. To keep things neat, I'm inclined to opt for nightstands with drawers. The truth is, I probably won't even use those drawers and will continue to keep everything in plain view. But you can't blame me for trying. So here are some picks:
Below: Molteni&C 3030 series nightstand and dresser
Below: I love the walnut used for these pieces by Formstelle.
Below: You can get the best of both worlds with the Clooney nightstand by Meridiani – it's nice and open, but still has a single drawer
Below: Dado bedside table and drawers by B&B Italia. I like the little black and white unit in the photo below – it's simple and I really like the contrast between the colours and materials.
Below: Crate and Barrel and Room&Board offer some solid options without breaking the bank. Because, really, it's just a table by the side of the bed. Right? Linea table from C&B and Copenhagen table from R&B
Tags: Master Bedroom, Molteni, Nighstand, Side Tables


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This post is demonstrated using php. I presume in other language it's the same.
The cookies are small files saved in client computers when visiting web server. information like username and password can be saved in cookie, so the next time you visit the website, you don't have to reenter, it automatically log you in.
Of course people can make programs that stole your information from cookie. (but cookies are usually encrypted and secured,unless you didn't save it correctly).
Today I found a very interesting bug, well, an observation.
in php, the syntax is
setcookie(key,value,expiration time,path,domain,...);
One thing to note for the path is: if the path contain special characters. such as '~', then it behaves differently in different browsers.
suppose you have to save a cookie
Then when you visit http://www.domain.com/~bar/ you should be able to retrieve the cookie. This is generally true.
BUT, for security reasons, many people like to url encode the path to prevent the site from XXS attacks in other places and forgot to decode it. (It encodes special characters to other formats.) if you do url encoding on '~', it's %7E.
Then when you set the cookie, you actually doing
This cookie can be loaded in FireFox, but NOT GOOGLE CHROME!!!!. CHROME will not load this cookie, and it will appear that you are not logged in.
I am not sure if this is a bug in browser, or they did this for a reason. So be sure that you url decoded the PATH variable when you set cookies.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. – Playing without veteran post players in 6-6 center Sarah Elliott and 6-3 forward Eleia Roddy, Kentucky was out-rebounded 43-38 and the Ohio Legends hit 38-of-49 free throws to defeat the Wildcats 88-79 Monday in exhibition play. It was UK's first preseason loss in Memorial Coliseum since 2001.
The Legends, comprised of former collegiate players from Akron, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Furman, Northern Illinois, West Georgia, Ohio, and three players from Ohio State, knocked off their second major Division-I women's basketball program in three days after defeating Xavier on Saturday in Cincinnati.
"We knew it was going to be a test tonight," UK head coach Matthew Mitchell said. "They [Ohio Legends] had already beaten a couple of teams and we tried to get across to our players that it was going to be a tough game and, obviously, I didn't do a very good job of that because I thought we were a bit lifeless in the first half."
Kentucky was led by senior guard Samantha Mahoney (Detroit), who scored a team-high 18 points and went 6-of-7 from the free-throw line. Sophomore forward Brittany Edelen (Springfield, Ky.) added 16 points, which would have been a career high if it had been a regular-season contest. Junior point guard Carly Ormerod (Louisville, Ky.) scored nine points, went 5-of-6 from the free throw line and brought down a squad-best six rebounds to lead an uncharacteristically poor rebounding effort by the Wildcats.
"I put Brittany in the game because I knew that she would give us some energy and intensity – something that we were lacking at the time," Mitchell said. "She made some pretty dynamic plays and she made some mistakes, but they were all mistakes going full speed and that is what I am looking for. I thought she played an outstanding game."
With the Wildcats trailing 78-62 with 3:30 remaining, the Wildcats went on a 7-0 run over the next 1:24 to cut to within nine, 78-69, on a jumper by Mahoney. But the Legends quickly scored three in a row to build their advantage back to 12 at 81-69 with 1:33 left to close the door on Kentucky.
The Wildcats committed 21 turnovers in the game and the Legends scored 26 points off of those miscues. Kentucky managed just 39.4 percent (28-of-71) shooting from the floor for the game, though the Cats were much improved in the final period of play. UK hit just 36.4 percent (12-of-33) of its shots in the opening period, but made 42 percent (16-of-38) from the floor in the final stanza. UK also made just 58.6 percent (17-of-29) of its attempts from the charity stripe while the Ohio Legends hit 38-of-49
The Legends broke open an early 13-13 tie with an 8-0 run to give them a 21-13 advantage with 10:18 remaining in the opening period. A three-pointer by freshman point guard Carly Morrow (Chattanooga, Tenn.) from the right wing at the 9:31 mark stopped the run and Mahoney followed with a pair of free throws to cut the Cats' deficit to three, 21-18. The Legends then made six free throws over a two-minute 47-second span to pull ahead 27-20 before Mahoney, Catina Bett (Gadsden, Ala.) and Lydia Watkins (Hopkinsville, Ky.) hit consecutive baskets to come within one, 27-26, with 3:30 remaining in the opening period.
Watkins sank a three-pointer at the 2:41 mark to knot the score at 29-all, but the Legends responded with a three of their own. The Ohio Legends closed the first half on a 13-2 run to take a 42-31 advantage into the locker room at intermission. The Wildcats shot just 36.4 percent (12-of-33) from the floor in the opening period.
The Legends scored the first eight points of the second half before Ormerod broke the scoring streak with a pair of free throws with Kentucky behind 50-33. Trailing 54-35, the Wildcats used a 6-0 run, capped off by a basket by Edelen in the paint to cut within 13, 54-41, with 14:02 left in the game. The Legends, who extended their advantage out to 18 (77-59) with 4:12 remaining, led by double digits for nearly the entire second half until the Cats began their second-half comeback attempt.
Larecha Jones scored a game-high 23 points to lead OGBM. Former Wildcat LaTonya McDole, who lettered at UK from 1998-2002 and ranks 14th on the school's all-time scoring list, had 11 points and eight rebounds and was 8-of-9 from the charity stripe for the Legends.
Kentucky opens its 34th season Saturday, Nov. 10 when it plays host to USC-Upstate at 7 p.m. EST in Memorial Coliseum. The game will be carried live on the Big Blue Sports Network (radio) with Neil Price. Single-game tickets are available at a cost of $5 for adults and $2 for seniors and children ages 6-18. Age five and under are admitted free. Reserved seats require a ticket regardless of age. Season tickets also are available at a cost of just $45 for 15 exciting home games. To order tickets visit the Joe Craft Center ticket office from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, log on to UKathletics.com or call the UK ticket office at 859-257-1818 or 1-800-928-CATS (2287).


