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The Future of Digital Marketing 2012 Presentations
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Presentations from Econsultancy's Future of Digital Marketing event on 13th June 2012. Over 300 digital marketers attended to hear from those leading the way in the digital landscape.
Presentations at the event were:
- Earning your Audience: Kyle Lacy, Principal of Marketing Research and Education, ExactTarget
- Future Shopping Experiences: Andy Harding, Director of Ecommerce, House of Fraser
- Social Customer Service: Natalie Cowen, Head of Brand and Communications, first direct
- How brands are dealing with the content challenges: James Keady, Global Digital Marketing Manager, McLaren
- Mobile Priorities: Simon Andrews, Founder, addictive
- Method in the Madness?: Ling Valentine, Boss, LINGsCARS.com
- Influence Online: Karl Havard, Client Strategy Director, TBG Digital
- Social TV: Rob Walk, Director, Easel TV
- Interactive Experiences: Tom Wood, Founding Partner, Foolproof
- Social Advertising: Alastair Cole, Head of Creative Services, Essence
- Collaborative Consumption: Vikki Chowney, Head of Community, TMW agency
- Social Business Analytics: Neil Mason, Director of Professional Service, Global Dawn
- Content Curation: Andrew Davies, Co-founder and Director, Idio
- Image Recognition & M-commerce: Ilicco Elia, Head of Mobile, LBi
- Social CRM: Steve Richards, MD, Yomego
- The Econsultancy View: Ashley Friedlein, CEO, Econsultancy
Tweets from the event
@simonbigpicture: Really enjoyed the event today
@Econsultancy: Huge thanks to all who came to #FODM in London today, thanks for making it a great event
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@Econsultancy - great speakers and content! @lingscars @kyleplacy & @hof_andy - thanks!
@VicsG: Great event from @Econsultancy today at #FODM. Really good range of speakers and lots of ideas to take home to head office. Thank you.
@emilyhill1982: Good to see some old faces (and meet some new ones!) at #FODM
@Tunsty: Well done @Econsultancy - another great #FODM event yesterday - thanks for organising :)
@UsefulArts: Congratulations to @Econsultancy on another #FODM that inspired, networked and enabled. - Dave Wieneke
@OllieBlackmore: Thoroughly enjoyed #FODM today. Lots to think about and inspire with
@Hockeykeeper7: Great day at #FODM hosted by @Econsultancy. Looking forward to putting it into practice
@Rasculous: @Econsultancy: Huge thanks to all who came to #FODM in London today, thanks for making it a great event! Best event 2nd year running for me
@fayethomassen: Came away very excited about the future and brimming with ideas #in
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@AshleyFriedlein being one of the highlights
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- Earning Your Audience - Kyle Lacy, ExactTarget (5.99 MB PDF)
- Future Shopping Experiences - Andy Harding, House of Fraser (6 MB PDF)
- Social Customer Service - Natalie Cowen, first direct (3.21 MB PDF)
- How brands are dealing with content challenges - James Keady, McLaren (1.13 MB PDF)
- Mobile Priorities - Simon Andrews, addictive (1.03 MB PDF)
- Influence Online - Karl Havard, TBG Digital (2.6 MB PDF)
- Social TV - Rob Walk, Easel TV (1.48 MB PDF)
- Interactive Experiences - Tom Wood, Foolproof (2.04 MB PDF)
- Social Advertising - Alastair Cole, Essence (2.36 MB PDF)
- Collaborative Consumption - Vikki Chowney, TMW Agency (3.09 MB PDF)
- Social Business Analytics - Neil Mason, Global Dawn (791 KB PDF)
- Content Curation - Andrew Davies, Idio (6.47 MB PDF)
- Social CRM - Steve Richards, Yomego (1010 KB PDF)
- The New Victorians - Ashley Friedlein, Econsultancy (1.61 MB PDF)
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"Fettle" means "a state of physical fitness" or "a state of mind." When one says the phrase "in fine FIDDLE," one is using an eggcorn which conjures up the image of a fiddle brought into a finely tuned state.
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Looks like an idiom blend, combining "in fine fettle" with "fit as a fiddle".
Yes, another idiom blend. See articles in the Eggcornology section.
Mettle is constitution, guts, sinew, metal. Dental care that keeps your teeth in fine mettle is called orthodontics.
Unlike traditional dental care that focuses on keeping the teeth and gums in fine mettle, cosmetic dentistry concentrates on improving appearance.
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despite the judiciary's teething problems, it's in fine mettle now.
It's a near-orgy, minus sex. But wait a moment. Special Forces Captain Gates (George Clooney, in fine mettle) is in a tent, vigorously copulating with the female assistant
The next one is hard to explain. Arresting, though.
my gentlemens equipment is in fine fetal!…. Slight numbness in bits of hands and fingers but no pain any more…
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Happy almost Mother's Day, college-aged and childless 20-something demographic! We have found some mothers from television for you to identify with, without actually going out and having children. Unless you are into that!
No, seriously, use condoms.
And doubtless a lot of moms have been forgotten. You can let me know your favorites in the comments, and I will make totally accurate assumptions about you. Remember: When you assume, you make an "A's" out of "sume!" (That's how people with problems speaking pronounce "some.")


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A day on the golf course can leave players and spectators tired, sore and in need of some TLC.
The Ensure Classic at Rock Barn presented by Kia Motors kicked off Monday, and The Spa at Rock Barn staff is ready to melt away the stress and tension that often comes after a few days on the golf course.
"Most (spa guests) want to come in and relax after a day on the course," said Teresa Moose, a concierge at The Spa at Rock Barn.
And guests can find a spa treatment for almost anything that ails them. Tight muscles are loosened with deep tissue massages, sun-damaged skin is rejuvenated with mineral salt scrub facials and a guest's entire body is treated during a mud wrap of thermal Italian mud.
"During the tournament, we're going to see more of the golfers and their wives here," Moose said.
The spa is designed to offer every guest an environment promoting relaxation and natural beauty, Moose said. There are no harsh chemical smells, and many of the products used during spa services are all natural.
The 20,000-square-foot facility includes a rock-faced therapeutic waterfall, steam rooms, a whirpool and a cold water pool. The spa offers several packages for guests, which include massages, pedicures, facials and lunch. Spa guests who purchase spa packages can use the facility's amenities all day on the day of their appointment.


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Wouldn't it make more sense for him to position himself in the lawbooks alongside John Peter Zenger?Nicely put. Read the whole thing. Amar hasn't convinced me that Cheney ought to set aside the strong defense of immunity and only make the free speech argument. Immunity is an important tool for fending off the many lawsuits that would otherwise be aimed at the individuals who undertake public service. Just because Nixon was involved in using this defense doesn't mean it's sleazy (even assuming you think Nixon is sleazy). Should you have to worry about making a free speech defense because Larry Flynt is unsavory?
... Cheney should use this as a teaching moment, to explain how a proper understanding of First Amendment principles actually supports him and not the Wilsons, who have claimed that Cheney violated their free-expression rights. The result would be an elegant First Amendment jujitsu, using all the Wilsons' free-press momentum against them, to defeat their lawsuits.
Here is the key fact that Cheney should stress: Unlike Nixon, who fired a government whistle-blower, Cheney did not fire the Wilsons. He merely spoke out against them. True, he did so furtively, in what many might view as an underhanded whispering campaign. But the First Amendment protects a wide variety of speech and expression, encompassing the right to print, orate, and yes, to whisper—even to whisper anonymously and with petty or partisan motivation.
And to whom were Cheney and his fellow defendants whispering? To the press! This is the other key fact for the New Dick Cheney—the Zorro/Zenger Defender of the First Amendment. The Wilsons claim that they were being punished for speaking out against Cheney and the administration. But if the Wilsons have a right to criticize Cheney in the press, Cheney can claim that he has an equal right to criticize the Wilsons when talking to the press, whether on the record or off....
[R]ather than hiding behind the claim that he, like the president, is somehow above the law, Cheney should assert that he—like any ordinary citizen!—has a legally protected right to speak to the press.
But I do like the First Amendment argument. The fact is Joe Wilson made a harsh attack on the administration, and we ought to want to know who he is, in context. There is other law to protect national interests from those who would disclose government secrets. A vigorous inquiry was made into whether that law was violated, and it came up dry. This is a tort suit, and anyone who is rooting for Plame -- feeling the old anti-administration blood lust -- ought to try to calm down for a few minutes and think about the broader picture. Do you really want to intimidate people into silence this way?


