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Just about everything that could go wrong at Kansas Speedway has for Kyle Busch.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Just about everything that could go wrong at Kansas Speedway has for Kyle Busch.
During the April race weekend, the driver of the No. 18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing wrecked in practice. He crashed out of the Truck Series race the next day. Then he spun twice more in the Sprint Cup race, finishing 38th after a hard crash ended his afternoon.
Things haven't been a whole lot better this weekend, either. Busch hit the wall hard in the opening minute of practice on Saturday and again will be in a backup car for the race on Sunday.
If there's ever a time to figure things, it's right now. Busch is off to a strong start in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, sitting third in the points. He's within striking distance of leader Matt Kenseth and Jimmie Johnson, two drivers who have fared much better in the heartland.
Busch has strung together three straight top-five finishes, and after testing Goodyear's new tire at Kansas this summer, he's confident he can turn around his fortunes.
"It's not that you might not like a track or might not like a race or something like that," Busch said. "It's just a matter of trying to figure it out. Once you kind of get it figured out or get the right situations kind of lined up, you can have a shot."
Kevin Harvick, who is tied with Jeff Gordon for fourth in points, ended a 254-race pole drought and will lead the field to the green flag. He'll start alongside Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Johnson will start in the second row next to defending series champion Brad Keselowski, who is trying to play spoiler after failing to make the Chase.
Busch taken the green flag in 12 Cup races at Kansas and has yet to win. It's the only track where he has never finished in the top 5, his best run a seventh-place in 2006.
Busch has crashed out of the last two races at the 1�-mile tri-oval, the first two races at Kansas since a re-grade and repave significantly altered the way it drives.
"I thought we were running decent there last fall. Actually, I was leading and I spun myself out while I was leading," Busch said this week. "So, hopefully, we have a good car like that this time around and I don't make a mistake like that."
If he does, he could head to Charlotte next weekend in a deep hole.
His JGR teammate, Kenseth, has won the last two races at Kansas, and is carrying momentum into the weekend. He opened the Chase with a pair of wins and was seventh last week at Dover, giving him an eight-point lead over Johnson and 12 points on Busch.
"I don't really know," Kenseth said, when asked whether he can extend his string of solid results at Kansas. "It's six months later, weather is a lot different, there's a lot that has changed since the last time we were here in April."
Busch and Kenseth both have one thing going for them: JGR has dominated on intermediate tracks in NASCAR's Gen-6 car, winning nine times this season.
Johnson is also bringing plenty of positive vibes to Kansas, where he's finished in the top 10 nine straight times, including a victory in the 2011 fall race. The five-time series champion won last week to move to second in the standings.
"The mile-and-a-half stuff has been good for the 48 team," Johnson said. "I wish we would have closed a few more wins, but we had good speed after working with the new tire."
This will be the second race that NASCAR uses Goodyear's "multi-zone tread" after its debut last month at Atlanta. The tire has two distinct sections, one that's designed for more durability and one that's designed to give drivers better traction.
Teams had an extra testing session on Thursday to get acclimated to the tires, but they were still trying to figure them out Friday and Saturday, as evidenced by a slew of spins — Kenseth and Johnson also went for a whirl during testing and practice.
Gordon will start in the seventh row, and fellow Chase contenders Greg Biffle, Ryan Newman, Clint Bowyer and Kurt Busch will be coming from deep in the field.
"All we can do is our best to get the best out of our car," Gordon said. "We can't control what our competitors do. We can only control what we do, and to me it's living up to our full potential and let the chips fall the way they're supposed to."


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Hoyer Statement on Shooting in Newtown, CT
Katie Grant, 202-225-3130
WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today following the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut:
"I was deeply saddened to hear about today's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. What occurred there is every parent's worst nightmare – a senseless tragedy, leaving us to wonder what could motivate someone to commit such a horrible act against innocent children and those who serve as their educators. My thoughts and prayers are with the students, teachers and families affected by today's shooting. There can be no consolation other than to know that they have the heartfelt prayers and support of an entire nation."

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I am also aware that java cannot manipulate system resources also the fact
that all the operating system dos not have system tray. I might have to use
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Topic: Nicholas II
A rare historical figure is the subject of a graffiti drawing in Belgrade, Serbia. An enormous image of Emperor Nicholas II can now be found on Ulitsa Tsara Nikolaja II, in the Vrachapy district of the capital. I regret that the artist is unknown.
The Serbian people had great respect for the last Russian Tsar, never forgetting his coming to their aid in World War I.
On 24th July, 1914, Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia sent Tsar Nicholas II the following telegram;
Yesterday the Austro-Hungarian Government presented to the Serbian Government a note about the murders at Serajevo. Ever since this horrible crime was committed Serbia has condemned it. We are willing to investigate the plot and we will severely punish any Serbians who are found to be involved. But, the demands from Austria-Hungary are unnecessarily humiliating for Serbia . However, they say we must agree to all of them in forty-eight hours or Austria-Hungary is threatening us with war. We are prepared to accept some of the conditions but we need more time and the Austro-Hungarian army is already preparing for war.
We are unable to defend ourselves and we beg your Majesty to help us. The friendship which your Majesty has always shown toward Serbia gives us confidence that our appeal to your noble heart will be answered.
On 27th July, 1914, Tsar Nicholas II sent Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia the following reply;
Your Highness was quite right to contact me and nor were you mistaken about the friendship I have for the Serbian people.
My Government is doing its utmost to smooth away the present difficulties. I have no doubt that neither you nor the Serbian Government will neglect any step which might lead to a settlement, and both prevent the horrors of a war and protect the national dignity of Serbia.
All efforts must be directed at avoiding bloodshed; but if, despite everything, there is war you can rest assured that Russia will never abandon Serbia to her fate.
According to Father Demtrios Serfes, on March 30, 1930, a telegram was published in the Serbian newspapers stating that the Orthodox inhabitants of the city of Leskovats in Serbia had appealed to the Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church with a request to raise the question of the canonization of the late Russian Emperor Nicholas II, who was not only a most humane and pure-hearted Ruler of the Russian people, but who also died with the glory of a martyr's death.
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I've actually been busy at work, which is a nice change, but it means that I don't take as much time to do "me" stuff like blogging. Then with moving next week and all the stuff we have to do to close on the house, well... don't expect to see much then either. Hopefully by the week after I'll see the light of day.
It's really not lack of topics. I've got a bunch floating around in my head. It's not you, it's me. lol. (Sorry, just sounded like a bad break-up line.) I'll probably post a quick "I got Blizzcon Tickets" once that happens next Monday. Other than that... I'll just consider this my "dead week"... just like back in High School for sports.
The experiences in World of Warcraft through the eyes of a player that can't spend 10 hours a day raiding.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Downtime Expected to Continue
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As a fan of your blogs, i feel personally neglected by the lack of posts lately..... jk :P
- August 5, 2008 at 6:24 PM
bump! I second the motion!
- August 7, 2008 at 8:38 AM
- Leiandra said...
Fine! You guys got your post. heh. I really do enjoy blogging/writing. It's quite therapeutic to me. I'm glad you guys enjoy reading.
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A South Florida resident who was cleaning out his shed Sunday night was startled to discover that a 13-foot, 100-pound Burmese python had been using the structure as its home.
Police and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Anti-Venom unit arrived and safely removed the giant reptile. Inside the shed were lots of snake skin and the remains of one of the homeowner's three cats, which had recently gone missing.
The reptile apparently had been residing beneath storage bins in the shed. Five people were used to hoist the snake, which put up almost no resistance. It was bagged and taken away
"This snake is probably about 13 feet long. We measured it a little over 12 with the tape measure, but there were curves," Lt. Lisa Wood of Fire Rescue told WSVN. "So, I'm thinking 13 feet and close to 100 pounds. It's a big snake."
Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida. They're abundant in parts of the state, primarily the Everglades region, where they're considered dangerous to native wildlife. Florida is actively trying to eradicate the reptiles, via hunting and other control measures.
Wood said that the snake captured Sunday probably was somebody's pet long ago, because albino pythons are popular among snake aficionados


