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Nau Center for Texas Cultural Heritage planned
Education, tourism and the celebration of Texas' cultural heritage are the focuses of a new, state-of-the-art visitors center in Houston that is currently in the planning stages. The Nau Center for Texas Cultural Heritage, a destination visitors center utilizing innovative 21st-century exhibit technology is slated to be complete prior to Super Bowl LI being held in Houston's Reliant Stadium in 2017 and should boost the regional economy, representatives of the center said.
John Nau III visited Beaumont's Art Museum of Southeast Texas recently to talk about the Nau Center and reach out to local business people and other potential benefactors for donations toward the construction of the facility. Nau is the Nau Center Board of Directors chairman and CEO of Silver Eagle Distributors, the nation's largest distributor of Anheuser- Busch products. Nau's family is the namesake of the center and plans to contribute 20 percent of the total cost for the facility, currently estimated at $40 million.
In June 2010, Houston Mayor Annise D. Parker asked Nau to chair a committee to build a regional heritage tourism center for the upper Gulf Coast region. Nau accepted, he said, because he has always been interested in Texas history and culture, and he believes the new center will promote learning and provide amusement for visitors.
The center will be comprised of an "Aspirational Learning Center" with immersive exhibits where Texas history and culture are experienced interactively and the Foley and Cohn homes, which were moved onto the Nau Center site and are the only two remaining houses from Houston's Quality Hill neighborhood built at the turn of the 20th century.
Nau said, "In my roles both with the state and federal government, I have had an opportunity to travel all over the country seeing what communities have done to highlight their heritage and cultural assets. So, the very first purpose was to create a visitors center, and that would help highlight regional assets, from your museums in Beaumont to Washington on the Brazos. The second purpose was to create a heritage and cultural museum or center. … Houston does not have such a facility. The third objective was for education, for the young people, particularly fourth and seventh graders who have to take Texas history. …We have been looking at what the teachers have told us they want, meeting with educators all over the region. We can send tourists to Beaumont."
Nau said Beaumont's history regarding energy, including the history of oil production symbolized by Spindletop, would be a big draw for potential tourists interested in cultural heritage. Nau said a database with historical information regarding energy, shipping and railroads and more features that make Southeast Texas special will be included on a database available at the center. A study by the Greater Houston Partnership (GHP) requested by Houston First Corporation, who donated the land for the center and will be responsible for day-to-day operations, indicated the Nau Center's "primary function will be to provide out-of-town visitors with information on local historic sites, entertainment venues, dining options and shopping opportunities" and said "several studies have shown that when tourists receive more information about a region, they often stay longer, spend more money, and generate additional tax revenues."
A GHP study excluded Jefferson and Orange counties, but Nau said he believes those counties will experience positive effect to their economies also. Nau said the visitors center has a lot of potential to bring in tourists from surrounding attractions. Not only will the property be in a prime location and likely to be swept up in the wake of the tourism current generated by the adjacent George R. Brown Convention Center, Discovery Green and Minute Maid Park in Houston, but it is located off the popular U.S. Highway 59 thoroughfare often utilized by travelers journeying through the region, Nau said. He believes the economic boon the center will cause will radiate outward into the region toward Beaumont, Port Arthur and Orange, particularly since area attraction Spindletop will be a featured, and likely interactive, exhibit.
The Wortham Foundation of Houston pledged a $3 million challenge grant announced by the Nau Center on Aug. 1. Once $20 million has been collected for the new center, the Wortham Foundation will donate $3 million. Additional funding for the center was announced on Sept. 4 after the Nau Center received a $2.5 million grant provided by the Kinder Foundation of Houston. Funds are rolling in, but so far it's not enough to get the project underway, Nau said.
For more information or to donate, visit the center's website at naucenter.org.


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Football Parking Update and Clarification
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BATON ROUGE - Several media outlets last week reported there would be an increase in the cost of parking passes for LSU football games this fall. Some of the reports were accurate, others were erroneous or misleading. Please note the following:
- There is no increase in cost for fans with renewable season parking passes.
- The 2012 season will mark the fifth straight year there is no increase in cost for renewable season parking.
- Of the 8300-plus reserved spaces on campus, only 550 are affected in any way. That means 93 percent of the spaces on campus remain unchanged in cost.
- Free parking remains unchanged in the Levee Lots on River Road and the Hayfield Lot on Gourrier Avenue.
- Game-to-game parking established last season on campus east of Tiger Stadium will remain at $40 per vehicle per game and $50 per trailer per game.
2011 Football Parking Map (subject to change)
Changes to parking charges for this fall apply to only four lots, or 7 percent of the total number of paid parking spaces on the LSU campus:
LOT M and ALEX BOX WEST
Game day Handicap Parking (first-come, first-served and free) is being moved from Lot M near the Dub Robinson Tennis Stadium to the Alex Box West Lot. There are two reasons: (1) the number of available parking spaces will increase from 120 to more than 200; (2) Although it is farther from the football stadium, LSU can provide better handicap shuttle access from the south side of the stadium than from the north side of the stadium due to the player walk and band march down North Stadium Drive.
The Alex Box West Lot has ample shade for tailgating and Alex Box Stadium concession stands and restrooms are open on football game days for tailgaters.
LSU is now offering non-renewable parking passes to season ticket holders in Lot M. There are 120 spaces in this lot and the cost is $800 per car per year.
LSU is also now offering RV parking for 30 spaces in the Alex Box West Lot for $2000 per RV per year.
The Thomas Boyd Hall Lot was the least used and last to fill up of the lots designated for game-to-game parking last year. This lot is being converted from a game-to-game lot to a non-renewable season reserved lot to accommodate the many fans who are requesting access to season parking passes. There are 125 spaces in this lot and the cost of a season pass is $600 per car per year.
The price of passes in the Old Alex Box lot will increase from $600 to $800 for the 215 available automobile parking spaces and from $3000 to $4000 for the 60 available RV parking spaces.
Note: Renewable season parking passes are those that are issued to fans who renew each year and who receive an invoice each spring for payment. Non-renewable season parking passes those that are issued each year based on requests and based on LSU Priority Point ranking, so the owners of those passes may differ from year to year.

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Local NewsThe 28th Annual Art Teachers of the Year Award Ceremony
The 28th Annual Arts Teacher of the Year Award Ceremony, Broward County's premiere event for arts education, was held at Broward Center for the Performing Arts in the fall. The evening a showcase of Broward's talent, celebrated winners in arts education and welcomed groundbreaking numbers of guests in local business people, government officials and the arts and academic community.
"More than 400 people attended the event, a great show of support for arts education in Broward County," says Lois Marino, Program Coordinator, Business for the Arts of Broward
With the winners still unknown as the evening commenced, the schedule unfolded into an Oscar-like theme, with finalists and winners of each category announced between stellar performances of some of Broward top arts students.With the winners still unknown as the evening commenced, the schedule unfolded into an Oscar-like theme, with a finalist from each category being announced throughout the evening as the winner was named and the vocal audience erupted in cheers. The winners are: Dance – Toranika Washington, University School at Nova Southeastern University, BrowardMusic – John Nista, Ramblewood Middle School, Coral SpringsTheater – Jason Zembuch, South Plantation High, PlantationVisual Arts – Keri Porter, Wingate Oaks Center, LauderhillTeaching Artist Award – Timothy Leistner, artist, writer, educator
The show opened and ended with Speaking Volumes and Cultural Division's Director Earl Bosworth showcasing his artistic ability as the bass playing member. In between each winner announcement, there were arts performances. Senior Jennifer Luechauer, South Broward High, enchanted the audience with a soothing, folksy yet classical flute number, followed by Parkway Middle School of the Arts' Davion Jones, the 8th grade theater major who silenced and stunned the audience with his controlled and powerful solo vocal performance. Dancers from the Awareness Dance Ensemble, Innovations Dance Theatre at University School of Nova stilled the audience with a though-provoking dance routine on the lives of fictional homeless characters; a subject apropos to the Broward community.
Some of the local artists in attendance included George Gadson, Darby Hayes and Timothy Leistner, all nominated for that exclusive Teaching Artist award.
