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Indianapolis – Governor Mike Pence today named Pershing Edwin "P.E." MacAllister as the 2014 recipient of the Sachem Award. The Governor plans to present MacAllister with the Sachem at an official ceremony in the coming months.
"P.E. MacAllister embodies the character, industriousness and generosity that is the essence of the Sachem Award," said Governor Pence. "His impact on the life of our capital city, and Indiana as a whole, is incalculable. His civic involvement promoting economic development and the arts has made our economy and our cultural life more robust and enriched the lives of countless Hoosiers. Young people who aspire to make a difference in our state need look no further than the life and example of the creative visionary and legendary leader P.E. MacAllister. It is a privilege for me as Governor to honor P.E. MacAllister with the 2014 Sachem Award for his many contributions to Hoosiers in central Indiana and the state as a whole. "
Born and raised in Milwaukee, MacAllister graduated from then Carroll College in 1940. He served five years in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II as a captain and later moved to Indianapolis to join his father's Caterpillar dealership, called MacAllister Machinery Co. Since 1952, MacAllister has served as chairman of the board for the family company, where his son now serves as president and COO. From 1982 to the mid-2000s, MacAllister hosted On Site, an interview-style talk show focused on the arts and culture of Indianapolis. MacAllister is still active in television today.
MacAllister has played an essential role in the development of Indiana's capital city and the growth of its arts and cultural areas. He previously served as executive director of the Council on Cities as well as former President George W. Bush's appointee to the Advisory Committee on the Arts for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. MacAllister also served as president of the Capital Improvement Board, where he played a key role in developing the Hoosier Dome, the Convention Center, and Lucas Oil Stadium. He has also helped lead community and cultural organizations including the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Indianapolis Opera, for which he created the MacAllister Awards, which were presented from 1979 to 2002, for up-and-coming singers.
An alumnus of Carroll University, he has served on the school's board of trustees since 1963, and in 1990 he established the P.E. MacAllister Endowed Chair. In 1996, he and his wife donated funds to increase the endowment to $1 million. Full-tuition scholarships are also awarded to future students based on academic excellence and achievement through the MacAllister Fellowship. Earlier this year, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) awarded MacAllister with the prestigious 2014 Ernest T. Stewart Award for Alumni Involvement, which honors an individual for service to one's alma mater and is the highest honor CASE presents to an alumni volunteer. MacAllister was also the 2008 recipient of the Michael A. Carroll Award, presented annually to an individual who embodies the former deputy mayor's determination, dedication, and enthusiasm for the community.
Indiana's highest honor, the Sachem, whose name comes from the Algonquin term given to leaders who exhibit wisdom, judgment and grace and whose character underscores the importance of moral example, is given annually to Hoosiers who have shown these qualities. Previous recipients include college basketball coaching legend John Wooden; the Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame and world statesman; philanthropist Jane Blaffer Owen; and gospel music singing and songwriting pioneers Bill and Gloria Gaither. Governor Pence named Don Wolf, of northeast Indiana, as the 2013 recipient of the Sachem Award.


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A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
Learn more about AILA's official statements on immigration issues.Read Now
AILA Doc. No. 13020640 | Dated February 6, 2013
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Washington, DC - Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee held its first substantive hearing of the 113th Congress on "America's Immigration System: Opportunities for Legal Immigration and Enforcement of Laws against Illegal Immigration." While holding this hearing underscored the importance of immigration reform to our nation's continued economic growth and future prosperity, for the most part the discussion failed to focus on some key issues that are vital to successful immigration reform.
"The solution to the tangled, unwieldy and dysfunctional immigration system is not a piecemeal approach, despite what several of the lawmakers and witnesses said yesterday. Instead, we need to create an immigration system that is balanced and inclusive," said AILA President Laura Lichter. She continued, "At the hearing, we heard about the importance of border security and need to make our borders more secure, despite the fact that there have been billions of dollars invested and that the benchmarks established by each of the Senate immigration reform bills of 2006, 2007 and 2010 have been essentially met or exceeded. With immigration enforcement occurring at unprecedented levels, our country must address the needs of the 11 million undocumented residents, their families, and employers."
Ms. Lichter noted, "Keeping all families strong and united is a core national value and interest, and we must continue our historic commitment to those values. We should not increase employment visas at the expense of reducing visas in family categories. Our immigration system must be flexible and capable of meeting the needs of American businesses and families.
"One important topic that didn't seem to get much attention at the hearing was that we are currently denying basic due process to millions of people who live in the U.S. Long-time residents are subject to deportation even when they have strong ties to the community, pay taxes, and desperately want to become full-fledged members of our society. Many are eligible to apply for legal status, but because they lived in the U.S. for a period of time that was unauthorized they are now barred from fixing their status. Judges often have no ability to weigh the individual circumstances of the case while low-level officials often act as judge and jury, and the federal courts have been denied the power to review most agency decisions. Congress should restore fairness and flexibility to our system by authorizing immigration judges and officials to exercise discretion in considering the individual circumstances of each case," she concluded.
AILA encourages lawmakers to commit to informed discussions that will shape a common sense immigration policy that helps to rebuild America's economy, recognizes the contributions of immigrants, keeps families together, and strengthens America's security.
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Batman: Arkham City will use Games for Windows Live, as revealed by the new PC box art for the game, reports Rock Paper Shotgun. This means you'll use Microsoft's own front-end for the game, with all the frustrations and perks that come with it. But hey, at least you can use the PC version to contribute to your Gamerscore, if you're into that sort of thing.
You can step into the shoes of the Dark Knight on PC, PlayStation 3, or Xbox 360 on October 18. Robin was recently revealed as a playable character in Challenge Maps, at least as a pre-order bonus from Best Buy. For hands-on impressions check out our pre-E3 preview of Arkham City.
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On Oct. 15, members from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sweetwater went to Brownwood to take part in their town's Pride for Areas Surrounding Schools (PASS) program. Over 250 came from the churches in Abilene, Brownwood, San Angelo, Eastland, Sweetwater and Brady. Donning yellow slipover tops which read "Mormon Helping Hands," they scraped and painted eight homes near the Brownwood Intermediate School. The purpose was to beautify the neighborhood around the school and to make it a safer environment through which the students walk each day.