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What I hadn't anticipated was the gold mine of family information that was contained on just one of the four sheets of paper - a sheet labeled, "Vital Statistics". I'd never really thought of finding so much information about the parents of a student in that student's records, but take a look at the text of an email that I just sent out to all of my Greene cousins to share what I'd found out with them:
Hi Greene Cousins,
Just wanted to share a little information with all of you. Perhaps you may already know all of this, but I got some new-to-me tidbits (gems, really) of information today that I want to pass on.
I recently ordered William L Greene's records from the Archives Department at Cornell, in an attempt to pinpoint when he began to use the "e" on his name. I did find that at the time of his application to Cornell, he was already using the e. (I knew it was on his diploma, which is hanging at 2101, but I wanted to see if he used it before that.)
I was thrilled to also find out the following information from Uncle Bill's "Vital Statistics" sheet from Cornell.
1. The actual dates of his first child's birth and death were confirmed. William Lawrence Greene, Jr. was born 2/9/1928 in Garysburg, N.C., and died there on 8/1/1928.
2. John W. Greene was born in Oxford. I had not previously been able to locate his place of birth.
3. WL's mother (our great-grandmother)'s middle name was Georgiana! (I'll bet that doubles the reason Uncle George got his name!) Susie Georgiana Dunstan Greene died in Rolesville, 12/4/1907. (I have been trying to find her date of death for TEN YEARS. I'd assumed she died in Franklin County, but now I know it was Wake. Those few miles make a big difference!)
4. WL lists the date of birth for his father (our great-grandfather) as July 18, 1865. I won't change this just yet on the tree, because everything I've had prior to this has been July,1864. However, it's great to have the exact day in July on which he was born (the 18th). I hope I can verify this one way or the other though, because, as the oldest child of Anna Green and Nathaniel Hawkins, it would change some things in my research to find out that their first child (John) was actually born pre-Emancipation.
5. Uncle Bill uses 927 South Main Street as his permanent address. (This was my grandmother's house - his sister, Annie.) He also lists my grandmother as his next of kin and first reference. I called Aunt Sue to tell her about all this, and when I told her that, she said that she recalled that Uncle Bill did live there for a short time, but I don't know the circumstances.
6. William and Georgia were married on June 10, 1927 in Oxford.
Well, that's all folks. Just keeping you informed about your fam-bi-ly! :)
As you can see, I racked up! I had no idea I'd find out all of that just from getting Wm's graduate application! There was more, but I only sent things that were news to me in the email. So, folks, if your ancestors attended college at any time, you might want to consider getting those records! Who knows what great information you'll find!


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The lights are on
Dad took my Xbox away, so now I'm gonna get into PC gaming. I don't have a lot of money so what's a decent build for a laptop and how much will it cost me? When I say decent I mean I want to play as many games as smoothly as possible. My current specs
I do not recommend a laptop for gaming since they are over priced and not customizable. I would recommend buying a desktop or even better build one. If you are planning on buying a desktop I would say do not buy Alienware they are over priced. I would recommend a desktop with at leased a 660ti video card, and an i5 3570k and at about 8 GBs of RAM. For a build like this it would cost about $900. You can of course go cheaper, but newer games will start to struggle a little bit at mid to higher graphics settings.
Here is a link to a desktop that you can buy that could handle most games at higher settings. I do understand that this might be above your price range. What is your price range anyway, so I can get a better idea of what you could buy?
If you're not spending at least $1200 on a desktop then it's not worth doing. If you're thinking of a laptop, you're looking at closer to $2000 for something that still won't be worth getting because it will become out dated relatively faster than a high end desktop. My advice is try to get your xbox back.
I5 3570K - MSI GD65 Z77 - CORSAIR H100i - CORSAIR HX-850w - GALAXY GTX 660TI GC SLI - CORSAIR 500R - 8gb KINGSTON HYPERX BLUE 1600mhz - 120GB KINGSTON HYPERX SSD
I've had problems with laptops in the past so I would suggest a desktop.
So if your Dad took your xbox - why is he letting you play on the PC?
He's not what you would call "smart"
Never mind guys, I got it taken care of. Thanks for trying though.
My advice is to first take a hint from your dad and spend a few less hours gaming and more being productive, which is probably why he took your console away. I mowed lawns during the summer for cash and bought an N64 back in the day. You will need to save at least $1,000 for a decent gaming PC. Your current computer is good for surfing the web and it would be a waste of money trying to load a modern game onto it.


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We at Zeega want to enable anyone to create interactive documentaries and invent new forms of storytelling. Today is a moment of dramatic media transformation. We see this as an opportunity for journalists, artists and the public to invent new ways to tell and gather stories.
Zeega looks like an application that bears watching. Read about their collaborative story projects and think about how you might be able to use this documentary story tool to create business stories of your customers or stories about your business. Think of customers and you creating collaborative stories together. Think of you and your staff creating collaborative stories together about your business.
Hmmmm -- lots of food for thought here.


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Levitating Graphene Is Fastest-Spinning Object 146
techbeat writes "A flake of exotic carbon a few atoms thick has claimed a record: the speck has been spun faster than any other object, at a clip of 60 million rotations per minute. Previously, micrometre-sized crystals have been spun at up to 30,000 rpm using an optical trap. It is thanks to graphene's amazing strength that the flakes are not pulled apart by the much higher spinning rate, says Bruce Kane at the University of Maryland in College Park. Spinning could be a way to probe the properties of graphene, or manipulate it in new ways."


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There are plenty of "best places to work for" lists, but PayScale, the compensation and performance metrics tracker, united with Business Insider to evaluate workplaces using feedback about "happiness" -- satisfaction, work "meaningfulness," stress, schedule flexibility -- and median pay compared to industry peers.
Several of the tech industry's best-known names scored spots. Here are 10 companies solution providers know well that made the list's top 50.


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BEIJING – A report says Europe is surging as a popular luxury destination for Chinese millionaires.
The Hurun Chinese Luxury Consumer Survey 2013 says France is number one and half of the top 10 destinations are European countries. They include Switzerland, Britain, Italy and Germany.
The U.S. and Singapore are 2 and 3.
The survey released Tuesday says Chinese millionaires who send their children abroad still prefer the U.S., followed by Britain and Canada.
It also found the richer they are, the less happy they are, with both male and female millionaires generally dissatisfied with their health and wanting to spend more time with their children.
Swimming is their favorite hobby and the Internet their medium of choice for news.
The report surveyed 551 mainland Chinese millionaires between June and December 2012.


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Few lane closures expected for Thanksgiving holiday
By Lisa Burnett
This article was published November 20, 2012 at 4:35 p.m.
LITTLE ROCK The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department announced Tuesday that it will have minimal lane closures on Arkansas roads during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Travel on Interstate 40 will be reduced to one lane in both directions near the White River Bridge in Prairie County. The closure will extend from mile marker 198 to 202 for eastbound traffic, and from 198 to 206 for westbound traffic, the department said.
Motorists are encouraged to consider alternate routes around the construction area including Highway 70, parallel to Interstate 40 to the south or Highway 64 to the north, between Marion and Bald Knob.
Highway 245 in Texarkana will be reduced to one lane in each direction extending from Interstate 30 southward to Highway 82.
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News Release: Florida CFO Office
July 2, 2014
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater today announced the arrest of Thomas Tomblin, of Ocoee, for the theft of more than $1.5 million in state funds intended to feed inmates in state correctional facilities. Tomblin is charged with grand theft and other felony charges after he, along with husband and wife Tyrone and Christy Walker, of Gainesville, devised a scheme to fraudulently insert a third party manufacturer into the Department of Corrections' food procurement process in order to siphon funds through kickbacks. Arrest warrants have been issued for Tyrone and Christy Walker.
"To steal from the state of Florida is to steal from every hardworking taxpayer in this state and such acts will not be tolerated," said CFO Atwater. "I applaud this partnered effort and each office's continued work to stop this kind of fraud, waste and abuse from happening in our state."
This arrest is the result of a joint investigation by CFO Atwater's Office of Fiscal Integrity, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) that revealed M&S Foods', owned by the Walkers, presence in the procurement process brought no value and served only to increase FDOC's food costs paid under its contract with US Foods. Additionally, US Foods' contact manager, Thomas Tomblin, received more than $700,000 as payment from the Walkers for keeping M&S Foods on board as a vendor.
"They robbed the taxpayers of $1.5 million," said FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey. "My appreciation to each who played a part in the investigation."
"I am pleased that these arrests have now been made and a strong message has been sent that we will not tolerate theft of funds that support our mission of providing care for the inmates in our Department's custody," said Michael Crews, Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections. "We are proud of the diligence of the Department's Office of Inspector General in its commitment to this case and deeply appreciate the dedication of our state partners at FDLE and CFO Atwater's Office of Fiscal Integrity in working together to combat this criminal activity."
If convicted, Tomblin faces a maximum penalty of 75 years in prison and repayment of more than $1.5 million in restitution to the state. The cases will be prosecuted by the Office of the Statewide Prosecutor.
CFO Atwater's Office of Fiscal Integrity is responsible for statewide investigations of allegations of fraud, waste and abuse involving State of Florida property and money.


