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Netflix will open its steaming service to people in a half-dozen additional European countries by the end of the year, nearly doubling the number of nations it serves on on the continent.
The move announced on Wednesday will be the company's biggest expansion in years, bringing streaming video to Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. From a technological perspective, offering service in one country is pretty similar to offering service in another: Plug in the pipes and get the flicks flowing. But Netflix's main challenge as it moves into new parts of the world is securing distribution rights to movies and television shows. That's why the service looks different in different countries.
A Netflix spokesman declined to give specifics about the shape of the service in its new markets, where prices have to be announced. Netflix has said it uses a number of factors to determine what it shows in a new market. Apart from considering local tastes, the company looks at the local cable deals and assesses what's popular on piracy sites to determine that. Such work can slow the company down. "It's difficult to imagine a pan-European strategy for programs—in most countries, the Top 10 watch list is still mostly national content specific to each country," Gilles Fontaine, an analyst at France-based Digiworld, told Bloomberg News.
It's expensive for Netflix to move into a new country. Marketing costs are particularly high at first because local cord-cutters may not be familiar with the service. Netflix may also have to spend more on content in some places, depending on competition. So even if there is local demand for a show, Netflix might decide against paying to distribute it. At times, competitors may try to structure deals that keep the company from carrying certain shows.
"It really does depend on the territory," Netflix Chief Financial Officer David Wells said at JPMorgan's global technology, media, and telecom conference on Tuesday. "There's some markets where the incumbent players may be trying to lock rights and other things, but what I've learned over the last two years to four years is it's extremely difficult to suck all the content oxygen out of the air of a market. There's a lot of content. We've entered markets before where there's certain content that has been locked up or not available or 'too expensive' and we've been able to compete and add things on the margin. And then—suddenly—something unlocks."
That unlocking process could take some time. For those who can't wait, a cottage industry has emerged to trick Netflix (and other content companies) into thinking that someone in, say, France, is really in Canada. One show that might be driving Europeans to such services? Netflix's House of Cards, a show that, in the U.S., is the face of Netflix's foray into original content. Because the company doesn't own international first-run rights to distribute House of Cards digitally, Germans who subscribe to the service may not quite understand what their American friends have been talking about.


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With senior right tackle Josh Oglesby slowed by a strained MCL suffered against Northern Illinois, redshirt freshman Rob Havenstein will get his first career start when No.6 Wisconsin hosts South Dakota at 2:30 p.m. at Camp Randall.
"He's looked pretty good in spring, early in fall camp and he just got back to being healthy before the opener," UW coach Bret Bielema said Thursday. "He's gotten a few game reps. I think he can handle the speed of the game and obviously, all the things you go through in your first start. Every indication he's shown me is he's a pretty serious kid."
That serious was showed with Havenstein's dedication to his body. Coming in weighing between 368 and 378 pounds, the Maryland native has dropped his weight to 345 pounds, a difference Bielema said is easily noticeable.
"They put him on a diet and he gained five pounds," Bielema said. "What they did last year is start trimming it up … I watched him play basketball in high school and I am amazed at how well he moved. Just to watch him move on the basketball court I was like, 'Wow, this kid really does have some athleticism.'
"He did so many extra workouts and things on his own to lose that weight. It was pretty astonishing."
Oglesby (strained MCL) practiced Thursday and will be available, but it appears the Wisconsin coaching staff will try to rest Oglesby in preparation for the conference opener next Saturday against Nebraska, allowing Havenstein to get his first start.
"I tell you what, I think Josh is afraid of him," Bielema said, implying that a good performance by Havenstein would reopen the right tackle job.
Gaulden is anxious
After missing all of preseason football camp with a titanium rod stuck in his leg to repair a stress fracture, nobody would blame Devin Gaulden if he decided to redshirt and focused on being fully recovered for the 2012 season. Problem is, that's not Gaulden's style.
Gaulden de-committed from two schools during the recruiting process – Auburn and Wake Forest – for the reason, according to Bielema, that the freshman was looking for early playing time right away, something Wisconsin is going to be able to provide him.
"He wanted to play and he thought this would be his best opportunity to play here at Wisconsin early," Bielema said. "I know it's been on his mind … His approach as always been to play."
Gaulden is ahead of Darius Hillary but behind redshirt freshman Peniel Jean in the rotation, but the plan is for the freshman from Fort Lauderdale to get his feet wet against South Dakota and get him involved in the game plan for next week.
"He's only been practicing five days because he just got cleared last week," Bielema said. "He's extremely talented. He's probably one of the pure cover guys I have ever seen at that age … He uses his hands well, is real mature and was raised in an environment with a lot of structure, which I do think carries over to the football field.
Yellow Flagged
Coaching the least penalized team in the nation last season, any amount of penalties Wisconsin committed in this nonconference season would seem like a lot in comparison. But after being flagged for six penalties in each of the first three games, Bielema is looking for a cleaner game in the nonconference finale.
"They're great teaching (point)," Bielema said. "The offsides stuff, I am really glad we are working on here in the nonconference schedule when the games really haven't been in question. We try to discipline ourselves."
An example was Conor O'Neill's hit on the quarterback, which was a penalty called by a Pac 12 crew. Bielema said the hit by O'Neill was explained to him as a, 'not nature tackling act.'
"We teach them to hit below the shoulders and hit with our shoulders, don't hit with your head, which is exactly when he did," Bielema said. "I had never heard that enforced, so that was an area we cleaned up."
Locked In
Even with the conference opener looming, Bielema said his team has been locked in all week, delivering one of the best weeks of practice this early in the season. Wisconsin needs it, considering South Dakota runs a 3-4 defense that isn't used much in the Big Ten and an offense that runs pro-style, spread, Pistol and split-back veer to name a few.
"They do everything," Bielema said of the Coyotes. "It's going to be fun. It's going to be a challenge."
Extra Points: Kevin Claxton (wrist) has practiced this week and is in the game plan Saturday, but sophomore Ethan Armstrong will start his third straight game … Bielema said opposing offenses haven't given Wisconsin's defense a lot of turnover opportunities except for two passes that the defense dropped … Bielema wants to get Melvin Gordon and Fred Willis returning kicks, but wouldn't do it to start a half.
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You know that thing you go through every year, where someone asks you what you want for Christmas?
I hate that. I don't really need anything. I mean, I need a bunch of things…but it's weird to say, "Okay, here's a list of birth, marriage and death certificates I need. Be sure to enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope." I'm a genealogist. I don't need jewelry or sweaters. I need vital records. It's a problem.
This year, I found a solution.
A month or so ago, I was working on my third great-grandma, Sigrid Nilson (or Nelson. Sometimes Nilsson. You know how Scandinavians are.) Sigrid and her husband came from Norway in 1857. They settled near Albert Lea, Minnesota. Four years later, the Civil War began, and Sigrid's husband immediately joined the Union Army. He never came home; he's buried in an unmarked grave in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Sigrid was left in a strange country with three children under the age of six.
So that sucked.
