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Apple Inc's newest iPad looked like another hot seller on Friday as hundreds lined up at stores around the world to get their hands on the tablet, though the crowds and waiting times in some cities were less than in previous years
LONDON/NEW YORK: Apple Inc's newest iPad looked like another hot seller on Friday as hundreds lined up at stores around the world to get their hands on the tablet, though the crowds and waiting times in some cities were less than in previous years.
The third-generation iPad has only a few new features including faster wireless connectivity and a crisper display, but analysts nonetheless expect Apple to dominate the tablet market well into next year.
"I just got hyped into it, I guess," said David Tarasenko, a 34-year-old construction manager who was the first to pick one up from a Telstra wireless store at midnight in Sydney.
The buzz helped propel Apple shares to touch a record high of $600 on the Nasdaq on Thursday, though they later erased gains and were trading at around $585 on Friday afternoon.
In New York, the queues were nothing compared with previous years. "I came by at midnight and nobody was here," said Peter Brown, 51, who owns a marketing and communications company in London and was waiting in line at Apple's flagship New York City store on Fifth Avenue.
The new iPad – Apple has refrained from calling it iPad 3 – has faster chips, fourth-generation wireless, a sharper display and a better camera, making it harder for competitors like Samsung's Galaxy, which also lack Apple's range of apps and content, to catch up.
On price, too, Apple's rivals will struggle to beat it. The new iPad starts at $499 in the United States, 479 euros ($630) in Germany and 42,800 yen ($510) in Japan. Only Amazon Inc's far more basic Kindle Fire is significantly cheaper.
Apple will continue to sell the iPad 2 but has dropped its price by $100 to start at $399. Some analysts expect sales of the new iPad to overtake the old. So far, the company has sold 55 million tablets since the first iPad was launched in 2010.
Even in a tough economic climate in some parts of the world, many buyers, like 27-year-old Steve Henry in Paris, said they would scrimp elsewhere if necessary.
"I save money on my other purchases for high-tech shopping," said Henry, a systems engineer at a railway company who was hoping to buy his first iPad mainly to watch films and read during his more than two hours of travel per day.
Some U.S. retailers offered special deals. At Target, customers who traded in their working iPad 2 could receive up to $350 in store credit, a spokeswoman said.
Tablet sales are expected to increase to 326 million by 2015 with Apple largely dominating the market, according to research firm Gartner. By then tablets could rival sales of desktop computers, which Gartner expects to total 368 million units this year.
The enduring popularity of Apple products, and stock, have provided Chief Executive Tim Cook, who took over after the death of Steve Jobs last year, with a good start. The stock has jumped 45 percent this year to a market value of about $550 billion.
Canaccord Genuity analysts raised their target price on Apple stock to $710 from $665. Dickie Chang, an analyst with technology research firm IDC, said Cook will need to do more in future to keep up the company's astonishing momentum.
"The iPad is already a pretty mature product and it's hard to revolutionize it any further," he said. "I think he may have to come up with another product to mark his stamp. That could come in the form of launching a smaller iPad with a longer battery life, for instance."
UBS raised its target price to $675 from $550, and said the expected launch of the redesigned iPhone 5 in October was the big catalyst ahead.
Apple's top manufacturer is Foxconn Technology Group, whose factories in China are under scrutiny over labor practices. Small groups of labor activists tried to draw attention to the issue at stores in New York and San Francisco, where Apple employees handed out umbrellas to customers waiting in the rain.
Charlotte Hill, a representative of change.org, called for better worker protection. "We are hoping Apple's workers and people higher up in the corporate chain will hear us," she said in San Francisco, where about 200 to 300 people had lined up prior to the opening of the downtown store.
Amanda Bell, a law student and part of a group of protesters in New York, said: "There is a cognitive dissonance for most people between loving the product and hating the way it's made."
The new iPad went on sale on Friday in 10 regions including Britain, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Switzerland. Most of the countries outside the United States do not yet have the faster, fourth-generation telecoms networks that the new iPad supports, but that did not stop Apple's fans.
"I've come from Russia to buy an iPad for my three-year-old son David," Oleg Konovalov, a newspaper salesman, told Reuters in Tokyo. "Everyone in Russia wants an iPad, but to buy it there I will have to wait several months."
"This reminds me of the time 30 years ago when I waited 8 hours in the cold to see Lenin's Mausoleum."
In London, 21-year-old Piotr, who works at noodle bar Wagamama, said: "It's not for me, it's to sell. I will bring them to Russia to sell them."
In the Chinese city of Shenzhen, people keen to get their hands on the new iPad waited for them to be smuggled across the border from Hong Kong.
"We don't have iPad3s yet, but some will arrive later in the day when the students deliver them to us. We'll have more supplies over this weekend," said a store operator in Shenzhen.
"Customs has become stricter, but if you take one at a time across the border, that's still pretty safe. At most they'll ask you to take it out of the box to prove that it's for self use."
Online reviews of the new iPad overwhelmingly praised Apple for its improved screen resolution. "My epiphany came when I placed my iPad 2 next to the new model, with the same text on the screen. Letters and words that had seemed sharp on the older model five minutes earlier suddenly looked fuzzier," said one reviewer.
Shintaro Aizawa, 16, who waited 15 hours outside a Tokyo store, said: "After this, well, I'll first of all open it up and check it's as beautiful as I thought. Then I'll get some sleep."
As consumers lined up around city streets to buy the iPad, one firm that took the new device apart said Qualcomm Inc, Broadcom Corp and Samsung Electronics had all held on to their prized roles as key parts suppliers.
The inner workings of the iPad are similar to previous models, based on a "teardown" by a tinkerer from California gadget-repair firm iFixit, who queued up in Australia to get one of the new tablets and quickly took it apart for a Web blog.
IFixit said the iPad's display appears to be from Samsung, Apple's closest rival in the tablet market. It includes a Qualcomm LTE cellphone chip and a Qualcomm wireless modem for 3G and 4G. Broadcom supplies a semiconductor handling wireless tasks like WiFi and Bluetooth, according to iFixit.
Other technology partners include ARM Holdings Plc, Toshiba Corp, Elpida Memory Inc, Avago Technologies Ltd, Triquint Semiconductor Inc and Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc.
Analysts said Cupertino, California-based Apple sometimes uses more than one supplier for a part, so what is found in one iPad may not be present in others. Still, teardowns are a key source of information for investors and the appearance of unexpected chips can move stocks.
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Thomas Sawyer is already quite familiar with TSA patdowns, seeing as they already spilled urine on him last November. Once should be enough, right? Nope. The exact same thing happened again. What? For old time's sake?
Sawyer was travelling from Detroit Metro Airport to Orlando on July 14 when he had to relive this nightmare. The same trip. The same roughness. The same ruptured urostomy bag. The same humiliation:
"I thought that I had really made a difference for people flying with urostomies, I really did," the 62-year-old told the Free Press on Friday. "I'm angry this time. They can't be training them properly."
And this is especially galling because the TSA apologised for the first incident. Their head administrator, John Pistole, even issued an official apology, stating that an investigation would soon be underway. So what happened? The investigation ended and they said, "Welp! Let's get back to feeling up the elderly!" How do you not learn from something like this? [Detroit Free Press via AOL Travel]

