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For the sake of Gossip...
I am begging her, Jennifer Lopez, for the sake of Gossip, to give us something better than this.
JLo was on the radio with Ryan Seacrest today who tried to get her to go there about that back-up dancer she's dating, Casper Smart, and she was all like, I don't want to talk about my love life until it's someone serious because of my babies and I'm super busy right now and I don't have time to be all multiple-dating people and whatever, and then Us Weekly posted an article about it and used this photo of Casper that I'm attaching which is why I been smashing my head into the wall for the last 15 minutes.
All due respect to Casper Smart...
But he is not Ben Affleck 2002.
Like I said the other day, I really hate it when she slums.
Maybe you kids are too young to remember, but back in the day, back in 2002, when Bennifer INVENTED the Bennifering, Gossip was...Amazing. Like, EVERYONE was happy when those two happened. It was so...unlikely. Even now, doesn't it seem unlikely? Two mega mega stars who were mega mega unsuited for each other. Which is why they're not together anymore, right, because it was f-cking CRAZY to think of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. I still don't believe it actually happened. Was it a really great dream???
But there they were, all over each other, making videos together, getting interviewed together, announcing their engagement together, and then totally imploding, right in front of us.
Do you remember when they called off the wedding and showed up to The Ivy to prove they were still ...I dunno...dating after not marrying? And her face? How you could see through her makeup that she'd been wailing? Do you remember those shots of him in Vegas, at the poker table, on New Year's Eve, with a cigarette in his mouth, and she's looking at him, like, what did I ever see in you? And then not a few weeks later, it was done?
Oh my God, it was the best of times! Gossip Nostalgia! And that's what she's capable of!
Look at him, Casper Smart. Look at him. Like I'm sure he's great. I'm sure he's really, really nice and maybe even a good kisser.
But is he The Making Of The Jenny From The Block video?
Is he Ben Affleck with a Lopez makeover and a fake tan pumping gas?
Come on!
Please JLo. Please give us better.
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Welcome to Vagari's 7th winter of sailing. We have put 8,000 miles under Vagari's keel during those cruises but this year like last year won't be a high mileage year. We just don't have the lust for the long cruises that we did when we started cruising but we still enjoy living on board and sailing near our homeport. Welcome aboard! We hope you enjoy our blog. Your comments, questions and suggestions are appreciated and encouraged.
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December 9th 2009
Topic: the energy of worry
Life has made it difficult to write these guides as often as I would like. The lovely thing is that until I write about a topic I am given, the message keeps coming back to me. About three weeks ago this topic was brought to my attention. It is on the tail of the previous guide discussing the impact of our energy on eachother. Being mindful to clear ourselves and to be aware of the impact of others energy on ourselves.
This time I was given very specific information about a particular way in which energy impacts us and those around us. My attention has been drawn to the energy involved with thoughts. Many of us are very aware of physical energy. We walk into a home or space and something does not feel right. We notice that certain places seem to carry heavier energy that tends to leave us feeling sluggish. With the holidays approaching we find ourselves acutely aware of the impact of being around certain people who tend to leave us feeling drained. The last guide discussed these situations and how it is important to clear and to removed the cord attachments that others put on us or that we attach to others.
A more subtle form of this energy draining occurs however, most of the time without our even being aware of it. As we are around family and friends this holiday season I am getting a strong message that we need to be very aware of our thought energy. Specifically the energy of worry. It seems benign, we often view worry as a sign of care. We only really worry about those we love. The more we care the stronger we feel worry. We dismiss the impact that these worry thoughts have and say that we can not help but to worry about those we love. The message is very clear that this type of worry energy has negative impacts on the people we worry about.
Here is how it was broken down for me. Think about the thoughts and images you hold in your mind when you are worried about another person. Are they happy pleasant thoughts and images? Or are they often pictures and thoughts about the worse case scenario? I have to say my experience is that they are almost always in the second category. This idea was related to the concept of manifesting. "As your thoughts so your life shall be". By holding worry thoughts we are attracting and manifesting those fears into reality. Not that we manifest for others- because they could be holding strong beliefs in their own ability to overcome or to be ok, that counter our thoughts. But by holding worry thoughts we are not helping eachother, we are actually creating blocks and hurdles energetically that others then need to overcome through their own belief and or effort.
I have a very good friend who began to notice that early in the morning when his father would meditate he would feel drained and begin to lose faith in himself. He would also notice it during his fathers lunch break from work. Intuitively he was told that as his father meditates or when he is eating lunch his thoughts often drift to worrying about my friend. This friend has many personal struggles that outsiders could see as insurmountable. His father means no harm. He can not help but to worry- to wonder if all of his dreams for his son will come to fruition. To worry about the well being of my friend and if he will be ok. The problem is the very well intentioned energy that leads him to those worry thoughts is another obstacle my friend has to fight to overcome. He can actually feel the worry thoughts. He will feel a strong drain on his energy, on his ability to believe in his own future and then his father will call to check on him. My friend is fighting hard and this worry depletes the much needed energy he is trying to muster to foster his own belief in his ability to overcome his struggles.
So then what can we do? I am a parent. I can relate to my friend's father. I have worried about my kids. I have worried about my friends, my parents, strangers on the street. What I was shown this month was that we need to work on shifting that worry energy into something different. We can hold images of the worst case scenario, hold thoughts of "what if things don't work out". Or we can shift those thoughts into belief and hope. We can see the people we love struggle, we can see them seem to harm themselves with their actions and we have a choice. We can believe what we see is the truth- we can believe in the lack, the inadequacy and imperfection or we can choose to see the deep inner truth of those we love. We can choose to hold a belief in the inner potential to overcome even the most arduous obstacles.
Take a minute right now to think about someone you have held worry for. Tap into that worry for just a minute and feel the feelings associated with those thoughts. It feels full of fear and may feel heavy. Now shift your focus into a belief in that person's inner potential. The belief in the fact they have divinity within them, unlimited resources and strength despite all the physical evidence that says they are not doing well. Shift into the belief that they will be ok and that infact they will thrive. After a minute, once you are really in that place of belief, then notice what it feels like. I have noticed I can almost smile, I feel lightness well up inside me and I feel reassured. Well- the person you are thinking about feels the same thing right now because of your positive thoughts. Which way of thinking do you think benefits them more?
I know for me that I am hoping the people who love me are not worried about me. I hope that they are holding a belief in me and in the possibilities for my future. I hope that they are boosting me with their thoughts and believing in my ability to overcome the obstacles in my life. I have practiced this the past three weeks and intend to hold this lesson for life. When I notice that I am worried I gently shift that fear based thought into a strong belief in all of our inner strength, to the divinity within each of us. I choose hope and belief over worry and doubt.
Please keep this in mind as you encounter family and friends this holiday season. Those struggling with health issues, those struggling with finances, with relationships issues, with mental health. Whatever the struggle, however bad it may appear, please be mindful of your worry and choose to transform it into the belief and hope that will help boost those around you. I will forever be doing the same.
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What is LIFX?
LIFX is the smartest light bulb you've ever experienced. It's a wifi-enabled, energy efficient, multi-colored bulb that you control with your iPhone or Android. LIFX gives you unprecedented control of your lights, reduces your energy costs, lasts up to 25 years and delivers an amazing range of experiences we think you'll love.
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LIFX is incredibly easy to set-up. Simply replace your existing bulbs with LIFX smartbulbs, download and install our free app from the App Store or Google Play and you're good to go.
We Need Your Help!
We [Phil Bosua, Andrew Birt, Andy Gelme, John Bosua, Ben Hamey, Dave Evans and Guy King] have designed, redesigned and reimagined LIFX many times during the past six months, pouring countless hours into thinking about the user experience, the technical aspects of the project and how to deliver the world's smartest lightbulb to you at an affordable price point. You can help bring LIFX bulbs to the world by being the very first to own them!
What is LED Lighting?
LED lighting is the future of home and commercial lighting around the world. LED's have reached a price point and level of consistency where they're now the best alternative to incandescent bulbs for their energy efficiency [they use approx. 1/10th the energy of standard household bulbs].
