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PANAMA CITY BEACH � Taian de Souza is ready for another go-round with the Panama City Beach Pirates.
An all-conference selection as a defender last year in the Pirates� inaugural season, de Souza expects the semi-pro soccer team to challenge for a postseason berth in the Premier Development League.
�It is great to be back,� the native Brazilian said just hours after arriving in Bay County. �We have more experience. We�ve played in the stadiums. We know how the competition works. We have five or six guys back from last year, and hopefully with a little bit of the experience from what we did wrong and what we did right the guys can come in and make the playoffs.�
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As new research raises awareness of the impact of poor sleep in children, more are finding their way to pediatric sleep clinics for testing. Andrea Petersen and Children's National Medical Center Director of Sleep Medicine Dr. Judith Owens explain on Lunch Break. Photo: Melissa Golden for The Wall Street Journal.
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As a professional-grade poker player and long-time Economist reader, the following made me laugh:
How to Win at Poker: A Handy Tip
Economist April 20th print edition
A POKER face. It is the expressionless gaze that gives nothing away. To win at poker, the face must be mastered, and master it is what the best players try their best to do. But a study just published in Psychological Science by Michael Slepian of Stanford University and his colleagues suggests that even people with the best poker faces give the game away. They do so, however, not with their heads but with their hands.
Mr Slepian made his discovery when he showed 78 undergraduate volunteers video clips of players placing bets at the 2009 World Series of Poker. (Bets in poker are placed by pushing chips into the middle of the table.) The clips were 1.6 seconds long, on average, and featured different parts of the players' anatomies. Some showed everything visible from the table up: chest, arms and head. Some showed just the face. And some showed only the arms and hands. Each volunteer watched only one of the three types of video, but was shown several examples.
After each viewing, volunteers were asked to rate the quality of the player's hand on a seven-point scale. Then, when they had finished watching all the clips, they were asked to rate their own experience with poker on a similar scale.
Mr Slepian found that students were poor at judging the quality of a player's hand when shown just that player's face. Indeed, he noticed a negative correlation of 0.07. This is not huge (a perfect correlation is 1.0). But it meant there was a statistically significant tendency that the better a volunteer believed the hand to be, the worse it actually was. When a player's whole posture was considered, this misapprehension went away: if a volunteer could see everything about a player from the table up there was no correlation between his judgments of a hand's value and its actual value. When a volunteer could see only arms and hands, however, Mr Slepian found a positive correlation, of 0.07, between his guesses and reality.
To confirm his discovery, Mr Slepian re-ran the experiment with a different set of clips. The results were the same. Students, even those who were poker novices, could judge the quality of a professional poker player's cards from the behaviour of his hands. The next question was, how?
Mr Slepian knew from previous studies by other people that anxiety has a tendency to disrupt smooth body movements, and he suspected this might be the explanation. To find out, he showed 40 new volunteers the clips he had used in the previous experiment. Rather than asking them to judge the quality of a player's cards, however, he asked them to rate either that player's confidence or how smoothly the player pushed his chips into the middle of the table.
He found that when students rated players as being confident or having hands that moved smoothly, the cards they held were likely to be good. There was a positive correlation of 0.15 when the students considered confidence and of 0.29 when they looked for smooth movement, so they were actually more capable of determining hand quality from these variables than when asked to estimate it directly. The moral of the story for players, then, is don't look your opponent squarely in the eye if you want to know how good his cards are. The secret of his hand is in his hands.
God bless academics… entertainment value aside, that study is completely worthless (albeit in an interesting way).
One can question whether a 0.29 correlation has any merit in the first place. But putting the dubious math and questionable control variables aside, findings like this one completely overlook the subtleties and complexities of the game.
For example, re, competitive poker edge, we can demolish the "watch their hands" argument with a simple application of experience and common sense:
If your opponent is weak enough to let hand movements broadcast information, you do not need subtlety to beat him. Bad players are legion at the poker tables. In any given tournament or cash game - even at higher stakes buy-ins - the amount of staggeringly bad play is eye-opening. Given this empirically observable reality, how do you handle terrible opponents? The answer: Very simply and straightforwardly. Subtleties are wasted on them. Not only that, applying subtlety in attempting to "read" a bad opponent can actually be counterproductive, because if he is bad enough, your opponent will misread his own hand values (and generate a fool's confidence in doing so). Based on board texture and betting sequence, top pair / top kicker could be all but worthless, yet your awful opponent may treat it as the stone cold nuts in his mind - telegraphing the strength of a set, a straight or a flush (via confident hand movements) because he is too green (or dumb) to situationally distinguish between a strong hand and a weak one.
If your opponent has any kind of experience or skill, on the other hand, buttery smooth bluff movements will be second nature (thus invalidating the entire premise). Subtlety does have value when facing skilled opponents. But skilled opponents present a different kind of problem: They are well aware of telegraphed signals and have lots of practice concealing them. Worse still, a truly skilled player can run a large bluff with absolute calmness and confidence (not a tremor to be found) because, if he understands the game with sufficient depth, he will literally not care about the outcome of that single confrontation. Bluff spots are assessed probabilistically: If you know that X bluff in X situation has a certain favorable expectation, regardless of this result, you can make that bluff in the same way you would accept a 60/40 coin flip with the 60 in your favor… and do so with nonchalance bordering on boredom.