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"Steve isn't just discovering new ways to help animals in captivity; he's discovering new animals in the wild, too. One of Steve's most famous finds happened way back in the early eighties. He was surveying a river of crocodiles with his dad when he saw an unusual flash of white in the water. With Steve's usual enthusiasm, and total disregard for unspotted crocodiles, he jumped straight in the river to check it out. Although it managed to elude him, Steve identified this creature, with its white head and pink nose, as a strange turtle, the likes of which he'd never seen before. Steve couldn't have been more right. Some years after his first encounter, he brought one of these strange turtles in for identification. Not only was Steve's discovery exciting for the world of herpetology, he also had the honor of having a newfound species of turtle named after him: Irwin's Turtle, Elseya irwini."
Terri Irwin. Excerpt from the Crocodile Hunter book.
Only found in one river, Irwin's Turtle is one of Australia's least understood turtle species. We believe this species could easily become extinct. We continue to carry out field research, and our future aim is to breed this species; this may be the key to its long-term survival.
"I am so proud to have the most beautiful Australian turtle species named after me. Thanks John."
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Vitamins have, for many, become a part of everyday health care — the "ounce of prevention" thought to thwart disease and give us a leg up on feeling good.
When it comes to eye health, a certain vitamin regiment designed to reduce the risk of severe vision loss has gained notice. This blend of vitamins A, C and E, beta-carotene, zinc and copper is thought to contain antioxidants necessary for good eye health. The question, however, is whether this concoction can prevent or arrest serious eye diseases such as macular degeneration.
The prevalence of age-related macular degeneration in people over age 65 in the United States is expected to rise to 6.3 million by 2030. Dry macular degeneration symptoms usually develop gradually. If you notice any or all of these vision changes, see an ophthalmologist immediately:
The need for brighter light when reading or doing close work.
Increasing difficulty adapting to low light levels, such as when entering a dimly lit restaurant.
Increasing blurriness of printed words.
A decrease in the intensity or brightness of colors.
Difficulty recognizing faces.
A gradual increase in the haziness of your central or overall vision.
Crooked central vision.
A blurred or blind spot in the center of your field of vision.
Hallucinations of geometric shapes or people, in case of advanced macular degeneration.
Dry macular degeneration may affect one or both eyes. If only one eye is affected, you may not notice any changes in your vision because your good eye may compensate for the weak eye.
Sources: National Eye Institute at areds2.org; National Institutes of Health at AMD Foundation at macular.org/disease.html.
The answers range from maybe to a cautious yes, with restrictions.
But first, exactly what is macular degeneration?
A chronic eye disease of the aging eye that causes vision loss in the center of your field of vision, macular degeneration has two types — dry (85-90 percent of all cases) and wet. Dry macular degeneration is the deterioration of the macula, located in the center of the eye in the layer of tissue on the inside back wall of your eyeball. The disease causes blurred central vision or a blind spot in the central vision, which is necessary for reading, driving and recognizing faces, among other tasks.
In wet macular degeneration, blood vessels grow under the retina in the back of the eye, causing leaking blood and fluid, affecting sight.
The National Eye Institute addressed the issue of the macular degeneration-antioxidant effect in its Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS). About 3,600 participants with varying degrees of advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) were given high doses of antioxidants and zinc — 500 milligrams of vitamin C, 400 international units of vitamin E, 15 milligrams of beta-carotene (often labeled as the equivalent of 25,000 International Units of vitamin A), 80 milligrams of zinc as zinc oxide and 2 milligrams of copper as cupric oxide.
The copper was added to the formula to prevent anticipated copper-deficiency anemia caused by taking high levels of zinc. The formulation was taken with meals in two equally divided doses, one in the morning and one in the evening.
Based on the 10-year clinical trial, the National Eye Institute research found that patients taking high doses of antioxidants and zinc could reduce their risk of developing advanced AMD and severe vision loss by 19 percent. The formulation was most beneficial for people who had intermediate AMD in one or both eyes and advanced AMD (dry or wet) in one eye, but not the other.
There was no apparent benefit, however, in study participants who had no AMD or early AMD.
Dr. John Kirk, ophthalmologist at Loveland's Kirk Eye Center, agrees that while the nutrient regiment won't help prevent the disease, it can help those already diagnosed. "They can definitely help prevent you from getting worse, if you have a significant amount of the disease," he says.
Kirk notes that a second study, AREDS2, has been ongoing since 2007 and the results should be released next year. This second study has added high supplemental doses of lutein and zeaxanthin, as well as omega-3 (DHA and EPA). The omega-3 fatty acids have inflammatory properties, he says, while lutein and zeaxanthin are important cartinoids. (Note: Some pharmaceutical companies already include omega-3s, lutein and zeaxanthin in their eye care supplements, ahead of the AREDS2 study results.)
"These are plant-derived supplements," Kirk says. "But, you can't get enough of them through diet alone. There are some things you just can't duplicate in a pill. Look at spinach, for instance. It's got five different compounds that are good for you, but can't be put in pill form."
Age-related macular degeneration is a silent disease that people may not be aware of until they have it. "It's like high blood pressure; you may not know you have it until you've had a stroke," Kirk says. "That's the wisdom in having routine check-ups with an ophthalmologist. Your primary care physician isn't going to be comfortable diagnosing eye disease with only a cursory look at your eyes. It's especially important after age 40 to have an ophthalmologist check for macular degeneration, glaucoma and other diseases."
Kirk also recommends knowing the risks of AMD, which increase after age 50 and are most common in people over 65. Likelihood increases if you're Caucasian or have a family history of the disease. Smoking, obesity, an unhealthy diet lacking in fruits and vegetables, cardiovascular disease and elevated cholesterol are also risks.
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An alternate ending to Pepsi's popular commercial featuring boy band One Direction and New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees will debut Thursday night during The X Factor broadcast. This time, the guys will be decked in football gear, as seen in the above teaser photos Pepsi shared with Mashable.
The original ad came out Oct. 10 and sparked heavy buzz on social media before, during and after its premiere.
Thursday's follow-up will air after One Direction's performance on The X Factor, the U.S. spin-off of the UK show on which the guys were discovered. The spot drove 70% of Pepsi's social TV commentary during launch week and helped Pepsi become the most-discussed brand on Twitter for two weeks, according to Bluefin data. Update: Here's the ad, which premiered Thursday night:
We asked two PepsiCo Beverages executives about the brand's digital strategy for the commercials:
How did you prepare for the original ads debut and how did people immediately respond?
"The social media plan for the original commercial included seeding it with the One Direction fans first, so we put out a teaser video across the Pepsi social networks and messaged 1D fan accounts on Twitter with the link. We used Promoted Tweets to target keywords that #Directioners use to seed the teaser as well. On the day of the broadcast premiere we posted the entire commercial on YouTube and gave the link out to One Direction fans, again via Twitter messages. By the time the spot aired during The X Factor broadcast it had generated more than 300,000 views. When it aired the social mentions increased again, with Pepsi and 1DPepsi trending worldwide on Twitter." ~ Andrea Harrison, director digital engagement
Pepsi is good at leveraging top-charting musicians, but why rope in Drew Brees, too?
"Pepsi has a long legacy of driving fan engagement through exciting partnerships in the world of music and sports. Our relationship with the NFL spans more than 20 years and we have been activating with MLB, NASCAR and other professional sports and top athletes for years. At the same time, our history in music includes work with the biggest stars in pop music. We know our fans are passionate about their favorite athletes and artists — we wanted to have some fun by bringing those two worlds together. We have a long-standing relationship with Drew Brees dating back to working together on the Pepsi Refresh Project and his great charitable work in New Orleans, so we immediately thought of him for this spot. It may seem like an unexpected pairing, but Drew Brees turned out to be the perfect foil for the guys in One Direction. We all had a lot of fun filming the spot and we were able to capture a lot of fun content to share with fans digitally. The Making of 1DB mockumentary was something that we developed on-set based on the great chemistry and improvisations that were happening as we filmed the ad." ~ Eric Whitehouse, director of marketing
Was it always the plan to release an alternate ending or did the original's success spark this?
"We always knew we would have two different versions of the ad, but we were not certain about how we would use them until we saw the fan reaction to the original spot. We had sports fans and music fans sparking conversation about every detail of the original spot –- we thought it would be great to surprise them with a second version of it. What we didn't know is how much great content we would get to complement the TV spot. The outtakes and mockumentary pieces all grew out of the great chemistry between Drew and the band." ~ Whitehouse
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Mr. Hewes and Pvt. Kilroy
Yesterday I quoted a story from George R. T. Hewes that was published in Traits of the Tea Party in 1835.
It described how he saw a British soldier he called "Kelroy" mug a woman on Queen Street in Boston and steal some clothing from her. Hewes said he followed the soldier, got the clothes back by threatening to expose his crime, and then returned those goods to the woman.
I tried various ways to test Hewes's story:
- Was the action he described reasonable? Hewes said he followed the soldier from Queen Street (now Court Street) to the Common, south along Tremont, then east across town to Wheeler's Point near Fort Hill. That's a plausible route, especially for someone who wanted to avoid crowds on the main streets.
- Was there a "barracks on Wheeler's Point," also known as Windmill Point? The 29th Regiment was housed in several buildings around Boston in 1768-70, including some in the South End. But I haven't found a specific reference to a barracks in that neighborhood.
- Was there "a notice of the assault in the papers," as Hewes recalled? I couldn't find one, though I may not have searched for the right terms. The Boston Whigs described army misbehavior through late 1769 in a series of dispatches to newspapers in other towns called "The Journal of the Times." Boston newspapers published those reports weeks after the events they described, and that timing doesn't fit Hewes's story.
- Did a "Capt. Cobb" live in West Boston? I've found references to a sea captain named Cobb going in and out of Boston harbor, but I haven't found him as a homeowner. It's not clear from the story whether the woman was a relative, boarder, or house servant; either way, her presence was probably not recorded.
Hewes's story gains a clear moral only in its second act. On the evening of 5 Mar 1770, he was in the crowd around sentry Pvt. Hugh White at the Customs house. Cpl. William Wemys led out a squad of grenadiers as reinforcements. According to Hewes:
His old acquaintance, Kelroy,…was one of the guard. "Get out of the way!— get out of the way!"—he cried, as he pushed roughly by, and dealt his old friend Hewes a pretty severe recognition with his gun, in the shoulder, as he left him.The violence escalated until the soldiers shot into the crowd, the event dubbed the Boston Massacre. Hewes and other witnesses claimed to see Pvt. Mathew Kilroy "running his bayonet into the brains of one of the dead or wounded"—most likely ropemaker Samuel Gray. In the morning, people saw dried blood on Kilroy's bayonet. Other witnesses said that both Kilroy and Gray had both been part of the ropewalk brawl three days before.
That accumulation of evidence led jurors to conclude that Kilroy was more guilty than most of his fellow soldiers. He was one of the two men convicted of manslaughter, potentially a capital crime. And the lesson of the story Hewes told in 1835, if we can believe it, is that Kilroy had been a bad 'un all along.
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Monday, October 24, 2011
5 Easy Ways to Increase Your Productivity
I recently wrote an article on my science blog, Inside Our Lab, that talked about being productive. And you know what? I thought you might be interested, too. It was originally written for science-types - who do a lot of writing and typically don't give themselves enough time to just think. But you can translate these words into whatever applies to your own job or blog or whatever. Here you go.
Life is short, and there's no need to waste it on junk mail, or by staring at blank computer screens, or by accompanying office mates to coffee not once but three times daily. Here are some tips for making your work more productive.
|No matter how tough the terrain ... you can do it.
1. Don't start your day with email.
This isn't intutitive, because who doesn't want to clear their inbox first thing in the morning? But email is a massive time-waster, and you want to start off your day feeling good about yourself and your work. Plus, most people write best in the morning - why waste that precious, focused time?
Instead of email, write something. Read something. Do something. And then a couple hours later - when you're ready for email - you'll have already ticked things off your list.
2. Give yourself goals.
Start with the long-term. Where do you want to be, in 5 or 10 years? What do you need to do to get there? Relevance is the key to performance - so if you can draw a link between what you're doing now and where you want to go, you'll likely be more motivated and focused on your work.
Use your long-term goals to make shorter-term ones - what will you do this week or this year to make your long-term goals more achievable? Make a list and start working.
3. Find balance.
Working hard is great, but you need to give yourself work-free time, too. Exercise. Read novels. Have entire weekends where you don't even think about opening your laptop.
Everybody has days where work just doesn't happen. The words don't come out onto the screen or the journal article glazes in front of you. Sometimes - on those days - the best thing you can do is just let it go. Shut off your computer and take yourself for a walk outside. Do something completely different and try to focus your brain on other things. Any other things.
(Pretending you're having a hazy day - just to give yourself the day off doesn't count).
And if you must sit at that desk and do something? Just do something different for awhile, and see if that helps.
4. Talk to people.
Have you ever found yourself working in a bubble? Me, too. Particularly in the academic world, it's hard not to. You want others to be impressed with your work - your genius ideas - so you toil away in isolation waiting to (surprise!!) impress everyone with the final product.
It may not be easy, but one of the best things you can do to increase your productivity is to talk about what you're doing. Talk through your ideas, your problems, your excitement. Seeing your own ideas or writing or whatever from a new perspective is invaluable, whether it's with your workmates or your supervisor.
5. Turn off the internet.
When you really, really need to write or think - turn off your access to your email, to the web. (I turn off my wifi). BUT - you say - I need the internet for my research! How will I find references to back up what I'm saying?
The point is - you don't need those right now. What you need is to put words to paper (so to speak). You can do the other bits and pieces later, when you aren't feeling (or needing to be) so focused. Do not tempt yourself with casual looks at Facebook. Do not shoot off quick emails to colleagues. Do not order that book from Amazon - even if it's work-related. Just write.
So these are a few tips I've learned about increasing my productivity. Some of these ideas originated with Rachel Meeks, who writes a fabulous blog about simplifying life. Some came from a book on time management I've read recently.
Mostly, they've developed from years and years of effective time-wasting in the process of my academic life. And you know what? There's not enough time for that. I want to have a life ... and that means my work needs to be more productive.
What do you do to increase your productivity?
Amanda xx
11 comments:
- Jennifer @ Raisin Questions said... [Reply to comment]
Mmm... these are good tips. I can relate! The overarching problem that really cuts down my productivity is feeling overwhelmed. I tend to look at too big of a big picture, make long lists of things to do, set lofty goals that I want to achieve all by myself. All your tips I think speak to that -- one thing at a time, focus, don't try to do it all yourself! Thanks for the reminders!
- October 25, 2011 at 3:40 PM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
Jennifer - that's a great one! I feel that way about cleaning, actually - when the house is a *disaster* ... I start in one corner and work from there!
- October 25, 2011 at 6:54 PM
- sherilyn @ Wholepromise said... [Reply to comment]
Can totally relate to the cleaning approach and also with Jennifer. It's tips like these i need. Somedays it all just seems to much but I am sure if i turned off my internet i would be far more productive without a doubt. Not checking emails in the morning is my first goal. It side tracks me from all the things i should be doing.
- October 26, 2011 at 12:07 AM
- Anh said... [Reply to comment]
that 5th tip! I HAVE TO learn :)
- October 27, 2011 at 2:10 AM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
@Anh What a better excuse then hiring a cabin in the mountains (or beach, or wherever) that's so thoroughly, enjoyably rustic there's not a hope of wireless signal.
Just hot chocolates and log fires and lots of books. And pen to paper.
- October 27, 2011 at 6:55 AM
- Lori said... [Reply to comment]
This is a great nudge. Thanks, Amanda. I'm new here -- found you through Rachel Meeks' great blog.
A think that works well for me is to imagine myself five years from now, looking BACK to what my daily life up to that moment has been. Then, I just have to include those activities day by day until then. Easy-peasy, right? :)
- October 27, 2011 at 8:28 AM
- Lori said... [Reply to comment]
Well, I meant to say, "A THING that works well for me...," but "a think" actually fits pretty well.
- October 27, 2011 at 8:31 AM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks Lori - I remember someone once said something similar to me ... I was trying to make a decision and she asked me "in 5 years' time, will you be more likely to regret going or not going?"
So I went.
- October 27, 2011 at 9:42 PM
- Candace Karu said... [Reply to comment]
Very good advice. Now if only I could put it into action! I'll try.
- November 1, 2011 at 7:27 AM
- Nancy/SpicieFoodie said... [Reply to comment]
These is a great list of tips. Thanks for sharing this. Definitely will try to start my day off tomorrow in this way and see how it goes.
- November 8, 2011 at 5:07 PM
- tori said... [Reply to comment]
I could not have read this at a better time. Thank you! (but also, sadly, if I wasn't procrastinating, I would never have found your beautiful, beautiful blog). Ok. Kick in the bum. Back to work.
- November 18, 2011 at 12:59 PM