These bulbs will not only bring you a great experience, but are one of the easiest ways to reduce your energy bills and impact on the environment.
In addition they're unbelievably long-lasting. Just like standard LED light bulbs, LIFX smartbulbs are rated to 40,000 hour / up to 25 year standards.
Environmentally Friendly
LIFX is a revolution in home lighting and will allow you to save money and reduce your environmental impact. With up to 20% of homes power consumption coming from lighting, it makes sense to switch to LED technology and even more sense to switch to LIFX LED smartbulbs. But this is just part of the story, LIFX is about the experience.
What can I do with LIFX smartbulbs in my house?
- Control your lights from anywhere
- Choose any brightness for a specific bulb, a room or your whole house
- Create the colors to match any mood or decor
- Get notifications such as Twitter, Facebook, Texts and more
- Reduce your energy consumption and save money
- Visualise your music with animated colors
- Make an impression at your next dinner party
- Get creative with colors and effects
- Create a night light for your kids
- Security mode when you're on holidays
- Create groups of lights
- Robot dance like it's 1999
There's many more things you can do with LiFX smartbulbs in fact we're creating a software developer kit (SDK) and a hacker kit so hackers and developers alike will be able to release more and more apps to do things we haven't even thought of yet.
The LIFX App
The free LIFX App will be available on the App Store and Google Play and we also have plans for a Windows, Mac and Linux app. If we achieve our goal we'll fast track the development of these apps across each platform.
The LIFX app is one of our favorite aspects of the entire project, and we've spent countless hours thinking about how you can interact with your lights. We have mapped out a very smooth configuration UX from the app to the LIFX master bulb. In essence you place your LIFX smartbulb into a light socket, turn the switch on and then launch the app. You will be guided through a process of choosing your home network from a list and then entering your password. The LIFX master bulb will then auto configure itself to your router and all the slave bulbs will auto connect to the master. If you add more slave bulbs down the track these will also auto connect. Each smartbulb can be controlled individually. eg. they don't just mirror the master bulb.
Regarding security: LIFX will be as secure as your WiFi network. eg. without the WiFi network password you can't control the smartbulbs.
We're aware that while the hardware is the most visible and interesting part of this project our software is the soul.
What do I get?
LIFX comes as either a single bulb or can be purchased in packs. Each LIFX bulb is ready to install straight away. Simply choose the type of bulb you need (Edison Screw, Bayonet Cap or Downlight) and you're ready. If you ever need to purchase additional bulbs, these all form part of your mesh network, meaning every LIFX you buy can be controlled via the same app without reconfiguring.
What types of smartbulbs are available?
- Bayonet cap [B22]
- Edison Screw [E27]
- Downlight [GU10]
Some backers have recently asked for specific fixture model numbers.
After the project has finished we will be sending out surveys to all KS backers asking which type of the above LIFX smartbulb casing you want. You will be able to mix and match bulbs styles in any combination. We are preparing more details on the above casings and other options that will be available in the next few weeks including dimensions and more. The more pledges we receive the more options will be available. Please direct message us if you have a preference for casing style/type that is not on the above list.
The Tech
LIFX uses a master/slave concept to connect to your home router via 802.11n and then onto all the other LIFX smartbulbs via 802.15.4 mesh network. Each LIFX can connect to all country electricity systems from 110V to 260V. This includes USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Australia and 95% of other countries around the world.
Your light switch needs to remain on for the smartbulb to be accessible with the LIFX app. However you can use any light switch to turn your smartbulbs on and off like you do with traditional bulbs.
LIFX uses a mesh network. The standby power usage of each bulb is very small, in fact a AA battery would keep a LIFX smartbulb in standby mode for approximately 1-2 years. [note: The master bulb requires a WiFi connection which uses approximately 2-3 watts. Only 1x master bulb is required in each home/office.]
The LIFX prototype uses an RGB phosphorous COB LED lamp which is approx. the equivalent of a 60 watt incandescent bulb or 50 watt halogen downlight. We are looking into all the options on the best type/brand of LED lamp to use in the production model. Getting this right is something we are very passionate about. (real world comparison - actual lumens of LIFX rated at higher levels than 60w incandescent bulbs)
We couldn't have done this without our distributed systems hacker Andy Gelme who is the lead engineer on LIFX. He's been at the forefront of automation technology for many years creating systems that run on top of open industry standards.
We will be releasing a LIFX Software Development Kit (SDK) that will allow mobile App developers and home automation hackers full control over their LIFX smartbulbs. This includes using a small scripting engine that runs within the LIFX smartbulb. Stay tuned for more details. We can't wait to see what amazing hacks you come up with.
We have set up a LIFX Tech blog where you can interact directly with our lead software engineer Andy. Just pop on over to that page if you have some curly questions.
We are receiving lots of awesome comments. Keep them coming. One of our favs below.
"Out of all Kickstarter projects I have pledged for the LIFX is the first one which, when I showed my wife the intro movie, she immediately said "Oh, I HOPE you're backing THIS!" - so, LIFX is as of now officially WifeApproved (tm) in our home, which kind of makes me want to up my pledge to about three dozen lamps." - KS LIFX Backer - Nick Sakellariou
- On the back of questions and information we are receiving from the Kickstarter community regarding wattage and lumen output of bulbs in general we have adjusted the video to more accurately reflect this new information. One of the things we love about the Kickstarter process and community is it allows people like us to crowd source funding but more importantly ideas and smarts. We are committed to creating the worlds best smartbulb and will adjust our thinking and approach to achieve this. Given the overwhelming response to our project we are also now planning to hire the best darned LED experts we can find!! Thanks again for your support - we're glad we can share this journey with you.
- Removed IPV6 from the main info page. Our aim is to use IPV6 but we prefer not to guarantee this until our development matures over the next few months.
The Internet of Things
We love the internet of things, home automation and the overall concept of the smart home but we also understand for most people it is a large chasm to jump. This understanding has been one of the guiding forces in the design of the LIFX smartbulb - to start with one commonly used household item and make it smart, easy to use and accessible to everyone.
LIFX Smartbulbs have been designed and prototyped in Melbourne, Australia and San Francisco, USA and we plan to manufacture via a trusted partner with operations in based in Melbourne and Shenzhen. We realise that whilst we're reinventing the lightbulb this doesn't mean we have to reinvent the manufacturing process. We are using as many standard LED lighting components as possible. These components have undergone rigid testing and stood the test of time. We are also very excited to create our own LIFX customised computer board "the brains" of this project. Also fully featured FREE apps will be available on the App Store® and Google Play® designed by Bonobo Labs.
Our Vision
"LIFX answers a need that is well and truly overdue. Everyone in the world needs light bulbs. Existing light bulbs are based on an archaic technology that threatens our environment. Light bulbs consume approximately 20% of electricity in homes around the world. They need to be more efficient, smarter and last longer. In the twenty-first century, people need lighting that matches the "smart culture" and eco aware sensibilities of our day."
Phil Bosua - Inventor of the LIFX smartbulb
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Terrorist Appeaser Peter King Blasts NY Times For Supporting 'Terrorist Appeaser' And 'Traitor' Ed Snowden
from the King-officially-out-of-stuff-to-add-to-the-'debate' dept
As we noted here earlier, the New York Times editorial board posted a piece in support of granting clemency to Ed Snowden. No sooner had the print dried than the usual suspects began shouting into the nearest open mic about how evil Snowden is. Rep. Peter King, presumably acting on behalf of his constituents, took to Fox News' airwaves to blast the New York Times for supporting the NSA whistleblower.
"Edward Snowden is either a traitor, or a defector, or both, and The New York Times is an accomplice," King said in an appearance on Fox News. "They're a disgrace. Their editors are a disgrace, and I wish they cared more about America than they did about the rights of terrorists' appeasers."Well, if anyone has the background to be considered an expert on appeasing terrorists, it's Peter King. Of course, he delivered these remarks without any intended irony, but his intentions hardly matter given his past.
Here's a refresher.
