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*** It's Sotomayor: At 10:15 am ET from the White House's East Room, President Obama will again make history by nominating the first Hispanic to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court: Sonia Sotomayor of the 2nd Circuit. The big question: Will she survive the confirmation process? Some Senate Democrats worry she'll be a heavier lift than others he could have nominated (like Diane Wood or Elena Kagan). But consider these points: One, it's clear Sotomayor -- whom the president knew the least about when this process began -- blew Obama away when he interviewed her on Thursday. In fact, White House officials believe that once Senate Democrats get to know her, they'll be as blown away as the president was, and she'll be confirmed easily. Two, would Republicans dare vote against the first Hispanic, especially after their rhetoric during the immigration debate of 2006-2007 clearly hurt them with this important voting bloc? And three, don't ignore the politics surrounding this pick. As we've mentioned before, Latino groups have been grumbling somewhat about their representation (or lack thereof) in the Obama administration, as well as the fact that immigration reform doesn't appear to be on the White House's front-burner. But this pick buys Obama A LOT of time with Hispanics -- a demographic he won last year, 67%-31% -- on immigration and other issues. Is it a coincidence that Obama this week heads out West to Nevada and California, two states with large Latino populations?
Video: President Obama announces federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor as his pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
*** Sotomayor's bio: Here's the bio we ran on Sotomayor earlier this month: She currently serves on the Second Circuit in New York and was appointed to that position by Bill Clinton. BUT she was appointed to her first federal court appointment by President George H.W. Bush… She checks lots of boxes: Woman. Hispanic. Empathy… While working for the famed Robert Morgenthau in the New York District Attorney's office in the early 1980s, she described herself as a "liberal."… Also has drawn criticism for saying in 2005: "All of the legal defense funds out there they're looking for people with court of appeals experience because it is-- court of appeals is where policy is made." She tried to backtrack, but conservatives are already rallying to defeat her based on this. Other bio information: Child of parents born in Puerto Rico... Grew up speaking mostly Spanish... Raised in a public housing project in The South Bronx in the shadow of Yankee Stadium... Father died when she was 9... A diehard Yankees fan, she's credited as the judge who saved baseball, issuing an injunction that led the eventual settlement of the 1990s-era Major League Baseball strike... Described by the New York Times in the early 1980s as an incessant smoker… Divorced from Kevin Edward Noonan in 1983 after seven-year marriage (no children). She left the NY District Attorney's office a year later and went into private practice... Graduated summa cum laude in 1976 from Princeton after winning a scholarship to the school... Earned her law degree from Yale in 1979, where she edited the Law Review.
*** Another crisis for Obama: In addition to Sotomayor, the other big political news has been North Korea's nuclear test, as well as its firing of two short-range missiles. What do you do about a country whose leadership is so unstable it doesn't respond to normal diplomatic overtures or threats? It's an enigma wrapped in a riddle. The Washington Post's editorial page says the time for reacting is gone. "It's time, at last, to break this pattern and call Mr. Kim's bluff. That doesn't mean threats of U.S military action or a blanket refusal to talk with the regime; those tactics have been tried and have failed as well. Instead, Mr. Obama should simply decline to treat North Korea as a crisis, or even as a matter of urgency." Of course, others like Council of Foreign Relations head Richard Haas believe it's time to ratchet things up more and get with Japan and South Korea and outline a "red line" for a military response. Key now is China and Russia, which have both amped up their rhetoric against North Korea more than they did during the Bush and Clinton years. But rhetoric is always the easy part…
*** Viva Las Vegas? After 4:00 pm ET today, Obama heads to Nevada, where he will attend a fundraiser for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who's up for re-election next year, at Caesar's Palace at 10:55 pm ET. Awaiting the president is a Republican governor who's still angry at Obama's months-old remark that TARP recipients shouldn't be going on travel junkets to Las Vegas. "I am not interested in a handshake and a hello from President Obama," Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons (R) said, per Nevada political expert Jon Ralston. "I am interested in an apology and plan to undo the damage the President did. Working families are suffering because of the president's remarks. The president should retract his reckless statement about Las Vegas and make a public statement supporting business and tourist travel to Las Vegas and other destinations in the State of Nevada." Of course, note that Gibbons might be trying to create a distraction here, given his own political troubles in the state. Attention reporters: Be sure not to over-report Reid's political troubles -- they are minor compared with Gibbons'. However, the prospect of two Reids (Harry and son Rory) leading the Dem ticket should trouble some Dems. After all, dynasties on the same ballot in the same state can turn off voters. Just ask Mike Huckabee when he and his wife were on the statewide ticket together in 2002. Mike won fairly handily; Janet got clobbered.
*** Another political story to watch out West: The California Supreme Court is set to decide today whether Proposition 8, the state ballot measure banning gay marriage that passed last fall, is constitutional. "Today's ruling decides whether voters had the right, when 52% of them approved Proposition 8 … to amend the state Constitution to solidify the definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman," the San Francisco Chronicle writes. "If the justices uphold Prop. 8, they will also decide whether to dissolve the marriages of 18,000 same-sex couples who wed before the Nov. 4 election." Per the L.A. Times, "most legal experts expect the court to uphold Proposition 8 but continue to recognize the marriages of same-sex couples wed before the November election."
*** Report card time: Tomorrow is Day 100 since Obama's signing of the $787 billion stimulus package. The president will be coming out with a 100-day report card of sorts, as will each impacted cabinet department. Of course, North Korea and the Sotomayor pick will loom over the president's trip out West…
*** Firing up the base: On Friday, former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe fired off a note to Obama's email list, telling the 10 million-plus members that they'll be kicking off the grassroots support for health care on June 6. "On June 6th, in thousands of homes across the country, we'll gather to launch our grassroots campaign for health care," he said in the email. "We'll watch a special message from the President. We'll build the teams and draw up the plans for winning health care reform the same way we won the election: Building support one block, one neighbor, one conversation at a time. And we'll put those plans into action." The question is whether this grassroots mobilization will be more effective than the previous ones for the stimulus and Obama's budget, which didn't seem to fire up the base. Then again, both the stimulus and budget did pass Congress.
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Here Comes 56 Up
The celebrated Up documentary series that has chronicled 14 Britons every seven years since age 7 is back underway with 56 Up. I repeat: 56 Up. Feel old yet? Though maybe not as old as director Michael Apted: "As long as I'm above ground, I'll carry on,' says 71-year-old Apted when we meet on the 20th floor of ITV's London HQ. 'Maybe if I wasn't above ground, someone else would take it over. Having come so far it seems a pity to just unilaterally stop it unless there is good reason. I've only ever said we'd stop if too many of them pulled out, or people didn't want to watch it any more. But neither of those things has happened.' Producer Claire Lewis, who joined at 28 Up, wonders what will happen when the participants start to die. 'When we lose somebody it'll make the others think very hard about doing it again. I don't know what effect that would have on us and on them. It's very hard watching yourself grow old on screen.'" [The Guardian via The Awl]

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13 Compilation and Code Loading
How code is compiled and loaded is not a language issue, but is system dependent. This chapter describes compilation and code loading in Erlang/OTP with pointers to relevant parts of the documentation.