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The summary, and the Security Week article, write that "Users are more 21 times more likely to get hit with malware from online shopping sites than if they'd gone to a counterfeit software site".
Cisco's report says that "Online shopping sites are 21 times more likely to deliver malicious content than counterfeit software sites."
Those statements are not equivalent. Online shopping sites have many more visitors than counterfeit software sites, so they have more opportunity to deliver malware. The same goes for the factor of 27 for search engines.
Also, it's hard to check the factor of 182 for adult sites, since the report doesn't include that number, or in fact even the words "porn" or "adult".
Sure, but it's what we probably wanted to hear.
Now go tell it to the politicians and mention the children. Maybe the privacy-invading criminals finally get punished. I won't be holding my breath though.
Appropriate quote from Sir Winston Churchill:
'Statistics are like a drunk with a lamppost, used more for support than illumination.'
It is exactly what Cisco said see here: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/vpndevc/annual_security_report.html [cisco.com]
Where Cisco's wording is really ambiguous. Deliver may mean indeed as you interpret it, the total number of successful infections, it may also mean the chance that if you visit that site, it gets you infected, which indeed would be my interpretation of the wording Cisco uses.
And now I'd have to go read the report and look at the actual numbers and methodology they used, to figure out the actual meaning.
Those statements are not equivalent
They're completely equivalent. The "than if they'd gone to a counterfeit software site" part takes care of that.
I'll assume that you hit the wrong link, and read something else, so here is from the article:
It can be more dangerous to click on an online advertisement than an adult content site these days, Cisco said in its latest version of the yearly security threat report.
An adult content website - that's probably porn.
The highest concentration of online security targets do not target pornography, pharmaceutical, or gambling sites as much as they affect legitimate sites such as search engines.....
Are you going to wordsmith this one> Yeah, it doesn't say "porn". It says "pornography. The section you quoted, below the sentence with pornography in the text, does speak of the counterfeit software site.
But you know why they used the "counterfeit site metric don't you? Because of the uproar that would ensue if they used actual
The popular belief is that security risks increase as the user engages in riskier
So security risks don't increase as I engage in risky behavior? How does that even work? If something doesn't increase risk, then it isn't risky. I can start downloading and executing everything I see without increasing security risks?
You would actually become safer.
It has been known for a long time that ads are a primary malware vector, this is the reason many sane people block them.
It has been known for a long time that ads are a primary malware vector, this is the reason many sane people block them.
That is not the primary reason why I block ads. I block ads because I can't stand all the dancing, jiggling, flashing, gray overlays, slowdowns, green links, and noises, when I want to read something. If I incidentally block all the ads, well, I don't have the time to make my own ad block list that blocks only the bad ad providers. I tried it before, and I'm not convinced that there are any benign ad services.
Let's get rid of online ads then.
It is long known that ads may contain malicious parts - especially bits of javascript. It happened before that major ad servers got compromised, it will happen again. I recall reports that some ads were trying to infect an unsuspecting user directly, and such ads are displayed on sites all over the place, including personal blogs and lolcat sites.
When clicking an ad you don't really know which site you're going to be sent to. When visiting a porn or a warez site, you normally go there intentionally. Those s
next week cisco unveils a new enterprise-caliber ad-scrubbing internet gateway...
So do you block ads, or block content from unknown domains?
My ad blocking is accomplished by my DNS server, so it's not so much unknown domains as domains known to serve nothing but ads.
I consider "Adblock" and similar browser and computer add-ons to be *security* tools as much as bandwidth and other management.
Since the first time I noted browser exploits coming across common news and sales sites, I realized that the current model requires not trust of the sites we visit, but of the advertiser's sites... you know, like google and double-click and the others. I don't want to trust "unknowns" and so I block them unless I need them unblocked for access.
I don't want to trust "unknowns" and so I block them unless I need them unblocked for access.
If I have to unblock too many sites, I just don't use a site. Problem solved. Anything actually requiring doubleclick is evil and must be destroyed.
Adblock and Noscript are necessities for security in a world in which the browser can't provide an adequate sandbox, which is the world we live in.
Actual context sensitive Google ads that I was too terrified to click on:
"Ball lightning: Browse a huge selection now. Find exactly what you want today."
"Ann Coulter Ringtone! Send this ringtone to your phone right now!"
Made me toss my browser cookies it did. After you toss your cookies these things stop for awhile, then build once again to a crescendo. Lately I have been getting ads with garden gnomes leering suggestively.
Isn't this an advert for some cisco snakeoil?
So. watching porn all year is just as dangerous as clicking two ads.
The party adjourned to a hot tub, yes. Fully clothed, I might add. -- IBM employee, testifying in California State Supreme Court