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A SENIOR Indian cricket official declared on Friday that next week's second Test between Australia and India would not be shifted from Hyderabad despite the southern city being rocked by bombings that killed at least 13 people and injured more than 100.
At least two separate blasts occurred in a crowded area outside a movie theatre and a bus station in the southern city's suburb of Dilsukh Nagar from about 7pm on Thursday.
Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi Stadium is due to play host to the second of four Tests in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series between Australia and India. It is scheduled to begin on March 2 – with Michael Clarke's squad to arrive in the city next Wednesday after the conclusion of the first Test in Chennai, which began on Friday.
Rajeev Shukla, a senior Board of Control for Cricket in India figure who is also chairman of the Indian Premier League, said there was no reason to relocate the Test.
"After the BCCI President spoke to me, I spoke to Union Home Secretary, who was in Hyderabad and had discussion with the Chief Minister and officials of state government. After that he apprised me that adequate security will be provided to the players as well as the spectators. So Test match should not be shifted out of Hyderabad," Shukla said.
He added that the competing countries' respective chairmen, N Srinivasan and Wally Edwards, were to speak on Friday afternoon to confirm the Test's status in Hyderabad.
"I have conveyed to the BCCI President who in turn is going to speak to the chairman of Cricket Australia to convey that when government is giving guarantee of safety and security of the players and the spectators, I think we should not change the venue," Shukla said.
International Cricket Council security officials met with their counterparts from the BCCI in Delhi on Friday to discuss the incident and its potential ramifications for Hyderabad hosting the second Test.
Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said Australia's team manager, Gavin Dovey, had sent players text messages on Thursday night updating them on the situation and the increased security presence that has been added as a result of the explosions.
Dozens of extra police surrounded the Chennai hotel where the Australian and Indian teams are staying on Friday morning.
"We don't hold anything back from the players, they know where everything is up to. But at the same time they have expressed a desire to be focused and minimise this so that they can focus on cricket this week," Sutherland said.
"As far as I'm concerned we are playing the second Test in Hyderabad next week. That's where we are at. We've got great confidence in the BCCI and the relevant authorities here to be able to prepare as best as possible for whatever issues may change from day to day. We're very comfortable with everything that has been done so far on this tour."
Sutherland said there had been no concern expressed from the players but they would be kept updated. "All they are interested in right now is this Test match here in Chennai."
Australian captain Michael Clarke added: "From the team's point of view, our focus is wholly and solely on the field because we've got people off the field who are experts in what is going on, we'll be advised by them. Our thoughts and prayers are with all the people of Hyderabad who have been affected."
Australian Cricketers' Association chief Paul Marsh said he had been in contact with the 17 players in Australia's touring squad and would engage the union's own security expert and liaise with Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Travellers are advised on the DFAT website to "exercise a high degree of caution in India at this time because of the risk of terrorism [and] civil unrest".
"It's day one of a Test match so I don't want to distract (the players) but I've sent them all an email," Marsh said on Friday. "We also have own independent security advisor who assesses these type of situations. It's really about trying to understand what the level of risk is of going to Hyderabad. If the players have got any concerns they will voice them to me. But Cricket Australia has a very good security team around them."


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Actually, it doesn't. That's a powerful incentive to start companies and build products, even if the results get incorporated (or not) into a dreadnaught like Google after four years. Venture funding banks on this, and the freely flowing spigot of VC money built most of the stuff I currently use.
the freely flowing spigot of VC money built most of the stuff I currently use.
Except that if you're using it, then it was probably not the result of a startup that was bought and killed.
Except that if you're using it, then it was probably not the result of a startup that was bought and killed.
That VC money doesn't appear out of thin air. It often comes with the intention of the company being acquired, and was money previously invested in other companies that got acquired. It's all part of the ecosystem.
But buying up startups then killing their work doesn't?
If startups can't get to version one, they have a tough time getting bought.
There is no perfect answer, but I'd rather have my work killed after getting bought/paid rather than squashed by patent suits and losing my investment.
That will indeed suck. But I'll take the money nonetheless
For most it's not all abut the money. Seeing something you worked hard to build be taken and thrown in a bin never to see the light of day sucks. This thing you worked so hard on will never get the chance to show how awesome of an idea it really was.
Isn't the obvious answer in that situation to not sell your business?
You're assuming the one being bought out is the startups founder, not the employees that get nothing more than laid off.
Also your logic is that you'd rather have a partial lobotomy than a full. The lesser of two bad things. Why not have a good outcome rather than the lesser of two bad ones? For most it's not all abut the money. Seeing something you worked hard to build be taken and thrown in a bin never to see the light of day sucks. This thing you worked so hard on will never get the chance to show how awesome of an idea it really was.
If startups are getting bought than at least there is a decent chance of getting a job at another startup and "successful" startup experience (even if borged and crushed) is better resume fodder than a stint at a startup that quietly disappeared. If startups are not being bought than pretty soon they won't be any funded and you will have no choice but to work for a large company, even you even have that option. (Big companies aren't usually impressed by experience at startups that have never heard of and d
Well, fuck startups then. Because that's what the money system dictates us.
I understand that this might harm potential investment, but do these patent wars actually affect objects that are on their first version, unless they are very highly hyped before production? Did anyone actually consider the iPod to be a threat before it took off? I usually hear about patent suits nailing people who have made a good run at actually competing with some patent holder in the actual marketplace. By that point, you could easily have been bought out by someone bigger, which is pretty much the w
But buying up startups then killing their work doesn't?
Arguably, no. Why do I say this? Because of two reasons:
One...the fact that the startup got bought out provides incentive for other startups to form. Let's face it...being bought out by Google is a payday. It almost always means you've hit some kind of success, and as a result you are being paid well for the company. Failed startups that are bought as they lay on their death bed are never bought by companies like Google, but rather other smaller companies who want some minor aspect of what the startup still contains.
Two...the fact that the people who started the first startup are now (after a year or so) free to start a new one. And they're MORE able to do so, because they have the experience they gained the first time around, the track record of having done it successfully before (VC's get their part of that buy-out payday too), and their own inherent financial stability now so that they don't have to worry about putting food on their table or paying the rent while they get the next venture up and running. They've made connections, made mistakes, and learned a lot along the way. I know several people who have done multiple startups, and they've all seen their original creation changed in some major way by the company that bought them out, but meh...they go on, and create something new.
You're looking at a startup as a single person or partners that share the pay from the buyout. What about the people that worked tirelessly at the small company but may not get a cut in the cash?
You're also believing that the #1 motivator for everyone is money. Many would like to see their baby grow and see the impact it can make on the world. Invent a cure for cancer, take the payoff and walk away without ever getting to see how it changes the world.