13.1 Compilation
Erlang programs must be compiled to object code. The compiler can generate a new file which contains the object code. The current abstract machine which runs the object code is called BEAM, therefore the object files get the suffix .beam. The compiler can also generate a binary which can be loaded directly.
The compiler is located in the Kernel module compile, see compile(3).
compile:file(Module) compile:file(Module, Options)
The Erlang shell understands the command c(Module) which both compiles and loads Module.
There is also a module make which provides a set of functions similar to the UNIX type Make functions, see make(3).
The compiler can also be accessed from the OS prompt, see erl(1).
% erl -compile Module1...ModuleN % erl -make
The erlc program provides an even better way to compile modules from the shell, see erlc(1). It understands a number of flags that can be used to define macros, add search paths for include files, and more.
% erlc <flags> File1.erl...FileN.erl
13.2 Code Loading
The object code must be loaded into the Erlang runtime system. This is handled by the code server, see code(3).
The code server loads code according to a code loading strategy which is either interactive (default) or embedded. In interactive mode, code are searched for in a code path and loaded when first referenced. In embedded mode, code is loaded at start-up according to a boot script. This is described in System Principles.
13.3 Code Replacement
Erlang supports change of code in a running system. Code replacement is done on module level.
The code of a module can exist in two variants in a system: current and old. When a module is loaded into the system for the first time, the code becomes 'current'. If then a new instance of the module is loaded, the code of the previous instance becomes 'old' and the new instance becomes 'current'.
Both old and current code is valid, and may be evaluated concurrently. Fully qualified function calls always refer to current code. Old code may still be evaluated because of processes lingering in the old code.
If a third instance of the module is loaded, the code server will remove (purge) the old code and any processes lingering in it will be terminated. Then the third instance becomes 'current' and the previously current code becomes 'old'.
To change from old code to current code, a process must make a fully qualified function call. Example:
-module(m). -export([loop/0]). loop() -> receive code_switch -> m:loop(); Msg -> ... loop() end.
To make the process change code, send the message code_switch to it. The process then will make a fully qualified call to m:loop() and change to current code. Note that m:loop/0 must be exported.
For code replacement of funs to work, the tuple syntax {Module,FunctionName} must be used to represent the fun.
13.4 Running a function when a module is loaded
This section describes an experimental feature that was introduced in R13B03, and changed in a backwards-incompatible way in R13B04. There may be more backward-incompatible changes in future releases.
The -on_load() directive names a function that should be run automatically when a module a loaded. Its syntax is:
It is not necessary to export the function. It will be called in a freshly spawned process (which will be terminated as soon as the function returns). The function must return ok if the module is to be remained loaded and become callable, or any other value if the module is to be unloaded. Generating an exception will also cause the module to be unloaded. If the return value is not an atom, a warning error report will be sent to the error logger.
A process that calls any function in a module whose on_load function has not yet returned will be suspended until the on_load function has returned.
In embedded mode, all modules will be loaded first and then will all on_load functions be called. The system will be terminated unless all of the on_load functions return ok.
-module(m). -on_load(load_my_nifs/0). load_my_nifs() -> NifPath = ..., %Set up the path to the NIF library. Info = ..., %Initialize the Info term erlang:load_nif(NifPath, Info).
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It's Curtains for You!By Rabbi Jack Abramowitz
The Paroches was a curtain with embroidered cherubim that could be seen from either side. The Paroches separated between the Holy (the Kodesh) and the Holy of Holies (the Kodesh HaKadoshim). The Aron would be placed inside the Kodesh HaKadoshim and its cover would then be placed upon it.


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Culture Differences and English Teaching
Language is a part of culture, and plays a very important role in the development of the culture. Some sociologists consider it as the keystone of culture. They believe, without language, culture would not be available. At the same time, language is influenced and shaped by culture, it reflects culture. Therefore, culture plays a very important part in language teaching, which is widely acknowledged by English teaching circle. This thesis depicts the relationship between culture and language. As a result, the gap of cultural differences is one of the most important barriers in English teaching and study. Among the students, lacking of cultural background knowledge can, to a great extent, hold up the improvement of English teaching and become a noticeable problem. At present, the objective of English teaching has broken free from the traditional listening, speaking, reading and writing, and the demand for cultural background knowledge in language learning has been gradually concerned. Presentation of history of the country which has the target language, cultural background knowledge and customs is the proposed solution to the problem. This paper mainly discusses how to present cultural background knowledge and expose learners to it in the need of English teaching at Chinese schools so as to solve the problems caused by cultural differences, help learners grasp the crux of the language and develop their comprehensive English ability.
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The Xbox 360's lead over Sony's rival PlayStation 3 hardware now exceeds 8 million units, the company claims, with the Xbox 360 outselling the PS3 in Europe by over 1 million. Microsoft's wording suggests the PlayStation 3 has now sold around 20 million units worldwide--in October, Sony revealed the the PS3 was then nearing 17 million.
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"It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future..."
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
1890 Diary of Mary Isabell Pettit, Part 15
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I've been reading bits and parts of this. Diaries are so interesting.ReplyDelete
Thank you for posting the days of this diligent, faithful, hardworking woman. Wrapped up in those colorful balls of fabric and work are visions of my own grandmother. Her daughter said she remembers her mother sitting night after night at her sewing machine, sewing scraps to be used in her rugs.ReplyDelete
My sisters in law have made some rag rugs. It's an interesting process. And it's so interesting to read about the household chores as mentioned by Mary in her journal.ReplyDelete
If you like that sort of thing, an interesting read is the book Never Done: A History of American Housework (Strasser).
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With about 15 members of all ages and different backgrounds, the Rev. Chuck Chapman's Wiccan Correllian shrine makes up one of the smallest religious subgroups in the area.
The Rev. Chuck Chapman is a witch. He's also a father.
He believes in magic. He also believes in the divine.
He doesn't ride a broom, nor wiggle his nose to cast spells.
Chapman, of Lexington, is a second-degree priest and founder of the Lady of the Circle of the Oaks, a formal Wiccan shrine of the Correllian Nativist Tradition. The shrine, created in Lexington last winter, is the only open pagan religious outlet in Davidson County.
With about 15 members of all ages and different backgrounds, Chapman's Correllian shrine makes up one of the smallest religious subgroups in the area.
"I like to tell everyone I've been Wiccan for a couple of days," Chapman said. "I've been pagan since 1986. I've been around a little while."
There are about 342,000 Wiccans across the United States, according to the most recent American Religious Identification Survey from 2008. Additionally, there are more than 30 Wiccan groups or associations across the state and more than 65 pagan organizations in North Carolina, according to an online database of pagan groups and associations.
Chapman, who is originally from Oklahoma and grew up in South Carolina, said he saw a need for a formal Wiccan group in the community.
"The Correllian tradition is very open, very inclusive of the many different Pagan paths and thoughts," Chapman said. "Wicca in general is very non-dogmatic, and Correllianism is even less dogmatic and very open to beliefs that are a little bit outside what may be specifically Correllian thought."
Witchcraft, or Wicca, is a religion. Wicca, Chapman said, is about one's place in the universe, about revering nature and all its forces, and is about learning how to understand and interact with the deity and the world around you.