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Chris Paul's late heroics save Clippers vs. Grizzlies
- Chris Paul%27s shot with .1 seconds left gave the Clippers a 93-91 win over the Grizzlies
- Blake Griffin had 21 points for the Clippers%2C who took a 2-0 series lead
- Game 3 is in Memphis on Thursday night
LOS ANGELES – In Game 2, the Memphis Grizzlies found a way to significantly narrow that embarrassing Game 1 rebounding gap against the Los Angeles Clippers.
As a result, they found a way to stay close to the Clippers.
But they still haven't found a way to beat the Clippers.
Clippers point guard Chris Paul saw to that, banking in a game-winning shot off a drive with 0.1 seconds left for another chapter in his book of heroics.
BOX SCORE:Clippers 93, Grizzlies 91
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Paul ended up going one-on-one – and beating – Memphis guard Tony Allen, considered one of the league's best on-ball defenders.
"He played as good defense as he could," Paul said. "I looked up at the clock and said, 'I better get a shot off.' I just tried to attack and I got a shot."
Los Angeles, seemingly in control the entire game until finding themselves in a nail biter at the end, moved to a 2-0 advantage in a first-round Western Conference playoff series with a 93-91 victory Monday night.
The series now shifts to Memphis, with Game 3 Thursday night.
VIDEO: Chris Paul hits game-winner
This was a rugged, tense seven-game first-round series last year, with the Clippers winning Game 7 in Memphis after failing to close out the series at Staples in Game 6.
A year later, the Clippers, so far, are again the better team.
Paul, as he is wont to do, began to exert his will on the game in the second half and eventually claimed it as his own, finishing with 24 points and nine assists.
He scored the Clippers' final eight points.
"Star players, that's what they do," Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro said. "Star players step up at the biggest moments. Chris has done it his whole career. I have incredible confidence in him at the end of games. At the biggest moments, that's usually when he's at his best. That's a gift."
Clippers forward Blake Griffin scored 21 points, winning his battle with Memphis' Zach Randolph, who had 13, and the Clippers' bench was again productive and inspiring. It was a blocked shot by sub Lamar Odom that led to a dunk by sub Eric Bledsoe that gave the Clippers their first 10-point lead early in the fourth quarter. It was one of 10 Clippers blocks in the game – a franchise record.
Clippers reserve guard Jamal Crawford reminded everyone why he won a Sixth Man of the Year Award three years ago and was second to New York's J.R. Smith when this year's award was announced Monday. He made his first six shots and finished with 15 points.
The Clippers' bench outscored the Grizzlies' bench 30-11.
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Memphis point guard Mike Conley tried valiantly to get the Grizzlies going, finishing with 28 points and nine assists.
He led a comeback from 12 points down early in the fourth quarter, slicing to the rim for layups around the Clippers' interior defense.
Then, on a fast break, Darrell Arthur's three-point play with 1:37 tied the game at 89.
But Paul hit a jumper to retake the lead.
After both teams failed to score, Memphis had the ball down 91-89 with 21 seconds left. After dribbling to the right side, Conley found Grizzlies center Marc Gasol wide open in front of the basket for a dunk and a 91-91 tie with 13.9 seconds left.
But Paul would score last.
"This game was tough," Conley said. "I thought we played as well as we could. They just made the plays at the end to beat us. To go home to Memphis 0-2 against a team like this is tough."
Griffin and Randolph had played to a virtual standstill in Game 1, with neither being that effective offensively and both getting into foul trouble.
"It's hard to ref that matchup," Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro said. "Blake is incredibly athletic and Zach is very good with his hand-to-hand combat. It's a challenge every night."
Griffin seized the upper hand early in Game 2, scoring 13 points and grabbing five rebounds in the first 12 minutes.
"It was just being aggressive," he said. "I felt I passed up some shots in Game 1. And my teammates did a great job of spacing the floor and getting me open shots."
The Clippers had killed the Grizzlies on the boards in Game 1 Saturday, winning the rebounding battle by an astounding 47-23 margin.
The rebounding distribution in that game was so strange that Odom, in just 18 minutes, had more rebounds (seven) than Gasol and Randolph combined (four for Randolph, two for Gasol).
This didn't compute for the Grizzlies, who rank third in the league in rebounding differential (plus-3.6), three spots ahead of the Clippers (plus-2.5).
Considering that 14 of the Clips' rebounds came on the offensive end and they outscored the Grizzlies 25-5 in the paint, that by itself put the Clips in control of a game that turned into a rout in the fourth quarter, the Clippers eventually winning 112-91.
The rebounding totals were much closer Monday night (40-38 Clippers), and so was the game. But it all added up to another W for the Clippers.
And another highlight for the CP3 collection.
Everybody saw it the same way.
Clippers Guard Chauncey Billups: "A great player made a great play."
Conley: "We put our best defender on him. He just made a tough shot. That's what great players do."
Griffin: "He's one of the best closers in the game. He does it night in and night out."
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TLDR: The scope of impact in Africa for work is great and an inspiration for the work ahead in 2015. Similar problems exist in various African countries and similar opportunities and the incredible chance to participate in a bolder stake on the future of the continent. Local communities have a key role in shaping strategy and can teach us a lot about what works where. With Ushahidi's interlocking role of creating software tools for empowerment with its innovation catalyst role, the sandbox for its impact can be expanded.
This is a picture of a market in Tanzania. To the right of this picture is a parking lot with cabs and trucks and as I was waiting for my colleague Mark to register SIM cards, I could hear lectures by Julius Nyerere blaring from a Volkswagen van. In addition, the cab driver was listening parliament proceedings. Coming from Kenya where engagement with government is not as robust as this, it was quite encouraging. (Later found out that there was a major scandal and many were following because of that, but still, the level of citizen engagement in Tanzania is inspiring). The potential to add technology to this engagement equation was inescapable and something we'll be keen to explore with partners currently working there. The big take away was that because of this variability in citizen engagement, the strategies for implementation and adoption of technology (including Ushahidi's tools) will need to be adjusted to keep this in mind. What is needed is more connection with the key local organizations and learning how best to serve them.
This is a picture of Co-founder of Bongohive Lukonga Lindunda speaking with entrepreneurs outside Bongohive space. Lukonga, his co-founders and team have been in touch with us at Ushahidi for several years now. It was an immense honor to meet them in their beautiful new space adorned with African art and filled with entrepreneurs,volunteers who I recognized from working together on Bantuwatch in 2011 (an implementation of Ushahidi to track the elections in Zambia) and women like Chisenga who've been part and parcel of growing Bongohive. This was the location of greatest connection and an important lesson that community is always important, and that with the expansiveness of the continent, it is important to keep connecting with the key drivers in each country who are building ecosystems of opportunity. Communities like iHub and Bongohive are important for building stable and equitable societies and key users of Ushahidi tools.
It is a long game/long road… but when you meet a startup/social enterprise that is less than 2 years and already creating jobs, it just adds more reason to Ushahidi's role as a catalyst, assisting and supporting (without supplanting) wherever possible. To foster environments that protect and reinforce fundamental human rights, it is going to take engagement on many levels, with various initiatives and partners. In building on the discussions with board of Ushahidi, partners who spent time with Ushahidi in Nairobi this last quarter, it is exciting to envision scaling our work, moreso with communities in Lusaka, Zambia, Johannessburg, South Africa, Harare Zimbabwe, and Maputo in Mozambique. We have the pieces in place with the software development group, the solutions team and Gearbox, iHub, Making All Voices Count partnership on the catalyst end. One of Ushahidi's spin outs – BRCK continues to provide the hardware that will be useful to expand our work to the edge of the network. That is where even more impact can happen.
Looking forward to the new year with current and new partners engaged in creating more opportunity.