State News
Where Broward Educators Go For Bright IdeasThe CPALMS Perspectives initiative is developing a diverse collection of online standards-based video resources for Florida teachers, and is making an ongoing effort to highlight the arts as part of STEM education. The State Division of Cultural Affairs will be collaborating with CPALMS for future webinars to promote Arts in Education.For an example, watch the below video to learn about physics and the Balinese gamelan from FSU ethnomusicologist Elizabeth Clendinning, click here for video
National News
Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) is home to several Best High Schools in the nation and state, according to recent rankings by U.S. News & World Report. In all, 13 BCPS high schools received gold, silver or bronze medals in the U.S. News' Best High Schools 2013 national ranking.
American Institutes for Research implemented U.S. News comprehensive rankings methodology, which is based on the key principles that a great high school must serve all of its students well, not just those who are college-bound, and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show the school is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators.
U.S. News analyzed more than 21,000 public high schools in 49 states and the District of Columbia. This is the total number of public high schools that had 12th grade enrollment and sufficient data from the 2010/11 school year to analyze. Schools were awarded gold, silver or bronze medals based on state proficiency standards, exams, how well students are prepared for college and other factors.
Broward's gold medalists schools are Cypress Bay High School (#15 state, #180 national), Pompano Beach High School (#17 state, #230 national) and Nova High School (#27 state, #454 national). In addition to being gold medalists the schools achieved top national ranking and represent the state's top 50 schools.
Eight BCPS high schools are national silver medalists and rank in the state's top 100. McFatter Technical High School (#36 state, #592 national), Atlantic Technical High School (#40 state, #646 national), Pembroke Pines Charter High School (#42 state, #700 national), Fort Lauderdale High School (#45 state, #790 national), Stranahan High School (#53 state, #967 national), Somerset Academy Charter Conservatory High School (#62 state, #1,190 national), South Broward High School (#74 state, #1,602 national), and Deerfield Beach High School (#75 state, #1,635 national)
As reported by Brett Zongker of the Associated Press, the United States' Creative industries led by Hollywood, account for about $504 billion, or at least 3.2 percent of U.S. goods and services, the government said in its first official measure of how the arts and culture affect the economy.Soon, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the National Endowment for the Arts will release the first-ever estimates of the creative sector's contributions to U.S. gross domestic product based on 2011 data, the most recent figures available. GDP measures the nation's production of goods and services.
Sunil Iyengar, the endowment's research director, said the yardstick devised in partnership with the Bureau of Economic Analysis drew on figures from Hollywood, the advertising industry, cable TV production, broadcasting, publishing, performing arts and other areas. Now the nation's creative sector will be measured annually, much as statisticians calculate the contribution of tourism, health care and other sectors to the nation's economy.
"One of the challenges that's always been there for economists and even lay people and certainly policy makers is to understand what is the arts' value," Iyengar said. "Here's a measurable, legitimate, rigorous way of tracking the contributions of the creative economy in the country."
By comparison, the arts and culture sector outpaced the U.S. travel and tourism industry, which was 2.8 percent of GDP in 2011, based on the federal estimate. That finding surprised even the researchers.
In the workforce, Hollywood and the video industry employed the most people, totaling 310,000 workers and $25 billion in compensation, according to the data. Museums and performing arts industries each employed about 100,000 people. In total, 2 million people worked in creative industries.
Analysts defined arts and cultural output based on creative artistic activity and the goods and services produced by it or used to support it. They also included the construction of buildings to house creative industries. Beyond entertainment and advertising, the analysis included independent artists, broadcasting, publishing of books, magazines and newspapers and design and architectural services.
The analysis will be updated each year, next in fall 2014 to include 2012 data.
Congressman John Conyers for JAZZ!
During the second week of December, Congressman John Conyers, sponsor of the 1987 bill which officially designated jazz a "national American treasurer," will introduce a revised version of the National Jazz Preservation and Education Act. The bill was first introduced in 2011 and it would establish a National Jazz Preservation Program at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. It would also authorize creation of a new Jazz Artists in the Schools program and a new Jazz Ambassadors program which would send young musicians and secondary school jazz ensembles abroad on missions of goodwill, education and cultural exchange.
Ecosystems at Risk by Alex Sarian
Two very scary, and seemingly unrelated, things happened in 2008: 1) 100,000 nonprofits around the US (many of them arts, education, & culture based) began the slow and painful process of going out of business, and 2) the Holdridge's toad, one of Costa Rica's most prevalent species, was declared extinct.
Let's talk toads first:There are two schools of thought that explain why a species might become extinct. The first holds the environment responsible, stating that the Holdridge's toad became extinct because of "chytridiomycosis" (look it up), a disease caused by effects of climate change. In this case, the toads were not able to evolve fast enough to adapt to the fast-changing environment around them. The second option, ironically, holds the species responsible. This popular evolutionary theory called the "Red Queen hypothesis" – named after Lewis Carroll's character who described her country as a nation in which "it takes all the running YOU can do, to keep in the same place" – argues that species biologically increase in numbers until they reach the 'carrying capacity' of their environment, by which point the environment is too consumed (deteriorated) to sustain such diversity. Extinction. Scientists predict that by 2050, as a result of one of the two theories mentioned above, a full quarter of the species known to us today will be extinct.
What's interesting to me, though, is that it took scientists 22 years to declare the Holdridge's toad extinct (the last known toad was seen in 1986). Understandably, nobody was really surprised by the announcement in 2008.
Yet, who among us knew that 71% of performing arts organizations in New York City would face deadly budget cuts, 33% would be forced to lay off employees, and 35% would have to cancel programs? And statistics weren't as friendly for our friends over in the visual arts, where 63% were forced to reduce their staffs. It's also worth arguing that these percentages were far more devastating in other regions around the country, where the arts aren't easily associated with the identity of a city like they are in NYC. New York wasn't even ranked in the top 10 states faced with the largest budget cuts in the nation – Michigan faced an 81% budget cut in the arts that year, and California's per capita spending on the arts was an embarrassing $0.12.
So why were we caught so unawares when the standard definition of 'ecosystem' applies equally to both cases? "A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment."
I am more worried for arts education than I am about toads. Why? Because as a species, we've always had a crisis of identity – not knowing what 'environment' we belong to in the first place: Arts? Education? Certainly, if Congress has taught us anything, it's that 'arts education' is not (yet?) its own, fully realized environment. The second reason (the more daunting one perhaps) is the requirement to interact with a community of organisms – something our field has historically not done so well. But not only has collaboration never been a traditional strong suit of our field, we are all also wanting to do more and more every day – getting us all a little bit closer to the 'carrying capacity' of what our environment can sustain. And we all know what happens next.
My wish for all of us is that we truly absorb the definition of "ecosystem" in all that we do. It requires us to genuinely collaborate with each other while being mindful (and knowledgeable) of the many, many environments that surround us and affect our work.
And know that all is not lost: the Holdridge's toad was rediscovered in 2010.
Teaching Artist Spotlight
Timothy Leistner, artist, writer, and educator has served as a teaching artist for well over a decade and has made a significant impact in the Broward County arts arena. Leistner founded and implemented the "Art Intended for All" Art Education Program for special needs adult participants (2012-2013). He has provided art programs for youth at the YMCA of Broward County; art services for special needs children at UCP of Broward County; art services for special needs children at UCP of Broward County; and art programming for many other non-profit organizations. Timothy Leistner has instructed a watercolor exploration course for over twelve years, as well as offering art classes at his own gallery, "Artist's Eye Fine Art Gallery," in Dania Beach.
Dr. Leistner teaches courses at Florida Atlantic University. He co-authored the textbook, "Exploring Language Arts through Literature: Birth-Grade 8." He has also created the cover art for the book as well as art for other published works. Leistner was named the "Best Visual Artist-Broward/ Palm Beach" by New Times Magazine (2011); is a recipient of the Joseph Leavitt Award (2013); awarded "Artist of the Year for Community Impact" (2008); the "Individual Art Leadership" award (2009); and was selected as one of the "Faces of the Arts in Broward County (2012)."