Generally speaking, most Wiccans gather once a month at the full moon and eight times a year for solar holidays, or their Sabbaths. Chapman said the shrine hosts an open ritual for each Sabbath. Some Wiccans also gather at the dark moon, or the new moon, Chapman said.
Dealing with misconceptions
Part of the Wiccan path also includes embracing magic, which can bring all sorts of not necessarily peaceful attention to one of the smallest groups in the area.
"Obviously, we get the, 'You're a devil worshipper' thing all the time," Chapman said. "That's a battle we've been fighting for a long time."
Chapman said he advises his group to ignore those comments, which he said are null and void because Wiccan don't even believe in hell. However, if it ever becomes a discriminatory issue, he will try to educate someone or plant "thought seeds" in their head.
"Unfortunately, what I've found is that people coming into paganism, young in the craft, get very offended very quickly by statements like, 'You're a devil worshipper' or 'You are going to hell,' and that's an education issue within our own community," Chapman said. "One thing I try to teach people about is don't define yourself by what you are not, define yourself by what you are."
Matt Gildner, a member of the shrine, said his involvement in the pagan path has made him more secure in his beliefs, despite some criticisms from others. Gildner said he has been full-time pagan since 1996.
Gildner, who grew up in the Christian faith, said he wasn't entirely comfortable because he felt he was being molded for the pastorhood of the Methodist denomination.
"At that time, I was of a thought process to be the good son because I wanted my parents' blessings and approval," Gildner said. "I had a rather rough time at the beginning of my life, and I didn't have the approval I wanted as a young child. As I grew older and I was in the church, as my mom married her third husband, I wanted that approval because I didn't get if before.
"I did what they required of me — go to church, read the Bible, say your prayers, do the right thing. I still do the right thing now, and I have to say that some of my faith is based off of my Christian upbringing. But that was just a building block of where my faith is now."
Today, protestant churches are most prominent in Davidson County.
The county's Christian ties span back to its German settlers, who established the Pilgrim Reformed Church in the 1750s, one of the oldest organized churches in the area, said Davidson County Historical Museum Curator Catherine Hoffmann, reading from "Pathfinders Past and Present: A History of Davidson County, North Carolina" by M. Jewell Sink and Mary Green Matthews.
The county's large Baptist population may date back to John Gano, a Baptist missionary preacher from the Jersey Settlement, who was responsible for founding several Baptist churches in Reeds, Tom's Creek, Lick Creek area, which organized in 1832 as the Liberty Baptist Association, Hoffmann said.
While smaller in size, the Episcopal Church also has roots in Davidson County, as does the Roman Catholic Diocese of North Carolina, Hoffmann said.
Magic: prayer with tools
Some stereotyping may be rooted in the Wiccan image in pop culture and Hollywood. Movies like "Practical Magic," "The Craft" and "Hocus Pocus" portray magic and some pagan thought in a light that is mostly fueled by entertainment value, rather than fact, Chapman said.
"If magic worked the way everybody thinks it does, things would be so much easier, but that's not the way it works," Chapman joked.
To Chapman, magic doesn't require anyone's belief to exist. It is the art and science of changing consciousness at will to affect one's environment, he said.
"It's not fireballs and lightning bolts — it's not even stage illusion," Chapman said. "It has to do more with the way we see the world than the way the world sees us. It has to do with state of consciousness."
Chapman said magic has been defined as prayer with tools. It can be done with spells, but it doesn't have to be. Tools like an Athame, or a ceremonial dagger; a chalice, or a Goblet-style cup; and a wand and a pentacle can also be used to impact one's environment.
"We use those in ritual to help work through issues, to help bring about change within ourselves," Chapman said. "And because we are experiential and not revelatory, a lot of times in ritual when we're working with the tools or without things will come through, we'll experience something and that is usually spiritual growth."
Chapman compared the tools they use in ritual to communion in the protestant church.
"We all know that's not the flesh and blood of Jesus, but in a ritual sense it is," Chapman said. "The same thing in ritual for us. We know, for example, that the Athame doesn't represent the intellect, but we understand that is the representation of the mind."
One of the key beliefs in the Wiccan culture is the Law of Attraction, which revolves around the fact that what you put out, you draw back to you.
"It's not 100 percent obviously," Chapman said. "If it was 100 percent, I'd be driving a BMW and not a Jeep, if that's what I wanted. But we can change the way we look at things and affect what goes on around us. If it's not affecting what's going on around us, we can affect the way we view the things around us. Most of us try to use magic to see or view things in a more positive light. We try not to look at things negatively."
Wiccans also don't possess a divine writ.
"We understand that even messages coming through from the divine are filtered through human consciousness," Chapman said. "Revelatory religions say, 'This said this.' In the craft, we don't believe in hell. We don't have any holy writ to tell us, 'Thou shall not kill.' We look to ourselves and inner divinity to know killing is wrong."
Chapman, who is working toward becoming a third-degree priest, said it is his hope to lead people to the point where they are making decisions to do the right thing, based on the fact that it's simply the right thing.
Once Chapman obtains his third-degree title, the shrine, which operates under the imperium of the Rev. Bruce Richards HP, of The Church of the Circle in the Oaks in Lady's Island, S.C. will become a full temple.
For more information on the shrine, go to ladyofthecircle.webs.com.
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Alex turned 24 on July 30, and his birthday gift from the Penguins arrived at his home in Grand Rapids, Minnesota on Wednesday, August 19.
Goligoski was selected in the second round of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2004 while still in high school and starring in the USHL.
This past season, Alex split the season between Pittsburgh and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. It certainly didn't hurt that coach Dan Byslma had been Alex's AHL coach and knew what the young defenceman could do. While deep in blueline talent, injuries gave Goligoski a chance to step in the NHL spotlight and show what he could do. He didn't disappoint.
Alex decided to have an impromptu party, inviting friends to enjoy his Stanley Cup celebration in the garage at his Dad's house. "It's kinda surreal right now," he said while pretending to be ice-fishing out of the Cup. "It's an unbelievable feeling, and really cool to have it for the day."
Deciding to share the exultation with the town, Alex finished the evening by taking the Stanley Cup to a couple of his favourite establishments, where locals rejoiced at the opportunity to get near hockey's greatest trophy.
Everyone on any successful team has a role, and Eric Godard, who enjoyed his day with the Stanley Cup on August 23, keeps opponents honest when he's on the ice. He led the team in penalty minutes during their Stanley Cup championship season.
The plane carrying the Stanley Cup flew off to Vernon, British Columbia in the beautiful Okanagan Valley, but encountered some mechanical problems along the way and was delayed in arriving. Eric's girlfriend, Marika, was there to meet the small plane. It was curious that Marika calls Eric, 'Godard.' Not 'Eric.' It turns out they have another friend named Eric, so to differentiate, the Penguins' forward is affectionately called 'Godard' all day.
After a visit to the fire department, Godard (can't stop myself!) decided to make an impromptu visit to the police department. The door was locked, but there was an intercom button on the wall, so Eric pushed it. "Is this the police department?" he asked. "Yes it is," came the voice of the dispatcher. "My name is Eric Godard. From the Pittsburgh Penguins. I have the Stanley Cup with me and thought I'd drop by for a quick visit."
