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OnLive Games Coming to Ouya Android Console
Ouya, the Android-based gaming console that has secured more than $5 million in funding from Kickstarter, has a new partner: online gaming firm OnLive.
"We are pleased to announce that OnLive will be available on Ouya at launch, extending and building on our commitment to make the best games available to everyone, everywhere," Bruce Grove, general manager of Ouya, said in a blog post.
Los Angeles-based Ouya emerged earlier this month with a Kickstarter campaign aimed at developing a sub-$100, Android-powered video game console that offers free-to-play titles. Initially, it looked to raise $950,000 in 30 days, but by the end of day one, it had surpassed $1 million and now has more than $5.6 million with 12 days left to go.
OnLive's Grove said he was excited by the idea that console gaming might become "more available and open."
"Ouya is rethinking the console business, making waves by using standard technology to make gaming for your living room accessible, affordable and more innovative than ever," Grove said. "In OnLive's case, we pioneered a groundbreaking, cloud-based system that instantly delivers games to any device on demand."
OnLive said that once the Ouya ships, OnLive will provide on-demand access to the games from more than 80 publishers. Gamers can start playing on the Ouya and pick up on the PC, smartphone, or tablet.
OnLive promised free, 30-minute demos "for nearly every game in our ever-growing library," including Ravaged and Darksiders II.
Last week, Ouya said its first official game will be Human Element, a post-zombie apocalyptic game from game developer Robotoki. "Robotoki is the first studio to commit to building a game exclusively for OUYA: an episodic prequel that will set the stage for his eventual release of Human Element in 2015," Ouya said.
Today, meanwhile, Ouya released new images of its console and controller (above). "Please note that the design is still in progress - but we couldn't hold out any longer. We needed you to know that the controller has two handles. You can hold it in both hands," the company said.
Ouya said it is still deciding about the controller, and pondering an option that will let color-blind users play.
All eyes are on Ouya to see if it can actually deliver. As PCMag's Sascha Segan pointed out recently, it can be difficult to produce hardware-based Kickstarter projects, as they need a reliable supply chain. Someone who might help with that is Muffi Ghadiali, a former employee at Amazon's Lab126 who worked on the Kindle line and recently joined Ouya.
In recent weeks, Ouya revealed that it has been talking to Nvidia about its chipsets.
For more, see PCMag's reviews of OnLive for Android (slideshow below), OnLive for iPad, and the OnLive Wireless Controller.
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According to the company's Kickstarter campaign, Beam turns any flat surface into a big screen, whether it's a table, ceiling, floor or wall. It also enables users to listen to music via its speakers. Beam can be programmed to do a wide range of things, such as play music or display certain content at specific times each day, or whenever somebody turns on connected Bluetooth speakers or starts the Beam app. Other similar products are also available, such as Flicks, or the Touchpico by Touchjet, and if you want a smartphone with a pico projector, check out the Samsung Beam.
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This is another easy and quick dinner using leftover chicken,. I'm Tess and tonight I'm making a delicious one pot chicken fajita pasta. Stay tuned! I'm always looking for recipes that I can use leftover chicken. We went to Sam's the other day and I can hardly pass up their rotisserie chicken for the price. […]


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Winter marquees take longer to build
Erecting winter marquees isn't the most glamorous of jobs but it can still be enjoyable. The key is to allow more time for each one (compared to peak summer times).
Allowing more time for each marquee means:
- The work days can be shorter, if you're not really busy then there's no need to work very late
- Sites will naturally take more effort during the winter (clearing snow, weathering to buildings etc)
- Work can be done in shifts, the general winter practice was to put up the marquee then have a break as soon as the heater could be made operational. Suddenly with working heaters the marquee becomes a much more pleasant environment to work in for the flooring and linings etc (and you're 'just testing' to make sure the heating is satisfactory for the customer)
- Maintenance will take a bit longer as everything's likely to get wetter and muddier during the winter.
I'm aware I'm saying this from a warm comfortable indoor office but providing you are not in a hurry and you've got suitable clothing then winter marquees can be just as enjoyable as summer ones.
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Featuring 50 great gift ideas in ten categories! You are sure to find something for everyone on your holiday gift list here...
Like most everyone else, I've got the holiday season on my mind. Honestly, there's nothing I love more than a good celebration of family, friends and togetherness. It's the time of year when so many traditions come together in the spirit of love and joy to exchange both good will and gifts of gratitude and appreciation. With the holidays now in full swing, I thought it a perfect time to offer my "Top Ten" list of holiday shopping ideas for that special Apple iDevice lover in your life.
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'Morgan Family Strong' trailer: Watch a sneak peek of country star Craig Morgan's emotional new series
Country star Craig Morgan has been drumming up considerable anticipation for his new reality series, Morgan Family Strong, which offers an intimate glimpse at what life is like for a hit-making musician as well as his adventures opening and running a family store.
The series, which airs next month, will follow Morgan and his wife, Karen, daughter, Aly, and sons Kyle and Wyatt, as they embark on the journey of running their own Gallery at Morgan Farms — a business creating organic items and products from recycled materials.
In the above exclusive teaser for the series, fans get a peek into Morgan's numerous roles — from musician to beekeeper to proud grandpa playing with his grandson Cruze on the tour bus.
It also reveals the pain that unites and anchors the family; namely, the tragic loss of son Jerry Greer, who died in a boating accident in July of 2016 at the age of 19. Morgan reveals that this is the first thing he thinks about in the morning, and the last thing at night, every day.
"People are going to see a side of me that they've not seen, more than anything else that I've ever done. Our hardships, our heartaches," explains Morgan, regarding the frankly emotional tone of the series. "Having been an entertainer for a long time, my wife has done a great job of maintaining a sense of security around our family. We've opened the doors a little bit and, kinda, let everybody in."
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Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.
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For the past few years Lane Community College's track and field student athletes have been gaining success among their community college peers. As a part of the Northwest Athletic Conference, community college student athletes have the opportunity to be chosen as the Under Armour athlete of the week. So far this year Lane has had a fairly significant presence amongst this list with four out of the total fifteen being Lane students. Two of these four students have even gone so far as to break two decades-old school records.
NWAC is the "governing body for two-year college athletics in Washington and Oregon with two additional schools in Idaho and Vancouver, BC.," according to the organization's Twitter account. To start off the process of selecting an athlete of the week, all the coaches in the NWAC division send in nominations for who they think should win. The submissions then go to NWAC where the winner is chosen.
Lane sophomore Meg Jackson was the first of the four chosen this term with a lifetime record in the hammer throw of 135 feet 11 inches according to the NWAC website. Jackson has plans to go to Oregon State University next year and hopes to score at least 30 points in the NWAC championship a few weeks from now.
"I'm doing really well this year. I've PR'd [personal record] in all my events from last year and I've had just a lot more time to practice," Jackson said.
A school record-breaker, Tristan James, was also selected as the men's athlete of the week for the week of April 13. James, a Lane sophomore, recently broke a 22-year-old school record with a triple jump distance of 49 feet, 4.5 inches. On Saturday, April 19, James won the triple jump and set the meet and facility records at 48 feet 5 inches at a meet at Oregon State University.
"I always want to jump farther, get stronger, faster, all of the above," James said. "My goal is just to stay healthy."
More recently, Lane sophomore Emily Viukhola also broke a school record and was selected as the women's athlete of the week for the week of April 13. The school record for the 800 meter was set at 2:13.84 in 1972. On April 29, Viukhola broke that record with a time of 2:12.15, winning the race at OSU.
"I'm trying to run, by the end of the season, a 2:08 and right now I'm running a 2:14 so I have a little ways to go but hopefully I'll be able to accomplish that," Viukhola said.
With the NWAC championships starting, on May 1 and 2 the Lane Titans claimed both first and second place in the NWAC multi-event championships for the decathlon. Grant Shurtliff got first with 6,731 points and Wyatt Thompson-Siporen got second with 6,635 points. The next meet will be on May 5 at the U of O.