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Google�s Chrome browser has been having problems with something known as the chrome-navigation-error.info redirect, which may be botnet related. This also seems to afflict Apple Mac OS X users and apparently some Linux users, but not Firefox users. Either way, it�s not your problem.
Usually, the best way to tackle malware is to identify it, so that you can search for specific solutions. In this case, you�re not sure if your PC has any malware, and you haven�t identified it, so we will have to take a generic approach. This isn�t a bad thing. The danger is that an attacker can use a small security hole to install more malignant software, so it�s best to give your PC a thorough inspection.
Before you start, make sure you have all your programs and data backed up, and that you can restore Windows to its factory condition if necessary. Your PC probably has a hidden recovery partition that will do this. It�s also a good idea to make a restore copy of Windows on DVD as well. Your PC may well prompt you to do this each time you restart it.
Unfortunately, there are several ways of redirecting search traffic, so we can�t even be certain that Firefox is the problem. It could be something to do with your Hosts file (though it probably isn�t), with a rootkit on your hard drive, or with a �poisoned� domain name service (DNS). Some redirections are the result of websites being hacked, and in these cases, there�s nothing wrong with the user�s PC.
Start by making a list of your useful Firefox extensions and then uninstalling and re-installing Firefox. Make sure you download the new version from https://www.mozilla.org/ (note the https for security). This link takes you to a page where you can download all the localised versions from Acholi to Xhosa, including �English (British)�.
Don�t use Google to search for this kind of thing: it is targeted by scammers and it is far too easy to be duped by the adverts that Google puts above search results. As when searching for visa, health card and similar application forms, use the DuckDuckGo search engine, which doesn�t track you and also protects your privacy.
Does your new, guaranteed-legitimate version of Firefox still have a redirection problem? If not, you can start to install the extensions you need. You could start with Adblock Edge � a forked version of Adblock Plus � and then install one extension per day. Don�t install a new extension until you�re sure the last one is OK.
Next, replace your Hosts file, since one of its purposes is to redirect websites. I recommend the MVPS Hosts file created by a group of Microsoft-designated Most Valuable Professionals (they�re not employees). This also works on non-Windows systems. Follow the instructions to install it, bearing in mind that you must have Administrator access.
Finally, in this section, download Farbar�s MiniToolBox from Bleeping Computer. This can detect and fix problems with proxy settings and search redirects, hijacked routers and so on. You don�t need to install MiniToolBox, it just runs. In this case, tick the boxes for Flush DNS, Reset IE Proxy Settings, and Reset FF Proxy Settings, then click Go.
Problem solved? If not, it�s time to play hunt the malware�
Malware removal
In general, I�ve found that running Malwarebytes Anti-Malware in Safe Mode is the quickest way to remove malware that has evaded whichever anti-virus program you have installed. Start by saving the free MBAM to your desktop, updating its detection database, and running a quick scan. Remove any malware it finds, but don�t stop there. Reboot your PC and keep pressing F8 before Windows loads, to bring up the boot menu (some PCs may use a different hotkey). When you get the boot menu, select Safe Mode, and run Malwarebytes again. If it finds any malware, delete it and repeat the process. Keep rebooting and re-running Malwarebytes until it doesn�t find anything bad.
You�ve already tried Malwarebytes so you may want to try an alternative such as Norton Power Eraser. It�s another program that targets the sort of stuff that everyday anti-virus programs might miss, and it targets �scamware� in particular. Symantec warns that it is aggressive and may detect threats in legitimate programs, but at this stage, a bit of aggression is a good idea.
If Malwarebytes and/or NPE don�t find your malware, there are a few more targeted programs you can run. The ones worth trying include � in order � Bleeping Computer�s RKill, Kaspersky Lab�s TDSSKiller, SurfRight�s HitmanPro, and Xplode�s AdwCleaner. RKill tries to kill any known-bad processes running on your PC, which may be preventing other programs from running or finding malware. TDSSKiller finds rootkits. You can download all of these from Bleeping Computer�s Downloads section. There are also lots of tutorials on the site to explain how to do things.
When everything else fails, there�s ComboFix. This has been developed by Bleeping Computer to tackle hard problems, and is used by many other anti-malware forums. However, unless you�re an expert, it�s not something you should run yourself. You should create an account at Bleeping Computer (or a similar website such as Geeks To Go), select the correct forum for your problem, and start a new query as explained in the Welcome Guide. One of the site�s volunteers will try to help you to find a solution. This will often involve running RKill and ComboFix and posting logs from your PC, but you need to be familiar with the area to make sense of the logs.
Updating Windows
Malware is relatively rare on Windows nowadays, at least since we all stopped using 32-bit Windows XP � I�ve not found any on my 64-bit Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8 in more than half a decade of running multiple machines. However, that�s mainly because I keep Windows and all my other software up to date. I run Secunia�s Personal Software Inspector (PSI), which does a weekly scan, and I check Windows Update manually, often after Microsoft auto-installs updates on �Patch Tuesday�. I also minimise the amount of Adobe, Apple and Java code on my Windows PCs, though they all have Adobe Flash installed.
Microsoft�s SmartScreen filter has also helped a lot. When you run a new program, SmartScreen creates an SHA-256 hash of the executable code and sends this gibberish to a Microsoft server, which looks to see if the same hash is associated with any malware. If it is, it blocks the code or website and puts up a message to say that �Windows protected your PC�. Importantly, it provides protection against social engineering attacks (eg fake codec updates) and drive-by downloads. SmartScreen has been part of Internet Explorer but is now plumbed into Windows 8. Yes, it has some privacy implications, but they�re nothing like as bad as downloading anything from the Windows Store, iTunes, Google Play or a similar service.
You don�t have to be perfect. Most malware writers target the �low hanging fruit� represented by the hundreds of millions of users who never install patches, run pirate copies of software with built-in back doors, or are still using Windows XP. Being up to date will not save you from a professional attack from the National Security Agency, GCHQ and other organisations with access to unknown or zero-day exploits, but unless you�re a potential target, you�re very unlikely to fall victim to one of those.
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Renowned Conservation Photographer Garth Lenz: The True Cost of Oil
Garth Lenz is one of the world's most famous conservation photographers (with a perfect name for it), and here he is with a TED Talk, using his stunning photography to illustrate exactly what happens to an ecosystem when we mine its tar sands to extract oil. It's pretty shocking to see the terrible reality behind the Keystone XL debate.
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First up are the system specific benchmarks that will test overall scientific performance.
To get things stated, I will begin with Apophysis. This program is used primarily to render and generate fractal flame images. We will run this benchmark with the following settings:
- Resolution: 2750x2048
- Quality: 500
- Limit Memory Use: 512MB
The measurement used is time to render, in minutes, to complete.
WinRAR is a tool to archive and compress large files to a manageable size. We will use 10MB, 100MB, and 500MB files, as well as test the time needed to compress these files. Time will be measured in seconds.
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A young boy stumbles upon a simple way to change the world in this drama. Trevor (Haley Joel Osment) is a bright 11-year-old boy who comes from a troubled home; his mother Arlene (Helen Hunt) is an alcoholic trying to hold down two jobs to support her son, while Trevor's father Jon Bon Jovi) left his family behind some time ago. At school, Trevor's class is introduced to their new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet (Kevin Spacey), a guarded man with severe facial scars. Simonet gives his class an unusual assignment -- think up a practical way to make the world a better place, and put it into action. Trevor comes up with the notion of Pay It Forward" -- do a needed favor for three different people without being asked, and then ask them to do the same for three others. Trevor starts by letting Jerry (James Caviezal), a junkie living on the streets, stay in his home. Next, he tries to fix Arlene up with Mr. Simonet, since both seem to be lonely and the clean and sober teacher might help Arlene stay away from alcohol. Finally, he tries to rescue one of his schoolmates, who is constantly tormented by bullies. Meanwhile, journalist Chris Chandler (Jay Mohr) finds himself stuck on the road without a car late one night when a man stops and give him the keys to a new car, asking him only to pay the favor forward to someone else; astonished, Chris wants to find out where this philosophy came from. Based on the novel by Catherine Ryan Hide, Pay It Forward also stars Angie Dickinson and Liev Schreiber. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Chris Christie A Guest Of Huffington Post At Correspondants Dinner
"Talk about an odd couple.
Liberal media mogul Arianna Huffington is bringing GOP star Gov. Chris Christie to the White House Correspondents' dinner later this month.
The governor will feel at home with the Huffington Post founder's other guests: New Jersey natives Jon Bon Jovi of Sayreville and Shaquille O'Neal of Newark, according to Women's Wear Daily, which first reported the invites. Shaq recently visited Christie at the Statehouse in Trenton.
Christie was one half of an unusual pairing last year, too, when he made headlines for sitting next to bombshell "Modern Family" actress Sofia Vegara. ABC brought the governor last year and he was a guest of NBC in 2011."
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Crystal Palace manager Ian Holloway has challenged his players to keep focus in the final games of the season to ensure that Palace finish in the play-off places.
Palace boss Holloway will be hoping that his team can finish the season as they started it, but recent form has been against them of late. Three consecutive losses against Brighton, Birmingham and Blackpool in March/April meant Palace fell out of contention for an automatic promotion place, but Holloway hopes his players have enough left for one final push.
Palace could only manage a 2-2 draw against Leicester on Saturday, which meant that the Eagles missed out on the chance to pull away from Bolton, Leicester and Nottingham Forest who are on 66, 65 and 64 points respectively.
The table has become congested in and around the play-off places and Holloway knows that now is the time to try and grind out results.
Holloway has also pointed out the unpredictable nature of the league this season, with mid-tabled teams closer to the relegation zone than the play-off places.
Speaking to reporters, Holloway said: "It wasn't a pretty affair but at this stage of the season it isn't about that. It's about the mind-set. If we had won 10 in a row we would have been happy but now in this position, because we have been in the play-off frame for some time, people are disappointed.
"It's been a roller-coaster and there is a lot of talk about who we are competing with for the play-offs but we just have to get on with it."
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Loic Remy's early strike sealed another huge win for Newcastle United in the Premier League, yesterday as Tottenham were beaten 1-0 at White Hart Lane.
The French striker's seventh goal of the season after only 12 minutes was enough for Alan Pardew's side who had Tim Krul to thank, as he made several world-class saves to maintain the Toon's lead and end Tottenham's three-match unbeaten run.
Andre Villas-Boas made five changes to the side that beat Sheriff 2-1 in the UEFA Europa League on Thursday, while Newcastle had captain Fabricio Coloccini back on the bench but were otherwise unchanged from last weekend's win over Chelsea.
A dominant spell from the visitors in the opening stages of the game provided the first clear-cut opportunity, as Remy raced onto Yohan Cabaye's excellent through ball but was denied by some great last-ditch defending by Vlad Chiriches.
However, there was no denying the in-form Frenchman the second time around as Brad Friedel conceded 12 minutes into his first league appearance of the season, with Hugo Lloris' head injury keeping him in the stands.
Remy was sent clear after Yoan Gouffran dispossessed Paulinho in midfield, before rounding the 42-year-old keeper and slotting home his seventh goal of the season.
Krul kept Spurs at bay for the remainder of the first half as he made excellent reflex saves from Roberto Soldado, Christian Eriksen and Paulinho.
Eriksen was then denied twice by the Dutch stopper after the break – first from point-blank range and then from his deflected free-kick, before Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa prevented substitute Younes Kaboul from tucking home the rebound.
The hosts were completely camped out in Newcastle's half as the half progressed, and Paulinho was next to be denied by the outstanding Krul before Jan Vertonghen's header thudded against the crossbar.
The Toon could not be breached though and held on for another magnificent victory – their third on the road in 2013/14 which is more than they registered through the whole of last season.
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Area musicians rehearse for Friday's bluegrass, gospel and country music jam set for 6 to 10 p.m. Jan. 18, at the First Lutheran Church in Princeton, located at 116 N. Pleasant St.
The music jams are typically planned on the third Friday of each month with musicians and listeners welcome to attend. Snacks and soft drinks are also available. Owen Johnson, current organizer, said the jams have been going on for about seven years. Musicians come from all over the area, as far away as the Quad Cities, Harding, Marseilles and Earlville. There is no charge to get into the jam, but donations are accepted. People may come and go as they have time.
Proceeds from the monthly jams, after expenses, are given back to the host church, Johnson said.


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The University of Colorado announced Friday that the Buffs' second game of the season — against Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro — will kick off at 1 p.m. Mountain.
The game will be available on ESPN3, the online livestream feature from ESPN, but will not be televised.
The game against UMass is the only one of the Buffs' first three games to not be picked up for television.
It was announced last week that CU will kick off its football season with a 7 p.m. game against Colorado State on Friday, Aug. 29. The Rocky Mountain Showdown at Sports Authority Field in Denver will be aired by Fox Sports 1.
Meanwhile, the Buffs will host Arizona State at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13. The game is CU's home opener and first game of Pac-12 play. It will be picked up by ESPNU.