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How long will you be out after the surgery? How much training does a temp need to do your job? My answer would be different if you will be out for a week or out for a month.If you will be out for a week or less, and this temp can be expected to be there most of the time and you leave clear, written instructions behind, then maybe I wouldn't mention anything. A person can change a lot in 12 years. But I'd leave a copy of all instructions with the director or someone else, just in case she flakes. If you will be gone longer, then I think a word to the director might be in order. Some temp agencies are great and really vet their employees and do a good job matching the job to the employee's skill set. Others, not so much. They are willing to fling any warm body that has a fraction of the job skills required into a position. (I've had temp agencies completely misrepresent a job to me and I've walked into offices that were expecting me to have skills sets I simply didn't have. Not my fault, as I've never claimed to be a transcriptionist or to be able to write computer code, but the agency's.)So what I'd do is observe her very carefully during training. If you see signs that she isn't grasping the work involved, mention to the director that you knew this woman in the past and that she had some reliability issues and ask what the temp agency said about her, and maybe ask if she doesn't work out, will the agency send someone else. And make sure the director has copies of all instructions for the various parts of your job.
They've hired a temp to fill in for me when I go for my surgery. When I met her this morning I found out she and I had worked in another department of the university about 12 years ago.She was let go from that position after only 1 year because she was unreliable and had a hard time remembering how the job was supposed to be done.I'm hoping she has changed since, but I really can't be sure because today is the first day I'm training her.Do I let my director know about how she was in the past or say nothing and hope for the best?
Your previous job kept her on for a whole year even though she was unreliable and her performance was poor? Strange.Twelve years is a long time. People's skills and work habits can change.I'd proceed with the training. If there is a problem, let the boss know.
Your previous job kept her on for a whole year even though she was unreliable and her performance was poor? Strange.
and i like the suggestion of sitting down with your boss and the temp, to make sure everyone is on the same page,
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Skip to comments.Medal of Honor Convention: Nation's highest military award comes full circle at Gettysburg
Posted on 09/19/2013 11:32:58 PM PDT by iowamark
Whether war is waged in the desert, jungle, or the rocky terrain of a small Pennsylvania town is irrelevant to those who fought it.
Eventually, the surviving soldiers all go home, where uniforms and medals come off.
A few, though, keep on their finger identical gold rings, naked of any marks distinguishing rank or military organization. Only the Medal of Honor insignia identifies the rings.
For the men who wear them, the bands of gold are a reminder that they are members of a band of brothers dating back to the Battle of Gettysburg. And they are all equals.
It has been 150 years since President Lincoln presented the first Medals of Honor to soldiers who fought in the Civil War. More than 1,600 Union soldiers were awarded the medal, including 63 at Gettysburg.
In total, more than 3,400 men and one woman who have become recipients - not winners, as they will quickly correct you - of the award given to the military heroes who went above and beyond the call of duty during combat.
Next week, at least 48 of these men are expected to arrive in Gettysburg to attend the Congressional Medal of Honor Society Convention from Sept. 18 to 22.
Over the course of the four days, the recipients visit the grounds of President Eisenhower's farm, hear a concert on at the Pennsylvania Monument on the battlefield, and spend time interacting with the people of Gettysburg.
Bringing the event to Gettysburg has been a three-year project, president and CEO of the convention Bob Monahan said last week.
"We are connecting them, as recipients, with their history," he said.
Still, for many of the recipients, the annual convention is about more than just remembering.
Marine Col. Harvey Barnum was one of the first soldier from Vietnam to receive the medal. For him, the convention is more like a supporting family, there to comfort each other or just to remember the good times.
"A lot of people don't talk about war because it is horrifying, not glorifying," Barnum said. "But when we are all together we talk about it. For some of them, it is good to talk to someone who actually knows what the hell they went through."
Barnum was given the Medal of Honor in 1967 for his actions during the Vietnam War. When his battalion was ambushed, and his company cut off from the rest of the group, Barnum assumed command and led the rest of his company in a successful counter-attack.
But if you ask Barnum what he remembers about that day, he will tell you it was the weight of the company commander dying in his arms, and the ferocity with which his peers rallied.
"There's no fury like a bunch of Marines," Barnum said. "You are just a caretaker of that medal for those of your team who were with you that day."
Now president of the Medal of Honor Society, Barnum will be on the stage when another ring is presented to the most recent recipient - Army Spc. Ty Carter, given the medal last month for gallantry in Afghanistan - during the convention this week.
The convention will host 37 recipients from Vietnam, five from Korea, four from World War II, and two from Afghanistan, each have vastly different memories of their wartime experiences. But all of the soldiers understand what is like to be a new recipient of the Medal of Honor.
For Harold Fritz, one of the first Vietnam War veterans to receive the medal, it seemed unlikely he would be able to relate to the other recipients. At the time, many had fought in World War II and the Korean War.
"I thought I don't even think I can be close to these guys," Fritz said. "But we adjusted. We try to be as close as possible."
The lieutenant colonel hung up his uniform and retired from military service in 1993. His gold ring still glints in the Illinois light of his home where he lives with his wife.
"You get to know them and talk to them more and more each year," Fritz said. "It cements that bond of brotherhood and family, and builds that bridge."
From the forgotten valleys of Korea, to the cities of Europe, to the rice paddies of Vietnam, and to the mountains of Afghanistan, the medal's journey comes full circle at what many consider America's own hallowed grounds of war.
But it is the ring the soldiers choose to wear. And when they look down on the little band of gold, it is a reminder their long march wasn't walked alone.
Medal events open to public
Though the Congressional Medal of Honor Society Convention is privately organized, several events will be open to the public.
Thursday: A public meet-and-greet event will take place at the Wyndham Hotel, and the public can meet the Medal of Honor recipients one-on-one, take photos and get autographs.
Friday: There will be a town hall forum and community outreach event at Gettysburg College, emceed by Chris Wallace, where recipients will be interviewed. Audience members can take part in the conversation.
Later that evening, a public concert will be held on the Gettysburg battlefield at the Pennsylvania Monument. The U.S. Armed Forces Color Guard, the West Point Cadet Glee Club and "The President's Own" United States Marine Band, which performed during President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, are scheduled to play.
"After the concert, we are going to have the largest fireworks display probably ever seen in Adams County," said Gettysburg developer Bob Monahan, president and CEO of the convention.
Saturday: The final public event is the Patriot Award Dinner at the Wyndham. Recipients, elected officials, senior military officers, business executives and community leaders will be there. Awards including the Bob Hope Award for Entertainment and the Patriot Award will be given out at the dinner.
The meet-and-greet, town hall forum and concert are free, but require a ticket. Tickets for the Patriot dinner start at $500.
Tickets are taken, but those who wish to attend can get on a waiting list in case tickets become available.
For more information about the convention or to reserve tickets for an event, visit www.cmoh2013.org.
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DENVER (AP) – Charlie Blackmon lined a two-out single in the ninth inning off reliever Sergio Romo, helping the Colorado Rockies beat San Francisco 10-9 on Monday and stop the Giants' six-game win streak on a long day at Coors Field.
Earlier in the day, the Giants broke away from a tie and beat Colorado 4-2 in a game that resumed after it was suspended May 22 in the sixth inning because of rain.
In the regularly scheduled game, Rockies reliever LaTroy Hawkins (3-2) blew a save in the top of the ninth. In the bottom half, Mike McKenry led off with a single up the middle off Romo (5-4). McKenry easily scored from second when Blackmon's hit fell near the right-field line.
Hunter Pence hit a three-run homer for the Giants. Pence also came up big hours earlier, when his tiebreaking double in the eighth led the Giants in the resumption.
Hawkins struggled in the ninth, giving up an RBI single to Buster Posey and another to Pablo Sandoval that tied the game.
It set the stage for Blackmon, who collected the Rockies' seventh walk-off hit of the season. He had been 0 for 5 in the game before the hit.
Trailing 7-2 in the sixth, the Rockies scored four runs off starter Tim Hudson. They tied the game the next inning on Josh Rutledge's run-scoring single off reliever Jean Machi.
Pinch-hitter Ben Paulsen gave the Rockies a 9-7 lead with a two-run homer. Paulsen recalled from Triple-A Colorado Springs earlier in the day.
Brandon Crawford broke out of a slump with a pair of RBI singles and a run-scoring double. Pence extended his hitting streak to 14 games with his homer in the first.
Hudson gave up six runs and remained winless at Coors Field. Hudson acknowledged the last time he was in town that a victory in this hitter friendly-park remains one of the items on his baseball bucket list.
Franklin Morales was hit hard by the Giants a few days after shutting them down. He gave up seven runs in 4 1-3 innings in the no-decision.
The earlier game of the day restarted tied at 2 with two outs in the bottom of the sixth and a runner on first. Jeremy Affeldt (4-2) struck out Rutledge to end the inning.
