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The Western Athletic Conference announced its all-WAC teams and coach and players of the year awards as voted upon by the WAC's nine head coaches.
Nevada led the league with six first-team all-WAC honorees, while Boise State placed five on the first team and Hawai'i and Louisiana Tech each placed four.
Nevada's Colin Kaepernick was named the Offensive Player of the Year, Hawai'i's Solomon Elimimian and San Jose State's Jarron Gilbert shared Defensive Player of the Year honors, and Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore was named the Freshman of the Year. Boise State's Chris Petersen was voted the WAC's Coach of the Year.
Kaepernick leads the WAC in total offense with 299.5 yards per game and is tied for the WAC lead in touchdowns scored with 16. He has thrown for 2,479 yards and 19 touchdowns while rushing for 1,115 yards and 16 scores to rank tied for 10th in the nation in points reponsible for with 17.5 per game. He is the fifth different player in NCAA history to pass for more than 2,000 yards and run for 1,000 yards in a season. Kaepernick has thrown just five interceptions and has a 132.4 passing efficiency rating. He was named the WAC's Freshman of the Year last season. This is Nevada's second Offensive Player of the Year award as running back B.J. Mitchell won it in 2005.
Here's the complete all-WAC selections:
Top Individual Awards
Offensive Player of the Year – Colin Kaepernick, So., QB, Nevada
Co-Defensive Players of the Year – Solomon Elimimian, Sr., LB, Hawai'i and Jarron Gilbert, Sr., DT, San Jose State
Freshman of the Year – Kellen Moore, QB, Boise State
Coach of the Year – Chris Petersen, Boise State
First Team
Pos Name, School, Ht., Wt., Year
WR *Jeremy Childs, Boise State, 6-0, 196, Jr.
WR Marko Mitchell, Nevada, 6-4, 200, Sr.
WR %$Chris Williams, New Mexico State, 5-8, 157, Sr.
TE Eddie Williams, Idaho, 6-1, 249, Sr.
OL Andrew Woodruff, Boise State, 6-2, 320, Sr.
OL Bobby Lepori, Fresno State, 6-5, 290, Sr.
OL *John Estes, Hawai'i, 6-2, 290, Jr.
OL %Adam Korby, Idaho, 6-2, 292, Sr.
OL *#Dominic Green, Nevada, 6-3, 295, Sr.
QB Colin Kaepernick, Nevada, 6-6, 215, So.
RB Daniel Porter, Louisiana Tech, 5-9, 189, Jr.
RB Vai Taua, Nevada, 5-10, 225, So.
Pos Name, School, Ht., Wt., Year
DL Ryan Winterswyk, Boise State, 6-4, 258, So.
DL D'Anthony Smith, Louisiana Tech, 6-2, 292, Jr.
DL Kevin Basped, Nevada, 6-6, 240, So.
DL %Jarron Gilbert, San Jose State, 6-6, 280, Sr.
LB Ellis Powers, Boise State, 5-10, 200, Sr.
LB *Solomon Elimimian, Hawai'i, 6-0, 220, Sr.
LB *#Adam Leonard, Hawai'i, 6-0, 235, Sr.
LB Duke Ihenacho, San Jose State, 6-1, 200, So.
DB %Kyle Wilson, Boise State, 5-10, 185, Jr.
DB Ryan Mouton, Hawai'i, 5-10, 180, Sr.
DB *Antonio Baker, Louisiana Tech, 5-11, 200, Jr.
DB %Christopher Owens, San Jose State, 5-10, 170, Sr.
Pos Name, School, Ht., Wt., Year
PK Brett Jaekle, Nevada, 6-4, 210, Sr.
P T.J. Conley, Idaho, 6-3, 216, Sr.
ST Phillip Livas, Louisiana Tech, 5-8, 170, So.
Second Team
WR Austin Petts, So., Boise State
WR Michael Washington, Sr., Hawai'i
WR David Richmond, Sr., San Jose State
TE *Bear Pascoe, Sr., Fresno State
OL Andrew Jackson, So., Fresno State
OL Mike Iupati, Jr., Idaho
OL Rob McGill, So., Louisiana Tech
OL Alonzo Durham, Jr., Nevada
OL Mike Gallett, So., Nevada
OL Richie Bolin, Sr., New Mexico State
OL Brennan McFadden, Jr., Utah State
QB Kellen Moore, Fr., Boise State
RB *$Ian Johnson, Sr., Boise State
RB #@Yonus Davis, Sr., San Jose State
DL Mike T. Williams, Sr., Boise State
DL *David Veikune, Sr., Hawai'i
DL Keala Watson, Sr., Hawai'i
DL Dontay Moch, So., Nevada
DL Carl Ihenacho, Jr., San Jose State
LB Chris Carter, So., Fresno State
LB Ben Jacobs, So., Fresno State
LB Justin Cole, Jr., San Jose State
LB %Jake Hutton, Jr., Utah State
LB Paul Igboeli, Jr., Utah State
DB Jeron Johnson, So., Boise State
DB Moses Harris, Jr., Fresno State
DB Derrick Richardson, Sr., NMSU
DB Coye Francies, Sr., San Jose State
PK Tino Amancio, Sr., Idaho
P *Chris Keagle, Sr., Louisiana Tech
P Brad Langley, So., Nevada
ST Kyle Wilson, Jr., Boise State