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|On College Football 2019: Week 9 Preview
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|Ken's Tacky Christmas Tour 2009
|Friday, 2009 December 18 - 8:30 pm
|You may remember Tacky Christmas Tour 2005, where I took you on a wondrous journey of North Carolina Christmas decorating. I have some new treats for you, after the jump...
There's a place a ways down I-40, just east of Benson, where they annually put on a giant light show. Actually I think it stays up year-round. You ride around in a little "train" (actually some trolley cars attached to a tractor or something) and take in the sights. It's quite a spectacle. Here's just a small fraction of the hundreds of displays they had.
There's nothing that says "Christmas" quite like a giant singing bear.
Wait, I was mistaken. Even more representative of Christmas is the Toy Clown Monster who has come to eat your children. RRARRRHHH.
It wouldn't be North Carolina if NASCAR wasn't included, and hey! WE ARE WINNERS! Of course it's not hard to be a winner when you're racing against an antique jalopy.
This is more traditional, I suppose... it's the Christmas tradition of unleashing fiery cannonballs at your enemies.
But hey. It's Christmas. We should put away our mechanisms of war, and settle our differences over a game of Christmas tennis. While wearing fur hats and pointy shoes.
This whole display sits behind an old country store, where they sell all kinds of old-fashioned candy and chocolate-coated nuts. They also have a collection of old signs like this one:
Why indeed? It seems like even in the 1920s, they were imagining the many possibilities technology could bring.
On our way back from this Christmas wonderland, we drove by a little house in Benson, which was entirely covered in Christmas decorations:
Makes you wonder where he stores all this stuff during the off-season.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi – The Nerdhub Trailer Breakdown
Okay, so you may or may not have heard/seen that the yearly celebration of a little-known franchise called 'Star Wars' is currently taking place in Orlando, and you also may or may not have seen/heard that there has been a cheeky little teaser released for the next instalment of said little-known franchise. Not seen or heard about this? We're not overly surprised, like we said; it's pretty niche and obscure.
I'm being sarcastic of course; this is probably the biggest piece of news in the world right now that doesn't revolve around Trump, Terrorism or Taylor Swift. Star Wars is without a doubt the most significant franchise in Sci-Fi history, and since Disney has purchased the rights and started their new trilogy, all eyes and ears have been on it.
We've waited nearly 18 months to get even the slightest glimpse of Rey, Poe and Finn back in action, and many had speculated that this glimpse would be arriving on day 2 of this year's Star Wars celebration. Well in this case, the many were indeed correct, although instead of the expected taste, we got an actual mouthful.
I kept my expectations low, thinking we'd get a 30 second teaser which would give us a single line of dialogue, hopefully delivered by Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker, followed by some brief, ambiguous imagery. What i did not expect was to hear Luke's first character dialogue in over 30 years, spoken over scenes of Rey using the force, epic space battles, strange new world's lightsabres being ignited and Kylo Ren looking way more evil than he did last time. We also got a sillhouetted shot of Luke saying that the Jedi must come to an end (what does he mean?!) as well as a shot of the fastest hunk'o'junk in the galaxy partaking in some aerial combat, all of the feels.
This wasn't a teaser, this was a trailer that seemed like it was for a finished film, this was two minutes of pure excitement and nostalgia, with shots that signify the team are all back to the forefront with Finn, left injured with Leia at the end of Force Awakens shown in what looks like an exoskeletal suit of sorts, Poe Dameron running through a base that's under attack as his X-Wing is destroyed (again) and Rey being tutored by Luke, Degobah style.
It was all too much, in the best way possible, but given how Disney handled the trailer campaign for Force Awakens back in 2015 with arguably one of the most well-crafted and emotive movie trailers I've witnessed in recent years, it was hard to think they could pull off the same trick twice, but by Christ they've done it. They've shown enough to give us a decent taste of the tone and characters, but not spoiled it (like most modern trailers) by giving away even a hint of the story.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi will be hitting theatres this Christmas, and is being directed by Rian Johnson who helmed the modern noir classic 'Brick', as well as that tense train heist episode of Breaking Bad and even some episodes of Bojack Horseman, so the dude's got some pedigree, albeit in some rather niche areas.
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Here's a 3D printed SLR camera. (via Boing Boing)
Of course you can't print the optics (yet), but we are getting closer and closer to the kind of technology described in The Diamond Age. However, whether next-generation tablets will instruct the Nells of this world how to lead armies against injustice or will just teach them how to animate GIFs is a speculation I will leave to the reader.


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Emmerdale bosses have announced that Amy Wyatt's "reckless" mother will be joining the soap later this year.
Laura Norton has been cast as wayward Kerry Wyatt, who was heartbroken when Amy (Chelsea Halfpenny) was first taken into foster care.
Show bosses have confirmed that Amy will bump into her mother while out celebrating her 18th birthday in an upcoming episode.
As Amy flirts with a handsome man in a nightclub on her big day, she has no idea that he is her mum's boyfriend - but all becomes clear as she suddenly comes face-to-face with Kerry.
Kerry makes the most of her reunion with Amy and arrives in the village the next day to look for her, hoping to build bridges once and for all. Viewers will then see Kerry fight to get back into Amy's life.
Norton commented: "I am delighted to have been given this role. Emmerdale has always been my favourite soap and it's a joy and privilege to be joining the team. Kerry is an amazing and unpredictable, appealing character and I will have a lot of fun getting to grips with her.
"I have met up with Chelsea who plays Amy and I can't wait to play her reckless mum."
Emmerdale's series producer Stuart Blackburn added: "Laura is a fantastic actor and it's a delight to welcome her to the show. Her character Kerry is sure to liven things up for Amy, Val, Eric and everyone who crosses her path."
Norton's previous screen credits include roles in Vera, Steel River Blues and Angel Cake.
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Richard Justice is a columnist, not a reporter. And as part of his job, he's supposed to give his opinions, no matter how wrong I think they usually are. But that said, when he's writing an opinion piece trashing Klein High School's Matthew Purke for turning down a $4-million-a-year contract with the Texas Rangers so as to go to TCU, Justice really owes it to everybody to make sure his opinion is really based on the facts of what actually happened.
So that you don't actually have to read Justice's blog post, here's a short summary. Purke was the number-one draft of the Texas Rangers in this year's amateur player draft. Purke, not satisfied with the Rangers offer, chose to instead attend TCU and play college baseball. According to Justice, Purke turned down a $4 million offer, making him an idiot who needs to question his priorities. Justice also states that the Rangers should be asking hard questions of their baseball people for wasting a draft pick on a player that they could not sign. He then praises Drayton McLane because it is McLane's edict that the team not draft the most talented players, but instead draft players that can be signed to contracts.
That's the Richard Justice version of what happened. That's not what really happened, of course, but I'm supposing that Justice just guesses that his readers only use the internet to read his posts, but otherwise don't seek out other stories on these topics. Because otherwise, he would have figured that the readers might actually plug some names into that Google thing and come up with a more accurate set of facts.
Here's what really happened -- courtesy of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Dallas Morning News.
The Texas Rangers knew all along how much money Purke and his parents were seeking. A number of teams actually passed on Purke because of this, which is why the Rangers were able to draft him. And knowing how much Purke was seeking, the Rangers chose to draft him because they felt they could get him to agree to a more reasonable number. Purke was seeking $6 million dollars. At the last minute, the Rangers offered up the $4 million figure. But the reason that Purke didn't agree to the $4 million was not that he was a greedy punk, it was because Major League Baseball forced the Rangers to withdraw the offer and instead offer $2.3 million at the last moment.
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And since the signing deadline was Monday, and since MLB stepped in on Monday, there wasn't a lot of time for negotiating. Thus Purke decided to go to college, and scribes and loudmouths like Justice decided to trash Purke.
But Purke and his family were working under a set of conditions that were apparently unknown to anybody but some of the Rangers officials and MLB. You see, the Rangers have a bit of a financial problem. That financial problem being that owner Tom Hicks is defaulting on his debts and his franchise is now being bankrolled by MLB -- that's right, MLB is responsible for everybody that's being paid by the team. And as the deadline approached, MLB -- supposedly at the behest of the other owners -- stepped in and interfered with the efforts of the Rangers front office, including Nolan Ryan, to sign Purke because the rest of the owners didn't want the kid to get paid.
Now it's easy for Justice to trash Purke. He's just a kid and he's not friends with MLB commissioner Bud Selig like Justice is. But seeing as how Justice was hanging out at Bud's house on Sunday, and seeing as how Justice talks about how he's buds with Bud all of the time, and seeing as how Klein is an area school, you might think that Justice would've made a few calls and attempted to get some of the facts before writing his hit piece, but instead, he chose to take the easy way out.
It seems to me that the villain of this piece isn't Purke, it's MLB, because it's clear that MLB isn't thinking of what's in the best long term interest of the Rangers, it's thinking of what's best in the short term for MLB. And seeing as how the Washington Nationals have yet to recover from their stewardship by MLB, this might end up being very bad news for the Rangers.