Peter King worries about terrorists... but only if they're Muslim. He's perfectly fine with white Irish terrorists, seeing as he went on record during the 80s stating his support for the IRA, which notably bombed a shopping center during the Christmas season, killing six and injuring 90. He was very concerned about their civil rights. Those were his kind of terrorists. These ones, not so much.King doesn't mind appeasing terrorists if they're white and Irish, but woe be unto those that cross his beloved intelligence agencies. King cares so much about America that he's willing to help turn it into a surveillance state. He'll continue to aid and abet the NSA in its overreach, civil liberties be damned. Why? Because the wrong kind of terrorists might otherwise find an opening to attack.
Realistically, the odds of being killed in a terrorist attack in the US are far lower than they are in other nations, even without the NSA compiling mountains of irrelevant data. It's even safer here than it is in the UK where King's favorite terrorists did their damage.
But that's not all King had to say. For seemingly the hundredth time, he repeated lies about the NSA's integrity.
"No one has found any violations [by the NSA} ... no phone calls are being listened to, no emails are being read," he said, adding that close monitoring only applies to a handful of individuals following an "exhaustive" court process.Hahahahahaha!!!
Oh, wait. He's serious. I wonder who this "no one" is who found all of these violations. In some cases, "no one" is the agency itself, which admitted to so many violations the "exhaustive" court temporarily yanked its metadata-hoovering privileges. Another "no one" caught analysts tracking love interests and listening in on military members' "pillow talk" during their phone conversations with loved ones back home. Oh, and then there was that one time when a certain "no one" dropped thousands of pages of documents into the hands of journalistic entities that offered proof that the NSA had done everything from scoop up location data (which it previously swore it never did) to intercept hardware in order to install backdoors and exploits. It also helped itself to pre-encryption content by siphoning data from overseas fiber cables, using the "not in the US" excuse to justify grabbing US citizens' data and communications. No abuse here, no sir. Just tons of extra-judicial exploration of the "edges of the box."
The NSA's defenders seem to have reached the limits of their imaginations. Every subsequent revelation makes it that much harder to defend the agency. At this point, many defenders are verging on self-parody. Many others (Michael Hayden, Peter King, Mike Rogers) have long since left that tipping point behind.
Honestly, who truly believes Peter King cares about America more than those who have exposed the treacherous actions of an agency whose oversight has failed to hold it accountable for years? Americans still have ideals, even if their supposed representatives don't. King, who spent years stumping for terrorists when not applying layer after layer of black paint to his prized pot now apparently envies the blackness of his imaginary foes' kettles.
There are many ways to care for America, most of which involve challenging the powers that be. King is one of those "powers," and his love of his country is the most insincere of all. His "love" asks for subservience from its countrymen, rather than accountability from its leaders. These leaders can make our country stronger, but that means they have to stop crippling their constituents and diluting their rights. We need courage, not bombastic flag-waving from a man so blinded by irrational hate he can't even see his own hypocrisy.
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Obama was on hand to greet incoming Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, formerly the CEO of the sporting good retailer REI, who started on the job last week.
The first lady drew a connection between the Interior Department and her well-known push to curb childhood obesity with her "Let's Move" campaign.
"What you do here at Interior is absolutely critical for our children's health and well-being," Obama said. "It's important to expose our kids to the natural resources available right here in this country. That's what I think about when I think about what you all do."
She also acknowledged unpopular worker furloughs instituted at the department as part of across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester.
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Software Patents Mean More Litigation, Less Innovation
I've long been skeptical about software patents. It's not that I don't think software engineers create innovations worthy of protection, but using copyright instead of patents did a pretty good job of protecting software IP for a long time. There are some unique inventions covered by software patents, which makes it appealing, but I've seen too many patents given to ideas (not even expressions of ideas) that seem pretty obvious.
So, when I look at the decision in the Apple-Samsung trial, I'm pretty torn. It's clear that software patents are the law of the land and, indeed, are now a part of the business process all over the world. I can see why so many people want to defend these patents. I can also certainly see where Apple made huge innovations in mobile phones and why it feels Android copied many of those innovations. On the other hand, there are so many little things that add up to a modern smartphone (or almost any new technical product), that sorting out all the patents and assigning value to each innovation seems like an impossible task.
In this case, Apple successfully asserted that Samsung violated three of its software patents, all of which relate to multi-touch operations in some form.
In particular, the jury ruled on specific claims in three utility patents. These were cited in claim 19 of Apple's '381 patent, which covers scrolling, scaling, and rotation and in particular the "bounce back" feature; claim 50 of the '163 patent, which covers an interface for displaying structured documents, including tap to zoom and center; and perhaps most importantly, claim 8 of the '915 patent on APIs for multi-touch scrolling operations, which lists zooming based on multiple input points, often referred to as "pinch and zoom."
Note that Apple never claims to have invented smartphones, tablets, multi-touch, or even pinch-and-zoom. Indeed, the concepts of smartphones and tablets go back to at least the 1960s. (See Star Trek for a communicator or 2001: A Space Odyssey for a device that looks a lot like an iPad.)
Multi-touch also seems to go back a while, as Samsung pointed out at the trial, talking about the Diamond Touch interface that predates the iPhone. A 2006 TedTalk from Jeff Han addressed the same concepts as well as an early 90s Xerox video (go to 6:50). Keep in mind that all of these are on projected displays, not a handheld capacitive touch device such as the iPhone.
Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research suggests multi-touch goes back to the early 1980s and was part of a group that delivered a paper on a multi-touch tablet in 1985. So of course, Apple did not claim to invent the multi-touch concept.
Instead, Apple claimed ownership of methods of implementing multi-touch in particular ways. Apple was certainly early in adopting multi-touch and in acquiring a company called FingerWorks in 2005 that had been making gesture pads and other multi-touch devices starting back in 1998. FingerWorks has a variety of multi-task and capacitive touch patents, though none referenced directly in the recent cases.
Indeed, from the day the iPhone was released, everyone has talked about how different its multi-touch interface is and how surprisingly easy it is to use. In part, that's because Apple was very early with a capacitive touch screen, but also because of the way it implemented many of the features—things that it certainly looks like were copied quickly by other devices.
So, if we have a system that allows for software patents, then it's not surprising that Apple received them for these implementations, or that a jury would accept that they are important.
What worries me here is the sheer number of these patents. I've seen estimates suggesting that there are up to 250,000 patentable inventions inside a typical smartphone. Even if that number is wildly inflated, there are still a huge number of inventions. In this case, the jurors decided, apparently based on their own experience in such cases, that the violated patents were worth 14 percent of Samsung's revenues on the phones found to be infringing. Now clearly different patents have different values, but if there are thousands of patents, it's easy to see how the values of these patents could get out of control.
It's also worrisome that each jurisdiction seems to have its own rulings. The Apple-Samsung case in the United States, which was held near Apple's headquarters, resulted in a victory for Apple. A similar case held in Korea, near Samsung's headquarters, yielded mixed results and small dollar values. A case between Apple and Motorola, held near Motorola's long-time headquarters, was thrown out. There are many other cases, among many combinations of mobile vendors, all over the world. It's a recipe for confusion.
Apple's strong victory in this case reinforces the value of software patents and it will undoubtedly give more incentives to companies to acquire and litigate more patents going forward. We'll certainly see many more court cases as a result. Without clear, consistent, and worldwide rulings, companies will spend more time litigating and less time innovating, and no one benefits from that.


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RENTON — There are a number of reasons why the Seattle Seahawks were better on offense in Sunday's win over Jacksonville than they had been in the previous two games.
For starters, quarterback Russell Wilson played better than he had a week earlier. And let's face it, the opponent also had plenty to do with Seattle's ability to march up and down the field. But the biggest single reason why the offense improved? It's what they didn't do.
"No dumb penalties," said receiver Doug Baldwin. "We stayed away from the dumb mental mistakes and the dumb penalties, and we made the most of our opportunities."
In their first two games, the Seahawks were flagged for 19 penalties that set them back 183 yards. Seattle still won, thanks in large part to a defense good enough to overcome mistakes, and an offense that, against Carolina in particular, passed its way past some less-than-ideal down and distance situations. But on Sunday, the Seahawks were hit with just four penalties for 24 yards.