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The women's basketball team finished the season with a 21-8 record, while making their fourth straight trip to the Skyline Conference Finals and second straight trip to the ECAC Metro Region Finals. The Rams also defeated conference rival Mount Saint Mary College for the first time in program history with a 67-66 victory at home. Coach Mooney is now 124-64 over his seven years with the team.
The team was led by Skyline Conference Defensive Player of the Year, senior guard Rochelle Clark, who finished the year with 119 steals, 132 assists and 7 points per game. She led the team in minutes played and was the only member of the team to start all 29 games. Joining Clark with First-Team All-Conference honors was junior guard Christine Daley, who was also named to the All-Metropolitan basketball team. Daley averaged 13.9 points and scored 402 total points this year, shooting 33-percent from long range.
Freshman Kimberly Blakney, who joined the team just before the winter break, finished her freshman year with a team-high 17.8 points per game, 6.9 rebounds and 31 blocks. Junior forward Jasmine Sistrunk, another late addition to the team, shot .533 from the field and scored 9.6 points per game over the Rams final 13 games.
Junior center Mercedes Miller led the team in rebounding, totaling 176 on the season. Miller scored 11.5 points per game and shot 44.6-percent from the field. Junior guard Dankery Perez had a team-high 145 assists and averaged 10.3 points per game. She has accumulated 383 assists and 659 points in her career and will be returning for her final season in 2007-08.


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JACKSON, Miss. — Civil rights advocates say harsh disciplinary practices at many Mississippi schools lead to children being expelled and even incarcerated for minor infractions, policies that disproportionately affect minorities.
A joint report by groups including the ACLU and NAACP says the problems are more widespread than just the city of Meridian, where the Justice Department has filed a suit claiming officials are running a ''school-to-prison pipeline'' for minor infractions.
The groups say the Meridian lawsuit is just one example of a problem ''that has plagued Mississippi schools statewide for years.'' The report was a joint project of the state chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP with the Mississippi Coalition for the Prevention of Schoolhouse to Jailhouse and the Advancement Project.
''The bottom line is that there are no successful schools in America that have high expulsion, suspension, and arrest rates,'' Scott Roberts, a coordinator for Advancement Project, said at a news conference in Jackson.
The report comes less than three months after the Justice Department filed a lawsuit in US District Court in Jackson alleging that students in the southeastern city of Meridian have been sent to juvenile detention for infractions such as flatulence or dress code violations, and that mostly black and disabled children are affected.
The defendants deny the allegations and the city said in court records that the police department amended its arrest policies before the suit was filed. Youth court judges in Lauderdale County also denied the allegations in court documents.
The new report says many schools in Mississippi use zero-tolerance policies and students end up incarcerated or kicked out of school ''often for the most trivial misbehaviors.''
The report also cites a study of 115 school districts in Mississippi that found black students were three times more likely to receive out-of-school suspensions than whites and the number was higher in certain districts.


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Daily Links: Wed., Dec. 7: Muppets, Tebow, Rick Perry
Who knew the Muppets, bringers of joy and happiness to children for decades, could incite such defensiveness from grown adults? Christian Century eloquently takes said adults to task [1] for this and, among other things, failing to fact check before politicizing Muppets. Meanwhile, an Episcopal priest finds the story told in the new Muppets' movie not unlike the story the church faces today. [2]
Unfortunately, the blogosphere just won't quit with all the Tim Tebow talk. What used to be a funny joke between Liz Lefebvre and me, has now become an insurmountable and maddening task. For the past few weeks, we, both on the side of "haters" (it's not personal) in the Tebow debates, have been starting our mornings by emailing the latest blog post waxing on about the virtues of Tebow, whining about why people just don't like him (usually because the haters are deficient in some way, OF COURSE), and the occasional sane post about how Tim Tebow is actually not a good NFL player (I suggest replaying Denver's games on your Tevo and reflecting on just who is doing the winning in these games). These days, the posts are multiplying [3] and we just can't keep up [4]!
Our own Scott Alessi asks whether Rick Perry's new campaign ad is "strong or just plain wrong." [5] Perry's new tactic is to appeal to faithful voters' sense of pride over being Christian. "I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian," Perry starts off saying. "But you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school." His slippery logic is certainly just a taste of what's to come in the New Year.