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The Church Report on the Most Influential Churches
So let me ask you two questions:
1. Which church do you think IS the most influential in the U.S.?
2. Which church do you think SHOULD BE the most influential in the U.S.?
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I wouldn't likely know anything about the most influential churches currently in the US and I'm guessing you wouldn't know the ones that I'd pick for the ones that ought to be. Except for maybe Church of our Saviour, in DC (Jim Wallis' church, who is conspicuously absent from the list mentioned above).
I'd probably vote for a church like the Riverside Church in NYC (probably not, though) or Peace Community Church in Oberlin, OH or the Community of the Third Way in Minnesota.
Oh, I know! Ched Myers' church in California: Bartimaus Cooperative Ministries! Their message/ministry is one that ought to be more influential.
Interesting question...
Dan, I know you participated in the last discussion we had about The Church Report's influential list and looking back at it, Brian noted that some of the people on the Influential Christians list had written for the magazine. And that is likely why some of them were voted as most influential. I imagine a similar thing occurred here, so that is probably why you didn't see Wallis' church (or any of the others you mentioned on there). It's not likely they wrote for The Church Report or their churches were featured or mentioned in the magazine.
Of course, when the CEO of The Church Report stopped by he told us that those we thought should have been more influential just must not have done a very good job of getting their message out - whatever that meant.
It would have been lovely to see the following on the list:
Christ Fellowship of Kansas City
Capitol Hill Baptist
On another note, I'm kind of saddened that only one church from the Pacific Northwest made the list. (Not necessarily because there are others that should have made the list, but because apparently most churches in the PacNW suck.) I'd go so far as to add Riverside Baptist in Denver (planting half the new starts in Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Colorado, and oh yeah, helping one church in New Orleans).
I did notice there weren't many black churches on the list. I'd probably add Fred Luter, especially post-Katrina. The man is incredible.
I like Rob Bell at MHBC in Michigan, but I know that's almost heresy on this blog. So... I'll say that I figured Piper would be much higher.
And I don't know who this lady at Without Walls Church is, but I thought the other pastor in town... at that other church... that I can't remember the name of... should have been on there (how do you know he wasn't, joe? because i'd remember it if i saw it.).
That'll do.
What a surprise to see Craig Groeshel's name @ #7 as pastor of Life Church. He filled in at Metro for a couple of summers back when Andy Savage was still there. I'd never imagined that I'd see his name on such a list. And, it seems odd that a church could go from unlisted to 7th in just a year.
Seeing two churches shepherded by second generation famous pastors like North Point Community Church and Fellowship Church (especially so high) intrigued me as well.
I was also surprised that Bellevue didn't make the list.
Considering I'm not really up on the national "church scene" and my religious reading list for the last couple of years has consisted chiefly of books over fifteen years old (most of the newer ones I used to read were bitterly disappointing) I consider myself mostly unqualified to comment except on theoretical grounds. I guess it does make for an interesting discussion, though. So, I guess I'll take a stab at some comments.
1. I have no idea which church is the most influential in the U.S. How would a mere mortal begin to quantify such a thing? I suppose it would be interesting to try an come up with the criteria for such a determination.
2. That goes back to the criteria as well. One could say that the church with the most active members or the richest members should be the most influential because they have the most resources. See where I'm coming from? But, I might argue that the most effective churches will never be the "most influential" because their attention and resources are going to missions and not building influence. On the other hand, perhaps it behooves an effective church to try to develop leadership.
Intuitively, churches from strong denominations—I'm using the word in it's loosest sense--would have an advantage because the denomination would provide a framework for a church to build it's influence. If the report has any real meaning or validity, perhaps it shows that affiliation actually impedes an individual church's influence (or at least perception thereof).
Tracy, I did notice Craig Groeshel on the list, but I have been hearing about his church a lot lately, but #7 was pretty high. It may have to do with him being a featured writer for The Church Report or having his book featured by the magazine.
Since the list is compiled from votes by the readers of the magazine, it seems likely that there is no set criteria. I don't even think the magazine gives any direction to its readers as to how to evaluate the influence of a church. So, it's probably more of a reflection of which churches the magazine's readership are influenced by than anything else.
And Joe, I don't know what church you are talking about (Coral Ridge Presybterian, maybe?), but Paula White doesn't need to be influencing anyone, except maybe her hairstylist. If you have ever seen her on TBN, you will know what I mean. Whoa.
idlewild with ken whitten, but i realized it wasn't the one i was thinking of- i was mixing two different churches. the other one meets in a hotel or turned the hotel into a church or something. seemed like a neat thing to do, but i heard they were doing more than just that. that was a while back. i was thinking idlewild was that church- that met in the hotel and did all the cool stuff. i was wrong.
I think you're thinking of First Baptist Church at the Mall in Lakeland, Fl. They converted a mall, which is like a hotel only spread out more with larger rooms. And if you of all people can't remember the name of the pastor (Jay Dennis) or the church, are they really all that influential? ;)
Something remarkable has happened. I found something about which I can agree with you. Paula White is a dangerous woman.
As to your second question, which church should be the most influential? How about let's hearing your answer to that? On its face the question seems bizarre. But for certain my list and yours would probably look different.
Jerry, if you think I believe Paula White is dangerous, you should talk to my wife. She has unfortunately heard a few "sermons" while watching TBN by White and was not impressed at all, especially when she claimed that T.D. Jakes was her "spiritual father." Yikes. I change the channel any time I hear because I know it will just engrage me more.
Now, as for your question about my question, I would be glad to answer it. There is no suprise here, I think Bethlehem Baptist Church should be the most influential church in the U.S. And here's why:
1. John Piper has a Ph.D. in NT. He is a recognized scholar and exegetical preacher. His messages mix passion with scholarly excellence. And Dr. Piper's biggest fan base is college students and young adults, many of whom attend his church. Additionally, he has been there for 26 years now. That is a tenure that speaks a lot to dedication, perseverance, and pastoral care. The church did not embrace Calvinism at the beginning and had stagnated over the past few years. In fact, it seems the church was dying. Yet, Dr. Piper stuck it out.
2. The Church is a growing church and practices regenerate church membership and discipline. It is an elder-led, congregational based polity. The elders are all able to teach, some having Ph.D's of their own. The church is located in Downtown Minneapolis and though they have grown out of the building, Dr. Piper has led the church and elders to the point that they refuse to move out of this part of the city just to build a megachurch. Thus, he has helped to plant satelitte campuses (which, though I am opposed to such, they seem to be working well). Bethlehem requires all of its staff to live in the Downtown area -- no commuting from the suburbs, even if it means being exposed to crime and danger. The church has intentionally sought to engage in racial reconciliation. The church has an on-staff counselor and a missions director.
3. Bethlehem alone supports over 100 missionaries currently serving on the field. The members and staff take numerous trips every year both stateside and overseas to do missions. They congregation is encouraged often to evangelize and they have been successful, growing from less than 300 to now more than 2500. Futhermore, Dr. Piper is training pastors at a school started by the Church and now they have just begun a church planting program in which Bethlehem will train pastors to church plant and then give them some support in doing so.
I could go on and on, but I think that is enough. Bethlehem is a very healthy church and its influence reaches far beyond its walls. It is not consumer driven, but Christ-focused and it is run like a well oiled machine.
Now, to head off the pass, so to speak, any criticism about the Presbyterian issue at Bethlehem, let me say first that Piper's propsed measure to include Scripturally-convinced pedeo-baptists into the membership was rejected by the congregation (showing the strength of their congregational polity). I disagree with the proposed change in the Bylaws, and in the end, cooler heads prevailed. Still, the church did not reject Dr. Piper or the elders, but spoke their mind nonetheless. Love still reigns and rules at Bethlehem and neither Dr. Piper or the elders have communicated any anger at the congregation for rejecting the proposal. The same is true of the congregation to the elders. If every church were this healthy, we wouldn't have to worry about church splits any longer.
So, there it is Jerry. So now, what is your pick for which Church should be most influential?
Paul was not interested merely in the ethical principles of religion or of ethics. On the contrary, he was interested in the redeeming work of Christ and its effect upon us. His primary interest was in Christian doctrine, and Christian doctrine not merely in its presuppositions but at its centre. -- J. Greshem Machen.