I've never found another marriage record for Sigrid, and my research that day confirmed that she never remarried. She lived for 20 years after her husband died, alone on the farm with those three little kids. That's pretty impressive. I wondered how she managed it. I took a look at the Agriculture Schedule for 1870 for her farm (Ancestry has these for some states, and luckily Minnesota is one of them). If you haven't used these, you're missing out, because they tell you what sort of animals your ancestors had, what crops they grew, etc.
It turns out that my Grandma Sigrid had sheep. Lots of sheep. More than her neighbors. I've been reading an excellent book about the history of knitting (because I'm supercool, obviously). Many women of this era spun wool and knitted for money. Sigrid was from Norway, which is known for its awesome knitting. I took up knitting a couple of years ago, so I'm thrilled to speculate that my grandma knitted her way to financial independence. Who needs another husband when you can rock the needles?
Anyway, the same day I learned all of this, I got a catalog in the mail from Heifer International. This is an organization that buys animals for people in developing countries, so that they can support themselves. For example, giving a family a cow can allow then to have milk for their children, and have more milk to sell to other people. If you buy them a bull, you can make more cows. That's more milk and more money for that family. It's a good thing.
The catalog has prices laid out for various kinds of animals, and you donate an amount that equates to that animal. You can "buy" a family a cow, a goat, a pig…even a whole ark.
Then it dawned on me: Instead of asking for more crap for Christmas, I could ask for a sheep. Somewhere in the world, a mom like my grandma Sigrid is trying to feed her family. The wool from that sheep could help her do it, just like it did for my grandma in 1870.
So this year, that's what I'm doing. I'm getting a sheep for Christmas. In my head, the sheep is totally named Sigrid.
If you don't need more crap for Christmas either, consider looking your ancestors up on the Agriculture Schedule. See what animals helped them feed their families, and then give someone else the same opportunity. Ancestry has Agricultural Schedules for 21 states, and the National Archives has them as well.
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LOS ANGELES — A planned camera controller for Xbox 360 promises 3-D motion recognition that will turn your entire body into a game controller.
Code-named Project Natal, the camera controller will sit beneath your television set and be capable of translating every movement of your body into a game control, Microsoft said Monday as it unveiled the system during its press briefing at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
Natal will let gamers browse the Xbox 360 menus and watch movies, and could help make interactive entertainment as "approachable" as other forms of entertainment, according to Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg, who took the stage during Microsoft's presentation to praise Project Natal.
"It's not about reinventing the wheel," Spielberg said. "It's about no wheel at all."
It's an interesting and unexpected move by Microsoft, which already has captured hard-core gamers with its consoles and is now looking to attract a wider audience by cranking out casual games and turning the Xbox 360 and the Xbox Live digital media deliver service into an entertainment hub. While rumors of a motion controller similar to the Wii's have been making the rounds, Microsoft said it is simply moving beyond the need for any handheld controller.
The company also says Project Natal can pull off facial recognition, making the controller capable of determining who is playing a given game. Top designers like Fable II's Peter Molyneux are currently working on software to use with the hardware, although Microsoft did not say when the controller will be released.
Other announcements made at the show include:
- New game from Gears of War maker Epic
- Metal Gear Solid Rising for Xbox 360
- Sequels to Left 4 Dead and Crackdown
- Relaunching Microsoft's video service as Zune Video with "instant-on 1080p HD"
- Upgrading the Netflix browser on Xbox Live
- Music on Xbox Live through Last.fm
- Social networking on Xbox Live through Facebook and Twitter
Our full live blog coverage follows.
Originally scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time, the media briefing started five minutes early for what Spike TV host Geoff Keighley called a "last-minute surprise" that is "musical in nature." Hm, a musical surprise? Sure, maybe it's GlaDOS making a live personal appearance to sing "Still Alive," but somehow I wonder if it's the Beatles introducing their new videogame.
Whether that's it or not, we'll find out soon enough. Our live blog coverage of all of Microsoft's big Xbox announcements will be right here when the show begins in a few hours.
10:25: Show's about to begin. Right on time, amazingly enough.
10:26: Lights are dimming. Announcer is announcing. People are applauding. E3 has officially begun. Well, technically it doesn't start until Tuesday, but give me a break. A video begins playing. It's The Beatles Rock Band. Here we go.
10:27: Beatles Rock Band looks really good — they're showing all of the animated Beatles cartoons that apparently will be in the game. Looks just as promised — a visual trip through the Beatles' long career. They're putting instruments onstage right now — the drum kit looks pretty awesome, it's got a Beatles logo where the "bass drum" would be. Three microphones. Vocal harmonies confirmed.
10:30: People are onstage, people who as near as I can tell are not the Beatles. One of them is Alex Rigopulos of Harmonix. MTV's Van Toeffler is talking up the game, and Alex and five other people — two guitarists, three singers, Alex on drums — are playing "Day Tripper." The game looks exactly like Rock Band, except with many different vocal lines on the top. If you nail all the vocal parts, you get a "Double Fab!" or "Triple Fab!" rating. Clever!
10:33: I'm just thinking right now about how hard it's going to be to do three-part vocal harmonies with the sort of people I usually hang out with.
10:34: Hey, Giles Martin is onstage. That's kind of like a Beatle. He's revealing the game's first trailer, plus the first 10 songs on the track list. "I Saw Her Standing There," "I Want To Hold Your Hand," "I Feel Fine," "Day Tripper," "Taxman," "I Am the Walrus," "Back in the USSR," "Octopus' Garden," "Here Comes the Sun," "Get Back."
10:37: Downloadable content. Full albums — Abbey Road shortly after launch. "All You Need Is Love" song will be exclusive to Xbox Live, proceeds donated to charity. George Harrison's son comes out onstage for two seconds, waves, says nothing. Ditto Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison.
10:39: OH HAI BEATLES. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr appear onstage to mug and make humorous jokes about videogames.
10:41: And now they're gone. John Schappert, Xbox VP, is now onstage being all excited about getting to follow Paul and Ringo. Cue the corporatespeak. I'll let you know when he says something amazing.
10:42: Today's show will feature 10 world premieres of games that have never before been seen. Nice. I'm still personally excited about singing the entire B-side of Abbey Road all in one go.
10:43: Tony Hawk onstage talking up his new skateboard game, Tony Hawk Ride, which comes with a skateboard-shaped controller. "The whole thing responds like a real skateboard," he says. I would hope so.
10:45: Hawk doesn't announce a release date for the game, just introduces the trailer. On the video, skaters are talking about how you can play this game and experience skateboarding without getting injured. I like it already. You can "push" with your foot on the floor, and a sensor on the board will read that and send your virtual on-screen skater forward. This does seem pretty interesting — we'll have feet-on impressions later this week.
10:48: Trailer for Modern Warfare 2 is playing.
10:49: Please welcome Jason West and Vince Zampella from Infinity Ward, who are going to do a live demo of Modern Warfare 2. It is in the Arctic. A guy is sidling along an ice shelf, climbing up an iceberg. You, in first person, follow behind, seinging your ice picks to climb up. Really really nice animation on these guys — this is a great-looking game. Now we're shooting in a blizzard!
10:53: Modern Warfare continues. War is hell, kids, a different kind of hell than a 90-minute press conference. Guy playing onstage is so totally into it. Face screwed up in grim determination, shaking his shoulders left and right, grimacing when he gets shot. This is how you do a live game demo. He's got his game face on.