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On this episode, we review the indie coming-of-age dramedy, THE KINGS OF SUMMER. We check out the much anticipated re-make of THE GREAT GATSBY starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire and directed by Baz Luhrmann. We give you our DVD pick of the week and review the spy thriller THE EAST. And wrap it up with a voyage on the Enterprise with a review of STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS.
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Vellum acts as a reading list for your Twitter feed, finding all the links that are being shared by those you follow on Twitter and displaying them each with their full titles and descriptions.
Vellum puts a spotlight on content, making it easy to find what you should read next.
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Amoeba: una app que reconoce tus intereses y te ayuda a descubrirlos en la red.
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For users, the new filters offer a way to find curated content sources from other Twitter users..."
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We've had great success with B2B marketing by remembering that these prospects are people first, B2B second. The shift to thinking about your program as H2H marketing is definitely one to watch. Must-read article!
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Simpática invitación al retorno de la comunicación H2H, mejor dejemos los teclados, salgamos a escuchar al mundo.
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Stephen Dale's curator insight, April 24, 2014 12:09 PM
So glad that Google is putting some investment into its Trends service. Being able to subscribe to a Trends search is a natural extension to Google's news alerts service.
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Monkeys and Typewriters: I use online quite a lot - this is a case in point. I find it a good way to book-mark things I want to access later as well as to publicise to colleagues.
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Personalmente, los denomino de formas diferentes, "Gestión" y "Curación" de contenidos, puesto que aunque en la gestión no se aporta el valor diferencial del punto de vista del curador, aún así es una gran labor la de seleccionar buen contenido y ayudar en su difusión.
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Quality content curation takes time. It takes time to read sources before promoting them.
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Dave Grohl Releases New Trailer for 'Sound City' Documentary
Don't worry. The documentary about the legendary Sound City Studios, in Van Nuys, Calif., that's being produced and directed by Dave Grohl is still on the way. In fact, a third teaser trailer about the 'Sound City' flick has just been posted, which you can check out below. And by teaser, we kind of mean that literally, as such things as the release date of the documentary still have not been announced.
In this, the latest of three 'Sound City' trailers so far released, musicians as varied as Tom Petty, Mick Fleetwood and Garbage's Butch Vig rave about the all-analog Neve 8028 sound board housed in Sound City's main studio, which has been used for the recording of bands as varied as Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young and Johnny Cash. "There's just something about the Neve sound that my ear has always been attuned to," says Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails fame in the clip.
'Sound City' relays the story of the studio, which was in business from 1969 until 2011, and the many classic works produced there. Grohl's own association goes all the way back to Nirvana's classic 'Nevermind' album, which was recorded there in 1991.
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Editor's Note: In his third installment, physician John Gallen e-mails CNN from near San Diego, California about how he got home and what he found there.
Firefighters spray buildings in Poway on Tuesday in an attempt to stop them from burning.
POWAY, California (CNN) -- We made it back into the house last night. There were National Guardsmen at key checkpoints in Poway that were set up to protect neighborhoods from looters. These young men were carrying fully loaded M16s. For a quick second I thought I was in a war zone. That was incredibly intimidating for me.
As I approached the checkpoint, I rolled down my window and I was asked to show proof of ownership if I was to pass. I never had such a hard time finding my wallet, which was hiding in my back pocket. My hope was that I still looked like my picture so they would let us go.
The guardsman allowed us through, but with a military tone to his voice when he adamantly delivered this warning: the area was still "hot" and I should remain vigilant at all times. I assumed that meant that there were still fires burning and our safety could not be guaranteed.
Up the hill we went. We had no idea what we would see when we turned onto our street.
As we drove up our driveway, we could see our house was still standing.
The moon was full but not really white. (This particular color does not come at the local paint store.) The moon's shadow was quite muted making it hard to see, making it even harder to walk around the house without bumping into bushes or trees.
From what I could see or feel, the outside of the home only had wind damage with debris from the queen palms and branches strewn everywhere. Those palm trees have 8-inch spikes on their fronds. Stepping on them or picking them up could result in a major penetrating injury.
I circled the house to make sure that no one had broken into a back window or door. I was relieved that it was secure.
We opened the garage door and drove in. Burnt tires. It looked like an old campfire.
My eyes were watering and I had to cough several times as I opened the door to the house. I knew it was entirely unhealthy to be breathing this air. But we made the decision to take back our home, and there was no stopping us now.
As we went inside, we were taken aback by the emptiness that was left behind.
We had 38 8-by-10 framed pictures of the three kids as they grew from babies to adolescents. The walls were now barren other than the hooks and nails protruding from the walls that once supported those memories.
I noticed a dark brown soot stain at each entry door, especially between the two front doors, as if the fire had been probing our home for a way to get in.
It was almost as if it were a living organism looking for another victim to satiate its evil appetite.
I guess our home didn't taste good. Or perhaps my grandmother was there in spirit to defend what was rightfully ours. After all, her Persian rug was her pride and joy and not even this monster was going to devour her prized possession. My grandmother's rug survived, but it was damaged.
The whole house had a layer of fine dust that had settled on all the surfaces. The mirrors, the glass and the counters were unclean.
I walked into the closet where we had left our clothing, all of it still hanging there. But it smelled like someone had been smoking. Nonsmokers cannot stand such a smell. We are nonsmokers.
Where's the dog? We had been wandering around but in the excitement of taking stock of our home, we forgot to keep track of the puppy we'd evacuated with. "I thought you had him."
"No, I thought you had him." So out into the blackness and quiet I ran yelling for Fenway.
Then the phone rang. Can you believe it? A neighbor down the block found him on their property as they were driving up to their home. Boy, were we glad to have him back.
He has yet to settle. He continues to pace. That phone call made the whole thing real. There were others out there, and we were not alone.
We settled in to watch the Red Sox, still aware that the fires are burning to the west of us.
It is almost bordering on guilt that we are OK. Maybe that will be enough to continue to mobilize and energize this city in its incredible spirit of giving and sharing.
I have what is important to me right now. I have four walls, three kids, my wife and my puppy. I can only hope that all those displaced will find the same sanctuary in the very near future. E-mail to a friend


