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Film isn't so hot either.
Everyone follows a fad or trend of some kind in popular culture. They will come and go. Examples include the Harry Potter series and, oddly enough, Angry Birds. But the biggest of them that has had a consistent following for the past five years is the Twilight "saga."
Where do I even begin? I hate Twilight, with a passion. I don't understand the hype of it. You can say that it's because I'm not a teenage girl. That may be, but it goes further than that. I was actually given the first book for Christmas a few years ago by my younger brother Paul, back when the movies first came out. I was curious about all of the hype so I decided to give it a try. It took half a year to get to chapter 11 and I have yet to finish it. It was that boring. The literary style was mediocre and it just didn't capture my attention like a good book should.
I do read teenage-young adult fiction, but there's something about this book that I didn't get. For example, a quote in chapter 6: "The bouquets of brilliant anemones undulated ceaselessly in the invisible current, twisted shells scurried about the edges, obscuring the crabs within them, starfish stuck motionless to the rocks and each other, while one small black eel with white racing stripes wove through the bright green weeds, waiting for the sea to return." I'm all for using adjectives, but there's too much going on here. It's basically a run-on sentence. And the whole book is filled with it. It is careless writing. I'm not sure what else can be said about it.
If you don't know the plot, it's about a girl, Bella, who moves to Washington State and meets a strange boy in school, who makes it a habit to get her out of sticky situations. He soon reveals that he's a vampire and she falls in love with him almost immediately, and I mean IN love. Uh, what? Isn't there such a thing as dating first?
Infatuation is one thing, but being in love, wanting to spend the rest of your life with this one person you just met is completely juvenile. I'm not bashing a teen romance between a human and a vampire; on the contrary, I've come to enjoy the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where the slayer falls for two vampires over a course of seven seasons. It is more convincing than what is written in Twilight, and even more so, the movies.
The first movie came out in November 2007, and upon seeing the trailer, I rolled my eyes. There was this big buzz. But from what I saw just on commercials, I could tell it was poorly scripted, directed and acted. Yet somehow, girls everywhere started to follow it like a cult. Maybe it was because of pretty boys Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner as vampire Edward and werewolf Jacob, respectively. When I finally did catch a glimpse of the movie, I became skeptical. In the scene where Edward tells Bella about himself, it goes something like this: "Say it." Bella responds, "Vampire."
Oh, the suspense! Delivery is flat. Also, chemistry is lacking between Kristen Stewart and Pattinson. Plus, the cinematography is terrible, the acting is terrible…everything about the movie is terrible. Still, people buy into lesser quality movies these days.
The last installment, Breaking Dawn, Part 2, has now been released and, a week before the premiere, the lines at theaters started with mostly teemage girls, no less. These girls have school and they camp out at a movie theater for a week? Careless parenting, in my opinion.
It'll be so nice once the hoopla over Twilight is finished. We won't have to see all the coverage of thousands of screaming girls or constantly hear how great it is when it really isn't. Yeah, I have TV/movie obsessions of my own, but I show enthusiasm through courteous, intelligent conversation. The less fangirl squealing there is, the better.


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Rubber Duck Race set
The Greater Lehigh Acres Chamber of Commerce will hold the Rubber Duck Race 2014 on March 1 at 11:15 a.m. at the Harns Marsh Preserve.?Last-minute race entries open at 10:30 a.m.
Get a duck in the race for $5 or a team of ducks for your family, business or organization.
There will also be a decoration contest. Buy a duck, decorate it and get it judged at the event. Prizes will be awarded to the winners.
Reserve ducks through the chamber office at (239) 369-3322 or online at: www.lehighacreschamber.org/duck_race.
The Rubber Duck Race is part of the Wings over Water Festival.
For information, visit online at: www.wingsoverwaterfestival.com.
Miss SW Florida/Lee Co. Fair pageant coming
The Miss SW Florida/Lee Co. Fair pageant will be held March 1 at 4 p.m. at the Lee Civic Center Fairgrounds.
The pageant will be held in conjunction with the fair. It is open to all ages, and it is an official preliminary pageant to the Miss Florida American Beauty system.
Contestants will wear two outfits and will be judged on poise, grace and self-confidence. No experience is necessary.
LCDAS announces Microchip Clinics
Lee County Domestic Animal Services will host a series of clinics to encourage microchipping of pets to help increase the return of stray animals and protect owners if their pet is lost or stolen.
Microchip Clinics will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. on the first Friday of each month, with the exception of July. The dates are:
- March 7
- April 4
- May 2
- June 6
- Aug. 1
- Sept. 5
- Oct. 3
- Nov. 7
- Dec. 5.
Cost is $15 per pet; no appointment is necessary. Lee County pet-licensing fees are reduced if a pet is sterilized and microchipped.
Visit: www.leelostpets.com to view pets or for information.
Concert to benefit ACS
Walk In The Grass, a bluegrass concert sponsored by Robb & Stucky, will take place March 8 from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Alliance For The Arts amphitheater, at 10091 McGregor Blvd., Fort Myers.
One hundred percent of the proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society Relay For Life.
The headliner band is The Snyder Family Band, of Lexington, N.C. The other bands are Captain Joe and The Bottom Feeders, Bugtussle Ramblers Band and Gypsy Wind.
Ticket prices are $15 for adults, with a $5 admission for students; children 6 and under are free.
Advance tickets are available at: www.eventbrite.com/event/8055234423/eivtefrnd. An online fee of $1.82 for adult tickets and $1.27 for others will be added.
Cash tickets will be available at the door the day of the show.
Guests are encouraged to bring chairs, blankets and sunscreen. Sodas, water and light refreshments will be available for sale.
Concert-goers will be able to enter raffles for home furnishings, a 50-50 drawing and more.
Learn how to garden
Grow a Gardener, an eight-session program designed to educate all ages on edible gardening in Southwest Florida, will be held Mondays at 3:30 p.m. at the Veterans Park Recreation Center, at 55 S. Homestead Road.
Instructors are volunteer Lee County Master Gardeners trained by the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
All graduates will receive a certificate of completion from Lee County University of Florida/IFAS.
The cost per workship is $2.50, paid to the instructor. A $10 lifetime membership fee to Veterans Park is also required.
The remaining workshops are:
- March 10: Plant propagation and making more plants from the ones you have
- March 17: Insects - do not kill the good guys
- March 24: What parts of the plant we can eat
Members can sign up online at: webtrac.leegov.com; non-members must sign up at the center.
For information on the program, call Karen Harty at (610) 530-8883. For information on the center, call (239) 369-1521.
Call for visual artists
Visual artists are invited to submit up to two framed/gallery wrapped pieces of art for the judged Inspirations Art Show, which will be held April 6 in the Crown Room at the Majestic Golf Club, at 350 S. Homestead Road.
Mediums accepted are watercolor, mixed media, pen and ink, oil, acrylic, pastels and charcoals.
Works must have been completed within the last two years.
Works which have received an award higher than honorable mention in any AOI or ACSWF shows are not eligible.
All work must be original.
Cash prizes and ribbons will be awarded.
Entry fees for Arts of the Inland and Art Council of Southwest Florida members is $10 per artwork; the non-members fee is $20 per entry.
For the complete prospectus and application, visit: www.artsoftheinland.com. Applications must be received by March 28.
For information, contact LaVon Koenig at (239) 303-5849 or email@example.com
General Woman's Club plans show, luncheon
The General Woman's Club of Lehigh Acres will host its annual fashion show and luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 29 at Colonial Country Club, at 9175 Independence Way, Fort Myers.
This year's theme is "A Rainbow of Fashions," by Anthony's of Fort Myers.
Tickets are $25 each and can be purchased at the monthly meeting or by calling Diane Lashua at (412) 708-0422 or Sue Thompson at (239) 369-4807.