Pence, who homered in the fourth inning on May 22, doubled home Andrew Susac.
Christian Friedrich (0-4) took the loss.
Hudson was the starter on May 22, going three innings before exiting because of the lengthy weather delay.
Giants: OF Michael Morse experienced soreness on his left side in batting practice before the first game. He's considered day to day.
Rockies: LHP Boone Logan (left elbow) was transferred to the 60-day disabled list, ending his season. The 30-year-old Logan was 2-3 with a 6.84 ERA.
Giants: RHP Yusmeiro Petit (4-3, 3.44 ERA) will make his eighth start of the season on Tuesday. He beat the Rockies 4-1 last Thursday.
Rockies: RHP Jordan Lyles is making a second straight start against the Giants. He surrendered one run in six innings during a no-decision last week.
There were several oddities in the game resumed from May 22 because of the long layoff:
– Susac's single in the eighth will now show up as his first hit in the majors, at least in the chronology of this season's box scores. Until Monday, his first hit was listed as July 30, a few days after he was promoted from Triple-A.
– Tyler Colvin and Brandon Hicks, who both started that game in May for the Giant, were later designated for assignment.
– The Rockies have four players appearing in the final box now on the DL – shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, outfielder Michael Cuddyer, catcher Wilin Rosario and righty Tommy Kahnle.
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Late last summer, President Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to enable people who came to the United States as children —- commonly known as "Dreamers"—- to apply for work permits and relief from deportation.
Over three-dozen LGBT organizations, including Gay-Straight Alliance Network, have contributed to a fund supporting undocumented LGBT youth [2] seeking relief from deportation through DACA.
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Ban bottled water, that stuff's a killer!
Ban bottled water, that stuff's a killer!
No, don't do that! The money they waste on bottled water is money they can't buy guns and bombs and shoes with!
Boycott oxygen!
99% of all now-dead lifeforms on this planet consumed oxygen for the majority of their lifetime. It is clearly a toxic substance that must be controlled!
Boycott oxygen!
99% of all now-dead lifeforms on this planet consumed oxygen for the majority of their lifetime. It is clearly a toxic substance that must be controlled!
It's almost as dangerous as dihydrogen monoxide! [dhmo.org]
The Surgeon General has determined that this substance has been found to cause swimming in laboratory animals.
If we just blurred all maps, the terrorists couldn't even find their targets!
Agreed. Plus, GPS devices should be outlawed -- terrorists could use them to navigate in lieu of maps.
Have you heard of "Selective Availability"? You know, the thing where the precision of GPS data is intentionally downgraded to prevent people from doing anything nasty with it?
I'm just saying, they already thought of this. It's not much of a "hypothetical" point you raise - the US controls the GPS satellites, so there's no need to control GPS receivers.
precision of GPS data is intentionally downgraded
Yeah because, you know, terrorism is all about finesse.
Yep, those terrorist-controlled missiles accurate to 1 meter have really been a problem.
Yeah, because terrorists would never think that it might just be scarier to TAKE OUT THE SATELLITES and thus deprive commerce of it's ability to rely on them to get anywhere.
I mean seriously how many companies rely on GPS either to make sure workers are doing their jobs, or to get them to their destination? Nevermind governments using them for similiar purposes.
Now imagine if it went off all at once, say the day before Xmas or some major time when it would be expected that a lot of people depending on it for, say, deliveries suddenly had the 'lights turned out' on them?
Seriously our society is so dependent on so many things that our best bet is to simply not worry about it and move on. If the terrorists were really as big a threat as the gvmt tried to make out, then they'd have sleepers working to get the classified versions of those blurred maps to plan their targets anyhow. And honestly who has seen that level of organization out of them? If there was, they would've pulled off a much bigger set of acts than one silly set of towers. Why not just go after a half dozen bridges across the US, or a bunch of dams? Or a building in every major cities skyline? I mean each of these would be easy to find, wouldn't need these 'Google Earth' maps, and would have far more of a psychological impact on whichever towns they were done to. Shooting/bombing/gassing a couple of schools? C'mon. Your children have a greater chance of being molested by a teacher than being killed by terrorists at school. Hey, maybe we should ban teachers while we're at it!
Agreed. Plus, GPS devices should be outlawed -- terrorists could use them to navigate in lieu of maps. Actually, history books, almanacs, encyclopedias, these all tell terrorists what we care about. Those should be outlawed too. Plus the internet, which allows them to communicate, and possibly phones, the mail system, UPS, FedEx and other courier services. Then maybe we can finally feel safe!
Maybe the senator should move to Afghanistan and team up with the Taliban. Their ends goals of a meedieval society are remarkably consistent. Maybe that was the Taliban's plan all along!
Interestingly, be careful taking GPS to China. You need special approval from the government or you get arrested for espionage. Maybe here's a model for California?
Why not just follow the lead of one particular town right there in California?
Chico has a law on the books declaring a $500 fine for detonating a nuclear device within the city limits. It apparently has been a decent deterrent, since no nuke has been detonated within Chico, California.
If we just blurred all maps, the terrorists couldn't even find their targets!
You're thinking too small - if we blurred out our name whenever we talk to them - they wouldn't even know who to attack, let alone find them!
Silly, just blur the terrorist bases and let the problem solve itself.
I don't believe in the second world war.
That doesn't stop the second world war from believing in me, though.
If we just blurred all maps, the terrorists couldn't even find their targets!
You jest.
In 1941, maps of the Soviet Union available to Germany showed a major highway going from Moscow to very nearly the border. The Germans planned one axis of their invasion around that highway, since they knew that differing rail guages between the two countries would limit their ability to move supplies from Germany to the front.
Shame that that highway never actually existed. Maps of the interior of the Soviet Union were generally kept secret, even from their own soldiers, or...inaccurate, shall we say?
In other words, it's an idea that has worked in the past.
Won't work here and now, of course. It's not, after all, hard to rent a car and drive past a place to take pictures years before you hit it. Then do the same the week before to bring everything up to date with recent changes.
In other words, this is yet another stupid idea from a politician who doesn't quite understand that the djinn left the bottle decades ago, and isn't being put back in anytime soon. Certainly not by legislation.
See now, this is an idea. Seriously.
In this respect, google earth like services would play a better role in confusing terrorists if the US can figure out from time to time from where does a cell connect.
In that knowledge, a MITM attack on their google earth could send them to attack an ambushed site.
Now THATS THINKING.
Banning maps is NOT THINKING. Thats just being an idiot.
Problem is that the level of intellect that Joel Anderson demonstrates is about the norm for politicians. I'd trust a sharecropper first!
Seriously, stuff like this is what we used to poke fun at the Soviets for back in the good ole' Cold War days when Regan was prez and high schools still had gun target practice as an extra curricular activity. One of the things the US prides itself on is the open and free access to public data and the freedom to publish it. Maps are one of the key centerpieces that we measure our open society by...
Guy's and idiot and should be forcibly ejected from the country.
That mentality existed through the fall of the Iron Curtain. When I lived in Europe in the 80's, a friend of the family worked in military intelligence (an oxymoron, I know). He couldn't give a lot of details, but one of the classic stories he'd tell was about Soviet military training exercises--back in those days, they wouldn't even tell a convoy where they were going. Their standard operational procedure was that only the commander would know, and he'd be in the first vehicle in a convoy. Any time they needed to turn, they'd drop off a soldier at the intersection, and he'd then direct everyone else and get back into the last vehicle of the convoy. This would be repeated over and over until they reached their destination.
Now, when the intelligence guys wanted to find out what was going on, we'd simply ask the guy at the intersection. He, predictably, would say that he couldn't tell them, and they'd reply that of course they knew they weren't allowed to follow the convoy, and that to ensure they didn't, they had to know which way the convoy was going, so they could go a different direction and not get into trouble with their superiors.
With that impeccable logic, the soldier would generally point out where the convoy was headed, allowing the intelligence guys to speed off in that direction...
In 1941, maps of the Soviet Union available to Germany showed a major highway going from Moscow to very nearly the border.
The Soviet Union continued to obfuscate maps available to civilians up until its demise. A friend who lived there in the '70's commented that he wasn't supposed to take pictures of bridges and the like, either.
I was viewing Moscow the other day on Google Earth and thinking what a wonderful world we live in. An open world, more free than we were back then.
I'd like to think that the US isn't going to adopt the same kind of silly things that their old enemy did, which didn't work at the time and will work even less well today.