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Ouch! The 2012 football year was painful.
It was definitely not the worst football year for area football fans in regard to overall play on the field, but it is hard to remember a more DISAPPOINTING football year in our part of the country than 2012.
Ouch! The 2012 football year was painful.
It was definitely not the worst football year for area football fans in regard to overall play on the field, but it is hard to remember a more DISAPPOINTING football year in our part of the country than 2012.
We are going to stick to talking about the Saints, LSU and Nicholls because there were many enjoyable moments for area high school football teams, but when it came to the upper level of football in south Louisiana, there were some good times that were overshadowed by a lot of painful endings.
It all started well enough on Jan. 7, 2012 in the Superdome in New Orleans when the Saints dismantled the Lions 45-28 in an NFC wildcard game. Things were looking great for New Orleans and quarterback Drew Brees as they were on a roll and improved to 14-3 overall and had ideas of a second Super Bowl win in three seasons.
But in that same stadium just three days later, things started going south for south Louisiana football fans.
No. 1 LSU entered the BCS national championship game against No. 2 Alabama undefeated at 13-0 on the season and Tigers fans were thinking about another BCS championship.
But former LSU coach and current Alabama coach Nick Saban and his Crimson Tide had other ideas in shutting down the LSU offense and handing Purple and Gold fans a painful 21-0 defeat in the first shutout in BCS title history.
And as if that wasn't hurtful enough, it got worse a few days later when the Saints played at the 49ers in the NFC Divisional round of the playoffs.
Vernon Davis caught a last-second touchdown pass to cap a breathtaking 36-32 win that ended the Saints season after a game that had four lead-changing touchdowns, two by each team, in the game's final 4 minutes.
Then to make matters worse for Saints fans, a few hours later the Giants upset the Packers in Green Bay, which would have meant the Saints would have hosted the Giants in the NFC championship for the right to go to the Super Bowl if not for that catch by Davis. The Giants went on to win the Super Bowl.
That loss started a tough stretch for the Saints. In March, the "Bountygate Scandal" began. It just recently ended and led to the suspension of Saints coach Sean Payton for one year and later played a part in an 0-4 start to the season for the team, which rebounded to close 2012 at 7-5, but the end result was an overall 7-9 mark and being left out of the postseason for the first time since 2007.
Some of the only good news for Saints fans in 2012 was that just days before the new year, Payton agreed to a 5-year contract extension with the team after Brees inked a new deal through 2016 in July.
For LSU during its 2012 season, the Tigers got some bad news before taking the field when it was reported star defensive back Tyrann Mathieu, the top defensive player in the country the year before, was kicked off the team.
The Tigers overcame that blow and started the season at 5-0 and climbed as high as No. 2 in the country. A 14-6 loss to Florida followed, but the one that really hurt was falling to No. 1 Alabama 21-17 on Nov. 3 in Baton Rouge on last-second screen play.
What made that worse was a win in that game would have later sent LSU to the Tigers to the SEC championship and maybe the BCS championship after Alabama lost to Texas A&M.
LSU fans suffered more on Dec. 31 when LSU lost to Clemson, 25-24, on a last-second field goal in the Chick-fil-A bowl to close the season at 10-3.
While the Saints and Tigers had many great moments to go with some painful ones in their 2012, there was nothing good about what the Nicholls Colonels did in 2012.
They went 1-10 for the second straight year and ended the season with a 77-3 loss at Oregon State.
Here's hoping for a less disappointing 2013 on the gridiron for the Saints, Tigers and Colonels.
Staff Writer Kelly McElroy can be reached at 857-2211 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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You can read the transcript of the Republicrat debate between vice presidential candidates Dick Cheney and John Edwards here. The next presidential debate will be held this Friday, October 8.
Here is info on a debate with presidential candidates from the Green, Libertarian, Constitution, and Socialist parties happening tonight at Cornell University.
The Guardian UK has posted some excerpts from Michael Moore's new book Will They Ever Trust Us Again: Letters from the War Zone here. They are all real letters and e-mail sent to Michael Moore by soldiers stationed in Iraq.
10/01/04: Transcript of Bush-Kerry debate
You can read the transcript of the first Republicrat presidential debate for Election 2004 here. Future scheduled debates include the vice presidential debate with John Edwards and Dick Cheney on Tuesday, October 5; and two other presidential debates on October 8 (town hall meeting style) and October 13 (on the economy). Check your local listings for broadcast times.
09/22/04: Jello & The Melvins on Halloween!
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Alternative Tentacles 25th anniversary show
The Bay Area's own Alternative Tentacles, one of the oldest independent labels, is celebrating its 25th anniversary! To commemorate the occasion, we have assembled a great line-up of AT artists that show the diversity and scope of the label's vision. We hope to see all of your smiling faces at the show, as it will be a night to remember!
Alternative Tentacles 25th anniversary show:
Jello Biafra with the Melvins
Jello Biafra with the Melvins are the confirmed headliners, but the rest of the order is still undecided, so come early! Doors will be at 7 pm and tickets will be $18.
Slim's is located at 333 11th Street, San Francisco, CA
Formed in 1979 by Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra, Alternative Tentacles has been giving art a bad name ever since. The AT discography showcases work from a diverse array of artists that includes Biafra's entire musical and spoken word discography, as well as releases from Wesley Willis, Mojo Nixon, D.O.A., Pitchshifter, JFA, and many, many others throughout the label's history. AT also specializes in releasing spoken word albums by leading political thinkers like Greg Palast, Noam Chomsky, and many others. AT continues its battle to bring worthwhile music to the world and is looking forward to another 25 years of polluting the mainstream!
It all happens September 10th, 11th, and 12th at the Women's Building and at the Red Vic Movie House- check out the schedule of films, workshops, live music, and more at the NOBOSS site!
"During Schwarzenegger's address, peace activist and Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin was on the floor of the convention. As she was standing less than 20 feet away from Vice President Dick Cheney, she unfurled a pink banner that read "Pro-Life: Stop the Killing in Iraq." Security officials quickly approached her and told her to put it away. Medea responded by saying it was a pro-life banner. Minutes later, a Secret Service man came up and asked for her press credentials. She stalled for a few minutes cheering Schwarzenegger along with the Republican crowd.
She was soon surrounded by more security officials. When she realized she was being escorted off the convention floor. Medea Benjamin turned to Vice President Dick Cheney who was sitting 20 feet away and repeatedly yelled "Stop the killing in Iraq." Secret service members carried her upside down off the convention floor.
What Medea Benjamin said to Mr. Cheney as she was carried off of the convention floor:MEDEA BENJAMIN: Mr. Cheney, stop the killing in Iraq! Mr. Cheney, stop the killing in Iraq! Mr. Cheney, how much money did you make on the war? Mr. Cheney, how much money did you make on the war? Stop the killing in Iraq! Stop the killing in Iraq! Stop the killing in Iraq! Stop the killing in Iraq!"
08/31/04: RNC Protests continue with Police tricks
From 9/1/04 NY Times: "Many fear that the intensity and frequency of the clashes could escalate, and have questioned police tactics.
'It's an example of the police suckering the protesters,' said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, referring to the arrest of some 200 protesters who said they thought they were abiding by an agreement they had negotiated with the police as they marched from ground zero on Fulton Street on Tuesday.
'It was a bait-and-switch tactic,' she added, 'where they approved a demonstration and the protesters kept up their end of the bargain. They undermined people's confidence in the police, and that's a serious problem as we go forward.'
The Dicks will be Gary Floyd, Buxf Parrot, Pat Deason and guest guitar players. Glen Taylor, who passed away a few years ago, will be there in sprit. Also playing will be Shootin' Pains (Buxf and Pat's band from Austin) and Gary Floyd's Hard Again.
Here's hoping this riveting first-person narrative of military experiences in Iraq remains available to the world! cbftw.blogspot.com
"FBI Harassment of Artist and Scientist Continues: Dr. Steven Kurtz, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Buffalo, was arraigned and charged in Federal District Court in Buffalo today on four counts of mail and wire fraud (United States Criminal Code, Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1341 and 1343), which each carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison... [His co-defendant was charged later]
The defendants were charged not with bioterrorism, the investigative reason that was state on the original FBI subpoenas, but with a glorified version of 'petty larceny,' in the words of Kurtz attorney Paul Cambria. The laws under which the indictments were obtained are normally used against those defrauding others of money or property, as in telemarketing schemes. Historically, these laws have been used when the government could not prove other criminal charges. Under the arraignment conditions, Kurtz is subject to travel restrictions, random and scheduled visits from a probation officer, and periodic drug tests.
A great number of people are wondering why this seemingly absurd case is still being pursued... Preeminent science magazine Nature has called on scientists to support Kurtz. 'As with the prosecution of some scientists in recent years, it seems that government lawyers are singling Kurtz out as a warning to the broader artistic community.... Art and science are forms of human enquiry that can be illuminating and controversial, and the freedom of both must be preserved as part of a healthy democracy--as must a sense of proportion.'
Some believe that the entire case is merely a face-saving tactic by the FBI: 'Recently, federal agents arrested University at Buffalo art professor Steven Kurtz, implying he was a bioterrorist. Now, officials have downgraded that to a mail fraud charge.... The FBI always gets its man, even if it has to change its charge. Jaywalkers, beware' (Buffalo News)."
The Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie-a-thon will be held on July 9th, 2004 from noon to midnight, as a benefit fundraiser for Ladyfest Bay Area 2004. Organizers and others who dread our governor will get together for 12 hours to try and see how many movies 'o "Arny" they can stomach. Help us make The Governator Movie-a-thon a success:* Take part in the torture! Call up your friends, loved ones, co-workers and roommates to sponsor you. At The Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie-a-thon there'll be snacks, potluck, and hours of hyper-masculine movies starring the Governor himself. Such box office hits as The Terminator trilogy, Total Recall, Conan the Barbarian, Twins, and the ever classic Junior will be shown. We are however hoping to avoid any actual appearances by the blockbuster superstar himself. You can get involved by emailing email@example.com There you can let us know you want to be a party to the masochism and we can send you a form to solicit donations. We'll email you later to let you know where to come to appreciate this champion of state and screen.
* Sponsor one of our participants! Consider donating a dollar to ten an hour, or a lump sum of $20-200. Ladyfest is a registered non-profit so your donations are tax-deductible.
* Donate video, video rentals, or "Arny" paraphernalia! Do you own any of the Gov's movies? Got stacks of "Arny" masks waiting to be worn? Got any commentary on Arnold's recent deficiencies in office? Bring'em on down to liven the atmosphere and give participants something to work for.
More information on this event and the entire 2004 Ladyfest Bay Area (July 29-August 1 in San Francisco) at here!


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A statue depicting a seemingly contrite Adolf Hitler kneeling in prayer in the former Jewish ghetto in Warsaw is causing a stir in Poland. Artist-provocateur Maurizio Cattelan created the statue, titled "Him," in conjunction with an exhibit at the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw.
Cattelan's statue is visible to the public only through a hole in a gate, according to reports. Viewers can see the statue's back, but not its face.
The artwork has been drawing condemnation. The Simon Wiesenthal Center called the statue "a senseless provocation which insults the memory of the Nazis' Jewish victims," according to a report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
2012 IN REVIEW: L.A's top 10 arts and culture stories
Cattelan is an Italian artist who lives in New York. His provocative body of work includes the infamous "The Ninth Hour," a sculpture showing Pope John Paul II crushed under a meteorite.