There was a momentary silence.
"Uh…sure," Godard replied. Expecting a substantial wait, Eric watched in astonishment as several police cars roared into the parking lot within moments. "Where is it? Where is it?" demanded one constable, practically leaping out of car as though a robbery was in progress.
Godard showed the guys the Stanley Cup, and each got his picture taken with the legacy Lord Stanley left for the game of hockey.
Godard (thanks, Marika! Now you've got us doing it!) stopped by Jim Attridge Ski and Board to show the staff, picked up some beach wear and took off to Lake Okanagan. Godard and Marika, along with some friends, climbed into a rented pontoon boat and Eric was handed the Stanley Cup. Several other friends in boats met the couple there, so they hitched four or five of the boats together and simply floated out on the spectacular lake, soaking up the fruits of the Penguins' victory. Godard filled the bowl of the Cup with adult beverages and each of the friends got to take a sip out of the greatest punch bowl ever fashioned.
The night ended with a private party back at the house, where special friends gathered to celebrate and congratulate Godard on his sweet accomplishment.
The Stanley Cup was flown over to Europe, and on Tuesday, we'll celebrate with Miroslav Satan in another edition of the Stanley Cup Journal.
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The #NRL Ladder after Round 11. Souths and Cronulla march up the table while at the other end, the T...
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After finishing fourth in 2008, there were many doubts over the Roosters ability to compete with the top teams in 2009 before the season even began. Unfortunately for the side, those doubts were indeed right. The Roosters have just three wins to their mantle at this stage in the year, and have been on the end of some shocking scorelines.
For the first time since the time under Chris Anderson, the side looked to have given up in football matches long before the 80th minutes, sometimes even before the 40th minute. The game plans have gotten desperate, there are signs the club and possibly the fans want a clean out of coach and club (which looks to be a good chance of happening).
However a recent visit from Roosters legend Arthur Beetson has spurred them around a bit (and made them look like they actually cared about winning). This is all they have to go on coming into the second half of the season. The club will be attempting to avoid their first wooden spoon since 1966 and during the second half of the season they will be playing some of the teams they will be battling to avoid the dreaded spoon with.
There have been some positives to come out of this half of the season however with representative players Sam Perrett, Nate Myles and Shane Shackleton all showing good form. That is about it as consistency for individual players has been a major hurdle for the Roosters this year.
The side began the year horribly. The hype of the annual first-round clash against rivals South Sydney turned into nothing when the Roosters were belted 52-12, their heads sunk early. A week later the side upstaged Canberra 28-4. That might highlighted by a try to injured fullback Anthony Minichiello. Since then the fans of the Roosters have had very little to cheer about.
The end of the season doesn't look pretty and for the Roosters to make the finals they practically must win every game. They will be playing the Cowboys (A), Sharks (H), Dragons (A), Bye, Warriors (H), Rabbitohs (A), Knights (A), Tigers (H), Sea Eagles (H), Bulldogs (A), Storm (A), Cowboys (H).
The fans might be looking to 2010 for something new. The rumour mill has put various names to the club for the new year. The best news for the fans of the Roosters could possibly be which rumours turn out to be true.
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Get Some F*cking Manners: Flossing Your Teeth And Other Don'ts While Dining At A Restaurant
You'd think it would go without saying that you should never, ever floss your teeth in anyplace beside a bathroom, but some people just didn't get that memo. Even if you're able to floss without a mirror in front of you it does not, under any circumstances, give you the right to floss your teeth while you're walking down the street, having drinks with friends or at a fucking restaurant! This is never an OK thing to do, and those who do it should be collected and shipped off to an island where they can make that a socially acceptable behavior, because in these parts, we're not having it.
I arrived at the airport fairly early this past weekend for my flight, and since I hadn't eaten I saddled on up to one of those pub type places to order a salad and French fries. As I played "Words with Friends" while chomping on my lunch, I noticed out of the corner of my eye that the man to the left of me was flossing his teeth. Yes! Right there in public at a place where people were trying to consume their food! Not only that, but after he withdrew the floss he inspected it for, what, I don't know, chunks of food that perhaps he could save for a snack later? I don't know! All I did know was that he was raised in a barn and should have just stayed there for the sake of humanity. I mean, what if this dude has kids and this is how he's teaching them to behave in a restaurant? What if his kids have kids and it just grows and grows, then before we know it we're living in a world that gives a big thumbs up to such a thing? What if, people?
So for those, like this man, who are missing the manners gene, here are the things you should never do in a restaurant. Tragically, I've witnessed all of these being done and it doesn't get easier every time you're subjected to it.


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The trio of friends that aimed to supply emergency response teams with teddy bears delivered on their promise Saturday.
The Social Butterflies – a trio of friends that emerged from a Girl Scout troop of kids with special needs – collected 204 teddy bears through Project Bear, said Phillis Nowicki, mother of one of the members.
This partnership with Kay Jewelers in the Geneva Commons also raised money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Nowicki said the teddy bears, which are meant to comfort children in need, were distributed to TriCity Family Services, Delnor Hospital, the Kane County Sheriff's Office, Fox River and Countryside Fire/Rescue District, the Illinois State Police in Elgin and a South Elgin fire station.
Nowicki thanked the community for its support and said the group likely will do the project next year.


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Alliance Middle School Guidance Counselors Share Undergraduate Experience at Mount Union
October 26, 2009
The three guidance counselors at Alliance Middle School have more than just their profession in common – they all are Mount Union College graduates.
Suzanne "Suzie" Dennis, the sixth grade guidance counselor, is a 1984 graduate of Mount Union; Rob Laskey, the eighth grade guidance counselor, is a 1998 graduate; and Sarah Rhoades, the seventh grade guidance counselor, is a 2007 graduate of the institution.
Their undergraduate degrees from Mount Union are all in different majors, but have led them into the same profession over the years.
Dennis began her college education at the University of Akron, where she had planned on pursuing a career as a paralegal.
"After two years, I realized that I didn't like the big school setting," said Dennis. "My father was a teacher in the Alliance City School district and graduated from Mount Union. He's the one who encouraged me to go into this profession."
She earned a bachelor of arts degree in elementary education in 1984 from Mount Union and has been working in the educational system ever since. Dennis' first job was teaching at Regina Coeli and shortly thereafter she started teaching at Morgan Elementary School. In 1989, she began teaching reading and language arts at the middle school level in Alliance.
"This year will mark my 26th year of teaching," she said. "I love Alliance. I started my career here and I want to finish here."
Dennis earned a master's degree in curriculum and instruction from Ashland University in 2007. She holds a temporary license in guidance counseling and is currently pursuing a master of education degree in school counseling from the University of Akron.
"I love working with students," said Dennis. "I feel like I'm making a difference in someone's life."
Just like Dennis, Laskey began his college career at another institution.
"My two sisters went to Mount Union," said Laskey. "I wanted to be different, so I decided to attend Malone."
Since Laskey's sisters went to Mount Union, he had a lot of exposure to the campus. After his first year at Malone University (previously Malone College) he decided to transfer because Mount Union had the major he wanted to pursue – sport management.