LRMC offers insurance help for Marketplace
People needing assistance signing up for health insurance on the online Marketplace can call Lehigh Regional Medical Center's free helpline at (239) 368-4407.
A certified application counselor will help individuals navigate the insurance exchanges and selection process, enroll in the program and find a physician.
The deadline for enrollment is March 31.
Once coverage begins, individuals can schedule well visits with their new primary care physician, pediatrician, internal medicine specialist or family doctor.
For details, contact Jameeka Latimer at (239) 368-4407 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
County seeking public input on transportation
Help plan for better transportation in Lee County by taking the Lee County Metropolitan Planning Organization survey online at: www.Lee2040.metroquest.com.
Nearly 400,000 new residents are expected to reside in Lee County by 2040. To address the growing transportation needs, the county is exploring ways to reduce the number of vehicle trips and increase travel options.
This involves looking at where residents and jobs may locate in Lee over the next 25 years. To do this, conceptual growth scenarios are being presented in the survey.
The MPO is asking the public to share their ideas about new ways to grow relating to future transportation investments. Available through March, the survey only takes a few minutes to complete.
Public input will be used to help select a preferred approach to future growth and the transportation system needed to support that growth. This is a first step in developing the Lee County 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan.
To learn more about the MPO, visit: www.LeeMPO.com.
Free tax preparation help is available
The United Way is sponsoring free tax assistance on Wednesdays and Fridays from 5 to 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon at 201 Plaza Drive, Suite 103.
If your household income was less than $57,000 last year, trained IRS volunteers will help you file your taxes.
You must bring your photo ID, Social Security card and birth dates, wage and earning forms, interest and dividend forms, bank routing and account numbers, and the total you may have paid for day care.
Appointments are required.
For information or an appointment, call (239)?369-5818.
Pickin' In The Park scheduled each week
Musicians come together to perform during Pickin' In The Park from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursdays at the lodge by the lake at the rear of Veterans Park.
The public is welcome to join in playing or just enjoy the music. There is no charge.
For information, call (239) 369-1521.
Fenway South Farmer's Market open to public
The Fenway South Farmer's Market will be held every Monday from 2 to 6 p.m. at JetBlue Park at Fenway South, at 11500 Fenway South Drive, Fort Myers.
The market offers produce, cheeses, pastas, seafood, baked breads, meats, herbs, ready-to-eat meals, flowers, crafts, soaps, candles, live music and more.
Visit online at: www.buylocallee.com.
Children's Choir holding rehearsals
The Lehigh Children's Choir rehearses from 6-7 p.m. Tuesdays at Cayuga Music Studio, at 1100 Homestead Road.
The spring concert will be in late March, with additional performances from February through April.
For information, call (239) 368-2488.
Lehigh Concert Band season in session
The Lehigh Concert Band has open spots for any concert band musician who can play at a high school or college level or above.
The season runs from November to April, and the band rehearses from 7 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday at Faith Lutheran Church, at 705 Leeland Blvd.
Those interested in joining are invited to stop by a Tuesday rehearsal or any performance.
For information, call Lynne Criss at (239) 949-1834 or visit: www.lehighconcertband.org.
Lehigh Singers seeking members
The Lehigh Singers rehearse every Tuesday at 7:15 p.m. at the Cayuga Music Studio. Members are asked to attend every rehearsal until the concert in early April.
They are looking for tenors and basses. If you have not been in the group in the past, call (239) 822-1890 for an audition.
Water fitness classes available at public pool
The Lehigh Acres Community Pool, at 1400 W. Fifth St., offers a variety of water fitness classes.
Commit to get fit with aqua aerobics. Choose the fast-paced workout at 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, or the free low-impact National Arthritis Foundation-sponsored class at 1:15 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays.
Classes are in chest-deep water, 45 minutes in length and do not heavily impact joints.
Lifeguards are on duty; lap swimmers are welcome. The pool is closed Sunday and Monday.
Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for ages 17 and under, and $2 for seniors.
For details, call (239) 369-8277 or visit: www.leeparks.org.

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Your thread is weak and filled with palsy.
Let's face it guys, the New York Jets are a mess...
The worst part is it looks like the Jets will be a catastrophic mess for quite a while to come. Our owner isn't really a football guy, our coach isn't really a headcoach, our scouts aren't all that good, our quarterback is a joke, our cap situation is dismal, our offensive line was purchased on sale at Walmart, shall I go on?
How can a person really enjoy football when all we have is this team to root for? Well guess what... WE CAN ROOT FOR WHOEVER WE WANT. This team is a joke right now, so I suggest finding an alternate team to root for that won't piss you off. Find a team that is well managed and well owned that makes logical moves and takes football seriously. The Jets will always be your main team but having an alternate team to root for that actually has a shot at a ring will improve your mental state dramatically and give you something to look forward to on sunday. Personally I like the Broncos. Peyton Manning is doing great things out there, and he has a shot at being the only starting quarterback in NFL history to win two Superbowls with two different teams. It's a great story to follow, and it will lift your spirits to watch it all play out.
My heart will always be with the Jets, but they can be a very very frustrating team to actually care about and follow on a weekly basis. Jets fans need somewhere else to go to escape from the anger and frustration, and fortunately there are a whole bunch of other teams out there that can offer you that, select one and start enjoying football again. That's my advice and that's what I do. I think you'll feel a whole lot better once you try it.
Your thread is weak and filled with palsy.
Go ahead, go down with the ship and don't take a lifeboat with you. It's a strategy I guess, just not a very good one.
Want to enjoy football?HOW TO ENJOY FOOTBALL
I'll tell you how to enjoy football!
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I'm sticking with the Jets.
I don't mind being an underdog team honestly. I can't even imagine what it's like to be a completely dominant team. I guess you turn into Patriot fans.
But if you look at them, they don't just think about winning games. They put on a cocky face all regular season long but once post season rolls around they're all on suicide watch. Jets fans just want to win. Patriot fans spend more time worrying about under performing and losing and "good heavens what will the neighbors think?' They're not thinking about games, they're thinking about legacy. That's too much pressure.
I'm content like a little football hobbit to have a humble little team that can compete and grind its way to a Superbowl. I don't mind trying to slug it out for division titles or wildcard spots if necessary. I just want to think we have a chance.
And I don't want the team to be a circus show. I want a football team. You know, an old school, grid iron, Americana, watch on Thanksgiving, stand in the mud for, football team.
Not understanding why we have to be a spectacle of negativity.
hahahahaha Jetstream the size of the Musberger pic makes your post 10x funnier
anyway, losing builds character. be a man and take this circus in stride.
actually OP, please jump ship, because there was nothing more annoying during our playoff runs than the fairweather fans coming out of the woodwork
My advice would be to find a good College (NCAA) team or two (probably in the SEC if you want a championship), games are more fun to watch and every game matters.
Sometimes you find a team like the Jets but I did enjoy a National Championship in 2002 and a 12-0 season in Coach Urban Meyer's first year as coach of the Buckeyes (also looks like a top 5 recruiting class)
100k fans every Saturday, great tailgating, no PSLs, etc...
Rutgers is joining the Big 10 so you can still go to the games...
I think most of the Jets' negativity is brought on by the bombastic attitude of Rex and his players. They seem to be inviting the attention, and combined with the losing it has opened them up for the negativity.
The mediots will have a field day with the Jets as long as Rex Ryan is the face of the team.
Usually, I like to watch a game with a buddy, talking about the Orient during commercial breaks.
No thanks.. There's a reason me and so many others check the board daily.. We are die hards who can't get enough, no matter how bad we suck. I could never imagine rooting for another team.
I think the only thing you should expect as a fan whether you're a Patriots fan, Jets fan, or some other fan, is whether you get your money's worth. I don't think most Patriots fans think about legacy. I think the hard core fans feel that it's a successful year if they contend. Did the team keep you interested until the end? If you aren't interested half way through the season, they've failed your expectations.