"We did better on offense," Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll said. "We function better, were cleaner, sharper, got rid of the major penalties that could really hurt you, and that was the biggest, obvious difference."
As Wilson so often says, one of the keys to success on third down is staying on schedule on first and second down, which creates fewer third-and-long situations. That's tough to do when you get a false start and begin a drive first-and-15, or when a hold sets up second-and-17. But when the penalties go away, so too do many of those third-and-longs.
The Seahawks had 11 third downs Sunday — though one of those ended up being wiped out by a Jacksonville penalty — and only four of those were longer than third-and-five, with just one being longer than third-and-10.
So what changed last week? It wasn't as if the Seahawks didn't know they could improve in that area before they began preparation for the Jaguars last week. They were one of the most penalized teams in the league early last season before cleaning it up as the year went on, then the penalties came back in the preseason.
Carroll joked that, "I think I did a really good job this week for the first time. I really got my act together. Heck, I don't know, we're trying."
But joking aside, Carroll and his coaching staff have been working to get the message across to their players about penalties.
"We're trying everything we can think of to get the awareness across to the guys and all of that," he said. "I would like to think it was our coaching sometimes, but I don't know. But the emphasis is really obvious; our guys want to do right. They don't want to put ourselves in situations where we are helping our opponent, and that's what really is the biggest issue is for us. It's hard enough to win when you are doing everything right, and when you make mistakes and you just give them opportunities, it's difficult to get that done. So we are trying to get better at it."
Injury update
Defensive end Red Bryant, who left Sunday's game with back spasms, appears to have escaped any serious injury.
"He's got a sore back today," Carroll said. "He's kind of stiff and all of that. He kind of got in an awkward position and just tweaked it. He's got muscle spasms, and usually those can get taken care of in three or four days, so he should be all right."
The news was also encouraging on receiver Jermaine Kearse, who suffered an ankle sprain and was in a walking boot in the locker room following Sunday's game.
"He was getting around pretty well today," Carroll said. "From what I heard leaving the stadium yesterday, he got rid of the boot, so he was trying to show us that he's ready to go, so we'll see what happens."
Breno Giacomini, who was on last week's injury report with a knee injury, then left the game early, was "a little sore today," Carroll said.
Strongside linebacker Malcolm Smith, who was held out of the game with a hamstring injury, will be ready to go this week, Carroll said.
Roster move
The Seahawks signed tackle Caylin Hauptmann to fill the roster spot that came open when tackle Russell Okung was placed on the injured reserve/designated to return. Hauptmann, who is listed at 6-3, 300 pounds, had been on Cleveland's practice squad after originally signing with the Browns in April as an undrafted free agent. Hauptmann started 37 games as a left tackle at Florida International.
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Sometimes you get these stripy palettes and they don't provide much colour payoff strip by strip so you need to swirl to make any use out of it. This one has a strong colour payoff on every strip:
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Anchorage man faces up to $177,500 in EPA fines for destroying wetlands and streams (AK)
David D'Amato faces penalties of up to $177,500 for destroying wetlands and streams at his property in Anchorage, Alaska in violation of the Clean Water Act, according to a complaint from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
In September and October 2005, D'Amato used heavy equipment at the Hunter Heights subdivision, located in the Bear Valley area of Anchorage, to dredge 1,300 feet of stream and fill nearly an acre of wetlands on a 29-acre property, according to EPA.
D'Amato performed this work without obtaining the required Clean Water Act permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The unauthorized work allowed D'Amato to access, enlarge and create diversion channels on the property.
In May 2007, EPA issued a compliance order requiring D'Amato to restore the damaged wetlands and streams. D'Amato has not yet performed the restoration work. D'Amato continued to dredge and fill the streams and wetlands at his property through at least July 2008.
"When a property owner ignores his obligation to build housing developments responsibly, Alaska's environment takes the hit," said Michael Szerlog, manager of EPA's Aquatic Resources Unit in Seattle. "There are real consequences—environmental and legal—from skirting the law."
The damaged wetlands and streams on the property flow into Little Rabbit Creek, affecting sensitive downstream water bodies including Potter Marsh. Little Rabbit Creek is spawning habitat for several salmon species. Potter Marsh is a premier wildlife viewing area visited by thousands of people each year. There are growing concerns that sediments flowing into Potter Marsh from development on the Anchorage hillside could threaten this valued habitat.
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A Prologue to Resident Evil 7
After a lot of hit and trial, finally the developers of the most horrifying and adventurous game- Resident evil have found something that has raw USP to grab the global fans in the upcoming series. Recently, interesting news was revealed about the spectacular addition to the Resident Evil series. However, the deteriorated experience with Resident Evil Revelations have brought the graph off bit for the game and certainly wound the sequel.
Nearly same bloody scenario was observed when Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City faced duck out and was knocked out of the market when its franchises suffered a tough morning when the sequel was busted critically by the fans. The version seriously went out of control and became a flop show as it failed to get any attention from the mainstream gamer audience. Then came the Resident Evil; it had mixed reviews but still it was an underperforming game.
Fans around the globe started to believe that the producer has no more creativity left in its box because the series, which was once the centre of attraction and the living example of horror genre, has lost its charm.
Very recently, Capcom, with its very intellectual team, created an ambiguous mixture of Resident Evil 4 and 5s cinematic quality in the form of Resident Evil 7. Undoubtedly, the quality of the development and graphics are is rich in case of the version 7. The team is also well qualified and as far as the plot is concerned it has been well thought and written with lots of experience and patience. It seems that the maker does not want to take any chance this time and as a project maker is desperate to kiss success by hook or crook.
A thread on NeoGaf showed what was displayed on the costume designer's LinkedIn profile just before it got removed. The profile clearly told that the costume designer was taken from the House of Moves, which has showed their eminent work in many best sellers like Call of Duty: Gears of War 3 and Black Ops 2. The so-called project for costume designing was started and accomplished within 3 months from Nov 2012 to January 2013
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Till now, many details haven't been revealed about the 7th avatar of the series, but undoubtedly the developer is looking forward to make universal gaming compatible on manifold platforms. Most likely, the upcoming game is developed to suit the next level techies.
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In March of 1814 a Last Will and Testiment was written for a Daniel Linch listing a sister Judy Linch and a brother only listed as A. Linch. Now my Family line goes back to Andrew J Lynch whom served and died for the South in the Battle of Petersburg, Va. When he was younger and working as a Farm Hand or Laborer for the Shuping family he was accompanied in this house by a Judith Lynch whom was 60 years old and Andrew J Lynch just 21. Now to me that is a puzzlepiece. My theory is Daniel and Andrew passed and or fought in the war of 1812 and never came home. I have seen a listing for Daniel in the roster for the war but not Andrew. If anyone who knows of a Lynch Family missing three offspring say around the 1790's or may have seen the names Daniel Lynch-Judy Lynch- or Andrew Lynch and wife Margeret Gillian please let me know all records found in the Rowan Co Lib. History Room...
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Obama in the doldrums
Not yet six months into his second term, Barack Obama's presidency is in a dead zone.
A combination of familiar Washington intransigence and a more recent run of bad news and political setbacks have left him with less influence over his circumstances — and more buffeted by factors beyond his control — than at any time in his five years in office.
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But in a damning appraisal, a wide variety of congressional Democrats and presidential scholars said in interviews that there is another decisive factor behind Obama's current paralysis: his own failure to use the traditional tools of the presidency to exert his will.
Obama does not instill fear — one of the customary instruments of presidential power. Five years of experience, say lawmakers of both parties, have demonstrated that there is not a huge political or personal cost to be paid for crossing the president.
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Obama cannot count on friendship. There are plenty of politicians who would love the political and psychic benefits of favored status from the president. But Obama's distant style and his insular West Wing operation have left congressional Democrats resigned, many said in interviews, to the reality that they will never be insiders and, therefore, have no special incentives to stay on Obama's good side.