10:55: This game features snowmobile riding. Tangos at your six! Take 'em out!
10:57: Schappert's back. Two Modern Warfare maps will be released first on Xbox Live. And now the Final Fantasy XIII producer and director are coming out onstage. Let's see what they've got.
10:58: Last year at E3, says producer Yoshinori Kitase, they "shocked the world" with the FFXIII on Xbox 360 announcements. Today, they are premiering the world's first look at FFXIII running on Xbox 360. It's the Frocobo scene from the demo. With English voices and text.
11:00: Apparently in this version, Lightning has four active-time battle slots instead of the three that we saw in the earlier demo. Lightning summons Odin, which was not in the demo. Apparently summoned monsters remain at your side during battle after they're summoned, and fight next to you. But what's interesting is that FFXIII is already running on 360, in English. They're "targeting" a spring 2010 release. Exeunt.
11:02: Schappert returns. These last games were multiplatform. The rest of the conference will focus on exclusives, he says.
11:03: Cliff B. and Donald Mustard, from Epic Games and Chair Entertainment respectively, come out to show Shadow Complex, their Xbox Live Arcade game. Mustard name-checks Metroid and Castlevania as inspirations. Damn, that's setting a high, high bar. It's a 2.5-D side-scrolling game in which you can run around a wide-open world, finding items that let you continue to explore and combat enemies. 120 hidden items, 10-hour campaign.
11:05: Very short demo. Coming this summer. Next game is called Joyride, from developer BigPark, a part of Microsoft Game Studios. It uses Avatars — it's a wild, cartoony racing game. Winter. Xbox Live Arcade.
11:07: Next game is a "new chapter in a favorite franchise," he says. What could it be? Oh. My. Goodness. It is Crackdown 2. Awesome trailer shows the guy jumping all around the city, blowing people's heads off. Now you are fighting infected creatures.
11:09: Left 4 Dead 2, coming Nov. 17. I know I should be excited, but I'm still thinking about Crackdown 2.
11:11: Splinter Cell Conviction trailer. Ubisoft is coming out now to demo Splinter Cell Conviction.
11:13: Sam Fisher is no longer a secret stealth agent. Now he beats up bikers in bathrooms by smashing their heads into mirrors and sinks. "Driven by his emotions, Sam is now the ultimate predator," says producer. "Each environment is built like a small sandbox," he says, letting you choose how you want to infiltrate and prepare for attacks. Sam is climbing along a pipe hanging from the ceiling, deftly avoiding the guards.
11:16: Jiminy cricket is this demo loud. Turn it down! I am an old man!
11:17: Schappert says that they're shipping the "definitive racing game for this generation," Forza Motorsport 3, in October. That's a bold statement, considering that the competition is Gran Turismo. Hey, there's a car onstage! It's an Audi RAB 10, and I'm sure I transcribed that wrong, somehow.
11:20: As the "definitive racing game of this generation," says producer, "we deliver more." I wonder what that means? Please explain. "The thrills that our competition can't." Graphics engine runs at 60 frames per second, 400 cars from 50 makers, "one-button driving," gameplay rewind features for beginning players. Building community through player-created content. Showing how players can customize and trade cars.
11:22: You can create your own high-def videos of your car in action, swapping camera angles and shots and splicing them together to create a video to show off your custom cars, driving tricks, etc.
11:24: Time for Halo 3: ODST. I see they're keeping the name. They're jumping right into a live demo. SO LOUD. Do I have to start actually wearing earplugs to E3?
11:27: The main character has a low-light visor to see in the semidark. He's roaming around a wide-open area — you have to look for clues to where to go next. Your heads-up display will show you when you're near something important, and you can flip the visor on to see what's up. You'll flash back to other ODST characters, getting little snippets of the plot as you play, learning the secrets of the world.
11:29: ODST's cooperative game mode "Firefight" will be shown at E3. The game's out in September … and now they're showing off a new Bungie project. Called "Halo Reach," coming in 2010. A multiplayer beta of Reach, or the invitation to it anyway, will be included with ODST.
11:33: Finally, Alan Wake. Microsoft's is-it-vaporware game is finally being shown in real time. They seem to be doing a Siren-style faux-episodic presentation — we see a title card reading "Previously on Alan Wake …" before it jumps into the game. All kinds of haunted stuff is happening in the broken-down town that Alan is exploring at night. Looks a lot like a Silent Hill-style game, but very presentationally rich — lots of cool graphical effects, scary moments.
11:38: Apparently this game's enemies really, really don't like light; they run from flares and seem to be damaged by your flashlight. Convenient! Spring 2010.
11:39: Music is coming to Xbox Live, courtesy Last.fm. You can listen to "radio stations" on Xbox Live — instant access to millions of songs. Available to Xbox Live Gold members later this year at no additional charge.
11:41: They're upgrading the Netflix browser on Xbox Live — you can now browse right on the console, no need to use your PC. Hallelujah. Also introducing a similar service, Sky TV, to U.K. and Ireland gamers.
11:42: Relaunching video service as Zune Video. Video will now all be in full 1080p. All movies instant streaming: No downloading necessary. "Instant-on 1080p HD." Launches worldwide this fall.
11:44: Announces Facebook partnership. Facebook is now on Xbox 360. Oh dear. Felicia Day is onstage to introduce us to Facebook. It looks very much like everything else on Xbox 360. You can now link your Xbox Live Friends and Facebook friends together. That is really convenient.
11:47: Facebook Connect will now let you post screenshots of games you're playing to Facebook, on specific games — starting with a future version of Tiger Woods.
11:48: In addition to Facebook, Xbox Live is also going to have Twitter. Post from Twitter from the console, share what you're playing/watching/etc. The tweets you're following are updated instantly. They're both coming this fall.
11:49: Schappert says "we're not done yet." Don Mattrick takes stage. And so does Hideo Kojima. Uh-oh.
11:50: The next game, says Kojima, will be called Metal Gear Solid: Rising and will be released on the Xbox 360. (I don't think it's exclusive, I think it's multiplatform.) They're showing a trailer. It's the images we've seen before. "Metal Gear Solid: Rising." "Raiden… is back," says the trailer. Looks like we're playing as Raiden again. But now Raiden is awesome, so that's cool. "Lightning Bolt Action" is the subtitle.
11:53: Mattrick asks — can we add a motion controller? Sure, he says, but they're not going to. They're going to take away the controller. With their new camera controller, you are the controller. Karate kick your TV screen! Drive a car by pretending to hold a steering wheel! The camera does full-body motion recognition and facial recognition. Looks really powerful. It's a pretty big camera — like a big Wii sensor bar that sits under the TV. The current code name for the project is "Natal."
11:58: You can also use it to browse the Xbox 360 menus and watch movies. If this works exactly as they say it will, it'll be really awesome. (If it works exactly as they say it will.) Steven Spielberg is now onstage, talking about how he wants interactive entertainment to be as "approachable" as other forms of entertainment.
12:01: Spielberg says this is a historic moment, like the shift from a square cinema screen to Imax. "It's not about reinventing the wheel, it's about no wheel at all."