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CHAPEL HILL – By Sunday, nearly 4,000 new faces will be settled into their new homes at UNC adding up to the total population of the University of more than 29,000 students, and the Town of Chapel Hill is once again hustling and bustling.
Executive Director of the Downtown Partnership, Meg McGurk, says local businesses and organizations are teaming together to make the transition for newcomers and their families as smooth as possible.
"We just produced a brand new downtown business guide and map that just came in last week that we've been distributing throughout the community," McGurk says. "(We're) giving it to all our visitors' centers and all our businesses."
That's just one of the many things available to students and newcomers to the community.
And, she says move-in weekend doesn't just benefit freshmen and transfer students. There are benefits for everyone returning to the Southern Part of Heaven.
"Businesses can offer discounts to students that show their ID," McGurk says. "We've got the Good Neighbor Initiative kicking off next Monday where it's a wonderful partnership that we welcome all of the students to the neighborhood throughout Downtown. We actually walk door-to-door."
The Week of Welcome is meant to make the shock to the Town's system a manageable one. Safety is a top priority, and McGurk says the Good Neighbor Initiative is a process to ensure that everyone in the community is taken care of.
McGurk says planning for this weekend started just as soon as the students left last year.
"Graduation weekend, when everyone leaves, we all kind of let out a sigh, and then we get right back into it," McGurk says. "There isn't much downtime for prepping for the next year, because that's the cycle of our community as a college town. That's what we do."
And she says she this is one of her favorite times of year.
"It's the weekend of graduation when the town kind of settles into the summer and it kind of goes back into the year-round residents kind of owning (their) own community," McGurk says. "And then this weekend when the students come back and all of the energy and all of the vitality and all of the kind of enthusiasm of the new school year and new live just breathes back into our community, and I absolutely love it."
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MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) Republican Sen. Rand Paul says President Barack Obama's health care law probably can't be defeated or gotten rid of. And he's suggesting there is little he and other congressional Republicans can do to stop the law from taking effect.
Speaking to reporters Saturday at a gathering of Michigan Republicans, Paul says Republicans could use votes on measures in the House and in the Senate to come up with compromise legislation. But the Kentucky Republican says that time for that is running out.
An opponent of the law many call "Obamacare," Paul says he's acknowledging that, in his words, "we probably can't defeat or get rid of Obamacare." He says that working from the position of not funding the health care law might help render it, quote, "less bad."
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Manchester City are being linked with a move for Manchester United defender target Mats Hummels.
The Daily Mirror claims Citizens boss Roberto Mancini has set his sights on a centre back, with just two senior players available in the position if captain Vincent Kompany's appeal against a red card fails.
The Belgian international was controversially sent off against Arsenal at the weekend, and could now serve a three-match ban if referee Mike Dean's decision is upheld.
Hummels is amongst a number of potential targets, with Borussia Dortmund teammate Neven Subotic another player mooted to be of interest to Manchester City in the report.
A move for Hummels would be of particular Premier League interest however, given his link to arch-rivals Manchester United.
Sir Alex Ferguson was tracking the player towards the end of 2012, and sent Red Devils scouts to watch the German international in action in November, according to The Daily Express.
Were he to move to Old Trafford this month, he'd follow in the footsteps of Shinji Kagawa, who swapped the Bundesliga for Manchester United in the summer.
However, it's 'noisy neighbours' Manchester City who now appear to be considering a first move for the player.
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This is the stack trace mentioned in the article:
http://pastebin.com/UkhERvaA [pastebin.com]
Doesn't look like a c-string or printf issue to me at all.
C-strings strike again.
Nope. Lousy programmers strike again. There's nothing at all wrong with c-strings. There is, however, a sufficiency of lousy programmers who lack the skill to handle perfectly simple data structures. Seriously, if you can't handle a zero terminated string or keep from overrunning an array, it's not the string format that's the problem. It's you.
Assuming the problem here is a string problem may be jumping the gun, too. Could just as easily be something else.
I like C, but the problem is that most programmers cause chaos when they write it. C was always meant as a language that people who like assembler will like and use and be more productive. It was not meant as a language that today's script monkeys should use.
Also Objective C was designed according to the prinicples of Objectivism - i.e. the code of the looters and moochers would crash and burn and bankrupt their companies whereas the code of Great Men would navigate the formidable obstacles of pointers and demonstrate their status as Nietzschean Ubermenschen and be rewarded with tonnes of cash and Patricia Neal, so this is not really surprising.
You're doing it wrong.
no big deal.
damnit, I just ran out of mod points, too... +infinity for you.
Steve is in the iCloud now. Someone tried turning him off and then back on again. In an appeal to hipsters, he's gone underground to sell more macs. He is permanently 404. There is no way he could have had anything to say about this. There is no app for that. Get it?
My response:
Steve is dead and has been for over a year. Time for some new jokes.
BRB, heading down to the Apple Store...
Typing the string has the same effect on the app as quitting the app. So.... have fun going to the apple store and quitting the apps.
It produces a nice exception error message. Perfect for making Apple fanbois who claim that Macs never crash look like twats.
Just a thought, using something like vnc from a mobile device would make it more likely to happen since keyboards on most smartphones/tablets capitalize the first letter in anything it thinks is a sentence.
I just crashed it in 10.8.2 by simply typing it (exactly as specified) into the document area in TextEdit.
No one should ever need to type file:///
There are no bugs. You're doing it wrong
That was sarcasm, right?
Anyway, I have twelve examples of file:/// in my browser history, all of them automatically generated by scripts. If I ever meet a script that capitalizes "File" then we may be in trouble.
No one should ever need to type file:///
There are no bugs. You're doing it wrong
Yes, they are doing it wrong, by typing file:/// in lowercase, or not typing it at all. So the obvious question is: "how can I type it right for them?" If I include "File:///" in an email I send to a Mountain Lion user, will it crash his Mail.app? Or if someone quotes it in a reply here?
That could become a cool little meme.
First off, itâ(TM)s worth noting that the bug only appears to be present in OS X Mountain Lion and is not reproducible in Lion or Snow Leopard. Thatâ(TM)s not exactly good news given that this is the latest release of Appleâ(TM)s operating system, which an increasing number of Mac users are switching to.
Talk about over-egging the pudding. You're talking as if it's a fundamental flaw that ruins the whole operating system. It's a bug. Of course it's not good news, but it's not certain doom for Mountain Lion either.
Speak for yourself - I just rolled back to Tiger!
Landon Fuller has posted a gist on GitHub with an explanation of the bug and a binary patch to the affected library [github.com].
Landon Fuller has posted a gist on GitHub with an explanation of the bug and a binary patch to the affected library [github.com].
Yeah, THERE'S a good idea - apply a binary patch from some random post on Slashdot!
It's a commented assembly listing with a proposed hacky fix in assembly.
Running OS X 10.8.2 here, and I tried it in TextEdit, Mail, and Safari.. no crash.
Running 10.8.2 here also and it crashes in TextEdit when simply typing the text into the document - LOL!
Just to be sure, I type file:/// into TextEdit or a new Mail message or whatever and it's supposed to crash?
I tried this in Safari on Lion. Capital F required, but indeed just "File:/// " crashes it.
Then you get a pop-up asking if you want to report the problem to Apple? Sure.
But then that crashes with a pop-up reporting that crash reporter has crashed. Bonus!
You used to be able to BSOD a Windows 95 or 98 machine by trying to read C:\con\con, and this included any web pages that requested file://C:/con/con.
I searched in the Finder (iMac running 10.8.2) and got nothing strange. I tried Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Mail, a few text editors
Oh, wait, capitol F. That does cause a crash. Since when has a Mac been case sensitive? I guess that's what they get for listening to all those hackers complain about case insensitivity.
From a comment above, the problem is that it's not case sensitive, except for an internal sanity check which is.
E.g. the dispatching code said "the user typed File:/// and I have a handler for file:///, so I'll call it", but then the handler had what was basically an case-insensitive comparison assert(url.startswith("file:///")).
So the problem isn't case sensitivity or insensitivity -- it's that it was being inconsistent about it.
didn't some thing like @sony crash mac os 6?
asserts are there to catch bugs. Not invalid user input or other conditions that you can predict and gracefully handle, but actual programmer bugs - mistakes in the logic of the program.
If you ship your code with asserts disabled, you are, effectively, asserting that your code is bug-free. If you don't feel confident enough to make such a claim, then leaving them in there is a good idea - you lose a wee bit of perf, yes, but if things do go wrong, the user (and therefore you, when the user files a bug repor
After trying this in every app I could think of, and failing to crash them, it turns out that this is case sensitive.
Some dude has done a more detailed analysis over on github [github.com] but the long and short of it is that there is a specific check in the code for 'file://' and any other case will cause it to crash. All caps - crash. Capital F and the rest in lower-case - crash. All lower-case and a capital L - crash.
"Doctor, it hurts when I do this... Can you help me?"
"Sure, don't to that."
I'm going to give some free advice to users of Apple's OSX Mountain Lion: Don't do that.
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Monitoring Applications with Palm OS & Tomcatby Derek Ferguson
In this article, I will teach you a little bit about how Expand Beyond Corp. uses Java and the Palm operating system to build a system that allows our clients to monitor and manage their mission-critical systems from virtually anywhere in the world.
I'll begin by talking about our choice of the Palm Operating System as our client platform, and introduce you to Palm Query Applications. After that, we'll move across the network to the server side, to look at the Java that needs to run on the application server to support the wireless monitoring and management of mission-critical systems. I'll show you how to install and configure Tomcat. Then we'll finish up with an example of how to use a wireless handheld to remotely start an Oracle "listener," a vital part of most mission-critical database applications.
Gentlemen, start your emulators!
At the moment, Expand Beyond's software runs on Palm OS, though we are porting it to other platforms, including PocketPC. Since Palm's operating system still holds nearly three-fourths of the PDA market, it's a good starting platform for any wireless software organization.
To develop a client-side application for Palm OS, you must first have a Palm OS-based device at your disposal for testing purposes. If you want to save yourself the expense of purchasing such a device, you are in luck: Palm distributes a free software emulator in the developer section of its Web site.
You will also need to download the ROMs, which is slightly more involved, since you have to register and wait a couple of business days. Once you have the emulator up and running on your system, it should look like Figure 1.
And now, as I would say to my 15-month old daughter, Elizabeth, "You try!" In this section, we will create the user interface for our listener-starting application and examine it using the Palm OS Emulator (POSE).
All about Web Clipping markup
Modern PalmOS handheld devices connect to the Internet primarily through use of a technology called Web Clipping. Web Clipping can be thought of as traditional Web browsing, with two important differences:
- It supports only a small subset of HTML, and
- Some content is pre-loaded on the client.
Web Clipping doesn't support client-side scripting or binary content (such as applets), nested tables, or extensive control over fonts.
Web Clipping documents must include certain meta tags to let client devices know these pages are safe for Palm consumption. Code Listing 1 shows the markup that we will use for our client application. For further information about syntax, see the Web Clipping documentation on Palm's Web site.
<title>Start Listener</title>
<meta name="PalmComputingPlatform" content="true">
<meta name="PalmLauncherRevision" content="1.0">
<form method="post" action="http://www.pocketdba.com/starter">
<input type="hidden" name="command" value="lsnrctl">
<input type="submit" value="Start the Listener">
We're going to first save that code as an HTML file, and then save it with other relevant files into a Palm Query Application, or .pqa file. Then we'll install the PQA file onto our device.
To create the PQA file from the code listing above, follow these steps.
Download and install the Web Clipping Application Builder tool from the Developer's Tool section of the Palm OS Web site.
Save the code from Listing 1 to a text file named
Start the WCA Builder tool, open the File menu, and choose Open Index.
Select the
index.htmlfile you created in Step 2.
Open the File menu and select Build PQA.
Enter a name for the PQA and click on Build.
At this point, you are ready to start the Palm OS emulator and load your Web Clipping application for examination. If you are on Windows, you may do this by right-clicking in the frame of the emulator and choosing Install Application from the pop-up context menu. Select the PQA file you created in Step 6 above. After a few seconds, the icon for your new application should appear on the display. Click this icon to see the interface, as shown in Figure 2.