He earned a bachelor of arts degree in sport management from Mount Union in 1998 and immediately started working at the YMCA in Canton, OH. Through the YMCA, he got involved with youth through the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America program.
The program opened a site-based program in Alliance and Laskey made connections with individuals in the Alliance City School district.
"Talking with Jan Carli (a guidance counselor) is what really got me interested," said Laskey. "That's when I decided to go back to school."
While still working at the YMCA, Laskey took classes in the evening at Malone and earned a master's degree in counseling in 2004. Laskey landed his first guidance counselor job in Geauga County and shortly thereafter he found out about a job opening in Alliance.
"I had ties to Alliance because of the Big Brothers Big Sisters program," he said. "When I saw the opportunity for a job in the Alliance City School District, I applied."
This is Laskey's fourth year in the Alliance City School district – he worked from 2005 to 2007 as a guidance counselor at the high school and started working at the middle school in 2007.
Just as Laskey started at the middle school, Rhoades was finishing up her undergraduate degree. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from Mount Union in 2007.
"I decided my senior year of college that I wanted to either go into consumer psychology or school counseling," she said. "I had a friend attending Kent State University that recommended the school counseling program."
Rhoades decided to attend graduate school immediately following graduation. She earned a master of education degree in school counseling from Kent in 2009.
"I knew there was a potential opening, so I sent in my resume," she said. "I was inspired by the strong relationships that they (guidance counselors at Alliance Middle School) have with students."
Rhoades has only been working at the middle school for nine weeks, but is enjoying the new position thus far.
"I really enjoy the students and the people that I work with – they're so hardworking."


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2. -- The economic calendar in the U.S. Friday is empty. The jobs report for September was scheduled to be issued Friday but has been postponed indefinitely because of the U.S. government shutdown.
3. -- U.S. stocks on Thursday fell the most in five weeks as the U.S. Capitol was briefly locked-down following an apparent shooting near the building and President Obama warned Wall Street that a prolonged shutdown and failure to raise the debt ceiling would have a wide and negative impact on the economy. The S&P 500 dropped the most since Aug. 27, the fourth time in five days the index has declined, losing 0.8% to 1,680.94. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also fell 0.8% to 15,018.71 while the Nasdaq declined 1% to 3,777.80.
4. -- Twitter, the microblogging site led by CEO Dick Costolo, filed plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. Twitter could raise up to $1 billion, a number that for now is just a placeholder used to calculate fees. According to the filing, Twitter's revenue in 2012 was $316.9 million. Revenue for the first six months of 2013 was $253.6 million. The U.S. still accounts for much of Twitter's revenue, as international revenue for 2012 was only $53 million. For the first six months of 2013, international revenue was $62.8 million, accounting for 25% of total revenue during that time frame. The social network noted that it recently focused on international spending in certain countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan and the U.K. Twitter noted that revenue grew by 198% from 2011 to 2012, while its net loss narrowed by 38% to $79.4 million. Twitter will trade under symbol "TWTR." It hasn't disclosed on what exchange it will list.
5. -- Jamie Dimon relinquished his chairmanship of JPMorgan Chase's ( JPM) main banking subsidiary, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing public records and people familiar with the situation. He shed the title on July 1, one of the people said. In a document made public Thursday, Dimon is listed as chairman emeritus of J.P. Morgan Chase Bank N.A., the Journal said. The new chairman of the unit is former Johnson & Johnson Chairman and CEO William Weldon, one of the top directors on the parent company's board. The move doesn't affect Dimon's status as CEO or chairman of JPMorgan's parent company board. A JPMorgan spokesman told the Journal the governance change for one of the bank's largest subsidiaries wasn't the result of outside pressure. The spokesman said the change in Dimon's title happened "solely to create a more uniform structure among our subsidiary boards."
6. -- Adobe Systems ( ADBE) said Thursday a cyberattack on its systems exposed credit-card information of 2.9 million customers. Adobe, the maker of Photoshop, said the attacker accessed Adobe customer IDs and passwords on its systems. Through that, they were able to remove customer names, encrypted credit and debit card numbers, expiration dates and other information related to orders from customers worldwide. Adobe doesn't believe attackers removed credit and debit card numbers that weren't encrypted. "Cyber attacks are one of the unfortunate realities of doing business today," Brad Arkin, Adobe's chief security officer, wrote in a blog post Thursday. "Given the profile and widespread use of many of our products, Adobe has attracted increasing attention from cyber attackers."
7. -- Instagram announced Thursday it would start introducing ads into its feed as it seeks to add revenue for parent Facebook ( FB). Instagram, which was acquired by Facebook last year, has more than 130 million monthly active users. Facebook shares closed Thursday at $49.18, down 2.2%, but rose in after-hours trading following the Instagram announcement.
8. -- Samsung's operating profit hit another record high in the July-September quarter, likely driven by robust sales of its cheaper mid-range smartphones in developing countries. The maker of Galaxy smartphones said Friday that its third-quarter operating income rose 25% from a year earlier to 10.1 trillion won ($9.4 billion). Analysts were expecting $9.3 billion. Third-quarter sales at Samsung rose 13% to a record high 59 trillion won ($55 billion). Samsung's full results will be announced later in October.
9. -- Potbelly's initial public offering of 7.5 million shares was priced at $14 a share, above expectations. The sandwich maker has expected the offering to be priced at between $12 and $13 a share. The stock is expected to begin trading Friday on Nasdaq under symbol "PBPB."
10. -- Forest Oil ( FST) said it will sell certain oil and gas assets in the Texas panhandle for $1 billion. The stock fell 0.9% on Thursday to $6.35.
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Lakeview Public Schools is going back to the future.
And the trip will cost about $5.4 million.
District Superintendent Karl Paulson announced recently the district will purchase a building formerly known as Wheat Elementary School. The purchase is the centerpiece of a plan to relocate administrative offices and make room for anticipated student enrollment increases over the next several years.
�We have maxed out our elementary facility enrollment capacity,� Paulson said. �Lakeview should be able to relieve any overcrowding and reduce class sizes.�
Wheat is located near Harper Avenue and 11 Mile Road in St. Clair Shores. The school was built in 1926 and its size was increased by construction projects in the mid-1950s. Lakeview sold the building in 1980 for $445,000.
When contemplating a facility to meet Lakeview�s needs, district officials considered, but quickly rejected, new construction as cost-prohibitive, said Daniel Dombrowski, Lakeview Board of Education president. That left limited options.
Some available buildings met interior needs, but did not have adequate parking, Dombrowski said. Eventually, officials decided Wheat was the best choice, despite its age.
�The list of sites that would be a fit came down pretty much to that location,� he said.
Plans call for the Wheat building to be renovated to accommodate both administrative operations as well as provide additional classrooms.
Now housed in a wing of Princeton Elementary School, the administrative offices are scheduled to relocate to Wheat in the first quarter of 2013. Meanwhile, construction will continue to update the rest of the structure. Wheat is expected to welcome students sometime during the 2013-14 school year.
The moves are designed to make room for anticipated growth in student enrollment. Earlier this year, Paulson said projections indicate Lakeview will grow by approximately 200 to 250 students each year.