Its called Fantasy Football people. You root for your team and get to watch and be in to virtually every regular season game.
I don't know why I enjoy football but I can't seem to break the addiction.


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NEW YORK - Columbia's upcoming four-game weekend series with Princeton will be pushed up to start on Friday at 1 p.m., due to forecasted inclement weather on Sunday.
Saturday's doubleheader will still begin at 1:30 p.m. on Columbia Baseball Alumni Day.
Below is the updated schedule of games this weekend:
Game 1: Friday, April 20 - 1 p.m.
Game 2: Friday, April 20 - approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of game one
Game 3: Saturday, April 21 - 1:30 p.m.
Game 4: Saturday, April 21 - approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of game three
Also, fans planning to attend should be aware of weekday traffic and subway changes due to MTA repairs and construction on the 1 train line.
From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays and 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. on weekends, there will be two cranes stationed along stretches of Broadway, West 216th Street and West 218th Street. On Fridays and weekends during work hours, West 216th Street between Broadway and 9th Ave., West 218th Street between Broadway and 9th Ave., and 10th Avenue between West 216th and West 218th will be closed to traffic.
Stretches of Broadway from W. 218th to W. 219th, and Broadway between W. 216th and W. 218th, will maintain lanes for both northbound and southbound traffic during construction, while Broadway between W. 219th and W. 220th, and Broadway from W. 220th to 9th Ave. will be designated for northbound traffic only.
Northbound 1 trains will skip the 215th Street stop Wednesdays through Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. For service to 215th Street, one could take the 1 train to 242nd Street and transfer to the Southbound 1 train. The 207th Street station will remain open in both directions. The A train running to and from 207th Street is another rail option.


text: ARTICLES Everything 3D Guide — Explore the Wonder Dec 20, 2011 SHARE When the first wave of 3D TVs hit the market in early 2010, it was another major milestone in television technology. If you're considering a new TV, read on to learn how 3D TV technology works, see what you need to start watching and get answers to commonly asked questions. Published: September 16, 2010 What it isIt's a feature on a standard HDTV with the capability to display three-dimensional images from 3D content. Right now, alongside a growing catalogue of 3D Blu-ray movies, some 3D programming is available on cable and pay-per-view and new 3D films and shows are being made all the time. There are also entire 3D cable networks currently under development.You can watch 2D on a 3D TV3D TVs play conventional programming, just as any other TV would, and many of them come with a feature that converts 2D images to 3D. If you have a Samsung 3D TV, all you have to do is hit the "3D" button on the remote, put on your Samsung 3D Active Glasses, and enjoy 3D thrills from a 2D source.How it Works1. The lenses in a pair of active-shutter glasses switch between black and clear—first the left eye is blocked, then the right eye, then the left, and so on.2. This occurs in sync with the TV, which is itself alternating left and right images at two slightly different angles.3. It happens so quickly that the brain sees both angles at the same time, thus creating the perception of 3D, just like in real life.Active 3D and Passive 3DThe two common types of 3D technology available for use at home are Active 3D and Passive 3D. Although there are many differences between Active 3D and Passive 3D technology, the primary one is the quality of the home 3D experience. Passive 3D technology uses glasses that cut 1080p resolution in half (540p) to each eye. Samsung Active 3D glasses deliver the Full 1080p HD experience to both eyes.When viewing 3D content on a Passive 3D TV, it is not uncommon for faint black lines to appear horizontally from the top of the screen to the bottom or to lose 3D image quality at relatively short vertical angles. This does not occur with Samsung Active 3D technology. Samsung Active 3D technology consistently displays a 1080p HD experience to each eye and delivers a great 3D picture—even from angles of up to 178 degrees.Watch and find out how 3D worksWhat You Need1. A 3D-enabled TV or 3D-enabled Projector. You can find the 3D feature available in certain high-end LCD, LED, and plasma HDTVs. Many 3D TVs are top-of-the line models with impressive depth, high resolution, and rich, full colour whether you're watching 3D or 2D.2. A 3D-enabled Blu-ray disc player, HD-cable, or HD-satellite box. To play 3D Blu-ray discs, you'll need a 3D-enabled Blu-ray player along with a high-speed HDMI cable for connecting your 3D TV to a 3D-ready Blu-ray player. In the case of your cable or satellite box, your current one may already work or you may need to check with your provider for an upgrade.3. 3D Content. Currently, alongside a growing catalogue of 3D Blu-ray movies, some 3D programming is available on cable and pay-per-view. New 3D content is being created all the time—more and more films and shows are being shot and broadcast in 3D and entire 3D cable networks are in the works.4. 3D Glasses. There's no watching 3D without them. Two common types of 3D glasses available for home use are Active 3D and Passive 3D. Be sure to get the same brand of glasses as your TV—3D technology is proprietary to each manufacturer, so one company's glasses will not be compatible with a different company's TV.Watch and find out what you need for 3DCommon QuestionsCan I watch regular TV on my 3D TV?Yes—3D TVs plays conventional programming, just as any other TV would, and are also equipped to provide a unique experience of the wealth of 3D content coming your way.Do I always need to wear 3D glasses when watching TV?No—the only time you'll need to wear these special glasses is when you're viewing 3D content. Otherwise, your TV can still play 2D movies and shows the same way you're used to seeing them. Remember, there are two types of 3D glasses available—Active 3D and Passive 3D. Make sure you have the correct glasses for your 3D TV. What does "3D-ready" mean?The definition of "3D-ready" varies by manufacturer, but typically means that the TV can display 3D content. The easiest way to see if your TV is capable of displaying 3D content is to check the manufacturer's web site or feature materials.The easiest way to see if your TV is 3D ready is to check for a "3D Sync Out" connection on the back panel.What's the difference between native 3D and virtual 3D?Native 3D is content that was filmed using 3D cameras. Virtual 3D is content that was originally filmed in 2D, but is being converted to 3D format by your high-definition TV. There is a qualitative difference between the two.How should I clean my 3D glasses?The proper way to clean your 3D glasses is by doing it one side of each lens at a time. 3D glasses actually have two screens in each lens, so putting pressure on both sides at the same time squeezes the two lenses together, causing them to come in contact and distort 3D viewing. Use a microfiber cloth to clean one side first, then the other. Avoid using any chemicals containing alcohol, solvents, or surfactant, or chemicals such as wax, benzene, thinner, or lubricant. These may result in discoloration or cracks on the lens surface. Also, you should never spray cleaning fluid directly onto the glasses—spray onto the cloth instead.


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The Vampire Diaries Caption Contest 112TV Fanatic Staff at . Comments
The welcome return of Jenna and the state of Elena Gilbert as a human being were at the center of this week's winning Vampire Diaries Caption Contest entry.
It was submitted by a reader named Dee and it cracked us up, given the development that concluded season three and which will kick off season four.
Check out the submission underneath the following photo and then get your witty thinking cap on for the next Contest. We set it up every Friday at TV Fanatic!
Jenna: I made pancakes! Enjoy them while you still subsist on actual food.


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Industry Leaders CollabNet And UC4 Software Partner To Bring First Enterprise-Grade DevOps Platform To Market
Joint solution helps enterprise IT organizations manage and automate all aspects of DevOps to improve collaboration, agility and software time-to-market
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BRISBANE, Calif. and BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CollabNet® (www.collab.net), the global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM, and UC4 Software (www.uc4.com), the leader in IT Process Automation, have entered into a strategic partnership to help IT organizations achieve enterprise DevOps at scale. The companies will jointly develop, market, sell and support a comprehensive end-to-end DevOps platform. The joint offering provides the automation, scalability and governance enterprises need to bring development and IT Operations closer together to deliver software faster and reduce IT costs.