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Nikon D60 unveiled
For those of us who could never understand why Nikon called the upgrade to its entry-level D40 the D40x, the company has rectified the situation this evening with the announcement of the Nikon D60 DSLR.
Presumably the D40x's long-speculated replacement, the new D60 shares key specs with the previous model, including its 10.2 megapixel CCD. Built around the diminutive D40/D40x form factor, the D60 sports a 2.5-inch LCD with an eye-control feature that automatically shuts off the display for improved visibility when the shooter is using the optical viewfinder.
Active D-Lighting, allowing the dynamic range enhancing effects of Nikon's D-Lighting processing to be applied while shooting, appears on the D60. As on it's higher-end models, the new step-up DSLR also employs Nikon's advance 3-D Color Matrix Metering II. As with Nikon's compact offerings, the EXPEED processing concept promises images that are vibrant and rich with less visible noise.
The D60 comes in kit form with Nikon's new AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G Vibration Reduction lens, providing optical image stabilization by default.
With all the rumors about slowing D40x flying around, there were high hopes for Nikon's new enthusiast-level DSLR release. Sadly, it seems like rumors of live view, in particular, were not to be, and while the D40x is an excellent camera, given how much this model seems to carry over, it may not be the big announcement many were hoping for.
Nikon has slated the D60 for shipment in February. No official word yet on pricing.
Nikon D60 specifications:
|10.2 megapixel, 23.6 x 15.8 mm CCD
|Nikon F-mount (AF-S or AF-I only for full functionality)
|2.5", 230K-pixel TFT LCD with Eye Sensor; Penta-mirror optical viewfinder with diopter adjustment
|Shutter Speed
|30-1/4000 seconds
|Shooting Modes
|Auto, Scene, Program, Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, Manual
|Scene Presets
|Portrait, Landscape, Child, Sports, Close Up, Night Portrait, Flash Off
|White Balance Settings
|Daylight, Cloudy, Shade, Incandescent, Fluorescent, Flash
|Metering Modes
|3D Matrix, Center-Weighted, Spot
|Focus Modes
|AF Single, AF Continuous, Auto Single/Continuous, Manual; Single Area, Dynamic Area, Closest Subject
|Drive Modes
|Single, Continuous
|Flash Modes
|Auto, Red-Eye, Slow Sync, Slow Sync w/ Red-Eye, Fill, Rear Curtain
| Self Timer Settings
|20 seconds, 10 seconds, 5 seconds, 2 seconds, Off
|Memory Formats
| Internal Memory
|File Formats
|Max. Image Size
| Max. Video Size
|Zoom During Video
|Rechargeable lithium-ion, 1000 mAh
|USB 2.0, video output, DC input
|Additional Features
|EXPEED Image Processor, Stop-Motion Video Recording, Active D-Lighting, Eye Sensor LCD Control, Dust Reduction/Airflow Control System


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Not much that went on with the Jets this season behind the scenes managed to stay out of the press, but the arrest of linebacker Bryan Thomas during the season was kept under wraps until Tuesday.
The Morris County Daily Record in New Jersey reports that Thomas has applied for admission into a probation program to resolve charges from his October 31st arrest. Thomas has been charged with assaulting his wife, unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of less than 50 grams of marijuana, and possession of 20 tablets of suspected hydrocodone.
According to the complaint, Thomas "allegedly pushed his wife with a kitchen chair (the weapon cited in the charges), punched her in the stomach, and grabbed her by the neck, causing pain and marks on her body." Police found the drugs and paraphernalia at Thomas's home.
Thomas posted $2,500 bail on those charges at the time. If he is allowed into the pre-trial diversion program for first-time offenders, the charges would be dismissed and his criminal record cleared upon completion of the conditions of probation.


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Did you know our Boston Pictorial Archive holds photographs, prints, and drawings documenting Boston-area commercial buildings in the 19th and 20th centuries? The bulk of the material covers the years between 1855 and 1970 and offers views of banks, coffeehouses, stores and markets, taverns, and more.
For a look at buildings from today, two websites worth checking out:
Detailed information on Boston buildings, the world's 200 tallest buildings, and the USA's top 20 buildings.
Detailed information on Boston buildings, features skyscraper diagram illustrations, timeline chronologies, and a buildings database.
Both resources offer profiles on each building's architectural style, architect, façade material, height, floors, and construction dates.


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2012 Softball
Bluffton pulls out sweep of Heidelberg
Bluffton notches pair of one-run wins over Heidelberg
March 27, 2012
By: Evan Skilliter, sports information assistant
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University softball team swept an exciting doubleheader with the Heidelberg University Student Princes, winning both games by a single run. The Beavers improved to 12-10 on the season, while Heidelberg slipped to 9-6 overall.
The Student Princes got on the board early in game one, scoring two runs in the first on an RBI single by Lexie Pinkelman. The Beavers cut the lead to one in the bottom half of the inning when a Katie Clark (New Palestine, IN) single up the middle scored Meagan Price (Toledo/Springfield) from second.
The Beavers added two more runs in the bottom of the second to take a 3-2 lead. Chelsea Weitz (Dayton/Carroll) scored on a Price sacrifice fly to center field and Shelby Erford (Paulding) crossed the dish on a passed ball as the inning ended with the Beavers on top.
Freshman Chloe Shell (Covington) finished the complete game by closing out the top of the seventh with a 1-2-3 inning, capping the 3-2 game one victory as she improved to 6-3. Shell allowed two runs on six hits while striking four and walking just one. Price led the offense in game one with a 1-for-2 performance at the plate. The senior backstop scored a run and drove in another.
Heidelberg started game two with a run in the first inning as a Pinkelman double scored Erica Huffman. The Beavers tied the game in the bottom of the second when Brittany Baker (Springboro) scored on an error. The home team went up 2-1 in the bottom of the third on a Mackenzie Bedlion (Marshallville/Smithville) RBI single over the first base bag that scored Lindsay Robertson (Cincinnati/Northwest).
The Beavers were up 3-2 until a Megan Reinhart two-run homer put the Student Princes back on top, 4-3. The Beavers answered in the bottom half as Shelby Wade (Delaware/Buckeye Valley) scored on a Chelsie Osborne (Chillicothe/Waverly) groundout, sending the two teams into the seventh inning tied at 3-3.
Both teams went down without a whimper in the seventh, but Heidelberg put up a run for the 4-3 lead in the top of the eighth when Kelly Martz singled to right field, scoring Jami Wagner.
Down one in the bottom of the eighth, freshman pinch hitter Jenelle Theisen (Carleton MI/St. Mary CC) came through in the clutch, singling to right field and putting the tying run on first base with no outs. A Wade sacrifice bunt moved Thiesen over to second before a single to left field by sophomore Christina Hrehor (Austintown) moved the tying run to third with only one out.
Emily Kolezynski (Strongsville) came on to run for Hrehor. She advanced to second on wild pitch and then went to third on a Price single that scored Theisen and tied the game. Osborne then came through with an RBI ground ball to second that scored Kolezynski and ended the game with the Beavers on top, 5-4.
Price went 3-of-4 with an RBI and Osborne drove in two runs to lead the Bluffton offense. Game two starter Megan Patton (Waynesfield/Perry) worked 5.1 innings, allowing three runs on six hits with four strikeouts and four walks. Sophomore Kayla Owens (Cincinnati/McAuley) needed just four pitches to close out the eighth as she improved to 3-3 when the Beavers plated two runs in the bottom of the frame.
The Beavers open Heartland Conference action when they welcome Mount St. Joseph on Saturday, March 31. The first game is slated to start at 2 p.m.