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My edition: Paperback, Vermillion 2011, ISBN 9780091939526. The book was first published by Crown Archetype in 2010.
How did I get it?
It was a present from a friend – and he still is 😉
Why did I read it?
Discussing the difficulties of changing my own behavior consistently, it became clear to me that I was full to the brim with preconceptions, mostly in the category of grandma's wisdom. My friend claimed that this book had opened his eyes about the concept of the minimum effective dose. Change takes very little, but very focused effort. Intriguing.
Why a partial review?
This is one of the most provocative books I have read. It certainly cleared up with my preconceptions about things I can't do and change being hard and painful. I must admit that I did not read the whole book. Sounds worse than it is: The author himself suggests that everyone pick from the book what is of interest to him or her. And I did. I focused on the sections on weight loss and perfecting sleep. There are further sections on improving sex, reversing injuries, running faster and farther, getting stronger, swimming better, and achieving a longer and better life. None of these interested me at the time – perhaps some other time.
The gist of it
The theme of the book is the minimum effective dose. Ferriss's thesis is based on the Pareto principle taken to an extreme: He claims that not only do 20% of the effort usually create 80% of the results (the classic Pareto principle), but knowing a mere 2.5% of the total of an subject matter can get you as close to as 95% of the total result. For example, if you know 2.500 high frequency words in Spanish, you will be able to comprehend 95% of all conversations – corresponding to 2.5% of the estimated total of approx. 100.000 words in the Spanish language. The trick is knowing the right 2.5%. And Ferriss claims that he has found these valuable 2.5% in the subject matters he deals with in this book. You can achieve results extremely quickly and with minimal effort – provided you are not already an expert in the field.
Ferriss takes nothing for granted – neither Grandma's wisdom nor what appears to be scientific evidence. He tests on himself. The result is a diet and exercise regime that is supposed to produce fast and impressive body reshaping results. The diet avoids all carbohydrates like the plague that are – or could be – white. These include bread, rice, cereal, potatoes, pasta, tortillas and all foods with any of the components listed above. Instead, you should eat plenty of protein rich foods, such as eggs, meat, fish, chicken. Very important: Have enough vegetables with high protein because these, as a rule, contain enough carbohydrates to feed you we well – just slow carbohydrates, consisting of longer molecular chains. You need these to prevent the feelings of fatigue and low energy which are often associated with a LOW carbohydrate diet. These are lentils and beans of all kinds. Just as important: legumes (spinach, sauerkraut, asparagus, peas, broccoli), and all other kinds of veggies. Not recommended: fruit, because of fructose. You can eat as much of the recommended foods as you want – no starving required.
Astonishing: Once a week you can go on a complete binge, forget about all the diet restrictions, and eat as much as you want of any food, even the ones indexed for the rest of the week. Pretty incredible. Ferriss considers this one-day-a-week-binge a critical component of the entire fat reduction program, not to be skipped for false ambition.
Even better: the exercise part. Ferriss claims that with a few selected exercised which are focused on building muscle, you can reshape your body and greatly increase fat loss with as little as 3-4 hours per month in total – less than an hour per week, distributed over two or three sessions per week. So much for the old saying: Calories IN minus calories OUT equals weight loss or gain.
The book has more than 300 pictures, mostly before and after pics. It has lots of anecdotes and success stories. And it has a lot of ideas and suggestions that are definitely not for me (like taking ice-baths). But it also provides so many controversial ideas that the result in the reader is a profound self-inspection and an interest to try some of them out. Therefore, I believe the book reaches its objectives and is a very worthwhile read.
Side notes
The best part: it works. It has worked for lots of people who give testimonials on Ferriss's website. And it has also worked for me and still does.
If anyone is irritated by the several affiliate links listed in the book, it should be said that Ferriss donates all the proceeds from those to charitable causes.
In the meantime, several programs have adopted Ferriss's principles, the most recent one being an online program promoted by John Cena of the WWF. It will be interesting to follow its success. My German friends have told me that the same program has been running extremely well over there for two years.


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US CIOs: IT hires on the rise
Nowhere close to lawyer hires
Robert Half Technology, the IT unit of the eponymous headhunter, says that CIOs are more optimistic about the prospects of hiring more people and doing more IT projects than you might otherwise think.
Every quarter, RHT surveys more than 1,400 CIOs at companies in the United States that have more than 100 employees and asks them what they are up to in terms of hiring, firing, and projects. This time around, when RHT was asking how the second quarter of 2011 was shaping up, the news was good.
Specifically, 9 per cent of CIOs told RHT that they planned to hire IT staff in Q2, with only 2 per cent saying they would be letting people go. That's a net 7 per cent increase in hiring by company count, which is a lot better than the net 3 per cent in hiring in the fourth quarter of last year when RHT asked CIOs what they had done. Net hiring percentages were on the rise in 2010 but fell a bit in the fourth quarter of last year, and the gap fell to a net zero hiring rate across companies at the end of 2009. Net hiring was 5 per cent in the first quarter of this year.
Back in Q4 2008 and Q1 2009, by comparison, CIOs reported a net 8 per cent rise in hiring, with 11 or 12 per cent hiring and 3 or 4 per cent firing, respectively. We're not quite back to normal, of course, but things are moving in the right direction. That was just as the Great Recession was getting into a full roar in the States. In December 2007, just as the recession was getting going, RHT's IT Hiring and Skills Report, which you can see here, indicated that 20 per cent of CIOs were hiring and 3 per cent were firing.
In the survey for Q2 plans, 84 per cent of the CIOs polled by RHT said they were pretty confident about their company's prospects for growth in the coming quarter, and half of them were optimistic or very optimistic (that's a 4 or a 5 on a 5-point scale) about increasing investments in projects in the second quarter. (Of course, this survey was done before the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and whatever effects it might have on the US economy.)
These CIOs report that security and networking personnel are in high demand, cited by 13 per cent of CIOs as being the most sought after skills they have on their employee wish lists. Application development coders were cited as on the top of their hiring list by 11 per cent of respondents, and help desk/tech support were at the top for another 10 per cent of CIOs. Hiring is strongest in the finance and real estate sectors, and the wholesale and healthcare industries are almost as strong, according to RHT.
So how does IT hiring stack up to other professions. Well, better than most where Robert Half has headhunting services, but not quite as good as lawyers, as you can see:
Advertising and marketing employee hiring is also better, and so is sales and business development. Look at it this way, at least there isn't much action in human resources, so maybe they will leave you alone. ®
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Non-African Middle-Income Countries Pay Four Times More for ARVs Than African Middle-Income Countries
July 12, 2013
A recent study argued that although antiretroviral (ARV) treatment is available at relatively low prices in lowest income countries -- those with gross national incomes (GNI) of less than US $1,025 per person per year -- many middle-income countries with large HIV epidemics are paying very high prices because no established system exists for fair ARV pricing for these middle-income countries. In fact, no consistent correlation exists between drug prices and GNI for middle-income countries.
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If any section of said pipe line shall not be completed within one year after the approval by the Secretary of the Interior of said section, or if any section of said pipe line shall be abandoned or shall not be used for a period of two years, the right of way granted in sections 966 to 970 of this title as to any uncompleted, abandoned, or unused section of said pipe line shall be forfeited to the extent that the same is not completed or is abandoned or unused at the date of the forfeiture, without further action or declaration on the part of the Government or any proceedings or judgment of any court.
Section repealed by Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 706(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793, effective on and after Oct. 21, 1976, insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, upon, under, and through the public lands and lands in the National Forest System. Such repeal not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., existing on Oct. 21, 1976, see section 701 of Pub. L. 94–579, set out as a note under section 1701 of this title.
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Maybe Mark Zuckerberg was right when he said, way back in 2010, that people just don't give a you-know-what about their privacy online.
The Facebook founder didn't quite put it that way. But he came close: "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," Zuckerberg said, soon after Facebook had drawn ire for making changes to its privacy settings.
The subtext, as U.K. newspaper The Guardian said at the time, was clear. It was also a bit of circular reasoning: The popularity of social sites like Facebook means that people no longer expect privacy on social sites like Facebook. "That social norm is just something that has evolved over time," Zuckerberg said.
"Devolved" would have been the better word choice.
Fast-forward to last Friday afternoon at 4:50 ET, when Facebook quietly copped to a previously undiscovered bug that may have publicly exposed the private contact information of 6 million users. The note begins: "At Facebook, we take people's privacy seriously... ."
The announcement's timing is worth noting. Companies don't share news that they want people to pay attention to just before happy hour on a Friday -- and definitely not on the first day of summer.
The Huffington Post ran a thorough and rather entertaining dissection of Facebook's communications strategy. That strategy appears to have worked: On the grand and growing scale of online data breaches and privacy brouhahas, Facebook's prior episodes among them, this one barely generated a yawn.
[ Would you share information about your belongings with Google? Read Google Mine Wants To Track Your Stuff. ]
That might have something to do with bigger-picture timing: The latest data breach came right on the heels of The Washington Post's report that both the National Security Agency and FBI have direct lines to the servers of nine major internet companies -- Facebook among them. Hey, what's a few million leaked phone numbers and email addresses when the government has unfettered access to just about everything we do online?
Even with the Prism revelations, a funny thing happened: While there was a predictable amount of handwringing and media debate, the general response seemed more like a large collective shrug. In fact, I think that was my actual reaction -- a shrug. It was more unsurprising than unsettling. Hey, waddyagonnado?
Half of Americans actually approve of the practice, according to recent Pew Research polling. There was no mass exodus of users from Facebook, Skype, or any other technology company on the Prism list -- nor Dropbox, which got a "Coming Soon" pass in the story. We didn't all relocate to abandoned industrial parks and go off the grid like Gene Hackman in "Enemy of the State." (That movie and its fictional NSA paranoia came out in 1998, by the way.) We probably didn't even re-check our privacy settings in our favorite online services. We talked about it. Made jokes about it, even. But we seem more fascinated with Edward Snowden's catch-me-if-you-can flight than the actual implications of what he brought to light. We've already gone on about business and lives. Fuggedaboutit.
Is there any virtual line in the sand when it comes to online privacy? Is there any limit to what we'll share "openly and with more people" than ever before, as Zuckerberg put it? It doesn't seem so.