What about the people who worked tirelessly for RIM, Nokia, Diamond, Pets.com, Silicon Graphics (the real version), the HP calculator team, Commodore / Amiga, SEGA and Atari (again, the real version)? Who was or is looking out for them? Absolutely no one. At least if a founder gets bought out some jobs will transfer, some will move on to the next start-up with the same guy and the rest simply share the same fate as countless people who have poured their souls into ventures of many sizes and then have been left with nothing but a final paycheck.
One of many reasons that older employees don't constantly invest 18 hours a day for an 8 hour paycheck is because they have seen the result of not being an equity holder of the effort when the payday comes. If you're working a job as a wage earner and you think the 2 year "sprint" is going to pay off -- think again.
If you don't want to sell your baby.. Don't.
If you're talking about "harm to startups", you implicitly are already talking about the owner(s), rather than the employees, as they are the one(s) with the above-average stake in it. And really, if you are an employee only with no ownership of the company, you never had an expectation that you'd get a cut in the cash, regardless of what happened, unless you were working at one of the very rare companies which split the profits with employees (and I mean a real cut, not a nominal pittance). And if you are
Patents are definitely a big problem for start-ups. When you are big enough to have a Legal Department with an Intellectual Property specialist or three, you can maybe deal with all the patent trolls out there not to mention the few legitimate patents that may challenge your product.
But for the rest of us, it's an almost insurmountable challenge. Once when I was trying to develop a voicemail contraction (yeah this was sort of pre-cell phone and pre-Google Voice and all that nice stuff we have today) for small offices, I was astounded by the kinds of patents out there. Some guy patented a "method to push a button to record a voice". Someone else patented a "method to store voice recordings in digital format in computer memory". Was I as a one person start-up going to have to find a way around ridiculously obvious patents like this?
So if someone big comes along and offers you a million or two for your baby company, it's going to be awfully tempting. Then again, as I recall, Microsoft offered the Netscape guys about $20 million for their browser back in the early Web days. They politely declined and went on to be worth hundreds of millions. It's a tough call to make, but you do have to be a bit of a gambler if you want to really make it big.
to hurt startups so there's no competition!
You get the patent coverage by releasing version one and paying off whoever sues you.
By then you've skimmed the profit and you declare bankruptcy. Just remember to file any patents you created as personal ones during the process, so that the shell of your startup is devoid of any value except the foosball table and the aeron chairs.
When patents are given for things as basic as rounded corners, or actions that have been around for decades, or grids of icons like my old Palm Pilot from the 90's.
This is the link to the interview http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887323717004578159481472653460-lMyQjAxMTAyMDAwNDEwNDQyWj.html [wsj.com] or maybe it only shows a summery depending who you are. I personally interpreted the article completely different; My summery would have been "Irrelevant Microsoft", but it touches on issues such as the antitrust case; owing a phone hardware company while expecting others to use your OS; The issue of Goggles relationship with Apple [Where WSJ got its title] all worthwhile topics of discussion, but as I said the thing I derived from it was Microsoft not being part of the "Gang of Four", and its products not even worth commenting on.
Only the lawyers win......
I chose the wrong profession!
But I do sleep well.
Semiconductor companies have long held massive patent portfolios. They crossed licensed the patents to each other so, for them, the problem that you couldn't build anything without stepping on somebody's patent wasn't big issue. But startups don't have such portfolios and would be simply be crushed. Cyrix and Nexgen wanted to build x86 compatible processors but Intel had patents critical for compatibility that could not be worked around. They tried having their chips manufactured by IBM, which had cross-licensing agreement but both eventually had to be borged into larger companies (AMD and National Semiconductor) in order to keep operating.
I disbanded a startup about five years ago that would have filled a niche that's still underserved in the current market (though tablets and smart TV's fill some of it). The issue was the inability to do the things we needed to do because of existing patents on the basic ideas we needed to use and we all agreed that there wasn't a way to do it without licensing all those needed patents, which we couldn't afford.
This was extremely foolish. The correct course of action was to bring the product to market and
Capitalism marks bug report as "NOTABUG WONTFIX".
Committer adds comment "system works as designed."
Caretaker marks bug closed.
In Schmidt's mind, startups have the most to lose in the current patent wars: How is he or she going to be able to get the patent coverage necessary to offer version one of their product?
Anyone wanting to create a smartphone must have deep pocket investors. This has to be one of the most expensive products in the world to innovate in for not only the hardware reasons, but the infrastructure and connectivity software reasons. Andy Rubin going into the smartphone business again is either done with VC smart
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So what are you trying to ask here. If you have hacked 6.2 and applied the superpatch67.tcl and used set_mrvname.tcl then you should be able to transfer between tivos.
Is there any new info concerning transfering video's between hacked Dtivo's running 6.2?
Stats on dtivo's:
2 DSR704's (one at 2x120Gb, other 2x300Gb), superpatched, tivowebplus 1.1(not figured out yet to install), unscrambled
Also where is a link/links for the modules for TWP 1.1?
What happens when you comment out all events and in what file of the mfs_ftp?
Please don't burn me for asking these kind of noob questions , but I'm starting to get at my wits end. After all I'm asking for guidance, not a hand out.
Just to let people know, I've spent three days doing research on this stuff.
So what are you trying to ask here. If you have hacked 6.2 and applied the superpatch67.tcl and used set_mrvname.tcl then you should be able to transfer between tivos.
here is what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to transfer using javahmo or tivodesktop.
WhenI use tivodesktop it show my dtivos in the server properties/access control, but it doesn't show my now showing lists saying that no tivos are connected. Javahmo just doesn't show my tivos all together. So how do I fix this?
Aslo I have the music and videos working off of the pc to the tivos.
6.2 has no Tivo to go. That's 7.1 software...Your looking for something that is not there..
Music & Photos & MRV is all that your going to be able to do. If your looking to transfer and use the pc as a server for the tivo then search for tivoserver..
So dumb question then how do I transfer between dtivo'ss then?
Go to your now playing list on one of the tivo's do you see example: DVR: Bedroom
yes I see other dtivo, but?
what ??? Highlight select???
yes I see my other Dtivo, but? Sorry the message didn't show up on my screen.
When I select it it says no showings on the other tivo.
So are you able to highlight that tivo and press select it should show you the nowplaying list on the other tivo.
Do you have anything on the other tivo..
yes I do, It says no shows. What about the twp modules links?
Originally Posted by rusalka_tim
Tivowebplus, only with the modules will let your set ip and name of tivo. Transfering shows between tivos from tivowebplus has not been figured out yet. What are you worried about tivowebplus or MRV.. This sorts of question really belong in the NEWBIE section..