The Soviet Union continued to obfuscate maps available to civilians up until its demise. A friend who lived there in the '70's commented that he wasn't supposed to take pictures of bridges and the like, either.
You're not supposed to take pictures of bridges and the like here either.
http://i1.democracynow.org/2004/7/1/pakistani_immigrant_being_deported_for_taking [democracynow.org]
July 01, 2004
Pakistani Immigrant Being Deported for Taking Pictures of NY Reservoir Speaks from Jail
Pakistani immigrant Ansar Mahmood, lost his final judicial appeal this week and is scheduled to be deported. He was first picked up in October 2001 for taking photographs of an upstate New York reservoir. No terror-related charges were ever filed against him but investigators found him in minor violation of immigration law. He joins us from prison where he has been held for nearly three years.
Won't work here and now, of course. It's not, after all, hard to rent a car and drive past a place to take pictures years before you hit it.
Oh, we in the UK are well ahead of you! [amateurpho...pher.co.uk] Hardened terrorists like this man [boingboing.net] are trembling in fear at our powerful new anti-photography laws [wikipedia.org], despite the efforts of some bleeding heart liberals. [amateurpho...pher.co.uk]
Sigh. Even the Russians are scoring points off us [russiatoday.com].
"If we just blurred all maps, the terrorists couldn't even find their targets!"
That's clearly insufficient, because old maps could still be used.
We should invalidate the maps by blurring the world instead.
Politicians have called for a ban on cars since they are used for bank robberies. They have also called for a ban on cellphones since terrorists have been using cellphones for communications. More at 11.
Politicians have called for a ban on cars since they are used for bank robberies.
Nobody's suggesting anything that extreme. We just want to blur all the windscreens so as to slow down any getaways. I suppose you'd rather have terrorists?
or, "Well, let's blow everything up, one of these blurred out buildings *must* be the school!"
Funny thing is... only americans have ever targeted american schools...
Well its not "Funny", its interesting how "attacks on schools" are such a cliche against foreign terrorism, when its just never ever happened that way, maps or no maps.
Then you get the "clever" ones:
Terr1: grab the map!
Terr2: Hey, WTF, its blurry!
Terr1: Ok. You, you, and
Terr2: You are SO evil, master.
Read: DUH! make it OBVIOUS what the targets are by blurring them. Only a Californian Cretin could come up with this.
Or even better:
Terr'st1: Damn, India just banned Google Earth to prevent what were trying to do..
Terr'st2: And that affects us sitting here in Pakistan how?
Wouldn't the terrorists just use the unblur and image enhancement filters that I see on CSI and other fine TV shows? We'll need to outlaw that, as well.
(And by "that," I'm not sure if I mean the "technology" or CSI itself...)
Why in the world would you want to tell people, "These fuzzy-looking buildings are the ones we really care about the most. Targeting these would cause us the most grief"?
Either you want all the details fuzzed or none of them. The address of a building can be deduced pretty easily once you've pointed it out to them on the map. From there they can get public records of building plans or do their own surveillance planning. Why narrow the search to the most vulnerable or most valuable targets for them?
Agreed, think of it this way.
"they" could look up the address in a phone book, we better make publishing the address of the schools (or other buildings) illegal.
Of course nobody will go to school since it's illegal to give out the address.
Somehow I'm thinking "they" were able to find targets before google maps existed.
"they" could look up the address in a phone book, we better make publishing the address of the schools (or other buildings) illegal.
I'm not afraid of Terrorists. I'm afraid of the idiots who believe that Terrorists are our biggest problem, thereby keeping these jackasses in power.
Is anyone anyone really afraid of terrorists? Crackheads probably kill more people in America than terrorists do. Terrorists are dedicated enough to this to commit suicide in the process of doing it. They are not going to be deterred by the small amount of extra work necessary to survey a building rather than consulting google maps. All this does is narrow down the list of targets and piss everyone else off.
"Is anyone anyone really afraid of terrorists? Crackheads probably kill more people in America than terrorists do."
The reason they're called terrorists, is because they try to cause terror -- unreasoning fear is their goal.
We kill 40,000 of ourselves (in round numbers) in traffic accidents *every year*:
http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx [dot.gov]
That's approximately 10 times the current US death toll in Iraq. Every year!
Now, every life is precious, and no one should die needlessly. But it's good to keep terrorism in perspective.
Agreed, think of it this way.
"they" could look up the address in a phone book, we better make publishing the address of the schools (or other buildings) illegal.
Of course nobody will go to school since it's illegal to give out the address.
Somehow I'm thinking "they" were able to find targets before google maps existed.
"They" were. Humans have fought each other for all of known history. Only recently have there been technological means of reconissance. Reconissance managed to get done before there were satellites and online maps or computers. Even if this map-blurring were 100% effective at its stated purpose (my bet is that it won't be), all it would accomplish is the removal of one potential method. Unfortunately, there are many potential methods. This is just a feel-good worthless measure at best. At worst, it's an excuse for closer state control and regulation of online services -- anyone with some sense has known that politicians have desired that for a long time now. If it's like so many other things, all they need to do is wait for a good enough excuse.
For anyone who thinks this will accomplish anything, I say to you that it's the height of hubris to assume that you are so clever while your enemy is so stupid. Many needless deaths and military defeats have resulted from this sort of thinking. If you're not a strategist and don't understand these basic things, is it so much to ask that you refrain from making strategic decisions? The reality is that if some criminal group really wants to wreak havoc and if they don't give a damn about their own lives and are willing to die in the attempt to do so, there's not a lot you can do to stop them. At least not without destroying whatever freedoms we have left, which is what any truly effective measures would do. I didn't cause this to be true and I don't like it either, but we seriously need to work with the reality of the situation if we are to understand or accomplish anything.
I think we forget that you're a lot more likely to die by being struck by lightning than by being hit by a terrorist attack. I'm so tired of the level of cowaradice that this particular issue reveals. Our ancestors (speaking of the USA) realized that there are things that are more important than life itself, such as freedom, which is why they were willing to go to war to fight and die for those things. Personally, I'd rather keep all of my freedoms even if that meant that my chances of dying in a terrorist attack were increased 100-fold. For those of you who think that's an extreme position or an unwise choice, I have a question: if not for something truly good and wholesome and wonderful that fills your life with purpose, such as the freedom to be who you are and live your own life, what exactly are you living for that makes you so afraid of death, especially a particularly unlikely death? If you have them, what kind of message does your cowardice send to your children? That you should give up everything that is sacred to you for any fear or any bully who comes along? No wonder you are so afraid of dying; the breath in your lungs is the only thing about you that seems truly alive.
To be fair, the actual text [ca.gov]of the bill only requires the images to be blurred if the Operator already identifies the building. Specifically:
This bill would prohibit an operator, as defined, of a commercial
Internet Web site or online service that makes a virtual globe
browser available to members of the public from providing aerial or
satellite photographs or imagery of places in this state that have
been identified on the Internet Web site by the operator as a school,
place of worship, or government or medical building or facility
unless those photographs or images have been blurred.
Still pretty dumb, though.
Wait, so if we don't identify this complex of buildings with a football field, two baseball diamonds, swimming pool, large parking lot and sports team mascot painted on the 50 yard line as a school...it doesn't have to be blurred?
"identified on the Internet Web site by the operator as a school, place of worship, or government or medical building or facility"
Ok... so by "government facility" is he including property that is owned by governmental agencies, but is leased out to private entities? Because otherwise, the ONLY major US terrorist target since 1995 didn't make the list.
I've started peeing on all my paper maps to avoid supporting any terrorists.. ! read that al habib.. i've had a lot of coffee this morning!!
If he really cares about California he should blur his name on the next election ballot.
The guy is brilliant. We need only follow his example to rid us of another pesky problem -- one that has afflicted our country several times since 9/11. Corrupt politicians.
It is a proven fact that politicians are corrupted by money. Absolutely proven!
Therefore, we should immediately ban all political contributions. Not just by fat cats, but ALL political contributions. Oh, and none of this "I'll use my own money" -- we must also ban all political expenditures as well. No campaign ads, no flyers, no paid push pollers.
Actually, that sounds like a great idea... I'm starting to believe my own sarcasm. How sad is that?
I don't think this guy seems corrupt --- just stupid.