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46 Years Ago: Bob Dylan Goes Country on 'Nashville Skyline'
Having hinted as his intentions on the more rustic John Wesley Harding, Bob Dylan dove head-long into deep country for 1969's Nashville Skyline — a striking retrenchment for the fiery protest singer just as the '60s were taking an ugly turn.
Released in April 1969, the album found Dylan in a quiet place, after his own turbulent experiment with electrifying folk music. He had taken an opportunity after a motorcycle accident to reconnect with family life, and his music had become more personal. "The songs reflect more of the inner me than the songs of the past," Dylan told Newsweek at the time.
As such, a series of shocking assassinations, riots in American streets and an escalation in the Vietnam War would be met by some of the most bucolic work of Dylan's career. The cover of the album finds him looking almost deliriously content. Critics like Clinton Heylin, in Behind the Shades, bitterly questioned this turn of events. But fans, perhaps shell-shocked themselves over the way the decade had turned, pushed the charming, determinedly happy Nashville Skyline to No. 3 in the U.S. and to the top of the charts in the U.K.
"The beauty of the album is that it is totally undemanding," rock critic Robert Christgau argued in the Village Voice. Paul Nelson, writing in 1969 for Rolling Stone, called the album "a reminder that Dylan has always been capable of tenderness."
And Dylan didn't go half-way in his quest for backwoods authenticity, using respected Nashville sessions musicians, switching to a more confidential tone of voice, recording a duet update of "Girl From the North Country" with no less a country figure than Johnny Cash — and even making a promotional stop on Cash's variety show.
"If Dylan was concerned about retaining a hold on the rock constituency," Heylin countered, "making albums with Johnny Cash in Nashville was tantamount to abdication in many eyes."
But, in its way, Nashville Skyline was revolutionary, if on a much smaller scale. By exploring country music in a completely non-ironic way, Dylan had shattered a counterculture hipster archetype. "Country music was despised, hick music when Dylan took it up," Michael Gray wrote in the Bob Dylan Encylopedia. "People were divided into the hip and the non-hip." Nashville Skyline ultimately helped kick open the door for the looming Americana movement to follow.
Not that Dylan was ready to take up that mantle either. He had come to despise the idea of being a spokesman for his — or any other — generation. "Not only did I not want it, but I didn't need it," Dylan told the Sunday Telegraph's John Preston in 2004. "I couldn't understand it either. None of us like to be defined by what other people think of us. I wasn't the toastmaster of any generation and that notion had to be pulled up by the roots."
Even as Dylan turned inward, however, 'Nashville Skyline' spun off three charting songs, none of them bigger than "Lay Lady Lay," which matched Dylan's second-best-ever showing on the Billboard chart at No. 7. He remained, at least for now, a powerful cultural force — whether he wanted to be, or not.
Christgau quotes one of that song's famous lines in framing the singer-songwriter's mindset at the time: "'Why wait any longer for the world to begin?' is a political cop-out, but it's a beautiful one — beautiful because it is true. Why wait, when it is possible to create within your own world and still anticipate that better one?" Perhaps unsurprisingly, Dylan's follow-up album would be titled Self Portrait.
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No other city engenders so many conflicting images for the peoples who once lived in socialist Yugoslavia. For some, the former federal capital is the heart of evil, the centre of Serbian hegemonism. For others, it represents Serbia's most cosmopolitan and tolerant face, where opposition against the Milosevic regime was strongest. Many people who are intensely critical of Serbia's role in the Yugoslav wars still find nice words about Belgrade and its inhabitants. Others think of the city in nostalgic terms, as a symbol of the old Yugoslavia's brotherhood and unity, when "there was less politics and people lived better". For still others, it is one of South East Europe's leading cultural centres, with a vibrant music and arts scene, good night life and a unique charm residing in the comfortable shabbiness of its turn-of-the-century buildings.
- Literary walk: Belgrade Train Station - 1964
- Literary walk: 1996: Serbia Calling
- Literary walk: Belgrade and the Selenites
- Portrait: Katarina Radic
- Portrait: Maja Vukas
- Portrait: Milica Delević
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This program, recommended by the Academic Senate at its meeting of May 14, 1987, received the concurrence of the President on June 3, 1987 and was approved by the Chancellor on June 13, 1988.
Requirements for Admission -- Prerequisites:
All students must complete a minimum of 36 semesters units, or the equivalent, in prerequisite preparatory courses for the major: ACCT 201, ECON 201, ECON 202, A/P 107 or A/P 207, PSY 100, SOC 135, MATH 114, C/ST 200, BIOL 200, MICR 210 or H/SC 400, Q S 310, ANTH 353 or SOC 462.
An overall grade point average of 2.0 or higher is required for entrance to the program. A grade point average of 2.0 is required in all prerequisite programs.
Requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Health Care Administration (code 3-1205):
1. Complete the requirements for General Education;
2. Complete the prerequisite courses;
3. Complete the major course requirements: HCA 312, 314, 320, 340, 341, 342, 353, 400, 410, 416, 445, 450, 465, 480, and 495.
4. Complete electives, as needed, to complete a total of 124 semester units (a minimum of 40 units in the upper division), 30 units must be earned in residence, of these 12 units in the major and 24 in upper-division course work;
5. Successfully complete the University Writing Proficiency Examination;
6. Each major course must be completed with a grade of "C" or better. A course in which a grade lower than "C" is received must be retaken and successfully completed prior to enrolling in any course for which it is a prerequisite. A student receiving a grade lower than a "C" may proceed with other courses with approval of the Undergraduate Advisor.
EFFECTIVE: Fall 1988.