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When I first saw it, I thought by Brother-In-Law, the brainless liberal teacher, had lost his mind. It couldn't have cost much, which was fine, because I sure as hell didn't spend much on him! We both laughed about it, shook hands and had a beer. It was a good Christmas. Wife and I laughed at that stoopid hat.
Then I needed it.
The first time I used it I was swapping out some audio/video cables. You know how everything is black in the audio/video world? Well, the hat lit it up beautifully. And right where I needed the light!
Then a 120 volt plug went out and I had to hit the breaker to fix it. Guess what? Perfect!
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Le Metier de Beaute released four nail lacquer's as part of their 2012 holiday collection. I immediately homed in on Christmas Town (£16).
Its a deep emerald with subtle shimmer. It goes on exactly like it looks in the bottle and unlike a lot of dark greens which can register as black once on, this is noticeably green.
The colour has a real vibrancy about it which my photos do not do justice.
Apologies for my shoddy application below, I thought I could do this whilst my four year old was in the same room, it turns out I was mistaken and had to lay this down with unknown speed due to looming grabby hands.
I really like the formula, it does not apply streaky and has a quick dry time. It also does not chip with ease and the colour does not fade,
if you are looking for a deep green I think you'd be hard pushed to find anything better than this.
I bought this from zuneta.com
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Le Metier de Beaute Christmas Town nail lacquer
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I am really glad I got it, I thought the price good as well considering its Le Metier :)
I saw the LMdB Christmas polishes this morning and liked them all. This one is such a pretty green and right on trend, as emerald is the Pantone color of the year for 2013! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
well I am glad to finally be on trend :) I was interested in the topper shades as well, will be interested to see if you pick any of them up :)Delete
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Hey guys, a couple of these FLM builds have grabbed my interest...I've been toying with the idea of building one for myself.
FLM or UE knucklehead shock towers?...I've seen that FLM rear shock towers bend from hard bashing (I know you can make a chassis brace to prevent this). How do the UE knucklehreads shock towers hold up to hard bashing and do they bend?


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Seminar Series to Explore UVM's Role as Vermont's Land-Grant University
- 03-13-2013
- By University Communications
This spring, UVM's Center for Research on Vermont will offer a seminar series exploring UVM's role as Vermont's land-grant university. The forum, "The University in Vermont: Collaborations, Challenges and Commitments," provides an opportunity to discuss UVM's past, present, and future engagements and commitments to Vermont and the world.
Questions to be considered during the panel presentations: What contributions does UVM make to science, arts and society? What challenges does it face? What new possibilities are emerging?
Each of the four events, free and open to the public, will take place at 7 p.m. in North Lounge, Billings. The schedule follows:
March 19 - "UVM and Vermont's Cultural Heritage"
UVM programs have played an important role preserving, promoting, and sharing Vermont's cultural heritage. Panelists representing these programs will discuss accomplishments, challenges, and directions for the future. The panel will be moderated by Ann Cousins of the Preservation Trust of Vermont.
Jeffrey Marshall, director, UVM Research Collections and University Archivist
Christina Fearon, curator of education and public programs, Fleming Museum
John Crock, director, UVM Consulting Archaeology Program
Tom Visser, director, UVM Historic Preservation
Ann Cousins, Preservation Trust of Vermont
March 26 - "UVM and the State of Vermont: Moving Forward on the 'Shumlin Report'"
An advisory panel appointed by Governor Shumlin recently reported that the futures of the State of Vermont and the University of Vermont are "inextricably linked," yet the current state of affairs is unsustainable. This panel of state and university leaders will address the challenges and new initiatives proposed in the "Shumlin Report" of 2012. How should the state and UVM work together?
Armando Vilaseca, secretary, Vermont Agency of Education
Lawrence Miller, secretary, Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development
Chip Cole, interim dean, UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Emerson Lynn, editor, St. Albans Messenger
Tom Gustafson, vice president, UVM Student and Community Relations
April 9 - "UVM and the Future of Vermont's Agriculture"
Agricultural leaders will present their visions of Vermont's farming future, including challenges, potential collaborations, and areas for new research and entrepreneurship.
Doug Lantagne, dean, UVM Extension
Chuck Ross, secretary, Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets
Enid Wonnacott, director, Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont
Tom Vogelmann, dean, UVM College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Roger Allbee, former secretary, Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets
Vern Grubinger, professor and small fruit and vegetable specialist, UVM Extension
April 23 - "The Emergence of Vermont's Artisan Cheese Industry: A Case Study in Collaboration"
Panelists will discuss the rewards of engaged, collaborative research on Vermont artisan cheese, both for scholars and cheesemakers alike.
Amy Trubek, director, UVM Food Systems Masters Program
Paul Kindstedt, UVM Nutrition and Food Science
John Barlowe, UVM Animal Sciences
DJ D'Amico, Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese
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Making its East Coast premier after touring Berkeley and Las Vegas, "Tony Hawk | Rad Science" celebrates skateboarding culture and showcases the science behind the extreme sport.
The exhibition features special skateboarding workshops and demonstrations, including a stationary skateboard designed to test your balance while performing common tricks, and a "create-a-skate" session, where museum-goers can learn the science behind skateboard design.


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Prepare the grill for direct cooking over high heat (450° to 550°F).
In a large bowl gently mix the patty ingredients and shape into 4 patties of equal size and thickness. Make a hole in the center of each patty for the cheese.
Trim away the rind of the Brie and bury the cheese, about ¼ ounce for each patty, into the hole of each patty. Close the opening to seal the cheese inside. It's important that there is one-third of an inch of meat on the top and bottom of the cheese so it doesn't seep out.
Brush the cooking grates clean. Grill the patties over direct high heat, with the lid closed as much as possible, until cooked to medium, 8 to 10 minutes, turning once when the patties release easily from the grate without sticking. During the last minute of cooking time, toast the buns, cut sides down, over direct heat.
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Architectural Technology
Associate of Applied Science
About the Program
Students in the Architectural Technology program are primarily engaged in the planning and designing of residential structures along with producing construction documents. Students will gain experience with various design software, structural detailing, and building integrated modeling (BIM). Modern construction techniques, as well as materials used in today's residential buildings are also closely examined.
The Architectural Technology Program focuses on the principles of residential design with an emphasis on sustainable building practices in both new and renovated structures. Sustainable design seeks to improve building performance, reduce negative impacts on the environment, and improve the health and comfort of building occupants. The basic objectives of sustainable design are to reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, minimize waste, and create healthy, productive environments. It is an integrated, holistic design approach that positively impacts all phases of a building's life-cycle.
Financial Aid Eligible
This program is eligible for financial aid. Please contact the Financial Aid Office for further details.
Possible Careers
- Residential Designer
- Architectural Technician
- Building Material Sales or Representative
- Building Mechanical Technician
- Shop Drawing Draftsperson
- Structural Detailer
- Estimator
- Project Manager
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- CAD Technician
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- Demonstrate a working knowledge of structural, heating, plumbing, electrical and other mechanical systems within a building.
- Explain the fundamentals of building sciences including basic: physics of structures, properties of materials, construction processes, and building systems.
- Apply and promote principles and practices of environmentally sustainable design in architecture, construction, and daily living.
- Demonstrate knowledge of construction principles, materials, techniques and building codes.
- Estimate materials required for construction.
- Work as a team member by demonstrating good communication and listening skills, cooperation, and providing a supportive environment.