For CollabNet, the key component of this combined solution embeds UC4's Application Release Automation functionality within CollabNet's TeamForge Agile ALM platform, introducing a new deployment automation offering called "CollabNet Deploy with UC4" to its customers and prospects. This new product offering provides the bridge between the industry's leading Agile ALM platform from CollabNet and the industry's leading IT automation platform from UC4. For UC4, the addition of TeamForge to the UC4 IT automation platform offers a complete, end-to-end development through IT operations solution for its customers and prospects. These combined solutions comprise an Enterprise DevOps platform that will automate the entire development-through-deployment process across a range of on-premise and external clouds – including code, build, test, release, deployment and IT automation – to achieve continuous, reliable application releases at scale.
"This partnership supports our mutual goals of driving agility and collaboration across the entire IT organization as we now offer a single, common platform that manages all aspects of emerging DevOps and Continuous Delivery initiatives," said Jason Liu, CEO for UC4. "Software is the lifeblood of market competitiveness and organizational success, and our joint DevOps platform is a solution our customers want as they move to automate the entire application code, build, release and deployment lifecycle. CollabNet enables Agile and governed enterprise-wide deployment like no other solution on the market – they were a natural selection to be our partner for this transformational industry opportunity."
As DevOps and Continuous Delivery gain traction and adoption increases, IT organizations need strong governance, cross-team coordination and traceability to succeed and scale these initiatives across the enterprise. CollabNet Deploy with UC4 includes the core technology of UC4 embedded within TeamForge to form a unified platform that provides complete cross-function data and workflow automation, integrated reporting, lifecycle traceability and the ability to gain real-time visibility across roles, projects, departments and geographies. Through a single-pane-of-glass interface, IT organizations can now automate and streamline the entire application development, build and deployment lifecycle to improve software agility, productivity and team collaboration.
"We are thrilled to see the powerful characteristics that make TeamForge the leading choice for managing large-scale development programs extend deeper into IT operations," said Bill Portelli, co-founder and CEO for CollabNet. "DevOps is following a similar adoption and maturity model as Agile development and cloud computing did a few years ago. Combined with UC4, we are bringing to market a platform that significantly evolves modern software development and deployment."
CollabNet's TeamForge ALM platform transforms enterprise application development through its unique community architecture approach to Agile ALM. It is used by hundreds of enterprises to simplify and manage the growing complexity of faster release cycles, global distributed teams, and the hybrid use of processes, tools and clouds. UC4's Application Release Automation platform automates and orchestrates all activities involved in application deployment and operations, allowing for different environments, owners and processes to work in unison.
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UC4 and CollabNet will demonstrate the new CollabNet Deploy with UC4 solution at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. To learn more or request a demo please visit www.collab.net/deploy.
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An outline of benefits from a lower energy civilization
The universe ultimately runs on an energy economy, not a market economy as the dominant economic ideology claims. Ecological damage is tied to energy use of any kind in our peculiar type of economy where the operating rules of the system require maximization of profits at any cost
by Karl North | Dec 12 2011 by Karl North Eco-Intelligence in Energy Bulletin | Dec 12, 2011
The Premises
The universe ultimately runs on an energy economy, not a market economy as the dominant economic ideology claims. Ecological damage is tied to energy use of any kind in our peculiar type of economy where the operating rules of the system require maximization of profits at any cost. Unrestrained profit maximization in turn impels the conversion of energy and raw materials into garbage as fast as possible.
Moreover, increasing material progress requires technological solutions of increasing complexity, and the more complex the solutions, the more energy they consume. The global economy is an example of a complex solution. Also, more complex solutions need a society to maintain a more costly infrastructure. Hence infrastructure maintenance alone draws increasing energy and raw materials. Finally, increasing friction in the form of various "pollutions" draws off more resources.[1] Ultimately therefore, societies devoted to material progress are faced with diminishing marginal returns.[2]
Persistence of these trends violates laws of nature, causes increasing social instability, and leads inevitably to collapse.
These notes therefore assume the inevitability of a lower energy civilization. How low will it go? What will civilization look like? While accurate prediction is impossible, there are ways to look at the question that provide insights, and can even dispel some visions of 'gloom and doom'. We know a lot about the way the world looked before the advent of fossil fuels, so we can look at how societies used the available energy late in that period, say 1800 in European civilization and its extensions as a point of departure, and ask, how will the post-petroleum age differ?
First, we can ask: at that level of available energy, how much development of alternative energy is possible? That's a different question from the way many look at the alternative energy potential today, when relatively rapid development of alternatives like wind and solar still benefit from cheap fossil energy in many ways, including essential industrial, commercial, and communications infrastructures built with cheap oil.
Then we can ask: how much of the new knowledge acquired in the last century or more will make possible a better quality of life than was achieved at the beginning of that period? Access to knowledge will not necessarily mean access to today's technologies developed from that knowledge. Like energy itself, every technology has life-cycle energy costs, an energy tail if you like, that may no longer be affordable, and includes essential infrastructures that may no longer be possible either. It will be as if every product had an embedded energy content label that will decide its survival potential in the energy descent.
However, this perspective on the energy future augurs a whole new potential growth industry of invention that uses today's knowledge within the energy constraints of earlier times. Research and development will be about how to use the knowledge behind everything from medicines to metallurgy, but in ways that conform to the new energy and other resource constraints.
One of the immediate benefits of awareness of the energy future is that the aware can use the amazing lingering tools of industrial civilization to prepare for that future. We can use the internet and other tools of the information age, and we can use the concentrated energy of fossil fuels while they are still affordable. And we can use organized power of the industrial economy while it lasts.
In view of the magnitude of the challenge - facing the end of industrial civilization as we know it as well as the difficulties of transition to a post-petroleum future - this essay attempts an inventory of the compensatory benefits of that future, notions that woven into a narrative might make that future more acceptable, and help people accept it and get on with it.
Material Benefits
Before the fossil fuel era, the ecological load that human populations imposed, as measured in raw materials depletion and rates of damage to essential ecosystem functions, were much lower than they are today. Where the environmental movement has achieved little, diminishing access to cheap energy will inevitably begin to offer better solutions to present overshoot of carrying capacity in many problem areas, simply by shrinking the industrial economy, which slows the rate of damage. Effects on some main problem areas are:
- Slower depletion of both nonrenewables and things that are renewable only slowly or at high cost. Recycling will become a necessity, a 'growth industry'.
- Less chemical pollution of soil, air and water, including greenhouse gas production.
- Serious reduction in human invasion of other species' niches and the resultant mass extinction of species, as human resource use drops from abnormal levels of the last 200 years, and returns to a carrying capacity that ecosystems developed over millions of years of natural history.
- Diminishing capacity for modern warfare, with its impersonal, long-distance carnage,[3] and for the long-distance institutional violence of modern economic empires.
Social Benefits
1. Security.
A. For most of us, the wealth and income that we earn in this economy offer little real security because receiving them confers little direct power over them and their source. As the dominant organization of economic life becomes more brittle and unreliable, its ability to provide economic security declines, and a subsistence perspective will become more attractive to individuals and communities because it offers economic security through more resilient structures. A subsistence perspective is not necessarily a return to a particular historic model of a subsistence economy but something deeper: a view that seeks to regain the economic security and other benefits – mutualism, reciprocity and production for use value not market value – that characterized historic subsistence economies.[4]
B. Besides offering economic security, a subsistence perspective is a view of empowerment that gives priority to the ability to produce or obtain the necessities of life through control over the necessary resource base (land, plant and animal seed stock and their genetic heritage, income from household work, etc.).[5] Hence the adoption of a subsistence perspective has empowerment value. Economic relocalization has the potential to increase economic security by achieving food sovereignty, for example. In the present global economy, growing mangoes empowers few in Nicaragua if the control over the mango plantations and markets lies in the hands of transnational corporations in New York. In fact, Nicaragua suffers distinct disadvantages: the industrial agricultural practices of the TNC destroy soil fertility and pollute the environment, the mangoes do not enter the local food economy because they bring a better price in New York, and the mango plantations displace local food production, weakening food security for Nicaraguans. This is a global pattern in the present system. Hence the advantage to local communities of producing milk in the favorable conditions of New York State's dairy country is largely lost because milk markets are under corporate monopoly control.