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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A western Michigan school district is paying $45,000 to settle a lawsuit by a teacher who says she was fired because of her short stint as a stripper.
Details of the settlement weren't part of the documents filed last month in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, but TV station WOOD (http://bit.ly/11YJ1vv ) says it obtained details through a Freedom of Information Act filing.
West Ottawa Public Schools say Susan Brennan was fired in 2010 for poor classroom performance. The district says she was dishonest in grading and failed to use proper lesson plans and grading methods.
Brennan denies the claims, saying she was targeted because she worked as a stripper during a leave of absence.
The settlement is paying Brennan $37,000, plus $8,000 for lawyer fees.
Information from: WOOD-TV, http://www.woodtv.com


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arXiv gets five-year grant for its scientific repository
August 30, 2012
arXiv, the free repository that has revolutionized the way scientists share information, is adopting a new governance and business model that will allow it to grow and succeed in the future.
Beginning in January and running through 2017, the Simons Foundation will provide up to $300,000 per year as a matching gift for the funds generated through arXiv's membership fees. The grant also provides $50,000 per year as an "unconditional gift" that recognizes the Library's stewardship of arXiv.
To date, more than 120 member institutions in over a dozen countries have pledged their support, totaling $285,000. Among the 100 institutions that use arXiv most heavily, nearly three-quarters committed to five-year pledges.
As an open-access service, arXiv allows scientists to share "preprint" research before publication and boasts hundreds of thousands of contributors. In 2011 alone, arXiv saw close to 50 million downloads from all over the world and received more than 76,000 new submissions.


text: MainWho We AreSpecial Olympics AmbassadorsDikembe Mutombo, Global Ambassador Listen Dikembe Mutombo, Global Ambassador About Dikembe MutomboIn 2012, Dikembe Mutombo was recognized as a Special Olympics Global Ambassador. Dikembe Mutombo is a National Basketball Association (NBA) legend and NBA Global Ambassador. He is also a retired Congolese American professional basketball player, best remembered as a star center for the Houston Rockets of the NBA. The 7 ft 2 in (2.18m) center is one of the greatest shot blockers and defensive players of all time, winning the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award four times. On January 10, 2007, he surpassed Kareem Abdul‐Jabbar as the second most prolific shot blocker in NBA history. Other NBA honors included NBA All‐Rookie Team (1992), 8‐time NBA All‐Star, 3 time All NBA, and 6 time All Defensive Team. A well known humanitarian, Mutumbo started the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation to improve living conditions in his native Democratic Republic of Congo. On August 14, 2006, Mutombo donated $15 million for the completion of the Biambe Marie Mutombo Hospital in Kinshasa named after his late mother who passed away of a stroke in 1997.


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Place four pebbles on the sand in the form of a square. Keep adding as few pebbles as necessary to double the area. How many extra pebbles are added each time?
Arrange your fences to make the largest rectangular space you can. Try with four fences, then five, then six etc.
How would you move the bands on the pegboard to alter these shapes?


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The cola that refreshes AAS (again!)
The cola that refreshes AAS (again!)
Pensacola Gazette and Florida Advertiser (Pensacola, FL). July 31, 1830.
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This was the fourth newspaper published in Florida and the second published in the town of Pensacola. It began in 1824 and lasted until the Civil War. Southern newspapers are quite scarce and Florida papers even more so. The warm climate means the survival rate is quite low. It is always a pleasure being able to fill in gaps in our Florida collection with issues.