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Best-Selling Author Geoffrey Moore to Give the Keynote Address at Kofax Transform 2013
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Kofax® plc (LSE: KFX), a leading provider of Capture Enabled BPM™ (business process management) solutions, today announced that Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and chairman emeritus of the Chasm Group, a leading strategic business and management consulting firm, will give the keynote address at the Kofax Transform 2013 conference on March 11 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel.
"Geoffrey Moore is renowned for helping companies use disruptive technology to drive transformative change for their businesses," commented Robin Auerbach, president and CEO at EdgeMAC, a leading due diligence and document management firm in the mortgage industry. "He's the ideal headliner for Kofax Transform. I look forward to gaining insights into how my company can achieve competitive advantage and growth."
Mr. Moore and the Chasm Group encourage innovative thinking to help drive the kind of strategies and programs that enable market leadership. Mr. Moore's books include best-sellers such as "Escape Velocity: Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past," "Crossing the Chasm," and "Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution." Chasm Group clients have included Cisco Systems, FICO, Microsoft, and QuantaLife.
Kofax Transform 2013, which begins with pre-conference sessions on March 10 and ends on March 12, features more than 40 breakout sessions, panel discussions, industry forums and demonstrations presented by real world industry leaders such as CitiMortgage, PepsiCo and Suncorp. Industry analysts from Forrester, InfoTrends and the Hackett Group will also share valuable information and trends. The conference is sponsored in part by Fujitsu, Panasonic, Epson, Keymark, OPEX, Visioneer, ibml, Gimmal, A2iA, Canon and Kodak.
"The combined wealth of knowledge and expertise delivered by speakers at Transform 2013 is staggering," said Martyn Christian, chief marketing officer at Kofax. "We're excited to make so many thought leaders accessible to our customers under one roof."
Kofax Transform attracts approximately 700 line-of-business and IT executives annually from information intensive industries such as financial services, insurance, government and healthcare. A highlight this year, Kofax Transform will offer multiple sessions on how to leverage the explosion of mobile devices with Kofax Mobile Capture™ at the Point of Origination™ to gain competitive advantage and thereby better manage and grow operations. To register for Transform, visit www.kofax.com/transform/.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- In the spring semester of 2013, the Penn State Smeal MBA Program offered a new way for students to gain international collaborative experience in a real project environment. The Applied Educational Experience Program (APEX) offered a project in which a group of Smeal students worked with master of business administration students from the Management Development Institute (MDI) in Gurgaon, India, to explore growth opportunities for Sealed Air, a multinational company headquartered in New Jersey that makes protective packaging.
David Lenze, director of the APEX Program, felt that providing an opportunity for global collaboration would give students a chance to learn about the specific challenges of doing work in an international setting.
"This project was an excellent learning experience for our students," said Lenze. "They learned to deal with the challenges of working in a cross-cultural team in order to deliver meaningful results in an international setting."
"This project was an excellent learning experience for our students. They learned to deal with the challenges of working in a cross-cultural team in order to deliver meaningful results in an international setting.
-- David Lenze, director of the APEX Program
Amit Kapoor, professor of strategy at MDI and honorary chair of the Institute for Competitiveness, was also pleased with the project outcome noting, "The exposure of working with a cross-cultural, multi-location team presents challenges that cannot be experienced within a typical classroom setting. A project of this nature equips and effectively prepares students for a career that surmounts the typical idea of economic geography."
Both contingents of the team did work in multiple areas, but each had particular advantages to moving the project forward.
"A project of this nature equips and effectively prepares students for a career that surmounts the typical idea of economic geography."
-- Amit Kapoor, professor of strategy at India's Management Development Institute
"In general, the Penn State contingent focused on general desk research utilizing the significant electronic resources available at Penn State, while the MDI members leveraged their location to do in-person interviews with relevant people in India," Belknap said.
Second-year students are assigned to APEX projects in their final semester of the program based on interests and skill sets. All the students assigned to the Sealed Air project had an interest in emerging markets.
"Sealed Air has been growing quickly in India but thought there was potential to capture an even bigger share of the market," said Belknap.
The APEX Program functions as a capstone project for MBA students in which they take on real business projects for client firms during their final semester of study. Through these projects, students put together everything they've learned in their programs, from technical skills to teamwork and communications.
"Our project drew most heavily on marketing and strategy, but we still needed to take into account things like supply chain and finance," said Belknap, who says his experience helped him interview for and land his position through MBAs Without Borders with SustainTech, a company in India.
About the Penn State Smeal MBA Program
The internationally ranked residential Penn State Smeal MBA Program is focused on positioning students for their future careers. The two-year program begins with a focus on business fundamentals. Through a summer internship and elective courses, students then personalize their experience to align with their career aspirations. Learn more at www.smeal.psu.edu/mba.


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Helping hands in Honduras
September 16, 2010
When Mayo Clinic physician John Bachman invited several Oles to join a group of medical students traveling to Honduras this summer to provide health care, it was an opportunity they couldn't refuse.
|Elizabeth Wanous '11 (in pink shirt) and Mayo Medical School student Christy Spampinato talk to a Honduran woman and her children during a weeklong medical brigade to that country this summer.
Bayard Carlson '11, Elizabeth Wanous '11, Tye Humphrey '13, and Ryan Franz '06 worked side-by-side with Mayo Medical School students to set up a mobile clinic in a different rural Honduran village each day for a week. The students met with patients and developed diagnoses and treatment plans, which were reviewed by a physician. When they weren't running a clinic station, the students led patient education sessions, pulled teeth, administered fluoride treatments, sorted medications, managed patient flow through the clinic, and talked with villagers.
"We were really encouraged to build relationships with the patients and, in the process, got to know their stories," Carlson says. "We met some incredible people who have experienced great hardships in their lives, and the ability to help them was truly inspirational."
The trip was organized through Global Brigades, an international network of volunteer organizations that travel to developing countries and provide health care and other services to improve the quality of life in under-resourced communities. More than half the population in Honduras lives in poverty, making mobile clinics like the one the Oles worked in the only opportunity many people have to obtain health care.
Their experience was so rewarding that Carlson and Wanous — along with Adrienne Pompeian '12, who went on an earlier service trip to Honduras — are working to launch a medical brigade for St. Olaf students. They're following a process that Global Brigades has outlined for setting up a program on campus and have already received offers of assistance from St. Olaf faculty members.
The group hopes to have Oles on a brigade to Honduras in 2012. To reach that goal, the students need to partner with a physician willing to accompany and advise the group. "Physicians, physical therapists, pharmacists, nurses, dentists, optometrists, and other health care professionals, as well as adults proficient in Spanish, will be necessary in future brigades," says Wanous, who is returning to Honduras in January for a six-month Global Brigades volunteer program.
|Bayard Carlson '11 plays soccer with a group of children during a break in clinic work in Honduras.
A Mayo Clinic connection
Carlson and Wanous owe the opportunity to join Bachman and his Mayo Medical School students at least in some part to fellow St. Olaf student Pompeian. She accompanied Bachman's group on a medical brigade to Honduras in February after one of the Mayo students canceled at the last minute. Having a proficient Spanish-speaker from St. Olaf proved so useful in Honduran clinics that Bachman turned to the college to find participants for this summer's trip. St. Olaf Associate Professor of Biology and Director of Biomedical Studies Jean Porterfield connected him with several students fluent in Spanish and interested in health care.
The experience this summer reminded the St. Olaf students why they're pursuing a career in medicine. Many of the patients they saw in Honduras suffered from aches and illnesses that are often easily treated in the U.S., and Bachman encouraged the students to listen to their patients and learn about their lives so they could better understand how to treat them. Each day the students also set up a charla, or chat, where they would educate villagers about personal hygiene, the importance of clean water, proper nutrition, and an especially lethal strain of dengue fever that had just broken out.
When asked what type of medicine she hopes to one day practice, Wanous doesn't mention a specific field or specialty. Instead, she points out that she'd like to provide the type of care she learned to give during this trip: "Culturally sensitive, competent, and compassionate medicine."