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Want to give your home a cost effective face lift? Just follow these inexpensive steps to enhance the curb appeal of your house.
Power Wash
Over time, weather and wear on your home creates a buildup of dirt, pollen, and water stains. Power washing is a simple way to give your house a bath. Wash away the dirt and stains to make your house look like it was freshly painted. If you are handy, you can rent a power washer from the hardware store for under $100. If you are not so handy, you can hire someone to do it for a couple hundred dollars.
Paint Front Doors, Shutters and Trim
Your front door is the focal point of your house. Painting it a new color that compliments the rest of the house draws one's eyes to it and makes your house feel more inviting. Giving your shutters and trim a fresh coat of paint will brighten up and revive the outside of your home making it pop. All of this should cost less than $100 if you do it yourself.
Replace Old Gutters
After years of water running through them, snow piling up on them and the sun beating down on them, your gutters break, dent and rust. Aluminum gutters are fairly inexpensive. You can buy a package that contains all the hardware and 25 pieces of 5 feet gutters for around $100 at your local hardware store. Vinyl gutters are more expensive though they are more durable and will ultimately last longer.
Replace Old Hardware
House numbers, door locks, door knobs and mailboxes are also easily replaced at a low cost and will give your house that polished look. Make sure to use the same finish. Oiled bronze will give your house the traditional feel. For more contemporary homes, brushed nickel is a good choice.
Fix Cracks in Driveway
Unless it's dirt or gravel, normal wear and tear in addition to weather conditions will produce cracks and breaks in your driveway. Fix them as they arise to avoid more serious and costly repairs in the future.
Outdoor Lighting
As an inexpensive way to add lighting to the front of your house, purchase small solar lamps that stick into the ground. Because they are powered by the sun, there is no need for electricity. Align them along your walkway on each side to illuminate the pathway to your front door. The extra lighting will also provide added safety and security at night.
Planters, Flowers and Mulch
One of the most common ways to add curb appeal is to plant colorful flowers, add mulch around trees and garden beds and add planters to your walkway or doorstep. Come up with a design by looking through gardening and landscaping magazines. Visiting your local garden center will give you an idea of the different types of plants, flowers and mulch that is available. You can also come up with a budget by pricing things out beforehand.
Upkeep is a very important part of maintaining the curb appeal of your house. Cut the grass, trim the bushes, pull weeds and clear dead foliage on a regular basis. If not every week, make it a point to upkeep your yard at least every two weeks. Set a day when you will have at least a couple of hours to dedicate to the outside beauty of your home. Gardening and yard work can also be very therapeutic!


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The AHFS is used to review and evaluate runs in Stock and Super Stock for possible horsepower adjustments. The review is conducted twice per racing season. The two reviews are compiled individually so the data is not cumulative. Runs included in the AHFS database are limited to final qualifying runs (Q data) and all elimination runs (E data) at all NHRA National, Sports National and LODRS events. (At events where class eliminations are run, all class elimination runs are included in the AHFS database. Only the first round of class is part of qualifying and therefore is part of the "Q" database.)The "Q" data and "E" data files are the official data gathered by the NHRA timing system and processed through the NHRA Information Technology department. NHRA "Q" data and "E" data are the only data files used for the AHFS. No runs made during National Opens, test and tune, time trials,1/8 mile events or races within a race (i.e. Jegs Allstar eliminations, Stock / Super Stock Combos or other races that are not part of a season long points championship) are included in any review. The first review period includes data from National and LODRS events 1 through 12 and the second period includes runs from events 13 through 24. The following procedure is used in reviewing run data:Final qualifying, class eliminations, and elimination runs of 1.00 seconds or more, under the index, at NHRA National, Sports Nationals, and LODRS events will trigger an automatic review. (The combination must make at least two runs of 1.00 or quicker before a review is triggered to prevent a "one time fast run" from triggering the system.) In reviewing runs of 1.00 or more under the index, the database of runs for the engine combination being reviewed are put through three screenings as listed below. The screenings will look for an overall engine family average or class/engine average faster than 0.850-second under. Runs of .350 and slower are not included in calculating the engine or class/engine averages:
If either the engine family average or the class/engine average are found to be faster than 0.850-second under, a change will be initiated.To more clearly illustrate how the AHFS program affects a given combination, the following is a hypothetical evaluation in Stock class for a 305-cubic-inch, 215 factory rated horsepower, fuel-injected Camaro during a review period: Two K/SA Camaros running this combination ran 1.114- and 1.187- second under the index, triggering a review. As per the procedure outlined above, the overall engine average is analyzed first. Upon reviewing the engine average made by the 305/215/241 FI combination, 10 runs had been recorded (2 in K/SA and 8 in L/SA) with a total engine average of .845-second under. Because the overall engine average did not hit the required 0.850 under, the combination did not warrant a horsepower adjustment based on overall engine average.The next step, per the procedure outlined above, is a class/engine review. The class of the car that actually triggered the review was K/SA. The class review revealed that K/SA had a class/engine average for the combination in question of 1.101-second under, therefore surpassing the 0.850-second-under requirement and signaling a horsepower adjustment for all 305/215/241 FI Camaros.An important element to note and one most often misunderstood by racers is that although a K/SA Camaro affected the change, the L/SA 305/215/241 FI Camaros that run this combination also received a horsepower adjustment. The reason is that a specific combination can run in more than one class based on NHRA rules; therefore, all cars with the specific engine combination, transmission and body style will be affected.
To decrease the potential for horsepower/index adjustments when favorable atmospheric (i.e. "mineshaft") and/or track conditions may have contributed to extraordinary performance the NHRA has developed a system to protect the racers' horsepower/indexes. If at the conclusion of qualifying the first competitor in the bottom half of the field is -.850 seconds or more under the class index, the Q and E Data will not be used for the mid-year and year end reviews. This will only apply to qualified fields of 32 or more cars. Automatic changes due to runs of -1.20 or more under the respective index will still count at these events. At any event where the Factory Showdown is held, no runs by Showdown cars will be used in the mineshaft calculations.
Once the need for an adjustment is determined, the following sliding-scale formula, based on a percentage of horsepower, is used to calculate the horsepower increase:
Under Index
Horsepower Increase
Index Change
-.15 (immediate change)
-.20 (immediate change)
-.25 (immediate change)
-.30 (immediate change)
-.35 (immediate change)
1.450- 1.499
-.40 (immediate change)
1.500- 1.549
-.45 (immediate change)
1.550- 1.599
-.50 (immediate change)
1.600- 1.649
-.55 (immediate change)
1.650- 1.699
-.60 (immediate change)
1.700- 1.749
-.65 (immediate change)
1.750- 1.799
-.70 (immediate change)
1.800- 1.849
-.75 (immediate change)
1.850- 1.899
-.80 (immediate change)
1.900- 1.949
-.85 (immediate change)
1.950- 1.999
-.90 (immediate change)
Adjustments are rounded up to the nearest full horsepower even if the fraction is below 0.5 horsepower. As an example, 2.15 horsepower is rounded to 3 horsepower. The quickest run, by the combination being reviewed, is used to determine the adjustment percentage.Runs of 1.200 or more under the index will be reviewed and adjusted Tuesday following the event. Runs at all NHRA National, Sports National, and LODRS events, including those at altitude factored race tracks, are included in the 1.200-second-or-more-under analysis. No runs made during National Opens, test and tune, time trials, or races within a race (i.e. Jegs Allstar eliminations, Stock / Super Stock Combos) are included in the 1.200-second-or-more-under review or adjustment. This is done to better react to any out-of-line indexes or under-horsepowered combinations. Therefore, at all such events, a horsepower adjustment or index reduction will be initiated Tuesday following the event.
The decision to adjust horsepower or to reduce the index will be at the discretion of the NHRA Tech Department.
In addition to reviews resulting in a horsepower increase, a competitor can request (only one request per competitor, per review period.) a review for the purpose of a decrease in horsepower factor or index adjustment. The review is conducted once per racing season. The request must include eliminator, year, model, engine size, advertised horsepower, factored horsepower, and class; to be eligible. (NHRA AHFS Horsepower Request Form)
The screenings will look for an overall engine family average less than 0.550-seconds under. Runs of 0.100-second under and slower are not included in calculating the engine average:In addition, the combination must NOT make two runs of 0.650 or quicker or any run 0.850 or quicker during the past two (2) review periods, for the review to continue . Once a combination receives a horsepower increase it is not eligible for a decrease for three (3) years.Engine family average: The overall engine average for all cars, regardless of class, running the particular engine combination being reviewed is included in this screening. If the engine family average is found to be slower than 0.550-second under, a change will be initiated.To more clearly illustrate how the AHFS program affects a given combination, the following is a hypothetical evaluation in Stock Eliminator for a 305 cubic-inch, 150 factory rated horsepower, carbureted Camaro during a review period:
A written request triggered a review by the committee. As per the procedure outlined above, there were NOT 2 runs 0.650-second or quicker preventing a review or ANY run 0.850-second or quicker preventing a review. The overall engine average is analyzed next. Upon reviewing the engine average made by the combination, 10 runs had been recorded (2 in I/SA and 8 in J/SA) with a total engine average of 0.535-second under. Because the overall engine average did not hit the required 0.550-second under, the combination proceeds with the evaluation.
Once the need for an adjustment is determined, the following sliding-scale formula, based on a percentage of horsepower, is used to calculate the horsepower decrease:
Horsepower Decrease
Adjustments are rounded up to the nearest full horsepower even if the fraction is below 0.5 horsepower. As an example, 2.15 horsepower is rounded to 3 horsepower. The quickest run, by the combination being reviewed, is used to determine the adjustment percentage. The decision to adjust horsepower or to increase the index will be at the discretion of the AHFS Committee.
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Arcata Economic Development Strategic Plan
CEED, with Arcata's PlanWest, recently completed the City of Arcata's Economic Development Strategic Plan which uses a place- and neighborhood-based "smart infilling" approach to diversifying the local community's economy.
View the report at the City of Arcata website.
Tobin Tax Initiative
The Tobin Tax Initiative builds citizen awareness of Tobin-style taxes. These are cross-border transaction taxes on foreign currency. Such taxes are designed to discourage short-term speculation while leaving longer-term investments intact. Now at nearly $2 trillion daily, (a volume which helps cause financial crises), this market needs to be tamed.
An important benefit of this will be the revenue. Tobin-style taxes will raise billions in earmarked trust funds to combat global warming, fund disaster aid, alleviate poverty, prevent disease, and build sustainable communities.
The concept originated with the late Dr. James Tobin, a Nobel-prize-winning economist at Yale, and is considered economically feasible. Parliamentary political will is the key, and citizen awareness will make a difference. Our project instigates action in the US, builds a strong network, outreaches to citizens, and works in coordination with our international partners.