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We do definitely find it helps to have it visible when we're watching TV or just hanging out – means we don't go too long without reviewing together. Some people prefer an electronic version (Trello is great, for instance) but we really like the physical moving of cards around as it helps us have better discussions.


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Priced from the $250,000s, the attractive 2072–square-foot Kilgore model at 2603 Forest Cove Court is one of 10 designs offered for construction on 50-foot properties. The one-story, four-bedroom, two-bath home impresses immediately, beginning with dramatic 12-foot ceilings and a tiled foyer at the entry. A spacious family room opens to the kitchen, thoughtfully designed with an island work center, granite countertops and tiled floors for easy clean up. A secluded master bedroom is a relaxing sanctuary and the master bathroom includes an oversized garden tub. An optional playroom is the perfect place for children to while away the hours before dinner.
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Gov. Rick Scott's Monday night speech at the Republican National Convention is written, and he's already practicing.
Scott will discuss how the state needs a presidential partner that will reduce taxes, reduce regulation and reduce litigation, he told reporters Tuesday afternoon.
"Just think about what could happen if we had a federal partner that's going to do the same thing in DC that we're doing here in Florida," he said.
Scott wrote some of the speech himself but also took lots of advice, he said.
Scott also weighed in on Missouri Rep. Todd Akin, under fire from both political parties for comments that victims of "legitimate rape" usually don't get pregnant because their bodies shut down. Akin was arguing against abortions in cases of rape or incest.
Scott's press conference came the same day he read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" to a group of five-year-olds at a child reading event in Tallahassee and the Republican Party of Florida released a commercial trumpeting changes to FCAT.
The commercial is unclear about what changes the school system will make, and doesn't mention that the current FCAT program is already on its way out because of a law signed by former Gov. Charlie Crist.
Scott said the new tests should focus on analytical skills rather than memorization and should contain material that will help high school graduates succeed in college or the work force.
"We've got to get away from teaching to the test," he said, adding that he often hears FCAT complaints from parents and teachers.


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You recently examined the performance of major steelmakers globally, looking specifically at the importance of an increased focus on the customer. Why should customer centricity matter to steel companies?
Historically, steel companies have reacted to downturns in market conditions with cost-cutting and operational excellence initiatives. These will likely continue to be important levers. However, steelmakers in mature markets simply cannot compete with low-cost offers from emerging economies, especially given current global overcapacity that sits mainly in China. This makes it more important to focus on the customer side of the business.
Emphasizing unique customer requirements uncovers new opportunities for steel companies to offer tailored, customer-specific services for a premium. It also provides the foundation for customer segmentation and requirement-based business rules, which can then serve as the basis for identifying improvement areas across the enterprise. Read our report, "Five customer-focused steps to increase profitability in the steel industry," to learn more about how steelmakers can benefit from shifting their priority to the customer in addition to traditional cost cutting.
Digital is proving to be a disruptive force for most industries. How can companies in the metals industry benefit by embracing digital?
Focusing on the short term, there are three key areas where digitalization can lead to an advantage for metals companies:
Worker safety: Although the lost time injury frequency rate in steel fell from approximately four percent to one percent in the last 10 years,1 there is still room for improvement. Digital can help by equipping workers and machinery with sensors and tracking to enable early warning in case of emergency.
Proactive maintenance: Using sensors in steel plants and machinery amended by analytics models, the underlying root causes of outages can not only be predicted, but proactively avoided. One evolving example that applies beyond just the metals industry is the digitally-enabled avoidance of outages due to corrosion of pipes and other means.
Analytics: Big data (e.g., production data, customer order patterns, inventory levels) combined with analytics helps metals companies generate insights at speed, as large volumes of data from fragmented sources can be supported by self-learning algorithms. For example, a steel provider could implement business rules derived from their own historical customer order patterns and profitability to improve their production plan, inventory levels or steel grades.
What drives your interest in the metals industry?
Before my current role in metals, I worked in our chemicals practice. I wanted to stay involved in the important "old economies" (as these industries are sometimes called) because of their profound impact in our lives. Chemicals are omnipresent in nutrition, care and clothing, as well as in many other industry sectors like automotive and construction. In metals the same applies. Take steel, for example. Millions of people rely on it every single day—in the cars they drive, the buildings they work in, the electronics they use and more.
Each chemical or metal input requires manifold technical and environmental properties. For metals, stability, weight and elasticity as well as carbon dioxide (CO2) efficiency are key metrics of "a single product" that is created and managed through a highly complex operating schedule. The combination of societal need, industry breadth and complexity are fascinating to me from both an academic and professional perspective.
Metals isn't a traditional industry for women. Describe your view of diversity and your motivation.
I value a truly diversified team in terms of gender, ethnicity and cultural background. Scientific evidence on the advantages of diversity have been mentioned widely. Plus, many of our clients and Accenture itself are truly global companies. This means we must design our clients' products and solutions to succeed in a diversified global market, which is easier to achieve with the involvement of diverse teams.
On a personal level, I believe it is most important to like what you do and have an intrinsic interest in the industries in which you work—I feel fortunate to have both. This allows me to advance in my career, even during challenging projects or while working to initiate change that complies with an industry-specific code of conduct.
What is one of your favorite passions outside of work?
Besides spending time with family and friends, I adore traveling, preferably in remote areas of the world. In the last few years, my love of travel has led me to explore the Andes in Peru and Colombia as well as the Amazon Jungle.
1 "Sustainable Steel: Policy and Indicators 2016," World Steel Association, 2016, (accessed November 1, 2016).


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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Former Miami Dolphins and West Virginia quarterback Pat White wants to return to the NFL.
White's father, Bo, said Wednesday his son is going to work out as part of West Virginia's pro day in Morgantown on March 14.
Bo White says Pat has been in San Diego the past few weeks working with personal quarterbacks coach George Whitfield, whose clients have included NFL quarterbacks Ben Roethlisberger, Cam Newton and Andrew Luck.
The Dolphins selected White in the second round of the NFL draft in 2009. He played in 13 games before being released in September 2010.
The mobile White went 34-8 as a starter at West Virginia, becoming the first quarterback to start four bowl victories in college football history.