Well it delt with video and insetion/extraction. At least so I thought. Sorry for the misplacement. I just want the twp so I can view shows off of my computer screen.
Yes it will do you that...It just will not transfer between tivos. Do a search on Tivowebplus 1.1 beta or tivowebplus 6.2 and post in the correct thread... Cheers
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Palm Beach Atlantic University, in partnership with Staples Foundation, the charitable arm of Staples, Inc., will present Summer Camp and Institute at PBA, a science summer camp for rising first- through 12th-graders, at the University's main campus. For incoming first- through eighth-graders, camp will be from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. the week of June 9-13. For incoming ninth- through 12th-graders, camp will be from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. the week of June 16-20.
"Staples Foundation is committed to making a positive impact in the communities where our associates live and work," said Katy Dobbs, director of global community and giving for Staples, Inc. "Through our program, we are pleased to support our associates and the local non-profit organizations that matter to them most."
The Center for Integrative Science Learning at Palm Beach Atlantic is hosting this year's Summer Camp and Institute, which will consist of a Science Exploration Camp for elementary and middle school students and Science Camp for students in high school. Participants in the Summer Camp and Institute will take part in daily laboratory experiments led by PBA faculty.
Each day of the camp will center on a specific theme, which will have applications to various age appropriate scientific fields including laboratory experiments in physics, chemistry, biology, marine biology, nursing and pharmacy. Fun recreational activities will be included each day.
"We want to show children that there is more to science than what they might have experienced up to now, and that being a true scientist begins with opening your mind to all sorts of inquiries. The themes we will cover will show them just that," said Dr. Mireille Aleman, assistant professor of chemistry and director of Summer Camp and Institute at PBA.
Recreation time in PBA's Greene Complex for Sports and Recreation will be part of the daily activities. For incoming first- through eighth-graders, extended care will be available from 7:30-8:30 a.m. and from 3:30-4:30 p.m. at an additional cost of $15 per child, per day. The cost per child is $175, which will include snacks and a t-shirt. For incoming ninth- through 12th-graders, the cost per child is $250, which will include snacks and a T-shirt.
About Staples Community and Giving
Staples is dedicated to providing education and job skills opportunities in communities where our customers and associates live and work with a primary focus on support disadvantaged youth, from literacy and mentoring to career skills development initiatives. Staples supports these causes through corporate contributions, in-kind donations and grants from Staples Foundation, the private charitable arm of Staples, Inc. Through its global community and giving efforts, Staples has helped more than 6,500 organizations in local communities across 26 countries. Community and Giving is also an integral component of Staples Soul, which recognizes the connection between long-term business success and the impact Staples has on associates, communities and the planet.


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Heavenly Cheesecake Recipe
This cheesecake is one of my family's favorites. The chocolaty creation really lives up to its name.—Rhonda Drullard, San Joaquin Valley, California
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- 1-1/2 cups chocolate wafer crumbs
- 5 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 envelope unflavored gelatin
- 1 cup milk
- 5 Milky Way candy bars (2.05 ounces each), divided
- 2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- In a bowl, combine wafer crumbs and butter. Press onto the bottom and 1 in. up the sides of a greased 9-in. springform pan. Refrigerate.
- In a saucepan, sprinkle gelatin over milk; let stand for 1 minute. Cook and stir over low heat until gelatin is dissolved. Cut four candy bars into quarters; add to gelatin mixture. Cook until candy bars are melted and mixture is smooth. Remove from heat; set aside.
- In a bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar; add gelatin mixture and vanilla. add cream; beat on high speed for 4 minutes. Pour into crust. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours or until firm. Slice or chop remaining candy bar for garnish. Yield: 12 servings.
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Anderlecht striker Dieumerci Mbokani has revealed it is his dream to play in the Premier League amid ongoing speculation linking him with both Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool.
Sky Sports reports how several top-flight clubs in England have been monitoring the Congolese international, with a view to making a bid in the January transfer window.
Reds boss Brendan Rodgers is known to be in the market for attacking additions at Anfield in the New Year, with Luis Suarez currently Liverpool's only fit and recognised first-team striker.
Meanwhile, Spurs are also keeping tabs of Mbokani's situation. With Jermain Defoe and Emmanuel Adebayor the only options that Andre Villas-Boas has at White Hart Lane at the moment, he too could re-enter the market for another forward next month.
Despite intense media speculation, the 27-year-old insists he is happy in Belgium at Anderlecht, but admits he could be tempted by an offer to test himself in the Premier League.
"I want to stay but you never know," Mbokani told Het Laatste Nieuws. "Anderlecht could receive an offer they can't refuse, so they have to accept.
"My dream is to play in the Premier League. Clubs from there are my first choice. But my ambition is just to go to a top league - even Russia, but not France."
Mbokani is also thought to be on the radar of Juventus, but any potential interest from Ligue 1 is unwanted, after the player's ill-fated stint at AS Monaco two years ago.
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MAGISTRATE Andrew Eckhold has called for the establishment of a drug court in Dubbo to protect the community and assist offenders caught in the vicious cycle of addiction.
The Magistrate said drug courts had demonstrated success in other areas:
"It is an important issue to address, particularly as the custodial rate in NSW is higher than other states,'' he said.
Magistrate Eckhold raised the need for a drug court while dealing with a man "with a long history of dishonesty driven by drug addiction".
Matthew John Marks appeared in Dubbo Local Court via audiovisual link from Wellington Correctional Centre.
Police allege the 31-year-old wrote dud cheques totalling $9000 during a three-week spending spree.
Marks is yet to enter pleas to 11 counts of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception, a single charge of failing to pay for meals and accommodation and an additional charge of failing to appear in court in accordance with bail undertaking.
The court heard Marks had obtained a bed at the Orana Haven residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre at Brewarrina.
Police did not object to an application for bail to allow Marks to participate in rehabilitation.
Magistrate Eckhold ordered Marks to be taken directly from Wellington Correctional Centre to Orana Haven.
In accordance with a bail undertaking, Marks must present to Brewarrina police within 12 hours if released from rehabilitation.
All charges were adjourned to February 27. Marks was excused from appearing in person on that day if legally represented and still in full-time residential rehabilitation.
Magistrate Eckhold urged Marks to act responsibly:
"Don't try to play ducks and drakes,'' he said. "If you have to leave rehab for something you have done, go to Brewarrina police.
"You have had a bad problem with drugs and dishonestly. You may or may not get bail again.''
Police facts tendered to the court said Marks had become homeless after the breakdown of a relationship.
He lived in motels for a period of time before moving into a campervan parked in the backyard of an East Dubbo house.
Police said Marks checked into a West Dubbo motel for three nights on March 4. He handed over $250 when the owner asked for payment.