On a personal note, I remember the first time (circa eight years ago) I made a big bluff at a cash game pot. It was actually a little nothing amount - something like 75 dollars - but it felt absolutely massive at the time. I remember an adrenaline rush so strong it felt like my heart might pound right out of my chest.
Now, these many years later, I have made - and called down - countless bluffs in the +$1,500 range, or even larger, without so much as a half-degree rise in temperature. Firing, say, $600 into a cash game pot on a casual bluff or semi-bluff with a net positive expectation produces no more internal drama than, say, tossing in a $5 chip.
That's a long way from sweating bullets over 75 bucks…
And it is the same for other experienced opponents, thus making the smoothness of hand movements completely worthless as a tell. If the opponent is a tourist, subtleties are a waste or even counterproductive. If the opponent has been around the block enough times, he will possess a smooth bluff confidence that originates from a place wholly other than the value of his cards.
(The situation gets even more complex, by the way, when an opponent is smart enough to understand that a gigantic value bet is more likely to be called if it is made to appear as a bluff. On the river, your opponent fires $1,200 into a $700 pot - a bet way too large to make logical sense, unless he is trying to scare you off with sheer force. Meanwhile, he looks away when you make eye contact with him. When you say "time" and take another thirty seconds, he spreads out the twelve benjamins he has laid out in an intimidating peacock fan. Very briefly, he tugs at his collar in just the way Joe Navarro says indicates discomfort. These are nervous tells that practically scream "I am bluffing!" Which is exactly the point. He knows the tells just as you do, and is attempting to induce a hero call.)
Ah yes, complexity… the stuff that only seasoning and experience can overcome.
Are there ways to win at poker, and win consistently, by walking a higher skill path than one's opponents? Oh indeed. We could give a sixteen-hour lecture series, sans notes, on the finer details of poker theory (and even most "good" players are not nearly as good as they think they are). But silly stuff like "watch their hands" would not be a part of any theory curriculum. (Except maybe a section titled "dumb stuff not to rely on.")
Articles like the one in The Economist cited above, and the research studies that generate supposed "insight" into poker and trading, highlight a key point:
In respect to highly competitive, skill-based human endeavors with zero sum or minus sum outcomes (like poker and trading), tentative hypotheses generated by non-practitioner research are generally worthless.
This is because far too many nuances, subtleties, and empirically critical factors (hidden edges discovered and verified through ample experience - things one wouldn't even know to consider without experience) are completely overlooked by those outside the game.
This train of thought also explains why academics who condemn trading as impossible, or say trading outperformance is impossible based on various "studies" or "models" or Wall Street test cases blah blah blah, are almost invariably nitwits with an agenda.
(My favorite class of folly in academic research, as it relates to trading, involves the studies that purport to investigate whether chart patterns "work" by, say, looking at 7,000 separate instances of data-mined head and shoulders setups in U.S. equities of a certain market cap over the years 1981 to 1995, assuming equal fixed fractions of risk capital - no situational adjustments, position sizing, trend management, nothing - uniformly applied in all 7,000 cases. As far as useful conclusions go, the implied shortfalls here are so glaring, they might as well be doing flight tests on jumbo jets made of cream cheese, or something of comparable idiocy.)
Bottom line: There is no substitute for getting in the thick of things, accumulating insights and a-ha moments born of real world experience, and stress-testing your research with hard-nosed verification of what does and doesn't work. Rick Bookstaber has a useful take:
[In respect to how markets work,] a better analogy than physics or biology is a military one. The point is that there is a strategy of intelligent reaction to any action, an arms race to leapfrog one another in information gathering and technology, to know what others are doing, and to react in a way that they will not anticipate. This is the point where I could pull out quotes from The Art War about seeing into the mind of the enemy, attacking when your opponent believes you will retreat, and the like. That is not physics.
Nor is it hubristic academic findings with gaping holes big enough to drive a mack-truck through… so remember that next time a non-practitioner tries to lecture you on what can or can't be done.
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Two-thirds of Canadians believe that foreign ownership of broadcast and cable companies would lead to less Canadian-made cultural content, a poll commissioned by Friends of Canadian Broadcasting suggests.
In an online survey of 2,022 adult Canadians, 77 per cent said they believed that Canadian media was "too important for culture and national security" to be foreign owned. Only 23 per cent said they believed Canadian media owners should be able to sell to foreigners to be competitive.
Sixty-five per cent of respondents said they believed if foreign companies gained permission and acquired control of Canadian broadcasting and cable companies, Canadian content on radio and TV would decrease. Eighteen per cent said they thought it would remain the same, five per cent suggested Canadian content would increase and 12 per cent said they didn't know.
The poll comes as Ottawa debates relaxing foreign ownership rules in the telecom sector in order to increase investment and spur competition.
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting asked the same questions in previous polls in 2007 and 2010, and the sense that foreign ownership would result in less Canadian content has only grown.
"There is a continuity here," Friends spokesman Ian Morrison told The Huffington Post Canada. "Canadians fear what will happen when there is foreign control over their communication system."
"They think that communications is pretty important for the future of the country and it's too important to allow it to fall into foreign hands. That seems to be the standby position of a good majority of Canadians," he said.
Current regulations prevent foreigners from owning more than 46.7 per cent of broadcasting or telecom companies. According to the federal government, "Canada appears to be one of the few advanced economies with significant restrictions remaining in place."