12:02: Kudo Tsunoda, creative director of Natal, is onstage giving us a deeper look at what it's all about with some "early prototypes" that illustrate the creative vision behind the software. The Xbox will automatically recognize your face and sign you in automatically. Full-body motion capture is mimicking all of his movements.
12:04: Showing a game called Ricochet, where you're bouncing balls into the screen, hitting them with your body. "This isn't a game where you end up on the sofa, using preset waggle commands." "Ohhhhhhhhh," says the audience in response to Tsunoda dissing Wii.
12:07: Showing "Splat," a program that lets you paint on a canvas using all kinds of hand gestures.
12:10: Don comes back out, introduces Peter Molyneux, who's going to keep talking about Natal.
12:12: Showing a video of what Lionhead's done with Natal. They've created "Milo," a character that recognizes you and talks to you, reacting to your face and playing with you. It's a really interesting concept.
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UnitedHealth's $100 Million Bill for Hepatitis C DrugsBy
UnitedHealth Group covers 85 million Americans, through commercial health plans and privately run Medicare and Medicaid plans. The nation's largest insurer reported a first-quarter drop in profit today on $31.7 billion in revenue, partly due to the effects of the Affordable Care Act. "The ACA's impacts on 2014 have been immediate and significant," Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hemsley said, according to an earnings call transcript.
But the wild card in UnitedHealth's earnings was a $100 million bill for a new, expensive treatment for hepatitis C. The drug—Sovaldi, developed by Gilead Sciences—is acknowledged as providing significant improvement in treating the liver disease that affects an estimated 3.2 million Americans. It's also expensive: about $84,000 for a course of treatment, or $1,000 a pill.
Sovaldi was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in December. UnitedHealth paid more than $100 million for the drug in the first quarter, for patients in both its commercial business and private Medicare and Medicaid plans. (That means some of the drug's total cost was also shouldered by the government.)
The cost was "a multiple of what we had expected," according to Chief Financial Officer Dan Schumacher.
The more-effective treatment may reduce what insurers pay for hepatitis C patients elsewhere by keeping them healthier. But UnitedHealth officials made it clear they're not happy with the sticker shock: "The price is exceptionally high," Gail Koziara Boudreaux, CEO of UnitedHealth's insurance business, said on the earnings call. That's "putting a lot of pressure on states, [and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] as well as our employer sponsors, so the cost has to be addressed."
Beyond the high cost of treating hepatitis C, UnitedHealth revealed how Obamacare is affecting the insurance business:
Obamacare is costing insurers money. UnitedHealth estimates the law will shave $1.50 off its earnings per share in 2014. That includes taxes, lower reimbursements on private Medicare Advantage plans, and "commercial underwriting changes." The ACA prohibits insurers from medical underwriting—charging sicker people more, or refusing to cover them entirely—and the costs of that change will show up in insurers' earnings this year.
It's also increasing Medicaid business. UnitedHealth runs Medicaid managed-care plans, which means states contract with it to cover low-income families eligible for the program. The insurer added 255,000 members to its Medicaid business, as states expanded eligibility for Medicaid under Obamacare.
UnitedHealth benefited from helping to fix healthcare.gov. The company's health technology subsidiary, known as Optum/Quality Software Services, was brought in as a general contractor in October to help rescue the floundering healthcare.gov. That led to more federal business for the company, and Hemsley said he expects more growth this year.


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This is a very common thing for a videohive author. I worked in 2 project file, and i think, They were enough to get accepted in the market place. But got rejected, but the reasons i got, its not actually enough to improve the item. Now the question for everybody. Actually need tips.
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It would be great if you add more idea in this thread.
If I get AE project rejected for me best way is to wait for few weeks or months. Usually in a time easier to separate your subjectivity and value own work as it is. So I usually get clear understaning why rejection happend.
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The suits in the normally sober business meeting could not help themselves. When news was delivered that the first Formula One jumbo jet had touched down in Austin, Texas, there was a spontaneous outburst of applause and cheering.
The question facing the organisers of the revived United States Grand Prix is whether they will be cheering when the sport has packed up and left after the race tomorrow.
F1 is America's sporting Marmite, a taste never quite fully understood or appreciated in the US. The sport has come and gone, shrugging its collective shoulders with frustration that the Americans never somehow "got" the most technologically sophisticated form of motor racing in the world, preferring Nascar, a race series based on bulky cars with all the styling of a tank, and which have only this season exchanged carburettors for fuel injection systems that have been in the most basic family cars for years.
F1's timing is impeccable, returning after a gap of five years to try to convert a resistant American public on the same weekend as Nascar's championship reaches its finale.
The stakes are already high enough because the race at the Circuit of the Americas, the only purpose-built F1 track in the US, is a NZ$490 million gamble.
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And F1 promises a show-stopping race, with Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso going head to head for the world championship in the Lone Star state. Julie Loignon, vice-president of public relations, says the race is a 120,000-seat sellout, with 300,000 people in Austin over the weekend to enjoy the festivities.
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This race is based on high-rolling numbers: F1 could be worth as much as $268m to the state of Texas, with Austin reaping more than $15.5m of the spending that surrounds every grand prix, from hotel bookings to restaurant takings. But the circuit is a $490m investment and the state is yet to come good on a pledge to help with an annual $29m handout to cover F1's enormous costs.
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The challenge for the Circuit of the Americas is to sustain the interest for the next decade of its contract, and that means convincing millions of sports' fans in America that F1 has changed.
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Norbert Haug, president of all motor sport activity for Mercedes-Benz, which sells more than 250,000 cars a year in the US, said: "It is an important step to return to the United States for our sport and its image. The US is the biggest market for Mercedes-Benz cars in terms of sales and a race in the US belongs in a world championship."
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It is a charge that is difficult to deny at any time, but particularly after F1's brief revival at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which ended in 2007.
F1 could not have done much more to ruin its image if it had borrowed a Colt 45 from a passing cowboy and shot itself in both feet. The debacle of 2005, when only six cars took part as the sport erupted in a pathetic internecine war over tyres, will take a long time to erase from the minds of the American public.
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Re: Water in Cylinders
Jolly, thanks for the feedback, always interesting to know how things come out.
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To all members who helped me with water in my generator problem: I though you would like to hear the outcome.
I removed the head, then suspended the whole genny vertically in order to remove the pan and con rods, This was a job in itself because the whole thing weighs about 350 lbs. Then I pushed the old pistons out the top of the block and found #3 rings completely solidnot due just to the water intrusion eitherbecause the rings were glued in with dry oil and broke prizing them out.
I honed the bores using a Flex tool, then cleaned everything I could see, including scraping a layer of thick oil out the bottom of the pan with a chisel.
The tubes in the heat exchanger were 50% clogged with calcium buildup.
The head needed three new exhaust valves, which were pitted.
Clearly it was time for a total overhaul, never mind the water problem.
After everything was cleaned and painted afresh I began the rebuild. Three days meticulously fitting new pistons/rings and valves and replacing bits as best I could remember where they went.