Police allege Marks stayed a further three nights before leaving the motel without paying $640.80 for accommodation and meals.
On March 16 he allegedly wrote a $234.92 cheque for clothing and footwear at a sporting goods retailer in Macquarie Street, Dubbo.
On the same day he allegedly cashed a personal cheque for $1000 at a Dubbo bank. Police allege he returned to the bank the following day with a cheque for $500.
On March 18 he allegedly cashed a cheque for $500 at a Macquarie Street hotel.
Police allege Marks continued to write cheques knowing he did not have sufficient funds in his bank account.
He is alleged to have purchased $100 meat packs from a North Dubbo butchery, jewellery worth $2890 from a Talbragar Street retailer and a $679 baby carrier from a Bultje Street store.
On March 28 Marks is alleged to have written four cheques totalling $1300 at a Forbes motel.
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City Hopes to 'Beet' Winter Weather
Juice Said to Aid in Snow Removal
Posted: December 24, 2012 at 2:20 a.m.
The Fayetteville Transportation Division has a new solution for removing snow from city streets: beet juice, a brown, sticky liquid that is a byproduct of processed sugar beets.
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Beet Juice
According to Beet Juice Salt, a Lisle, Ill.-based distributor of a beet juice mixture for snow removal, "Beet juice is becoming a very popular snow and ice fighting tool. It is organic, reduces corrosion, melts to very low temperatures and reduces the amount of material needed for application."
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Mistrial Declared in McNeil Case
NEWPORT, VT - Deontae McNeil, charged with attacking Donelle Morin in an apparent attempted robbery that went awry Oct 14. 2010, in Charleston, dodged a bullet last night when the jury told the court that it could not come to a decision. The court declared a mistrial. McNeil's alleged accomplice, Andrew Ladouceur, who made a deal with the state that netted him a 4-12 year prison term, testified against McNeil.The two-day trial was punctuated with attacks by defense attorney Bob Katims that the state police mishandled evidence, botched a photo identification, failed to follow up on other leads and had no DNA or physical evidence to tie his client, McNeil, to the attack. The case seemed to rely on the victim's recounting of the events of that day and on the testimony of Ladouceur. Ladouceur said he was in debt to McNeil and had heard that Morin had 300 pounds of pot in her basement. The two men conspired to steal the marijuana. Ladouceur said the men then drove from Connecticut, where McNeil is from, to the Northeast Kingdom where they obtained guns from a friend of Ladouceur on the pretext that they were going hunting. From page one.Ladouceur said the men conned Morin into getting into a car with them and they then pulled a gun on her. Morin panicked and fought with them. The gun discharged, just missing Ladouceur. Ladouceur stabbed Morin, but she managed to escape and run to her vehicle, where she was again threatened with a gun by McNeil. Ladouceur said McNeil fired a bullet into Morin's car and dragged her out of it. A few minutes later, Morin managed to escape the men and run to the woods, but not before being shot.Ladouceur told police that he deliberately let her go because he was afraid McNeil would kill the woman, but on cross examination, defense counsel got Ladouceur to admit that his prime concern at the time was to save his own skin.Morin received cuts to her arm and bullet wounds to her leg and foot. Morin told the jury that she was convinced the men were going to kill her.The case was prosecuted by State's Attorney Alan Franklin.


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The Waterman Fire Department opened its doors to four Waterman Tiger Cub Scouts for a visit on Jan. 10.
When scout leader Randy Leifheit asked if he could bring his Tiger Cubs to visit, Fire Chief David Lave, who is scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 139, quickly agreed. Tiger Cubs Will Leifheit, Dylan White, Alex Whitely and Cole Jernigan were given a tour of the fire station.
The boys thought the radio room was cool, the meeting room was OK, and the highlight of the kitchen was that one Tiger Cub found a penny. Then Troop 139 Eagle Scouts Nick Cipra and Mitchell Lave – who also is a firefighter – took the Cubs to see the good stuff – the big red trucks. The Cubs tried on turnout gear, turned on the trucks' emergency lights, explored the ambulance and talked to each other on headsets.
The Cubs also "met" Rescue Randy, a department training manikin, and saw SCBA masks, the Jaws of Life and a thermal-imaging camera. Firefighter Nick Watgen, who also is a scout leader for Troop 139, put on all of his turnout gear and showed the Cubs all of the tools he carries in his pockets, which seemed bottomless to the Cubs.
After the tour, the Cubs stayed to sit in on the Troop 139 meeting.
"One of the best parts about being a fire chief and also a scoutmaster is being able to teach and mentor so many different ages," David Lave said in a news release. "If they ever wanted to stop back, the doors will be opened and we will be here."


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Kalen Delaney and I go back over a decade. Only, she doesn't know that.
In 2000—after teaching myself *cough* Access *cough* and then teaching myself some very rudimentary aspects of SQL Server—I interviewed for a job a MyComputer.com [1]. As part of that interview, I was asked where I saw myself in another 10 years. To which I responded that within 10 years I saw myself as being a SQL guru—someone who know all about the best way to query things, design databases, make them fast, and keep them running.
Related: Why Learn About SQL Server Internals?
MyComputer.com turned out to be quite a ride for me—even if we were using MySQL (and dabbling in Oracle a bit). But, I eventually left and got to get back to something that had really caught my attention early on: SQL Server.
And, it was about this time that I bumped into a book that changed my life forever.
Inside SQL Server 2000 – by Kalen Delaney
Simply stated, this book blew my mind. Not only was it so INSANELY chocked-full of everything my eager little mind thought it could EVER learn about SQL Server, but it was so insanely well written and so approachable that I began thinking that not only could I eventually use this book to become the 'SQL Server badass' that I wanted to be, but it made me rethink an age-old dream I'd always held out about possibly being a writer. (Something I really started to lose hope in when I switched gears away from my degree in Near Eastern Studies (i.e., culture, history, and language—where there are lots of, compelling, well written materials) — and started working with, well, stale, stogy, tech books that seemed like they were all too commonly written for people who already knew what was being explained.)
In short, Kalen's book fed my passions, mind, and career like crazy. Nearly 14 years later, I think I know a lot more about SQL Server, I write an awful lot, but I still feel like I have a long way to go. But, in hindsight, I've come a very long way and I'd be remiss if I did not hold up "Inside SQL Server 2000" as being a key component of my success and fuel for my ambitions.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals
Fortunately, Kalen didn't just write "Inside SQL Server 2000." Through the years ,she's applied her same, nearly absurd, understanding of SQL Server internals to books on SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 ("Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals").
Recently, she (along with several equally brilliant) co-authors have released "Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals" as a successor volume to the same great tradition started by "Inside SQL Server 2000."