All I'm trying to do is stop terrorists
And all I'm asking you to do is show me the increase in terrorist attacks since Online Maps have become available
I know I'd give it up right away if I was set on killing all Americans and when I got onto Google maps the local Wal-Mart was blurred out. There would be no other way to figure out its location or the lay of the land around it. None, I would be thwarted.
And all I'm asking you to do is show me the increase in terrorist attacks since Online Maps have become available
We had one terrorist attack on US soil so far this century that cost almost 3,000 lives. Meanwhile, 45,000 die violently on US highways every single year, and another half million die horribly from cancer.
Our politicians are not only gutless cowards, but they're STUPID gutless cowards with no sense of proportion whatever.
It's pointless unless they can blur the buildings in real life too.
But if they could do that... well, that'd be pretty sweet.
Private Jones: "Sir, incoming terrorists!"
Commander Smith: "Activate cloaking shields! Deploy decoy buildings!"
huh? you mean the supposed virtual-landlord of those churches isn't powerful enough to protect his own property?
why not pray for protection? REALLY test your faith - put it on the line and see where it gets you. if your churches suffer from terror targets, well, its the will of god and who's to argue with that?
Each time I see a steeple with a lightning rod, I wonder about substantial lack of faith on the part of the congregation.
God has never rewarded stupidity or laziness.
If you think most religions', let alone Christianity's, meaning of "faith" means "lazy, let-God-do-everything, don't have to do anything ourselves," then you appear to know very little about it.
Protect His own property? Sure. Ever wondered how the Bible survived with so many world powers trying to extinguish it during history? Or, for that matter, the Christian faith in general? How many religions do you know of that survived through even just Rome's occupation of most of the world?
But I've never heard, and I have studied the Bible, anyone claim that a protestant church building is somehow specially protected by God all the time as though it were a "holy" place....
Isn't California running out of money, spare electricity capacity and (most importantly) fresh water? In terms of imminent threats, I'm surprised terrorism is even on the horizon.
Terrorism is todays excuse to raise taxes. ( for the kids was the 90s ) Not surprising at all that they are doing this.
Why don't we just ban terrorism instead?
So that California doesn't have to update Google whenever soft targets change, I propose that California paint the roofs of sensitive locations fluorescent orange, then add satellite-visible concentric black circles to clearly indicate to Google that the building is a target.
California could also inform Google of the site's importance, by painting a large black number representing a score from 1-10.
Then, just in case the terrorists still find the place, outside the site we should post a large warning sign saying "Terrorism Prohibited at this Site."
Politicians have to be the stupidist creatures on earth.
Maybe we'd have less terrorism if we banned politcians.
Hey, terrorist were *reading* maps to plan terrorist attacks. Let's outlaw reading!
But if you dare say "Maybe we shouldn't put automatic assault rifles into the hands of anyone with a driver's license", then the gun freaks go ape-shit.
Why is it that they'll ban and outlaw everything, except the obvious?
Secondly, if someone was a terrorist, wouldn't they know then to attack anything on the maps that are blurry?
Oh, my head hurts. Stop the planet, I want to get off.
But if you dare say "Maybe we shouldn't put automatic assault rifles into the hands of anyone with a driver's license", then the gun freaks go ape-shit. Why is it that they'll ban and outlaw everything, except the obvious?
First of all, all legal automatic weapons require registration (including a background check, fingerprinting, etc) with the ATF, a signature from your local sheriff or chief of police, and payment of a (admittedly small) tax. They're also now obscenely expensive, as so few even exist that can even be transfered.
What can be obtained is a semi-automatic weapon---one that fires with each distinct pull of the trigger. There are few special regulations on such weapons, although California has actually done more to restrict them than most other states. For example, you can't own a rifle with a fixed magazine of greater than 10 rounds capacity.
As for why they don't ban guns outright, I refer you to District of Columbia v. Heller [wikipedia.org]. To paraphrase, the basic conclusion of the supreme court was that individuals have a natural right to self defense, and that a ban of an entire class of weapons suitable for self defense is unconstitutional.
But if you dare say "Maybe we shouldn't put automatic assault rifles into the hands of anyone with a driver's license", then the gun freaks go ape-shit.
Alas, "automatic assault rifles" require quite a bit more than a driver's license to get. Since sometime in the 1930's.
Most likely you meant "semi-automatic assault weapons". Which are functionally the same as "semi-automatic hunting rifles". Yes, the latter exist. Browning makes a rather good one. And it's FAR more deadly than any "semi-auto assault weapon" ever built, given that it comes in heavier calibers, and functions just as quickly.
Note, by the way, that buying a "semi-automatic assault weapon" (like any other firearm of any type) from a dealer requires a Federal background check. Which can't be passed till you turn 18 (for a long-gun), or 21 (for a handgun). In addition to whatever State and local laws might apply.
Note, further, that the last time we banned "assault weapons", we actually banned "semi-automatic assault weapons". Oddly enough, that law made it illegal to buy a semi-automatic version of the AK-47 (sometimes known as a MAK-90, it looked like an AK while lacking the defining chracteristic of the AK) while leaving it perfectly legal to buy a FULLY automatic version of the AK-47 (a real AK-47, in other words).
Yeah... I'm pretty sure that even with NO map i could still find a school, just drive around for a bit and I will find one.
Or, like, find the school's website and look at their address there.
In fact, why even blur them? It would be sufficient to just de-list these things from map services, it's not like they find schools by looking for school shaped things, they just search the map for schools.
Of course, i don't think that de-listing them is anything less than moronic, but still, it at least makes more sense than blurring things.
Does this asshat actually think that you cant fly an airplane into a building that is blurry?
I think this guy just wants to create a law where politicians and wealthy people have their homes censored from google map like sites, so that they're protected from YOU and not terrorists.
You're poor, and thats more of a threat than any supposed "terrorists"
All this will do will be to paint giant bullseye targets on all of the locations they want to "protect." Potential terrorists will see that the area is blurred out, investigate it on foot via spies and "sleeper agents" to plan their attack (which will produce much more detailed recon than some crummy single-frame Google Map satellite image).
If they're close enough to attack then they're close enough to reconnoiter this information for themselves anyway, and trying to "censor" it just shows them what we are afraid they will attack. Stupid measures like these are drowning our economy in opportunity losses -- if it goes through, some poor sap at Google is going to have to waste his days blurring out little bits of the map in a totally vain attempt at some hick senator's backwards notions of security.
Seriously, Congress, leave espionage to the people you appointed to carry out such activities. Meddling in things you don't know about is asinine.
Why are we so scared of doing anything that might "help terrorists"? If you install a drinking fountain and a terrorist takes a sip, you just helped a terrorist. If you write a software program downloaded by a terrorist, you just helped a terrorist. Many of you reading this have held doors open for terrorists. Things that help everybody help terrorists. And trying to prevent helping terrorists usually means being unhelpful to everybody. "I don't want California to be helping map out future targets for terrorists" is the kind of thing idiots worry about.
The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of participants. -- Adam Walinsky


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India have levelled their two-match Twenty20 series against Pakistan following an exciting 11-run win in Ahmedabad.
Yuvraj Singh and Ashok Dinda starred with bat and ball respectively, the former seeing the hosts to 192 for five with 72 in 36 balls.
Dinda then took up the battle, taking three for 36, including Pakistan's top-scorer Mohammad Hafeez for 55.
Hafeez put in India having won the toss only for Ajinkya Rahane (28) and Gautam Gambhir (21) to put on a bright 44-run opening stand.
Umar Gul accounted for both men, bringing together Virat Kohli and Yuvraj. Kohli made a steady 27 before being run out taking on Saeed Ajmal but Yuvraj was irrepressible. He scored at exactly two a ball, plundering seven sixes and four boundaries, including two maximums in a row off Sohail Tanvir and three more off Saeed Ajmal's next over.
He eventually holed out to Gul, who also claimed the scalp of Mahendra Singh Dhoni (33) to finish with four for 37.
Pakistan started their chase confidently; Nasir Jamshed and Ahmed Shehzad taking on the opening bowlers and laying a solid foundation of 74 in 9.4 overs before Jamshed fell to Ravichandran Ashwin for 41.
Shehzad followed an over later but Hafeez quickly altered the momentum. He faced just 26 deliveries but struck six boundaries and three sixes, two off successive Ashwin balls.