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Hello my name is Travis Grimes and im the biggest reds fan in the world!!
Hello my name is Travis Grimes and im the biggest reds fan in the world!!
Hi, been a Reds blogger for four seasons now, just wanted to say HI. AND:
I'm trying to get Reds fans in DC together on Wednesday night to watch the game. I want to do this once a month. I have lived in DC since 2003 (with the exception of last year) and would love to est. a monthly "meeting" with fellow Reds fans.
Meet up on Wed, April 29 @ 7pm at Solly's on U Street.
My email is firstname.lastname@example.com, so email me if you want to come. Oh, and I'm a GIRL if that matters. Ha ha.
Hey, new to the forum. 21 years old. Keep up with the Reds nearly every game. College student at UNC-Charlotte, born in Cincinnati tho. Huge UK Fan tho. Look forward to keeping up with the forum.
Dearest Fellow Reds Fans,
Salutations, greetings, etc. etc. etc. I have been a Reds fan for at least two decades now. I lived in Cincinnati for about 5 years when I was a little kid, up to the '90 season, in fact. I am 24, I hold a B.A. from Marshall University and a Master's from Vanderbilt University, and I am happily married. I enjoy long walks on the beach at night, Jay Bruce home runs, reading and traveling, and dissing Cubs fans. I have lurked around RedsZone for a while but have been reticent to join or post due to the already-strong representation of cynics and smart you-know-whats. So, "hi" or whatever.
Welcome to the site! This is easily the best Reds discussion site on the internet, so sit back, enjoy, and put in your two cents.
I do not condone sending any money to *BaseClogger*. He's in college, and with this economy, you know he's got a life of wealth ahead of him.
Hello all, just found the site. Look forward to conversing with you all.
The Tiger!
Go Reds!
Hope everyone is doing well! I mean come'on after a W like the Reds had earlier tonight how could you not be feeling pretty good. Since this is an introduction thread I'm going to be honest as can be. I've always been a Reds fan as a Cincinnati native (WESTSIDEEEEE!). They have always brought some sort of hope after every Bengals season always seems to crush any flicker that is still alive (This is not a plug but I also post on Bengals Zone. Solid forum) But anyways, I like the way this forum is structured. Only the true, most informed, fans make it to the most significant discussions. Hopefully I'll be there some day to spit some stats and facts. But in the mean time ROLL RED LEGS ROLL!
I look forward to your posts, dth. Welcome to the site.
Welcome and say "hi" to dth42887!
"Bring on Rod Stupid!"
Hi everyone,
I was looking for a good site to discuss reds baseball and came across Redszone during my search. I liked what I saw and decided to become a member. I have been a Reds fan ever since I can remember. I am excited with the start the Reds are having this year (14-13). Also, I am excited about the young talent this club has put together. It looks like we are headed in the right direction. I look forward to reading everyone's opinions on the club this year and for many years to come. Go Reds!
Welcome! There's a great community here, so please jump right in and have some good Reds discussion.
Sorry, I created a thread for this before I realized there was an actual Introductions thread.
Hello fellow Reds' fans. I'm excited to be here. I've heard about this site before and would come check it out from time to time, but I've finally decided to join and become a part of the discussion. I hope to bring a lot to the baseball conversations since I'm a former baseball player myself as well as a life long fan of the game.
I can't wait to get the discussion started, LETS WIN THE DIVISION!
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Mount Union College Pilots Campus Sustainability Rating System
May 25, 2010Mount Union College has been selected to participate in the pilot of the sustainability self-assessment tool STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System), newly-launched by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).
The 90-plus participating campuses were selected to represent a wide range of institutional types, sizes and geography. They include public and private schools, community colleges and research universities. Over the course of 2008 the selected institutions will provide feedback to AASHE and inform STARS version 1.0, planned for release in spring 2009.
AASHE is an association of colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada working to create a sustainable future. It was founded in 2006 with a mission to promote sustainability in all sectors of higher education - from governance and operations to curriculum and outreach - through education, communication, research and professional development. AASHE defines sustainability in an inclusive way, encompassing human and ecological health, social justice, secure livelihoods and a better world for all generations.
"The launch of the pilot phase is a major milestone in the development of STARS," said Judy Walton, AASHE's acting executive director. "It has taken nearly two years of hard work and the contributions of hundreds of individuals from every sector of the higher education community to bring us to this point."
STARS is designed to:
• Help gauge the progress of colleges and universities toward sustainability in all sectors, from governance and operations to academics and community engagement.
• Enable meaningful comparisons across institutions as well as benchmarking within institutions.
• Create incentives for continuous improvement toward sustainability.
• Facilitate information sharing about sustainability practices and performance in higher education
• Build a stronger, more diverse campus sustainability community.
Given the rapid growth of sustainability initiatives at institutions of higher education in North America, measuring and assessing progress toward sustainability goals has become increasingly important. While many institutions have undertaken sustainability assessments and while a variety of assessment tools are available, there is currently no system that translates disparate sustainability indicators into a single metric that enables both institutional benchmarking and easy comparison across a large number of campuses in terms of overall level of achievement.
"We are excited to use STARS to assess our sustainability performance," said Matt Malten, assistant vice chancellor for campus sustainability at Washington University in St. Louis. "In addition to using it as a guide to establish our performance baseline, we also plan to use STARS as a platform to help us engage and facilitate on-going collaboration for continual improvement on our campus, with our peer institutions across the country, and with our international partners. In short, STARS will help us confirm that we are affecting the necessary rapid global sustainability progress."
The system is similar to the LEED (Leadership in Energy Environmental Design) green building rating system. STARS, however, is applied to an entire campus rather than a single building or set of buildings and evaluates social responsibility as well as environmental stewardship.
Using STARS, campuses may earn credits in three categories – 1) Curriculum and Research, 2) Operations, and 3) Administration and Finance. Within each category are subsections of credits, ranging from "purchasing" and "buildings" in Operations to "investment" and "planning" in Administration and Finance.
For information about STARS, including a copy of the Pilot Phase One Guide, visit www.aashe.org/stars.


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As the weather gets cooler, it's just about flu shot time—for the humans anyway. I never get the canine influenza shot for my furry crew, but an outbreak at a local shelter had me rethinking my decision. Adoptions have been suspended at the Bergen County Animal Shelter in New Jersey while they battle a flu outbreak.
Generally the virus isn't serious, if caught early, but it can cause complications like pneumonia, which increases the risk. Since flu symptoms resemble other respiratory diseases, canine influenza is often mistaken for kennel cough.
The first canine influenza vaccine was approved two years ago and initial tests showed no side effects. Because it contains inactivated virus, the vaccine won't cause illness. It's important to note that the vaccine doesn't prevent the flu, but it significantly reduces the severity and duration.
The vaccine is intended for dogs at risk of exposure to the virus, such as those who participate in activities with other dogs or those who go to doggy daycare. The risk groups are the same for dogs who are recommended to receive the kennel cough vaccine.
My dogs are at a moderate risk since they regularly go to a training club and attend dog shows. However, I decided to pass on the vaccine for my crew since I don't board them or bring them to doggy day care. If you're considering the vaccine for your pups, consult your vet.


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Free agent outfielder Grady Sizemore may have trouble finding a home this offseason after undergoing yet another microfracture surgery.
Sizemore had the procedure done on his right knee back in September after having similar surgery on his left knee back in 2011. Normally, it takes between nine and 12 months to recover from that type of operation.
A three-time All-Star, Sizemore is several years removed from his best years, when he played at least 157 games in four straight seasons from 2005-08. He hit 107 homers during the stretch with an average on-pace percentage better than .371.
Sizemore's option was declined by Cleveland last season, but the Indians signed him to a $5 million one-year deal. However he did not play a single game for the Tribe due to a herniated disc in his back and pain in both knees.
He has appeared in a total of just 104 games over the last three seasons.