I'm currently, slowly, making my way through it.
In fact, I've just barely finished chapter 2, jumped ahead and read a bunch of chapter 6, a bit of chapter 13, and plan on finishing the rest of the book … sometime.
Overall, though, what I've found, is yet another insanely good resource that's well worth the money if you're interested in learning gobs about SQL Server.
I've learned a lot about SQL Server in the past 14 years—and continue to learn more about it every day as I troubleshoot tons of problems and issues for clients on a regular basis, keep tabs on various blog posts or articles, and read a large amount of books.
But, to me, the biggest and nicest thing about "Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals" is that while I think I have a good handle and 'know' roughly 80-90 percent of what's being covered in each chapter [2], there's also a good more than10 percent of things that are new to me (or that I've forgotten I ever knew). Yet, even with the stuff I have a good 'handle on' and 'know' pretty well, it's still super nice to see it so concisely and well documented and explained. And, more importantly: so easily understood and approachable.
Ultimately, if you're interested in learning more about SQL Server and like to read, then you simply can't go wrong. In fact, I'm betting that if you're really interested in learning about SQL Server, this book could drastically alter your career plans (for the better).
Learn more about SQL Server from Kalen Delaney.
[1] At the time, MyComputer.com was the epitome of an 'internet startup' prior to the bubble. Eventually, I was hired to be part of the data team—a small group of folks who kept MyComputer.com's MySQL Servers humming and collecting analytics data for a product called 'SuperStats' – which would later become Omniture.
[2] Amazingly, I managed to find a 'mistake' in the book. It's in Chapter 1—which is kind of 'fluffy' in that it's primarily an overview of what will be covered in subsequent chapters (meaning that it's not really part of the true 'internals' stuff). Nonetheless, in the section on setting server options—specifically the setting for backup compression, the book states that while SQL Server 2008 introduced backup compression, "only Enterprise edition instances can create a compressed backup"—which actually isn't totally true. Because with SQL Server 2008R2, Standard Edition picked up the ability to created compressed backups as well-meaning that SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition and SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition can create compressed backups. Technically, the book is correct in what it states—it's just that there's a bit MORE that could be stated on the subject.


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adidas Adi Ease X Blood Wizard Shoes, Black/ Light Scarlet/ Mid Cinder/ Running White
The Adi Ease, Mark Gonzales' pro model shoe comes to life again on this limited colorway collaboration with Blood Wizard Skateboards. Its simple-yet-functional style is right on time with its slightly padded collar, thin tongue, premium suede upper materials, and solid toe cap. The custom Blood Wizard adidas sock liner inserts produce comfort and slight impact dampening for its flat vulcanized construction. It also has a cured rubber wrap-around outsole for long lasting flick.
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Exhibition: Genesis by Bezalel Ngabo, Feb. 4-28 2014 @ Creativity Gallery – National Museum
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GENESIS: An exhibition by BEZALEL NGABO.
Dates: February 4-28, 2014
Venue: Creativity Gallery, Nairobi National Museum
Time: Daily 8.30 am to 5.30 pm
Entry: Museum rates apply
Bezalel Ngabo realized he had artistic abilities when he was very young. He was born in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa where he attend the fine arts school, academy des beaux-arts to build his skills. His art later took him to Kenya where he held several exhibitions providing him opportunities to further his career. Bezalel now resides in Nairobi, Kenya. He is married to a beautiful Kenyan lady and is currently a father of one.
Painting is Bezalel's way of appreciating the beautiful world we live in, especially in Africa to educate his viewers of the basic virtues of life that help contribute in making our world even more beautiful. Painting mainly abstracts, Bezalel draws his inspiration from the Holy Bible, which he believes is a mirror to the human spirit, and from day to day happenings in our society. All his pieces are original and unique.
To view some of Bezalel's stunning art visit: http://www.bezalelngabo.com/
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After shortlisting 25 proposals from 24 states, the FAA has selected six test sites across the U.S. to conduct civil unmanned aircraft system (UAS) research.
Geographic and climatic diversity were key requirements for the selection. The six selected operators are: the University of Alaska, the state of Nevada, New York's Griffiss International Airport, North Dakota Department of Commerce, Texas A&M University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
The test sites, to begin operation within 180 days, will conduct research to help the FAA develop regulations and operational procedures for the safe integration of UAS into national airspace. Establishing the sites is a key step toward meeting the congressional deadline to integrate UAS by September 2015.
University of Alaska Fairbanks leads a multi-state team that includes Hawaii and Oregon. The team will operate a pan-Pacific complex of 14 test ranges — seven in Alaska, four in Oregon and three in Hawaii — in seven climate zones, covering overland, oceanic, coastal, arctic, tropical and desert conditions.
According to the FAA, the team's research plan includes developing standards for UAS categories, state monitoring and navigation, and safety standards for UAS operations.
The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems plans to work on UAS standards and operations as well as operator standards and certification requirements, the FAA says. The state's test resources include airfields and special-use airspace in sparsely populated areas.
Griffiss International, in central New York state, plans to focus its research on sense-and-avoid capabilities for unmanned aircraft and integrating UAS into congested northeast airspace. The team also plans to develop verification and validation processes for UAS test and evaluation.
North Dakota has established the Northern Plains Unmanned Systems Authority to operate its temperate-climate test site, which will focus on high-reliability data link technology, human-factors research and developing essential airworthiness data, the FAA says.
Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi's Lone Star Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center will operate a site focused on developing protocols and procedures for airworthiness testing of unmanned aircraft system. The team includes the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute and the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.
Virginia Tech leads the Mid-Atlantic Partnership, which includes the University of Maryland and Rutgers University and test ranges in Virginia and New Jersey, and will focus on UAS failure-mode testing and identifying and evaluating areas of operational and technical risk, the FAA says.


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A leading member of the Colombo crime family was sentenced Wednesday to more than 19 years in federal prison for racketeering and possessing firearms and ammunition.
Ralph F. DeLeo, a "street boss" of the Colombo family of the Mafia, pleaded guilty to running a criminal enterprise known as the DeLeo crew, which engaged in cocaine and marijuana dealing, extortion, and loan sharking. The crew operated in areas of Massachusetts, Arkansas, Florida and New York, prosecutors said.
DeLeo, 69, of Somerville was sentenced Wednesday by US District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to 235 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and a $50,000 fine. DeLeo has already served 36 months in prison. DeLeo pleaded guilty to a federal indictment naming him and his associates in May.
The sentencing of DeLeo, who has a history of involvement with La Cosa Nostra, came a week after the head of the New England Mafia was sent to prison. Anthony DiNunzio, 53, was sentenced in federal court in Rhode Island to six years in prison.