Many consumers have complained of a lack of competition in telecoms, particularly when it comes to cellphone service, and the Harper government has shown signs it is interested in opening up telecom to greater foreign investment, such as its decision to override the CRTC and allow Egyptian-owned Globalive to set up Wind Mobile.
But the government's desire to open up telecom infrastructure may clash with the desire of many Canadians to protect media content from foreign ownership. Owners of telecom infrastructure, such as Bell, Rogers and Shaw, have invested heavily in TV and radio properties in recent and are now major owners of Canadian media content.
At least partly because of this convergence, some media companies are asking to be included in any relaxation of foreign ownership rules. (It was reported last month that Postmedia, owner of the National Post and many other newspapers, has hired a lobbyist for that purpose.)
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The Friends of Canadian Broadcasting online survey was conducted last year, from Nov. 4 to Nov. 10, and has a margin of error of +/- 2.18 per cent, 19 times out of 20.
Asked why Friends waited so long to release the result, Morrison said he wanted to tie the data with a decision expected by the government on foreign ownership in the telecommunications sector.
"Now that Harper has a majority, there have been rumblings about changes in these statutes and we just thought we would put on the table what Canadians think," he said.


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Jackie's on-air voyage took her 1,900 miles across the country to the Cowboy State of Wyoming where she worked as an anchor/reporter at KCWY, News 13 in Casper. She spent two years shooting and editing her own stories and producing several weekday and weekend newscasts. She also spent two years in Burlington, Vermont solo-anchoring four consecutive hours of morning news at FOX 44/ABC 22.
Being born and raised a Philly girl, she's happy to be in Hampton Roads living the "city-life" again. She's also excited to be reporting for NewsChannel 3 where "Taking Action, Getting Results" sums up, exactly, the dedication and follow-through that she gives each and every story.


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Implementing a US Carbon Tax : Challenges and Debates
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Implementing a US Carbon Tax
- 1. Carbon Taxes as Part of the Fiscal Solution
- 2. Choosing among Mitigation Instruments: How strong is the case for a US carbon tax?
- 3. Administration of a US Carbon Tax
- 4. Carbon Taxes to Achieve Emissions Targets: Insights from EMF 24
- 5. Macroeconomic Effects of Carbon Taxes
- 6. The Distributional Burden of a Carbon Tax: Evidence and implications for policy
- 7. Offsetting a Carbon Tax's Burden on Low-Income Households*
- 8. Carbon Taxes and Corporate Tax Reform
- 9. Carbon Taxes and Energy-Intensive Trade-Exposed Industries: Impacts and options
- 10. The Role of Energy Technology Policy alongside Carbon Pricing
- 11. Mixing It Up: Power sector energy and regional and regulatory climate policies in the presence of a carbon tax
- 12. Implications of Carbon Taxes for Transportation Policies
- 13. Comparing Countries' Climate Mitigation Efforts in a Post-Kyoto World
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I am a 38 year old female sales & marketing professional. My new venture is Firecracker Marketing Inc. as an independent marketing consultant in Savannah, Georgia. It is only me (at present), and I am not a designer but will be subcontracting design for my clients, so I'm hoping to establish an ongoing partnership through this contest. The name Firecracker was chosen as I am petite but highly enthusiastic, energetic and have often been referred to as a "little firecracker".
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Admission | Courses | Program | Requirements
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The Department of Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies offers a Master of Science in College Student Personnel. The program emphasizes professional education that integrates academic course work with internship and practical experiences. The program is designed to have the flexibility to provide professional preparation for a variety of college and university positions. It is appropriate for those students with career goals of working in admissions, student activities, housing programs, student unions, placement offices, and other student affairs areas. The program integrates theory with practice by combining academic preparation with a series of practical assignments in various student affairs areas. The curriculum includes courses in the areas of higher education, the behavioral sciences, counseling, and research.
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Studies and be recommended by the Selection Committee of the program. Personal
references, interviews, and an essay are required by the Program Selection Committee. Interested persons should contact the program coordinator for information about admission procedures.
Students choosing this degree program must complete 48 semester
hours of credit.
Students are required to take a specialization core of 36 hours, two hours of practicum, and six hours of internship. Four hours of electives from the behavioral sciences, counseling, and other related areas should be taken only after consultation with the student's adviser.
TOTAL PROGRAM: 48 s.h.
Graduate School requirements regarding transfer of credit and extension work will apply.
533 Special Problems in College Student Personnel. (1–3, repeatable to 6) Designed to provide a group of students an opportunity for further professional growth and to apply problem-solving approaches in dealing with a specific educational problem.
550 Legal Issues for Professionals in College Student Personnel. (3) A study of the complex problems of law and ethics as they influence the field of college student personnel and the student affairs professional's role.
552 Introduction to College Student Personnel
Work. (3) An introduction to student affairs in higher
education focusing on the foundations of the profession,
its theoretical base, models of practice, and necessary
competencies. An overview of specific areas of student
affairs practice is provided. Prerequisite: CSP major or
permission of the instructor.
553 Organization and Administration of College Student Personnel Services. (3) An analysis of organizational structure and administrative responsibility of college student personnel workers. Attention will be given to administrative procedures, budgeting, planning, records relationships to students, and relationships to other institutional administrative personnel and academic units.