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All photos courtesy of @WhereYouSmoke
@WhereYouSmoke sprouted in a moment shared between a spliff and the great outdoors. Run by an anonymous artist who grew up in LA, the Instagram account and online platform celebrates cannabis lovers who like to light up alongside Mother Nature.
Each week, we've asked @WhereYouSmoke to share a few favorite Instagram uploads with MERRY JANE, and so far it's been trip after trip to photographic cloud nine. For this week's edition, we decided to spotlight smokers who live in states and countries where weed is currently illegal, or legislation is about to change, including Canada and Israel. Before we dive into the smoking snaps, @WhereYouSmoke wanted to share this story of a friend who got in trouble with the law:
During my first month in New York, around 2010, I got arrested for smoking weed in public. I was at a concert with some older friends, and after it ended we wanted to keep the party going. We went outside the venue and around the corner, and then someone brought out a bowl and less than a gram of weed. The crew sat against a building and lit up, but things shortly turned sour. Within moments of taking my first hit from the pipe, a taxi cab pulled up in front of us. Four muscular men got out, including the driver, and I immediately hid our stuff beneath my legs (remember, there was a wall behind us and nowhere to properly ditch the stash).
The men walked up to us and flashed their badges — these weren't your average cab passengers, after all. The cops asked us to stand up and saw the bowl and weed. They asked who it belonged to, and since I was with older friends and the stash belonged to a girl I had a crush on, I said it was all mine. The cops immediately cuffed me and put me in the cab as my friends started freaking out. In the car, squished between two meat-headed pigs, I asked why they were in an unmarked cab and why they were using their resources to arrest me for a pinch of weed. They said they were looking for someone else in the neighborhood, but I happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. They couldn't let me go with a fine because I had paraphernalia — this was before New York had decriminalized weed, I believe.
I had to spend hours and hours in the cell until my information was processed in Albany. The cops were pretty neutral about the whole thing — I remember them casually saying I could be stuck in the precinct all weekend if the paperwork wasn't processed. The whole time I was in the cell, I didn't beat myself up for the charge and arrest. It was dumb that we were smoking with a bowl in public, but we weren't being conspicuous or cocky. We were on a side street and not in plain view. Plus, who would have expected four undercover cops to materialize from a cab and stop a bunch of hipsters for taking a couple hits? Instead, I kept thinking about how backwards the legal stance towards weed was in the state, and how I was lucky that this was my first offense. The thought kept turning over and over in my brain: what a fucking waste of police resources. The charge was ultimately expunged, and it hasn't come back to haunt me yet (*knocks on wood*). I still smoke in public around the city, but I'll never use a bowl out in the open again.
Interviews have been edited for length and clarity.
Photo Taken at the Top of Coliseum Mountain in Alberta, Canada
@WhereYouSmoke: Where was this photo taken?
@cass_master: I took this photo on May 20th, 2017 at the top of Coliseum Mountain, just North West of Nordegg, Alberta. My boyfriend and I decided to do the three hour hike to crest this mountain, but we weren't doing it without a little joint for the top. The day was hot, with very little wind. There was still snow at the top in places, and we would throw snowballs at each other to stay cool. Once we found a perfect view of the snow covered Rockies, we set up my hammock on the side of the mountain, and sparked our well-deserved doob.
What's the thing you find most special about smoking with Mother Nature?
Smoking in nature is the safest, quietest, most peaceful feeling there is. I feel more connected to the outdoors when I smoke in places like this, because it allows me to slow down and admire every small detail of what's around me. I become more appreciative of nature and it's effortless beauty. In my post-secondary schooling, I'm actually studying Environmental Science. I find myself applying what I've learned in school when I see different rocks, soils, and plants while smoking amongst Mother Nature. I point at something and say, "That's Arcostaphylos uva-ursi, look at its pretty flowers!" My boyfriend laughs and keeps walking, but it's my happy place.
What is the weed culture like where you're from, with laws in Canada now beginning to shift?
Weed culture where I'm from is definitely a growing lifestyle. In high school, I was "a little punk" for smoking marijuana. Now, everyone is giving it a go. It is easy to access high quality weed here, most of which comes straight from British Columbia. Since I've started smoking, the laws have remained the same until recently, when Trudeau proposed a bill to make the use of recreational marijuana legal in Canada. Although still in its early stages, I believe by this time next year, cannabis will be legal. The only trouble I've ever been in was from my mother. I personally have never been in trouble with the law, but that's because I like to smoke in places like my picture above!
Photo Taken in Goblin Valley State Park, Utah
@WhereYouSmoke: Where was this photo taken?
@harvestrayne: Over Thanksgiving break, my sister and I visited our aunt and her family. On this particular day my sister, my cousin, and I road tripped to Goblin Valley State Park and went for a hike. Smoking the entire ride up, the first views and rock formations were incredible. I obviously brought along my 7pipe to enhance the rest of the experience. This photo was taken during our first smoke break on the hike, after we proceeded to scale a mountain and came across a rock wall dead end. The day consisted of steady adventure in which mary jane served as the perfect accompaniment. The ride out of the mountains was just as beautiful as the rest of what we had witnessed that day — the winding road through the inside of those valleys was totally mesmerizing.
Where's your favorite place to light up?
My favorite place to smoke is outside. Whether I am sitting on my porch, or in the middle of the woods, the fresh air changes everything. I am not sure if it makes me feel more connected with nature… but it makes me appreciate my surroundings. Ideally, I would smoke a joint in a hammock while surrounded by trees, with a view of the ocean, and the sound of waves crashing.
What's the weed culture like in Utah?
I am shameless about my consumption of THC, meaning I smoke where I want, when I want, with no fear of consequences. Although everyone else from my area may not have that same reckless attitude, I would say about 7/10 people I know smoke on a daily to weekly basis. Weed is easy to buy off the streets, and is often dispensary quality since medical marijuana is legal in my home state.
Ever gotten in trouble for marijuana?
I have never gotten in trouble for smoking, but I have been on the cusp. During my freshman year of college, a few friends and I were smoking in one of the guys' dorm rooms. Our RA usually did rounds around 11, and it was nearing that time. Before we knew it, there was a knock on the door. Although my friend had taken precautions — wet towel under the door, duct tape around the outer border of the door to seal in the smell — the loud had somehow reached the hallway. Due to my shot-ass memory, I don't remember exactly what happened next, but after I proved to the RA that I resided in the building I wasn't held responsible for any of the illegal actions. Other than that I have gotten off pretty easy in all of my smoking experiences, but knock on wood, I definitely don't want to jinx that.
What's one of your favorite things to do once you're stoned?
My favorite thing to do after I smoke, besides eating, would 100% be swimming. I love that shit. Whether I am in a jacuzzi, or swimming pool, or the ocean, water = happiness. Like I mentioned, the only thing more enjoyable is stuffing my face with pizza/sushi/ice cream. Ultimately eating any of those things, while submerged in some water, and simultaneously smoking a joint, sounds like cloud nine to me.
Photo Taken Near Kiriat Haim, Israel
@WhereYouSmoke: Where was this photo taken?
@nahalghadd: The photo was taken in a nice place 20 minutes from my home near a river. It's not a very known place, and that's exactly what I love about it cause it's always quiet. I love getting high with my friends and going to a party or just chilling, but my favorite thing to do is just go to that place, light a nice joint, pick up my notebook and pen, and just draw with some music in the background — maybe bring my husky for a walk. There is something about it that just gets me so relaxed and happy and relieves me of all the stress I internalized during the week. I don't worry about smoking outside.
What is weed culture like in Israel? Is weed easy/safe to access?
If I had to guess, I think about 30% of people between the ages of 16-25 smoke weed in Israel. I don't know about older people. Up until a year ago, if you got caught smoking/buying/selling/holding weed you would be arrested, assuming you didn't have medical permission for it. Fortunately, the government decided to change that by decriminalizing weed. Now, if you're caught with weed, you only have to pay a fine of 1000 shekel (which is about $250 US) the first time you're caught. The fine doubles to 2000 shekel the second time you're caught, and the police get involved if you're caught a third time. That may not be much, but at least we're on the right track to legalization (I hope).
Getting good weed is hard in Israel because the only good bud is medical. Some dealers have access to it — and the ones who do are far from my town so I have to drive to the nearest city to buy weed. It's also very expensive here, like really expensive for what you get. One gram of weed costs 100 shekel ($30) and sometimes it's not that good. In other countries, weed at this price is usually an incredible strain or something, but here you don't know what you're buying. We don't have Purple Kush or Super Silver Haze (which is amazing — I tried it in Amsterdam) We just buy what the dealer has and hope for the best [laughs].
Do you think weed will ever be entirely legal in Israel?
I think weed will be legal someday just because it's becoming legal around the world. People just have to understand that it's not that bad. I hate it when people call weed a "drug." Cocaine is a drug, crystal meth is a drug — weed is just not in that category. I actually think that if weed is illegal, then alcohol should be, too. Alcohol causes violence and illness and you can die if you drink too much, while weed doesn't have the same inherent risks. You could never smoke to the point of overdosing.
May we ask why you've chosen to stay anonymous?
I chose to stay anonymous because I serve in the military (not out of choice — you have to in Israel) and if you get caught using marijuana in the military then you automatically go to prison. So yeah, this fucking sucks. Long story short, weed is AWESOME and I hope we're getting closer to legalization because it's taking too long!
If you like to photograph your outdoor smoking adventures, check out the submission page at www.whereyousmoke.com. And follow @WhereYouSmoke on Instagram.