Obama is not buoyed by the power of ideas. When President Ronald Reagan hit a similar second-term dead zone, during the Iran-Contra scandal in 1986, he was still regarded by conservatives as the godfather of a historic movement. Obama, while retaining wide support among progressives, remains known for a personal brand rather than an ideological one — a status that has not helped much when he is looking for friends in a storm, such as the recent uproars over alleged politicization at the Internal Revenue Service and National Security Agency surveillance.
Finally, Obama is standing in a presidential pulpit that recently has proved to be the opposite of bully. So far in 2013, he has tried to harness public opinion to bring Congress to heel on both the budget sequestration and gun control debates. In both cases, Republicans — and in key instances, moderate Democrats — shrugged it off with apparent impunity.
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This week marks a critical moment in Obama's effort to transcend second-term impotence.
Stymied during his first term from coaxing Congress into backing a robust cap-and-trade program to curb greenhouse gasses, Obama on Tuesday will unveil a series of executive actions — taken on his own authority rather than through new legislation — to clamp down on power plants and otherwise reduce the country's carbon footprint.
The White House is trumpeting the environmental package as an illustration of how Obama is determined to set Washington's policy agenda even as Republicans are determined to keep his presidency in a coma.
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And the White House is taking credit for the immigration push under way in Congress.
"He won Latinos by a huge majority," a senior White House official told POLITICO. "If he hadn't done that, immigration would not be happening."
More broadly, the official said that despite Democratic grousing that Obama could do more, the president has been far more involved behind the scenes than people realize. This official also dismissed the notion that Obama does not command loyalty — or fear — on Capitol Hill.
"We don't have a problem with our Democrats," the official said. "Our Democrats stay with us."
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But in interviews in recent days, numerous congressional Democrats in background and, significantly, on-the-record comments made plain their view that it is not simply the hostility of Republicans responsible for the languid state of Obama's presidency.
"I don't think he has chosen to use all the levers of power that he has at his disposal," said Rep. Rob Andrews, a New Jersey Democrat. "I think he should."
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This sometimes means, in Andrews's view, making clear that people have good reason to be afraid of him. Andrews said Obama should have told Democrats that if they vote against the president's push for stronger gun laws, they shouldn't call the White House for any favors. "You want judgeships, ambassadorships, things for your state, don't bother," Andrews said, adding Obama should say, "If you're not with us on this one, we're not with you on anything either. He doesn't do that. And he should."


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St. George Welcomes Full-Distance Event and IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship
Utah tri town chosen for the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship's return to the Southwestern US, becomes first stop in new annual IRONMAN event rotation.
We are excited to announce that the city of St. George, Utah has been selected to host the 2021 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship. The announcement marks the return of this prestigious event to North America and is the first time since 2013 that the event has been hosted in the Southwestern United States. (Remember Clearwater, anyone?)
In addition to this exciting news, the full-distance IRONMAN is returning to St. George as well, as the kick-off city for a new, rotating IRONMAN race. This race will rotate between a series of cities across North America, beginning with St. George in 2020. The rotation will bring host cities a full-distance IRONMAN triathlon every three years with St. George again hosting the IRONMAN event in 2023. The 2020 and 2023 IRONMAN St. George events will also be designated as North American Championships. The other host communities in the rotation for 2021 and 2022 – which will be announced at a later date – as well as St. George, will continue to put on IRONMAN 70.3 events in the other years, giving athletes the chance to prepare on the same courses and increasing the appeal of the destinations within the triathlon community.
St. George enters an elite group of destinations around the world bestowed with the honor of hosting the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship. The event originated in Clearwater, Florida in 2006 and moved to Henderson, Nevada (2011-13) prior to embarking on a global annual rotation that began with Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada (2014). Each year since, it has reached new locations all over the world, including Zell am See-Kaprun, SalzburgerLand, Austria (2015); Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia (2016); Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States (2017); and Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa (2018). This year, the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship will move to Nice, France before shifting back to the Oceania region in 2020 with Taupõ, New Zealand playing host.
"We are thrilled to be part of the elite community of world championship host cities," said Kevin Lewis, Director of Washington County Tourism in St. George. "Our course showcases some of the most dramatic landscapes on the IRONMAN 70.3 circuit. The powerful combination of scenery and terrain is backed up by an energetic community that is exhilarated to host such an iconic event. Athletes who have raced here rave about the experience. Those who haven't are about to find out why."
The Southwestern community of St. George has been a host venue for IRONMAN since 2010. St. George's breathtaking scenery and views of the surrounding red rock canyons have made the community an ideal destination for athletes for years. The city's walkable downtown area features great local fare and boutique shopping. It is also only a two-hour drive from the nightlife of Las Vegas, with its never-ending entertainment options. The course has historically begun in the beautiful Sand Hollow Reservoir before embarking on a bike course through picturesque Snow Canyon State Park prior to a run through the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve. The IRONMAN 70.3 North American Pro Championship St. George also earned accolades in the 2018 IRONMAN Athlete Choice awards, ranking in the Top 10 for two categories: fifth in Best Overall Bike and ninth in Overall Host City Experience.
Qualification for the 2021 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship presented by the Utah Sports Commission will begin in July of 2020 with an estimated 200,000 registered athletes from around the world expected to compete for a slot. Each age-group winner at the 2020 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in Taupõ, New Zealand will automatically qualify for the 2021 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship.
General registration for the 2020 IRONMAN St. George will open on Tuesday, May 21. As it will be designated the IRONMAN North American Championship, the event will have an increased professional prize purse and offer 75 age-group slots to the 2020 IRONMAN World Championship.
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Amid one of the driest years in the state's recorded history, President Barack Obama visited California's agricultural heartland Friday to meet with community leaders, farmers and others and announce initiatives to help the drought-stricken Central Valley.
- Running Dry: Drought Maps, Forecasts
Obama told reporters in the rural town of Firebaugh, where he met with community leaders, that he wasn't about to wade into California water politics. Yet the president gently warned California's leaders to find common ground rather than thinking of water as a "zero-sum game."
"We're going to have to figure out how to play a different game," Obama said. "If the politics are structured in such a way where everybody is fighting each other and trying to get as much as they can, my suspicion is that we're not going to make much progress."
Obama met with farmers, a group that has accused the federal government of putting protections for rivers and fish above their crops and livelihoods, and who criticized the Commander in Chief saying financial assistance does not get to the heart of the state's long-term water problems.
Ryan Jacobsen, executive director of the Fresno County Farm Bureau, told the Associated Press he hopes Obama comes with both immediate relief and a long-term strategy for helping California in its third straight dry year.
The president proposed the following after arriving Friday afternoon:
- $100 million in livestock-disaster assistance for California ranchers.
- $60 million for food banks to help families hurt financially by the drought.
- $5 million for conservation assistance in the hardest-hit drought areas.
- $5 million for watershed protection.
- $3 million in emergency grants for rural communities with water shortages.
"It's now wait-and-see what President Obama is bringing, or if anything is going to come of the visit," Jacobsen, who is not among those meeting with Obama, told the AP. "We're talking life and death when it comes to permanent crops down here."
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The Central Valley produces nearly one-third of the nation's fruits and vegetables, and Fresno County leads the nation in agriculture.
The drought prompted Democrats and Republicans in Congress to propose dueling emergency bills. Led by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the House passed one that would free up water for farmers by rolling back environmental protections and stop the restoration of a dried-up stretch of the San Joaquin River that once had salmon runs.
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Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer proposed their own version that pours $300 million into drought-relief projects without changing environmental laws. The bill would allow more flexibility to move water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to farms in the south and speed up environmental reviews of water projects.
Members of least one environmental group converged on Fresno to voice their positions on California's divisive struggles over water. Members of Restore the Delta, a grassroots environmental organization based in Stockton, oppose Gov. Jerry Brown's multibillion-dollar twin-tunnels proposal for diverting water around the delta for use on farms.
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Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, the group's executive director, said her group didn't come to protest, but rather try to educate the president.
"President Obama should not be misled," she said. "We implore him not to support this boondoggle."