C. When it becomes clear that long-term inflation or its equivalent has been baked into the US financial cake, and that time spent making money that has shrinking value is a treadmill, people will discover the relative advantages of time spent producing the inflation-free goods of subsistence.
2. Social Relations.
A. Societies will need to replace technological solutions with ones based more on human relations. This will stimulate the rebuilding of local community, including the revival of the collectively managed commons[6].
B. As economies return to more local production, gender relations may improve. Compared to modern society, peasant societies often demonstrate more balanced gender relations, since women are often in control of markets despite distinct gender roles in the division of labor.[7]
C. In human-scale economies, communities are more aware that economic health increases with equality and its broadened purchasing power. Evidence of this from peasant communities is that merchants vary prices according to a buyer's ability to pay.[8] The increasing strength of the informal economy at a human scale, including to a degree the gift economy[9], carries its own potential benefits to community social health.
3. Economy.
A. Much that is harmful in the present economy will become too costly to prolong, at least at present levels – the constant advertizing blitzkrieg; the "happy" motoring transportation economy with its traffic, road rage, commuting, and massive inefficiencies; the distance, "colonial" economy that enables centers of wealth and power based on exploitation of hinterlands[10].
B. As happened in the collapse of the Soviet system[11], an informal food economy (theoretically illegal in the former USSR) can put a floor under economic collapse. In much of the world it already does; three quarters of the world's economic activity is informal economy labor.[12] The informal economy expanded rapidly in the US during the Great Depression.[13]
4. Polity.
A. As the cost of governing at state and national levels becomes unaffordable, social control capacity at those levels may weaken, creating a power vacuum and opening political space for more decentralized power structures, which in turn may allow people more participation in the decisions that affect their lives.
B. As in all periods of instability, the coming one presents an opportunity to break with a long historical period characterized by hierarchical structures of dominance, and experiment with more horizontal structures of decision making.[14] European colonization of the New World offered such a break, and was the site of much social experimentation.
5. Culture and Lifestyles.
A. The more labor intensive agriculture that industrial societies will be forced to adopt will put people into a healthier relation to the rest of nature, and give them a physically and mentally healthier lifestyle, geared to more natural rhythms than the hyperactive ones typical of urban life.
B. The rising relative cost of discretionary consumption may force society toward more satisfying behaviors. Cross-cultural studies provide evidence that happiness and material prosperity are in an inverse relationship.[15] As the market price of frenzied consumerism rises, so that the manufacture of desire is no longer enough to maintain the addiction, other values will have a chance to surface and prevail. And when the energy available can support today's commercialized spectator culture no longer, people will return to more satisfying, participant forms of cultural activity.
C. Local diversity of all sorts – physical, biological, economic, cultural,etc. - will return to replace the boring monotony that global capitalism has imposed, as localities again become free to display their distinctive characters. This diversity represents appropriate adaptations to local physical realities, and is healthier than the tendency of the current system to fit everything on the planet into the same marketable industrial mold.
In Summary
Benefits of the energy descent are not instantaneous; they appear gradually as we learn to use the opportunities of localization. A view from the Transition Movement:
"All the research I've seen, all the thinking I've done, and all the people I've talked to suggests to me that localisation will do a better job of meeting people's needs – people will be happier and will live in a more socially cohesive way and more sustainably. Or at least it will encourage all those things… If my intuition about what a resilient community is correct, then what you would hopefully find is that as time goes on, people will be experiencing more and more satisfaction of their needs. They'll find that their community is providing them with more opportunities to enact those needs and those intrinsic values. They'll find that they're experiencing fewer barriers to enacting the intrinsic values and satisfying their needs."[16]
If Greer is right about his eco-successional theory of collapse[17], there will be breathing room for the transition to take place. In a first era of "scarcity industrialism", as the limits to growth kick in, the industrial system will work, but less and less reliably, and will provide both time and incentives to evolve adaptive habits and structures of cooperation, localization, self-sufficiency and voluntary simplicity. He argues that the accumulated wealth and power of a century of superpower status will give the US the clout to provide temporary fixes as things fall apart. Even in his subsequent age of "salvage societies", the immense accumulated built environment of the age of abundance in heavily industrialized nations will serve as a store of useful raw materials, a bonanza unknown to earlier low energy civilizations.
[1] Bardi, Ugo, "Peak Civilization": The Fall of the Roman Empire.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Klare, Michael T., "The Pentagon vs. Peak Oil".
[4] Mies, Maria, and Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalized Economy.Also a talk by Mies, http://republicart.net/disc/aeas/mies01_en.htm.
[5] Ibid.
[6] Ostrom, Elinor, ed., Governing The Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
[7] Mies, Maria, ibid.
[8] Ibid.
[9] Graeber, David, Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Dreams.
[10] Berry, Wendell, The Unsettling of America.
[11] Orlov, Dmitry, Reinventing Collapse:The Soviet Example and American Prospects. Also "Closing the Collapse Gap".
[12] Astyk, Sharon, "Elephants: Involuntary Simplicity"
[13] Ibid.
[14] Korten, David C., The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. Also the interview, "A Defining Moment in History"
[15] Goldberg, Carey, "Materialism is bad for you, studies say", www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/health/08iht-snmat.html
[16] Hopkins, Rob, "Does Transition Build Happiness?"
[17] Greer, John Michael, The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World. See also his blog entries, "The Age of Scarcity Industrialism" and "The Age of Salvage Societies".
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I have been a student, a farmer, a business owner, and a teacher. In occasional posts I will explore and demonstrate the use of systems thinking learning and design tools for a sustainable future. Motivating this work is an underlying assumption that the end of the petroleum era will force fundamental changes in all major human institutions, and that the changes will be most painful if we fail to plan and adapt to meet them. The adaptation of food production systems is of great importance, and will be one of my central concerns.


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Te Papa Picture Library is the authorised agent for the Brian Brake Estate, and for over 2 years I have had the great pleasure of working closely with the Brian Brake Estate, most recently on the project team for the exhibition Brian Brake: Lens on the world, soon to open in Christchurch.
Te Papa Picture Library and the Brian Brake Estate, with the support of Image Lab and Trade Me, are organising an online charity auction to raise funds for the Red Cross Canterbury Earthquake Appeal Fund.
Twelve Brian Brake gallery-quality prints will be auctioned starting 5 September, 2011
Prints usually range in price from $1955 to $2806. Starting bids in the auction range from $1173 -$1683, 40% below normal retail price. Reserve price….well that is a surprise, so you will have to get bidding to find out!
100% of the proceeds of this auction will be going to Red Cross Canterbury Earthquake Appeal Fund to help the rebuilding of this beautiful city.
So watch this space people and spread the word! The links to the auction will be posted soon.
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Reprinted with kind permission of Cort Johnson, Health Rising, December 5, 2013
By Cort Johnson
Opportunities abound to make a difference in ME/CFS, but the Open Medicine Institute (OMI) may have hit on the quickest way to do that for the most people.
Could a simple, inexpensive treatment provide more energy for many?
What if an effective, relatively inexpensive and readily available treatment was available right now? What if all that was standing between you and others receiving that treatment was your doctors lack of knowledge? What if that could be remedied?