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On the Thanatos Trail
Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (The Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 46)
Death, the one immutable element in every life, is at the same time the one transition that no one can claim as a conscious experience. We do not live through it—a paradox all ages have been disinclined to accept—and putative exceptions to the rule, from Lazarus to mediums' contacts or Ouija-board monologuists, all require a suspension (whether miraculous or not) of the normal laws of nature. Anxiety about death dictates many of our fundamental beliefs and behavior patterns, and all death imagery, in any age, is manifestly borrowed from the world men inhabit, since it is the only one they know. The disposal of corpses is a universal problem, with limited solutions. An archaic Greek and a modern urban American share a wide range of assumptions about death, funerals, burial, and the hereafter: where they differ sharply is in the spiritual luggage they carry with them. To study any group's attitudes to death becomes, in a very real sense, a refraction of their ideas about life, their social conventions and priorities, their more persistent sustaining myths.
In her remarkable Sather Lectures, Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry, Professor Emily Vermeule shows an acute sensibility both to the universal and to the unique features of archaic Greek dealings with death, as manifested, variously, in literature, vase painting, myth, and the heterogeneous clutter of artifacts dug up from graves. She ranges in time from the Mycenaean Bronze Age to the mid-fifth century BC, a period which she sees (justifiably, I think) as maintaining a more or less consistent system of values and beliefs. For her the great watershed of change comes about 450 BC, with the development of Protagorean classicism.
Her approach is peripatetic rather than chronological: each of her six chapters takes a central theme or peg—the relation of soul (psyche) to body, the implications of burial customs, death in battle, the nature of immortality, Eros and Thanatos, the poetic magic inherent in sea monsters—and on this thread strings a brilliant digressive essay, full of asides and illustrations, somewhat in the manner of Sir Thomas Browne, and often with the same poetic concision, paradoxical insights, and glinting elegance of phrase.
This makes her work a delight to read, but at the same time puts a severe strain on any reader who prefers his arguments to start at the beginning and then proceed in an orderly manner to their conclusion. Since Professor Vermeule's earlier work, that brilliant synthesis Greece in the Bronze Age (1964), was as tightly argued as a legal brief, her present approach is clearly a matter of policy rather than ineptness. The counterpoint of text and illustration, the cumulative pointilliste use of images to circle a central concept or object—these suggest poetic rather than scholarly techniques. To understand death, she implies, requires creative insight, and an analysis which, while using the tools of philological and archaeological expertise, abandons the constricting tramlines of conventional academic judgment.
Such a program calls for rare skills; but then Professor…
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Michele shares her experiences with their newest little one and talks everything from cloth diapers, the benefits of babywearing, and do it yourself baby foods, to healthy bedding, clothing and toy options. She shows how keeping things simple keeps things healthy, happy and economical.
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Please welcome Drake Cameron, hero of Ashlyn Chase's How to Date a Dragon, to the virtual offices this morning!
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Describe yourself in five words or less.
[Drake] Independent, Leader, Protective, Supportive, Integrity
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Can you share a typical day in the life of Drake Cameron?
[Drake] I get out of the bed I built; shower and dress in my uniform; walk to Station #3 of the Boston Fire Department; have breakfast with the guys; and respond to whatever emergencies occur during my shift. After work I pop over to Boston Uncommon for a beer with my fellow paranormals—unless I need to discuss something with my firefighter brotherhood, then I meet them at The Ladder. Either way, I'm a social being and I like to flirt. I haven't asked anyone out in a while, because I'm searching for a female dragon to mate with and save the species. I don't think there are any available, and not many women are dragon tolerant. I might have to give up on the promise I made to my mother on her death bed.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three words come to mind when you think of Bliss?
[Drake] Feisty, Funny, Beautiful
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What do you find most exasperating about her?
[Drake] She's impatient and strong-willed. Snarky comments are her forte, and she's even managed to turn it into a business. She's the designer behind Hall-Snark cards.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] If you could change one thing you've done in your life, what would it be?
[Drake] I wouldn't have left Nova Scotia and gone to live with my uncle in New York. How was I to know he was a mob boss? After that I had to disappear and make a whole new life for myself. I had heard there might be a female dragon in Boston, which is how I wound up here. I suppose without that experience, however, I wouldn't have become who I am today.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What's one thing you won't leave home without?
[Drake] My phone. I'm willing to work overtime when needed, and lately there have been a rash of fires. Also, I like to call Bliss after she gets off work and before she goes to bed.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What do you like to do when you aren't saving damsels in distress?
[Drake] I like to work with my hands. I build furniture. I've thought about taking up sailing, but fire and water…well, you know how those two things don't mix.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Can you share your dreams for the future in five words or less.
[Drake] Loving a dragon-tolerant woman
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Thank you!
[Drake] Thanks for asking about me. I'm not used to being in the spotlight. It's Bliss who's on TV all the time.
About the book:
Let the Sparks Fly…
Bliss Russo thought nothing exciting ever happened in her life. Until her building caught on fire and she had to be carried out of the flames in the arms of a gorgeous fireman. Sure, her apartment is now in shambles and she'll have to start her huge work project completely from scratch. But at least her love life is finally looking up…if only she can find her red-hot rescuer again.
Dragon shapeshifter Drake Cameron is the last of his clan, and the loneliness is starting to claw at him. He's met only one woman who might be able to stand the shock of his true nature. After all, she barely batted an eyelash when her home burned down. And feeling her curves against him was just as hot as the inferno. Just when he thinks he'll never track her down, she walks into his firehouse—with no idea what she's about to get herself into…
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Ashlyn Chase describes herself as an Almond Joy bar. A little nutty, a little flaky, but basically sweet, wanting only to give her readers a satisfying experience.
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Agents! Review
When you think of the all-time video game classics, many of the usual suspects may come to mind, like Mario, Sonic, Street Fighter II, and many other timeless titles. One of the obscure experiences that tenured gamers will fondly remember is Spy Vs. Spy. It was a fast-paced action game that brought the famous comic strip from Mad Magazine to life.
Combining strategy and hysterical hijinks, Spy Vs. Spy was a game that stayed in the regular rotation on many people's NES. Looking to resurrect the spirit of those loony spies, Clickgamer developed Agents!, an imaginative action game mixed with interesting puzzle elements.
Agents! is a great example of taking a proven idea and throwing a premium coat of paint on top of it. You play as an agent trying to find secret documents while dealing with an enemy agent with the same goal. Besides maneuvering around tactfully, hilarious weapons and traps add an element of danger to every level. As you successfully gather all the documents, you continue to the exit and win.
Just another day at the office.
One of the challenges with reinventing Spy vs. Spy on an iOS device is replicating the snappy controls. In a smart move, Agents! uses a 3D environment with some great touchscreen controls to move around. This is a slower-paced game than Spy vs. Spy, but that's not a bad thing. Tapping an area on the screen moves your agent to that area, and glowing areas indicate spots that can investigated for weapons or documents. Each of the three levels' themes are interesting and completely appropriate for some misplaced top-secret materials.
Combat and traps are used early and often in Agents!. In no time, you'll be collecting a variety of weapons and gadgets to complement your stock pistol. When you're in the same room as another agent, shooting at them is as easy as tapping them. The computer seems to get their shots off a little faster than we could, but it's not too annoying. Planting tripwires and explosives for unsuspecting enemies is fun, too.
Most of the single-player experience takes place in the Campaign Mode. It does an admirable job of tying the simple gameplay into objective-based levels that generally flow well. The actual story is skippable, though, as the writing is boilerplate. It's all coherent and gradually builds in consistency, but the real fun is playing one-off games against the computer or other people.
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Agents! is a universal game that's playable across all the iOS devices, like between iPads and iPhones. The only thing that spoiled the fun is that Agents! is a bit crash-prone. The game will crash, freeze, and have weird buggy action that can be annoying. But when things work, multiplayer is a blast.
Agents! looks like a comic book come to life. Most of menus are adorned with 2D art, and the design has charm. As a contrast, game environments are completely modeled in 3D. Some jaggies and frame drops notwithstanding, performance is stable most of the time. Big explosions give the game engine problems and stutters usually will last for a few seconds. Online integration is made possible by Crystal, and you can challenge the times and scores of your friends.
Agents! does its source material justice. It's not a perfect game by any stretch, but it's still fun. For now, this universal application is only a buck, and the value you'll find in this package makes it a steal.