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Animal Facts
Scientific Name
Munida spp
Animal Type
scavengers; they scoop up muddy or sandy deposits and sort out edible bits with their mouth parts; they also feed on larger food items
.7-3.5 inches (.8-9 cm)
hermit crabs; other crustaceans (crabs; shrimps; lobsters)
Alaska to Baja California, at depths from 60 to 4,800 feet (18-1,463 meters)
Natural History
Two species of squat lobster are found along California coasts. These animals look like lobsters, but they're more closely related to hermit crabs. Unlike their relatives, squat lobsters don't carry shells on their backs. Instead, they squeeze into crevices—and leave their sharp claws exposed to keep neighboring lobsters away.
Squat lobsters also hide under rocks to protect their bodies. Safe from hungry fishes, they wait for snacks to settle nearby—those claws are perfect for reaching out and picking up food.Along with curling up in crevices and hiding under rocks, squat lobsters stake out their territory on sandy patches. They use their claws to scoop up sand and sift for sunken snacks.
Anything that finds its way into the ocean, whether it's tossed away as trash, washes off a beach or falls off a boat, may eventually make its way to the deep sea. It's important to realize that the deep sea is not so far away that it's beyond the reach of human activities. Living creatures in the deep are affected by what we do at the surface.
Cool Facts
Squat lobsters' arms can grow to be several times their body length.
Squat lobsters sometimes steal food from sea anemones.


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In the part one of our HTML 5 tutorial, we looked at some of the language's new structural markup tags that are designed to reduce the "
-soup" of HTML 4 and add semantic meaning to your page's layout.
But not every new tag in HTML is strictly structural. There are other tags that also add valuable semantic meaning to your pages in non-structural ways. Today, in part two, we'll take a look at how to use them and what they can do for your content.
The <time> tag
There have been a couple of cases recently where old news stories or blog posts have been recycled or republished as if they were new, breaking stories. Sometimes this happens through human error, or sometimes just through news search crawler error. In some cases, the damage was worse than just making the perpetrators look bad — it actually sent a few stocks into a tailspin.
While there's not much HTML5 can do to help human error, the <time> tag could have saved the search engine spiders.
Despite the timelessness of the web, most things published online carry some sort of date/time stamp, and that's exactly the data the <time> tag is intended to convey. The most basic usage looks something like this:
Published <time>12/20/2009</time>
However, the <time> tag also has an attribute called datetime that makes it even more useful because it allows you to display a nice date format to your human readers inside the tag. More importantly, it also provides search engine spiders with something more useful to them. Let's amend the above code slightly:
Published <time datetime="2009-12-20T17:22:28-05:00"> Thursday, December 20, 2009 at 10:28PM EST</time>
Now, you might be thinking the terribly unreadable attribute syntax (also know as the ISO 8601 date format) in our example is way more of a pain than it's worth. Indeed, if you're hand coding, it probably is. But any good content management system should be able to output this format for you. For example, to make this work in WordPress, you would simply add this bit of HTML 5 to your template:
Published <time datetime=" <?php the_time('c'); ?>"> <?php the_time('l, F j, Y'); ?> </time>
A couple of things to note. According to the HTML 5 spec, if you omit the datetime attribute, then the tag must contain a valid date string. The valid part means it must be in the format: year, month, day.
Also worth mentioning: when you use the datetime attribute, the tag itself can be empty. While both of these variants are OK according to the spec, we suggest you use both a machine readable datetime for the attribute and human readable format inside the actual tag.