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some young british boxers weighing in
loving the Ricky burns pics!!
been quiet for new pics and videos, anyone got any more
That geezer sure looks like he's enjoying the scenery.
I'm surprised athletes don't wear underwear when they do the weigh ins as they probably barely have any effect on their weight.
well spotted, i didnt notice before he is having a proper good look at his ass.
he got weighed in his underwear first and was 2 ounces over so took them off.
no problem. let me know anymore requests
Thanks for continuing to post those Joe! I keep watching this thread with interest.
I like the pic you have of all the guys lined up in tighty/whities waiting to get weighed (there's a jumble of 'w' words for ya).
The video quality is not great, but the guy with the scales has the perfect job!
check out this wrestlers weigh in - Part 3-
no problem sweetcar, keep posting your thoughts and type off pics/videos you like.
some hot boxers weigh-in in just thier pants
It's really hot to see those guys in just their underwear too! Kinda sexy, having to get undressed (even if only to undies) with all those people watching!?!!
Fantastic pics!!
Here is another angle of the steve forbes one:
wow the latest pics are hot, all them cute bums!!
thanks for yet more ricky burns pictures. he fights again in a few weeks so i hope he gets naked again for his weigh-in!!!!!!


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The data theft hack that forced Sony to pull the PlayStation Network has already gone on longer than expected, and each day means potentially missed revenue for developers and publishers. Capcom senior vice president Christian Svensson outlined just how deep those cuts might be in a recent Q&A.
"As an executive responsible for running a business, the resulting outage obviously costing us hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in revenue that were planned for within our budget," Svensson said. "These are funds we rely on to bring new games to market for our fans.
"In short, the hackers appear to be trying to 'punish' Sony for some perceived injustice, and they've been effective in that I suppose. But they're also punishing millions of other consumers and businesses which makes it impossible to be sympathetic to their 'cause'."
Full restoration of PlayStation Network services, including the store, is expected by May 31 -- but at that point the downtime will have lasted over a month. When the network had only been down a few days, Sony promised extra promotion to studios that were set to release games during the outage. But as that downtime edges closer to a full month, even the extra promotion could get overcrowded as a glut of missed releases may hit simultaneously.
Sony Europe has already outlined its own Welcome Back program, which will include a choice of two PS3 games out of five, and two PSP games out of four. It's unknown, at this time, if these will all be first-party Sony titles, or how Sony may compensate the publishers of the free games.
Shacknews has reached out to several developers for their own word on the potential cost of the downtime, but as of the time of publishing, none have responded.