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By NICK PERUFFO
PRINCETON — While the season hasn't gone exactly the way Princeton guard Chris Clement had hoped, the junior now suddenly finds himself preparing for a crucial role in perhaps the biggest game of the season.
After nearly falling out of the Tigers' rotation completely, Clement played perhaps his best two games of the year last weekend against Columbia and Cornell, averaging 6.5 points and 3.5 rebounds in more than 20 minutes per game while also showing off his ability as an extremely tough perimeter defender.
Now, with Ivy League-leading Harvard coming to Jadwin Friday night, Clement will likely be among the players tasked with slowing the Crimson's explosive backcourt duo of Siyani Chambers and Wesley Saunders — who combine to average nearly 30 points per game.
"What you saw last weekend was a season-long commitment to staying with it," coach Mitch Henderson said of Clement before practice Wednesday. "There was never any give-up on that kid's part, which I think is a testament to him and to the staff for saying that this is going to be an important role for him."
Expectations were high for Clement to start the year. With the graduation of Doug Davis and Jimmy Sherburne out for the season with a shoulder injury, the 6-foot-2 Texas product came in to the season as the Tigers presumptive starter in the backcourt alongside classmate T.J. Bray.
Clement did start the first four games of the season, but the Tigers went 1-3 with tough losses to Northeastern and Rutgers. Over that stretch, he managed just 11 total points on 23 percent shooting while dishing out only a single assist.
"For me, it was frustrating," Clement admitted. "I'd be in here with (assistant) coach (Dan) Geriot all the time, in the morning working on my jump shot. In the beginning of the season, it wasn't dropping the way that I wanted it to, so coach Geriot really kept encouraging me and telling me not to lose confidence and to keep shooting whenever I was open."
In Princeton's fifth game of the season against Lafayette, coach Mitch Henderson opted to put the 6-foot-8 Denton Koon in the starting lineup instead of Clement. Koon has flourished in the role — he's currently the team's second-leading scorer at 11 points a game — while Clement found himself increasingly glued to Henderson's bench. At one point midway through the season, he didn't score a point against a Division I opponent for 11 straight games.
"It was definitely tough at times, but thinking of the big goal (of winning the Ivy League) we had made it a lot easier for me to just do whatever coach wanted me to do and whatever was best for the team," he said. "Denton came in, stepped up and played great."
Clement knows a little something about perseverance. Growing up around the University of Texas — his father, Michael, is a professor in the graduate business school there — he developed a fascination with Longhorns guard D.J. Augustin, who is now in the NBA with the Indiana Pacers. Because Augustin is only 6 feet tall, Clement, who played in high school at Stony Point in nearby Round Rock, felt that he could learn from him, and so began trying to ingratiate himself.
"It really started out, I guess you could say creepily, after every single game I'd be like, 'hey D.J., what's up man, you remember me?'" Clement said with a good-natured laugh. "I'm not sure exactly how he felt about it. Eventually we got to the point where I got close enough to him where I was able to ask him questions about what he saw on the floor and different techniques he was using to create space."
Clement is also friendly with other former Longhorns, including current 76er Royal Ivey, who he has worked out with in the summer back in Texas. Perhaps the most telling anecdote about how Clement has endured this season involves not D.J. Augustin, but his father, Daryl.
"I remember we were at the Big 12 tournament one year, and one of the role players — D.J.'s dad was talking about it — one of the role players at the time stepped in and had a great game and they made it to the Big 12 championship game against Kansas," Clement explained. "His dad was talking about the importance of just keeping your confidence and being ready whenever the opportunity arises for yourself. Whether things are going up or going down, just keep a level head and just be ready whenever your time is called."
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Sorry we've gotten so backtracked. The crazy weather here has left us with power outages some nights, and on top of that I (Jane) have had some seriousely crazy homework. Oh and the dogs chewed our digital camera cord!! Too bad, we have some cool things to show you guys.
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My understanding is that I'm supposed to use the notion of the change in f(x) (also known as f'(x), correct?) to show a limit. As far as I'm concerned though, f(x) is just a parabola and doesn't ever experience the "limit" aspect anywhere so defining f'(x) as a limit seems a little silly.


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Is she a coworker or over them? If she was a coworker, she should have asked specifically, "Why are we discussing movies? Is there something I should know regarding a client?" Instead of what's going on? It makes her sound nosy and trying to be a "boss" when she isn't.If she is over them and they report to her, then she should say, "Excuse me, do not tell me don't worry about it. We are on company time and talking about movies. Why?"
If my supervisor told me to let it go, I wouldn't bring it up at a staff meeting. That could be seen as insubordinate.
She told me that this was not the first time something like this had happened and she was sick and tired of it.
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Voith Turbo supplying transmissions for Pittsburgh buses
A York County-based manufacturing facility will deliver bus transmissions that will be used by the Port Authority of Allegheny County.
Voith Turbo, which has a facility in Manchester Township, will ship 60 DIWA.5 transmissions to bus manufacturer Gillig LLC of Hayward, Calif., later this summer. The mechanisms will be used in clean diesel buses operating in and around Pittsburgh, according to a news release from Voith.
The company said its transmission allows for smooth gear shifts, reducing wear and tear and increasing driving comfort in city transit buses. The overdrive fourth gear optimizes fuel-friendly engine speeds in city traffic.
"The transmissions are not manufactured here; they are manufactured in Germany," said Erika Winemiller, Voith Turbo's regional marketing coordinator based in York. "We do, however, have a service program, where we rebuild and repair the transmissions."
At least 325 port authority buses use a DIWA transmission, Joe Dalik, regional sales manager for Voith Turbo, said in the release.
"DIWA transmissions were developed specifically for transit bus applications and they have proven themselves as a long wearing fuel efficient option for the market," he said.
Final delivery of the buses to Pittsburgh will be made near the end of the year. The port authority runs about 700 buses, which serve more than 175,000 customers on an average weekday.
Voith Turbo, a group division of Voith GmbH, specializes in drive solutions and systems. The parent company also owns Voith Hydro in West Manchester Township. Founded in 1867, Voith employs more than 43,000 people, generates $7.7 billion in sales, operates in about 50 countries around the world and is one of the largest family-owned companies in Europe.