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Who are the highest paid footballers? Argentine professional footballer, Lionel Messi is the world's highest paid footballer, followed by David Beckham of England and Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, according to France Football magazine. The Barcelona talisman Messi earns some 33 million euros ($43.5 million) a year with a 10.5-million-euro salary, 1.5 million euros in bonuses and 21 million euros in advertising and other contracts.
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2012 Earnings: €33 Million (£27.5m)2011 Earnings: €31 MillionNet worth: $110 Million - (estimated)Current Club: FC BarcelonaThe Barcelona star topped his €33 million earnings from the Spanish giants with sponsorship deals from the likes of adidas and Pepsi.
11 David Beckham
2012 Earnings: €31.5 Million (£26.2m)2011 Earnings: €19 millionNet worth: £160 Million or $260m - As of May 2012, according to the Sunday Times UK Rich ListCurrent Club: Los Angeles GalaxyBecks, 36, collected €31.5 million and maintained his high profile despite plying his trade in America with LA Galaxy. His endorsement deal with Adidas is the biggest in the sport thanks to royalties from soccer apparel and cleats as well as lifestyle lines like ObyO. In May 2011 he signed a deal with Samsung to become the company's global brand ambassador for the Games.
10 Cristiano Ronaldo
2012 Earnings: €29.2 Million (£24.3m)2011 Earnings: €27.5 millionNet worth: $160 Million - (estimated)Current Club:Real Madrid
Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo had to settle for third and €29.2m despite leading the scoring charts in La Liga with 32 goals in 26 games this season. Using social media to expand his brand. With 26 million Facebook fans, twice as many as any other athlete and 3 million Twitter followers; which is part of the attraction for sponsors like Nike, Armani, Coca-Cola and Castrol.
9 Samuel Eto'o
2012 Earnings:€23.3 Million (£19.4m)2011 Earnings: €13 MillionNet worth: $50 Million - (estimated)Current Club: FC Anzhi Makhachkala
Over the past 12 months the Cameroonian striker added Puma and Ford as sponsors. Has much to be proud of – in the wake of his Champion League success with Barcelona and Inter Milan. He is Africa's most decorated footballer of all time; has won the African Player of the Year award a record four times; in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2010.
The former Inter Milan striker joined Russian soccer club FC Anzhi Makhachkala in a three-year deal with an annual salary of €20.5 million Euros or $28.8 million at current exchange rates. The deal made Eto'o the highest-paid player in the history of soccer in term of club salary. Dwarfing the the €13 million ($19m) Cristiano Ronaldo earns at Real Madrid and the €10.5 million Lionel Messi is paid by Barcelona. Anzhi reached an agreement with Internazionale at $38.9 million transfer fee on 23 August 2011.
Anzhi is owned by Russian investor Suleiman Kerimov, who is the 118th richest person in the world with a net worth of $7.8 billion.
8 Wayne Rooney
2012 Earnings:€20.6 Million (£17.2m)2011 Earnings: €20.7 millionNet worth: £45 Million or $72m - As of May 2012, according to the Sunday Times UK Rich ListCurrent Club: Manchester United
He lost his £600,000-a-year contract with Coca-Cola. He is back on form, the Manchester United striker was the Premier League's top earner with €20.6m (£17.2m). He picks up £8m at Old Trafford a season from his latest five-year contract and, although he ran into trouble with Coca-Cola last year following off-the-field problems, commercial interest in the England star remains strong. Remaining sponsors include Nike and Electronic Arts.
7 Sergio Aguero
2012 Earnings: €18.8 Million (£15.7m)Net worth: £37 million or $59m - As of May 2011, according to the Sunday Times UK Rich ListCurrent Club: Manchester City
Argentine footballer Sergio Aguero is currently playing as a striker for both Premier League club Manchester City and the Argentine national team. Aguero drew the attention of Europe's top clubs after he moved from Independiente to La Liga side Atletico Madrid in 2006. In July 2011, the player joined Manchester City for a five-year deal said to be worth £35 million (€42.35 million), making him the most expensive footballer in the club's history.
6 Yaya Touré
2012 Earnings: €17.6 Million (£14.7m)2011 Earnings: €13.8 MillionNet Worth: £12 Million or $19m - As of May 2012, according to Sunday Times UK Rich ListCurrent Club: Manchester City
Midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the Côte d'Ivoire national team. His the junior brother of Kolo Touré, also his teammate at Côte d'Ivoire and Manchester City. Touré was awarded the award for African Footballer of the Year 2011. Touré moved from Barcelona to Manchester City in 2010 for a transfer fee of about £24 million (€29 million) and the five-year contract is estimated at a staggering £55.6 million (€67.3 million). The defensive midfielder quickly adapted himself to the new environment, showing his remarkable capabilities in attacking as well as defending.
5 Fernando Torres
2012 Earnings: €16.7 Million (£13.9m)2011 Earnings: €14 MillionNet Worth: £21 Million or $33.5m - As of May 2012, according to Sunday Times UK Rich ListCurrent Club: Chelsea
Spanish footballer who plays as a striker for Chelsea and the Spain national team, From Atlético Madrid, to Liverpool, and now Chelsea, Torres has been recognized as a world-class striker. In January 2011, Torres joined Chelsea for a record British transfer fee of £50 million (€60.5 million) on a five-and-a-half year contract, making him the most expensive Spanish player in history.
4 Ricardo Kaka
2012 Earnings: €15.5 million (£12.9m)2011 Earnings: €19.3 MillionNet worth: $100 Million - (estimated)Current Club: Real Madrid
Brazilian football attacking midfielder who is currently playing for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and the Brazilian national team. The Brazilian midi was featured on the cover of EA Sports FIFA Soccer 11. The FIFA franchise has sold 100 million units of the popular soccer game for Electronic Arts. Kaka's major sponsors included Adidas, Giorgio Armani and Guarana.
3 Philipp Lahm
2012 Earnings: €16.7 Million (£11.9m)2011 Earnings: €14 MillionCurrent Club: Bayern Munich
German professional footballer who plays for and captains both Bayern Munich and the Germany national team. Lahm is now recognized as one of the best full backs in the world. The right-footed player is able to play on both sides of the pitch, and is now mostly playing as a left-wing-back.
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Minnesota Orchestra Announces 2009-10 Classical Season Plans
Music Director Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra today unveiled plans for their seventh season together, highlights of which include a four-concert collaboration with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra spotlighting the music of Stravinsky; another edition of the popular "Sounds of Cinema" film music festival featuring screenings of The Wizard of Oz and Chaplin's The Gold Rush with the Orchestra performing the full scores live; visits by renowned artists including violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and 2008 Grammy Award-winning pianist Garrick Ohlsson; performances of Sibelius' epic symphonic poem Kullervo; and the continuation of recording projects with pianists Stephen Hough and Yevgeny Sudbin. The season will also feature solo turns by eight Orchestra musicians; appearances by ten accomplished guest conductors, including Conductor Laureate Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, who marks his 50th season on the Orchestra's artistic staff; and world premieres of commissioned works by Kalevi Aho, Sally Beamish, Manuel Sosa and Mr. Skrowaczewski.
Mr. Vänskä and the Orchestra will launch the ensemble's 107th season on Thursday, September 24, 2009, with pianist Stephen Hough headlining a program of Russian works. Mr. Vänskä will lead 15 of the season's 24 weeks of subscription programs, concluding with June 2010 performances of Beethoven's Fifth ("Emperor") Piano Concerto and Bruckner's monumental Seventh Symphony.
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CBRE have recently undertaken an Australian Industrial and Logistics Occupier Survey. The survey spoke to occupiers of industrial assets to get a better understanding of decision making, future plans and how changes in technology are impacting the real estate requirements. Similar surveys have rarely been undertaken in the Australian industrial market and there is limited benchmarking of what drives industrial occupiers' decision making.
The results have been wide-ranging and reflect an engaged and optimistic industrial and logistics market. The survey had a wide scope and looked at how technology and automation are impacting business requirements, what impact e-commerce has had / will have, and what drives an occupier's satisfaction with their industrial premises.