On her recent trip to Sweden with Dr. Peterson, doctors at the Gothries clinic excitedly told OMI executive director Linda Tannenbaum about some successes they were having in this difficult to treat disease. An inexpensive treatment featuring B-12 and folate was helping 20-50% of ME/CFS/FM patients with the MTHFR mutation. They were more energized. Their brain fog was clearing. They weren't well, but their quality of life was much improved.
That got Linda to thinking … inexpensive, readily available treatment that most doctors don't know about; that's the kind of opportunity the OMI and its slate of ME/CFS doctors exists for.
A check with some US practitioners indicated they were having similar results. Dr. Peterson, Dr. Kogelnik and the Gottfries clinic signed up and a trial was born to (hopefully) validate a low-cost way to help many people with ME/CFS have more energy and mental clarity. Primary care doctors have no clue about B12 and even your ME/CFS expert may not know about the MTHFR mutation (which affects methylation). An early study found low B12 levels in ME/CFS and doctors have talked it up, but no one has assessed its effectiveness in ME/CFS – until now.
This hundred person, placebo-controlled, double-blinded, international trial will determine how how effective B-12/Folate is. It begins in March, 2014. Drug companies won't fund a B-12 study. This is going to take help from the ME/CFS community. Let's get more options out to people with chronic fatigue syndrome everywhere.
Let's get them a study they can print out and say to their doctor "Get me tested and if positive, get me help."
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Sarlacc83 wrote:kearly wrote:And as far as giving Spiderman cancer, if he didn't like my writeup then he had it coming.
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On Wednesday morning, hundreds of students walked into the Michigan Theater in Jackson for a lesson outside of the classroom.
"Hopefully it doesn't end here, discussion has to take place and you hope you can take those points and further discuss it," said Jeff Smith, teacher at Western Options High School.
The documentary film "Bully" is a painful depiction of what bullying can do. For Western Options High School student Kelsey Lee, stories on the big screen hit close to home.
"I was bullied my entire childhood...My little brother is obese, my older brother has a stutter, so my entire family was called the handicap family," said Lee.
Even years later, the emotions on Lee's face were clear, perhaps showing that memories of being bullied never goes away.
"It's torture, it's worse than anything," said Lee.
For other students, the movie served as a reminder of what they can do.
"If I see someone being picked on, I'm going to run up and help them and separate the two people," said high schooler T.J. Hendges.
High School student Dakota Jackson says he never stands for bullying, but has trouble getting through to teachers when it happens.
"Teachers just say it's kids being kids just like they said in the movie."
As a teacher who watched the film, Jeff Smith says there's a lot of work to be done and it takes the effort of teachers and students to fight bullying.
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Sioux Falls Woman Gets Arrested After Drinking Hand Sanitizer
A Sioux Falls woman was arrested Thursday night after, police say she became intoxicated by drinking hand sanitizer.
Information Officer Sam Clemens says police were called around 8:20pm to the 700 block of East 4th Street, where a woman had reportedly threatened her husband with a knife.
Clemens says Brooke Lynn Montileaux, 37, was charged with ingesting, because she had allegedly been drinking hand sanitizer. He says that may have been part of the argument, although he says the report doesn't specify what the two were arguing about.
Clemens says it is illegal to ingest anything for the purpose of becoming intoxicated.
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Nearly 2 million people live in the Narragansett Bay watershed. About half of those people are Rhode Islanders, including every resident of Jamestown. And that's not counting the more than 12 million that visit the bay each year.
That's a lot of people to stuff into a watershed of under 2,000 square miles. Consequently, that's a lot of pollution that will wash up on the bay's 256 miles of shoreline. The 145,000 feet of coast surrounding Conanicut Island is no exception.
It's because of those staggering numbers that Conservation Commissioners Patrick Driscoll and Michael Brown will once again spearhead the annual Earth Day cleanup. From Potter's Beach under the Newport Bridge, to Sunset Beach and its view of the Verrazano, Driscoll and Brown are asking Jamestown residents to help keep the island's 27 miles of shoreline the cleanest on the bay.
Last year volunteers collected 2,700 pounds of trash. The year before that was 3,700. That means in the past two years, environmentally concerned residents have helped collect enough cigarette butts, beer cans, plastic bags, six-pack rings and other trash left behind or washed ashore to outweigh a Cadillac Escalade.
Volunteers are asked to meet at the recreation center at 8:30 a.m. Slice of Heaven has once again generously offered to fuel the trash-collecting crew with muffins and coffee. Volunteers will be broken up into teams and led to access points around the island including East and West ferries, Sheffield and Hull coves, Fort Getty and the town beach.
Lunch will be served at noon.
There is no registration, no waivers, no age restrictions. Just show up at the recreation center at 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning with gloves and work clothes. Children are welcome to help. More volunteers than ever are needed because of the debris brought to the island from Hurricane Sandy and the February blizzard that dropped 2 feet of snow onto the island.
Many ways to protect the environment and make the community greener are uphill battles. Banning plastic bags takes an ordinance. Wind turbines have to show a profit. Installing solar panels costs money.
But picking up trash is the simplest form of helping the Earth. Conservation doesn't always have to be hard.
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Published 8 November 2010
Don Carlos
Verdi's most magnificent opera takes on an exciting new shape in this production by Staffan Valdemar Holm and Bente Lykke Møller for the Göteborg Opera.
Review performance at the Göteborg Opera on November 16 at 2:15 pm
Première at The Göteborg Opera Saturday November 20 at 6 pm
The Göteborg Opera production of this drama of the power struggles and romantic intrigues among the 16th-century Spanish royal family will be based on Verdi's 1884 Italian version in four acts. Don Carlos was originally composed in 1867 in French as a so called "grand opéra" in five acts with ballet performances. The opera is based on the play on the theme of freedom with the same name, created by Friedrich Von Schiller in 1787.
Former head of Dramaten (Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre) Staffan Valdemar Holm directs; his first production for the Göteborg Opera. The austere stage design reflects the style that has become the hallmark of Danish stage and costumes designer Bente Lykke Møller. Only the costumes of the soloists are in historically authentic renaissance style.
The demanding principal roles are to a large part sung by Göteborg Opera singers: Tomas
Lind sings Don Carlos, Anders Lorentzson sings Philip II, Annalena Persson performs the role of Elisabeth - her first Verdi role ever - and Mats Almgren sings the Grand Inquisitor. Susanne Resmark and Fredrik Zetterström will perform the roles of Eboli and Rodrigo.
Review performance on Tuesday November 6 at 2:15 pm on the Main Stage. Rendezvous at the stage door at 2:10 pm. Please advise the below if you wish to attend or for any interview requests.
Première at The Göteborg Opera Saturday November 20 at 6 pm. For review tickets, please contact Anita Manskog at email@example.com or on 031- 10 80 34.
The performance lasts for approximately three hours and fifteen minutes, including a break. Media images will be available on www.opera.se/press from Wednesday November 17.
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After signing Loic Remy from Marseille for a club record fee of £8 million two weeks ago, QPR manager Harry Redknapp is looking to add two more players to his ever-growing squad.
Rumours have been flying around Loftus Road that QPR are trying to bring in Stoke City striker Peter Crouch and former Blackburn Rovers defender Chris Samba before the window shuts tomorrow.
Redknapp told reporters: "These are two players whose names have been mentioned but at the moment we're not close to doing anything.
"Crouch's name came up in a meeting with the chairman but I don't think Stoke want to sell him."
Crouch, 31, has played for Redknapp on three occasions during his career, having spells at Southampton, Portsmouth and Tottenham.
Samba, 28, is currently plying his trade in Russia with mega-rich Anzhi Makhachkala after leaving Blackburn in February 2012.
However, Redknapp has a desire to cut the QPR's wage bill, so it remains to be seen if they can match the defender's wage demands.
With QPR bottom of the Premier League, having shipped over 35 goals this season, they are in desperate need of some extra muscle at the back.