Paulson said the Lakeview Board of Education approved the plan in September. The superintendent outlined the economics:
� Lakeview will pay $2.32 million to buy Wheat, a one-story, 30,000-square-foot structure.
� The district will spend another $2.2 million to renovate the building. The lion�s share of the money will be spent on one side of the building that will house classrooms.
� Another $350,000 worth of work will be performed on Princeton to transform the present administrative wing into classrooms. Princeton is expected to open to additional students next August.
Lakeview residents will not be asked to approve any additional millage or bond issues to cover the costs of the Wheat and Princeton projects.
Paulson said the district will finance the projects through Installment Purchase Agreement loans using local banks. The arrangement is similar to a mortgage in that Lakeview will repay the loans through annual installments of about $420,000 over 15 years. The payments will be made from the district�s general fund.


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Ryan Anderson scored a team-high 22 points and pulled down seven rebounds as the New Orleans Hornets continued their home-court dominance of the Milwaukee Bucks with a 102-81 thumping at New Orleans Arena on Monday.
Robin Lopez put home 21 points on 8-of-10 shooting, while Jason Smith added 12 points and Greivis Vasquez contributed 11 and nine assists for the Hornets, who have won 11 consecutive home games against the Bucks.
Lance Thomas and Brian Roberts donated 10 points apiece in the victory, which snapped a two-game slide for New Orleans.
"When we defend like that, it gives us a chance to shoot easy buckets and that is how you get close to 50 percent," Hornets coach Monty Williams said. "You're getting a lot of layups. You can't always trust your jump shot in the NBA with the travel and wear and tear, but if you can get layups it makes everything easier."
Brandon Jennings buried five 3-pointers en route to a game-high 25 points, while Monta Ellis finished with 17 points and six assists for Milwaukee. That still wasn't enough for the Bucks, who haven't beaten the Hornets on the road since Jan. 27, 2003.
"The pick and roll hurt us," Jennings said. "We weren't getting weak side help. It has to be a total team effort to stop that going forward."
After a back-and-forth opening 12 minutes which featured 11 lead changes and three ties, New Orleans held a 30-28 advantage.
The home side scored the first five points of the second session to open up a 35-28 lead, but a run-out layup by Milwaukee's Luc Mbah a Moute a bit later closed the gap to 37-33 with 7:48 on the first-half clock.
Al-Farouq Aminu buried a 3-ball from the top of the arc to give the Hornets their largest lead of the half at 43-33, but the Bucks hung around and got an easy driving left-handed layup by Jennings to make it a 47-45 New Orleans lead with 2:52 to go before halftime.
Roger Mason Jr. hit a 16-footer with 47 seconds to go in the half for a six- point Hornets lead, but Ellis banked home a deep trey at the horn to cut the margin to 53-50 at the half.
A layup by John Henson early in the third quarter gave the Bucks a 60-58 lead, but the Hornets began to pull away from there, using a 13-0 run to build a 71-60 margin with 4:15 on the clock.
A slam by Larry Sanders followed by 1-of-2 from the line by Mbah a Moute later cut the deficit to six, but the Hornets led 77-67 heading into the final 12 minutes.
New Orleans put the game away in the final quarter, outscoring the Bucks by a 25-14 count in the frame.
Mbah a Moute made it nine-point game with a short jumper early in the period, but the Bucks never got closer than that and a jumper by Thomas with 1:28 play gave the Hornets their largest lead of the night, 100-78.
Game Notes
The Bucks have lost 15 of their last 18 matchups as the visitor in this series as well ... The game featured 13 lead changes and seven ties ... New Orleans shot an efficient 52.4 percent from the field and hit all 11 of its free throw attempts, while the Bucks hit 38.2 percent of their shots and went 15-of-23 from the charity stripe ... The Hornets turned 16 Milwaukee turnovers into 27 points and grabbed 13 offensive rebounds which led to 23 second-chance points.


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The flight and tank combat game War Thunder has the unique distinction of being the sole PlayStation 4 game (so far) to let you use keyboard and mouse controls, or a flight stick if you'd like. Originally on PC, and sporting five million players on that platform alone, the free-to-play game already used KB/M on PC and so it was a natural fit--but it wasn't a plug-and-play solution.
Supporting alternate control methods takes some extra effort on behalf of developers, told Gaijin president Anton Yudintsev Kotaku. The game's also taking advantage of some other less-used PS4 features. It's cross-platform, for one, letting PS4 players take on PC players and vice-versa. The PlayStation Eye can even be used for head-tracking.
While War Thunder is a PS4 launch game in Europe, it won't be available in the US at Friday's launch, instead coming by the end of the year. If you need something to show off the bells and whistles of some otherwise underused PS4 functionality, it seems like a good fit.


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Supporters at every club enjoy watching players with skill - and fortunately there are many skillful footballers in the Premier League.
Watching a skillful player when on top of his game can often be worth the entrance fee alone.
Although they might be frustrating at times, it's worth the hassle when they produce a moment of brilliance for supporters to cherish.
The XI on this list have all honed their skills since childhood. They might be naturally gifted but don't let that fool you: this lot will have practised pretty much every day since they were kids to become that technically gifted.
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Florida: "Poignant" AIDS Exhibit Visiting Volusia County
February 11, 2013
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Beginning February 14, Daytona State College will display the HIV Project Mobile Art Exhibit. The display features photographs of Floridians with HIV, their journal entries, videos, and free testing, in an attempt to humanize HIV. One Ormond Beach resident called the exhibit "quite poignant," stating that the exhibit gets to the heart of putting a face with HIV.
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02.10.2013; Skyler Swisher
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Checking in on… the Big EastPosted by Brian Goodman on February 8th, 2011
Rob Dauster of Ballin' is a Habit is the RTC correspondent for the Big East.
Team of the Week: Syracuse Orange: The Orange reached a critical point in their season on Wednesday. They had lost four consecutive games, there were all kinds of rumors involving turmoil within the locker room, and the team was heading to Hartford to take on then-No. 7 Connecticut. But the Orange were able to slow down Kemba Walker and knock off the Huskies, regaining some confidence along the way, before going into Tampa and whooping up on South Florida. James Southerland has seen his minutes cut, playing just two minutes in the past three games, while CJ Fair and Baye Moussa Keita — who are more active on the glass and better defenders than Southerland — have taken those minutes. Dion Waiters has also played better since he was benched at Marquette, scoring 19 points the past two games. Syracuse has a big week coming up, as they play Georgetown, Louisville, and West Virginia in the span of six days.
Player of the Week: Corey Fisher, Villanova: Villanova head coach Jay Wright switched around Villanova's starting lineup, sliding Maalik Wayns to the bench, Corey Fisher over to the point, and moving Dominic Cheek and Isaiah Armwood into the starting lineup at different times. Wright did it for two reasons — he wanted to make Villanova a better defensive team, and he wanted a bigger team on the glass. More importantly, however, he wanted one more player on the floor willing to get the ball into the big guys inside. And believe it or not, this Villanova team is actually at their best when they run from the inside-out. How did Fisher respond? By averaging 16.5 points, 5.5 assists, and 2.5 steals per game while shooting 55% from the floor in wins over Marquette and West Virginia.