With my heart in my mouth and the wife unable to watch, I finally pressed the go button and the darn thing fired up like nothing had ever been wrong.
#%!&*$ I didnt know whether to kick it or kiss it!
Parts cost $594.00 including three new pistons and rings, gaskets, oil, etc. The valve lapping from NAPA was another $55. The Flex tool was $45 and the ring clamp $14. With new pipes and bit and bobs total about $730.00
It now runs as smooth as a babys bottom and quieter than before. Oil pressure 80 at startup, 60 running. Temperature 160F no load, 175F under full load.
Gauge is showing 126 volts and it does not even flinch when both ACs are on and the electric kettle is boiling for the tea.
Ive started and stopped it five or six times to check if there was any water back-flushing, but I believe the new anti-siphon pipes prevent this. Plenty of water coming out the exhaust at the back of the boat.
Again, thanks for all your help fellas, and happy thanksgiving. Now what other jobs are on my list
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Don't know what your experience level is, but suggest you make a few short "shakedown" trips, especially if you have a lot of recently done work on all the various systems, before going on a long haul trip.
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Thanks for the info Mechsmith.
I know one thing, its much easier writing about repairing these heavy machines than doing it. I strained my back lifting the damn thing, so I wont be doing anything for a week, at least until the parts arrive.
Im just going to get it all as clean as I can and from the looks of the inside I actually think the water only got into the #3 bore, after I switched it off. There was also no trace in the oil which I drained, or the filter.
I thought I was just about through with all the big renovations and alterations on this old tubthat would be the boat, not the wife.
We were planning our first cruise to the Bahamas, come January. But it might be less stressful if we took one on The Royal Caribbean Line instead.
Ill let you all know the moment the darn thing starts up again.
Re: Water in Cylinders
You gotta do what you gotta do. Antiseize is another product used as an assembly lube to insure the proper tension on head and main bearing bolts and other corrodible parts that may have to come apart some years later. Especially use the antiseize on bolts that go into any light metal parts. (prevents electrolytic corrosion)
Always use the locktite on the big end rod bolts and on small bolts that attach stamped parts to heavy parts. (oil pan-cam and rocker covers etc).
Are you having fun yet?
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Re: Water in Cylinders
I dont know what hot tanking is, but if it means I have to take it somewhere it cant be done for the reasons Ive already explained. The inside of the block is quite clean with no signs of rust, but I can scour it with a degreaser.
There is also no sign of rust or any contamination on the rods or big end shells.
I thought of using engine start (ether) or carb cleaner (carbon tet) on the passageways, then blowing them out with compressed air.
I told the machine shop guy what it was all about, and he said he would be careful with the valves, and only skim the head if it was outside normal limits. Im sure they will do a better job than I could do with my suction cups.
I use locktite to stop screws coming loose, but is this another product?
Re: Water in Cylinders
Remove any oil plugs and small parts. Hot tank, Rifle brushes, lint free rags and time. After the hot tank spray it off good with WD40 or equivalent to prevent further rusting. It must be cleaner than dishes. Compressed air is useful.
Be careful that machine shop doesn't take too much metal off the valves. I have run across anodized or aluminized valves that shouldn't be ground at all. (Ford "Kent" engines for example).
I hope that you are familar with "antiseize" and "Locktite" or equivalent".
Good luck and it's actually kind of fun. All parts of the lifestyle!
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Galley brushes. very stiff small diameter bottle brushes 3 ft long.
Re: Water in Cylinders
A search on engine oil passage cleaners came up with all kinds of products:
If you suspect oil passages may be blocked, low oil pressure, or the pick up screen plugged up, or lots of sludge in the pan or valve covers, I suppose you could try one or more of the products.
If the passages are really plugged up, it is possible the only thing that may work is to have the block & head "hot tanked" by a shop.
Paul T
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I had intended to re-lap the valves myself, but we have a NAPA machine shop in Titusville and they will do it, including skimming the head if it is warped, for $90. So I've given it to them because I have enough to do with the rest of the motor.
The piston with the seized rings was not just a result of the recent water ingress. The oilways were totally clogged up with old dry oil and it's a wonder the engine did not throw the rod before now. Anyway, I have ordered new pistons and rings.
Now, bearing in mind the motor is sitting vertically, attached to the generator section beneath it, on it's platform in the bilge. I can't possibly take it anywhere, it's just too heavy and won't fit through the door without splitting the generator off it.
So how is it best to clean the rest of the engine and oil ways?
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It happened that the night they were cutting what was supposed to be a throwaway, their fellow Chateaus member Dale Frashuer was present and he suggested they cut a song they'd performed eight years previously called "Kiss Him Goodbye," which the three of them had written in 1961. It was Leka's idea to put a chorus into the number, which, at the piano, in the absence of a lyric, became "na na na na, na na na na." Then fate really took a hand when the management at Mercury Records heard the throwaway side and determined that it should be the single. The three musicians, especially DeCarlo, were outraged and they refused to put their names on the record, though they did claim the songwriting credit, which proved to be a shrewd move. "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye," released late in 1969, rose to number one on the charts that December and sold more than a million copies in America alone. In place of their names, the trio okayed it going out under the name Steam.
Suddenly, with a number one single to its credit, however, there were demands for Steam to perform, make appearances on television, and do all the other things that were usually done by groups to support a hit record -- except that there was no group. Leka put together a band, consisting of Jay Babina and Tom Zuke on guitar, Mike Daniels on bass, Hank Schorz at the keyboards, Ray Corriea on drums, and Bill Steer (no, not the same one who was in Napalm Death) handling the lead vocals. All came from Leka's hometown of Bridgeport, CT, and toured behind the single during 1970. A self-titled Steam album was cut at Mercury and a handful of follow-up singles appeared, only one of which ("I've Gotta Make You Love Me") ever charted, just missing the Top 40 in 1970.
Meanwhile, Gary DeCarlo's preferred songs, issued credited to Garrett Scott, were all duly issued and vanished without a trace. Paul Leka went on to work with Jimmy Spheeris, Harry Chapin, Gloria Gaynor, and REO Speedwagon as a producer, and played on records by Lori Lieberman, among many others. "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" never did disappear -- quite the contrary, it rode the charts for a big chunk of 1970 and then got put into every and any hits anthology that Mercury could release or license, and was quickly accepted as into oldies collections (it qualified as a '60s hit, after all, and offended no one). The song lingered as a favorite of both decades' popular music activities, and then, in the 1980s, became a hit all over again in the hands of megastar British girl group Bananarama, who also featured it on their Top Ten LP Deep Sea Skiving. According to performing rights organization BMI, the song is in the elite company of pop/rock compositions that have had at least three million airings on radio. The song has also been the (ex officio) anthem for the Chicago White Sox and is one of those '70s hits that listeners never seem to tire of. ~ Bruce Eder
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On the heels of a horsemen's dispute that spoiled its 1999 opening week, Tampa Bay Downs is having problems signing a purse contract before opening day Dec. 16, and it could be compounded by legal problems.The Oldsmar, Fla., track appears to have violated its existing purse agreement with horsemen by denying stalls to six officers, or their trainers, of the Tampa Bay Downs Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, according to HBPA officials.Last year, a dispute with horsemen over the distribution of money between overnight and stakes purses forced the track to open without a purse contract. Opening day was dismal -- no simulcasting, short fields, poor attendance, and low on-track handle. A one-year contract soon was ironed out, and it included a provision that protected HBPA officers from retribution by track management."I don't think there is any question they violated that agreement," said Bob Van Worp, vice president of the Tampa Bay Downs HBPA. His son, Judson, trains his horses and was denied stalls.