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Filed under: Domestic Policy, Freedom, Liberalism, Regulation, Socialism, Taxes, The Constitution, The United States | Tags: All is Politics-Politics is All, End the Tea Party, Senator Charles Schumer
Charles (Chuck) Schumer is the senior Senator from the state of New York. He was first elected to the state assembly when he was 23 years old, and has been in politics ever since, and is usually a reliable example of far left thinking.
He argues that the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision allowed Tea Party groups to "funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government." He wants the IRS and other government agencies to take on the Tea Party through their administrative powers.
Senator Schumer demands that the IRS use all its powers to make war on the First Amendment and free speech that he doesn't like, in hopes of electing more Democrats. "We must redouble those efforts immediately" he said.
The Democrats master plan for annihilating the Tea Party movement calls for aggressive class warfare, demagoguery, and lies about the motives, goals and beliefs of Tea Party supporters. The Tea Party Schumer said, is successor to the "Know-Nothings, Prohibitionists, Father Coughlin, and Huey Long."
That nice organization of ordinary people deeply offended by attacks on the Constitution, by ObamaCare, by government by executive order, by enormous federal debt, failed policies, unemployment, government fraud and waste, failed foreign policy and presidential lies and obfuscation — were so outraged that they went to Town Hall meetings and asked embarrassing questions, and they demonstrated, held protests, waved homemade signs that were covered in the nightly news. This would not do. Not only that, but the 2012 election turned many Democrats out of office and turned the House over to the despicable Republicans. The Tea Party must be stopped!
Schumer urges an orgy of new government spending. More financial aid for college students, more funding for kindergarten through grade 12, more roads and bridges, more job training programs, and more handouts for domestic industry. US corporate taxes, already the world's highest, should be increases, the minimum wage should be raised and women need equal pay. (That myth never dies)
The electoral system "has been rigged to favor Tea Party candidates in Republican primaries" he said, calling for the system to be changed so Tea Party candidates can't win elections. He essentially admitted he is terrified of the Tea Party and the threat it represents to the hardcore left.
So there you go. It's the same old story. Free people vs. dependent people. A free country vs. 1984. Big government slips into totalitarianism, because people cannot be allowed to say unfavorable things about the government. They cannot be allowed to demonstrate, to object, to speak in public. At what point do the people become no longer free?
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INTELLIGENT DESIGN: Intelligent design has now (in 2025) become a thriving scientific research program and replaced materialistic accounts of biological evolution (in particular, Darwinism). ID theory led to new understanding of embryo development and the importance of "junk DNA"
In 1973 geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote: "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." By "evolution," he meant the synthesis of Charles Darwin's 19th-century theory that all living things have descended from a common ancestor through natural selection and random variations, and the 20th-century theory that new variations are produced by mutations in DNA. By 2000, the biological sciences had become almost totally dominated by this view. Millions of students were taught that Darwinian evolution was a simple fact, like gravity. Oxford professor Richard Dawkins even proclaimed that anyone who doubted it must be ignorant, stupid, insane, or wicked.
Now, a mere quarter of a century later, Darwinian evolution is little more than a historical footnote in biology textbooks. Just as students learn that scientists used to believe that the Sun moves around the Earth and maggots are spontaneously generated in rotting meat, so students also learn that scientists used to believe that human beings evolved through random mutations and natural selection. How could a belief that was so influential in 2000 become so obsolete by 2025? Whatever happened to evolutionary theory?
Surprising though it may seem, Darwinism did not collapse because it was disproved by new evidence. (As we shall see, the evidence never really fit it anyway.) Instead, evolutionary theory was knocked off its pedestal by three developments in the first decade of this century-developments centered in the United States, but worldwide in scope. Those developments were: (1) the widespread adoption of a "teach the controversy" approach in education, (2) a growing public awareness of the scientific weaknesses of evolutionary theory, and (3) the rise of the more fruitful "theory of intelligent design."
The first development was a reaction to late 20th-century efforts by dogmatic Darwinists to make evolutionary theory the exclusive framework for biology curricula in American public schools. Biology classrooms became platforms for indoctrinating students in Darwinism and its underlying philosophy of naturalism-the anti-religious view that nature is all there is and God is an illusion. In the ensuing public backlash, some people demanded that evolution be removed from the curriculum entirely. A larger number of people, however, favored a "teach the controversy" approach that presented students with the evidence against evolutionary theory as well as the evidence for it.
The U.S. Congress implicitly endorsed this approach in its No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. A report accompanying the legislation stated that students should learn "to distinguish the data and testable theories of science from religious or philosophical claims that are made in the name of science," and that students should "understand the full range of scientific views that exist" with regard to biological evolution. Despite loud protests and threats of lawsuits from the Darwinists, hundreds of state and local school boards across America had adopted a "teach the controversy" approach by 2005.
In the second major development, students who were free to examine the evidence for and against evolution quickly realized that the former was surprisingly thin. Although Darwinists had long boasted about having "overwhelming evidence" for their view, it turned out that they had no good evidence for the theory's principal claim: that species originate through random mutation and natural selection. Bacteria were the best place to look for such evidence, because they reproduce quickly, their DNA can be easily mutated, and they can be subjected to strong selection in the laboratory. Yet bacteria had been intensively studied throughout the 20th century, and bacteriologists had never observed the formation of a new species.
If there was no good evidence that a Darwinian mechanism could produce new species, still less was there any evidence that a Darwinian mechanism could produce complex organs or new anatomical features. Darwinists discounted the problem by arguing that evolution was too slow to observe, but this didn't change the fact that they lacked empirical confirmation for their theory.
Of course, there was plenty of evidence for minor changes in existing species-but nobody had ever doubted that existing species can change over time. Domestic breeders had been observing such changes-and even producing them-for centuries. Unfortunately, this was not the sort of evidence that evolution needed. After all, the main point of evolutionary theory was not how selection and mutation could change existing species, but how that mechanism could produce new species-indeed, all species after the first-as well as new organs and new body plans. That's why Darwin titled his magnum opus The Origin of Species, not How Existing Species Change over Time.
A growing number of people realized that the "overwhelming evidence" for evolutionary theory was a myth. It didn't help the Darwinists when it became public knowledge that they had faked some of their most widely advertised evidence. For example, they had distorted drawings of early embryos to make them look more similar than they really are (in order to convince students that they had descended from a common ancestor), and they had staged photos showing peppered moths on tree trunks where they don't normally rest (in order to persuade students of the power of natural selection).
In the first few years of this century, the cultural dominance of Darwinism was so strong, especially in academia, that critics were slow to speak up. By 2009, however, when Darwin's followers had hoped to stage a triumphal celebration of their leader's 200th birthday, millions of people were laughing at the emperor with no clothes.
The third and perhaps most decisive development was a series of breakthroughs in biology and medicine inspired by the new theory of intelligent design. Everyone, even the Darwinists, agreed that living things look as though they were designed. Darwinists insisted that this was merely an illusion, produced by the combined action of random mutation and natural selection; but design theorists argued that the design was real. For years the controversy remained largely philosophical; then, in the first decade of this century, a few researchers began applying intelligent-design theory to solving specific biological problems.
One of these was the function of so-called "junk DNA." From a Darwinian perspective, "genes" were thought to determine all the important characteristics of an organism, and gene mutations were thought to provide the raw materials for evolution. When molecular biologists in the third quarter of the 20th century discovered that certain regions of DNA encode proteins that determine some of the characteristics of living cells, and equated these with "genes," Darwinists assumed that their theory was complete. They even proclaimed DNA to be "the secret of life."
Yet molecular biologists learned in the 1970s that less than 5 percent of human DNA encodes proteins. Darwinists immediately declared the other 95 percent "junk"-molecular accidents that had accumulated in the course of evolution. Since few researchers were motivated (or funded) to investigate garbage, most human DNA was neglected for decades. Although biologists occasionally stumbled on functions for isolated pieces of "junk," they began to make real progress only after realizing that the DNA in an intelligently designed organism is unlikely to be 95 percent useless. The intensive research on non-coding regions of human DNA that followed soon led to several medically important discoveries.
Another insight from intelligent-design theory advanced our understanding of embryo development. From a Darwinian perspective, all the information needed for new features acquired in the course of evolution came from genetic mutations. This implied that all essential biological information was encoded in DNA. In contrast, intelligent-design theory implied that organisms are irreducibly complex systems in which DNA contains only part of the essential information. Although a few biologists had been arguing against DNA reductionism for decades, biologists guided by intelligent-design theory in 2010 discovered the true nature of the information that guides embryo development.
All three of these developments-teaching the controversy, educating people about the lack of evidence for evolutionary theory, and using intelligent-design theory to make progress in biomedical research-were bitterly resisted by Darwinists in the first decade of this century. Defenders of the Darwinian faith engaged in a vicious campaign of character assassination against their critics in the scientific community. Meanwhile, their allies in the news media conducted a massive disinformation campaign, aimed primarily at convincing the public that all critics of Darwinism were religious zealots.
More and more people saw through the lies, however, and within a few short years Darwinism had lost its scientific credibility and public funding. By 2015 it was well on its way to joining its intellectual cousins, Marxism and Freudianism, in the dustbin of discarded ideologies. By 2020, Darwinism was effectively dead.
Read this article on the World Magazine website. Reprinted with permission.


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Arc'teryx and Extreme Frontiers
On the road last winter, filming "Extreme Frontiers: Canada", Charley Boorman visited Whistler and bumped into some Arc''teryx folks (naturally). Having seen our gear in action before, and learning more about the company, Charley asked if we''d like to get involved in his upcoming expedition across South Africa.
We were more than happy to help, and get to see our pieces in some of the most beautiful places on earth. Filming for that journey – which included Great White sharks, lions, and many more adventures – wrapped up earlier this year, and will be airing on Channel 5 soon. In the meantime, you can check out at the Extreme Frontiers: South Africa site for videos, photos, and the expedition log.


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The CWC Volleyball team was on the road last week at Fairfield, and lost to the BDC rivals, 25-14, 25-22.
The CWC Volleyball team was on the road last week at Fairfield, and lost to the BDC rivals, 25-14, 25-22.
Scoring for the Lady Bulldogs were Briley Attebury with two points, an ace, two digs and three kills, Kelsey Rogers with a point, two digs and two kills, Bailey Winters with four points, two aces, eight assists and eight digs, Cammie Francis with two points, an ace, seven digs and a kill, Laura Potter with two points, an ace, three digs and two blocks, Peighton Parks with two points, six assists and three digs, JoBeth Blake with four kills, Kaylea Chappelle with three kills and three blocks and Lixi Wheeler with two kills.
The junior varsity team also fell in defeat, 25-16, 25-16.
Scoring were Jessica Woods with nine points, an ace, six assists, a dig and a kill, Paige Winter with three points, an ace, an assist, a dig, four kills and three blocks, Graci Ackerman with a point, an assist, a dig, and a kill, Morgan Combs with two points, nine digs and a kill, Ashtyn Cowling with a point, an ace, a kill and two blocks, Maggi Ackerman with three digs and a kill, Gabbie Brown with three digs and Karen Kays with a dig.
On Tuesday, the team hosted Grayville for senior night. The team honored seniors Attebury, Blake, Rogers and Winters and the team also saw the return of Claire Blankenberger to the court. The team won in come from behind fashion, 21-25, 25-20, 25-10.
Scoring were Attebury with eight points, three aces, three digs and five kills, Blake with three points, a dig and four kills, Rogers with three points, an ace, two assists, six digs, two kills and two blocks, Winters with six points, two aces, nine assists and three digs, Francis with 11 points, three aces, eight digs and a kill, Potter with three points, five digs, a kill and a block, Parks with seven points, two aces, eight assists, five digs and a kill, Blankenberger with a point and four digs, Woods with an assist and a dig, Chappelle with two digs, four kills and three blocks, Wheeler with four digs, five kills and a block and Winter with a kill.
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Sifting Through the Sands of Time
NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY AT GIPSY TRAIL CLUB ATTENDED BY 209 MEMBERS President Harvey W. Corbett Was King. Old Man 1928 Appeared Among Revelers at Supper.
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Women Who Work in Porn Have Higher Self-Esteem and Better Life Quality
There's an old stereotype that women enter into pornography because they have deep-seated issues relating to childhood abuse or addiction. However, nobody had ever actually tested the emotional well-being of female porn stars. Until now—and the results may be surprising.