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Use the list-jdbc-resources subcommand in remote mode to list the existing JDBC resources.
Ensure that the server is running.
Remote subcommands require a running server.
List JDBC resources by using the list-jdbc-resources(1) subcommand.
This example lists JDBC resources for localhost.
asadmin> list-jdbc-resources jdbc/__TimerPool jdbc/DerbyPool jdbc/__default jdbc1 Command list-jdbc-resources executed successfully.
You can also view the full syntax and options of the subcommand by typing asadmin help list-jdbc-resources at the command line.


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Episode 71 with Mark and Phil includes, Vikings talk after the NFC Title game, Rush Poker on Full Tilt, and Mike Behr Photography Hand of the Week.
CPL Minnesota Music Segment by MoneyPenny.
CPL Bumper Music by Stew, Little Tin Box, Uber Cool Kung Fu, , Professor Sketchy, and IKKI.
Check out our blog at www.cplpokerpodcast.com.
Follow us on Twitter at CPLPOKERPODCAST.


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Earlier Kanotix releases were based on Debian Sid. With the last official release in December 2005 the project went into a phase of semi-hibernation in which until 2007 several Release Candidates were issued. In the following period kernel updates and backports were made available, and it seems some experimentation went into customizing for netbook and laptop use. Read more on Wikipedia. Kanotix reemerged in June 2010 with a new release and is now based on Debian Stable. The current stable version was released in May on the occasion of LinuxTag 2011 in Berlin.
The distribution is available optimized for i686 (32 bit) and for x86_64. The ISO's are around 1.2 GB and 1.3 GB respectively. A hybrid image of the combined size is also available. I went for the 64 bit version at http://debian.tu-bs.de/kanotix/KANOTIX-Hellfire-2011-05/kanotix64-2.6.38.iso and installed it on my relatively recent Acer Aspire 5551 laptop bought just September last year. It sports ATI HD 4200 Mobility graphics, AMD Phenom X3, 4 GB Ram, and Broadcom chips for wired and wireless networking. I usually have to install the firmware myself and some distributions do not support the wired tg3 Ethernet either.
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It takes a fair bit of time for the DVD to load, but once the boot process is over and done with you're brought straight to the desktop, no login required. This makes sense for a system also described as a tool for rescue tool and forensics work or simply for safe surfing. It however makes your partitions vulnerable to anybody with access to your PC, but that goes for a most Live distributions, and requiring a root password which is often for convenience sake displayed on the login screen would only add an extra layer of protection to the user to remind him that what he is about to do can have consequences, but it would not prevent somebody with physical access from tampering with your system. In this context I am thinking full disk encryption or at least setting a BIOS password.
|IceWeasel 4.0.1 and pre-set bookmarks
|Proprietary graphics drivers included and working!
|Assigning mount points
|LibreOffice - not there when installed
Several but not all multimedia codecs are preinstalled. Kanotix comes with Quicktime and DivX browser plugins, also RealPlayer and the Windows Media codecs and plugins. I was able to watch an MP4 stream embedded in a web page, full-screen and with animated zooming in and out, very cool. Ogg unfortunately didn't scale at all and the video remained in the upper left corner. Adobe Flash is missing from the distribution but can be installed via script or from the repositories with apt-get.
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For somebody considering to switch, it may also be important to keep in mind that although the Wiki is also available translated into English, most users seem to speak German and the forum is German only. The tone there can be a bit rough, almost rude, but one could argue this is just how Germans talk. Taking into account anti-discriminatory practice it's their cultural right to be obnoxious. This may turn out to be a hindrance to successful adoption. However if you're confident with this distributions' parent, all documentation that applies to it should also apply to Kanotix.
Update: Following a comment from TheOne I decided to go back and investigate. As it turned out LibreOffice got installed but was missing from the KDE menu. See screenshots.
Hope that helps. No more updates now, thank you!


