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Even as the holidays grew closer and closer, a program at WKU for high-ability and high-interest students kept children excited about fun in the classroom rather than food and festivities to come.
The Center for Gifted Studies' Fall Super Saturdays program hosted more than 600 first through eighth graders from three states and more than 60 school districts each Saturday from Oct. 27 to Nov. 17.
During the program, which took place on WKU's Main and South campuses in Bowling Green and at the Kentucky Science Center (formerly the Louisville Science Center), students participated in one of nearly 40 classes. Imaginations took flight in classes like Secret Identity: Unleashing Your Inner Superhero and Zombie Survival Guide. International exploration began in Let's Learn German! Lernen wir Deutsch! and Australian Adventure, and mysteries unraveled in Junior Detective Agency and The Science Behind Lord of the Rings.
Though these enrichment courses varied greatly in topic, all encouraged children to explore their interests in a challenging, yet nurturing environment.
The hands-on, mind-on learning Super Saturdays is known for will continue with Winter Super Saturdays 2013 on Jan. 26-Feb. 16 from noon to 2:30 p.m. Applications are available on The Center for Gifted Studies website. For information, call The Center at (270) 745-6323.
More: Participants in 2012 Fall Super Saturdays (pdf); Participants in 2012 Fall Super Saturdays (xls)
Contact: Mandy Simpson, (270) 745-3014.


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Kristin Norton (picutred) is 3-2 in singles matches this season (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
PRINCETON, N.J. – The No. 55 Harvard women's tennis team will take on Cornell in the first round of the 2011 ECAC Division I Women's Indoor Championships Friday. The match, set to start at 8 a.m., is one of four first-round matches Friday.
The Particulars
Eight teams are set to compete in the ECAC Indoor Championships this weekend, hosted by Princeton. The Harvard-Cornell match will kick things off Friday, followed by the No. 40 Yale against Columbia at 11:30 a.m. The winners of those matches will square off against each other Saturday at 3 p.m.
The other half of the bracket consists of No. 36 Princeton versus NJIT and No. 71 Dartmouth against Brown. Those matches are scheduled for 3 and 6 p.m. Friday, respectively. The winners will take on one another at 6 p.m. Saturday.
The championship match is slated for 2:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
Complete Bracket
Scouting Harvard
The Crimson enters the tournament with a 2-3 record through the early stages of the season. Harvard is coming off a 6-1 loss to visiting Maryland Feb. 13.
Holly Cao is 4-0 from the No. 1 spot this spring and has played to an 11-2 overall record. She is currently ranked 47th in the ITA singles poll. Hideko Tachibana and Kristin Norton have each played to 3-2 records this spring.
Scouting Cornell
The Big Red enters the first-round match against Harvard with a 3-0 record in 2011. Cornell opened the season with 7-0 sweeps of St. Bonaventure and St. John's before taking a 6-1 decision from Binghamton Feb. 12.
Sophomore Christine Ordway has held down the No. 1 spot for the Big Red this season, playing to a 3-0 record. Four freshmen, three sophomores and three seniors join Ordway on the Big Red roster.

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My blog has been changed to make it more appealing for those who have New England ancestors and want to see the area through photos. Things I'll include are typical white New England churches, libraries showing their genealogical collection, historical societies, cemeteries, war memorials, in general, anything to do with history.
For four years I've blogged mostly about my personal genealogy in New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire), New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. I still will, can't forget my own roots.
Please check out the labels on the right side for articles. The header tabs at the top are a work in progress.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Bits of News, Magazines
PC World has a number of articles pertaining to computer security. Family Circle has a nice article called "Backup Plan" covering software, online backups and external drives. Smart Computing has several that I enjoyed and understood. Included are, "Google, More than a Search Engine," "Cruising In the Cloud" and "Share Your World on the Web" Head-to-Head: Blog Services, a three full page review of five blog hosting services.
4 comments:
- Heather Rojo said...
How was that article about cloud computing? That's one concept I still can't get my head around. I should pick up an issue of Smart Computing. We don't get any of these at home, but I read the FC article on backups at the Drs office this morning!
- April 20, 2010 at 4:35 PM
- Barbara said...
I think you will get someting out of the article, plus there are lots of other great pieces. Been getting the magazine since 1993 or so.... you'd think I'd be smart by now.
- April 20, 2010 at 6:10 PM
- Kathleen Brandt, Professional Genealogist said...
Technology moves too fast for me. So I only take it in at seminars, workshops, and conventions.
Once I learn it...I got, it, but it is usually on a "needs to know basis.
- April 20, 2010 at 6:16 PM
- Barbara said...
I agree, it is fast moving. I can't even master facebook!
- April 20, 2010 at 7:11 PM
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The Treatment Action Campaign would like to inform the public and the media that it refuses to waste public resources in dignifying Anthony Brink's lunatic call for the International Criminal Court to prosecute its chairperson Zackie Achmat.
Anthony Brink's actions serve only to insult the rationality of all sane people and the difficult experiences of millions of people who live with HIV/AIDS in the world. We therefore ask that the media not to call our organization for comment on this as this is our official comment.
Our organization is currently preoccupied with preparations for mobilizing public support for the efforts of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) and government to develop a new plan for managing the HIV and AIDS epidemic and saving lives in our country. We will not be distracted in this task. TAC will make public its plans to support the development of South Africa's 2007-2011 National Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS in the coming weeks


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Interview with Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Aired July 13, 2011 - 05:30:00 ET
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANJALI RAO, CNN ANCHOR (voice over): He's known as the world's greatest living explorer. From Mount Eiger to Mount Everest, Sir Ranulph Fiennes has scaled the earth's highest peaks and traversed some of the globe's harshest terrain. Today, the former SAS officer has spearheaded more than 30 expeditions, breaking record after record along the way. He became the first to circumnavigate the earth's poles, discovered a lost city in the Middle East, and took the title of first man to cross Antarctica on foot. This week on "Talk Asia", we meet the intrepid adventurer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, and find out why his crippling fear of heights and losing the tops of his fingers to frost bite haven't stopped him yet. (END VIDEO CLIP) RAO: Sir Ranulph, welcome to "Talk Asia". It's a pleasure to have you with us today. SIR RANULPH FIENNES, ENGLISH EXPLORER AND AUTHOR: Thank you. RAO: You've been called the world's greatest living explorer and you've been exploring the most treacherous reaches of the earth for the last 40 years. Let's get back to 1979, the Transglobe Expedition, where you trekked from pole to pole overland -- 35,000 miles. You were the first person to ever achieve that. What were your standout recollections of that experience? FIENNES: The planner was my late wife, Ginny, and she decided that we ought to do the first journey around earth on its polar axis. The rule was that we would never fly one meter of the entire journey. We would keep our feet on the surface from Greenwich all the way round to Greenwich, which would take three or four years of permanent travel. But we only managed to do it through extremely good luck. There was one place that we got through the ice in the Canadian arctic where, for the next eight years after that, it would have been impossible because of the ice. So, we just happened to strike lucky. RAO: Britain's Prince Charles says that his admiration for you is unbounded. You also met the Queen on several occasions, receiving your OBE and also the second class of your Polar Medal. What has the support of Britain's monarchy meant to you? FIENNES: Prince Charles has been a patron of the expeditions for nearly 40 years and I just went along to Buckingham Palace one day back then and put a letter to him to the policeman. And he eventually agreed for me and the other expedition people to go to Buckingham Palace and give him a "film-fo" (ph) of what the expedition would be that we wanted him to be patron of. And I, in his sitting room, introduced him to the film. It was very important for us that he should approve of it. And he fell asleep. And, when he woke up, the film was over and I'd been talking to thin air. And he was so embarrassed that he agreed to be patron immediately. And he's been the patron ever since. RAO: Remarkable. In 1992, you led an expedition to discover the lost city of Ubar in Oman. And that was something that Lawrence of Arabia had called "the Atlantis of the sands". It was steeped in myth and mystery. And you referred to it as the expedition that you're most proud of. Why so? FIENNES: Well, it's probably because it took such a long time. It took 26 years to locate it - the city - after I started looking for it when I was in the Army of the Sultan of Oman in the 1960s. And I learned from an Arab guide where he thought the lost city was. And he actually had it down on the first map of Arabia ever made within an area about the size of Scotland. RAO: What did you find when you got there? What did it look like? FIENNES: Well, we heard the Sultan's ministry people saying, "Look, these guys from the U.K. and the U.S.A., they've been here for two months, they've been filming everything - the search for the lost city. But they've never done any digging. So, we think they're using the digging as an excuse to film down here, so we're not really doing any archaeology". So, I rushed off when we overhead this - or my wife overheard it - to Juris, the professor from Missouri University as the - at that time, the top Arabist archaeologist anywhere. And said, "You've got to start digging immediately". And he said, "But we've not found clues to make it worthwhile digging". And I said, "Doesn't matter, dig". So, we found that there were some ruins just south of our base camp. So he and his crew of archaeology students from Missouri University started digging and, within three days, they found a Persian chess set, quite big, about nine inches under the surface and, within a month, he'd started finding the outline of a city wall and went on from there. And by the end of that digging season, we had over 2,000 artifacts from the city, which we gave to the Ministry of Heritage of Oman. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice over): He's now spent the last 36 hours or more in severe pain, on his own, in a tent, isolated in Antarctica. (END VIDEO CLIP) RAO: In 1996, you unfortunately had a failed attempt to walk across the Antarctic. And the reason that it failed was because of kidney stones. When you realized that you'd have to call time on that expedition, what were you going through physically and emotionally? FIENNES: Males talk about kidney stone as being the nearest thing we get to having a child - being pregnant. Because of the sort of pain in that area. So, I had Voltarol painkillers and I drank - I cooked up a lot of ice, made it into water, drank a hell of a lot of water hoping to flush out the kidney stone. But I then ran out of painkillers. Soon I was 500 miles from anybody, and I realized that I would have to get out quickly because the pain was getting very bad. So I asked to be rescued and gave up, which is not a good thing, but there wasn't much alternative. RAO: In 2000, you embarked on a solo trek to the North Pole - I can actually think of few things more utterly terrifying than being by yourself, literally in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by nothing but snow and ice. FIENNES: Well, on that particular occasion, on the way to the North Pole, I was travelling in the darkness before the sun arrived and, unfortunately, it was a full moon. And the full moon that night - there were clouds, so I had no advantage of the moonlight, was that it made a full tide. And the full tide broke all the ice that I was traveling on. It was very noisy - cracking ice, totally dark, of course, minus 48. So, when my sledge fell into the sea and started dragging me down the ice blocks into the sea, I actually hit the release buckle. So I came detached from my sledge, which fell into the sea, with the tent and the cooker, which is vital to survival. So, I then had to get it out, and it was snagged, so I had to put one hand into de-snag the sledge rope. And, when I pulled it back onto the top, one hand was gone, the other was going. I managed to get the tent half-up with the poles through with my fingers and got into a half-erected tent with the cooker. One hand couldn't get the petrol onto the cooker to light it, so I used my mouth and a hand - the good hand - and, of course, it stuck to the steel and took my lip off. And then I got too much petrol onto the plate when I lit it, so there was a fire in the sagging tent. So, I had the cold, I had the fire, I had blood, and it was a bad moment. And I lost the fingers, but I didn't actually lose my life. RAO: Sounds like an absolute nightmare. I can't even believe that you would ever want to be an explorer again, after that. FIENNES: Well, some of the expeditions go wrong and you've got to put up with that. And, hopefully, some of them go right. RAO: How you actually lost your fingers on the left hand is an interesting story. It's not for the weak of stomach. Tell us what happened. FIENNES: When I got back to the U.K., the insurance agreed to pay for the amputations, but the surgeon would not amputate for five months. Because in between the dead bits and the live bits, you've got semi-traumatized flesh, which is extremely painful if you touch it. The surgeon wouldn't do it twice, or rather, he would, but they wouldn't pay the insurance twice. So, I thought to save 6,000 pounds, I might as well try and get rid of the end bits myself. But, with a normal saw, it didn't work. So, I bought a Black and Decker bench and a micro saw and I took about two days over the thumb and eventually got rid of all of them. And later the physiologist lady said I'd done a good job, but the surgeon was displeased. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) FIENNES: We passed three bodies that night and I thought, like them, I would die on the way back down. One of them had died the night before. (END VIDEO CLIP) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) FIENNES: Throat gets dry, the cough gets worse, you can't breathe properly. You're cardiac system starts going, and then literally, you come to a halt. (END VIDEO CLIP) RAO: Even up to 2009, Everest remains elusive. You did try to reach its summit back in 2005. FIENNES: Yes. RAO: Tell us what happened. FIENNES: That's right, 2005 I got to within 350 meters in height from the summit ridge. And got a heart attack with - I was with a Sherpa. It was midnight, dark, it was on an icy bit, and I sort of panicked because I thought I'm going to die of a heart attack. And my wife, Louise, had given me pills in case this happened, called glycerin trinitrate. And I'd only taken - I hate pills - I'd taken them to keep her quiet. And I'd forgotten that they were there. But, when I had the heart attack, I remembered them and, in the dark, I took them. And later, I discovered you're meant to take a maximum of two. There eighty in the bottle, so I took eighty glycerin trinitrate tablets and I sort of frothed like a dog and dilated, which is what they're for, and I survived. But you don't take them in order to carry on going up. You take them hopefully to survive by losing height rapidly. And the Sherpa managed to get me back down to the tent and, in the morning, we got back down to the base camp and didn't cause any permanent damage. And so, I tried again in 2008 with a European guide and, unfortunately, the cardiologist guy, who'd given me a double bypass previously, said that you must not do more than 130 beats per minute on your heart. And, if you're climbing Everest, you've got to remember that - not to get competitive. But, with a European guide, I found - my nature is a bit competitive - and I would want to keep up. So, I failed. We passed three bodies that night and I felt exhausted and I thought, like them, I would die on the way back down. One of them had died the night before, a Swiss fellow. And so I withdrew a second time. And I thought, so as not to be competitive, I would only do it with a Sherpa. Now the Sherpas are like goats and you can't get competitive because they are too good. RAO: Yes. FIENNES: And I was not quite as young as I was, so I thought I'd better do it this year, which was 2009. We set out at nine o'clock at night and we did a very quick time. We got there before dawn. So we did finally do it as the first British old age pensioner to get up there, for what that's worth. RAO: You got a bus pass and you got to the top of Everest. FIENNES: Yes. The bus pass did not help. RAO: After you had your double bypass and before you attempted Everest, you certainly weren't letting it slow you down, because you did the seven by seven by seven marathon, which is seven marathons in seven days on seven continents. Forgive me for asking, what were you thinking? FIENNES: No. The seven marathons was not my idea. It was the idea of the New York Marathon Club. And the only person in the New York Club who wasn't an American was Dr. Michael Stroud, who'd done things with - he was British, he was a doctor, he'd been their doctor. And he waited for six years for the call-up from New York to do this thing. And it never came. And, eventually, Mike got impatient and decided that he would do it. And he asked me to join him. And British Airways had a computer, which said that there was a way of doing it, but only if you had the nasty marathon, which was Asia - the continent of Asia. You have to keep that to last because it's crucifying. It's humid, it's hot, it will really set you back. And the only way British Airways would do it was by having Asia right in the middle - Singapore. And so, we had to run Singapore in the middle, after having done Antarctica, South America, and Australia. And that night we arrived in Singapore and at dawn we started to run it. And it was just too much. And I arrived after four - five hours at the finishing line and I was on a drip on an ambulance. And the BBC people said, "Are you finished". So I said, "Well, I'm finished, but Dr. Stroud, when he arrives, will carry on". Because if one of you does it, it's successful. And Mike was actually - I didn't know - he was urinating blood and he was dehydrated, being sick and so on. But he agreed to carry on, and I had a cup of tea and so on and felt a bit better, so we flew for the next one, which was Europe, the following morning. We did that one in just under five hours. And caught an airplane that afternoon to the African one, which was at the pyramids. And that was set off by Mrs. Mubarak at midnight with a pistol. And we did that one at midnight and flew to New York and did the North American one the following morning, which happened to be the New York Marathon. Which was helpful to our morale, because about 30,000 runners on it, whereas the others had been, you know, just a few people. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) RAO: Apparently, you auditioned for the role of James Bond? FIENNES: For some reason, out of 280 people, I got into the last six. (END VIDEO CLIP) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) FIENNES: Also, if you get to the Pole, what you do is, you stick your flag there before anybody else sticks their flag in the same place. Especially the French. (LAUGHTER) (END VIDEO CLIP) RAO: You, yourself had a promising army career, but things went a little bit wrong in 1965. Apparently, a prank involving you and the set of the movie Dr. Dolittle? What happened? FIENNES: Yes. Dr. Dolittle was being filmed in a village, which had just been voted, by Time Magazine and others, as Europe's prettiest village. And, in order to turn a little stream in the village into a lake for filming, Twentieth Century Fox had built a high concrete dam, which people thought was ruining the village. And a friend of mine, he happened to know that I'd been doing an army explosives course, asked me to help, basically, blow up this Twentieth Century Fox thing. And so I did help. The police, unfortunately, caught us. And I ended up for that night in the local prison with my friends. So, I was thrown out of the Special Air Service back to my own regiment in Arabia at that time. So, I went back to normal soldiering. And got heavily fined as a result. RAO: Your first expedition was in 1968 with your then-girlfriend, Virginia, who then became your wife. You traveled up the Nile on a hovercraft, it would seem, to basically write about it and get some money together. Tell us about that time and what you experienced. FIENNES: Well, I hadn't actually married Ginny, but I was hoping that we would do. I had met her when she was nine and I was about 12. And she was handling the publicity from the United Kingdom for this first expedition. And we were hoping that, when we got married, we could actually make a living out of running expeditions. And it took us about eight months to complete the Nile, which is the longest river in the world. With Land Rovers to help on the support side and so on. And that was really the first expedition which the BBC filmed and made it possible for us to make a living. And then we got married, and the expeditions carried on from there. RAO: You were married to Ginny for 36 years. As you say, you were childhood sweethearts. And she died in 2004 of stomach cancer. How did you cope with her passing? FIENNES: I coped very badly with Ginny's passing and for a year, you know, I didn't really do anything at all. And I was very lucky. I met another wonderful lady about a year after Ginny died, and Louise has been a wonderful wife ever since. And so, life's carried on after Ginny's died, and the expeditions are also carrying on. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) (END VIDEO CLIP) RAO: I understand that one of the ways that you tried to carry on with your life was to go and climb the Eiger. That must have profoundly tested your life long fear of heights, I would imagine. FIENNES: The Eiger involved climbing, which is a skill. Everest only involves walking, which is not a skill. So, you get up Everest no problem by just walking. You don't need sort of hand stuff. The Eiger, unfortunately, I couldn't just do the Eiger. I needed to be told how to do it. And so, on and off over a four year period, I gradually learned how to climb to the standard that would be required. It was good, but I didn't unfortunately, lose the phobia - the vertigo phobia. I thought the confrontation would get rid of it, but it hasn't, and so I've stopped vertical climbing altogether. RAO: What do you go through? I mean, I've never had a fear of heights. I'm not actually sure what it feels like. FIENNES: If, like me, you have this thing, you get a rush in your ears. You feel weak, and, if you're climbing on rock, you don't want to feel weak. And it's the most horrific feeling. It's very simple. All you do is you don't ever, for a second, look down. Even if it's a five-day ascent, you just don't ever look down. And the second part of it, you mustn't think "down". You mustn't be imagining what's going on down below there. RAO: Does your wife ever say to you, "No, Ranulph, you're not doing that"? FIENNES: She - Louise probably might prefer it that I don't do expeditions. It's possible that's the way she thinks, yes. RAO: Sitting around and doing nothing is not something that one would associate with you. In fact, when you're not climbing up a mountain or traversing pole to pole, you've written 18 books? FIENNES: The twentieth book text was handed over on the contract date, three days ago. So, that will make 20. But, I've done them all long hand. RAO: I know. FIENNES: Not high-tech. I've never sent - RAO: There are easier ways of doing it. FIENNES: -- email. And I don't know how to use text on my mobile. So, I'm sort of a bit of a dinosaur, but now, with fingers that would be bad on pressing little tiny buttons, it's just as well that I don't. RAO: Something that I was quite intrigued by in my research of you was that, apparently, you auditioned for the role of James Bond, but you lost out to Roger Moore. You got down to the last six, though. How much did you want to be a movie star? FIENNES: I didn't particularly want to be a movie star at all, but I'd only just got married. Literally just got married. We had no money and we're in the north of Scotland, where Ginny worked. And couldn't get down to London to try to get the first expedition going. And this agency said, "We are looking for a new James Bond and we will pay your train ticket all the way down to London and back". So, I said, "Well, that's fine". I didn't hope that doing the audition would mean anything, but a free ticket. And then we did the audition and, for some reason, out of 280 people, I got into the last six. And the bloke who did the last six people was called Cubby Broccoli. And he took one look at me, and I can remember this, he said, "This fellow looks like a farmer". (LAUGHTER) Which was taken to be bad. And so I didn't get it, and Roger Moore got the job. RAO: That won't end up on your adventuring. What keeps you going after all this time? FIENNES: It's because, nowadays, we are told that, today, if you are 82, it's like being 68 and if you are 68, it's like being 50. And also, in many countries, the retirement age is being pushed up. And I've pushed my own retirement age up and don't intend to retire until physically something bad happens. Like arthritis or hip replacement or whatever. But, as long as I'm lucky enough not to have an ailment like that and keep - try and keep going physically, then I don't see why I shouldn't carry on. RAO: Sir Ranulph, thank you very much indeed for spending time with us today. FIENNES: Thank you. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) END


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In a rebroadcast from Nov. 12, 2012, Florence continues her virtual shopping trip with nutrition & fitness professional, Patrick Hopkins. They talk about the different types of soups available at the grocery, and why some varieties may contain too much sodium. Patrick explains why homemade soups are much healthier than those in a can or in a pouch. Florence & Patrick also visit the frozen food aisle and the dairy case. Is there a difference between brown & white eggs? Are egg substitutes a healthy alternative? Plus, Florence & Patrick also talk about the many varieties of milk, and which might be best for you. www.builtbypatrick.com
The last in a 6-part series. Aired March 2, 2013.


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Is the government counting your kid's calories?
School lunches are shrinking in public schools across the nation due to regulations enforced by the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act of 2010. The new regulations require more fruits and vegetables, but for the first time they also mandate a calorie count for lunch. (The new calorie count for K-5 is 550 to 650, the calorie count for grades 6-8 is 600 to 700, and the calorie count for grades 9-12 is 750 to 850.) Ethel Buckley, in charge of the Colville school food service, said that she is struggling to enforce the new regulations. While having to adhere to USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) portion regulations, she must also include the calorie count. "I'm finding it hard to get all the grains and breads in there while still keeping my calories down where they need to be," said Buckley. She also said that other districts are frustrated with the new regulations. Over 53 pages of comments asking how to enforce the regulations were submitted to OSTI. "We're all having a hard time meeting the requirements," said Buckley. While schools are attempting to enforce the new regulations, some of the students across the nation are in rebellion against the new calorie count. A high school in Wallace County, KS made a YouTube parody called "We are Hungry" based on the song "We are Young" by the band "Fun" in order to protest the new regulations. The YouTube video has received over 850,000 hits. The actors of the video pretend to be starving from the new regulations—athletes are falling down during practice, kindergarten children are army crawling through the halls, and students are unable to lift their heads from their desks. Some of the lyrics of the parody read, "Tonight, we are hungry. Set the policy on fire. It can burn brighter than the sun." (The music video is located at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IB7NDUSBOo.) Though Kansas students are claiming to be hungry, Colville students have not begun to feel the full effects of the new requirements. Ethel Buckley used inventory on hand for the month of September, and has not started to enforce the full requirements of the Healthy, Hungry-Free Act. Despite her frustrations with the calorie count requirements, Buckley has not had to implement a lot of changes to her menu as far as fruits and vegetables are concerned. Buckley says that the new requirements enforcing more fruits and vegetables have already been included in the Colville School District menus."We have had salad bars in all of our schools for several years now, so we're kind of in front of the trend more than other districts," said Buckley. Even though Colville schools are in front of the health trend, the new regulations are a problematic addition to the menu according to Buckley. Michael Cashion, superintendent of Colville schools, also commented on the new requirements at the monthly Colville School Board meeting. "When you get federal into something so common sense it becomes—interesting," Cashion said. Will the new changes last? Buckley doubts that the regulations will be enforced for long. "I feel like the government does not always think things through . . . before they implement them. I am willing to bet that we are going to see some changes coming again to help alleviate all of the problems [caused by the bill]," said Buckley. She thinks that the government will soon have to change the new regulations. "The government is probably going to do a little bit of backtracking," said Buckley. What exactly is a 750 to 850 calorie meal?McDonaldsMcChicken 360 World Famous Fries 230 Dr. Pepper 150Total Calories: 740Source: www.mcdonalds.comTaco Time Ground Beef Burrito 540Small Soft Drink 220Total Calories: 760Source: www.tacotime.comSubway6 inch Roast Beef Sub 320Lays Potato Crisps 130Apple Slices 30Chocolate Chip Cookie 220Milk 1% Low Fat 160Total Calories: 860 Source: www.subway.com


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On Tuesday, 31 July 2007, I got off the Eurostar at London's Waterloo station and took the Underground to Finsbury Park in North London, where I had made a hotel booking in Seven Sisters Road.
It was only yesterday that I recalled that the name of this ancient park [originally called Fines-bury, because the heart of a slain English crusader named Sir John Fines was brought back from the Holy Land by a soldier and buried there by the knight's two daughters] has become notorious through the existence of the Finsbury Park mosque [now referred to as the North London Central Mosque], in St Thomas's Road, whose imam was Abu Hamza al-Masri, now in jail. The Al Qaeda terrorists Richard "Shoebomber" Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui both attended Finsbury Park mosque.
My grandfather Ernest Skyvington grew up here in the Finsbury Park neighborhood until his departure for Australia, in 1908, at the age of 17. In this photo, he is wearing his school uniform: straw boater hat, Norfolk jacket with a big white Eton collar (celluloid for week-days, starched linen for Sundays), clip-on bow, knee-breeches, woollen stockings and lace-up boots. [Details found in a book written by a man of my grandfather's generation: C H Rolph, London Particulars, Oxford University Press, 1980.]