554 Higher Education in the United States. (3) An overview of higher education in America. The course reflects the historical development of higher education and provides students the opportunity to explore the broader functions, issues, and participants that comprise postsecondary education in the United States. Prerequisite: CSP major or permission of the instructor.
555 Counseling Theories and Practices for College Student Personnel. (4) An examination of the major theories of counseling, the development of basic counseling skills central to, and for use in, college student personnel settings. Prerequisite: CSP major.
559 Student Development Theory and Application I. (4) A critical analysis and review of student development as the theoretical basis for the student affairs profession. Consideration is given to formulating a personal philosophy of student development, current research, and methodology, and writings. Prerequisite: CSP major or permission of the instructor.
560 Student Characteristics and College Impact. (3) Characteristics of college students, focusing on the needs of the diverse student populations on today's college campuses, will be examined. The impact of college on students, including factors related to retention and attrition and the differential impacts of college on various student populations, will also be explored.
561 Practicum in Student Affairs. (2) The course consists of two components; work experience in a student affairs setting under the supervision of a student affairs professional and seminar conducted by a member of the CSP faculty in which students focus on the link between academic and environmental aspects of training and related issues for beginning professionals. Prerequisite: CSP major.
562 Advanced Practicum in Student Affairs. (1–2, repeatable) Additional experience in a student affairs setting. Students undertake a special project in an area of particular interest. Prerequisite: CSP major.
565 Student Development Theory and Application II. (4) This course will continue the examination of student development theories and their application to student affairs practice, focusing on newer approaches to student development, implications of theory for diverse student populations, and assessment strategies. Prerequisite: CSP 559.
571 Teaching for the First-Year Experience Course. (1) An introduction to teaching issues related to CSP 110, the first-year experience course, and the role of student affairs professionals as teachers. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
573 Race and Ethnicity Issues in Higher Education. (1) An introduction to current multicultural issues in higher education and the role of the student affairs professional in addressing them. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
581 Group Dynamics—Process and Analysis. (3) The study of group processes: communication, decision making, cooperation and competition, cohesion, social facilitation and inhibition, leadership, and group roles.Students participate in a small group experience as part of the course.
582 Issues in Higher Education Administration. (2) Discussion of administrative and management issues facing higher education. An introduction to the broader institutional context within which student affairs functions.
597 Internship. (3) Intensive professional experience, under supervision, at an internship site. The purpose of this internship is to gain practical experience in applying the knowledge gained in didactic courses to a field of specialization. Prerequisite: Written permission of the instructor or program coordinator.
598 Internship II. (3) Continuation of CSP 597. Intensive professional experience, under supervision, at an internship site. The purpose of this internship is to gain practical experience in applying knowledge gained in didactic courses to a field of specialization. Specific topical focus varies. Prerequisite: CSP 597.
599 Independent Study. (1–4, repeatable to 4) An
investigation of problems related to the student's major
area. Ordinarily a substantial written and/or oral report
will be required. Students will arrange the topic,
procedures, and methods of reporting with the
instructor. Graded S/U. Prerequisite: CSP major and/or permission of the instructor.
600 Professional Development Seminar. (3) An integrative seminar taken in the student's final semester. Using a case study approach, the seminar is designed to assist students in applying concepts studied in previous courses to current problems and issues in student affairs. Prerequisite: CSP major or permission of the instructor.


text: 29. October 2012 10:30 by m 0 Comments Celebrate 50 Years Of James Bond With Activision Publishing's 007™ Legends Video Game 29. October 2012 10:30 by m | 0 Comments This latest Installment in Esteemed Franchise Delivers A First-of-its-Kind Bond Video Game Experience with a Story Inspired by Five Classic Bond Films – Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Moonraker, Licence To Kill, Die Another Day – and the Upcoming Feature Film – Skyfall Santa Monica, CA – October 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Today gamers can join in the celebration of 50 years of James Bond with the release of 007™ Legends from Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard Inc., (Nasdaq: ATVI). Available at North American retail outlets today, across Europe on October 19th and in Australia on October 31st, 007 Legends is the latest installment in the esteemed franchise, delivering a first-of-its-kind Bond video game experience featuring a story inspired by five classic Bond films – Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Moonraker, Licence To Kill, Die Another Day. Additionally, 007 Legends will feature a sixth mission based on this year's highly anticipated Bond film – Skyfall – which will be available to unlock as downloadable content. Timed to the North American release of the feature film, PlayStation®Network subscribers will gain exclusive early access to the Skyfall mission on November 9, 2012, and then on November 20, 2012, the mission will be available on Xbox LIVE® online entertainment network. With each film hand picked as they've defined Bond's personality over the years, 007 Legends explores Bond's gritty journey to his current status as the world's favorite secret agent. Each movie-inspired mission in 007 Legends features multiple levels filled with state-of-the-art spy gadgets, an arsenal of weapons, sleek vehicles, exotic locations, and intense situations that require Bond's quick wits, combat expertise, and stealth actions to take down notorious villains and their brutal henchmen. "The team at Eurocom has really outdone themselves this time with 007 Legends, delivering a very unique and comprehensive Bond video game we're sure fans will enjoy playing," said David Oxford, EVP/General Manager, Activision Publishing. "Fans not only get to experience these great, defining moments from Bond's past that have made him the spy he is today, but they also get to become Daniel Craig's modern-day Bond, and play through an all-new, contemporary story mission based on the upcoming Skyfall film that comes out as DLC. This really is the most robust and unique Bond video game experience to date." Download this file (Right click the link and choose 'Save Target As...') "Eurocom, Activision, EON and Danjaq should be extremely proud of their collaboration to make the most diverse Bond video game to date," David G. Wilson, VP of Global Business Strategy, EON. "007 Legends pays great homage to the Bond legacy and is another way for fans to interact with the world's favorite spy as we celebrate the 50th anniversary." 