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Call it revenge of the skeeter.
City officials announced last week that more and more mosquito pools in the borough have tested positive for the West Nile virus, making Brooklyn a prime target for the dreaded disease.
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene statistics show that ten mosquito pools had tested positive for the virus this month – five times more than the two pools that showed indications of the disease last year.
Recent results are even more dire than 2006's numbers, which saw one of the worst recurrences of the West Nile virus in the last few years, officials said. That year, six tested pools showed indications of the disease.
Despite the jump, results in Brooklyn lag behind Queens and Staten Island, which saw 62 and 41 mosquito pools with signs of the West Nile virus, respectively.
While the city has spent most of the summer focusing their attentions on those two boroughs, officials last week began conducting spraying and aerial larviciding in parts of Canarsie, the Paerdegat Basin, Georgetown, Flatlands, East Flatbush, Mill Basin and Bergen Beach, where the disease has been found.
As of this writing, additional spraying hasn't been authorized.
"Right now we're just spraying where we're seeing more and more mosquitoes testing positive for the disease, which is mostly in the marsh land areas," a spokesperson for the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said. "[The spraying] is based on a specific criteria based on where the infected mosquitoes are going. We're taking pro-active steps to reduce the infected mosquito activity and lower the risk of anyone contracting the disease."
So far this year, there have been no cases of humans contracting the disease.
Eighteen people contracted West Nile last year, with the first case being detected in August, officials said.
Since 1999, 180 people across the five boroughs have contracted West Nile virus, which in extreme cases causes encephalitis, a deadly inflammation of the brain.
Roughly 30 of the residents who contracted the disease lived in Brooklyn, officials said.
The most susceptible to the disease – which has been blamed for 23 deaths citywide over the last nine years -- are senior citizens, the median age of infection being 69, according to city records.
While epidemiologists combat the virus in the lab, city officials are encouraging residents to protect themselves from mosquito bites, which is how the disease is transmitted.
"One must reduce their risk of the getting the West Nile virus," explained Dr. Thomas Frieden, New York City Health Commissioner. "Wear mosquito repellent whenever you are outdoors and long sleeves and pants in the morning or evening."
"New Yorkers over 50 years old need to be especially careful because they are most likely to suffer serious illness or death if they contract the virus," he said.
Residents are also being asked to rid their property of stagnant pools of water, where mosquitoes breed.
"People should avoid having standing water on their properties, from their roof gutters to their pet's old water dishes," a Department of Health spokesperson added.
With standing water being a major factor in the disease's expansion, some believe that the disease has hit record proportions this year because – of all things – the housing foreclosure crisis the city is facing.
Foreclosed homes are abandoned homes with untended back yards that could have large pools of standing water in them – a breeding playground for members of the Culidae insect family.
"This may be a sign of the times," Dr. Alton Barron of New York's Roosevelt Hospital Center recently explained on the Today Show, "as more and more homes are passing into foreclosure and many of those homes have backyard pools that are not being maintained. This can become a ripe feeding ground and breeding ground for these mosquito populations."
Anyone wishing to learn more about how to combat the West Nile virus can contact 311 or log onto http://www
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Dear editor: 'Whoever does not love, does not know God'
Dear editor:
On Sunday, I was blessed to have the opportunity to attend the Love Not Hate Protest in Newton. This event was a direct response to the vitriolic sermon preached by the Rev. Charles Worley at Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden on Mother's Day. It was a peaceful event attended by approximately 2,500 on the side of love and 50 on the side of Pastor Worley's views. One of the supporters of Rev. Worley was a gentleman named Pat who traveled up and down the sidewalk screaming scriptures an demanding that the supporters of the protest repent.
He spewed names: pervert, Sodomite, pathetic, damned. He tried consistently and continuously for three hours to engage, enrage, challenge and provoke members of the crowd to no avail. At one point, after a particularly degrading tirade, I asked this man his name. He simply said "Pat."
This morning, I awakened with Pat's name in my mind and the following letter on my heart. ... Here it is, my open letter to a hater. Perhaps it is worthy of consideration. Perhaps someone might see that hate has never been changed through more hate and understanding has never been reached through name calling and condemnation.
Dear Pat the Hater,
After such an uplifting and momentous occasion as the protest in Newton (Sunday), after all the calls for peace and love and the beauty of the kindred souls who stood their ground to protest hatred and bigotry and a call for genocide, it is you I cannot forget. It is you, with your damning rhetoric, your selective use of scripture, your "in your face" words of condemnation and hatred, you for whom I prayed this morning.
You see, Pat, I grew up with a vengeful god and lived in fear of never being good enough to enter into his magical kingdom. I grew up believing that because I was born a sinner I had to find some miraculous way to earn the love of this god so that I could make it into the hereafter and hear the angels sing. I grew up in a fear bordering on terror and when horrific events occurred in my life I was told "this was god's will." I came to hate that god and I continued to live a fear-filled life; until eight years ago when I was introduced to the God of Love.
Pat, you asked me directly, "Why NOT hate?" Here is my answer: "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love (1 John 4:8 NIV)."
I began to ask myself, "If this God is love, how can He be hate? Why would He condemn innocent people to horrific circumstances?" and in time, I asked, "How could the God of LOVE, the God of all creation, of all living things, bring into this world of His creation, some He favored and some He abhorred?" These were not at all the loving actions of a Father God as He was portrayed in the New Testament. Nor were they the actions of a God who could create the simple beauty of the human spirit. And so I began to release my fear of the "made-up" god of my childhood and embrace the God of Love. My life has since been profoundly and forever changed.
So I write to you today ... perhaps the Spirit of this letter will somehow reach your fear-filled heart.
I write to say to you that God, being all perfect, is perfect Love. And because He loves you just as He loves me, and because He lives in you just as He lives in me, I am called to love you, too. In spite of the vile names you spewed at me during (Sunday's) protest in Newton, in spite of being told how you hate me, how I am pathetic, cursed, perverted and damned, I offer you Love. I pray that your heart may one day be released from your god of fear and filled with the peace of the God of Love. I ask God, whose Love is greater than all He created, to fill your life and Spirit with good, with joy, with peace. And I ask blessings and grace be your daily gifts.
Finally, on this Memorial Day when we celebrate the freedom we have been given to have such an event as (Sunday's), I thank you and all who came with you to vilify the peacemakers at the Love Not Hate Protest, for giving us an opportunity to live the Love we are called to live; to offer the Love we are made to offer and to BE the Love we are called to be. For, I believe Pat, we are all one in the Spirit of the Creator who made us and the Christ in me sees and extends my love to the Christ in you.
Michaeline Parrish,
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So, 5.0.4 PTR is up.
Mists is getting closer (thank God!).
I wonder what is meant by "Currency Conversion". I'm thinking they're talking about what happens to your JP/HP/VP/CP when this patch goes live, but that's just my assumption.
Not going to C&P the whole thing, but, some highlights include:
1). The whole Theramore thing.
2). AoE looting.
3). The new Talent system.
4). Relics/Ranged Slots have been removed, Wands change to MH weapons, Guns/Bows/Xbows are now 2H weapons and there's no minimum range for ranged weapons anymore.
5). Glyph changes.
6). Account-Wide Mounts/Pets/Achievements.
7). Character creation screen changes.
Are the big things I saw.
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I have a few more pictures of our new Cedar City Utah Chapter meeting last weekend for you.
We met Friday night at the Family History Center. We were so impressed with how well run the center is. Here at the meeting we have, left to right: Julia Corry, Chapter President, Catherine Sorensen FHC director, and Ruth Scovill.
Then Saturday morning we met at the Sherratt Library on the SUU campus for a tour of their Special Collections library.
Left to Right back: Catherine Sorensen, Sandie Nagy, LaKay Weber, Julia Crates, Julia Corry, Sary Bitsoie, Bottom Row, Christy Fillerup, Janet Hovorka, Pam Chatfield.
Janet Seegmiller took us on a tour of the beautiful Special Collections library. She is a wealth of knowledge about the area, having written the book A History of Iron County: Community Above Self, and having been an archivist here at the library for many years. We were so lucky to be able listen as she shared her knowledge about the area and about the library.
LaKay Weber is here with the picture of one of her ancestors that is on display in the library. She is the current curator for the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers museum in Cedar City, and was able to see the Iron Company Register that her mother had donated to special collections.
Janet introduced us to all the oral histories and other collections in the back room. We had a wonderful time. Thank you so much to Janet and to Julia and her chapter for hosting such a wonderful event. We look forward to many more in the future.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Cedar City Chapter Visit.--Pictures