I left the hotel, armed with my camera, to explore places associated with my grandfather's childhood. I walked across the railway footbridge from Finsbury Park [which existed in my grandfather's time] to reach his school: the Woodstock Road School, now referred to as the Stroud Green Primary School. It probably looks much the same, today, as it did during my grandfather's school days.
I then wandered down to 65 Evershot Road, where my grandfather was born in 1891. Finally, I tried to find the house at 42 Mount Pleasant Road where my grandfather had been living before he left for Australia. However the street names and house numbering have evolved over the last century, and I'm not yet certain that I've found the right house.


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Just because most of you think he's a terrible coach doesn't mean everybody else thinks the same.
Believe it or not, Rex is actually still well respected around the league. Our draft insider Tony Pauline (Tony TYF) even said this.
Perhaps another even better reason that Parcells would be a great fit, beyond the fact he would be working with people he's worked with before and he would both have and be given immediate respect, is the affect he could have on Rex as a HC.
Rex needs to learn how to be a little more like Parcells as a head coach. Everybody talks about Sanchez needing to get tough, Rex needs to get tough too, he needs to button up, just enough to still be himself, but reel in a lot of what he reveals and is open about in front of the media. I think Parcells could have a profound effect on Rex in a positive way.
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Parcells would never work with Rex.
This means we will have demoted our last 2 GMs. This is f#cking embarrassing. Fire these guys. Their stench hangs around the organization when they are still here.
We need new blood in here. I want tanny, rex, bradway gone. All of them....gone.
What successful franchise demotes GMs?
I am not saying that he is a complete figure head. On that link you provided it said that Nissim was "lead negotiator". But if you go back to Hard Knocks, who were Revis' agents talking to? Who was the one driving to Roscoe Diner? Who was negotiating with Clemens? The cap and contracts go hand-in-hand.
The buck stops with Tanny. Going back to that media guide you linked it says he works with Tanny on strategic cap planning. So Tanny is very much involved in the cap and contracts.
So basically, IMO we need to fire even more people than just Tanny and Rex. LOL.
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The vision of a team begins with the GM, not the coach (unless that coach happens to also be the GM). Right now Tanny has no vision and Rex can only see out of one eye.
He also said the same thing about greene.
I alwast thought PFT stood for PatsFanTx. Learned some new stuff today
Round one-Rex rants and raves Coples is great we gotta have him he's the passrusher we need. Round 2-Rex says ok guys go ahead and draft an offensive player you think is good.
Seriously, do you think Rex has any clue on how to evaluate a college level offensive player at all? Do you realize they valued Sanchez so much higher because more of his friends came to his workout? John Connor makes some bone crushing hits and he's Rex's guy regardless of the fact he's completely inept in actually finding someone to block. All coaches come from one side of the ball, but I have never seen a coach as married to his side and as oblivious to the other as Rex is.


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Leeds United's new owners outlined their vision for the future of the club after completing their £52million takeover.
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Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Salem Patel, a member of the GFH Capital board, described the Dubai-based bank's intentions to provide a "sustainable and successful future" for the west Yorkshire club but have vowed not to spend "crazy money".
He said: "Leeds United is a great football club with a great history, pedigree and a fantastic base from which we can build the club.
"We looked at a number of clubs but Leeds was the most attractive for those reasons.
"We hope to bring back the type of atmosphere we witnessed on Wednesday (in the Capital One Cup defeat to Chelsea) where, although the result wasn't fantastic, the atmosphere and crowd - it was absolutely fantastic on the night.
"Obviously it's going to take investment and we wouldn't have bought a club like this if we weren't prepared to make that investment.
"What we want to say is that we're not going to be spending crazy money like some owners have. We want to make the investment sustainable and make the club successful. Simple as that."
Patel was immediately quizzed on what shape that investment would take in the transfer window and whether funds would be made available to manager Neil Warnock in January.
He said: "January is not a great time to do business. Thankfully we already have a good squad and we have a few players coming back from injury.
"Neil has already publicly stated what he wants and we are going to do our best to help him achieve that.
"If you're going to ask me what amount of money we are going to spend in January, unfortunately we are not going to be able to answer that."
Fellow director David Haigh, a Leeds fan, claimed they had bought "the best club in the world" before going through his plans.
He stood down the rumour that he will replace Ken Bates as chairman when the veteran leaves the post at the end of the season, while also revealing that Warnock staying on board was part of the criteria for the purchase.
"He is our man and one of the reasons we decided to buy this club in the first place. The guy is a legend in English football and it was a requirement of the contract," Haigh said.
Warnock is chasing a record eighth promotion and Haigh added: "We don't want to put a timescale on our investment but we want to make this club as successful as we can in the shortest time possible.
"We've been speaking to Neil and we will try our best to meet whatever needs he has and to be fair to us, we have already invested in the team.
"We've been speaking to him on and off since the summer to be honest. We very much assisted him with his plans in the summer and hope to continue to do so."
Haigh and Patel also outlined their long-term plans to buy back the club's Elland Road ground.
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Just to expand…
…on #4 of yesterday's Odds and Ends (figured I better get this out ASAP given Greg Miller's tweet below and everyone and their mom saying the Jazz have acquired Al Jefferson):
First, let's go back a few weeks in time. When asked for their reaction to Carlos Boozer signing with the Chicago Bulls, Kevin O'Connor and Jerry Sloan both talked about their confidence in Paul Millsap's ability to start, and noted that they had Andrei, who'd made the All-Star team while playing a lot of 4, to back him up. In the same breath, however, KOC talked about finding someone to back Millsap up.
O'Connor on Wednesday said the Jazz would seek someone to back up Millsap…"We'll look for a player that can help us win games," he said, "and it doesn't have to be somebody that scores 20 points."
"You know," O'Connor said, "Andrei made the All-Star team (in 2004) playing 4 at lot of time." (desnews)
Sloan, reiterating what general manager Kevin O'Connor suggested earlier in the week, indicated that usual starting small forward Andrei Kirilenko should plan on playing much more power forward in 2010-11. "I think there will be opportunities for him to play there," Sloan said. "When John and Karl left, he played some 4 then. And he had a pretty good year, played pretty well."
In any event, Sloan said, Kirilenko will "probably get a lot more opportunities." (desnews)
If the Jazz have really traded for Al Jefferson, then this is where I stopped giving the Front Office the benefit of the doubt. I was so happy when Boozer signed with the Bulls because it was the start of a new era for us. We were moving ahead with a roster of hustle guys that will make basketball fun to watch (for me at least).
Signing Al Jefferson puts us back on the same boat as we were before (no defense, overpaid, injury-prone), and it so feels like a reactionary plug-the-hole-in-boat move resulting from panic that so many free agents have already signed with other teams. Sometimes, you need to take the boat apart and figure out why it keeps cracking in the same spot, rather than gluing it back together and hoping that it doesn't fall apart again.
Additional note: As an AK fan, it almost seems like the Jazz refuse to put him in a position to succeed. He makes the All-Star and All-Defense team at the 4; they go out and sign Boozer to start at the 4. Years later, Boozer is gone and AK gets the chance to return to his strength backing up Millsap…and the Jazz go out and get Al Jefferson? (The same argument could actually also be made for Millsap.)
I would totally love to a fly on the wall in Paul Millsap's house right now…
Then again, there are also some "sources" out there saying that the Mavs are super close to signing Jefferson, so who knows…


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It's been a heavy past couple of days in Azeroth. First, we've got heroics on the beta. Second, the public test realms are lighting the world up pretty good. Third, the clock is ticking faster and faster down to Cataclysm, so time is running out for getting those pre-Cataclysm alt characters ready.
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Today's topic is one that doesn't exactly please my clients. However, I remind them that I am the "Princess of Doom." It is my job to think of all the bad things that can happen and then avert any impending crisis! Today's topic is the "booster club."
Keep in mind that booster clubs include not only high school boosters but also youth athletic organizations, fine arts groups and other charitable organizations offering programs for a fee – not just those that call themselves "boosters." Using this IRS definition, a very large sector of our community has involvement with a booster club, as a board member, active volunteer, or parent of a child participant. In the eyes of the IRS, this has been an area of substantial abuse; so much in fact that IRS Tax-Exempt Director Lois Lerner placed booster clubs on her annual Work Plan as an area requiring review. Clearly the object of Lerner's attention here is the propensity for booster clubs to commingle program service fees and charitable contributions, which is a big no-no.
Many organizations seek creative ways to fund-raise, to defray the cost of programs. One of the most common methods of fundraising involves students raising money to pay for trips, camps, uniforms, etc. Whether the students are selling candy, sponsorship ads in a program book, or simply seeking cash donations, the problem arises when the charity implements the concept of Participant Designated Accounts. Here's how it works: The organization initiates a program where the student or program participant earns direct credit toward his or her program fees, camp, or trip cost based on that individual's level of volunteer work or the amount of funds raised on behalf of the organization. This practice is extremely prevalent but creates tax consequences for both the organization and the participant. In fact, it can result in the loss of tax-exempt status.