The outcomes of this research provides clarity around opportunities that exist to attract and retain tenants into the future and tools to futureproof industrial and logistics acquisitions.


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Redding woman charged with animal cruelty
REDDING -- Animal control agents following a tip about two horses being neglected found stalls with manure 8 inches deep, water troughs teeming with algae and the horses badly emaciated and covered in fly bites.
Jay Connors, chief of the State Animal Control Division, described the two horses as "walking skeletons with skin."
The horses' owner, Lisa Lind-Larsen, 75, of Packer Brook, was charged with two counts of animal cruelty after turning herself in to Redding police.
Lind-Larsen had obtained the two mustangs, Chinook and Cheyenne, from the federal Bureau of Land Management in 2005. The BLM conducts periodic roundups of wild horses on Western lands and makes them available for adoption.
The News-Times interviewed Lind-Larsen just after she adopted the horses. She said at the time she spent hours caring for them.
"I'm very pleased with them," she said. "I wouldn't do without them for anything."
In 2011, however, animal control agents visiting the property to seize her dog, which had been exposed to rabies, noticed the horses looked underweight. They opened an investigation, but closed it the next year after the animals' condition improved.
The latest investigation began in July when a tipster gave authorities pictures showing that Chinook and Cheyenne had again become emaciated, according to an affidavit. The photographer, who didn't want to be identified, told agents that the horses were in a "severely neglected state."
Redding police and animal control agents went to Lind-Larsen's property July 10 with a search warrant.
The horses were found in the paddock, the bones in their hips, ribs and spine plainly showing. Their stalls were eight to nine inches deep in manure, water was scanty and unclean, and food supplies were scarce, the affidavit said.Lind-Larsen told agents it had been two years since a veterinarian saw the animals, and that they had never had dental care.
Both horses were seized and taken to a Department of Agriculture facility in Niantic, where an equine vet declared them extremely emaciated and dehydrated, suffering from various infections and in need of dental care.
"This is something we deal with," Connors said. "Your brain deals with what you saw after."
Lind-Larsen, who faces two years in prison if convicted on the cruelty charges, said Wednesday she still wants to keep the animals.
"Hopefully, the horses will come back when they are better," she said.
Earlier this year, Lind-Larsen was charged with importing a dog with rabies over state lines and leaving a dog in her car unattended. Those charges are working their way through court.


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These are fun to make...and eat! Not too much to know except that you should soak your beans the night before you cook them off ( like all beans), so this would fall into the category of "planned meal". You can add any fresh veggies you want, but you must add PICKLES! :)
To make these yummy morsels you put about 3 cups of cooked chickpeas in a food processor, and mix until chopped up well, not completely mush. Then add...
1 lemon juiced
a half a onion minced
1 clove garlic minced
2 teaspoons of ground cumin
1 teaspoon of paprika
2 tablespoons flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp sea salt
1/4 cup parsley chopped


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DES MOINES, Iowa, March 17 (UPI) -- An angry U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, says AIG executives should apologize for the insurance giant's collapse and resign or commit suicide.
Grassley suggested AIG executives "follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say, I'm sorry, and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide."
Grassley's harsh comments came Monday during an interview with radio station WMT in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The senator said it galled him AIG plans to pay its executives $165 million in bonuses after taking billions in federal bailout money.
Grassley spokesman Casey Mills later said the senator was speaking metaphorically when he suggested the executives kill themselves," The Des Moines (Iowa) Register reported Tuesday.
"Senator Grassley has said for some time now that generally speaking, executives who make a mess of their companies should apologize, as Japanese executives do," Mills said. "He says the Japanese might even go so far as to commit suicide but he doesn't want U.S. executives to do that."


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Scheduler scripts are a very recent addition to Windows Azure Mobile Services. This is a very nice feature that supports periodic background processing in your mobile service. As a reminder, in the original release of Windows Azure Mobile Services, the only opportunity to run any server-side work (in scripts) is when the client performs an operation on a table (select, insert, update, or delete). For any kind of periodic processing, you'd have to use an external solution or have a client ping one of your tables — a very ugly solution, as opposed to a scheduled script.
When would you use scheduled scripts?
- To perform background processing on data uploaded by your users, or data that you retrieve from some external web services. For example, if you allow free text uploads, you might want to index the text for faster searching, or mine the text to detect interesting patterns.
- To prune unnecessary data from your tables, such as dead push channels (channels that represent devices that are no longer available, or devices where you app is no longer installed).
- To send push notifications at a certain time of day, or when an interesting event occurs at some point in the future. This is helpful when you have users all over the world, and you don't want to send a push notification to European users at 8PM Pacific time…
But another very useful thing you can do with scheduled scripts is test your server-side code. As you write your server-side scripts, the only way to test them previously was to hit one of your tables with a CRUD operation. With scheduled scripts, you can run your script by clicking a button in the Windows Azure Management Portal.
Image borrowed from Scott Guthrie's blog.
When I was working on push notification support in my unofficial Android SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services, it was very helpful to have a script that sends push notifications to all registered devices, and invoke it whenever I want without hitting a table with a CRUD operation:
function TestPush() { var reqModule = require('request'); var channelTable = tables.getTable('pushChannel'); channelTable.read({ success: function(channels) { channels.forEach(function(channel) { reqModule({ url: 'https://android.googleapis.com/gcm/send', method: 'POST', headers: { 'Authorization': 'key=MY_AUTHORIZATION_KEY' }, json: { registration_ids: [channel.regId], data: { "__builtInType": "notification", "contentTitle": "Test title", "contentText": "Test content", "tickerText": "Test ticker", "number": "42" } } }, function (err, resp, body) { if (err || resp.statusCode !== 200) { console.error('Error sending GCM push: ', err); } }); }); } }); }
With the most recent command-line tool release to manage your Windows Azure Mobile Services, you can list, download, and upload your scheduler scripts from the command-line. Unfortunately, there's no way at this point to invoke the scheduler script from the command-line tool, but you can easily test any script from the portal, as we've seen above.
I am posting short links and updates on Twitter as well as on this blog. You can follow me: @goldshtn


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Veterans programs help college students serve again, on campus and beyond
Veterans programs help college students serve again, on campus and beyond
One is from Pennsylvania and the other is from Iowa. Before coming to Penn State, the two men only seemingly had one thing in common: their five years of military service.
Carl Chindblom and Sergio Santiago both came to the University while transitioning from active duty back to civilian life, and they both found a home with the Office of Veterans Programs.
Penn State has more than 3,900 student veterans and military dependents using the G.I. Bill University-wide, with more than 950 of them studying at the University Park campus, and U.S. News has ranked Penn State University Park the No. 1 national university for veterans.
The office, in Boucke Building on the University Park campus, is organized as a comprehensive, direct service unit for veterans and Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) benefits recipients. In addition to five staff members, the office employs about 20 part-time student veterans.
U.S. News has ranked Penn State University Park the No. 1 national university for veterans.
Chindblom and Santiago both worked for the office as peer counselors, reaching out to prospective students.
"It's been really rewarding because not only do I get to learn more about my benefits, I get to help other people with theirs," Chindblom said.
Getting involved
As part of his work-study assignment, Chindblom reaches out to prospective students who may be eligible for DVA benefits to make sure they have all their paperwork in order "so they're getting all the benefits that they can get."
Childblom, originally from York, Pa., came to Penn State after serving in the Army for five years as an airborne paratrooper. After leaving the Army, he was looking for a university that was close to his family.
"Penn State really fit that bill," he said, "so I wanted to get the most out of my college benefits, and I figured that Penn State is the most notable school in the area, why not get the best education from my benefits."
But, when Chindblom came to Penn State, it took him a little time to become comfortable in his new life as a civilian and a student.
"The hardest part of transitioning from being an active duty soldier to being a full-time student civilian was really finding a good balance, which didn't happen right away," he said. "I really struggled with it my first semester and then luckily I got involved."
When Chindblom joined the Penn State University Veterans Organization (PSUVO) and Omega Delta Sigma, a national veterans service fraternity, he felt more at home.