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The figure tag was designed to make image embedding more descriptive and easier to recognize. The figure tag isn't limited to images though, it can also be used for diagrams, code snippets and other visual elements.

 also isn't intended for every image. The key defining phrase in the spec is any illustrative element "that could, without affecting the flow of the document, be moved away from that primary content, e.g. to the side of the page, to dedicated pages, or to an appendix."
The most common use case is an image that you refer to in the body of an article. To use

, you simply wrap your image tag and add a legend like this:

  <legend>July 2009 TCP Reports</legend>

 tag can also be used for code snippets. For example, to markup the code snippet in the previous example, you'd have something like this:

 <legend>Using the HTML 5 Figure tag</legend>

  <legend>July 2009 TPS Reports</legend>

The most important thing to remember about the

 tag is that you don't need to use it for every image you want to embed in a page — just those cases where you refer to the image in question to illustrate a point or use as an example in your article.
<dialog> tag
The dialog element in HTML 5 is for marking up conversations — a chat transcript, an interview, a bit dialog from a screenplay, and so on. The
<dialog> tag works pretty much like a definition list, but specifically denotes dialog.
For example, here's the famous Abbot and Costello "Who's on First" routine represented in HTML 5:
<dialog>
 Costello

 Look, you gotta first baseman?

 Abbott

 Certainly.

 Costello

 Who's playing first?