The primary issue for the IRS is a payroll issue because amounts credited to an individual student's account are taxable wages. Observance of the situation may prompt the IRS to initiate a payroll tax examination and assess taxes and penalties on the unreported compensation. In fact, several booster clubs have been subject to such examinations with taxes and penalties assessed in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Additional concerns for the organization include assessment of income taxes because the fundraising is now conducted by paid employees and not volunteers. The most severe situation is the risk that the organization has violated the rule of Private Benefit: Organizations exempt under Internal Revenue Code Sec. 501(c)(3) may not operate for the substantial private benefit of any individual. For small to medium-sized organizations, this fundraising activity may be a substantial portion of revenues. Substantial Private Benefit will jeopardize the tax-exempt status of the organization. These consequences are extremely severe and they deserve consideration when planning program and/or fundraising activities.
So remember: Whether you are selling candy to cover some of your program expenses, soliciting contributions for a mission trip, or simply placing a volunteer requirement on every parent in your athletic program, program fees and contributions are like oil and water. They just don't mix.
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Originally Posted by Gustavo
Wouldn't that make it a Latin America Tour instead, though?
Don't tell me, tell the promoters.
Originally Posted by Lord Phidias
Don't tell me, tell the promoters.
Exactly. I do not know for sure if that is the case for The Offspring but the main reason most bands won't go to a certain city/country is because the local promoters won't book them. Maybe if you made requests to the right people in Mexico, it'd make more of a difference than if you made requests to the band themselves.
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Should an autonomous car be called an auto-automobile?
"Automobile" became "car". In other words, it could be "auto-car",
Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, and finally China.
if this goes according to plan then maybe 'auto-car' is right if not they missed off switzerland, france, spain, morocco, algeria . . . and auto-car becomes the modern equivalent of 'the fucking homing pigeon's lost again!'.
It'll never make it that far.
My in-laws live in Serbia, and I've got $5 that says the car either gets stolen and stripped halfway between Sarajevo and Belgrade or the border guards end up raping that slutty car that was asking for it.
... or the border guards end up raping that slutty car that was asking for it.
That's why these cars have built-in bribe dispenser!
I prefer the term "auto-bot".
But I fear that the DARPA is preparing their "Decepticon" project already.
I'm going with a train of wrecks myself. Either that or robo bumper car.
These are " non-polluting and no-oil based
Autonomous is not really an accurate description: Humans will control the first vehicle. The second will follow the route of the first.
I expect China will disassemble, reverse engineer, and then copy these vehicles en masse. [[//satire]]
Didn't you read the summary, the auto-automobile has five lasers! Cut off at your own risk!
"Do not look back at the auto-automobile with remaining eye."
I expect China will disassemble, reverse engineer, and then copy these vehicles en masse.
If they work well, I don't care who makes them, as long as somebody does.. Better than having all the tech rotting on the shelf.
I expect China will disassemble, reverse engineer, and then copy these vehicles en masse. [[//satire]]
Well don't blame China for US' inability to do so...
The first vehicle will drive autonomously in selected sections of the trip and will conduct experimental tests on sensing, decision, and control subsystems, and will continuously collect data. Although limited, human interventions will be needed to define the route and intervene in critical situations. The second vehicle will automatically follow the route defined by the preceding vehicle, requiring no human intervention (100% autonomous). This will be regarded as a readily exploitable vehicle, able to move on predefined routes; at the end of the trip, its technology will be transferred to a set of vehicles to move in the inner part of Rome in the close future.
The first vehicle is a bit more than a drone and the second one is a bit more than a mere follower. From what they say, once the trip has been made once, a vehicle could be autonomously doing the road without following anyone. That is an interesting achievment.
Why don't we see more of these? I remember watching a show nearly 20 yrs ago about a self-driving car running on a 486 processor. They had video of it driving and everything, looked like it did very well. Now we have quad core processors for less than $200 and we still don't have self driving cars. What happened?
Self-driving on a closed course at low speeds is easy. I've seen a 486-powered car as well, and it was cruising along at the blazing-fast speed of ten miles per hour, navigating by a camera update
that it is probably illegal to drive such an automaton in real traffic in any country, incl. "Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, and finally China."
Perhaps it is illegal to drive an autonomous vehicle, those 3 linux pcs are going to rot in jail if they ever get caught.
Forget the Linux PCs. This is a damn conspiracy from Redmond to put Linus behind bars.
But the car is going to be operated without a licensed driver driving it. The keyword here is "license", not "driver".
Or can we license an AI? I guess yes, if the AI manages to pass the driving exams. Or is this expedition part of the exam?
Or can we license an AI? I guess yes, if the AI manages to pass the driving exams. Or is this expedition part of the exam?
Turing Test 2.0, now testing on a highway near you!
If there is no driver, there might not be anyone breaking the law, or at worst someone is hauled up for leaving the brake off of a parked car and letting it roll onto the road.
Actually, they would have made sure they had permission, but the first is funnier.
The car seemed pretty good at avoiding a pedestrian steeping out from behind a car, and since its reaction time is probably faster than a human's, it isn't very likely to cause an accident.
This is an area which needs to be sorted out, because given how fast this field has developed recently, it seems likely that these sorts of cars will be ready for use on roads in a decade or so, and it would be a shame if their use was blocked by out-o-date laws.
Visalab is sending along 2 backup cars, 4 maintenance trucks, and 2 media vans with the two auto-vehicles, so they could probably just have someone get out and drive the cars (or just sit at the wheel) in the parts where they'll get in legal trouble for having the cars be autonomous. There are also long stretches (like Russia), where the cars will be the only thing on the road.
actually quite the opposite.
I read an article a while back where they pointed out that in almost all US states such cars would be perfectly legal, furthermore due to the wording of many traffic laws such vehicles could avoid many laws since they refer to the *driver* of the car and even specifically exclude the owner if he is not the driver.
I'll try to find it in a while.
... China on October 10 (10/10/10) on a 13.000 km route though Italy, Slovenia, Croatia,
Sorry for the confusion folks, that's thirteen THOUSAND km, not thirteen point zero zero zero km.
I have heard that Americans don't know much of the geography outside the U.S., but if this was confusing to the average American, I don't know what to say.
it wasn't the decimal that was confusing the US, it was the kms.
The . as a thousands separator should die.
Especially when there's no decimal separator around.
Put a space if you really want to make it easier to read :
13 000
13 000.00
13 000,00
13.000 is just plain wrong.
There is a fairly long history of using ',' as the decimal separator and '.' as the thousands separator, and so long as one follows the convention for the surrounding text's language, neither is better or worse. Personally, I use ' ' for thousands and '.' for decimal, but it's not as though anything else is hard to understand, especially when context makes the order of magnitude so obvious.
There is a fairly long history of using ',' as the decimal separator and '.' as the thousands separator, and so long as one follows the convention for the surrounding text's language, neither is better or worse.
That is completely false. The comma is a piece of punctuation used to connect run-on sentences, or so it commonly seems; either way, it separates portions of one complete thought. The period is a piece of punctuation which tells us that something has terminated. Using it for a decimal point is potentially confusing enough. Using it as a thousands separator is just plain stupid. I agree with others; it makes far more sense to eschew separating thousands.
'.' as a thousands or decimal separator is always distinguishable from an end-of-sentence marker, except in poorly handwritten text, because it is never followed by whitespace in the former case but always is in the latter. The same applies to ','.
It is obviously a bad idea to use '.' as the thousands separator in English text because we expect it to mean a decimal point, but French, German, Italian (which is where this number was copied from, so it was probably a simple copy/paste mistake) and many other E
Lets say we have 1000 traffic deaths each year, if an autonomous system in all cars reduces this to 250 (due to programming errors) should everyone get back on the wheel then?
The main problem is that people won't look at the situation rationally. Even if the cars are statistically safer drivers than people the general public will not accept deaths from equipment malfunction. The resulting law-suits will probably kill off the idea never allowing the cars to get really good. The result - continued carnage on the roads.
what's with the irrational hatred if autonomous vehicles?
It's entirely possible that given a few decades they'll be able to drive better than the average human.
If you could cut that chance down to 1 in 10000 would you choose otherwise for nothing more than your ego?
I'd be interested in a source for your figures since they seem extremely low.
In the US for one year I found:
approximate cost of accidents:230 Billion dollars.
2.9 million people were injured and 42,636 people killed.
Total deaths in a year:2426264
fraction of deaths due to traffic accidents:
1/56.6 approx
which would make it a fairly common way to die and an extremely common way to get injured.
I know the US has a somewhat higher than normal number of road deaths but what country has a death rate 100 times lower?
> The mission will start on July 10 in Milan, Italy and will reach Shanghai, China on October 10 (10/10/10) on a 13.000 km route though Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, and finally China.