"It appears Tampa Bay Downs is manipulating this whole thing," said Kent Stirling, executive director for the Florida HBPA, who is helping negotiate the new contract. "They want a rival horsemen's group formed so they can negotiate with them."John Grady, Tampa Bay Downs general manager, said he wouldn't comment on Van Worp's and Stirling's allegations. He has insisted that no one is being picked on, and that stall allocations are strictly "business decisions." The track has 2,300 stall applications and only 1,328 stalls.Contract negotiations have stalled for nearly two weeks. The Tampa Bay Downs HBPA sent a draft contract to track management Nov. 10, but received no response and has been unable to set up a meeting to discuss it, according to Van Worp.
"I think this will be tougher than last year," Van Worp said. "We'd rather sit down and work this out, but we have not qualms about going to court because we feel we'll prevail."The horsemen want the new contract to specify how new purse money will be distributed,and would like HBPA officers to hae more of a voice in how existing purse money is spent.
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I've just been going through my old bookmarks which are in a total mess and have come across an old article which I thought I'd lost.
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Ecstatic Music Festival 2014
Limning the same borders between and across genres as New Sounds, the Ecstatic Music Festival is an entire series of adventurous commissions & collaborations between artists with different musical backgrounds. The Ecstatic Music Festival is now in its fourth season at the Kaufman Center and brings together all sorts myriad influences, resulting in brilliant and ambitious musical chimeras, inhabiting the space between and across the traditions from which they originated. The full Ecstatic Music Festival (Feb 1-March 29) schedule is HERE. New Sounds is proud to co-present the following shows:
3/13/2014 – Bang on a Can PCF Concert
On Thursday March 13, 2014, New Sounds Live and the Ecstatic Music Festival present the Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund Concert with works by Alvin Lucier, Richard Reed Parry, and Daniel Wohl, in addition to a performance of David Lang's haunting "death speaks" featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars with special guest Shara Worden. The performance is at 7:30PM and will be streamed live on Q2 Music.
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3/19/2014– Timo Andres, Gabriel Kahane, Ted Hearne, Becca Stevens, Nathan Koci
Hear the new "work songs" by composer/pianist Timo Andres on Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Specifically created for fellow rising-star composers and multi-instrumentalists Gabriel Kahane, Ted Hearne, Becca Stevens and Nathan Koci, this multi-movement song cycle consists of texts having to do with facets of professions, jobs and labor and was inspired by old fashioned American parlor songs. The performance is at 7:30PM and will be streamed live on Q2 Music.
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3/26/2014 – So Percussion, Buke & Gase
Be impressed by the innovative percussion quartet So Percussion with master instrument builders and songsmiths Buke and Gase. On Wednesday, March 26, experience the premiere of a collaborative work featuring new instruments built by Aron Sanchez from Buke and Gase, alongside So's regular mess of traditional percussion instruments, electronics, toys and other noise-generating objects, plus Buke and Gase's homemade instruments including the "buke," a six-string former-baritone ukulele; and the "gase," a guitar-bass hybrid. The performance is at 7:30PM and will be streamed live on Q2 Music.
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The Australian hooker Chad Randall will step in as captain of Harlequins in the absence of Rob Purdham, who will miss at least the first 10 weeks of the new Super League season because of injury.
The 30-year-old Randall, who is starting his fifth season with the Londoners, will lead them for the first time in Friday afternoon's friendly against London Skolars at the HAC Artillery Ground.
"It is a great honour to be awarded the captaincy and I'm looking forward to leading the boys in Purdham's absence," said the former Manly Sea Eagles player who last season made his 150th successive appearance for Quins.
"I've been with this group of players for several years now and have played a lot of game time for Quins which will all definitely help."
Brian McDermott, the Harlequins head coach, said: "Chad Randall has been a massive leader for us over the past few years. His on-the-field leadership and demeanour won't need to change much, it's just he'll be wearing the captain's armband for now."
Purdham, who has led Harlequins for the past three years, underwent surgery on a torn shoulder ligament last week and is expected to be sidelined for up to three months.


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No. 18 UTEP Comes Up Short Against SMU In C-USA Title Game
March 9, 2008
ORLANDO, Fla. - The No. 18 UTEP women's basketball team was upended by second-seeded SMU, 73-57, in the 2008 Conference USA Championship game Sunday afternoon.
The setback is the first for the Miners (27-3) in more than three months, and halts the nation's longest unbeaten streak at 23 games. UTEP, which became the first team in league history to run the table at 16-0, had been taking aim at its initial conference tournament crown in program history.
It was not to be, though, as in a game with monumental runs, SMU (24-8) answered an 18-0 spurt by UTEP with a 17-0 surge of its own to turn a 38-30 Orange and Blue lead with 12:41 to play into a 47-38 advantage at the 6:53 mark. The Miners tried to rally, cutting the deficit to as few as five (53-48) with 3:30 on the clock, but they could get no closer.
Now 27-3 on the year, with the lone losses to Big 12 champion Kansas State, 24-8 SMU- two of those losses at the hands of UTEP- and 20-10 Nebraska, UTEP will learn its fate for the NCAA tournament on Monday, March 17 at 5 p.m. MST when selections to this year's field are announced live on ESPN.
A team which has been very balanced throughout the entire year- evidenced by four players in double figures and a fifth on the cusp on average- all but two of UTEP's points on the day came courtesy of Izabela Piekarska, Jareica Hughes and Natasha Lacy. The senior post led the way with her sixth double-double (21 points, 10 boards), while Hughes (19 points, five assists and four steals) and Lacy (15 points, five helpers and five steals) also cracked double figures.
Timika Williams also contributed, grabbing a game-high 12 boards, including four of the offensive variety.
The Mustangs had four in double digits, with Brittany Gilliam's 20-point, seven-board effort leading the way.
SMU raced out to an 8-0 edge, as the Miners misfired early on. UTEP answered in the form of a 5-0 spurt to make it 8-5 and 10-7, but the Mustangs countered with an 11-3 run to grab its largest lead of the opening half, 21-10, with blank to play in the period.
The Miners clawed backed by out-pacing SMU 10-2 the next couple of minutes. The result was the Orange and Blue slicing the deficit to a mere three points, 23-20, with 1:30 remaining in the period. Cobb drilled a runner in the lane to halt the spurt, and afford the Mustangs a 25-20 edge entering the locker room.
SMU christened the second stanza much like the first, with five straight points push their edge to 10 (30-20). The Miners responded much like the champions that they are (regular-season C-USA title), utilizing an 18-0 stretch over the next 6:28.
SMU countered with the aforementioned 17-0 stretch of its over, which spanned almost six minutes. UTEP tried to extend the game in the final two minutes, fouling to put the Mustangs on the free-throw line. SMU stepped up, though, connecting as they had throughout the entire game, and the comeback try was denied.