"Between those two, I luckily was able to find a really good balance of a social life, schoolwork and doing something service-oriented," he said. "My schoolwork got better and it took me out of the funk of my first semester."
Chindblom, a senior majoring in sociology and minoring in psychology, is now the president of Omega Delta Sigma and has been working as a peer counselor for a little more than a year. But he remembers the difficulty he had his first semester, and plans to turn his counseling work helping other veterans transition into civilian life into a career.
"Being in the military, you have a very structured life, you have people telling you where to be, when to be there, and what to be wearing when you're there, so it doesn't leave a whole lot of room for having to figure out all these things on your own," he said. "At the same time, you're also giving up a huge support structure and the people who you work with. The men and women who you work alongside of are like your brothers and sisters. They're the people who you want to be there for, and when you're out in the civilian world, you're on your own."
Chindblom remembers getting a call himself from the office when he was applying to Penn State.
"It just made it so much easier to know what you're walking into, especially being able to get the information out about the fraternity and the different clubs that we have going on. It makes it so much easier to make feeling like you're coming into a new home where you're going to be welcomed."
A smooth transition
Former peer counselor Sergio Santiago shares Chindblom's sentiment.
"Having a veteran guide you through the steps is helpful," Santiago said, "especially when you find out that that veteran who is helping you is also a student, so everything you're about to go through, they've been through recently."
"Working for the Penn State veterans outreach office and, of course, the support of my wife were probably the two biggest factors in my making a smooth and joyful transition to becoming a civilian again."
— Sergio Santiago, Class of 2013
While Santiago always thought he would be a teacher, he first joined the Marine Corps after graduating high school because of the strong influence of his father and brother.
"They're both men who I have respected my whole life," Santiago said.
While the two men didn't encourage him to enlist, "The few stories that I would every get from them about the Marine Corps were stories that never left my mind — stories of brotherhood and camaraderie, and this sense of duty and self-respect that I have never seen in any other community outside of the military, and the Marine Corps, specifically."
Santiago served for five years before deciding to pursue his first passion. While looking for the right school, he took advice from some friends.
"My last year in the Marine Corps, I met a lot of really close friends who were from Pennsylvania, and they said lots of amazing things about the campus, about the other campuses, and as soon as I made my decision to leave the Marine Corps, I started looking at schools in the area and seeing what Penn State's College of Education had to offer," he said. "I was very interested and put all of my efforts into getting into Penn State."
During his first class at the University, Santiago met another former Marine who told him about the work-study program in the Office of Veterans Programs. Santiago soon applied.
In the three years he spent in the office, Santiago helped hundreds of other students veterans just like himself.
"We did a lot of counseling on how they should approach scheduling for courses and who they should talk to for what reasons," he said. "We were kind of a middle person in between them and them having a successful academic experience at Penn State."
But for all the help he has given, Santiago feels he has received just as much.
"Working for the Penn State veterans outreach office and, of course, the support of my wife were probably the two biggest factors in my making a smooth and joyful transition to becoming a civilian again," he said. "I was very, very fortunate to have the support of the Penn State veterans office and the Penn State University Veterans Organization [PSUVO] to kind of come back to life and to be a part of the society that I hadn't seen for the over five years that I served."
Santiago became involved in PSUVO, where he spent a lot of time fundraising for the Wounded Warrior Project.
"A big part of my involvement is that I'm very, very grateful for being able to walk away from the Marine Corps with all my limbs. I'm very grateful for being able to still conduct my life like I do," he said. "But at the end of the day, I can't forget all of the other service members, all of my other brothers and sisters in arms who were not so fortunate, so that's the biggest factor in me being so heavily involved in raising funds for this organization."
Santiago graduated in May 2013, and is working as a teacher in Washington, D.C., with Teach for America. As part of the program, he's also attending George Mason University as a master's student in elementary curriculum and instruction.
"Probably throughout my junior year, I started realizing that if I wanted to be a teacher, I didn't want to be a teacher to move to some community where I would lead a typical nine-to-fiver. I wanted to be a teacher, and I wanted to be placed somewhere where I would be utilized to my max potential," he said, adding, "It's so much more than just a job. These students are beautiful and they're so eager to learn and to be loved, but they need so much support and they need great teachers to give that support."
Santiago's wife of three years, who is finishing up her degree at South Hills School of Business and Technology in State College, couldn't be more proud of his work at Penn State and beyond.
"He had gotten that job counseling other veterans and he was able to relate to them," Ginny Santiago said. "They were going through what he was going through. Struggles, transitioning, getting out of the military and starting up with school. It really helped him to be able to help them."
While her husband's placement in Washington, D.C., means the couple will have to be separated for a few months, she said it's worth it.
"It's hard to be apart again, but it's like we fell back into that same role like we were the first time [when he was in the Marine Corps]," she said. "We're just supporting each other in the same way, and he's doing really great things with the kids that he's teaching. Just the same way he's able to relate to people in the military and at Penn State, he's able to relate to these children and be a strong figure in their lives.
"Everything that he does, whatever he's doing, his biggest thing is that he has to be helping others. I just feel like that leads whatever he's doing in life," she said.
Remembering, and giving back
In honor of Veterans Day, Omega Delta Sigma sponsors a ceremony at noon in front of Old Main, in which Penn State Army, Air Force and Naval ROTC units also participate. This year several veteran students in the Penn State community also will visit local assisted living homes to hand out flags to older veterans in State College.
Veterans Day is also the culmination of "Nontraditional Student Recognition Week," a nationally celebrated week of recognizing adult and veteran students from Nov. 4 to Nov. 11.
Leslie Laing, assistant director for Penn State Adult Learner Programs, organized this year's weeklong event, which included workshops, a networking mixer, career counseling and a men's hockey game outing. Laing added that her office also hosted the red carpet premiere of "Murph: The Protector" at the State Theatre in October. More than 600 people attended the showing of the feature documentary about Penn State alumnus and Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Michael Murphy. The DVD will be released in January.
On Saturday (Nov. 16), Penn State's World Campus will launch its first-ever cellphone text campaign during the Penn State-Purdue football game to raise funds for the World Campus annual Military Student Fund, which helps currently serving military personnel (active, Guard and Reserve) and veteran students enrolled online in Penn State educational programs with expenses not covered by their military education benefits.
Carl Chindblom says joining the Penn State University Veterans Organization (PSUVO) and Omega Delta Sigma, a national veterans service fraternity of which he is now local chapter president, helped him feel more at home on campus.
For Chindblom, the work in the office is just part of giving back.
"With all that we've done, others have done so much more and given so much more, so they definitely deserve thanks and remembrance, especially with Monday being Veterans Day," he said.
Chindblom plans on attending the noontime service and visiting the older veterans in the region.
But Veterans Day isn't the only day he will reach out to the men and women he calls his brothers and sisters. His advice to veterans who may be looking to go to college:
"Get involved. Don't be afraid to socialize. Seek out other veterans. Look to do good. Give yourself a mission," he said. "I think that having a mission, a drive and a direction helps you to make better choices for yourself and for those around you."
Veteran student Carl Chindblom has become active in the Penn State veterans community. He is a peer counselor with the Office of Veterans Programs and president of veteran service fraternity Omega Delta Sigma. He attended the premiere of "Murph: The Protector" at the State Theatre in October with his girlfriend, Allyson Pettigrew. The feature documentary is about Penn State alumnus and Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Michael Murphy.


text: Hello. I am looking for some ideas on why after I installed my new Emerson UP500W thermostat my AC will not cool. The fan kicks on and air flows but it is not cold air. The heat pump does kick in and puts out hot air. I called Sensi support and they confirm all my wires and setting are what they say they should be so they are a dead end for my issue. I have a Lenox 14HPX-048-230 single heat pump system. Attached is a picture of my old thermostat wiring system a S1-THEU21P7S and The wiring of my new Sensi UP500W thermostat as guided by Sensi support. On the Sensi thermostat setup the outdoor setting is HP1, the indoor setting is on EL2 and I tried both o and b settings in the options menu. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.


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