There's some confusion about the route...
Does this great race come with a Natalie Wood ride-along and a pie fight in eastern Europe?
do they autonomous control them too? No doubt that those cars can navigate their way to China the technology exists and this is a nice proof of concept. But human behavior especially on the road is not very rational. You need a lot of AI to interpret such behavior in a way to avoid all kind of trouble and sounds like a real quest to me.
This bit caught my attention:
Moreover the Municipality of Rome, an active player in this project, is planning to exploit these vehicles downtown to deliver goods to shops, collect trash, and arrange sustainable mobility in the last mile.
I'm reminded of the time when I was growing up that we had garbage men hanging off the back of city-owned garbage trucks. Yeah we liked it that way, just as we liked most of the guys doing the work for us. Unsurprising (or not), it was also a time when a single-earner pay
Disclaimer: Readers of this post may note that it has fuck all to do with cheese (aside from the possibility that the poster has watched too many episodes of Wallace and Grommit). My excuse is that I've just now discovered that when making a post, the Subject field offers a pre-populated set of choices. If the powers that be at Slashdot considers those valid, legitimate and appropriate Subjects, then cheese it is. Hmm. Maybe I am feeling a bit peckish?
I would suspect that the contents of the subject field depends on what you've entered there before, as per your browser's record of such things for filling in forms automagically..
pretty much every advance in technology leads to someone losing their job.
"Computer" used to be a profession.
Sitting in a bank, adding up columns of figures all day and doing simple calculations(distinct from an accountant.).
What happened to all those people who were put out of work?
knitting and weaving cloth used to be a common profession.
Now massive looms create huge volumes of cloth for a fraction of the cost.
every one of these advances has put people out of work but every one has created a handful of ot
Where I am, the gangs of men hanging off the back of trucks have long gone, they now have one man per dustcart with an arm which reaches out to the kerb, grabs a wheelie bin and dumps it in the top. The old-style, rear-loading dustcarts are only common for things like municipal bins and at the universities where bins are often in awkward locations (and even there, they usually use wheelie bins).
Since a wheelie bin is a standard size and shape (and usually colour, although you do see painted ones now and the
You left out one of the major functions of the bus driver. Deterring vandalism. Vandalism is a major expense for bus companies, and without a driver it would get MUCH worse.
And bus stops get vandalized. But buses are much more expensive, and also more delicate.
Cameras tend to get their lenses covered with gum & paper. And people do care about tags, but that isn't the limit of vandalism. Damaged windows are common, even WITH a driver on board and in charge.
Any automated system is going to need to deal with vandalism. If it can't, it will just fail.
Of course, this isn't just a problem for automated systems, but people generally have ways for dealing with vandalism. It's not, however, a minor cost of doing business. And it goes well beyond tagging.
Since vandalism is a criminal matter, and most buses here are GOCOs, putting beat police in plain clothes on buses would be the obvious solution to vandalism. They already have occasional plain-clothes patrols here to enforce jaywalking at tram stops (although they are often in half-uniform, so you can see their trousers and the bulges at their hips), so there would be no new issues with the concept. Vandalism really isn't too bad here on buses, even when one would have plenty of anonymity, partly because
But let's put nostalgia aside and embrace the promise of cutting edge green technologies that offer cost efficiencies for governments and businesses alike, I wonder what, if this technology is successful and widely used (bound to happen sooner or later), will happen to the livelihoods of, say, UPS and FedX drivers? Or postmen, bus drivers, cabbies and pizza delivery drivers? If they're to be considered the buggy drivers of tomorrow, what form will a job for the ordinary guy graduating high school take? Seems those kinds of jobs are increasingly eliminated with little or no acknowledgement of the consequences.
Won't someone please think of the buggy-whip makers?
In the USA, the education system has not changed substantially since we decided we needed it to produce factory workers and soldiers. That's right, Public School's primary job is to prepare our nation for war. The Powers That Be don't give one tenth of one shit about what you're going to do out of high school. If you become a criminal, it's that much easier to funnel you into the military. We can try you as an adult, or you can get entry into the military
...And thank you for not performing these tests anywhere near my hometown.
The original silk road sadly leads to territories which are politically to unstable.
When renting a car in a western European country, the first thing that Hertz will tell you, is that you are not allowed to drive the car to an eastern European country. Because "the car will not make it back." Hertz says the same thing when you rent in Texas: "You cannot take this car to Mexico".
So what anti-theft-AI is planned for these vehicles? Maybe those lasers can do more than just scan?
A car loaded with so much luxury high-tech accessories would surely make a tempting target for a thief. Maybe the cars will just autonomously disappear?
One car has a driver in it to handle navigation and regulatory requirements, and there are two large support vehicles following with camera crews, engineers, and so on.
There were a few typos in the summary. Here is the correct sentence:
Each vehicle will be equipped with five laser cannons, seven (particle) cannons, GPS (graviton-propelled smartbombs), inertial mutagen unit, three Linux AIs, and an xray-by-wire dying[sic] system.
I find it sad that they didn't finish the star compressor for the ammo clip of the gamma ray burst artillery tower.
In Russia there always been two problems: fools and roads.
It's really interesting how these super-cars shall overcame that problems.
Well, strong motor and chassis, good tires, suspension, tough bumper let you drive over one of the two problems. But then again, there are also roads on the way.
The first vehicle will drive autonomously in selected sections of the trip and will conduct experimental tests on sensing, decision, and control subsystems, and will continuously collect data. Although limited, human interventions will be needed to define the route and intervene in critical situations.
The second vehicle will automatically follow the route defined by the preceding vehicle, requiring no human intervention (100% autonomous). This will be regarded as a readily exploitable vehicle, able to move
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For the past 10 days, a group of local artists and students has been hard at work at the Springfield Museums and the People's United Bank building on Main Street, transforming ordinary picnic tables into works of art.
On Sunday, their creations will be unveiled at a community picnic on the Quadrangle's green. Art Picnic runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will include music, entertainment and free ice cream. Food will be for sale at the Blake House café.
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NEWARK, Del. -- Jarvis Threatt just missed a triple-double as he poured in 25 points, including knocking down 13 of 15 free throw attempts, pulled down eight rebounds, and dished out seven assists to lead the University of Delaware men's basketball squad to an 82-72 non-league victory over Cal Poly Saturday afternoon at the Bob Carpenter Center.
Senior guard Devon Saddler (at left, photo by Chris Mlynarczyk) came off the bench to knock down his first five three-point attempts and finished with 22 points, junior guard Kyle Anderson added 15 points, and senior guard Davon Usher contributed 12 points to lead Delaware (8-7) to its second straight win and its third consecutive victory at home. Carl Baptiste added six points and a team-high nine rebounds.
Cal Poly (4-9), which lost its fourth straight game and fell to 0-7 on the road this season, got a career-high 14 points from Anthony Silvestri and 12 more from Kyle Odister. Silvestri, a junior forward, had entered the game with just 14 points all season.
Delaware held Cal Poly's leading scorers Chris Eversley (14.5 points per game) and David Nwaba (11.8 points) to just eight points each.
The game marked the first meeting between the two schools in men's basketball.
Threatt, a 6-2 junior guard, just missed recording only the third triple-double in school history as he fell just two rebounds and three assists shy of the rare feat. He knocked down 6 of 10 shots from the field and 13 of 15 from the foul line to lead all scorers and reach the 20-point mark for the sixth time this season. Saddler has now also scored in double figures in all eight games he has played this season.
Delaware, which jumped out to a 47-33 halftime lead and never looked back, outscored the Mustangs 32-13 at the foul line and was an impressive 10 of 24 from beyond the three-point arc. The Blue Hens reached the 80-point mark for the eighth time this season and reached a season-high for free throws made.
Both teams opened the game on fire as the first eight minutes featured 37 points, seven three-pointers, and eight lead changes. The game was tied for the fifth time of the half at 26-26 with 7:47 before the Hens broke it open as Saddler connected on a three-pointer and Threatt added two free throws and a three-point play as part of a 12-3 run that put UD up 38-29.
A 9-2 Delaware run to end the half gave the Hens a 47-33 advantage at the break.
Delaware led by as much as 24 points at 64-40 with 13:07 left to play and Cal Poly never got closer than nine points the entire second half and that came in the final minute of play.
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At the E Street Band's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month, guitarist Steven Van Zandt noted in his acceptance speech that the group owe much to Bruce Springsteen's "relentless striving for greatness, his insistence on our constantly evolving music excellence, and his continuing writing of songs of a unnecessarily high level of quality, that is both historically unprecedented and profoundly inspiring."
The "unnecessarily" was an interesting word choice — it insinuates that his fans are so loyal, they'll roll with him no matter what. Or, that no matter how good his new music is, it's unlikely to make the cultural impact that his albums did in the '70s, '80s, or even in the '00s with The Rising. Van Zandt could also have added that Springsteen's shows are also unnecessarily high quality. At this point, who would begrudge him if he stuck to fan favorites and kept his shows to two hours?