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Colorado Springs police have arrested an active Fort Carson soldier in connection with a two-suspect home invasion and sexual assault early Monday.
Felicion Alexander Charles, 22, was apprehended and charged with sexual assault, aggravated robbery and first-degree burglary. Police spokeswoman Barbara Miller said an increased bond was sought and approved because of the serious threat and psychological effect of the crime.
Ft. Carson officials confirmed Saturday that Charles is a Specialist in the 497th Engineer Company, 52nd Engineer Battalion. He is being held on $1.501 million bond at the El Paso County Jail.
Around 1 a.m., officers responded to a reports of a home invasion and sexual assault at an apartment complex on the 4000 block of Westmeadow Drive in southwestern Colorado Springs. A female victim stated that two unknown males entered her home and one sexually assaulted her at gunpoint while the other burglarized her home, according to Miller. The victim believed her attackers were possibly going to kill her.
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Penn State women over Wisconsin
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) – Nikki Greene scored a season-high 23 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to lead No. 8 Penn State to an 84-40 rout of Wisconsin on Thursday night. Alex Bentley added 14 points, Maggie Lucas had 11 and Ariel Edwards 10 for the Nittany Lions (14-2, 4-0 Big Ten), who won their eighth straight game overall and third in a row by at least 20 points. It was Penn State's first conference victory of 40 or more points since the 2000-01 season. Morgan Paige scored 14 points and Jacki Gulczynski had 10 for Wisconsin (8-10, 0-5), which lost its sixth consecutive game. Penn State was able to make the most of a size advantage under the basket, scoring 52 points in the paint compared to 10 by the Badgers.
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IxDA Interaction 08 is using CrowdVine for pre-conference social networking. I think it's an awesome idea, and so far CV has been great. I've been able to connect with a bunch of fellow attendees, including a good friend of mine from grad school who I didn't know would be there. It's a great way to build the excitement around a conference.
One of the great features of CrowdVine is being able to select and display your schedule, but lately it's had some weird behavior. Is anyone else experiencing this? The sessions aren't all grouping by day; I have multiple instances of Saturday and Sunday.
I did my best to piece it together below, using Skitch. You can see my full schedule here. Needless to say, it will probably change five times between now and the event.
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Doug: Bill Hayes
Julie: Susan Seaforth Hayes
YEARS: 1970-present (with some years off starting in 1984)
Doug was a con artist who met Bill Horton in prison in 1970. When Doug was released, he came to Salem to find Susan Martin (Denise Alexander), a widow with money Bill had spoken about. Susan ended up hiring Doug to come between Scott Banning and his girlfriend, Julie. Doug and Julie had an instant rapport. Doug took a job as a singer at Sergio's and fell for Julie. Doug's real identity was orphan Brent Douglas and this helped him for a bond with Julie's mother, Addie Horton Olson (Patricia Barry). After a fight with Julie over her son, David, Doug went to Addie's and she proposed to him. He accepted and the two of them were married. In 1974 they had a daughter together, Hope. After surviving leukemia, Addie died after being struck by a car pushing Hope's carriage out of the way just in time to save her daughter. Eventually Julie, who had married and divorced Bob Anderson, reunited and the two of them married in a beautiful ceremony in 1976.
Over the next few years, Doug and Julie would face many obstacles including the loss of Doug's Place (formerly Sergio's), Julie's rape and eventual trial for the murder of her rapist, and Julie being disfigured in a fire on Maggie's farm. The latter led her to divorce Doug but the two of them remarried in 1981 after Doug ended his marriage to Lee DuMonde. The following years saw the couple deal with titanium deposits, a grown up and rebellious Hope, and another divorce and remarriage! In the past decade Doug was "murdered" by the Salem Stalker but, like the other victims, turned up alive. In 2012, they are still happy and together.
The couples in the countdown all shared chemistry but there was something extra special about the Doug and Julie dynamic. Fans would find out later, Hayes and Seaforth had actually fallen in love and married in real life.
The couple was featured on the cover of TIME magazine in the January 12, 1976 issue, a first for daytime soap opera. Popular industry magazine, Daytime TV, wrote about the cover: "It was almost inevitable that when TIME was looking for the actor and actress who personified the power of the daytime serials, it just had to choose Bill and Susan." The magazine also called them "Daytime's First Royal Couple."
Bill Hayes explained further in a 2009 Mental Floss feature: "In 1974, Susan and I got married in my living room with 16 people. In 1976, when Doug and Julie got married, we had 16 million people."
The actors' personal story and the long wait for Doug and Julie to finally marry brought DAYS OF OUR LIVES and Daytime much publicity in the 1970s. When Doug and Julie finally married for the first time, women all over America threw wedding parties that day to celebrate. DAYS also maintained a 30 Nielsen ratings share through 1976.
The foundation of Doug and Julie's love story was crafted by Bill Bell, one of his many contributions to the countdown.
Bill Hayes was nominated for two Emmy Awards, in 1975 and 1976. He won a Soapy Award as Outstanding Actor in 1977, the same year Susan Seaforth Hayes was voted Outstanding Actress. Susan was nominated for Emmys four times from 1975 to 1979.
From Patrick Erwin (A THOUSAND OTHER WORLDS): Daytime's answer to great silver screen couples. Doug and Julie's story played out like a matinee movie – grand but seldom over the top. The fact that Bill and Susan Hayes were falling in love along with Doug and Julie made it all the more believable.
- Doug and Julie's first kiss (1970)
- Doug and Julie's weddings (1976, 1981)
- Doug and Julie in Foxy Humdinger's bed (1982)
- Doug and Julie's reunion (2004)
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The speakers were good. The topics presented were varied and interesting. Visiting with geneabloggers previously met was wonderful. The exception? In plain and simple terms, the venue was awful. Two classrooms in each building separated by fabric curtains certainly did not enhance the learning experience. To give her credit, Holly Hanson (president of Family History Expos) apologized for the classroom environment in her end of the Expo presentation, saying that the Expo will return to the area next year but in different and hopefully better facilities. That's good news for everyone! All in all, the Expo was well worth the time and money.
The first session I attended was with Arlene Eackle. And even though I have few ancestors in the south (a couple in Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky), I learned a great deal about locating the "right" ancestor through property records.
At 11:30 I learned what was new in RootsMagic4 with Bruce Buzbee. RootsMagic has some interesting features. I'm almost convinced that I should switch from Legacy! Almost.
The lines for getting lunch were quite long and I missed the 1:30 session with Lisa Alzo that I had planned on attending. Her talk was on Websites You Might Be Missing - a review of some cool tools and useful web sites for genealogists. I'll be able to get some of that information from the Syllabus but I'm sure more information was given in the lecture.
At three o'clock I sat in on Tim Cox's presentation on Hard Drive Organization and learned about how he files his genealogy documents and images. I'm always looking at how other people do that since I have several thousand documents and photos that I scanned before leaving home last September and have yet to organize them. I want to devise a system that will not need to be changed sometime in the future! Probably an impossible dream.
The final classroom session for the day was with Jean Wilcox Hibben on Shaking the Myth: Proving/Disproving Family Legends. Jean has devised a method of evaluating evidence by asking a series of questions to help determine if the legend could be true. It was fascinating to "step through" one of her family legends using this process.
The first day wasn't quite over when the last session finished. I, along with most of the geneabloggers and quite a few other people, attended the live Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke. Her guests were Craig Manson and Sheri Fenley. They discussed writing for the online magazine Shades of the Departed which was created by footnoteMaven. Both Craig and Sheri were fantastic guests, and the dessert bar was pretty good too!