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The 2013 Booker Conversations is a series of in-depth, spoiler-free discussions between BookerMarks bloggers about this year's nominated titles.
Today, Aaron Westerman, Karli Cude, and Jennifer Fliss partake in an in-depth spoiler-free discussion about Jim Crace's novel Harvest.
Aaron is Opinionless. Except of course when it comes to books or movies. He's the co-founder of Typographical Era where he blogs on a regular basis about the latest in translated literature, foreign cinema, and more.
Karli Cude, co-founder of Typographical Era, is an avid reader and former bookseller. She graduated from the University of Tennessee with a B.A. in English Literature in 2010 and recently received a Master's degree in Library and Information Sciences.
Jennifer Fliss is The Well Read Fish. She's an avid reader, writer, runner, and has been known to do the flying trapeze (completely true). In addition to literary treats and reviews, The Well Read Fish likes to pair like books with like books, be it by subject, style, setting . . . The Well Read Fish is a New York fish living in Seattle, loving it and occasionally struggling with it.
Jim Crace's final novel Harvest has found itself nominated for both the Man Booker Prize and The Goldsmiths Prize. Set in an unspecified time period and told over seven days, Crace's swan song boldly defies all of the expectations placed upon by casual fiction reader. Plot and character development fly out the window as Crace embarks upon an eloquent exploration of what happens when communication breaks down and trust dissolves.
Aaron: Jen, you picked Harvest as the subject of your "Why It Will Win" post for BookerMarks. I know some of us chose books that we felt we could properly defend from a literary standpoint, but that we didn't necessarily believe should win. How do you actually feel about Harvest in relation to the rest of this year's finalists and what inspired you to create such an amazing infographic in its honor?
Jen: I know it's practically sacrilegious to say so, but I don't generally care for classic literature. Y'know, Literature with a capital "L." While I can definitely appreciate their place in our literary canon, I find I get bored. My sensibilities are a bit more modern. Harvest felt like a classic. I found it to be a boring read; especially early on. Couple Crace's old-style language with an even older-style setting, and you had me desperate for something more exciting. However, it being a short book and one where I was able to appreciate the language and level of craft Crace was employing; I kept at it. Do I think it got less boring? Not really. But the ambiance (witchcraft, death, fire) kept me moderately interested. (I also tend to enjoy the macabre!) In the end, I could see myself writing a paper on it. I could imagine getting into discussions with a class or book club about mass hysteria, about guilt and blame, about outsiderness. (This should be a word. "Twerk" is apparently now officially a word. Therefore I can make up what I want.) These are universal themes. I think a mark of an interesting or quality book is one that does encourage these kinds of conversations. So while I was bored through most of it, I really was impressed with Crace's skill, which, to me, was evident throughout.
Karli: I'm inclined to agree with Jen on this one. Harvest is certainly a "capital L" piece of Literature, which to me, means that it's boring, but with a purpose. As we've discussed before, I think the purpose of Harvest is to showcase the swift degradation and destruction of a community when leadership is weak and said community is highly motivated by fear and the possibility of threat. Crace certainly succeeds with this notion, but the long, tedious passages makes for a rather cumbersome read. But at the same time, I feel like Harvest is one of those books that makes me a better writer and book blogger. It challenges me to articulate reason and purpose in the absence of pleasure. Does a book have to be entertaining to be of literary merit? As history proves, it certainly does not, so I ask myself: What's the bigger picture? How does it apply to our society and our understanding of social histories? How does the book contribute to the current literary conversation? I'm not pretending to have the answers, but they are nonetheless challenging questions to answer in regard to Harvest. So while I did not particularly enjoy reading Harvest, it gave me a great deal to ponder, not just regarding the book itself, but also in the arena of modern literature and the state of literary awards.
Aaron, as you have already discussed in your review of Harvest, you believe the tedious pace is necessary to reflect the lifestyle of the characters, but do you think the book would have been more fascinating and embraced by readers if Crace had pursued some of the more "macabre" aspects that Jen mentioned?
Aaron: It's a difficult question to answer because it speaks directly to why a particular person is picking up the book to read in the first place. Someone that is looking for a light beach read most certainly will not enjoy Harvest, but for someone who's looking for a challenging piece of historical fiction with ties to religion and sociopolitical issues Harvest will be one of the most engaging pieces of literature that they'll encounter all year. While enjoyable, characters and surface plot can only really take any story so far, and speaking for myself personally, I love the act of deconstructing a novel, tearing it apart, and examining the underlying glue that holds it together. Plus, that glue smells awesome, does it not? You know what I mean though, I'm always up for the challenge of a more complex read, even if more often then not I'm left feeling like I failed some sort of test by the end of it.
To get back to the heart of your question though, yes Crace could have attracted a more mainstream audience by exploring the witchcraft and the torture, but it would have distracted from his overall message, diluted the themes he was attempting to explore, and turned Harvest into a very different book. I'm not sure it's one that I would have wanted to read, but it probably could have wound up a New York Times best-seller as a result.
Speaking of those themes, Jen, one of the most prevalent throughout the story is clearly society's instinctive reaction to immediately turn to violence when something foreign or abnormal comes along and upsets its everyday routines. Do you think this need to go on the offensive still holds true in today's modern world, and if so, what do you think Crace is trying to tell us by setting the novel so far in the past?
Jen: Aaron, I would agree with your point: "but for someone who's looking for a challenging piece of historical fiction with ties to religion and sociopolitical issues Harvest will be one of the most engaging pieces of literature that they'll encounter all year." I am certainly glad I stuck with it for those reasons. However, I do tend to put a book down if I'm straight-up not enjoying it and would most likely have done so with Harvest had I not been tasked to read it. So, for that, I'm grateful.
Yes, I definitely think the themes are still universal today. Look at what happened after September 11th. Anyone who looked remotely Muslim was anointed a terrorist. Media outlets suggested kicking Arabs out of the U.S. This happens throughout the world constantly, on large and small scales. It's (unfortunately) rather natural for humans to see an outsider as a harbinger of trouble, should there be any disruption to their lives. The economy tanked? Whose fault? THEM. A plague has stricken your village? The newcomers! (But, of course, THAT was frequently the case.) I'm not sure why Crace chose to set it in the past and in the particular setting, but I'd think it might be because if it were set in current times, we could be blind to the themes and simply read it as the way the world is right now; a play-by-play, rather than a commentary. Given its setting, it reads more Literature and therefore the themes seem to be stronger than the plot itself, unlike much (though not all) modern fiction.
Karli: It's interesting to think about how much we have grown to rely on plot as readers. Somewhere along the way, we seem to have decided that a book has less merit if the plot is not fast-paced or unexpected. With Harvest, I think we get back to the basics of literature – Crace shows off his artistry in prose and descriptions rather than storytelling abilities. Harvest may not have the most compelling plot, but it has depth and focus. It's not really about what happens, but rather why certain events unfold the way they do. It's about the psychology of the characters more than anything, which, for readers, means more work – we have to read between the lines and use our skills of analysis and interpretation. It's not as fun, but do you think it's more rewarding in the end?
Aaron: Ultimately, if I'm truthful with myself about it, in this particular situation, probably not, no. It all boils down to how relatable some of the major themes are, and The Enclosure Act of 1773, well, sorry, but that's not exactly at the top of my list of concerns as a modern day human being. Harvest is a semi-interesting puzzle wrapped up in some truly gorgeous writing, it made me question the sustainability of any sort of prolonged form disconnected existence (even one in which a single individual unplugs from a computer), but I'm not willing to make the leap to rewarding because I don't feel like I learned anything through the experience of reading the novel that I wasn't already aware of. For me there was no "a-ha" moment, there was no epiphany or sudden parting of the clouds where I thought that I finally understood something for the first time or could at least appreciate it from a different perspective. There were just lots of ideas I had already considered in one form or another repackaged in a less accessible way. Jen?
Jen: I agree. I didn't find it rewarding either. Yes, now that we are talking about the novel, we can discuss it and pull it apart and we DO find interesting features, themes, writing, but how often do you dissect a book you read? I don't often. My book club is all about food and we rarely even talk about the book! (Sometimes to my chagrin.) I finished up a two year writing class recently and our teacher really tried to bring home plot and certain "typical" tools with fiction. I tended to rebel. I like a good page-turning plot, but I think I gravitate primarily toward language and setting. For me, a plot is useless if it's cliché and formulaic. I also think it sad, like Karli said, that we generally have these expectations of go-go-go in our fiction these days. I actually think The Lowland defied typical plot-driven fiction (a bit), and still ended up with better results than Crace's Harvest. Do I think Harvest could win. I do. Would I be disappointed though? I don't think so. There is value here, even if I wasn't excited by it. Especially considering, I did resent when Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending won. I was bored to tears with that book and really felt I came out of it with nothing.
Karli: As I mentioned in my "why it will win" post, I think Harvest has a very good chance of taking home the prize this year. There's nothing too edgy or flashy about it, but it has certainly succeeded in drawing attention. It seems like every year the Man Booker Judges like to throw a few wildcards into the longlist – last year, though, seemed to have many more wildcards than others. But in the end, the judges always go with something more on the traditionally literary side. It doesn't get much more traditional, proper, capital-L Literature than Harvest this year. You could make a similar argument for The Testament of Mary – and Toibin certainly has Man Booker experience on his side, but in the end, I really think that The Testament of Mary is too short and too controversial. Now keep in mind, I haven't read The Lowland or finished The Luminaries, but at this point, I do think Harvest has the strongest chance of winning.
Aaron and Karli are founding members of the BookerMarks project and Jennifer is the newest addition. This yearly collaboration between 8 bloggers shadows the Man Booker Award and tries to predict the winner. So far, they're 1-for-1.