Dinda produced the decisive performance in the closing stages, accounting for Hafeez as well as both Umar and Kamran Akmal.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar also returned to see off Shahid Afridi as the reply foundered to 181 for seven.


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2016 Brig Inflatables Falcon 300HT
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Compact luxury
- Year:
- 2016
- Length:
- 10'
- Engine/Fuel Type:
- Single / Gas/Petrol
- Located In:
- FL, United States
- Hull Material:
- Fiberglass
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Description: BRIG Falcon F300HT RIB
The Falcon F300HT offers a quality tender experience in a compact package. Equipped with a solid rigid hull for use as tenders aboard powerboats and yachts, as well as for recreation. The strong fiberglass hull in combination with inflatable buoyancy tubes gives these boats a smooth, dry ride.
ORCA Hypalon tubes
Self-draining floor
Fiberglass Hull
Sealed maintenance free GELCEL battery
Battery on off switch
Davit lifting points both fwd and aft
LED Bow lights
Removable rear all-round light
5 Gal portable fuel tank
SS bow tow eye
2 two D Rings on tubes
Pump, paddles and repair kit
SilverTex Grey Cushions
SeaDek flooring
Fiberglass tube ends with built in steps
Comes with Honda 20HP Engine
5-year warranty
Electric start and power tilt
Length: 9'6"
Width: 5'5"
Tube Diameter: 1' 4"
Persons: 4
Max HP: 20hp
Shaft length: 15"
Boat Weight: 220 lb +/-
Tubes: White ORCA Hypalon
Cushions: Grey SilverTEX
Warranty: 5 years on tube and seams, 2 years FRP
Made in Europe
About BRIG
Brig Inflatable Boats are designed and built in the Ukraine by a dedicated team of ex-military aeronautical engineers.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union the transition from fighter jets to leisure craft was an easy one. Founder and MD Slava Rodionov, and his brother, ex-MIG fighter pilot, have applied the same exacting standards and cutting edge technology to building RIBs in their 70,000 sq factory.
With labor rates less than China and a highly educated work force, Brig is able to provide a European made and European quality boat.Brig is now the largest RIB manufacture in the world.
Please contact at 954-692-8335
Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
Boat Name
Brig Falcon 300 HT
Warranty: 2 years
Hull Shape: Deep Vee
LOA: 9 ft 6 in
Beam: 5 ft 5 in
Bridge Clearance: 2 ft 9 in
Dry Weight: 220 lbs
Max Load Capacity: 1323 lbs
Total Power: 20 HP
Engine 1:
Engine Brand: Honda
Year Built: 2016
Engine Type: Outboard 4S
Engine/Fuel Type: Gas/Petrol
Propeller: 3 blade propeller
Engine Power: 20 HP
Seating Capacity: 3
Manufacturer Provided Description
FALCON Tenders are a series of boats equipped with a solid rigid hull (bottom) for use as tenders aboard powerboats and yachts, as well as for recreation. The strong fiberglass hull in combination with inflatable buoyancy tubes gives these boats a smooth, dry ride, high reliability and safety in navigation. Always ready for the journey, delighting the eye with its well-designed hull, a FALCON Tender deserves a prominent place in your travel plans. The special anti-skid surface and specially designed deck profile in combination with water settler and transom drain valve ensure absence of water on the boat deck and allow to walk freely inside the FALCON Tender boat without fear of slipping. An inner drain valve allows quick drainage of the water between the hull and deck space. A towing ring and 4 suspension brackets embedded into the hull provide an additional advantage when towing or placing the boat aboard a ship. Models F330 and F360 comes equipped with built-in bow locker. An all around lifeline to serve as support for passengers as well as for carrying the boat by hand. Reliable rowlocks, which in combination with the rigid seats, provide comfortable rowing. Mountable rigid seats for both passengers and a person at the wheel are provided for most models. Solid cast grab handles for comfortable and safe motoring.
Additional Description
- Deluxe console
- Steering system
- Steering cable
- Steering wheel
- Double container with soft seat
- Front locker removable cushion
- Overall Cover
- Bow stowage bag
- Suntop
Standard Features
- Deep "V" rigid hull
- Anti-skid deck surface
- One-way drain system
- Bow stowage locker
- Tough raised rubbing strake
- Oarlocks, oars and oar's stowages
- 3 towing bow rings
- 4 built-in davit lifting points
- Carrying handles
- Substantial life line
- Foot pump
- Repair kit with the set of glue
- Accessories bag
- User's manual
Manufacturer Specs
Length Overall (cm) 290
Width Overall (cm) 164
Height Overall (cm) 85
Tube Diameter (cm) 40
No. of Chambers 3
No. of Persons 4
Boat Weight (net) (kg) 100
Maximum Payload (kg) 500
Recommended Power (HP) 20
Maximum Power (HP) 20
Design Category C
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will pay $39 billion to the U.S. Treasury by the end of the year, the companies said Thursday, putting the firms close to having paid as much as the government injected in the mortgage-finance giants—nearly $188 billion—to keep them afloat through the housing bust.
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Editor's note: John Jendrezak, Partner Group Program Manager visits the Office Next blog today to discuss some of our efforts in aligning the client suites to the cloud and some of our new delivery options. In future posts we will discuss the other side of this relationship – our investments in cloud services that are designed to improve the productivity experience for both individuals and organizations. We'll also drill deeply into several of these areas with more detailed information during the preview period.
The transitions that organizations and people are making to the cloud enable many new opportunities for sharing with others. We believe that the best way to leverage the cloud is to connect the best-of-breed applications to feature-rich services. We do not believe that a one-size-fits-all browser based solution is suitable to meet the needs of both work and personal computing because it misses so many opportunities to leverage the power of rich applications. We know that people work online and offline – internet connectivity should never be a barrier to productivity. These beliefs underlie our work in connecting Office to the cloud and shape our philosophy for the entire release.
In this post, we'd like to talk about how we've taken Office and connected it more naturally to the cloud. Let us know what you think about these new capabilities and please give us feedback about what you'd like to hear more about in the coming posts.
It starts with you
Your world is changing quickly and the number of devices-smartphones, tablets, PCs-that you use on a daily basis is multiplying. Each of these devices has computing power, local storage, connectivity, and a form factor optimized for specific tasks, but is also able to do just about anything you can do on the other devices as well. Examples like Skype, Spotify, Netflix and SkyDrive show us how applications recognize you when you sign in and delivers you your content targeted to specific devices.
We see the Office experience the same way. Your content and applications should be available to you wherever you are and on whatever device you are using in a way that is consistent and familiar to you. YOU should be front and center in the Office experience. This is a contrast to the past where Office was very aware of what you had in your local environment but stopped short in the connected, multi-device world we live in today.
Office in the cloud
All you have to do is sign in.
As soon as you sign in on any device and launch one of the Office apps, the new Start screen will show you right away that you are in your Office. Take a look at the image below and you'll see that "Kaitlin" is signed into Word and with her signed in, Office can then start to do cool things like roam some of her personal settings so that she always have access to them. With this release, recently used files are managed in the cloud and follow you wherever you go. For example, when you launch Word, it will show you the list of the documents you've accessed recently on this computer or on any other connected device. If you have a favorite template, you can pin that to the Start Place, and Office will roam with you across devices so you always have that template available to you.
All these settings are stored in the cloud, synced with SkyDrive, SharePoint, and your local drive, and roam with you.
With the capabilities that we've built into our roaming settings service, we're able to create new settings that will roam with you across any connected device. For example, Word and PowerPoint make it easy to get right back into your work by remembering where you left off in each document or presentation. So, if you didn't have time to finish reviewing an important document before you had to leave work, Word will remember what paragraph you were last reading/editing when you open that document on another machine. PowerPoint remembers the slide you were on so you don't have to go hunting for that last edit in a long deck.
These features extend to your mobile device as well. For example, your Windows Phone will show your recent files for one-touch access while you are on the go.
You can also put a personal touch on your Office experience with your profile picture and by selecting a classy yet subtle decoration. This will decorate the frame of your Office applications to suit your personality. When sharing a PC with friends or family, this also helps make it clear at a glance who is signed into Office.
We've tried to make it easy to sign in so you can use the same Microsoft account that you're already using with other Microsoft services, including SkyDrive, Hotmail, XBox, Office.com and soon, Windows 8. If your business or school is a customer of Office365, you can also use that account to connect to your work world while away from your desk.