"Our office continues to investigate and prosecute organized crime wherever it attempts to establish a foothold in the Commonwealth," said US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz .
Richard DesLauriers, special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston division, which has a task force investigating organized crime in New England, added, "It is undeniable the FBI and our law enforcement partners have broken the LCN's code of silence."
Timothy Watkins, DeLeo's lawyer, said: "Ralph DeLeo stood up to take his punishment in federal court for the things he has done, things he has now put behind him. He did so with much equanimity and grace."
"As an aging and ill man," Watkins added, "he is looking forward to maintaining his health as best as he can within the difficult confines of the federal prison system. He hopes for eventual release to be with his family and friends in his declining years."
According to prosecutors, DeLeo ran rackets here to increase his status in the Colombo family. Prosecutors say they would have shown at trial that on one occasion, he orchestrated a cocaine deal of 2 kilograms.Milton J. Valencia can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @miltonvalencia.


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By way of perspective on the political travails sparked by the business woes of state Sen. Eric Kearney of Cincinnati, picked to run for Ohio lieutenant governor by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald:
By way of perspective on the political travails sparked by the business woes of state Sen. Eric Kearney of Cincinnati, picked to run for Ohio lieutenant governor by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald:
Over roughly 40 years, three black Ohioans have won statewide elected office. All three candidates were Republican: Cincinnati�s J. Kenneth Blackwell (as state treasurer, then as secretary of state); Columbus� Jennette Bradley (as GOP Gov. Bob Taft�s lieutenant governor); and, also from central Ohio, the late Judge Robert M. Duncan, as a state Supreme Court justice (albeit, unopposed).
Republicans also nominated greater Clevelanders Virgil E. Brown Sr. for secretary of state and, twice, Judge Sara J. Harper for the Supreme Court.
Over those same years, Ohio Democrats nominated black candidates more than a half-dozen times for statewide elected office. None won.
True, Democratic governors appointed three to statewide elected offices. One was the late Judge Lloyd O. Brown, a greater Clevelander, to the Supreme Court (by Gov. John Gilligan); another was Columbus� Kevin Boyce, now an Ohio House member, as state treasurer (by Gov. Ted Strickland); the third was Yvette McGee Brown, another central Ohioan, to the Supreme Court (also by Strickland).
But when those three ran for elected terms, none won. That is, though black Democrats are among the pillars of the Ohio Democratic Party, the party � as a pathway for black Democrats to statewide office � has been all detours and no arrivals.
This year, besides Kearney, Democrats also have slated Sen. Nina Turner, a black Clevelander, for secretary of state, Ohio�s chief elections officer. She�ll challenge the Republican incumbent, Jon Husted of Kettering.
Because of business setbacks, it turns out, Kearney, his wife and a company they own owe hundreds of thousands of dollars in late federal and state taxes and penalties. And that revelation has led to some speculation that Kearney will leave or be dropped from FitzGerald�s ticket.
People who consider politics a board game will second-guess the FitzGerald-Kearney pairing until something else draws public attention. Come what may, though, the challenge for Ohio Democrats is to actually walk � not just talk � the diversity they say they favor. And based on statewide election results to date, Democrats have a way to go.
There are 12 black Democrats in the Ohio House and five in the state Senate � proportions that meet or exceed the 12 percent of Ohioans the Census counts as black.
It also is true that Democrats have ruled the Ohio House for only two of the past 19 years. Still, a black Democrat has never been House speaker or Senate president. Yet Pennsylvania�s House elected a black Democratic speaker as long ago as 1977 (the late K. Leroy Irvis of Pittsburgh). Irvis also served three speakership terms in the 1980s.
One bit of history lost in the Statehouse mists is that before future Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, a Democrat, won an Ohio House seat in 1962, every black Ohioan ever elected to the General Assembly had been a Republican. The first was state Rep. George Washington Williams, a Cincinnatian. Elected in 1879, Williams served in 1880 and 1881.
That highlights a couple of ironies. Here�s one: Today, some Statehouse Republicans, in a party that promoted political participation by black Ohioans, strive to hold it down by changing absentee and early-voting rules, and claiming, despite scant evidence of purported voter fraud, that Ohio needs a (discriminatory) voter photo-ID law.
And the other irony? Democrats, functionally, form an interracial coalition. But as to electing black Democrats to statewide office in Ohio, Democrats� won-loss record makes the Cleveland Browns look good.
Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University.


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SEOUL — North Korea's military said it placed all its missile and artillery units on ''the highest alert'' on Tuesday, ordering them to be ready to hit South Korea, as well as the United States and its military installations in the Pacific islands of Hawaii and Guam.
The threat from the North's Korean People's Army Supreme Command came only hours after President Park Geun-hye of South Korea warned that the North Korean leadership could ensure its survival only when it abandons its nuclear weapons, long-range missiles, provocations, and threats.
In its latest threat, North Korea said on Tuesday that all its strategic rocket and long-range artillery units ''are assigned to strike bases of the US imperialist aggressor troops in the US mainland and on Hawaii and Guam and other operational zones in the Pacific as well as all the enemy targets in South Korea and its vicinity.''
"They should be mindful that everything will be reduced to ashes and flames the moment the first attack is unleashed,'' the North Korean command said in a statement carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have risen following North Korea's launching of a three-stage rocket in December and its third nuclear test last month. In response, Washington and Seoul spearheaded a UN Security Council resolution imposing more sanctions on North Korea and began their annual joint military drills aimed at warning North Korea against attacking the South.
North Korea has since issued a torrent of threats to turn Washington and Seoul into a ''sea of fire.'' Its leader, Kim Jong Un, who has inherited the ''military-first'' policy of his late father, Kim Jong Il, has made a round of visits to military units in the last week.
He inspected live-fire artillery and amphibious landing exercises, ordering his soldiers to send the enemies ''to the bottom of the sea as they run wild like wolves threatened with fire,'' according to North Korean media.
In South Korea, Park, the country's first female president, showed her own resolve Tuesday, visiting a national cemetery to pay respects to the 46 sailors who were killed in 2010 when a South Korean navy corvette sank in an explosion the South said was caused by a North Korean torpedo attack.
''I strongly urge North Korea to change,'' she said in a nationally televised speech marking the three-year anniversary of the incident. ''North Korea must immediately abandon its thought that nuclear weapons will protect its regime.''
Although North Korea denied responsibility for the sinking and some South Koreans questioned the credibility of their government's investigation, which assigned blame to the North, the 2010 episode has become for many South Koreans an emotional symbol of North Korean hostility.