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Ohio State's 40-20 victory over Buffalo to open the season Saturday looked for about 15 minutes like it was going to be the blowout that was predicted. Braxton Miller was the sharper passer people hoped he would be. Dontre Wilson was the open-field dynamo as was foretold. Jordan Hall lived up to the hype that has been building seemingly since last spring, and veteran receivers Devin Smith and Chris Fields got in on the act, too, hinting Miller should have more help this season.
The young defense allowed the Bulls to move with some consistency by attacking the edges in the passing game, but they had no points and only 63 total yards to show for their six first downs when the first quarter came to an end.
Then a funny thing happen – warts began to show on the Buckeyes. The offense turned the ball over twice in the second quarter, and Buffalo turned both into touchdowns to make it a game. The defense forced two punts after the Bulls scored, but then the Silver Bullets allowed a pair of long drives to start the third quarter. The offensive line expected to be a strength sprung a couple of leaks, and Wilson put the ball on the turf while trying to make a move near midfield.
Of course the more talented Buckeyes prevailed comfortably when all was said and done, but we were still left to wonder what had happened to let them lose their grip on the game. (It's football, so we necessarily get a week to overthink things. It's part of the experience!) Well, a few things. First of all, the Buffalo defender who was in the middle of much of the havoc that threw the Buckeyes off their rhythm happens to be a very good player. A known quantity coming into the game, Khalil Mack had nine tackles, including 2.5 sacks, and seems to come from the mold of MAC defensive playmakers that also includes James Harrison and Jason Taylor. Physical and fast, he is tough and relentless as well. Miller and head coach Urban Meyer were among those to tip their caps to him when it was over, and that was well-deserved.
I suppose it also comes as no surprise the 6-3, 248-pounder did a lot of his damage against the new starter on the offensive line. Taylor Decker, a 6-7, 315-pound sophomore of whom much is expected, had a rough afternoon dealing with Mack, who both went through him and around him on separate occasions. But Mack was an equal opportunity block-beater, eluding a cut attempt by left tackle Jack Mewhort to free himself to intercept a screen pass and jamming left guard Andrew Norwell (a big, powerful young man) into the backfield on another play that looked (Mack was called for illegal use of the hands on that play, of course, for getting too high on Norwell, but I don't think that took much away from how impressive the play was.) like it could be another turnover.
Talented youngsters like Decker and Wilson (who later redeemed himself with an electrifying kickoff return that set up a touchdown run by Hall) will have better days, it seems certain, but their miscues serve as a reminder of how fragile college football games can be.
What we can expect to learn this week: All in all, getting the hair tousled a big might not turn out to be such a bad thing. No one was noticeably down about the outcome in the post-game interview room, nor should they be. It remains to be seen how good Buffalo will be – not much is expected – but that doesn't matter a whole lot.
This week's upcoming opponent, San Diego State, is coming off a nine-win season and is expected to have another solid campaign, but the Aztecs were humbled at home 40-19 by Eastern Illinois, a member of the FCS.
SDSU led 19-16 at the half but was outscored 21-3 in the second half. EIU gained 533 total yards against a veteran defense that is expected to be good this season, which goes to show every Saturday can have a surprise in store when it comes to college football.
Ohio State might end up being better served to have seen some struggles in the first game. This season figures to have as many mental hurdles as it does physical ones, and I could easily see the first one rising when the first three touchdowns of the season came so easily last Saturday.
Young and confident is a good thing to be, but there is a fine line between that and getting dangerously cocky. There are days only hard work will do the job, and that can only be learned by experience. Many high-flying teams crumble at the first sign of adversity, but Ohio State found a way to keep moving the ball offensively even if it wasn't pretty or quite consistent.
Considering seven of Buffalo's points came on Mack's interception return for a touchdown, the OSU defense ended up with pretty solid numbers. Allowing 14 points and 258 yards every week will win a lot of football games, and that was with the team's best cornerback suspended and its top linebacker slowed by cramps.
So, all in all, the first game of the 2013 season goes down as a positive learning experience that included enough of a point cushion to prevent much scrutiny from the outside yet small enough to work as a motivational tool for coaches bent on providing the type of perfection fans so fervently demand.
On to the next one…
Big Ten thoughts: Michigan got off to a nice start, but we'll learn more about the Wolverines this week against Notre Dame (and more about the Fighting Irish, for that matter)… Michigan State's offense had a very discouraging showing, but I am still bullish on them. The defense remained sharp… Nebraska picks up right where it left off on both sides of the ball, eh? The evolution of the Cornhusker defense and/or the Michigan State offense are two crucial elements of this season if the Big Ten wants to gain back some national respect… For Indiana I think it was important not only to win but win big, especially considering it was a lesser opponent that has given the Hoosiers problems in recent years. Confidence figures to be a big factor for them if they want to make a bowl, which I believe is possible… I saw more than one person say, "Minnesota won, but they didn't look good." You realize it's Minnesota, right? I guess I missed where the Golden Gophers received all that love in the preseason polls. A win is a win – especially by more than two touchdowns… Wisconsin thumped a patsy in September. Ho hum… Good win for Northwestern, especially with a big weapon sidelined in Kain Colter. I'm not entirely sure how big the rebuilding process is for Sonny Dykes at Cal, but the Wildcats can't take any road game against a BCS opponent for granted… Penn State has to be encouraged by a victory away from home to start the season with a true freshman quarterback leading the way. I could see the Nittany Lions evolving into a team that wins games with a ball-control passing game as roster limits begin to take effect in the next couple of seasons (Joe Tiller-era Purdue?), making it tougher to field a really talented defense… Iowa did not do much to hurt my prediction of 2-10 for Kirk Ferentz's squad… Purdue, meanwhile, did shake my confidence in its ability to have a solid first season under Darrell Hazell. Only one game and Cincinnati should be a solid squad, though… Illinois is apparently still in the Big Ten and did not lose.


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Super Bowl comes to Indianapolis, with more cold ahead
INDIANAPOLIS – Forget the palm trees and balmy poolside barbecues. The thousands of fans and sports business moguls who spend freely to make Super Bowl weekend a non-stop party will need to prepare for dreary cold or climate-controlled comfort of the great indoors.
America's roman-numeraled sports holiday comes to Indianapolis this week for version XLVI and another sidetrip to a palatial new facility off the NFL's traditional track of sun-splashed championship climes. This one is a sop to taxpayers who put more than $1 billion toward retractable-roofed Lucas Oil Stadium, which kept the Colts in town, and other municipal improvements aimed at economic impact from Super Week and business far beyond.
But it also could be Step I of a process that convinces the league's owners to award their coveted event to more cold-weather sites — a snow and ice storm last year the week before the Super Bowl in Dallas, notwithstanding.
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In 2014, after making its 10th visit to New Orleans, the Super Bowl will tempt meteorological fate with a stop in the New York area and an open-air staging at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. That will be the NFL's first outdoor title game at a northern site since the Super Bowl era began following the 1966 season.