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Panama City, FL--It's looking like Gulf Coast could have a new women's head basketball coach by the end of this week.
Gulf Coast A.D. Greg Wolfe tells Newschannel 7 Sports the search to replace Roonie Scovel is now down to just three, with the final of those three interviews due Tuesday.
The list in no particular order is current G.C. assistant Bridgette Goodnight, Malone grad and former GC player Vernette Skeete, and Marie Christian, an assistant at Elon University in North Carolina.
Goodnight spent last season alongside Scovel on the bench and on the practice floor, as a G.C. assistant coach. It was her first year with Gulf Coast. Before that she was an assistant at Pensacola.
Skeete is a 2001 Malone graduate, and was part of the 2003 undefeated, national championship Lady Commodores team.
After Gulf Coast, she graduated from Alcorn State, spent some time as a high school coach back at Malone, then began coaching in the collegiate ranks. Currently she's an assistant coach at the University of Miami.
Skeete and Goodnight have already been interviewed, Christian's interview is Tuesday.
Wolfe says the 7 person committee should have a recommendation for Dr. Kerley by Wednesday with an announcement on a new coach as early as Friday.


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Trinity Christian's Marquion Lane is one of the top college football prospects in the area, but in the preseason it looked as if he might not have a team to play for.
Trinity Christian's Marquion Lane is one of the top college football prospects in the area, but in the preseason it looked as if he might not have a team to play for.
Lane left DeLand High after a disagreement with coach Al Manning over summer workout and practice attendance. But Lane and his father, Marlin Lane Sr., did not give off a vibe that they were worried.
That is because Lane had a fallback — Trinity Christian, a private school in Deltona. Public school students have to go through an academy application or apply for a variance to attend a public school outside of their zone. Student athletes, however, can move freely to the private school of their choice, provided they have the money to do so. All that had to fall in place for Lane was a state-funded scholarship — which he received just before the season.
Trinity is the third school that the highly touted Lane — he has 17 scholarship offers, according to rivals.com — has played for in his four-year prep career. Prior to DeLand and Trinity, the quarterback spent two years at Mainland. His brother, University of Tennessee starting tailback Marlin Lane, played for two schools — Lighthouse Christian and Mainland — during his prep career. Marlin Lane Sr. said the moves were simply a case of his sons trying to find the best fit for them, and he praised the current system for allowing the moves.
Marquion Lane led the Eagles to the playoffs, but he didn't play in Friday's first-round loss to Winter Garden Foundation after he suffered a season-ending ankle injury in the final game of the regular season.
Lane is not the only high profile prep player in the area to go the private school route.
Warner Christian tailback Marcus Dixon, who has more than 5,500 career yards, said in the spring that he was planning to transfer to Mainland only to reverse course a month later and stay at Warner. The 5-foot-9, 190-pound running back said he lives in Mainland's district with his grandmother and was considering playing for the Buccaneers to gain more exposure.
Deltona head coach Ky Cowan said losing players to private schools is an additional hurdle when it comes to trying to build a public school program. Cowan said the makeup of his team is directly impacted by Trinity Christian.
"We do (lose kids to them)," he said. "It's tough. Schools like Trinity have a way of taking guys and finding a way to get them on the field."
Trinity Christian principal Dennis Robinson said he doesn't allow recruiting and his school doesn't "go looking for athletes."
"When they come to us, they're looking for a change, such as a Christian environment or a better academic situation," he said. "With successful athletic programs, they come to us."
First-year Warner Christian coach Steve Allen — who also coached at Flagler Palm Coast — has been on both sides of the fence.
"We were the benefactor (of kids being able to transfer to private schools) with a couple of kids that have helped us out this year," he said. "I always say that with a private school, the kids you have are always technically somebody else's. I can tell you that I have never recruited a player."


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AMD Opteron Bulldozer Chips to Support Dynamic Speed Boost
In a bid to further increase performance of its forthcoming central processing units (CPUs) based on Bulldozer micro-architecture, Advanced Micro Devices plans to implement a dynamic clock-speed boost technology into its next-generation Opteron chips. The new tech is akin to Turbo Core feature of current Phenom II X6 microprocessors, but has a number of improvements.
Different applications apply different load onto central processing units. As a result, if one task squeezes all the juices from the chip severely, then another does not. Frequencies and thermal design powers of CPUs are set by manufacturers based on the worst-case scenario that stress the microprocessors in order to avoid possible problems. As a result, thermal design power (TDP) figures tend to be very conservative and applications that do not make use of all transistors of a chip do not perform as well as they could have.
Contemporary microprocessors can monitor their load easily, which is why they can trivially adjust clock-speeds downwards if power saving is needed. Moreover, AMD Phenom II X6 Thuban chips can boost clock-speeds of three cores by 500MHz when other three are inactive, whereas modern Intel Core i-series can increase clock-speeds depending on the number of active cores even more significantly when needed. The next-generation Bulldozer processors will greatly enhance the Turbo Core technology and will bring it to servers as well, AMD revealed.
AMD's new Turbo Core allows the processor to rise up from the base clock-speed up to the TDP level, automatically unlocking extra potential for the processor. AMD Turbo Core is continually monitoring the processor power consumption to determine the maximum processor state; Turbo Core is watching the power consumption to see how high it can move the clock speed up. Should the processor get too close to the power limit, it does automatically step back a bit to ensure that it is continuing to operate within the specified guidelines. This allows for significantly higher maximum clock speeds.
The Bulldozer implementation of Turbo Core provides up to 500MHz of additional clock speed available with all cores active, which means that even with 16 cores of Opteron "Magny Cours" active with server workloads, all cores can boost at the same time. Additionally, even higher boost states available with half of the cores active.
"[Naturally], power always does go up with frequency, but the most important thing to remember is that this is also a variable technology; it only increases frequency based on total demand from the application. The system runs at the base frequency unless there is a need for more performance from the application, so in environments that are 'bursty' youll vary frequency with AMD PowerNow! between base and the lowest power. If demand for performance is sustained, the processor runs between base and max, so that you are getting the most performance, but still not wasting power, explained John Fruehe, director of product marketing for server, embedded and FireStream products at AMD.
At launch processors based on Bulldozer micro-architecture will be marketed with a base and a maximum frequency, base will reflect the actual clock-speed on the processor and max will reflect the highest AMD Turbo Core state.


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Methodology Center partnering in effort to help people quit smoking
Penn State and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have joined forces to help people quit smoking. Penn State's Methodology Center is providing expertise with innovative research methodology at the Tobacco Intervention Laboratory, a newly established research laboratory that is housed within the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI). Penn State received over $700,000 for this study.