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I never boo personally. You can be disappointed or upset but keep it to yourself. But I will say I think Trent's comment about St. Louis is ridiculous. Any fan base has some portion that will react poorly when things go bad. In Cincinnati I think part of it is this city has gone so long without much to really celebrate. The town so badly wants something to celebrate and it looked like it was finally coming together but all the signs are pointing to another failure which the town has seen too much of from it's sports franchises.
Protecting his teammates.
But continue overreacting like you guys do.
I doubt Bruce cares at all what reaction he gets.
The fans were terrible today. No energy the whole game, pin drop quiet outside of boos towards the end, and then a good portion could be seen bailing for the exits in the seventh inning. The revelry of those first two games hit an embarassing thud this afternoon.
This place use to be fun
The crowd was completely awesome last night and they laid a huge egg. I don't agree with booing your own team at all, but it's not like these guys respond to a good crowd anyway.
As for twitter, those people aren't even fans. They're trolls, and they're all over the internet. That's all they are - trolls. We don't see a lot of them here because our super-awesome, good looking moderating staff generally takes care of them - but most of the interwebz are infested with those little jerks. Don't even pay attention to them, you're playing right into their hand.
Who were those idiots behind home plate pretending to be on a roller coaster? ban those guys for life before we talk about booing.
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I agree. Just terrible journalism if you can call it that.
Who the heck is jumping ship? 95% of this board has frowned upon the slightest mention of "we might be in trouble" comments.
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2011 Attendance Record: 3-4 2012 Attendance Record: 3-4
2013 Attendance Record: 5-2 2014 Attendance Record: 3-1
I think booing your own team is asinine. Why would you boo your own team? To motivate them? Here's a clue: booing your team does not motivate them. Booing kills their morale. Go to the game to enjoy yourself and have a good time while supporting your team. Don't boo, it makes you look like a clown.
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Adelitas Way Host a Group Date for ABC's 'Bachelor Pad'
Adelitas Way have taken part in several video shoots over the last few years, but for once they may not be the focal point of every camera at the shoot. That's because their new video shoot is also serving as the backdrop for a date on Monday night's episode of 'Bachelor Pad' on ABC.
As part of the reality series, former cast members of past seasons of the 'Bachelor' have returned to compete for a second chance at love as well as prizes. On Monday's episode, which airs at 8:00PM ET/PT, there will be a group date in which the contestants get a chance to star in the music video for Adelitas Way's song, 'Alive.'
The track is the fourth single off the band's 'Home School Valedictorian' album, and singer Rick DeJesus calls it a song that's about "the positive moments." He adds, "It's about being in love and feeling great, having that feeling where everything feels right, you feel so invigorated. You're enjoying life, you're cruising with your windows down, driving to San Diego, getting ready to go to the beach, what's not to like?" The vocalist says that if someone's having a bad day, 'Alive' is the perfect song to pop in to turn their day around.
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* Sophomore Denard Robinson set the single season rushing record for a QB. He now has 1,538 yards.
* Robinson is the first QB in NCAA history to rush for 1,500 yards and pass for 2,000 yards in the same season.
* After falling behind 24-0 by halftime, U-M twice cut the deficit to 10 points and was an onside kick recovery away from making Wisco really sweat.
* And...uh...ummm...it didn't rain.
* Michigan got shut out in the 1st half
* Michigan's kicking woes continued when they missed a 30 yarder from the center of the field
* A Robinson pass was batted at the line of scrimmage and intercepted by a Wisco lineman that I'm pretty sure hadn't run with a football since pick up games in his back yard when he was about 9.
* How bad is the defense? Well, this season, the Wolverines have given up 369 points and 4,897 yards, both record setters: The yards allowed broke the 4,720 mark in 2009 and 347 blasted past the 2008 suckage. Awesome!
*The Badgers finished the game by calling 28 consecutive running runs. Twenty-eight straight running plays and we still couldn't stop them. Twenty-eight plays in which it's a little harder to blame the youth in the secondary for the carnage.
* Wisco coach Brett Bulimia is doing his best to take over the Big 10's Biggest D-Bag coaching award from Danny Hope. A week after scoring 83 points on IU and claiming he wasn't running it up (because, you know, everybody throws 74 yard TD strikes when you're clinging to a 69-14 lead late in the third), Bret said this after the game yesterday about the Badgers' physical play: "What we do isn't pretty. A lot of places, there's a certain emphasis on being pretty and being individualized on players." Gee, who were you talking about, Bret?
He followed them up when asked about Denard Robinson's record breaking day by saying, "For them, that's great. We would never recruit to that." Good point. I mean who'd want to recruit one of the most electrifying players in the game.
* According to MGoBlog, in the post game news conference, when asked about Michigan's bad tackling, Rich Rod had this to say: "The hard part is, to work on it during the season, how do you do live tackling?" Don't want guys to get hurt - can't afford more injuries.
Uh, did the head football coach of the University of Michigan just say he doesn't do and/or doesn't know how to conduct meaningful tackling drills during the season? Seriously? Please, please PLEASE somebody tell me this was taken out of context. My 9th grade freshman coach found a way to do it, I should hope the coach of the team once led by Bo Schembechler can figure out a way from September through November to practice tackling.
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FORMER OKLAHOMA ATTORNEY GENERAL EDMONDSON TO SPEAK AT LOU WATKINS LECTURESHIP AT EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITYPosted on: 13 October, 2012
Former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson will be the speaker for the Lou Watkins Endowed Lectureship on Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 6:30 p.m. inside the Stanley P. Wagner Ballroom at East Central University.
The event, free to the public, is billed 'An Evening with Drew Edmondson' as he delivers short prepared remarks before moving into a more conversational format with political science and legal studies students. He will also take questions from the audience.
Posted on: 13 October, 2012
Concert Pianist Rira Lim will be performing on Monday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ataloa Theatre of East Central University's Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.
The concert, which is free to the public, will feature the talents of Lim, a native of South Korea. Lim has played internationally through Asia, Western and Eastern Europe and North America.
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WATCH PARTY, DISCUSSION SCHEDULED FOR ESTEP ROOM OF THE EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITY COLE CENTER ON OCT. 22Posted on: 13 October, 2012
The East Central University Department of Political Science and Legal Studies will be hosting a non-partisan Presidential Debate watch party on Oct. 22 in the Estep Multimedia Room of the Bill S. Cole University Center on the ECU campus.
The debate will last from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. with a discussion on foreign policy to follow. The debate and discussion is free and open to the public.
Posted on: 13 October, 2012
Here is the 2012 East Central University Homecoming Court as Kaitlin Moore and Zubair Khan were crowned queen and king respectively at halftime of the Tigers' home football game with Northwestern Oklahoma State on Saturday, Oct. 6. The junior attendants in front are Jaylyn Issacs (from left) and Brayden Volyes.
Posted on: 10 October, 2012
A third and final group of East Central University students have been awarded Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarships in mathematics worth $30,000 each.
The 10 students receive $10,000 for up to three years while they work toward bachelor's degrees in mathematics with a secondary teacher certification option.
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Bethany Beachel (left), a biology major and graduate student from Henryetta, meets with McNair Scholars Program Director Pat Sutton.
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Passing down culture is an important value of the Chickasaw Nation and that expression can be experienced through East Central University's rendition of 'Chickasaw Tales' on Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 13 at 2:30 p.m. at the Ataloa Theatre of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.
Around the world, key components of cultures are passed down from generations in a number of ways. One of the most important avenues to transmit lessons to posterity is through indigenous stories. Humans have told stories all the way back through recorded history.
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The East Central University Veterans Upward Bound Program has been approved for a new five-year grant cycle of $275,153, it was recently announced.
The ECU VUB program is designed to provide academic and supportive services to eligible veterans in an effort to generate the skills and motivation necessary to enter and succeed in a program of post-secondary education, whether it be through a vocational or technical school or through a two or four-year college or university.


text: The construction of two classrooms and a biology lab at Massasoit Community College's Middleborough campus is just about complete, and school officials said new space will be ready for the spring semester. The new facilities will enable students to take all the courses they need to complete an associate's degree at the Middleborough location. The $500,000 upgrade is being handled by Higher Education Partners, LLC, which does expansions for colleges and is paid later with tuition money. Currently 185 students take courses at the Middleborough campus, and the number is expected to go as high as 500. The college's main campus is in Brockton; the Middleborough location opened in 2010.


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Call to Action: Pennsylvania Aircraft Tax Exemption Requires Member Support
April 18, 2013
Legislators in Pennsylvania are now considering House Bill 1100 (HB 1100) and Senate Bill 593 (SB 593), which would both provide a sales tax exemption for fixed wing aircraft, parts and maintenance. The state already offers a sales tax exemption that applies to helicopters and businesses have reported hiring additional employees as a direct result of the helicopter exemption.
The House passed HB 1100 on April 15 and the Senate is now considering it alongside of SB 593. Last year the bill also passed the House but did not clear the Senate before the legislative session ended. With strong Member support, NBAA is hopeful that the exemption will pass the Senate this year.
The advocacy efforts of aircraft operators and companies doing business in Pennsylvania will be critical to moving these bills through the legislature. State Senators need to hear from local constituents about the positive economic benefits of this legislation. While NBAA is continuing to advocate for passage of the bills, when legislators hear directly from their own constituents in Pennsylvania the message is more powerful.
Member Action
When contacting elected officials, Members are encouraged to explain that this legislation will actually generate additional tax revenue through an increase in fuel flowage fees, hangar leases, and business taxes which are the result of increased aviation business. Job creation in the aviation sector will also lead to increased employment tax collections. Finally, aviation employees will have discretionary income to spend which will support other sectors of the economy.
Since the inception of the rotor wing maintenance exemption in Pennsylvania, one company hired 412 employees and contributed in excess of $600,000 in personal income taxes. This does not include the increase in business tax revenues, personal sales tax revenues and other revenues as a result of increased employment and salaries.
States such as Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York have seen an increase in aviation activity and additional tax revenue after implementing similar exemptions. Massachusetts recently completed an economic impact study revealing that over 4,000 jobs and nearly $445 million in economic impact are tied to the state's 30 general aviation airports.
Contact your Pennsylvania elected representatives
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Since this legislation was introduced, NBAA has been working directly with legislators and Pennsylvania based Members to build support for HB 1100 and SB 593. To date, NBAA has performed the following:
- Coordinated with bill sponsors to determine how NBAA Members can best support the bill.
- Provided data to legislators on the economic benefit that business aviation provides to Pennsylvania.
- Communicated directly with Pennsylvania Members to encourage that they contact their elected officials to support the legislation.
Business Aviation in Pennsylvania
Business and general aviation provide the following economic benefits to Pennsylvania:
- General aviation airports contribute over $1.31 billion to the state's economy.
- Aviation in Pennsylvania is responsible for 288,700 jobs, or five percent of all jobs in the state. General aviation airports support over 7,000 of those jobs.
- Pennsylvania has 129 public use airports, 116 of which are general aviation airports, serving 17,049 pilots and 8,162 general aviation aircraft.