When you are signed in, we add your SkyDrive as your preferred save location. Of course you can choose to save to your computer or to another location if you prefer but for all the reasons in this post today, we think that saving to the cloud is much better.
We've improved the ability to share a document with others. Here is a view of our Share place that highlights one of many ways to share. Check out the Post to Social Networks option – that's also new in Office.'
We're also delivering the SkyDrive app with the next version of Office, so you'll also have all your cloud documents-as well as your photos, notes, and videos – available on your hard drive. You'll be able to store anything on your SkyDrive and have it automatically available from your trusted devices. We wanted to ensure that when you're not connected to the internet, you're not locked away from your files in the cloud.
Office the way you want it
We'll deliver Office on more devices than we ever have in the past. Smartphones and tablets have emerged as prominent tools for everyday work alongside PCs and laptops. Each of these devices has particular strengths and weaknesses, and they're each well-suited to a specific need or context. We're trying to simplify that by building versions of Office for the majority of those devices, all tailored to the hardware that you're working on at the time. It doesn't matter if you have your hands on a PC, a Mac, a touch-enabled Windows tablet, or a mobile phone; Office takes full advantage of your hardware to give you the best possible experience and access to your work wherever you go.
When you purchase Office, you're no longer buying software dedicated to a particular piece of hardware. We've made a bunch of investments in this version that really change the way that you get Office. For example, when you purchase the product you will land in the Management Place of Office.com. This is the place for you to go to install Office on your PC or Mac, update your account information, learn about additional entitlements you may receive with your subscription (e.g. extra SkyDrive storage) and manage your account. You'll see here that Kaitlin is a subscriber to Office, and with that, she can install Office up to 5 times on a PC or Mac – it's her call.
As part of the Customer Preview, we announced that you'll be able to sign up for an Office subscription, which will ensure that wherever you go and whatever Windows device you are on, the latest and greatest version of Office will be there for you. We'll be talking more about our subscription offer in a future post so please stay tuned.
We think Click-2-Run (C2R), our virtualization technology, is a vast improvement over the installation and management experiences of prior versions because it streams to your desktop quickly, is not affected by other applications on your system and is always up to date. Office 2010 was the first release to leverage C2R, and we learned how much users appreciate the convenience of an Office installation that more or less manages itself.
In this release, we are expanding our use of C2R installation and streaming technology. We built upon our 2010 version and made many improvements to the streaming technology, application and system interactions, and updating. We'll detail those in future Office Next posts. Most importantly, C2R will now be the method of installation for all of our retail products and available to customers using Office 365 editions for business, government and education. This will dramatically simplify Office deployment for organizations.
An interesting detail we heard about from customers working with C2R and other virtualization solutions for Office is the desire to use two versions of Office side-by-side on the same machine. For the first time ever, Office will support this configuration out of the box.
Office on Demand
Our goal is to enable you to have access to the next version of Office where ever and whenever you need it, whether that's at home, at work, or on the go.
If you're on the go away from your PC and want access to your Office, subscribers can take advantage of Office on Demand – a new way to quickly deliver full Office applications to a PC within seconds. Office on Demand streams and launches a temporary copy of your personalized Office application without installing it permanently, and when you close the application, it and the files you were working on are gone. Watch for more details about Office on Demand and other delivery topics in later posts.
Not only do the Office applications remember your preferences and recent documents – so does Office.com. When you sign in to Office.com, the My Office page will show you a merged view of all of your recent Office documents from all applications, and the various storage locations you have been using.
Office on the Web
From here, you can use the Office Web Apps to access, author, and share Office documents from nearly any device that includes a web browser. Over the next few days, you'll be able to try the Office Web Applications at Office.com and SkyDrive.com. Once you do, you'll see the great improvements we've made in the Office Web Apps, which we think deliver the best-in-class editing, collaboration and sharing capabilities on the web:
- Far richer editing – the Word Web App has an all new page layout with much greater formatting capabilities. PowerPoint now supports creating transitions and animations. Excel has dramatically improved chart rendering and an all-new Interactive View that brings the power of Excel to any table of data on the web. OneNote has better navigation and search.
- Web Apps wherever you go – the Web Apps are now available on a broader set of devices, browsers and sites. They work great on the latest browsers, including new "touch-friendly" UI controls. Our mobile interface has been redesigned to take advantage of today's smartphone capabilities. The Web Apps are integrated with more services you use all the time, like Exchange, Lync, and Facebook.
- Collaboration and sharing – you can now co-author in all four Web Apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote). We've also integrated commenting and sharing into the Web Apps hosted on SkyDrive and Office 365.
We've improved performance significantly. The UI has been updated to have a more modern, cleaner look, with less distraction from your document's content. There are even animations that make transitions feel smooth and fluid.
We've worked hard to bring the look, feel, and features that you expect to our Web Apps.
Watch for more details in future posts about many of the other topics covered here. It's been fun to give you a small taste of what's to come in the new Office. Enjoy the Preview and send lots of feedback. We're listening! In fact, you may have noticed all of the smiley/frowny faces in the screen shots right next to Kaitlin's face. These are links to send us feedback that are part of our prerelease builds. Use them and let us know what you think.
John Jendrezak,
Group Program Manager in Office


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TERRE HAUTE, IND. -- Hanover College relied on a balanced performance to top Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 25-21, 25-21, 25-13 in the first round of the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Volleyball Tournament on Tuesday night at Hulbert Arena.
Rachel Regenauer and Sarah Hasewinkel led Hanover with 11 kills each. Molly Murphy added 19 assists, and Kylie Justus had a team-high 23 digs for the Panthers.
Senior Casey Levitt (Thousand Oaks, Calif./Westlake) capped her Rose-Hulman career with 10 kills to lead the Engineers. Freshman Morgan Dreyer (Batesville) and Sarah Jensen (Overland Park, Kan./Blue Valley Northwest) recorded 14 assists each, with senior Kate Dangel (Upper Arlington, Ohio) moving into third place in school history in career digs (1,604) with 24 in the match.
Senior Catherine Fiutem (Harrison, Ohio/Oldenburg Academy) added seven kills without an error, and freshman Katelyn Race (Columbia, Mo./Rock Bridge) contributed six kills and five digs to the effort.
The match marked the final career match for Dangel, Fiutem and Levitt, who capped their Rose-Hulman careers with 79 wins, four trips to the HCAC Tournament and one trip to the NCAA Division III Tournament.
Hanover advances to the HCAC Semifinal Round at Defiance College on Saturday at 2 p.m. Rose-Hulman finished the season with a 15-18 record.


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What's good for the goose should be good for the Google
What's good for the goose should be good for the Google
Seattle Times: Anyone feeling deja vu over the Federal Trade Commission's Google investigation? A company with a dominant technology platform, in this case, search, was accused of exploiting its position to squash competitors.
In the 1990s, Microsoft was investigated for using its monopoly with Windows to expand its Web browser business. The ensuing trial and consent decree forced the company to change its ways.
Last Thursday, the FTC announced a toothless settlement with Google after investigating allegations of anti-competitive practices in search and patents.
Competitors said Google promoted advertisers' search results over the organic results in the middle of the page, which users expect to display the most commonly clicked websites. Google has a clear competitive advantage with 67 percent of search traffic, which also means it can set the rules for online advertisers.
The FTC for the most part ignored the complaints of search bias in its settlement. It failed to judge Google by the same standards in Microsoft's antitrust case.
The unequal application of antitrust law undermines the confidence of innovators and investors. Most important, consumers have been denied access to a fair marketplace for the most competitive businesses and services via Google's search engine.
Incoming Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson should open an investigation into Google's practices. Attorneys general in Texas, New York, Ohio, California and Oklahoma have reportedly launched inquiries.
The European Union, which fined Microsoft more than $1 billion for abusing its dominant market position, then reopened its investigation into Microsoft last year, will hopefully bring some discipline to Google shortly. Washington's congressional delegation should ask the FTC some sharp questions.
The U.S. Department of Justice should launch an investigation into Google, as it did with Microsoft in the 1990s. That investigation led to a public trial that put Bill Gates on the witness stand, exposed the inner workings of the company and led to a judge ordering the breakup of Microsoft. While the company ultimately wasn't forced to split up, the trial and settlement forced Microsoft to change how it treated competitors. (Innovation by those competitors also helped.)
Antitrust law must be applied equally and fairly to protect the public.
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