007 Legends also features an impressive roster of past and present Bond film talent, including Daniel Craig's James Bond; Michael Lonsdale as the villainous Hugo Drax and Richard Kiel as his notorious henchman, Jaws, from Moonraker; Naomie Harris as Eve from Skyfall; Toby Stephens as Gustav Graves in Die Another Day; and Carey Lowell as Agent Pam Bouvier in Licence To Kill. Developed by Eurocom, under license from EON Productions Ltd. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. (MGM), 007 Legends is available now for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. The Windows® PC version, which will be available on Steam, will launch on November 2, 2012, and the version for Nintendo's Wii U™ system is planned to launch in December 2012. 007 Legends is rated "T" (Teen – Blood, Drug Reference, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes, Violence – content suitable for ages 13 and older) by the ESRB. For more intel about 007 Legends, visit the game's official Facebook page – www.facebook.com/007LegendsGame – and the 007 Legends community – www.007Legends.com. Buy your copy of 007 Legends today About Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., through its operating subsidiaries, is actively engaged in the worldwide production and distribution of motion pictures, television programming, home video, interactive media, music and licensed merchandise. The company owns the world's largest library of modern films, comprising around 4,100 titles. Operating units include Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc., United Artists Films Inc., Ventanazul, MGM Television Entertainment Inc., MGM Networks Inc., MGM Domestic Networks LLC, MGM Distribution Co, MGM International Television Distribution Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment LLC, MGM ON STAGE, MGM Music, MGM Worldwide Digital Media, MGM Consumer Products and MGM Interactive. In addition, MGM has ownership interests in international TV channels reaching nearly 120 countries. MGM ownership is as follows: Providence Equity Partners (29%), TPG (21%), Sony Corporation of America (20%), Comcast (20%), DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (7%) and Quadrangle Group (3%). For more information, visit www.mgm.com. About EON Productions/Danjaq, LLC EON Productions Limited and Danjaq LLC are wholly owned and controlled by the Broccoli/Wilson family. 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Since 1995, UNCW's Onslow Extension Site has provided access for non-traditional students - active and retired military, military families, students that may work full time, single parents and others - to earn college degrees without commuting to Wilmington.
Talented, dedicated faculty and staff are the backbone of the Extension experience. Whether you have a question about admissions, financial aid, or just a classroom location, the staff and faculty are available and happy to assist you.
UNCW Onslow Extension provides enrolled students several alternatives to the traditional experience found on our Wilmington campus. Students in Onslow County have the unique opportunity of taking their UNCW basic university studies courses through UNCW's partnership with Coastal Carolina Community College. Upon receiving an associates degree from CCCC, students have the option of transferring to the UNCW Onslow Extension Site and attaining their bachelor's degree in any one of our degree offerings.
Many of our students have attended other universities and community colleges throughout the world. The Office of Admissions and Financial Aid work closely with these students to ensure they receive the maximum transferable credit from their prior courses of study.
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I need a humidifier. I'll head to Amazon. They have deals. I'll scroll through their front page—oh, here are some good deals. Oh look, at the bottom there's a list of sites Amazon owns. Oh, the—OH GOD NO.
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Innovative gaming company FunGoPlay.com counts on LightWave 10 software to build a groundbreaking 3D gaming experience for children.
An estimated one in three children in America today is overweight or obese, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). To help combat the growing epidemic,
has opened the world's first virtual sports theme park—an innovative online sports world that bridges the gap between online gaming and physical activity among children. FunGoPlay artists relied on
software to create and deliver everything from eye-catching imagery and 3D elements, to customizable assets and interactive environments.
The FunGoPlay (FGP) online world melds creativity, imagination, and technological innovation to deliver a fun, safe, and entertaining experience for members aged six to eleven. Members play games and tournaments in the online world, and with FGP Sports Gear, such as a soccer ball or flying disk with sophisticated electronics that track the length of play, players connect in the physical world to earn in-game rewards and achievements, such as medals, points, and power-ups.
Creating a Fun Production Pipeline
FunGoPlay assembled a winning team of 3D artists and a high-end toolset to create the groundbreaking gaming experience, at the heart of which is LightWave 3D® software. "The FunGoPlay team has used LightWave since its first day of production," explains FunGoPlay Animation Director, William Vaughan, who manages the 3D production activities, including modeling, texturing, rigging, animation and rendering of all 3D assets and delivery. "LightWave has been an invaluable resource and I can say, without a doubt, that we wouldn't have made the launch deadline without it," he adds.
SpriteGen™, a powerful new utility in LightWave 10, automates the production of sprite animation images for real-time and game engines, which helped the artists at FunGoPlay streamline the production pipeline and meet the launch deadline by shaving days off of each week's rendering workload.