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- 1-1/2 cups plus 1/2 teaspoon sugar, divided
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- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 teaspoon 2% milk
- In a large bowl, combine 1-1/2 cups sugar, tapioca and salt. Add raspberries and lime juice; toss gently to coat. Let stand for 15 minutes.
- Line a 9-in. pie plate with bottom pastry; trim even with edge of plate. Add filling; dot with butter. Roll out remaining pastry to fit top of pie; place over filling. Trim, seal and flute edges. Cut slits in top. Brush with milk; sprinkle with remaining sugar.
- Bake at 450° for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°;bake 35-40 minutes longer or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Cover edges with foil during the last 15 minutes to prevent overbrowning if necessary.overbrowning. Cool on a wire rack. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 6-8 servings.
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"Yum! Fresh berries were too expensive in the middle of winter, so I used 2 bags of frozen instead. Came out perfectly!"
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"I just made this pie to take to a dinner. Fresh berries were expensive. I baked 20 mins longer than recipe required and it is still soupy in the middle. The quantity of tapioca is not enough to thicken six cups of fresh juicy berries. I have always used flour but wanted to try something new. Big mistake!"
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles this month asked a state judge to consider delaying or moving an sexual abuse trial, claiming it can't get a fair trial in Southern California. That request was denied.
But what I find interesting, and apparently so did many of our readers, is the church's reasoning for the request.
The Times' Victoria Kim and Harriet Ryan reported that lawyers for the archdiocese argued in court documents that the media's coverage, which they described as unrelenting obloquy, has poisoned the potential jury pool here.
Does the church really believe that moving the upcoming sex abuse trial will result in a more favorable jury pool? After all, the clergy abuse scandal isn't limited to Los Angeles, Orange County, or San Diego. In fact, several of our readers noted in their online comments, the church's troubles are well known outside the county.
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Joey Barton apologised for his red card at Manchester City but the controversial QPR midfielder insisted he was only reacting to provocation from Carlos Tevez.
Barton was dismissed in the 55th minute after an off-the-ball incident in which he elbowed Tevez in the face after the City striker had hit out at him.
He exacerbated that foolish action by kicking City striker Sergio Aguero after being shown a red card by referee Mike Dean and is likely to face an extended ban next season after two more moments of madness in a career scarred by similar incidents.
QPR eventually lost 3-2 after conceding two stoppage-time goals and Barton conceded he had let his team-mates down but, with Mark Hughes' side safe from relegation following Bolton's draw with Stoke, he quickly pointed the finger at Tevez in a series of posts on Twitter.
"Can do nothing but apologise to the players and the fans. Still don't think its a sending off," he wrote.
"The head was never gone at any stage, once I'd been sent off, one of our players suggested I should try to take 1 of theirs with me.Never worked but god loves a trier.
"Think a few people are forgetting Tevez started the fracas by throwing a punch to the head.?
"Right am off for a bit. Gonna enjoy QPR still being a Premiership club with all my team-mates. Cheerio people."
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Arguments over which automotive material is best usually are confined to engineers and racing enthusiasts, but the benefits of aluminum vs. steel likely will spill onto both Main Street and Wall Street next year.
That's when the highest-volume vehicle sold in the U.S., the Ford F-150 pickup, is expected to debut with an all-new aluminum-intensive body.
It will compete directly with the second-best selling vehicle in America, the Chevy Silverado pickup, and other popular trucks such as the GMC Sierra, Chrysler's Ram and others with traditional steel bodies and cargo boxes.
Given the ultra-competitive, testosterone-soaked nature of the pickup marketplace, the technical discussions could become a lot more entertaining as truck loyalists and Wall Street analysts debate the relative benefits of aluminum vs. steel.
At stake is Ford's dominance of the fullsize pickup market and the enormous profits that go with it.
Ford is saying little about aluminum on the '15 F-150 so far, but WardsAuto Editor Tom Murphy recently reported the light metal will be used for the entire cab, including body-in-white and closure panels.
Significantly, Murphy says light-duty F-150s also will have aluminum beds, although steel will still be used for the beds on Super Duty trucks. Frames for all F-Series pickups will continue to be steel.
Using a lightweight alternative material for a pickup truck bed is a high-risk, high-reward proposition. It's risky because the bed is the heart of a pickup, and owners have to be confident it cannot be damaged easily. But the bed also is a big, heavy assembly. Making it lighter will improve fuel efficiency.
Ford and General Motors both tried using plastic composite beds in the early 2000s and gave up, even though the beds were lighter and rust proof.
GM was especially ambitious and got burned the worst on its adventure into alternative pickup truck materials. Its failure no doubt has made it more conservative about changing materials and should be a cautionary tale for others.
In the late 1990s, GM invested $64 million in its Ft. Wayne, IN, assembly plant to construct a 74,000-sq.-ft. (6,875-sq.-m) addition to build pickups with composite boxes. An undisclosed amount was spent developing the technology and testing it for more than 1 million miles (1.6 million km) over several years hauling gravel and subjecting it to harsh treatment.
Dubbed Pro-Tec, the composite box offered numerous benefits over traditional steel cargo beds and dealer-installed plastic bedliners.
It was co-developed with the biggest and best suppliers of the day, including Dow Automotive, Bayer, Meridian, Owens Corning and Budd Co. It was an engineering marvel.
The composite box was 50 lbs. (23 kg) lighter than a steel bed, plus it was almost indestructible. And it did not trap water and cause internal rusting like conventional plastic bedliners.
Priced at $850, it seemed like a bargain for what it would add to vehicle resale value, alone.
Instead, it was a sales disaster. After years of development, the composite cargo box was phased out in 2003 after just two model years. GM anticipated annual sales of about 50,000 units, and they were closer to 5,000.
The culprit had nothing to do with engineering, price or durability: Dealers did not order the trucks with the option because they made more money installing aftermarket plastic bedliners.
It was as simple as that. The engineers and marketing folks did not foresee the impact of new technology at the dealership level.
The introduction of the Ford Atlas concept at the North American International Auto Show was a show-stopper that sparked both anticipation and anxiety among consumers about exactly how advanced the new F-150 will be. Pickup buyers are a conservative lot.
Meanwhile, GM and steel makers are going out of their way to stress the benefits of all the advanced high-strength steel used in GM's just-introduced '14 Silverado and Sierra.
The '15 F-150 likely will be an engineering masterpiece and, thanks to aluminum, the fuel- economy leader in the segment.
But great engineering and fuel economy still may not be enough for skeptical consumers whose very livelihood depends on their trucks, especially if competitors are gearing up to put doubts in their minds.