Power Rankings (overall and conference records, and last week's ranking in parentheses)
1. Pittsburgh (21-2, 9-1) (1)
Last Week: 2/5 vs. Cincinnati 71-59, 2/7 @ West Virginia 71-66
Next Week: 2/12 @ Villanova
The Panthers win at West Virginia on Monday proved just how good the program is that Jamie Dixon runs. Pitt won at West Virginia, a rivalry game on the road, without their most dangerous offensive weapon (Ashton Gibbs is out for two weeks with a strained MCL) against a team that was tied for second in the league standings. Nothing in the Panthers' game plan changed. They still ran their same offense and they still crashed the glass, grabbing 18 offensive rebounds. Saturday's matchup with Villanova should be quite a bit of fun, even if Gibbs is out.
2. Villanova (19-4, 7-3) (3)
Last Week: 2/2 vs. Marquette 75-70, 2/5 vs. West Virginia 66-50
Next Week: 2/9 @ Rutgers, 2/12 vs. Pitt
See the "Player of the Week" section for a breakdown on Jay Wright's tinkering with the starting lineup, and how Corey Fisher in particular has benefited.
3. Notre Dame (19-4, 8-3) (5)
Last Week: 2/3 @ DePaul 83-58, 2/6 vs. Rutgers 76-69
Next Week: 2/9 vs. Louisville, 2/12 @ South Florida
I'm still not sold on Notre Dame being the third-best team in the conference, but they continue to win and own the single most impressive victory in the league, a win at Pitt. Ben Hansbrough was once again sensational this week, averaging 24.5 points per game in two wins that, frankly, didn't tell us much. The Irish blew out DePaul like they are supposed too before winning a tougher-than-expected game against Rutgers.
4. Syracuse (20-4, 7-4) (4)
Last Week: 2/2 @ UConn 66-58, 2/5 @ South Florida 72-49
Next Week: 2/9 vs. Georgetown, 2/12 @ Louisville
See the "Team of the Week section" for analysis on Syracuse getting back on the right track despite undue stress.
5. Georgetown (18-5, 7-4) (9)
Last Week: 1/31 vs. Louisville 62-59, 2/5 vs. Providence 83-81
Next Week: 1/9 @ Syracuse, 1/13 vs. Marquette
The Hoyas are arguably the hottest team in the Big East right now. With wins over Louisville and Providence, they Hoyas have won six in a row after starting off Big East play 1-4. That winning streak becomes all the more important with a trip to the Carrier Dome coming on Wednesday. Julian Vaughn has played very well of late despite having a bad ankle. He had ten points, including a number of important buckets, and four blocks against Louisville and followed that up with a 14-point, 11-rebound performance against Providence.
6. Louisville (18-5, 7-3) (6)
Last Week: 1/31 @ Georgetown 59-62, 2/5 vs. DePaul 61-57
Next Week: 2/9 @ Notre Dame, 2/12 vs. Syracuse
Right now, Louisville is simply surviving, as Rick Pitino put it after the Cardinal's four-point win against DePaul. The issue for the Cardinals isn't their talent level (which is low, given their ranking) or Pitino's coaching (which has been as impressive as anyone in the country), it's simply that they cannot get healthy. The latest injury has come to leading scorer Preston Knowles, who sat out the win over the Blue Demons with a hamstring injury.
7. Connecticut (18-4, 6-4) (2)
Last Week: 2/2 vs. Syracuse 58-66, 2/5 @ Seton Hall 61-59
Next Week: 2/10 @ Providence, 2/13 vs. St. John's
The Kemba Walker riddle has been solved — play UConn in a zone. Syracuse did it. So did Seton Hall. It makes it easy to help onto Walker and prevent him from getting one-on-one opportunities, and with the youth and inexperience on the UConn roster, it is very easy to get this team out of an offensive rhythm. Zones are difficult to beat when you don't have great passing big men, and if you have seen Charles Okwandu or Alex Oriakhi play this season, you know they are not exactly Greg Monroe.
8. Marquette (14-9, 5-5) (7)
Last Week: 2/2 @ Villanova 70-75
Next Week: 2/9 @ South Florida, 2/13 @ Georgetown
Once again, the Golden Eagles suffered a tough loss against a quality opponent. But that doesn't mean that this team is in any danger whatsoever of missing the NCAA Tournament. They've lost five of their last eight games, although in that eight game stretch, Marquette played seven teams (seven!) currently ranked in the top 15 in the country. All five of those losses were to top 15 teams, while the Golden Eagles also boast wins over the likes of Syracuse and Notre Dame. Only two of their last eight games are against ranked teams.
9. West Virginia (15-7, 6-4) (8)
Last Week: 2/2 vs. Seton Hall 56-44, 2/5 @ Villanova 50-66, 2/7 vs. Pitt 66-71
Next Week: 2/12 vs. DePaul, 2/14 @ Syracuse
This is not a typical Bob Huggins team. There's no toughness on this squad, mentally or physically. They are an atrocious 310th in the country on the defensive glass after Monday night's debacle against Pitt. Kevin Jones and John Flowers are inconsistent and get pushed around inside too easily when they aren't in foul trouble. Deniz Kilicli can score on the block, but he can't defend anyone and doesn't appear to know what a box out is. Cam Thoroughman is a blue-collar player that is tough and physical, but he just doesn't have the talent to be an impact player. This team, believe it or not, is soft.
10. St. John's (13-9, 5-5) (11)
Last Week: 2/2 vs. Rutgers 58-56, 2/5 @ UCLA 59-66
Next Week: 2/10 vs. UConn, 2/13 @ Cincinnati
Dwight Hardy went for 32 against UCLA, which was impressive, but the rest of the Red Storm decided to not make the trip to LA. It's a shame, because the Johnnies really could have used that win. Thanks to their blowout of Duke, all this team needs to do is finish above .500 in the Big East to make the dance.
11. Cincinnati (18-5, 5-5) (10)
Last Week: 2/5 @ Pitt 59-71
Next Week: 2/8 @ DePaul, 2/13 vs. St. John's
The bubble may be obscenely weak this season, but the Bearcats still look like they could end up being a longshot to make it. They played the 284th-best non-conference schedule, and while their win over Xavier looks better every day, they need to notch a victory over one of the top teams in the Big East. That will be tough if Yancy Gates, who didn't make the trip to Pittsburgh on Saturday, remains suspended.
12. Seton Hall (10-14, 4-8) (14)
Last Week: 2/2 @ West Virginia 44-56, 2/5 vs. UConn 59-61
Next Week: 2/12 vs. Rutgers
Seeton Hall is playing well, but they cannot close out games. Unfortunately, after digging themselves a hole early in the season, the Pirates cannot afford losing close games.
13. Rutgers (12-11, 3-8) (12)
Last Week: 2/2 @ St. John's 56-58, 2/6 @ Notre Dame 69-76
Next Week: 2/9 vs. Villanova, 2/12 vs. Seton Hall
The Scarlet Knights have now played three straight tournament teams down to the wire. Mike Rice has this team playing the right way. Once he gets some better talent into the program, Rutgers will be alright.