FunGoPlay Render Wrangler, Anthony Quinones agrees, noting that the SpriteGen tool enabled him to work more efficiently. "It has saved me weeks of unnecessary work by creating a sprite sheet right from LightWave that the programmers at FunGoPlay can use immediately. By not having to compile thousands of frames, it makes my job easier."
The FunGoPlay artists also relied on the new LightWave 10 Viewport Preview Renderer (VPR) for instant design feedback. "The new VPR function makes adjusting textures a snap, and allows the art director at FunGoPlay to look over my shoulder without having to wait to see how texture adjustments look," explains Thompson Conrad, Jr., FunGoPlay 3D artist. "It has dramatically lowered my texturing and rendering times, allowing the FunGoPlay team to move much faster through our workload."
FunGoPlay.com officially launched July 15, 2011. To view the FunGoPlay TV spots with 3D elements created using LightWave 10, please visit
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NewTek LightWave 3D® combines a state-of-the-art renderer with powerful, intuitive modeling, and animation tools. LightWave 10 is designed to support the creative process, providing the artist with the ability to interact in real time with 3D content, to work seamlessly with the full range of software applications in production pipelines and to render on unlimited render nodes. LightWave is enjoyed worldwide, as a complete 3D production solution for visual effects in film, television, broadcast graphics, print, games, visualization, and the Web, and is responsible for more artists winning Emmy® Awards than any other 3D application. Try LightWave free for 30 days at
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2718 New Century Place E
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July 22, 2019, 7:12 pmTodd WithersPG, Detroit Pistons
The Pistons have signed Todd Withers to an exhibit 10 contract.
Withers will join the Pistons for training camp to compete for a roster spot. The best outcome for Withers is being signed to a two-way contract for this upcoming season. There is no fantasy impact from this signing.
Source: Rick Bonnell on Twitter
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September 16, 2019, 6:33 pmMychal MulderPG, Miami Heat
The Heat have announced the signing of guard Mychal Mulder.
Mulder played last season with the Windy City Bulls of the G-League and averaged 8.8 points in Summer League this year. He has good range but is unlikely to contribute much at the NBA level in 2019-20.
Source: Miami Heat
September 16, 2019, 6:13 pmVincent PoirierC, Boston Celtics
Nicolas Batum praised the play of Celtics center Vincent Poirier at the FIBA World Cup.
According to Batum, Poirier "is a center that can block shots and control the paint." A native of France, Poirier has performed well over six seasons in Europe. Nevertheless, he should only be a depth option for the Celtics with Enes Kanter starting.
Source: NBC Sports Boston
September 16, 2019, 5:49 pmZach LaVinePG, Chicago Bulls
Zach LaVine has been fine tuning his playmaking skills in the offseason, according to an interview with FanSided.
LaVine enjoyed the best field goal percentage of his career for the Bulls last season. He also scored a career best 23.7 points per game. However, LaVine averaged 3.4 turnovers and his fantasy value will increase if he can take better care of the ball.
Source: FanSided
September 16, 2019, 5:19 pmTyler HerroPG, Miami Heat
According to Ira Winderman, rookie Tyler Herro is unlikely to start for the Heat at the beginning of the season.
The Heat drafted Herro out of Kentucky with the 13th pick of the 2019 NBA Draft. Dion Waiters should be the primary shooting guard at the outset. However, expect Herro to get plenty of opportunities to contribute.
September 16, 2019, 4:40 pmJordan MurphyPF, Minnesota Timberwolves
Forward Jordan Murphy will be in training camp with the Wolves after signing an Exhibit 10 deal, according to Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic.
Murphy averaged 14 points and 11 rebounds for the University of Minnesota last season. Murphy could join the Iowa Wolves of the G-League if he does not crack the NBA roster.
September 16, 2019, 4:28 pmSemi OjeleyePF, Boston Celtics
Semi Ojeleye could compete with Grant Williams for more minutes at forward for the Celtics, according to Jay King of The Athletic.
Ojeleye only played 10 minutes per game for the Celtics last season but improved his field-goal shooting to 42 percent. He has shown some defensive prowess but could use more consistency in his perimeter shooting. Ojeleye is unlikely to contribute much for standard league owners.
Source: Jay King of The Athletic
September 16, 2019, 4:06 pmMohamed BambaC, Orlando Magic
The Magic exercised their team option on Mo Bamba, signing him through 2020-21.
Bamba averaged 1.4 blocked shots during his rookie season in just 16 minutes per game. However, the #6 overall pick in 2018 is firmly behind starting center Nikola Vucevic on the Magic's depth chart.
Source: Orlando Magic PR on Twitter
September 16, 2019, 3:49 pmJonathan IsaacPF, Orlando Magic
The Magic exercised their team option on Jonathan Isaac, signing him through 2020-21.
Isaac started 64 games in his second season, scoring 9.6 points per game to go with 5.5 rebounds and 1.3 blocks. Isaac also improved his free-throw shooting, finishing at 81.5 percent. He certainly has the potential to do even more going forward if he can stay healthy.
Source: Magic PR on Twitter
September 16, 2019, 3:41 pmJames Ennis IIISF, Philadelphia Sixers
James Ennis should be the first wing off the bench for the Sixers, according to Rich Hofmann of The Athletic.