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RIM invites BlackBerry users into MS Office cloud beta
Get an early snort of Office 365 cumulus
BlackBerry users wanting to get into Microsoft's cloudy Office 365 only have a few months to wait, and the properly impatient can sign up for the beta this month.
The Office 365 service will be hosted by RIM and offered free to users; access will be granted to all comers next January, but an open beta launches later this month for those who want to taste the RIM cloud early, as Mary Jo Foley explains.
The announcement follows yesterday's launch of SharePoint for BlackBerry, which enables BlackBerry users to download MS Office documents from a SharePoint repository so they can be edited using the RIM-owned Documents To Go package.
But it falls short of the properly cloudy Office 365, or "BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365" as RIM's offering is rigidly termed. That will offer mobile access to e-mail, calendaring and so forth via RIM's servers, as opposed to the bodge job that currently requires a cable connection for calendar and contacts even if e-mail synchronises properly.
RIM still has serious business credentials, and tying into Office 365 is obviously essential to continue that especially given the company's apparent inability to push far into the consumer market. It's also going to get more important once Windows Phone starts finding its way into offices, which surely can't be far off. ®
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Programs Include ISS Moscow and new MEMS Conference
Moscow, Russia, 31 August, 2005 -- SEMI Expo CIS 2005, the largest event dedicated to semiconductor manufacturing in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will be held 26-28 September in Moscow, Russia.
Three days of business and technical programs will complement a two-day product exhibition. The conferences run 26-28 September at the Royal Meridien National Hotel, Moscow and the product exhibition occurs 27-28 September at the New Manege Exhibition Hall. SEMI Expo CIS is organized by SEMI, a global industry association.
The week opens with the Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS Moscow) on 26 September, covering topics such as innovation, manufacturing, applications and IC design. The ISS keynote speaker will be Serguei Mazurenko, director of the Russian Federal Agency on Science and Innovation. George Scalise, president of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), will present the semiconductor industry outlook and discuss challenges faced by the industry.
ISS Moscow will also include presentations by representatives from Applied Materials, KLA-Tencor, Metron, Infineon Technologies, Motorola Software Development Center, Russian Electronic Corporation, CEA-LETI, the State University for Informatics and Radioelectronics of Belarus, Russian Bank for External Trade, the Strategic Investments Group, Future Horizons, Cadence Design Systems, and Synopsys.
The Market Conference on 27 September focuses on the theme "How to do Business in Russia and the CIS." Topics for discussion include legal challenges, consortia opportunities, and intellectual property issues. Presenters will be from Intel, Mikron (Russia), Integral (Belarus), Electrointorg (Russia), and DLA Piper. One session will cover the emerging photovoltaic industry, with presentations from Pillar (Ukraine) and Intersolar Center (Russia).
A new program at this year's SEMI Expo CIS will be the MEMS/MST Conference on 28 September, highlighting Russia's potential and achievements in the developing MEMS market. The program will look at MEMS applications in the biomedical, automobile and avionics industries, as well as the role of universities and research centers in the development of the MEMS industry in Russia/CIS.
Other programs include a SEMI International Standards workshop on 27September, the SEMI Technology Symposium, also on 27September, and an FPD technical session on 28 September, held in conjunction with the Russia Chapter of the Society for Information Displays (SID).
Visitors to SEMI Expo CIS are offered an optional St-Petersburg tour from 29 September to 1 October, which will include a visit to the IT and MST Centers at the St-Petersburg Electro Technical University.
For full details of the expo agenda and registration information please visit www.semi.org or contact the SEMI Moscow office at +7.095.931.96.47.
SEMI is a global industry association serving companies that develop and provide manufacturing technology, materials and services to make semiconductors, flat panel displays (FPDs), micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and related microelectronics. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Brussels, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose (Calif.), Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, Shanghai and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit SEMI at www.semi.org.
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Aggies Crush Eagles In Regular-Season Finale
GREENSBORO – Senior pitcher Shelby Snyder took care of things in the circle, while seniors Jax Kaye Woodard and Dominique Smith smashed back-to-back home runs in an 8-0 victory over N.C. Central, Sunday afternoon it its MEAC regular-season finale at the Lady Aggie Softball Complex.
"Shelby pitched an excellent game," head coach Kenya Peters said. "We finally were able to get over that hump of playing close games and winning by a run or so. We were solid on offense and defense today. That's what we needed and hopefully we'll take that momentum into next week."
Peters is referring to the Aggies' upcoming appearance in the MEAC tournament beginning on May 8 in Ormond Beach, Fla. With their win yesterday over NCCU (9-35, 4-10) the Aggies (16-26, 8-7) clinched the fourth seed in the MEAC southern division.
Snyder's (3-12) flawless performance on Sunday held the Eagles to just two hits as she recorded two strikeouts in five innings of play.
Woodard and Smith were the answer for A&T in the second inning. Seniors Sabrina Edmonds and Tranea Jones reached on a single and error respectively, which set up Woodard who belted her 24th career home run on the first pitch to send the ball sailing down the left field line. An encore performance followed in the next at-bat at the hands of Smith, who also crushed the first pitch over the right-field fence which gave A&T the 4-0 lead.
The Aggies posted four more runs in the third inning to take the 8-0 advantage. With bases loaded and one out, Woodard drew a walk which pushed A&T's lead to 5-0. NCCU recorded the second out on the next at-bat, however, that didn't stop senior Tiffany Macklin who drove in two more runs with a single up the middle with the bases loaded. Junior Raven Smith reached on a walk to load the bases again. During sophomore Alejandra Barcenas' at-bat she was hit by a pitch which allowed Woodard to score A&T's final run.
The Eagles were unable to respond to the Aggies massive lead in the fourth and fifth innings, causing the game to end due to the run rule.
Edmonds was 2-for-2 with two runs scored. Woodard finished with a game-high four RBI.
London Booker (7-22) pitched two innings and recorded the loss for N.C. Central. Booker finished with two strikeouts while Dominique Wilson appeared in two innings and also struck out two.
Following the game, A&T announced and recognized its 2014 award winners. Outfielder Dasia Moore was named Freshman of the Year, junior second baseman Zebresha Blakeney was selected as the Defensive Player of the Year, senior catcher Sabrina Edmonds was named the Offensive Player of the Year and sophomore shortstop Alejandra Barcenas was selected as the Aggies All-Around Player.


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Only 14 when he was paralyzed playing football, Steve Herbst of Palatine learned how to drive using mechanical controls for his hands.
"I've been using them for 25 years. That's the only way I've ever driven," says Herbst, who would drive to his job as a manager in technology for Allstate Insurance, to meetings of community organizations he supports, to frequent practices for several sports teams he coaches, and who would chauffeur around his twins, Jack and Grace.
Now 46, Herbst says he recently lost the strength needed to man the hand controls on his 2004 Toyota Sienna.
"It gets insane: the schedule, the suburbs, the whole deal. If I can't drive, it's difficult," says Herbst. "I need a new minivan."
Herbst is one of hundreds of contestants vying to be declared "Local Heroes" during National Mobility Month and win a vehicle that gives freedom to people with disabilities. Picking winners across the United States and Canada is not easy.
"Do you want to be a judge?" jokes Dave Hubbard, executive director and CEO of the National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association, which will give away three wheelchair-accessible vehicles at the end of May. Local Heroes are defined as people who volunteer, educate, advocate, achieve or persevere.
Finalists will be limited to the top 5 percent of vote-getters in the online contest at mobilityawarenessmonth.com, which concludes on May 10. Entries are accepted until May 3. A panel of health care experts will select three winners of the vehicles, valued at a minimum of $40,000 each.
Last year's inaugural contest drew 1,700 applicants, 1.2 million votes and 2.6 million website visitors.
"It says there's a lot of need out there," Hubbard says.
Co-workers, friends and his wife, Sue, have been driving Herbst to work, but a new van would enable him to remain "active in his community helping improve the lives of others," his entry says.
The 2002 handicap-accessible van used by Laura Schultz of Woodridge still accommodates the wheelchair for her 23-year-old daughter, Krystina, who suffers from a rare chromosome disorder that has left her with severe physical and mental disabilities. But it no longer can be the family vehicle now that her husband, Jerry, is blind and uses a wheelchair because of complications from multiple sclerosis.
Her daughter Rebecca, 17, also needs a wheelchair when her MS flares up. Simple trips are now complicated.
"Everything has to be planned," says Schultz, 50, who works part time in a medical office.
Lombard's Deborah Dobbs, 59, must lift her 65-pound daughter, Courtney Kestner, from a wheelchair to a back seat in the family's 2003 Chevy Ventura minivan.
"This is what I have to do to get Courtney to the doctor, and it is very dangerous," Dobbs says. "I have arthritis and a hernia from lifting her."
The 16-year-old sophomore, who has cerebral palsy and is enrolled in the special education program at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, doesn't speak and is scheduled for more surgery soon. Rick Gentry, the girl's godfather, lives with Dobbs and supports the family, but he recently went on disability leave and is on the waiting list for a new kidney, Dobbs says. Her other child, a 34-year-old man with autism, lives in a group home for people with disabilities.
Without a van equipped for a wheelchair, Stacy and Jeff Fulkerson of Schaumburg must fit their 3½-year-old son, James, into a rear-facing car seat in their 2008 Dodge Caliber. James suffered a stroke in utero and was born with severe cerebral palsy and other ailments. He eats through a tube in his abdomen, suffers seizures and can't swallow, which means that his mouth needs to be suctioned often to keep him from choking.
"You find me pulling over often," Stacy says, explaining how much easier it would be to monitor and suction her son if he were sitting in his wheelchair in an accessible minivan.
Jackie and Bill Babiarz of Wheaton also have a family car that no longer handles their family. Car seats for Cammy, who just turned 4 and has lost the ability to sit without support, and her 2-year-old sister, Ryan, take up the entire back seat, and Cammy's wheelchair fills the trunk.
"Our car is getting so small, we can't get anything else in there," Jackie says. Nicknamed "Cammy Can," their daughter is no longer able to say mama and dada or feed herself because of the debilitating effects of Rett Syndrome, a rare nervous system disorder that reverses developmental gains.
Born with hydrocephalus, a buildup of fluid on the brain, Georgette Guy of Westmont wasn't expected to live past age 12, says Dawn Guy, who has been caring for her baby sister for the last 41 years. While Dawn Guy says in her contest entry that her family has put their faith in "a higher power," moving her sister would be easier with a specialty van.
Also defying life expectancy, Meagan Seals of Elburn is now 3 years old. Born with a rare condition called encephaloceles, part of her brain formed outside of
her skull and she has severe physical and mental disabilities. Parents Luellen and Scott Seals received a wheelchair donated by their church, but note in their contest entry that "we are in need of a van for her chair, and with all her medical bills, we are unable to get one on our own."
Making a car suitable for a disabled adult might be as simple as adding a few hundred dollars worth of hand controls, says Hubbard, whose not-for-profit NMEDA represents about 600 dealers with a goal of "expanding mobility options for people with disabilities." A minivan with a wheelchair ramp starts at about $40,000 and making those vehicles suitable for drivers with disabilities can more than double the cost, he adds.
"One of the heartbreaks is that many of the people who need our vehicles can't afford them," Hubbard says. While the auto industry does not keep statistics on the aftermarket changes to vehicles, Hubbard estimates that 14,000 to 15,000 new minivans are outfitted each year and maybe three times as many older vehicles are modified. About 18 million people in Canada and the United States have mobility issues.
While only three contest entrants will win vehicles, Hubbard says last year's contest raised attention that allowed a bit of unexpected happiness when several other people were able to raise the funds needed to buy vehicles that allowed them to be mobile.
To apply as a contestant, vote or find out more about Mobility Awareness Month and the contest,
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Children, parents and volunteers from around the region will be suiting up to celebrate an annual sports event within the next two weeks. Specifically from the Northern Neck, five representatives of District 15 will be hosting their opening ceremonies for 2013 Little League season.
The festivities, as a result of rainfall, has been rescheduled to April 19 at 7 p.m. in Tappahannock where the Essex County Little League will be having a special guest
throw out the first pitch. The event will be held at the Essex County Little League Field.
During the same period the Diamond Award will be given out by the organization before the minor league game is played at about 8:15 p.m. and the first set of games begin on April 13.
On the same night, Lancaster will be having their opening ceremony at Dreamfields beginning at 6:30 p.m.
On April 13 at Montross Middle School, the Westmoreland County Little League (WCLL) will have its opening ceremony beginning at 9 a.m.
"We are very excited about our opening day this year. This will be the first year that Westmoreland County Little League has hosted its opening day with a "complex-type" atmosphere," said Westmoreland Little League president Michael Clark. "Over 300 young athletes with ages ranging from 4 to 16 will take the field to compete in over a dozen games. Utilizing all three fields at Montross Middle School will allow us to have three games being played simultaneously for most of the day. In the past we have played one game at a time."
Clark said hamburgers, hot dogs, and Pop King's world famous crab cakes will be available at the concessions trailer. Vendors and the WCLL dunking booth will also be on hand.
With three teams kicking off the festivities, the Little League organizations from Northumberland and Richmond Counties will be ending the period on April 20.
Northumberland will be having their opening ceremony to begin at noon at the Ballpark on Academic Lane
"We'll be recognizing our sponsors, having prayer and playing baseball," said Northumberland Little League president Chris Timberlake.
Richmond County Little League will begin their ceremony at 10 a.m. after games begin on April 13.
"Mr. Dean Loudy will be our special guest, known as the Voice of the Northern Neck, and WNNT Radio and WKWI in Kilmarnock," said Richmond County Little League President Shirley Lucas. "He is considered to be the first Little League Baseball Coach in Richmond County."