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Three years ago, Ci looked at how people who meditated differed from those who did not. We found that those who did, were more empathetic than others and far more likely to be agents of social change.
In 2014, this cultural shift toward mindfulness and the search for spiritual over material contentment has really come into its own with people looking to be to be more aware and conscious of their lifestyle habits.
From literal mindfulness – Headspace and Luminosity – to more holistic, trends such as Arianna Huffington's third metric of success, "well-being," we are starting to see people looking to be more aware and redefine this New Variable of conscious consumer choices.
Brands are quickly realizing this top priority care issue and looking to make changes in their products and services. Particularly quick to adapt to this has been the airline industry.
Mindful living is no longer strictly earth bound. In response to nearly a decade of increased anxieties during flights and throughout the flying process, the airline industry sees an opportunity to usher in a new golden age, one that is more mindful of its passengers and of their overall needs of a more conscious, connected lifestyle.
LUVO for DELTA AIRLINES
Luvo helps passengers "Be good to themselves," on board Delta Air Lines which has introduced a new line of healthy menu items from Luvo now available in the economy cabin on Delta's transcontinental flights between New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
The latest idea for a supersonic business jet from Spike Aerospace involves replacing cabin portholes with windowless display screens showing a fake view in order to create a mood of elevated relaxation.
TAKE 10 for VIRGIN ATLANTIC
Headspace Take10 for the air are animated meditation videos available on all Virgin Atlantic flights that aid passengers on how to get some sleep, how to deal with boredom, exercises for kids, stress on arrival, & stress on a plane.
With two leading airlines having already adapted this mentality (Virgin Atlantic & Delta Airlines), other brands are already behind the curve.
Though price still remains the leading differentiator for consumers when choosing flights, anxious passengers are ready to shell out a few extra dollars for a more pleasant flight.


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To view BS Engineering Enrollment and 5 Year Graduate Data please click here
The Civil Engineering Program at Lafayette College is Accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET", www.abet.org. The Civil Engineering Program has been designed to satisfy the established program educational objectives and the program outcomes and to fulfill the mission statements of the College, engineering division, and the program. The mission statements of the College, division, and program are provided below in addition to the established program educational objectives.
To provide an exceptional broad-based undergraduate civil engineering education in a liberal arts environment emphasizing student-faculty interaction, opportunities for hands-on learning, scholarship and service, and an understanding of the professional, societal, ethical, and environmental implications of the engineering practice.
Program educational objectives are intended to be broad statements that describe how the program will satisfy constituency needs in the most general terms possible but having sufficient specificity to establish what the program is not trying to achieve. The program educational objectives were developed for the civil engineering program at Lafayette using each of the eight criteria of the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET. The program educational objectives are student-focused and are intended to provide each student with the necessary skills required to practice civil engineering. The program educational objectives also prescribe the need to maintain sufficient and competent faculty, adequate facilities, and sufficient financial and institutional support. The following Program Educational Objectives satisfy ABET requirements and were developed during the Advisory Board meeting in May 2006.
While we recognize that some of our graduates will, because of their broad education, choose to follow career paths outside of civil engineering, all students that graduate with a Civil Engineering degree will:
And by accomplishing these objectives become effective leaders in engineering.
In fall 2017, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering adopted the ABET student learning outcomes for the civil engineering program:


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Columbus CRE Summit Gathers Together Top Industry Experts
By: Paul Heiserman, Senior Vice President, Healthcare, JLL
I recently had the pleasure of speaking amongst top industry experts at the second annual Columbus Commercial Real Estate Summit hosted by the Midwest Real Estate News. The day's discussions centered around the current state of the apartment industry, the importance of ROI (retail, office and industrial), and healthcare trends.
We heard from some of our top peers during the highly anticipated panel discussion, this year titled, "The Importance of ROI (Retail, Office, Industrial) Healthcare & Investment." We also tuned into an open forum discussion regarding the current state of the industry overall. The Columbus CRE Summit is one day that we can put aside our brand affiliation or titles, and work together to establish a strong, growing market for the future.
Did you miss this year's event? No problem! Check out some of the top industry trends discussed below, and take note, as the healthcare industry is undergoing quite a shift.


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This new year we want to help you scratch off the goals on your bucket list. And first up is skydiving. We know you want to do it and we are here to make it easy for you. Check out these five reasons you should go skydiving in Saskatoon, SK. Once you're convinced, all you have to do is go on and book it. Come on, we dare you.
Anyone (over 18 years old) can do it. All you have to do is visit Skydive Saskatoon and pick a date. They will do the rest for you. The best part is you can do it alone or with a big group of friends so if you can't get anyone to go with you, you can just go by yourself!
Is fear holding you back? Conquer that fear by jumping out of a plane. Seriously. Everything in life just seems to dissipate once you have jumped out of a plane and shown fear who rules your life.
What people forget to mention is how pretty skydiving is. It is hands down the best way to see a new place or to get a new perspective on home. The best part about skydiving in Saskatoon is that you can see the entire city and parts of the South Saskatchewan River from the sky as the plane goes up, and then again while you are free falling from 11,000 feet at 200km/hr!
Yup, it's true. Statistically speaking you put yourself more at risk by driving your car to work than jumping tandem out of a plane. At Skydive Saskatoon the equipment is new and maintained to the highest standards. They have certified parachute riggers on staff who inspect the equipment and ensure it meets these standards while all the instructors hold an expert skydiving license and are certified as tandem masters by the skydiving equipment manufacturer. Talk about the safest people you could possibly jump with!
Want to do something that will make everyone else really jealous? Jump out of a plane and get live video of it to post on your socials. At Skydive Saskatoon the tandem instructors wear a wrist mounted camera that will capture your entire jump from the ground up, and then back down again so you have the entire thing on tape. Because, if it isn't on Snapchat it didn't happen, right?
Where to book:
The easiest way to book your jump is by going to Skydive Saskatoon and picking an available date.
How to get there:
Skydive Saskatoon is located 12km north of Saskatoon, just west of Martensville, Saskatchewan. For Google map directions click here.
What to bring:
Bring an open attitude and wear clothing that is comfortable, and suitable for the weather. Remember it is much colder high up in the sky than it is on the ground. The only requirement is a good pair of running shoes with closed toes.
Like this post? Check out Saskatchewanderer Ashlyn George's Guide To Saskatoon and Best Day Ever: Skateboarding In Saskatoon, too!