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Brazil Emigration and Immigration
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigration) or coming into (immigration) a country. These lists are usually found as passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, and records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants' names, ages, occupations, destinations, ports of emigration, and occasionally places of origin or birthplaces.
These sources can help you determine where in Brazil your ancestor came from and where he or she came from prior to settling in Brazil. These records can also help you construct family groups. If you do not find your ancestor, you may find emigration information on your ancestor's neighbors. People often emigrated with neighbors and friends from the same communities.
Europeans left Europe (Portugal) for Brazil from the 1530s onward. General immigration began in the 1800s with the transfer of the court from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro when a royal decree in 1808 opened the ports of Brazil to direct trade with foreign countries. For the first time citizens of other countries were welcome to enter in substantial numbers and become permanent citizens and land owners in Brazil.
Although many foreigners came at that time, most newcomers continued to come from Portugal. The Portuguese were not regarded as foreigners and usually did not consider themselves immigrants. Many originally did not intend to become permanent residents in Brazil.
Records were created when individuals emigrated from or immigrated to Brazil. Other records document a person's arrival in his or her destination country. This section discusses:
- Finding your ancestor's town of origin.
- Immigration to Brazil.
- Records of Brazilian emigrants to the United States of America.
- Other records of departure.
There are some helpful records about Portuguese immigrants into Brazil. There are not many immigration records for Brazil prior to 1808.
Finding Your Ancestor's Town of OriginEdit
Once you have traced your family back to your immigrant ancestor, you must determine the city or town where the ancestor lived. Brazil has no nationwide index to birth, marriage, or death records. These records were kept locally.
There are several sources that may give your ancestor's place of origin. You may be able to learn the town your ancestor came from by talking to older family members. Members of your family may have documents that name the city or town, such as:
- Birth, marriage, and death certificates.
- Obituaries.
- Journals.
- Photographs.
- Letters.
- Family Bibles.
- Church records.
- Naturalization applications and petitions.
- Passenger lists.
- Passports.
- Family heirlooms.
Emigrants leaving Brazil may have left records documenting their migration both in Brazil and in the country they moved to.
Information on Brazilian migration is found in:
Ferenczi, Imre. International Migrations, volume I: Statistics. Series: The American immigration collection. Series 2, vol. 1. New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1970. (FHL book 304.8 F379i)
Passenger ListsEdit
Most Brazilian emigrants left through the ports of Rio de Janeiro, Santos, and São Paulo. Records of departures are called passenger lists. The information in these lists varies over time but usually includes the emigrants' names, ages, occupations, and destinations. In addition, relationships and last residences or birthplaces may be given.
There are few emigration sources for the ports of Brazil. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of some records of emigrants leaving from the port of Rio de Janeiro. These records, from 1835 to 1842, were filmed from the Hostelry of Immigrants (Hospedaria de Imigrantes) and are called Saídas (Departures) (FHL film 1285642 items 2–5, 1285643–1285644).
Many of those who emigrated from Europe and other western hemisphere countries to Brazil left from the ports of Bremen, Hamburg, La Havre, Bordeaux, Marseille, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Lisbon, Funchal, Cádiz, New Orleans, Naples, Tokyo, and New York.
The passenger records from Hamburg have been microfilmed and are available in the collection of the Family History Library. These passenger lists and indexes are most fully described in Hamburg Passenger Lists. Note: the old Hamburg Passenger Lists Resource Guide has been incorporated into the article. Also see the microfiche instructions in Hamburg Passenger Lists.
Departure lists from La Havre, New Orleans, and New York were not preserved.
Immigration to BrazilEdit
Prior to 1755 the Portuguese sent prisoners, degredados (exiles) or indesejáveis (undesirables) to its colonies, and prior to 1808 the Portuguese limited immigration to Brazil to Portuguese nationals. After 1808, Brazil opened its ports to international commerce and began to encourage immigration.
It was not until the law of 1871, when the Lei do Ventre Livre (Law of Free Birth) freed all newborns of slaves, and the law of 1888, Lei Áurea (Golden Law), which freed all slaves, that many Europeans saw the opportunity to immigrate and better themselves in a non slavery environment. These laws forced the plantation owners (fazendeiros) to look to other sources for laborers. Therefore, in 1890s they organized the Sociedade Promotora de Imigração (Society for the Promotion of Emigration) to promote immigration.
From 1808 to 1940 immigrants came to Brazil from over 50 nations all over the world; most were from Portugal, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Russia, France, Spain, Turkey, the British Isles, and other South American countries. This wave of immigration was caused by political and financial conditions and by work opportunities on the plantations. Many settled in the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Rio de Janeiro.
After the United States Civil War, many Southerners emigrated to Brazil. By 1872, 4,000 Southerners had emigrated to Amazonas, Espírito Santo, and São Paulo, establishing rural colonies. A few of these survived, such as Americana in São Paulo, but most failed, and the settlers returned to the United States. One source for these emigrants is listed under Brazil Cemeteries. Other sources at the Family History Library include:
The Confederados: Old South Immigrants in Brazil. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c1995. (FHL book 981.61 H2c)
Griggs, William Clark. The Elusive Eden: Frank McMullan's Confederate Colony in Brazil. Austin: University of Texas Press, c1987. (FHL book 981 F2gw)
Confederates in Brazil website: Brazil Confederates
Most immigrants to Brazil arrived at one of three ports in Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Santos, or Salvador. As immigrants arrived to the port of Rio de Janeiro, they were registered by the Agência Central de Imigração (Central Agency for Immigration). Those disembarking in the port of Rio de Janeiro were taken to the Ilha das Flores (Isle of Flores) and processed at the Casa dos Imigrantes (House of Emigrants). Those destined for São Paulo continued on to Santos. After 1854, many ships went directly to Santos. The port authorities who registered and handled immigrants in Brazil were known as the Hospedaria de Imigrantes (Hostelry of Immigrants).
The Brazilian Compass
Lawrence B. Bangerter helped compile The Brazilian Compass. This two volume work is a useful guide to immigration for Brazil. It includes name of vessel, places of embarkation and debarkation, dates and corresponding Family History Library film numbers for immigration records. Both volumes have been digitized by the Family History Archives at Brigham Young University, and are accessable online:
FamilySearch Digital Library FamilySearch Digital Library
Germans in Brazil 1850-1865
In the newspaper "Hamburger Nachrichten" emigrants to Brazil advertised their whereabouts in Brazil in order to give their relatives an update. The author Renate Hauschild-Thiessen has listed such emigrants in GENEALOGIE, Heft 4, year 24 (1975), page 493. This article is available through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, call number 943 B2gf.
Luetjohann, Roland. Die Ersten deutschen Auswanderer in Brasilien. Archiv für Sippenforschung, 8. Jahrgang, Heft 3. Available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, call number 943 B2as. Contains names of Swiss (canton Freiburg) and German emigrants (from Helsbach) with date of arrival and circumstances
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:
Brazil, Immigration Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
The Family History Library has microfilm copies of immigration records from each of these ports. These records can be found in the Family History Library Catalog under:
Rio de JaneiroEdit
In the Arquivo Nacional (National Archive), in Rio de Janeiro, there is a large collection of immigration records on cards in nearly 30 drawers. These cards have information on Portuguese immigrants to Brazil. The National Archive in Brazil compiled a supplement volumes to this collection:
Registro de Estrangeiros e Entradas de Portugueses do Registro de Estrangeiros nas Capitanias, 1777–1819 (Register of the Foreigners and Emigrants from the Portuguese Register of Foreigners in the Captaincies, 1777–1819). Rio de Janeiro: Arquivo Nacional.
Registro de estrangeiros, 1808–1842 (Register of foreigners, 1808–1842). 4 vols. (From series: Publicações do Arquivo Nacional, vols. 46, 49–50, 54.) Rio de Janeiro: Arquivo Nacional, Ministério da Justiça e Negócios Interiores, 1961–1964. (FHL book 981 W2b; film 1090236 items 1–3 and 1162487 item 4)
Another book from the National Archives in Brazil lists emigration records of French residents in Rio de Janeiro:
Os franceses residentes no Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1820 (The French Residents in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1820). Rio de Janeiro: Arquivo Nacional, 1960. (FHL book 981.53/R1 F2b; film 1102990 item 7 or 0897926 item 2)
The original records of the Hospedaria de Imigrantes (Hostelry of Immigrants) in Rio de Janeiro are at the National Archives, in Rio de Janeiro. Records from this office have been microfilmed by the Family History Library and include arrival lists, passports, lists of ships, and so on:
Registros de imigrantes (Register of Immigrants). Arquivo Nacional no Rio de Janeiro, N.p., (1981). (FHL numbers 1285633–1285704)
A published list of Brazilian immigrants from North America through Rio de Janeiro is:
Oliveira, Betty Antunes de. Movimento de passageiros norte-americanos no porto do Rio de Janeiro, 1865–1890 (Movement of North American Passengers in the Port of Rio de Janeiro, 1865–1890). Rio de Janeiro: B. A. de Oliveira, 1982. (FHL book 981.53/R1 W3o; film 1162490)
Many records prior to 1940 of naturalization and citizenship are in the National Archives. Records created after 1940 are in the office of the Minister of Justice:
Ministério da Justiça
Serviço de Comunicações
Rua México 128 - Centro
20031-142 Rio de Janeiro, RJ
For an address of the National Archives, in Rio de Janeiro, see Brazil Archives and Libraries.
Santos was the main port for the city of São Paulo. The original records of the Hospedaria de Imigrantes (Hostelry of Immigrants) from 1854 to 1885 in São Paulo are at the Arquivo da Secretaria da Promoção Social (Archive of the Secretary of Social Progress).
Copies of indexes for 1882 to 1925 and the original records for 1882 to 1920 of the Hospedaria de Imigrantes have been microfilmed by the Family History library and can be researched on film:
Matrícula dos imigrantes (Registrations of immigrants). São Paulo: Arquivo da Secretaria da Promoção Social, N.p., (1981). (FHL film numbers 1285566–1285623)
The address for the São Paulo Hospedaria (Hostelry) is:
Central Histórico de Imigrante
Rua Visconde de Parnaíba, 1316 - Brás
03044-001 São Paulo, SP
Tel.: 01-55-292-1022 (Ramal 112)
Salvador (State of Bahia)Edit
The Family History Library has copies of the record of immigrants to the port of Salvador from 1839 to 1854. These records were filmed from original records in the Public Archive of the State of Bahia (Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia). These can be found at the Family History Library under:
Títulos de residência a estrangeiros (Titles of residence of foreigners). Bahia: Público do Estado da Bahia, n.d. (1983). (FHL numbers 1366174–1366178)
In the "Historical Section" of the Bahia state archive there are also six volumes of passport records (passaportes e guias) from 1718 to 1822.
Records of Brazilian Emigrants to the United StatesEdit
Sometimes the best sources for information about your immigrant ancestor are found in the country he or she emigrated to. Many Brazilians migrated to Florida, New York, Illinois, California, Texas, Washington, and Utah. Emigration from Brazil has occurred mostly in the 20th century.
Immigration records provide the town of origin and other information. To learn about these records, use handbooks and manuals on research in the United States.
Although there are some emigration records for Brazil, you should first research the records of the United States.
- Passenger lists. Most Brazilian immigrants to the United States arrived at the ports of New York and New Orleans. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of the records and indexes of these ports for 1898 to 1940. See United States Emigration and Immigration for more information about emigration and immigration records of the United States.
- Immigration and Naturalization. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has a national index of immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1906 to 1956. For its records, write to:
Immigration and Naturalization Service
425 "I" Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20536
Tel.: 1-800-375-5283 1-800-767-1833 (TTY)
e-mail: email@example.com.
Website: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis
Other Records of DepartureEdit
People desiring to leave Brazil were required to obtain passports from the Federal Police (Polícia Federal) in each state capital.
The applicant had to provide an original copy of his or her birth certificate, two recent pictures, a voter's registration, an identification card, CIC (income tax information), and a military release (required for males over 18 and under 45 years). After completing the necessary forms the police performed a background check. You can research these records if you can show your relationship to the person and a need to see the records. Useful records are:
- Permissions to emigrate (Rio de Janeiro).
- Probates of relatives who stayed.
- Police records.
- Passports.
- Court records.
The addresses for the Federal Police are:
Policia Federal (Escritório Central)
Avenida Prestes Maia, 700 Centro
05512-000 São Paulo, SP
Policia Marítima
Avenida Venezuela 2 - Saúde
20081-310 Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Directoria de Portos e Costas (CIPANAVE)
Rua Teófilo Otoni 4-Centro
Rio de Janeiro
RJ - Brazil
Phone: +55 21 2104 5195
Fax: + 55 21 2104 5196
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Departamento de Policia Federal
Rua da Assembléia 70 - Centro
20011-000 Rio de Janeiro, RJ
- http://museumvictoria.com.au/origins/history.aspx?pid=217
- http://www.bukovina.tripod.com/porta_de_entrada_english.htm
- http://www.projetoimigrantes.com.br/
- http://www.imigrantesitalianos.com.br/
- http://www.italians-world.org
- http://www.centrodememoria.unicamp.br/arqhist/
- Japanese immigration to Brazil
- Italian immigration to Brazil
A wiki article describing this collection is found at:
Brazil Immigration Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)


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Schaefer: Mayweather keen to fight Khan in UK
Amir Khan could be set to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr in front of his home fans after his promoter confirmed the American would be happy to fight in the UK.
Khan, who takes on Danny Garcia in Las Vegas on Saturday night, is bidding to unify the WBA and WBC titles, along with the Ring magazine belt, in what could be his last fight at light-welterweight.
Should he come past Garcia unscathed, Golden Boy Promotions chief executive Richard Schaefer confirmed Mayweather could be Khan's first challenge if he decides to step up to 147 pounds. Mayweather, currently serving a three-month jail term in Nevada, is set to be released from prison next month.
"He will be looking for a fight later in the year and so is Amir," Schaefer told Sky Sports News. "We are suddenly going to have these kinds of conversations.
"I am going to have dinner with Team Khan, with Amir's father and his legal advisor and we are going to map out his next steps.
"But again, we want to do first things first - Saturday night is not going to be a walk in the park for Amir and he knows that.
"But if everything goes good then of course Floyd Mayweather is there and he is waiting. Floyd Mayweather said more than once to me in his opinion his best fans are from the UK - he wouldn't mind at all to do that fight or any fight for that matter, from England."


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