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Creel is a city in the Sierra Tarahumara in Chihauhua state in Mexico.
Get in
Estrella Blanca buses run about every other hour from Chihuahua City for about $20 one way. These are local(non-express) buses that make many stops along the way. So, they aren't real fast but are comfortable and convenient nonetheless. The train also leaves from Chihuahua City twice a day (once for 1st class service, another for 2nd class).
Get around
The scenery to the east, south, and west of Creel is breathtaking. The easiest area to access is probably the Mesa to the immediate east of town. This is the location of Lago Areko, the Rio Conchas canyon, and the Valley of the Frogs and the Monks (Valle de las Ranas, Valle de los Monques).
Mountain biking, horseback riding, and rock climbing are all easy to arrange in Creel. During Semana Santa, helicopter flights through the surrounding canyons are also available (note: Creel is very crowded with Mexican tourists from the large southern cities during the week preceeding Easter Sunday).
The Tarahumara Mission store next to the Catholic Church on the town's main plaza is a good source for maps, guidebooks, and locally produced crafts. Some of the employee's are also good for area information. Lots of small souvenir shops on the town's main street (Indian blankets, sandals or huaraches, shirts etc)
Tio Molca's on the town's main street is probably the most popular eating establishment in Creel. There is also a popular but cozy bar that is attached. The food is good and reasonably priced. Bar has a good mix of locals and tourists. Its a good place to meet guides as well as travelling partners. The bar also has a fireplace which is very nice as Creel often gets cold at night. There are many other restaurants in town, the downside is they all have essentially the same menu. The food is good in most of them, but one wishes there was a little more variety available. Aspiring businessmen could probably do well to open a Thai eatery or a Pizzeria in Creel. The hangover hospital next to the railroad station is something of a local institution and should be given a try. Also at night there are food carts downtown selling tasty hot dogs and burgers (nothing fancy but delicious all the same). During the day there's usually a few grills going near the town's small market area.
Creel is experiencing a building boom. Each year several new hotels/guesthouses are constructed. The standbys are the same as ever. Margarita's is the most well known of the bunch. It's a hostel with beds in large dorm for $8, beds in small dorm for $10 or private rooms from $20up. These prices include both breakfast and dinner. Meals are good but a little small to really be filling, but they're free. Margarita's has a common area, a kitchen, and also organizes trips and excursions. This is really the backpacker center of Copper Canyon and could be considered the northern terminus of the gringo trail (though some might argue that the trail really ends in Santa Fe NM).
There are numerous guide services available in Creel. Uramike's Expeditions run by a friendly Mexican man and his Welsh wife are often recommended. Even if you don't hire him, he is generous with information and area advice. But there are lots of others (Margarita's and many of the other hotels offer guided excursions) so don't hesitate to shop around.
Get out
Take the chicken bus to Guachochic, the cultural center of the Tarahumara as well as the jumping off point for Sinforosa Canyon (the queen of the canyons).


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Business leaders are getting more worried about the fiscal cliff, and urging Congress and President Obama to make a deal before the New Year triggers a series of tax increases and spending cuts that would likely put the nation back in a recession.
The Business Roundtable released a letter signed by 158 chief executives of companies with more than $7.3 trillion in sales and 16 million workers, saying congressional Republicans need to make concessions on revenue, and Democrats need to give ground on entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security.
At the same time, the National Federation of Independent Business said a survey of its members showed a huge drop in confidence after the November election, as the cliff drew closer.
The NFIB survey of business confidence fell almost six points to 87.5, the lowest score since 2009 and far below stock market expectations for 92.5. The drop is a sign that business owners are losing confidence as Congress moves closer to raising taxes on couples making more than $250,000 a year, even though less than 5% of business owners make that much, said UBS economist Drew Matus. Only 9% expect better conditions in six months, compared with 49% who expect things to get worse, the NFIB said.
The United States will suffer significant negative economic, employment, and social consequences for going over the fiscal cliff, the CEOs said in a letter to congressional leaders. In many cases, the damage will be long-lasting, if not permanent. But it does not have to happen.
The chief executive of USA TODAY parent Gannett, was one of the CEOs who signed the letter.
The NFIB survey showed declines in nine out of 10 indicators of confidence, with a slight uptick in hiring plans for early next year, the federation said.
Marginal investments may not be undertaken as the increase in taxes moves some investment from the yes to the no column. The debate is whether that marginal investment is a significant source of innovation or employment.
The survey was more bearish than other indicators of business confidence recently. Moody's Analytics' weekly survey of business confidence, released Monday, said confidence rose slightly but remains at a low level. About a third of respondents expect the economy to get worse in the next few months, Moody's reported. In Moody's survey, government officials were the most pessimistic about the economy.
Like investors, businesses appear to believe that policymakers will come to terms before pushing the economy back into recession, Moody's chief economist wrote in a report. However, business sentiment appears very fragile and likely to turn sour quickly if policymakers do fall short.
Small business owners created 19,000 new jobs in November, payroll processing company ADP reported on Dec. 5.


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