Posted by Janet Hovorka at 10:41 AM
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This was a fun day. I'm so glad that we visited the Special Collections at the Sherratt Library. It changed my life. I am now volunteering there.ReplyDelete
Ruth, that is wonderful! Write an article for the blog when you get a minute. Everyone would love to hear about your experience. It was a pleasure to spend the day with all of you.ReplyDelete
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Hawaiian Regional Kona Kampachi: Pan seared, oven finished, torch bruleed Pama Glaze served with caramelized mango and steamed baby bok choy, with a Pama infused beurre blanc
7 oz. Kona Kampachi filet cut into 2-3.5 oz pieces
1 lg. Baby Bok Choy
2 Mangos
1 small dicon - cut curls
1 Pomegranate
1 med. Shallot
10 lg. Sprigs of Thyme
1/2 cup Sugar
8 oz. Pama Liqueur
9 oz. Dry White Wine
6 oz. Concentrate Pomegranate Juice
1/4 lb. Unsalted Butter
2 oz. Olive Oil
Preheat oven to 350 F. Wash bok choy and let soak for 10 minutes, shaking once and awhile to loosen any dirt in between the leafs. Fine dice shallot and set aside for beurre blanc. Peal mango and trim meat from pit leaving two pieces. Trim so pieces lay flat and are about 1/2 in. thick. Set aside and keep cool. Quarter bok choy using 2 pieces per plate.
Beurre Blanc Sauce: Take second mango cut away meat and squish pieces and place in medium sauce pan along with pomegranate seeds, set aside a few for garnish, 6 oz. of white wine, 4 oz. of Pama liqueur, 3 oz. of POM concentrate juice, shallots, and 8 sprigs of thyme. Bring to a boil and reduce to a syrup consistency. Add 1 cup of cream and reduce by two thirds. Add one lb. of butter, remove sauce from heat and incorporate butter into sauce with whip until emulsified. If needed, return to med heat and continue to whip until sauce thickens (will coat back of spoon). Remove from heat and pass through chinois or strainer leaving solids behind. Keep beurre blanc warm in double boiler or keep covered and slowly reheat when needed.
Glaze: Mix 4 oz. Pama liqueur, 3 oz. white wine, 3 oz. POM concentrate juice, and 4 oz. of plain white sugar. Whisk until sugar has fully dissolved. Pour into small sauce pan and bring to boil whisking all the time. reduce by half or until you have a thick syrupy consistency. This can be made in advance and kept in refrigerator. Using an oven safe sauté pan, use 1 oz. of oil and heat to just the smoking point, place salt and peppered Kampachi 7 oz. cut into 2-3.5 oz. pieces and sear on each side. About 1 minute each side. Remove from heat and brush with glaze and into 350 F oven for 5 minutes.
Note: Kampachi is a sashimi grade fish so do not over cook, this fish can be eaten on the rare side. While fish is in oven, take one mango slice in a hot pan with 1 oz. of oil and a large tab of butter and caramelize both side about a minute or so each. Just before taking fish out of oven, steam bok choy for about 4 minutes. Take fish from oven and plate. First sauce plate with beurre blanc, add 2 pieces of bok choy, one caramelized slice of mango and 2 3.5 oz. pieces of Kampachi. Drizzle more glaze over fish and brulee with torch to caramelize the glaze. Garnish with thyme sprig and curled dicon ribbons.
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I'll get a few obvious observations out of the way.
First, they love to cite that original contract, but they don't talk about the addendums. There's a reason for that.
Secondly, even by that contract unamended, they would still have to actually specify what the supposed violations are before they could start the clock running so far as notice. They've steadfastly refused to do this, proving that they're acting in bad faith.
Third, just because they claim something is a violation doesn't make it so. If they really thought they had violations here, they'd be in a hurry to get to court, but instead they've been stalling.
So, in conclusion, more hot air from a guy that's known for it.
First, the only addenda I've seen are in the IBM-ATTIS contract. This is not an action against IBM, but against SGI.
Actually there are apparently actions against both, with the IBM suit being the biggest. The article was explicitly talking about both of them. So the IBM addenda are definately relevent there.
Also, although I haven't seen it either, SGI claims they have a similar addendum.
More, the AIX issues are clouded by the question of Sequent's contract: it does not contain the extensions of rights
There is a certain amount of goodwill in contracts. I'm sure that notifying somebody in a timely manner that they are in violation is one of them, along with remedies enumerated in the contract.
Not like patent infrindgement, where it is common to let the other guy get up and running and making money before you sue the rug out from underthem.
Worthwhile to note that all of SCO's claim of Patent and IP and copyright infrindgement does not address t
It's not fair, waaaaaahhhhh! (Red-faced temper tantrum)
I'm not saying that IBM or SGI has violated the terms of their UNIX licenses; but if they have, that "fully paid up and irrevokable" language is irrelevant in this case.
That's not necessarily true. Somebody pointed out that this is one area where the driver's license analogy is fairly apt. Not all violations against ones driver's license result in revocation as a penalty. Most don't, in fact. Instead they're punishable by something less, like a fine. Similarly, revocation is not SCO's only option in
So, by the original language, the license can only be revoked by specifying the breach. SCO has yet to specify the breach so much as point in its general direction.
The other proviso is that if the breach is fixed (ie the infringing stuff is removed) then the license can no longer be revoked. So, if the offending code in Linux is identified and removed- there is no breach.
Is it just me or are they no even bothering to hide their alterior agenda anymore?
And this agenda is: Keep SCO in the news at all costs
Treat it as an educational process
We get to learn about:
- Contract Law
- Licensing, notably GPL
- State of the Art media manipulation
- Insights into the stock market and hopefully SEC
- International Law. Notably Australia and Germany
- Criminal Law like Mail-fraud
- History of Unix
Secondly, if Blake Stowell had actually read his own contract properly he would found this bit: "...in addition to any other remedies that it may have, at any time terminate all the rights granted by it hereunder by not less than two(2) months' written notice to LICENSEE specifying any such breach, unless within the period of such notice all breaches specified therein shall have been remedied.". I particularly find the bits about "other remedies" and "breaches specified" of note. IANAL, but that implies to me that SCO is obliged to to both disclose details of what is in breach (not necessarily publically), which it hasn't done as far as I am aware, then give IBM/SGI two months to correct that breach.
I suspect SCO's refusal to disclose any information prior to an actual trial is going to bite them in the ass somehow.
Namely because there are other ways of enforcing your contracts. I haven't seen all of the SGI contracts, but here is Ammentment X [byu.edu] to the IBM contract and it clearly states IBM has an "irrevocable" and "perpetual" contract. It also says that SCO is not otherwise limited from enjoining or prohibiting IBM in other ways.
Now suppose that SCO manages to make this stick. How can we ever again have confidence in proprietary licenses, if the customer can have its license revoked through no fault of its own, but through the fault (real or alleged) of its vendors? Or its vendor's vendor? Or its vendor's vendor's vendor's vendor, which turns out to be some small software house in Middle of Nowhere, Idaho, which the customer in question never even heard of?
The GPL, OTOH, specifically disclaims any right to terminate the rights of sublicensees:
4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.
[1] Predicated, of course, on proving that IBM actually breached its license, but SCO would rather gloss over that unimportant detail.
Licenses really can be revoked under the terms of the license itself. The terms a government issues a drivers license under would include the specific laws involved. They cannot just arbitrarily revoke a drivers' license, but they can under those specific laws. If you commit certain actions the law says you may lose your license for, it can be revoked.
Likewise, a private license for use of some property can also be revoked under the agreed terms. Generally, if the agreed terms are violated, the license can be revoked. If SGI and/or IBM did release UNIX intellectual property to the public, that would be such a violation. And we do know SCO is claiming that.
The issue now comes down to whether such a claim is valid. Did SGI take XFS from UNIX and release it publically. That cannot be the case, however, because there is no XFS in UNIX. SGI developed XFS themselves. Arguably, pieces of XFS might have gotten some UNIX code in there, but once pointed out, that can be removed. Did SCO perform due diligence in pointing that out? Not until recently have they started pointing at any specific violations (while still making vague and unsubstantiated claims that lots of other violations exist), and those are weak due to previous releases in other forms.
And how the hell do we know there isn't any violations in SCO's non-Linux closed-source product
Likewise, a private license for use of some property can also be revoked under the agreed terms. Generally, if the agreed terms are violated, the license can be revoked. If SGI and/or IBM did release UNIX intellectual property to the public, that would be such a violation. And we do know SCO is claiming that.
Addendum X to the UNIX license with IBM says the license is irrevocable. There are no words in the license or addendum that say "oh, unless you do this, in which case we can revoke it". The licens
Licenses really can be revoked under the terms of the license itself. The terms a government issues a drivers license under would include the specific laws involved. They cannot just arbitrarily revoke a drivers' license, but they can under those specific laws. If you commit certain actions the law says you may lose your license for, it can be revoked.
Please don't use the driver's license analogy that SCO have introduced. A driver's license is totally different (legally) from IBM/SGI's licenses to use U
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