Lisa Louise Cooke and Craig Manson
Day two of the Expo, I was a slacker. It was noon before I made my way to where the Expo was being held. I went in to a session at 1:30 but left after 10 minutes. I couldn't hear the speaker due to the noise from the neighboring session... I went to a 3:00 session but left soon after it started because the subject wasn't what I thought it would be. At 4:30 Holly Hanson gave the final presentation on breaking down brick walls on those troublesome ancestors providing several inspiring examples. And then, it was over... a few days respite and I'm back on the road!


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Growing up, Juventus star Pavel Nedved was one of my favourite players to watch.
The man was, without doubt, one of the greatest and most creative midfielders of his generation. My deepest regret is that we never got to see this great player grace the Premier League.
But his accomplishments make him one of my footballing idols, and here are just a few reasons why:
Nedved is, in my mind, one of the most innovative midfielders of all time. His sheer ability, both in scoring and creating goals, dazzled Serie A for a number of years, leading to a host of titles and deserved awards for the great Czech.
His ability to astound opponents with his incredible touch and foresight with his play was almost like a sixth sense, and his goalscoring and assist records throughout his career speaks for itself.
No one could ever quite solve the Pavel Nedved riddle.
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Nedved was a pleasure to watch as a young football fan. Not only did he get the job done, he got it done in style. I used to be in awe of this man's sheer ability to dazzle both the crowd and opposition, and I can honestly say there are very few players I have enjoyed watching more than this man.
He has a host of incredible goals to his name and was loved by everyone in Italian football simply for his sheer ability to offer moments of football that shocked and stunned the world.
Nedved may very well be the most gifted player in regards to putting both of his feet to good use. Equally deadly accurate with both his right or left foot, he is one of the few players capable of performing such magic with a touch from either foot.
Long-range goals became synonymous with the former Czech Republic international, and he certainly did not earn the moniker 'The Czech Cannon' for nothing, as a shot with either foot has the potential to rocket into the net.
Nedved has a multitude of titles and accolades to his name. He remains arguably the greatest footballing product to ever come out of the Czech Republic, and it's not hard to see why.
A man who holds numerous footballing trophies on his resume, both on the domestic and European stage, as well as winner of the Ballon d'Or and the Czech Player of the Year accolade on numerous occasions, Nedved's career simply glistened with success.
For me, Nedved is perhaps one of the most complete midfielders of all time.
The man had it all: the ability, the success, and the charisma and style to make the game a pleasure to watch for millions around the world.
Surely recognised as one of the greats of his generation, and certainly a living legend in the eyes of his beloved Juventus fans, Nedved was a pure joy to watch and a huge part of my love for football.
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Another week, a lot more money approved to defend accused serial killer Antony Sowell.
Court records Judge Dick Ambrose just approved up $23,000 more.
That money approved for paralegal services and for an expert to help defend Sowell and keep him off death row.
This person, a mitigation expert, would try to spare Sowell's life if convicted.
Sowell is accused of killing 11 woman and burying in and around his Cleveland home.
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Pitfalls of coalition warfare part of Bastion probe
WASHINGTON — The only thing worse than fighting with allies is fighting without them, Winston Churchill once said.
Churchill's point was that alliances naturally produce friction — consider the squabbles between Bernard Montgomery and his American allies during World War II. Ultimately, though, the value of an allied force makes the compromises needed to establish working relationships worth the effort.
An extensive report into a deadly surprise attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan last year highlights the pitfalls of coalition warfare.
Earlier this week the Marine Corps commandant, Gen. James Amos, asked for the retirement of two generals, Maj. Gen. Charles "Mark" Gurganus, who was commander of Regional Command Southwest, and Maj. Gen. Gregg Sturdevant, the air wing commander in the region, holding them responsible for gaps in security that allowed 15 Taliban insurgents to breach a fortified base.
The Taliban attack killed two Marines and destroyed or damaged more than a dozen aircraft.
The military has now released hundreds of pages of documents from the investigation, including interviews with the two generals, that formed the basis for Amos' decision to hold the two generals accountable.
DOCUMENTS: Central Command investigation documents
Overshadowing much of report is the issue of a relationship between the United States and its British allies on the base and how it might have compromised security.
Under a complex memorandum of understanding, the British remained responsible for security at Camp Bastion and had a separate chain of command from the U.S. side of the base, called Camp Leatherneck. There was no single commander responsible for security over the entire compound.
The arrangement was good for coalition building but it violated a key tenet of warfare: unity of command. Simply put that means that there should only be one top commander on the battlefield.
The attack occurred on the British side of the base, which also included the flight line, where American aircraft were based.
Gurganus told investigators he was aware of the bifurcated command structure but he had confidence in the British. The two sides had also made efforts to improve coordination between the two.
"I don't think it's unreasonable in coalition warfare to reach a point where you compromise a couple of absolutes to make sure you have the best arrangement possible," he told investigators.
But clearly there were still some points of friction. One U.S. officer told investigators the arrangement prevented him from inspecting the guard towers on the British base.
An incident in March 2012 exposed some weaknesses in the British-American security agreement. An Afghan worker drove on to the flight line just as then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was arriving for a visit. After that, Gurganus' staff proposed changing the arrangement, but it met resistance at higher headquarters in Kabul and went nowhere.
After the September 2012 attack the memorandum was scrapped and an American was put in charge of security for the entire complex. The British still resisted, Sturdevant told investigators.
"The Brits desperately wanted to be in charge of security, but I told them that we were no longer willing to accept not being in charge of overall security," Sturdevant said. "The attack definitely changed the environment. They knew they had screwed up."
The extensive report and supporting documents paints a picture of commanders juggling multiple responsibilities with sometimes incomplete information – not uncommon in war.
Protecting the base was only one of a slew of responsibilities commanders faced.
Gurganus was overseeing aggressive military campaigns throughout a remote region as the number of U.S. forces were declining rapidly. At the same time, coalition forces were attempting to build the capability of Afghan forces, which would ultimately take the lead in the fight against the Taliban.
When Gurganus and his staff arrived in Afghanistan in March 2012, he commanded nearly 18,000 Marines. By the time he left a year later the number was 7,400.
The investigation concluded that commanders misread intelligence or didn't have enough information to correctly assess the type of threat the base faced.
The intelligence suggested that the main threats were insider attacks, such as the one that occurred when Panetta was arriving, car bombs or rockets fired into the compound. No one expected a well-trained force of Taliban breaching the perimeter in the dead of night.
There had, in fact, been numerous breaches of the outside fence in the months leading up to the attack and video even picked up someone coming inside the perimeter, looking around, and then leaving.
But commanders assumed many of the breaches were people from a nearby village, including children, looking for scrap metal, which was a frequent occurrence.
Commanders were concerned about poppy fields that were expanding right up to the outside perimeter fence. The farmers used runoff from the coalition base for irrigation. They had to lean on Afghan forces to eradicate, however, which could be a slow process.
The Sept. 14 attack fit into none of the main threats they were anticipating. It was a sophisticated Taliban attack, months in the making, that originated in Pakistan. The insurgents wore U.S. Army uniforms and slipped through the fence on a moonless night.
"We were clearly surprised on the night of the 14th," Sturdevant said. "We just weren't expecting that. Not in my wildest imagination could I ever envision that."
Gurganus told investigators in July that he has thought back about the attack numerous times. "There was nothing that caused me to go, 'if I only I'd done this,'" he said. "I've thought about it a hundred times, and I'm not sure given exactly what we knew, exactly what the commanders on the ground knew at the time, that we would have done anything differently."
Amos said recommending retirement for the two officers, who he has served alongside, was one of the hardest decisions he has had to make as commandant. They were friends and have had stellar careers in the Marine Corps.
Gurganus has commanded Marines in Haiti, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The report made clear that the two commanders faced a number of challenges and tried to make the right calls with the information they had. Ultimately, though, the military holds commanders accountable for what happens on their watch, regardless.
Amos said he spoke to both men personally about his decision and they accepted graciously.
Military command is a "sacred responsibility," Amos said.
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