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In this article, Robert Sullivan, MBA'68, board chair for AACSB International, examines the forces that will affect the association — and management education — in the coming months. Sullivan is dean of the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego. AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) is a global, nonprofit membership organization of educational institutions, businesses, and other entities devoted to the advancement of management education.
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He e-mailed me back and invited me to stop by before the concert and hang out with him and the rest of the band. I was so, so excited...and my mother said I could go, but only under one condition. She had to go with me, because she wasn't going to let her 17 year old daughter hang out with a bunch of 20-30something year old musicians without supervision.
I have George Takei's autograph. I was a tween and went to a Star Trek convention with my father and sister. He's a lovely man and very nice, he signed my hat!
I also have Andy Serkis (who played Gollum/Smeagol in the LOTR movies), but I've never met him. DH's mother happens to be Andy Serkis' godmother. Upon learning that I'm a huge LOTR fan, she called him up and asked him to sign something and send it to her. He ended sending her a copy of his book "Gollum: A Behind the Scenes Guide to the Making of Gollum" and he wrote "Best Wishes, ShieldMaiden" and signed his name. It's the prize possession of my LOTR collection.
My favorite "autograph" story (quotes because I never actually obtained the autograph!) is one I've told here before. I was taking the back way home when I lived in Pittsburgh when a huge white Escalade pulls up next to me and Heath Miller of the Steelers asks me for directions. He talked to me for a few minutes, and actually asked for my number (which I willingly gave!) and he called me later. Alas, I was in the car with my ex-boyfriend and could not chat, and he never called back. (My ex was my ex at the time; I wasn't trying to cheat. It would have just been too cruel to talk on the phone to another guy while he was taking me to dinner!) >snip<
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UK-US corporate world slams 'dot-brand' domain plans
The Man lawyers up, gets in ICANN's grille
Lobby groups representing a majority of US advertisers and online media companies have demanded that domain name overseer ICANN slam the brakes on its controversial new generic top-level domains programme.
Claiming the gTLD programme is "likely to cause irreparable harm and damage", the US Association of National Advertisers (ANA) set the ball rolling earlier this month when it said that it is thinking about suing ICANN to force it to abandon its plans.
The group now also has the backing of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the UK Direct Marketing Association.
Today, the Brussels-based World Advertising Federation, a meta-group that has the ANA and other associations as members, echoed the ANA's concerns in a letter to ICANN.
Combined, the five organisations count thousands of the world's best-known companies – everyone from Facebook, Microsoft and Google to Walmart, Pepsi and Kraft – among their members.
From next January, ICANN plans to allow any legitimate, well-financed organisation to apply to run a right-of-the-dot domain name, to sit alongside the likes of .com and .uk.
As well as registries grabbing potentially lucrative domains such as .web, .music and .blog, hundreds of others are expected to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to apply for so-called "dot-brand" gTLDs.
If the programme goes ahead as planned, then by 2013 – when the paperwork has been processed – you might see web addresses such as iphone.apple, johnsmith.facebook or enjoy.coke.
But according to the ANA and IAB, there's little demand for such domains in corporate America, and a great deal of fear that new gTLDs will lead to an increase in cybersquatting, phishing and fraud.
"If American industry is not supporting the recommendation to do this, then who is?" said the ANA's president, Bob Liodice. "What is the benefit if brand owners are saying they're horrified?"
The ANA's members are worried that more new extensions will mean bigger legal bills to fight off cybersquatters – those people who try to blackmail trademark holders by registering their marks as domain names.
Liodice wrote to ICANN president Rod Beckstrom in early August to demand that the new gTLD programme be "abandoned" until its concerns were dealt with.
The group plans to lobby the US Congress and Department of Commerce, which has an oversight relationship with California-based ICANN, to have its demands heard.
It may also sue, Liodice said.
In his reply, Beckstrom defended the programme and the "multi-stakeholder" policy model used to create it. He also pointed out that ICANN made substantial concessions to the trademark lobby – including the ANA – and to the national governments that had expressed similar concerns.
"ICANN supports and defends the bottom-up, multi-stakeholder model that has produced carefully crafted policies that promote competition and user choice while creating a safer, more stable Domain Name System," Beckstrom wrote. "The assertions in your letter are either incorrect or problematic in several respects."
Depending on when you start counting, the new gTLD programme had been under development for between three and 13 years before it was finally rubber-stamped in June.
It's inconceivable that the ANA and the other objectors didn't see it coming, and yet both organisations participated very little in its creation, ICANN's supporters say.
Not everybody is convinced that more gTLDs will mean more cybersquatting.
At the .nxt domain name conference last week, Paul McGrady of the law firm Greenberg Traurig said he believes companies that secure their dot-brand gTLDs will see a "major decline" in cybersquatting.
"[Consumers] will not be looking for the left-hand-side of the dot," McGrady said. "When consumers are not looking for them at the left-hand- side of the dot there will not be traffic. Where there is not traffic, there is not revenue. Where there is not revenue there is not cybersquatting."
Those organisations now crying foul about the programme are also worried about the high price of applying for and owning a gTLD. It is not the same as buying a regular domain name.
ICANN's application fee starts at $185,000, but start-up costs are more likely to come in around $500,000, many observers estimate. Companies applying for a popular, contested gTLD may wind up at auction, where the outlay could exceed $20m.
But that's a drop in the ocean for many of the companies now objecting to the ICANN programme – which collectively spend $700bn a year on advertising. ®
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Suspicious strangers reported in town
- Written by Don Mann
Last week Woodinville police received reports of suspicious activity in the Lake Leota and Cottage Lake areas involving one or more adult males approaching Woodinville residences in three separate incidents.
According to Woodinville Police Chief Sydney Jackson, one citizen in the 170th Avenue/ NE 195 Street area reported a suspicious person at their door looking for "yard work for extra money." The subject was described as a white male in his late 20s or early 30s, 5' 11" and about 175 lbs., dark hair with several scabs on the right side of his face. An unfamiliar dark sedan was seen down the street with a driver inside.
In another report west of Cottage Lake, a white male subject rang a doorbell twice and then looked surprised when the resident answered.
He claimed to be looking for downtown Woodinville. An unfamiliar black 1990s Honda was parked close by.
In yet another report, Jackson said, an adult male claiming to have found a tan-colored pit bull with a bright pink collar the night before knocked on the door of a residence at 170th Avenue/ NE 203rd Street, up a long private driveway, asking if the dog belonged to her. The man claimed he was letting the dog lead him back to its home.
No crimes have been committed, the police chief said.
Jackson added that any suspicious behavior, persons or vehicles should be reported to the police immediately so they have a chance to contact and identify them while they're still in the area.


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GLEN ELLYN – With so-called female role models such as Snooki, Kim Kardashian and Bella Swan from the "Twilight" series prevalent in today's cultural spotlight, Hadley Junior High School teacher Hillary Shumate was getting a little tired of the examples being set for her female students.
As a teacher in a middle school, Shumate saw firsthand how these types of role models can affect young women – from lunches that consist of a bag of Cheetos and a Coke to poor peer relationships with their classmates.
"It's at a pivotal moment," she said. "If we don't catch them now, we may lose them a little bit."
Shumate decided to do something about it.
After organizing the school's first-ever POW! (Powerful Outstanding Women) event last year, she will continue to encourage Hadley women to be the best they can be at the second annual event Saturday.
The event, which will be from 8 a.m. to noon at Hadley Junior High School, 240 Hawthorne Blvd. in Glen Ellyn, is open to female Hadley students and the special women in their lives, including their moms, grandmas, aunts and other family members.
POW! will include a talk by motivational speaker Tiffany Bruessard, who created a pledge for the girls last year about being comfortable with themselves and recognizing their own worth.
After the talk, students and their guests will have the opportunity to attend three sessions on topics ranging from entrepreneurship to improvisation to art and journaling and more. Sessions will be led by members of the school and Chicago-area business community.
A raffle and trade show will offer a variety of items, including gift cards, apparel, health products and books, for attendees to win or purchase. As part of the event, The Bookstore in Glen Ellyn is bringing a selection of fiction books with strong female heroines, including "The Hunger Games" trilogy.
Overall, Shumate said the event is a way for female students to feel good about themselves. She said she's noticed that some students aren't comfortable receiving compliments or recognizing how talented they are – choosing instead to prioritize appearance over more important qualities. With this event and additional POW! programming in the future, Shumate hopes to continue to change that.
"No matter what they look like, what they do – just being themselves is enough," Shumate said. "They're wonderful."