Ennis, who averaged 6.7 points in 21 minutes per game last season, will provide depth behind Tobias Harris. His fantasy value isn't terribly high, but head coach Brett Brown trusts his defensive game. This report could mean a slight uptick in playing time for Ennis.
Source: Rich Hofmann of The Athletic
September 16, 2019, 3:16 pmMarkelle FultzPG, Orlando Magic
The Magic have exercised their team option on Markelle Fultz.
That will keep Fultz under control through the 2020-21 season. While Fultz is a former No. 1 overall pick, this was not a slam-dunk decision for the Magic given his health record and all the mystery that's clouded the first couple years of his career. With current starter D.J. Augustin set to hit free agency following the upcoming season, Orlando could be preparing to hand Fultz the reins. We want to know that he's healthy before endorsing him as a fantasy selection but the upside is enough to at least consider a deep-league flier.
Source: Adrian Wojnarowski on Twitter


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Charge a wide range of devices including smartphones and tablets, cameras, headphones and music players with this portable charger. The Sony-made lithium-ion polymer battery offers a capacity of 10000mAh
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The portable charger can recharge your smartphone up to 4 times before it runs out. Take it camping, on long-haul flights, or simply use it as a back-up power supply.
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Visible Vaults
San Diego Museum of Art 1450 El Prado, San Diego, California 92101
This new exhibition will recreate part of The San Diego Museum of Art's most carefully guarded area, a place that is invisible to most visitors—the vaults where the thousands of works of art in our collection are stored. Often curators cannot put everything on view that deserves to be displayed; some works of art are too fragile, some are too light-sensitive, and others do not have the proper context in the galleries. However in this behind-the-scenes display, visitors will have the opportunity to discover nearly 300 little-known masterpieces, including works on paper, sculpture, ceramics, cloisonné, snuff botles, tiles, and paintings
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Jessica Simpson was given a special treat during an appearance on the debut of Katie Couric's new daytime talk show – a message from her idol Dolly Parton.
The country star recorded a video message for the singer and reality TV star, congratulating her on becoming a first-time mom.
The "Jolene" singer said, "I'm so proud of you for everything that's going on good for you, and that baby is absolutely beautiful; I can't wait to see her in person. (She's) pretty like her mama."
The TV appearance on "Katie" was Simpson's first since she became a mom to daughter Maxwell Drew in May.


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Coming out of Southern California during the rap-metal explosion around the turn of the century, Atreyu crafted a sound much closer to Agnostic Front or Hatebreed. The metalcore quintet was formed by Brandon Saller (drums/vocals), Dan Jacobs (guitar), Chris Thomson (bass), Travis Miguel (guitar), and Alex Varkatzas (vocals). Their warped, detuned guitars are matched by pounding drums and acidic vocals, which give the material an edge otherwise absent from their sludge metal. Atreyu released various demos, including the seven-song EP Visions, in the late '90s before commercially debuting with the Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty EP on Tribunal in late 2001; the full-length Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses appeared the next year on Victory. Touring almost nonstop in support of the record, the group faced lineup changes as bassist Marc McKnight replaced Thomson before the recording of their follow-up. Atreyu's second full-length, The Curse, surfaced in June 2004 and went on to sell over 300,000 copies; it was re-released with an accompanying DVD a year later. The guys hit the road hard, playing 2004's Ozzfest and 2005's Warped Tour, in addition to headlining their own successful world tour. They contributed a track to 2006's soundtrack to Underworld: Evolution and were near the top of the billing for the year's Taste of Chaos tour, alongside the Deftones and Thrice. Their next effort, A Death Grip on Yesterday, was issued in late March 2006 and hit number nine on the Billboard charts. Following a summer spent headlining the second stage at the year's Ozzfest, Atreyu jumped into the major-label waters over at Hollywood Records, leaving an early-2007 best-of collection as their Victory farewell. Their Hollywood debut, Lead Sails Paper Anchor, followed later in the year. In 2008, the album was re-released with bonus materials, including a DVD. Atreyu didn't waste any time, and in late 2009 they released their fifth studio album, Congregation of the Damned.