No one. But that's where the "relentless striving for greatness" comes in. He'll use the classics in concert, but he doesn't rely solely on hits. And as the E Street Band wrapped up their latest tour at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., on Sunday night (May 18), he still pushed the band by throwing tour premieres into the setlist, along with rarities and one song that he never played live and learned on the spot.
The opening was catered to the obsessive fans: out of the first seven songs, six were tour premieres and the other was a cover of Van Halen's "Jump." Opening the show by popping a bottle of champagne and playing a pair of Human Touch songs, "Roll of the Dice" and "Leap of Faith," he followed with "Jump," and then the Born in the U.S.A. outtake "Frankie."


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Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel will hit PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 26, EA announced today. The company also announced that pre-orders will get the game's "Overkill Edition," named after the game's signature feature. Like the usual EA first-run incentives, this version includes a set of goodies to reward you for buying early.
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Premier League clubs are reported to be on 'high alert' amidst claims in Spain that midfielder Xabi Alonso could be leaving Real Madrid.
Sport, a publication based in Barcelona, claims that the former Liverpool star is resisting talk of a new contract at the Santiago Bernabeu, with his current deal set to expire in the summer of 2014.
The press report goes on to claim that Alonso will consider offers to move away from the capital next summer, with Italian giants Juventus leading the chase for his signature.
However, talkSPORT claims that last season's undefeated Serie 'A' champions will face a number of challengers in the race to land the player's signature, with English clubs keen on the 30-year-old central midfielder.
If you believe the bookmakers, then it's Liverpool who could be lining up a sensational return for the player, who spent five years at Anfield between 2004 and 2009.
Alonso would fit seamlessly into Brendan Rodgers' free-flowing football side, and could be a crucial cog in the club's bid to return to the top four and Champions League.
Arsenal are second-favourites in the betting alongside PSG, and manager Arsene Wenger would be eager to utilise Alonso's experience in a midfield that could contain both Jack Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey next season.
Next on the list is Chelsea, who are valued at 18/1 to bring Alonso to Stamford Bridge. With owner Roman Abramovich spending big once again in west London, money wouldn't be an issue, and unlike Liverpool they have Champions League football on the agenda.
Whether Roberto Di Matteo would be able to persuade the player to move to the King's Road is up for debate, but he would certainly add depth to the Blues' midfield.
Both Manchester clubs come behind Juventus and 'Any Chinese Side' in the SkyBet odds, with a competitive 25/1 that either Roberto Mancini or Sir Alex Ferguson will be able to bring the player back to England.
Alonso has always kept Liverpool close to his heart since leaving Merseyside, and his connection to the club means a move to Old Trafford is extremely unlikely. The Red Devils will have to look elsewhere.
City certainly have the money to try and lure Alonso to the Etihad Stadium, and with last season's Premier League title under their belt, they have proven trophy credentials. Alonso could be the man to take the club to the next level, but with Jack Rodwell just signed, it's unlikely that the Citizens will spend on another player in the same position.
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The next instalment of Nadeo's delightful create-and-race series TrackMania will launch for PC on September 14, publisher Ubisoft has announced. The run-up to TrackMania2 Canyon's launch will be celebrated with a multiplayer beta.
Pre-orders will launch on August 17, alongside a multiplayer beta with guaranteed places for everyone who slaps their $24.99 down early.
TrackMania2 Canyon will only include the 'canyon' setting seen in previous games, with other tilesets arriving in later releases. It's the first block of Nadeo's ManiaPlanet, an online world built around user-created content. Down the line, ManiaPlanet will expand to include the FPS ShooterMania and RPG QuestMania.


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Angler Management by Jack Ohman
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I found Angler Management an enjoyable read. Ohman is best known as a cartoonist, and some of his cartoons appear in this collection of vignettes and humor pieces. With so many fly-fishing books being ultra-serious, it was nice to read a group of pieces that are on the lighter side and that show that fly-fishing is supposed to be fun. This is one that I put my name in and will keep in my fishing library.
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Glad you enjoyed it. Like you said, there are so many ultra-serious books on the market out there. I think they sometimes miss the point why we fish. In my case, fly fishlng with my Dad, whom I worked with in our machine shop, was about getting away for a couple hours and not think about work. As soon as we got in the truck, you never mentioned work, conversation was mainly about where we were going to fish, the scenery, the next gun show to go to etc... Glad you liked it rrt and a happy healthy New Year to you. Matt
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Bulldogs battle Florida down to the end
STARKVILLE, Miss., - Once again Mississippi State gave a ranked opponent all they could handle at Davis Wade Stadium.
And once again the Bulldogs did not help their own cause with three interceptions.
Defending National Champion Florida left Starkville victorious for the first time since 1985 holding off the Bulldogs for a 29-19 keeping their winning streak intact at 17-games and improve to 7-0 on the year and 4-0 in the Southeastern Conference.
"I am really, really proud of our guys tonight in the way they fought and battled tonight," said MSU head coach Dan Mullen "I thought our defense gave a heck of an effort against, as everyone knows, a really talented team, the number one team in the nation. Our defense went and battled and did a really good job in the red zone. We turned the ball over. Florida's defense did a really good job keeping us off balance and creating turnovers.
"I thought our kids battled to the end and I thought we had a chance all the way to the end. You have to give them credit, they did a heck of a job. You can't turn the ball over, we threw three interceptions, you can't do that and win football games. We will get a lot better. I was really proud of our kids and what they did, how they fought, and how they battled."
Mullen was facing his former team and also his mentor Urban Meyer, whom he had coached with from 1999 through last season.
"This is my first trip to Starkville, and this is a tough place to play," Meyer said. "That's SEC football. Dan is doing a heck of a job with his team. He did a lot of stuff to try and win that game, and I admire that out of him. There are some guys that would never do that, but Dan obviously is one of the best coaches in college football."
Florida amassed 376 yards on offense with 249 yards on the ground and another 127 yards through the air. The Gators also turned the ball over twice, both returned for touchdowns by Johnthan Banks.
"I did not coach very well," Meyer said. "I put Tim (Tebow) in some tough situations in the red zone. Our red zone offense is really an issue, and that is something we will start working on the plane ride home. We have to get a lot better. The great news is we are 7-0. We have a bunch of good guys who are extremely passionate about playing the game and winning. I had a good talk with our team about sticking together right now. We cannot lose the fact that we are 7-0."
Chris Rainey paced the Gator ground attack carrying 12 times for 90 yards and one touchdown.
Tebow completed 12-of-22 passing for 127 yards, no touchdowns and two interceptions. Tebow also added 88 yards rushing on 22 totes and a score.
Aaron Hernandez hauled in five passes for 32 yards while Riley Cooper caught four balls for 63 yards.
The game did not begin as Mississippi State planned. After picking up one first down, Tyson Lee had his next pass batted in the air at the line of scrimmage and picked off by A.J. Jones at the MSU 47-yard line.
The Gators went to work from there but the MSU defense stood strong forcing a 37-yard field goal attempt from Caleb Sturgis that hooked wide left.
The Bulldogs took over and methodically drove down the field with a 10-play drive that moved the chains four times and set up a 43-yard field goal by Derek DePasquale for an early 3-0 lead with 9:05 in the opening quarter.
Florida bounced back on the ensuing drive driving 68 yards in 10 plays down to the 1-yard line. But the Bulldogs defense once again held solid with a goal line stand stopping Tebow on two consecutive running plays from a yard out. Sturgis came on with a 20-yard field goal to tie things up.
The Gators took the lead early in the second quarter. Florida drove 67-yards and reached the end zone on a 26-yard keeper by Tebow diving across the right pylon for the score. Sturgis came on to kick the point after lifting the Gators to a 10-3 advantage.
Florida's defense held the Bulldogs to three-and-out for the second consecutive series setting up their offense again with good field position. Florida drove down to the MSU 4-yard line but again did not break forcing a 21-yard field goal by Sturgis as the Gators took a 13-3 lead with 7:15 remaining before the half.
Florida appeared to be on the verge of adding another score before heading to the locker room. The Gators defense stopped Mississippi State for the fourth consecutive drive forcing another punt. But this time Rainey slipped through and blocked the punt recovering at the 7-yard line going in.
The Bulldogs again defense not only held Florida out of the end zone on third down, but Banks caught a tipped Tebow pass in the end zone and raced the length of the field for a 100-yard interception return with 26 seconds left in the first half.
"We had a great pass rush and Corey Broomfield tipped it and I was just in the right spot at the right time," Banks said. "I made a play on it. I had a feeling I could go all the way on it. I saw Tebow and I had a man in front of me and I knew a lineman wasn't going to catch me. I had Pernell McPhee in front of me blocking. I thought I could take it back but then I saw Jeffrey Demps coming back but Chris White made a good block on him and I made the play."
DePasquale booted the extra point pulling the Bulldogs within 13-10.