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Indianapolis is putting the finishing touches on preparing for an extravaganza that doesn't cower from the weather but doesn't ignore it.
New York Giants owner John Mara believes the Indianapolis and New York-New Jersey experiences will go a long way toward determining where future Super Bowls are played. He noted that many of the NFL's most memorable games were played in breath-freezing conditions — think Dallas Cowboys-Green Bay Packers in the 1967 Ice Bowl at Lambeau Field— and pointed to Washington, D.C., and Chicago as other potentially intriguing northern sites.
In 2006, Detroit played host to Super Bowl XL at domed Ford Field, which had opened in 2002. (The Super Bowl also has been played just outside Detroit, at the Pontiac Silverdome, in 1982, and in Minneapolis in 1992.)
"I think there are some other cold-weather sites that would have a chance," Mara says. "There are some other owners who are against doing that, but obviously we had enough votes needed to get it here."
It is hardly coincidental that, like Detroit for the 2006 game, Indianapolis and New York-New Jersey were awarded Super Bowls after opening state-of-the-art stadiums.
"There is a high expectation that if you get a new stadium built in a cold-weather site with a dome, or a retractable roof in our case, that you will have a great opportunity to host," Colts owner Jim Irsay says. "Owners do recognize the importance of bringing the Super Bowl to a public-private partnership."
Says New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft: "We are going to those communities where public money is involved and saying, 'Thank you.' "
MetLife Stadium was privately financed, but Kraft notes that the impetus to experiment with an outdoor game in the New York area began with the terrorist attacks on 9/11 that leveled the World Trade Center.
"I look at the New York metropolitan area as the financial hub of the planet," he says. "It represents so much of Americana that they deserved it with the symbolism of holding it there."
Cities and regions among the NFL's old reliables for the Super Bowl are no longer taking for granted their status as preferred sites.
South Florida is the current leader with 10 Super Bowls hosted at the Orange Bowl in Miami or the facility now known as Sun Life Stadium, which is located between Miami and Fort Lauderdale in Miami Gardens. But the Miami Dolphins are pushing for public funds to renovate Sun Life Stadium, with an eye toward enhancing a bid for the 50th Super Bowl in 2016; that's the next one whose site has not been decided.
"We believe we have the premier, No. 1 destination for the game," Dolphins CEO Mike Dee says. "We have to make sure we don't squander that advantage."
Southern California, with the Los Angeles Coliseum— site of Super Bowl I— and the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, has been the third-most frequent Super Bowl locale. But the game has not been there since 1993 as the league works to again establish a team in the region.
A 'difference-maker'
Indianapolis has spent and spent some more for an opportunity that Irsay calls a "difference-maker" for the city and state.
According to The Indianapolis Star, taxpayers footed 87% of the $720 million cost of 67,500-seat Lucas Oil Stadium, which opened in 2007, in exchange for a 30-year commitment from the Colts. An investment of $275 million nearly doubled the size of the Indiana Convention Center. Another $187 million was spent on infrastructure.
Mike Murphy, who retired in 2010 after 16 years as a Republican state legislator, says he had his doubts when all of this was being debated.
"I was a skeptic at the time based on some of the tax increases levied in order to pay for it," he says. "I must say I've become a convert over the years. The building has become not only a symbolic but a practical gathering spot for the community" because it has become the site of cheerleading and band contests and state high school football championships.
"You can't look at the expense," Indianapolis Mayor Gregory Ballard says. "You have to look at the return."
The city expects between 100,000 and 150,000 visitors during Super Bowl week. At least some of those guests will be surveyed about their expenses in an effort to determine the immediate economic impact of their stay. The Super Bowl hotel block consists of 18,300 rooms.
Mark Miles, board chairman of the 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee, believes dollars spent are a relatively minor measure of the importance of landing the game.
"It's the image," he says. "You can't quantify the value of being a Super Bowl city."
Ballard echoes that point. "Very few cities have hosted Super Bowls, when you look at it," he says. "The ability to host a Super Bowl puts in people's minds a city that can come together and get things done."
It will not be known for years whether Indianapolis' massive investment will result in attracting new business and more traffic for a convention center that nearly doubled its exhibit space to 550,000 square feet. Ballard, after studying the experiences of other cities, is confident that it will.
"Sixty-five percent of people who attend Super Bowls are decision-makers," he says, "and the overriding comment of people coming to Indianapolis for the first time is 'I never knew.'
"We want people who make decisions for organizations to see what a great city it is, how things get done and to see our connected downtown. We think it will lead to quite a few business opportunities and convention opportunities."
The potential is there. According to city officials, more than half of the U.S. population lives within a one-day drive of what they like to call "the crossroads of America." Nine NFL franchises are within 400 miles.
Village could be model
Fans who braved unexpectedly icy roads in and around Dallas last year will welcome the convenience Indianapolis offers. Skywalks connect much of the downtown, ensuring ease of pedestrian traffic no matter how frightful the weather. According to the host committee, there are 7,100 hotel rooms, 200 restaurants and 50 attractions within walking distance of the stadium.
Not that Indianapolis or New York is running from the weather issue. New York has a snowflake in the center of its Super Bowl logo while Indianapolis expects a winter festival atmosphere at its innovative Super Bowl Village. More than 60 live performances are scheduled there with headliners such as Patti LaBelle, LMFAO, and Dierks Bentley. There will be rides on zip lines 96 feet above the ground. Warming stations, too.
According to Miles, the three-block-long Village was patterned after entertainment venues used to bring diverse fans together at Winter Olympics.
"If that works for the Super Bowl crowd the way we've seen it in the mind's eye for four years," he says, "it will create an additional model for northern cities and for the league."
The NFL, the host committee and private event organizers also have taken the weather into account in their offerings, providing plenty of indoor options. One page of the official visitors guide is titled "Baby, It's Cold Outside! Come On In & Get Warm" — and it lists options such as the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library.
More football-centric fans could, for the first time, buy a ticket allowing them to sit in the stands for Tuesday's media day at the stadium; the 6,700 available sold out, according to host committee spokeswoman Dianna Boyce. Stadium tours, which include time on the field and in the team locker room, also are for sale.
Then there is DirecTV's Celebrity Beach Bowl, Feb. 4 — an event that actually occurred on the beach prior to the Super Bowl two years ago in South Florida. As was the case in Dallas last year, it's being held on tons of sand that's been hauled into an enormous, temporary structure; this one covers the outfield of Indianapolis' downtown baseball stadium. It will host the open-to-the-public flag football game and concert in the afternoon and an invitation-only event at night.
The indoor highlight, however, seems likely to be the NFL Experience, an interactive theme park at the convention center. Frank Supovitz, NFL senior vice president for events, notes that it has sold 40,000 tickets. "That's better than twice what we would have expected anywhere else," he says.
Contributing: Tim Evans of The Indianapolis Star


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Plea Deal Possible For Pastor
Albion N.Y.- An Orleans County pastor accused of sexually assaulting children over a decade ago is being offered a plea deal.
Details of the plea deal offered by county prosecutors to Reverend Roy Harriger are not being released.
More than a dozen people have signed affidavits saying that Harriger sexually assaulted them.
Harriger is free on bail.


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