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Last spring, the state Legislature took up revamping in part Ohio's renewable energy portfolio mandate in what was ultimately to become Senate Bill 315. Before that bill was passed, there were arguments made by various interests about the role of combined heat and power in Senate Bill 315. Combined heat and power, also known as "co-generation" or CHP, refers to power plants that simultaneously produce both heat and electricity. The electricity is generated by a gas turbine, and the byproduct heat is captured to make steam, commonly used in industrial applications, but also to make hot water or to warm buildings in the winter. Power generation typically has to be on site in order to capture the value of the heat, which cannot be transported long distances. If the heat can be successfully captured, however, it makes for a highly efficient energy system, saving both dollars and harmful emissions. Advocates of CHP wanted to see it treated as a renewable energy resource, like wind and solar, even though it typically burns natural gas as a fuel. The reason CHP developers wanted this special treatment was that they wanted access to renewable energy credits (RECS), and, more importantly, to net metering that would essentially allow them to sell excess power back to their utility — both provided for previously in Senate Bill 221 for renewable generation. Others feared that treating CHP as a renewable would diminish the value of wind as a response to the mandates of Senate Bill 221 requiring utilities to provide power from renewable sources. Their argument was that unless fired by biomass, CHP is not renewable, and therefore should be considered as "advanced energy" under SB 221 (it already was) or, in the alternative, as "energy efficiency," since capturing both heat and power increases efficiencies significantly. The wind proponents won this debate. Under Senate Bills 221 and 315, CHP may now be considered as either a form of advanced energy or a form of energy efficiency. Since the advanced energy mandate has no benchmarks (and no RECs or penalties to stimulate advanced energy), it is really the energy efficiency side that was intended by legislature to provide new incentive for CHP development. But it is not entirely clear how this will happen. This is how it should work: by switching from the grid to CHP, and by increasing energy efficiency (by as much as 40%), merchant energy customers (i.e. more than 750,000 kWh/year) can escape paying some or all of the DSE-2 rider that accompanies all of our bills from our utility. The DSE-2 rider is how utilities recover their costs for compliance with the SB 221 energy efficiency mandates and customers can avoid it with efficiency upgrades. At Cleveland State, our DSE-2 rider currently runs around $50,000/year. However as the more inexpensive energy efficiency projects are completed, costs for the utilities to comply with the REC mandate increase over time. No one knows exactly where this will end up, but if it works out like it has in New Jersey, where a similar portfolio standard has been in place longer, CSU could, in a few years, be looking at paying several hundred thousand dollars a year for its share of the rider. So you can see how, on its face, this new classification of CHP as a form of energy efficiency has the potential to be quite valuable to CHP developers. The problem, however, lay in how the developer comes to realize this value. By switching to CHP, a merchant user will, under most circumstances, significantly reduce its purchase of both energy and capacity from the utility. Indeed, that is the point of on-site generation: only supplemental or back up power will be purchased, and experience has shown that the reliability of CHP units is so high that they significantly reduce the need for both peak generation and transmission capacity – the two major threats to the future cost of power in Cleveland. If there is no significant purchase of electricity from the grid, then there is no significant DSE-2 rider to waive. So that means that the only time that the classification of CHP as a form of energy efficiency will have value is when the CHP project is off site, and a utility is required to deliver the power from the CHP unit to the merchant customer. But this will normally be of little interest to the merchant customer. He would not then avoid the transmission and capacity charges from the utility, which are the principal incentives to build CHP in the first place. Moreover, the heat may be difficult to capture if the system is too remote. In short, it would appear that Senate Bill 315 has created a special status for CHP that has marginal value to CHP developers. One might argue that on-site CHP developers have no complaint, since their DSE-2 rider costs are greatly diminished by not having to purchase electricity from the grid. But this was so before SB 315. It appears that SB 315 has created additional value for CHP only for off-site CHP. This can't be what the redactors of SB 315 intended -- off-site CHP normally does not make sense to merchant customers. I understand that the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is now looking at how to enable CHP to flourish in Ohio. This is one conundrum I hope that they take up. Unless PUCO can devise a strategy for merchant electricity customers to find value in the classification of CHP as a form of energy efficiency, it would appear that this part of SB 315 is superfluous.
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Sounded good to me. As you see from the map, the Red Car Property is a strange, bent finger of land, than runs between people's back gardens, and not really very long, less than a mile end to end. (It's the red bit, I thought it should be clickable but apparently it's not. Blogger eh?) There have been various attempts to redevelop it, including a plan to build new houses there. LA is, of course, the home of the impossible real estate plot, but even so it's hard to imagine how that would work, the land in the corridor is more or less flat but it rises sharply on one side, drops sharply on the other, there wouldn't see to be room for both houses and an access road. In any case, so far it's come to nothing.
I know bits of Silver Lake reasonably well, but not this part. I used the map and information from a website named www.modernhiker.com. I gained access at the corner of Alessandro Way and Lake View Avenue, right opposite the Holyland Exhibition which alas was closed when I was there.
Initially the route runs alongside a chain link fence above the freeway, then widens out into open land, a desire line running across the middle, before narrowing again, and remaining unpaved as it takes you between people's houses and back yards. This land isn't public, and it certainly doesn't belong to the properties that line it, but as is the human way, the locals have spread themselves, encroached, extended their gardens, parked multiple cars and trucks on the land. Someone seems to have made a shrine to a dead pet, at least one hopes it's a pet. And nature has played is part too: there are escapee yuccas and cacti cascading down the hillsides.
In various places as you walk along you can see multiple main roads, you're in sight and loud earshot of the freeways, and you can see mountains and indeed Forest Lawn cemetery in the distance. It's a very LA landscape at certain points, at others it feels like you could be in rural Arkansas.
Like I said, it isn't a very long walk, there and back is just a couple of miles, although it's easy enough to extend it in various directions. Journey's end, such as it is, is an arrangement of concrete blocks set on a hillside above Riverside Drive. I have read that these are known as the Stonehenge of LA, but I'm not sure to whom. In fact this City of Los Angeles Historic Landmark # 770, and the concrete blocks were once the footings of the Pacific Electric Red Car Viaduct.
A website called http://redcarproperty.blogspot.com/ has pictures of the Red Car line, including the viaduct (above), but it takes a pretty enormous feat of the imagination to picture exactly how this fits with the current topography. As you see, at the time I was there someone was using the footings as bases for art works.


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Lantic Bay Breaker - 600x300mm print - Limited Edition of 50.
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My limited Edition prints are produced to the highest archival quality standards, individually signed and come with a certificate of authenticity.
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