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In arXiv:0908.4052, Nekrasov and Shatashvili pointed out that the N=2 instanton partition function in a special limit of the Omega-deformation parameters is characterized by certain thermodynamic Bethe ansatz (TBA) like equations.In this talk I will present an explicit derivation of this fact as well as generalizations to quiver gauge theories. The TBA equations derived entirely within gauge theory have been proposed to encode the spectrum of a large class of quantum integrable systems. I will conclude with some remarks on this correspondence.


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Steelers CB Taylor still driven by Pro Bowl berth
By Mark Kaboly
Published: Wednesday, August 7, 2013
One of the must-have traits for an NFL cornerback is impeccable timing.
When it comes to the Steelers' Ike Taylor, there are few in the league who can measure up to his physicality, run support and, most of all, his ability and willingness to guard the best receiver on a weekly basis.
But Taylor could work on his timing a little bit.
Taylor has put together back-to-back Pro Bowl-caliber seasons, but what he's remembered for is Tim Tebow picking him apart in the 2011 wild-card loss to Denver and Matt Hasselbeck doing the same last year in an embarrassing loss to Tennessee.
Both were on national television, and both seem to sully Taylor's otherwise impressive résumé.
What I say to that is 11 years, Taylor said. Regular people don't even have day-to-day jobs for 11 years let alone playing in the NFL. They are going to say what they are going to say, but look at the tape.
The tape is revealing.
Taylor allowed only 30 receptions last year before having his streak of 135 consecutive games snapped by a broken ankle; eight of those came against Tennessee. After the Titans breakdown, Taylor allowed only six receptions over his final seven games.
When Taylor gave up 204 yards to the Broncos, including the game-clinching 80-yarder to Demaryius Thomas in overtime, he had allowed an unheard of 28 yards per game during the regular season.
I know a lot of guys in this league respect Ike, cornerback William Gay said. When a receiver gets on the field and sees No. 24, he knows what time it is.
Taylor's reputation likely should be better across the league because he does what only a handful of cornerbacks do, and that's follow the best receiver wherever he goes. Taylor's been doing it since midway through the 2005 season, when he was assigned to Cincinnati's Chad Johnson and held him to four receptions and no touchdowns.
Not too many guys do that, Gay said. Guys just want to play left or right. Ike can play right, left, slot. Wherever that No. 1 receiver goes, he's going. If he is in the backfield, he's going to play linebacker.
Eight years later, Taylor still gets the top assignment every week and wouldn't want it any other way.
That's not for everybody, Taylor said. Going against the toughest (receiver) week after week, not too many people want that. There are only about three guys doing that every week.
But that has yet to translate into something Taylor desperately wants: a Pro Bowl. His theory: Taylor has just three interceptions over the past two years, but he has had limited opportunities because offenses rarely through his way.
His physicality sets him apart from a lot of corners in this league, receiver Antonio Brown said. His toughness and how hard he works, and put that with his confidence, and that makes him one of the best.
Still, that elusive Pro Bowl drives the 33-year-old Taylor.
Is it a personal goal of mine? Yeah, sure, Taylor said. But feeling that my career is incomplete? Nah, man. I don't know what corners in this league have two Super Bowl rings, three Super Bowl appearances and a Super Bowl interception.


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On the television series, the Newsroom. In a recent episode this was the last piece of dialog:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGAvwSp86hY - Link to the Newsroom thing.
Was pretty good and hits many points.
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The human brain is a curious thing; by default we think backwards, trying to bend reality to fit what we believe. And it takes serious training to reverse this, usually no less than years of education.
At this point I no longer think it is possible to make insane people sane again. We can only be glad they are the minority and will naturally die off on their own. The rest of the country is trying to live their lives in reality.
On that note, Susan Rice dropped out. That's unfortunate.
Not just for Rice, but for the GOP finding a NEW way to make the government dysfunctional. Simply reject all appointments of anyone and everyone for no reason. McCain should be ashamed of himself. Selling what's left of his soul like that.
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I'm really not surprised though that there are many on the web calling him a liar and using faux logic or the such while never bothering to talk about what was even said only that it's all "wrong" and that everyone has gotten the Tea Party "all wrong".
Or my favorite "What about the Liberals?". News flash, this isn't about the Liberals it's about the Tea Party. Wish they would stop pointing fingers at others and look to their own house first.
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So what is the "liberal agenda"? All that I can think of are broad things like "equality and fairness for all," or "preservation of the environment." There isn't a particularly strict agenda, and it's not like all "liberals" feel strongly about every topic. There are splinter groups within splinter groups.
I also find this mirrored in politics. I've heard some Republican voters criticize the Democrats for being inefficient or "wasting" consolidations of power. It seems like that's because the Democrats have a broad agenda, but they disagree on how best to achieve it and what aspects should be prioritized. They discuss and argue over it. This specifically came up with the "blue dog Democrats" shortly after Obama won his first term for the president. The Republicans, by comparison, seem to get a directive from their leadership structure and then they all vote together on it. Now that the power is split more evenly both sides are largely voting along party lines to counter each other, but over the past 10-20 years it seems to me that there have been more instances of Democrats "stepping out of line" than Republicans. That could just be my memory, though; I haven't counted instances.
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Obama just publicly stated that he holds the position of a 1980's moderate Republican, in a response to claims of him being a socialist.
Once again, Obama is telling us something everyone already knows. That we discussed in this thread recently; that Progressives really don't have a voice in America. That the option of a voter is between Moderate Conservative party and a batshit insane Far Fright party. The Left isn't voting Obama because he is progressive, but that the GOP is downright frightening.
It is a surprise that Obama admitted it. But it IS true. Guess he decided that truth might be what we need in this world these days, even though those on the Left are powerless to do anything about it.
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Really, we are waiting for the GOP to disintegrate. When it occurs, THEN the Progressives can just split off the Democrats on their own to make a new Left party.
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What could happen is that the moderates within the GOP finally say enough is enough to the nutjobs (or the nutjobs kick the moderates tot he curb). The moderates would then join the Democrats which would further pull that party to the right. (As has been happening for a while anyway.)
At that point, the more leftists within the Democrats would start feeling unwelcome.
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The Dems would hold together for as long as the GOP does. Very symbiotic.
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Actually, the xkcd image above points to a key element that's missing in this picture: whenever the Democrats lose ground, it is the "centrist" (for the rest of the world: conservative) Democrats who lose, while progressive seats are generally safe. In other words, they are the backbone of the Democratic Party, though they have to compromise with their conservative party brethren if they want to have their party be the majority, and they are much more used to the notion of compromise than the far right. The American center is inherently unstable.
[/although the xkcd image itself is full of problems the deeper it goes back in time. I can just imagine the facepalms from American political history experts for having to define the Federalists as either Left or Right in the modern sense.]
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Brace yourselves... here comes the template for mass eradication of democrats in congress come 2014!
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It will be a rallying cry that will do damage to any politician dumb enough to back it.
Dianne is obsolete, her thinking is obsolete, and her "solutions" to this issue are obsolete.
No matter how much her district may love her, I think her age is showing and it's time to retire Madame Senator.
Notice how the shooting last night is being swept under the proverbial rug.
More than 50 shots fired at Fashion Island mall; suspect held
But that was in California where they've had an assault weapon and high-cap mag ban since the 1990s, so that one doesn't count.
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