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Issue Type: Bug Created: 2012-03-09T22:09:51.000+0000 Last Updated: 2012-05-20T18:44:39.000+0000 Status: Resolved Fix version(s): Reporter: arnaud (muby) Assignee: Maks 3w (maks3w) Tags: - Zend\Http
Related issues: - ZF2-206
I'm not sure about this issue, but to work on windows / wamp, I need to modified the index var.
Indeed in the code the index is 0 and the $baseUrl generated is like that : "/zend/public/index.php" and never match with if case.
I have initialized the index to 1 and the zendSkeletonApplication start working.
Posted by John Hermsen (johnh) on 2012-04-18T10:49:01.000+0000
I ran in the same kind of issue on Windows.
The site runs with baseurl like "/public/". What I noticed during the detectBaseUrl the 'SCRIPT_FILENAME' value includes a path not only the file so /public/index.php.
For testing I changed: $filename = $this->server()->get('SCRIPT_FILENAME', ''); to $filename = basename($this->server()->get('SCRIPT_FILENAME', ''));
Then it works, but only without adding the index.php. So just /public/ instead of /public/index.php
Posted by Ben Scholzen (dasprid) on 2012-04-18T10:56:16.000+0000
Hi arnaud and John,
Could you provide a unit test for that behaviour?
Cheers, Ben
Posted by John Hermsen (johnh) on 2012-04-18T11:36:40.000+0000
Hi Ben,
I'm not that familiar with unit testing.
But I just downloaded the ZendSkeletonApplication and mapped public in IIS as public. Because of the issue it kept giving the error "The requested URL could not be matched by routing" and the stylesheets were not loaded.
Posted by Ben Scholzen (dasprid) on 2012-04-18T11:41:56.000+0000
It's not that hard after all, see this file: https://github.com/zendframework/zf2/…
There you can find the method baseUrlandPathProvider(). Just add an array to it with three elements, where the first element is an array with supplied headers (see other examples), the second element being the detected base URL and the third one the base path.
Posted by John Hermsen (johnh) on 2012-04-18T11:55:38.000+0000
Hi Ben,
Thanx for the info.
For the array would be like this, I think: array( array( 'SCRIPT_NAME' => '/cgx_site/index.php', 'REQUEST_URI' => '/cgx_site/', 'PHP_SELF' => '/cgx_site/index.php', 'SCRIPT_FILENAME' => 'C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\public\index.php', 'ORIG_SCRIPT_NAME'=> null ), '/cgx_site', '/cgx_site/index.php' ),
Posted by Maks 3w (maks3w) on 2012-05-19T21:33:05.000+0000
I created the following PR for fix this issue. Could you test the fix?
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Telesca and Brown Sweep Sprint Freestyle Events for Knights Against Utica
Potsdam, NY - Seniors Jillian Brown (Kenmore, NY) and Kimberlee Stillittano (Binghamton, NY) and junior Abby Luber (Camillus, NY) each won a pair of events for the Clarkson University Swim team as the Golden Knights cruised to a pair of dual meet victories against Utica College on Saturday afternoon at Fuller Pool.
The Golden Knights' men claimed a 125-37 victory over the Pioneers and the women won 117-93.For the men, Paul Telesca (Liverpool, NY) won the 50 freestyle (24.89 seconds) and 100 freestyle (55.34), and junior Tyler Nichols (Spencerport, NY) also won a pair of events, including the 100 backstroke (1:05.24) and the 100 breaststroke (1:14.58), but his time in the latter event was counted purely as an exhibition. The same went for freshman Sam Zagrobelny (East Aurora, NY), who won the 100 butterfly (1:03.01) and 400 freestyle (4:35.48), with the freestyle race coming as an exhibition.
Also claiming victories for the Knights were Sean Parnett (Clifton Park, NY) in the 800 freestyle (9:20.67), Ray Bailey (Galway, NY) in the 200 freestyle (2:09.44) and Chris Plummer (Spencerport, NY) in the 200 individual medley (2:29.23). Clarkson's 400 medley relay team also took first as a non-exhibition, with Nichols, Plummer, Nick Short (Endwell, NY) and Telesca leading the way in 4:16.49.
On the women's side, Brown won the 100 freestyle (1:04.98) and 200 freestyle (2:23.55) events and Luber claimed the top spot in the 50 freestyle (31.47) and the 200 backstroke (1:19.53). Stillittano won a pair of specialty events, taking first in the 100 butterfly (1:17.60) and the 200 individual medley (2:45.04). Also winning individual events were Colleen Daly (Manlius, NY) in the 800 freestyle (10:40.46) and Kelly Mulvehill (Penfield, NY) in the 400 freestyle (5:10.83).


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Chuck Schumer Calls for GPS Tracking of Autistic Children...
Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder to ask the Department of Justice to fund GPS tracking devices for autistic children--even though there are private companies that already offer this service.
14-year old Avonte Oquendo disappeared from his Long Island school a month ago. He has autism and does not speak. Unfortunately, he has not been found. Parents with autistic children are joining forces with Schumer, who issued a statement:
The sights and sounds of NYC and other busy places can be over-stimulating and distracting for children and teens with Autism, often leading to wandering as a way to escape. Voluntary tracking devices will help our teachers and parents in the event that the child runs away and, God forbid, goes missing. DOJ already funds these devices for individuals with Alzheimer's and they should do the same for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Funding this program will help put school systems and parents of children and teens with Autism at ease knowing where their children are.


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#1 Life aint easy for an anti-war liberal :D03-28-2011, 09:32 PMAnti-war left has trouble convincing Obama followers to protest Libya involvement
By Jeff Winkler 3:54 PM 03/28/2011
Life aint easy for an anti-war liberal.
President Barack Obama launched air attacks against Libya eight years to the day George Bush sent bombs over Baghdad. Back in 2003, the lefty site MoveOn.org flexed [its muscle with] virtual marches, in which tens of thousands of protesters jammed Senate and White House phones, fax machines and e-mail boxes with antiwar messages. Originally founded to encourage the public to move on from Bill Clintons sexual escapades, MoveOn.org repositioned itself as a heavyweight in the early 2000s anti-war movement.
This time around? A little less than a week after the attack, MoveOn.org has articles bashing Out-of-Control Republicans in Wisconsin, but hardly a mention of the bombing in Libya. Well, there is a post noting that John McCain called Muammar Gaddafi an interesting man on Twitter two years ago. So much for moving on.
After Obama addresses the nation tonight about the governments recent intervention in Libya, perhaps the left can coalesce around a message. Its hard enough when the administration wont call the action a war, but anti-war groups with a traditionally liberal bent are having a tough time rallying those who so adamantly opposed Republican President Bushs war.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/28/an...#ixzz1HwaPX6DK
Heh...Ha...HAHAHAHAHA...BWAHAHAHAHAHA! I love it."The efforts of the government alone will never be enough. In the end the people must choose and the people must help themselves" ~ JFK; from his famous inauguration speech (What Democrats sounded like before today's neo-Liberals hijacked that party)
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At the heart of Gandhi's revolution was a new kind of hero: brave, but also compassionate; bold, but also empathetic; powerful, but also unarmed. For millennia, traditional heroism had been fueled by the implacable absolutism of the Us vs. Them script ("we are good, they are evil") enforced by justified violence. Gandhi's new heroism-subverting hero—whom he called a satyagrahi, a practitioner of Soulforce—bet her life on challenging and dissolving this ceaselessly reinvented and endlessly lethal dividing line.
"The Interrupters," a new documentary from director Steve James and producer Alex Kotlowitz, vividly dramatizes this gamble in the midst of a culture of extreme youth violence on Chicago's South and West Sides. The film is an up-to-the-minute account of the haunting terror of seemingly inescapable gang conflict that is continually threatening to spin out of control—and that often does.


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Plaid Romper!
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My best friend's mom has an amazing collection of patterns from when she was young and I was so excited to come across a romper pattern. The plaid fabric is from her collection as well. I didn't modify the pattern at all for this attempt, but it came out rather snug so I'm going to make some changes for the next time I make it. The romper pulls on and fastens at one shoulder with some buttons which are made with the same fabric. I wore this outfit on Christmas with my family and I'd have to say that I was definitely the best dressed. Everyone should have a romper.
Material Notes
Plaid cotton, plaid buttons made with a button kit.
Moms who sew
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Feb 25, 2010, 09.00 PMby evamarie
I loooove your romper. (And your library :)
Mar 26, 2009, 01.08 PMby katy-lady
this is too funny, i totally want one now. :) great work
Feb 13, 2009, 05.36 PMby hamble
Another cool creation! I've been wanting to make a romper, I have a few vintage patterns I've picked up at thrift stores over the years. Never thought they'd be in fashion and I could legitimately make one to wear! Looks great. I think I am more likely to give it a go now!
Feb 2, 2009, 07.51 AMby Emma (Cotter) O'Connell
I love it! Very cute!
Jan 28, 2009, 07.15 AMby onlysonly
So cool. Love the tights with it. The feminine/lumberjack (from the red plaid) mix is super cool.
Jan 28, 2009, 05.08 AMby mandicoulter
nice – i like the plaid!
Jan 28, 2009, 03.00 AMby vickles
I'm very jealous, I want one of those and yours is a real beaut! Good job!
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