On Monday, the South's conservative daily Chosun Ilbo cited unnamed government officials as saying that if North Korea launched a provocation like the Cheonan sinking, the South Korean military would retaliate by launching missiles at gigantic statues of Kim's grandfather, Kim Il Sung, and father, which are objects of worship in the North.
The South Korean Defense Ministry would not comment on the report, but vowed a ''thousandfold, ten-thousandfold retaliation'' against a Cheonan-like provocation from the North.
Calling the monuments ''symbols of the dignity of the supreme leadership'' of North Korea, the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, an agency in charge of relations with Seoul, said Tuesday that the North ''will destroy the den of confrontation including Chongwadae, hotbed of all evils.''
Chongwadae, or ''the Blue House,'' is the South Korean presidential office. North Korea warned that Park should not repeat the ''treacherous acts'' of her predecessor, Lee Myung-bak, whose hard-line policy, coupled with North Korean provocations, had resulted in a prolonged chill on the peninsula.


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Pink peppercorns are deceiving little things. They're not actually peppercorns but, in fact, dried berries cultivated in Madagascar. To me, these faux peppercorns have a delicate floral taste with a spark of pepperiness.
I had the vision to transform sugar cookies with a lift from the pink peppercorns. Not only do they meld nicely with the sweet cookie but, cut into heart shapes, these cookies are a great homemade gift for a spicy-loving sweetie.
Take your favorite sugar cookie recipe like this one or use a packaged one in a pinch.
While rolling the dough out, sprinkle with 1 1/2 tablespoons ground or chopped pink peppercorns over the dough. Gently roll the rolling pin back over the dough, so the pink peppercorns are incorporated into it. Using a heart-shape cookie cutter (or another shape), cut into shapes and bake.


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The lights are on
Update: The site has finally refreshed and Square Enix has unveiled Star Galaxy. Read more about it here.
Update: The countdown has ended! And it looks like nothing has changed on the website. Is Square Enix trolling us?
Is a new Star Ocean game in the works? Square Enix's teaser website for an upcoming game announcement screams of this beloved RPG series. Along with a countdown timer, which expires in one day, the site offers a not-so-subtle hint of what we can expect from the game with the words "star, epic, border, war, galaxy, divide, supremacy, ambition, bandiera."
That sounds like Star Ocean to me, but I've learned to never rule anything out with Square Enix. Knowing how this company loves to give games ridiculous names, it could be Kingdom Hearts: Star, Epic, Border, War, Galaxy, Divide, Supremacy, Ambition, Bandiera. We'll have an answer in one day, folks.
Thanks go out to GI reader Vinny V for the news tip. Check out Joe's review of the last Star Ocean release.
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For the love of Bezzlebub, let it be a new Star Ocean.
Might be good.
I'm hoping for a Star Wars game, if any company can pull of the space aspect of it, it's Square Enix.
agree, more like star ocean. and... YES HOPE ITS STAR OCEAN!!!
A new Star Ocean?? Yes sir, I'll take it!


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Around 40 environmental and public health activists from the San Joaquin Valley staged a rally today at the state capitol, pushing for a wide range of regulatory and legislative actions that they claim will improve air quality in the San Joaquin Valley.
The Central Valley Air Quality Coalition traveled to Sacramento to gather public support and to meet with legislators on a number of environmental issues. The group is asking the legislature to fund more air quality monitors in the Valley and in the Sierra, as well as to restore a monitoring site in Arvin that had been moved.
The group also voiced support for a bill by Assemblymember Betsy Butler that would put a moratorium on fracking in the state's oil and gas fields until the state issues regulations on the practice.
Kevin Hall, the executive director of the Coalition told Valley Public Radio today the group is also concerned about efforts to amend the state's signature environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act, also known as CEQA.
"This is the most important public health protection law in California and it should not be tampered with lightly," said Hall.
According to the Los Angeles Times, a draft bill currently circulating in the capitol could result in changes to CEQA that would speed up the development process for projects that comply with local zoning laws. Hall said any changes to CEQA should get a full review.
"There is a need for CEQA reform, and it should happen in the correct way, not in closed door deal making in the capitol, and at the end of the session when there's no adequate public review or consideration."
Last year, at the end of its session, the legislature passed a handful of CEQA reforms, including an exemption for a planned NFL stadium in Los Angeles, as well as fast tracking developments of over $100 million.
The Coalition also announced today support for a bill by State Senator Kevin de Leòn which would direct funding from the state's anti-global warming "cap and trade" program to communities that have suffered the most from pollution, such as the Central Valley.


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USDA Illinois Soybean Crush Report for Oct. 12
Springfield, Illinois, Oct. 12 (Bloomberg Data) -- This table displays a comparison of soybean prices with the value of soybean oil and soybean meal for products delivered to central Illinois points during the week ended Oct. 12.
These weekly prices are supplied by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, expressed in dollars a bushel. Quantities are expressed in pounds a bushel.
Soybean prices compared with value of oil and meal
This week Last week Last year
Unit Oct 11, 2012 Oct 4, 2012 Oct 13, 2011 Soybean oil, crude tank cars & trucks Central IL. ?/lb 49.75 49.79 53.06
Oil yield per bushel crushed lb 11.60 11.60 11.58
Value from bushel of soybeans $ 5.77 5.78 6.14
48% Soybean Meal unrestricted, bulk Central IL. $/ton 491.20 485.30 309.70
Meal yield per bushel crushed lbs 48.05 48.05 44.37
Value from bushel of soybeans $ 11.80 11.66 6.87
Value of oil and meal from bushel of soybeans $ 17.57 17.43 13.02
No. 1 Yellow Soybeans truck price Central IL. points $/bu 15.61 15.59 12.52
Difference between soybean price & value of oil & meal $ 1.96 1.84 0.50
Estimated Processing Value (EPV) $/bu 17.46 17.34 13.63
This table is presented for statistical comparison and is not intended to indicate operating margins.
Soybean meal is the most common and usually the most economical vegetable protein supplement, and contains 48% protein. It is produced using a solvent, or chemical process that separates the oil from the soybean. Domestic animal feed accounts for about 75% of meal consumption and the rest is exported.
Soybean oil is used in products including cooking oil, solvents for grease removal and metal cleaning, and hydrolic oil. It is also used in soy diesel products as a replacement for petroleum-based diesel fuel.
Yellow soybeans have yellow or green seed coats which in cross section are yellow or have a yellow tinge. According to the Federal Grain Inspection Service, No.1 yellow soybeans must test weigh at least 56 pounds a bushel, have less than 2 percent damaged kernels, and contain less than 1 percent of soybeans of other colors.
Figures used in the table are based on crushings and production of soybeans for and are verified by the Bureau of the Census. Data is presented for statistical comparison and is not intended to indicate operating margins.