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21 August (Part 2) - Councillor Sandra Bauer
the written evidence available prior to John Kerlen's appeal hearing it was
unclear whether councillor Sandra Bauer was the source of councillor Melvin
Seymour's untruthful police statement or whether the responsibility for it was
entirely his. In those circumstances both were tarred with very similar brushes.
Last Friday I said "I've never been sure if councillor Sandra Bauer is a naive innocent in a wicked world or a liar who had maliciously teamed up with councillor Melvin Seymour to silence a council critic" and after listening to her and councillor Melvin Seymour give evidence that "I am going to assume that Sandra Bauer was telling the truth". I think she was. Melvin Seymour certainly wasn't.
It isn't practical and probably not honest to make retrospective changes to blog posts but to set the record straight so far as is possible the following footnote has been added to those blogs which blamed either or both councillors for the untruthful references to dog faeces and letter boxes.
Note 17th August 2012. At an appeal hearing where both Seymour and Bauer were called as witnesses and cross examined it became clear that it was Seymour who had dishonestly exaggerated the content of the Tweet in order to attempt a miscarriage of justice and Bauer had merely sent him a copy and took no part in its embellishment.
Fifteen such footnotes are currently in place and this may go some way to correct any incorrect emphasis on the responsibility for John Kerlen 's malicious prosecution. Ultimately it was the poisonous combination of a dishonest Conservative administration and police always ready to do as their paymasters tell them.
The rotating carousel including Ms. Bauer's image currently appearing on some pages has also been modified.


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Since we're all teammates, we might as well get to know little bit about each other. Just write some things that you do, what you like, just anything about you that you want others to know.
I guess I'll start:
Well, like most of you guys know already, I'm from Vancouver BC, Canada. We like to say eh a lot up here and everyone owns a beaver (it's a Canadian thing) . I've liked computer and got my 1st computer few years ago. (Pentium 75MHz). Upgraded along the way to 166MHz and finally had the chance to build a computer on my own. Now that was an experience. Later worked in a local computer store to gain more experience. Learned about AMD few years ago and have been using AMD ever since. (Can't beat those price I tell ya). Right now I'm majoring in engineering physics. In my free time I love to play sports, hang out with my buddies, travel, camping & hiking, kayaking, and check out this forum.
I hope this catches on! I am looking forward to learn more about my fellow teammates both in Genome and DF.


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First of all, I would like to welcome our students to the Faculty of Law at Al-Falah University in Dubai and to congratulate them on the start of the academic year, wishing them success. I would like to assure them that the College is represented by its academic and administrative staff and as they make their way to the scientific future, which we aspire to be generous in giving and achievements, we are keen to provide them with the legal education that prepares them properly for practicing the profession of law and be able, after graduation, to pursue their graduate studies efficiently.
The College also pays great attention to the development of the professional skills of its students by focusing on the practical application. In addition, the College with its academic and administrative staff works to provide the requirements of the best educational process, and seeks to develop the skills of its students and to inform them with everything new in the world of law and its various applications and use Modern technologies in order to be as they wanted to lead the wise nation, the ones who will contribute with other people of the nation in building the precious nation and advancing it to the ranks of developed countries. Finally, it should be noted that the College and through this website is keen to inform the visitors about every new activity, plans and programs, and prepare them to develop the services of this site continuously to meet their cognitive needs in the hope that visitors find this website in their own eyes, it is our role to introduce our various objectives, and scientific activities.
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Investment Paves Way for Global Growth and Drives Scalability of its Big Data Marketing Intelligence Platform
San Mateo, CA – October 17, 2013 – Mintigo, a leader in marketing intelligence, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series C funding led by Adams Street Partners with participation from existing investors, Sequoia Capital and Giza Venture Capital. Mintigo also announced that David Welsh, partner with Adams Street Partners, will be joining the Board. The company will use the funding to scale its SaaS-based marketing intelligence platform to support increased demand. It will also use the funding to accelerate growth in the U.S. and around the globe. Currently, companies such as Edmunds, BMC, Cloudera, and DocuSign use Mintigo's platform to boost their marketing and sales pipeline.
Mintigo's marketing intelligence platform leverages big data analytics to continuously search large amounts of data on the Web and in social profiles. Marketers harness this data to identify and engage with their best prospects. By understanding the needs and interests of their business prospects, marketers and sales representatives are able to engage each prospect with the right message and the right product.
"Mintigo is unlocking huge value for its customers. By adopting real-time big data analytics solutions such as Mintigo's Platform, users are able to develop more contextual and valuable sales strategies for their prospects," said David Welsh, partner at Adams Street Partners. "I am thrilled to join the Mintigo team at such an exciting and critical time as the company expands business and operations in the U.S. and around the world."
"Companies already invest in customer relationship management and marketing automation software. Mintigo is able to feed those 'empty box' applications with a stream of intelligent data and insights that drives the sales conversations," said Jacob Shama, co-founder and CEO of Mintigo. "This funding reaffirms the strong momentum for our data-driven marketing technology and we are excited to scale our operations and deliver our solutions to an even broader market."
Mintigo collects data and campaign observations in its InterestBase™, which predicts the message most likely to engage any prospect via email, website, social network, or digital ad. The InterestBase now matches over 1,000,000 prospect profiles each week on behalf of Mintigo customers. Mintigo has released its SaaS application for marketing intelligence a year ago and recently released integrations to Marketo and Salesforce, and it enabled access to any application via API. Marketers like Marketo, SmartBear and ReadyTalk have shown 2-4X better engagement.
About Mintigo
The Mintigo marketing intelligence platform continuously searches the big data of the web and social profiles to help marketers find and engage their best prospects. Mintigo analyzes the needs and interests of 30 million B2B prospects, so marketers and sales reps can engage each prospect with the right message and product. Companies like Box, BMC, Cloudera, DocuSign and Edmunds use Mintigo to get more clicks, more shares and more pipeline. To learn more follow @mintigo and visit www.mintigo.com.


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NZDUSD has formed a double top pattern on its 4-hour chart, signaling that a reversal from the previous uptrend might take place. Price just broke below the neckline around the .6800 major psychological level, which confirms that the downtrend is starting.
However, technical indicators are hinting at a possible bounce. Stochastic is already indicating oversold conditions and is starting to turn higher, suggesting that profit-taking could happen and allow a pullback to the broken neckline. Similarly, RSi is in the oversold area so sellers might need to take a break.
In addition, the 100 SMA is still above the longer-term 200 SMA so the path of least resistance is to the upside. The gap between the moving averages is narrowing, though, so a downward crossover might be possible.
Remarks from New Zealand Finance Minister Bill English suggested that the RBNZ might pursue a rate cut in their June statement. He acknowledged the rise in Auckland house prices, hinting that the central bank might make some adjustments in their loan-to-value ratio controls or other macro-prudential measures to curb housing inflation.
This mirrors a similar scenario last year during which the central bank put housing market measures in place first before announcing a rate cut soon after. With that, traders are awaiting the Financial Stability Report from the RBNZ to see if actual tools will be employed.
Another event risk for this setup is the quarterly retail sales report due on Thursday. Headline retail sales could post a 1.0% gain, slower than the earlier 1.2% increase, while core retail sales could post a 1.1% increase. As for the dollar, retail sales and PPI releases on Friday could add to volatility.
By Kate Curtis from Trader's Way