MSU came out with momentum in the second half stopping the Gator offense on three plays and putting together a scoring drive of their own. Lee hit Christian Ducre out of the backfield for a 54-yard pass that set up a 31-yard game tying field goal.
The score would not remain nodded long as Florida drove down the field on the next drive to set up a 27-yard field goal by Sturgis with 5:15 left in the third quarter.
The Bulldogs tried a fake punt deep in their own territory early in the fourth quarter but it backfired. Robert Elliott took the reverse pitch around the end and looked to have a chance at reaching the first down marker but slipped down turning the ball over to Florida at the 22-yard line.
"It wasn't like we were churning up and down the field on offense," Mullen said. "It was a key point in the game and i thought we needed a play. They had been coming after us on the punt team and I thought we would get it. I thought we had it and I looked at the replay and Robert just stumbled."
The Gators made State pay scoring six plays later on a 8-yard run by Rainey. Sturgis missed the extra point but Florida took a 22-13 lead with just over nine minutes to play.
On the ensuing drive, Lee had another pass tipped high in the air at the line of scrimmage falling into the awaiting arms of Dustin Doe, who raced 26-yards into the end zone for the score. Sturgis kicked the extra point as Florida went up 29-13 at that point.
Lee was intercepted by Major Wright at the UF 2-yard line following a fourth down conversion at midfield looking as if the Gators had the game in the bag.
But Mississippi State proved it still had some fight left as Banks picked off Tebow on the first play from scrimmage and returned it 20-yards for his second interception return of the night, marking the first time in school history a player has had two interceptions returned for touchdowns.
The two-point conversion run by Chad Bumphis failed but the Bulldogs had a chance with 3:51 left on the clock.
MSU kicked off and pinned the Gators deep in their own territory but were flagged for being offsides on the play. After marking off the penalty, Brandon James returned the ball to midfield spelling the end of State's upset hopes.
The Bulldogs managed 237 yards on offense with 145 yards passing and just 92 on the ground.
Florida's defense snapped Anthony Dixon's streak of five consecutive 100-yard games. Dixon carried 15 times for 53 yards on the night.
"They had a real fast defense," Dixon said. "Their defense is really good and deserve all the rankings they have so far this season. I felt like they were up for this game and were not taking us lightly. They brought their A game and stepped up to the challenge. I wish I could have done more and gotten more opportunities, but I felt like I gave 110-percent and so did my
Lee completed 15 of 23 passes for 145 yards but was picked off three times by the Gators and did not throw a touchdown pass.
"(Tipped passes) happen," Lee said. "However short or tall you are, it's going to happen. What you've got to do as a quarterback is find a lane to get the ball to one of your receivers and don't let the ball get tipped."
Dixon and O'Neal Wilder each caught three passes for 21 yards while Marcus Green hauled in three balls for 20 yards. Ducre caught two passes out of the backfield for 61 yards to lead the team in that category.
Florida was led defensively by Ryan Stamper with 12 tackles followed by Joe Haden with seven stops and Doe with six. Stamper and Haden also each recorded a tackle for loss.
Carlos Dunlap brought down Lee three times during the contest while Joey Sorrentino got to the quarterback once.
Marcus Washington paced the Bulldogs defense with 15 tackles and one stop for loss. Jamar Chaney made 12 tackles, one tackle for loss and one forced fumble. Sean Ferguson and K.J. Wright each made eight stops.
McPhee made 1.5 sacks while Wright got to the quarterback once. Nick Bell was also credited with a half a sack.
The loss was the third consecutive for State at home and drop to 3-5 on the year and 1-3 in the SEC.


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WOODRIDGE – Throughout the month of November, the Woodridge Park District is asking residents to help needy neighbors during the holidays.
The park district will be holding a food drive supporting the West Suburban Community Pantry. Acceptable donations include stuffing mix, pumpkin pie filling, cranberry sauce, instant potatoes and more. Residents should bring food donations to the Community Center, 2600 Center Drive.
The pantry, 6809 Hobson Valley Drive, can be reached at 630-512-9921 for more information on donating.
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The St. Louis Rams Community Player of the Week is safety
Like most rookies in the NFL, Cody Davis has had a lot on his plate this season adjusting to the game on a higher level and trying to carve out a place for himself on the field. But Cody has managed to do all of this and still give back to the St. Louis community, donating his time to help others in need.
"It's great to see a rookie like Cody seeking out opportunities to be involved in his new community," said Molly Higgins, Rams' vice president of corporate communications/civic affairs. "And it's important to us as a community outreach department to find efficient ways for the players to effectively assist the community and that's especially true with rookies, who are adapting to a new way of life. Cody has really embraced those opportunities to be involved and make a difference while maintaining a focus on the field."
Last week Cody visited St. Louis Children's Hospital as part of the 2013 Love Light Festival. Cody joined Rampage, cheerleaders and other local personalities and celebrities in visiting children and families at the hospital and offering up a little holiday cheer. Making time to deliver presents and speak with the kids, he was able to make their day a little bit brighter.
From the time he arrived in St. Louis, Cody has focused on helping youth in St. Louis through a number of different events and initiatives. With his rookie class he attended the Team Activities for Special Kids (TASK) bowling event, and also helped out at the annual playground build at Washington Elementary with fellow players and the Rams front office.
In September, Cody attended the Make-A-Wish Celebrity Server Dinner. During the event he competed with his teammates as he collected tip donations by signing autographs and taking photos with guests. By the end of the evening, Cody had helped the Rams to raise enough money to fund 56 wishes for local children facing life-threatening diseases.
Cody also took some time earlier this fall to visit the winners of the American Red Cross High School Blood Drive Challenge at Belleville Township High School East in Belleville, Illinois. There he presented the award and spoke about the importance of service. Cody also lent his time to the Red Cross as part of their Holiday Cards for Heroes drive. Along with the fellow player
About the Rams Community Player of the Week
Each week during the 2013 season, the St. Louis Rams will select a player who has made a positive impact on the Greater St. Louis community, giving of himself off the field. Each honored Rams Community Player of the Week will receive a gift certificate to Ruth's Chris Steak House, the Official Steak House of the St. Louis Rams.


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More than 150 evangelical leaders, from across the political spectrum, have come together to call for immigration reform. Host Michel Martin looks at the crusade for reform with Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, and Rev. Samuel Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
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Selected Ivy League Player Of Week
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Freshman Geneva Decker's big game against UMass Lowell caught the attention of one national website. Decker, who scored twice in the 3-1 victory over the River Hawks on Sunday, was selected as the CollegeSportsMadness Ivy League Player of the Week.
The goals were the first two of Decker's career. She comes to Yale after being named the Coastal League Player of the Year as a senior at The Bishop's School in California where she was a three-time first team all-league selection and a four-year starter for the varsity.
Decker scored the first goal of the game against UMass Lowell midway through the first half and then sealed the victory with a goal in the final five minutes that capped the scoring.
Decker and her teammates are back in action on Friday when they play at Georgetown at 3 p.m.
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January 2012
Johnson Club of China receives the Henry P. Renard '54, MBA '55 Regional Club of the Year Award
According to Lim, much of the club's success stems from his collaboration with Beijing Co-President Rachel Gong, MBA '99, and Hong Kong Co-President Sean Alexander, MBA '01. The three took on these leadership roles, Lim explained, to experience the rewards of seeing friends reconnect for the first time since being in Ithaca. "Many personal and career changes take place after graduation, especially given the pace of fast-moving megacities like Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. It's wonderful to reunite people and play a role in helping them connect," Gong said. "It's also incredible to see current students interact with alums in China and successfully get job offers a few months later," Alexander added.
To bring alumni together, the club hosts about three or four events per year. The key to hosting successful events, Lim said, is maintaining constant contact with alumni and ensuring that their contact information and data is kept up to date, which can be a challenge. "We've been testing a Johnson Club of China Facebook site for several months now and will officially launch it soon," said Lim. The Facebook site will enable people outside of China to access information about the club. "For China, we are now considering a few alternatives to Facebook, since it is unfortunately banned in China," Lim says.
Lim, Gong, and Alexander hope that in the future, they'll be able to organize and host more large-scale, business-focused events, like Cornell's upcoming Asia Alumni Leadership Conference in Hong Kong this March. "Planning more activities and interactions with Johnson professors traveling through Hong Kong is also something we'd like to see happen," said Alexander.
As the recipient of the Henry P. Renard '54, MBA '55 Regional Club of the Year Award on behalf of the Johnson Club of China, Lim said he is flattered but owes the victory to the hard work of the people who have helped him. "Because Johnson Club of China covers three major cities—Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai — whatever our little accomplishments are, they are truly a result of collaborative efforts by a few core alumni in China. Those few incredibly committed alumni include Sean Alexander, Rachel Gong, Julia Xu, Sam Van Hobreek, Karin Chu and Ariana Yang," Lim said. "I was very surprised to hear about the award, but I very much appreciate the recognition."
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