14. Providence (14-10, 3-8) (13)
Last Week: 2/2 vs. South Florida 68-63, 2/5 @ Georgetown 81-83
Next Week: 2/13 @ UConn
Marshon Brooks is now the leading scorer in the Big East at 24.1 points per game after dropping 43 on Georgetown in a losing effort.
15. South Florida (8-16, 2-9) (15)
Last Week: 2/2 @ Providence 63-68, 2/5 vs. Syracuse 49-72
Next Week: 2/9 vs. Marquette. 2/12 vs. Notre Dame
On Saturday, South Florida was outnumbered by Syracuse fans 3:1 in their own arena. Shameful.
16. DePaul (6-16, 0-10) (16)
Last Week: 2/3 vs. Notre 58-83, 2/5 @ Louisville 57-61
Next Week: 2/8 vs. Cincinnati, 2/12 @ WVU
The Blue Demons nearly got one against injury-depleted Louisville.
Looking Ahead
We have four terrific Big East matchups this week. On Wednesday, Georgetown heads to Syracuse in the first of their two games this season, while Louisville makes the trip to South Bend to take on Notre Dame. On Saturday, Syracuse and Louisville do battle while arguably the two best teams in the conference tip off in ESPN's Gameday game as Pitt travels to Villanova.


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If you have been wondering how BlackBerry Messenger will be on the PlayBook, we have a small demo showing us that by syncing your device to the PlayBook via the BlackBerry bridge, you will be able to chat on your tablet. Will PlayBook users have to have a BlackBerry in order to use BBM? Seems like for now, yes. I imagine that when BlackBerry ID becomes the norm, then having to bridge with a BlackBerry in order to use BBM on the PlayBook may be a thing of the past. Watch the video and give us your thoughts.


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Lexington's skyline may be in for a major change.
Tuesday morning, the Webb Company unveiled its plans for a new development downtown.
The 40 story hotel would be built on the block from Limestone to Upper, between Main and Vine Streets.
The developer says the hotel would include space for retailers and restaurants. It would include an underground parking garage and a rooftop restaurant. It is expected the new complex would bring about 920 on-site jobs.
In all, it would cost about 250 million dollars for the project, which would make it the most expensive building in Lexington.
Developers say to help pay for it, they'll rely on TIF, tax increment financing. That funding will go to pay for public infrastructure like sidewalks and sewers.
If it is built, businesses such as The Dame, Mia's, Busters and others would have to move to make room for the tower. Developers say those buildings cannot be saved because they'll have to totally excavate the area.
Maribeth Tolson, co-owner of Mia's says she would like to be given a spot in the new development.
"I think it's only fair for those of us who have been here already if they are going to put retail and restaurants in the new development," Toloson said.
Tolson says the city has said it would work with her to relocate, but she says no matter what Mia's will remain downtown.
If approved, developers say they hope to break ground in August and would like to have the project finished in time for the 2010 World Equestrian Games.
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- Mark Zuckerberg will pay between $1 billion and $2 billion in taxes for 2012
- Edward McCaffery: But he never has to pay taxes again for the rest of his life
- He says Zuckerberg can hold on to assets as they appreciate without paying tax on them
- McCaffery: Like other tech titans, he can build wealth by using stock and stock options
So, you think you have it bad this tax season. Have you heard that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will pay between $1 billion and $2 billion in taxes? That sounds like a tough pill for anyone to swallow.
But it is premature to start a pity party for Zuckerberg. The twenty-something billionaire reaped large financial gains from exercising the stock options that triggered his tax bill, and he has benefited from favorable tax rules along the way. Even better, Zuckerberg will survive his encounter with the tax man in a position to never have to pay taxes again for the rest of his life.
You heard that right.
Let's start with the tax bill. According to media reports, Zuckerberg reported $2.3 billion income from Facebook's IPO in May 2012. How did that happen?
By contract with his own highly controlled company, Zuckerberg has many stock options. The options give him the right to buy shares for a preset price: 6 cents, to be exact. So on the day of Facebook's IPO, with shares trading as high as $42, Zuckerberg bought 60 million shares for 6 cents each: a great way to net a cool $2.3 billion.
The IRS views that money as compensation -- wages -- taxable at "ordinary" income tax rates, the same that most of us pay on our regular salaries. This means, for 2012, Zuckerberg will have to pay tax on the $2.3 billion at close to a 50% rate, federal and California taxes combined. The resulting whopping $1 billion to $2 billion tax bill continues a theme, evident in my CNN.com columns on Warren Buffett, Mitt Romney and Phil Mickelson, that wage-earners are highly taxed, but not the wealthy.
So should we feel sorry for Zuckerberg? Before we start crying, let's step back a bit.
As soon as Zuckerberg exercises any of his stock options he triggers a tax hit. He did just that when he bought the 60 million Facebook shares for 6 cents each. But from that moment forward, Zuckerberg is responsible only for any further rise in the value of the stock, and only when he sells it, and, even then, only at the far more favorable "capital gains" rates.
Zuckerberg's $2.3 billion payday also came after years of building up value in Facebook, meaning that he was deferring paying taxes for years. This is considered a financial benefit: It is better to pay taxes later rather than sooner, all things being equal.
It also bears mention that all things were not equal, because 2012 featured one of the lowest top ordinary tax rates in a century of income taxes, at 35%. Most observers were assuming that rates would increase in 2013, as they in fact did. Zuckerberg cashed out at both a high market price and a low tax rate.
One puzzle to tax experts is why Zuckerberg waited so long to cash out, causing that large ordinary income tax hit. The answer likely has several parts. One, Zuckerberg's timing almost certainly played a role in boosting Facebook's stock price at the IPO stage, when it peaked. Two, it is obvious that Zuckerberg had indeed cashed out, in large part, before the IPO. How else did he get to a net worth of more than $11 billion, according to media reports, with a (mere) $2.3 billion payday, roughly cut in half by taxes, further reduced by a falling stock price?
At a minimum, buying shares during the IPO allowed Zuckerberg to cash out at the market top, and then to sell off shares -- as he did "for tax purposes" -- without any additional tax hit. Indeed, Zuckerberg now holds shares with tax losses built into them, which he can sell to offset capital gains elsewhere in his portfolio.
Zuckerberg also has plenty of other shares (and still more options), rising in value as we speak. He is playing what I call Tax Planning 101, simply holding onto assets as they appreciate without paying tax on them.
Zuckerberg's tale is really just another story about stock options, the coin of the realm in Silicon Valley. They can be tricky and easy to manipulate. Remember the backdating scandals? Those were about the timing of the exercise of stock options by highly paid executives.
After his big stock option exercise, Zuckerberg can walk in the footsteps of hi-tech icons such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. These entrepreneurs built up vast fortunes using stock options with great savvy and then, after they made it to the levels of the super-rich, simply got rid of their ordinary income salaries.
Jobs, famously, got paid $1 a year to run Apple. Gates one-upped that by stepping down altogether from his day job as CEO of Microsoft. The really rich leave wages and the W-2s that go with them to the little people, like us.
The truly rich do not have to pay any tax once they have their fortunes in hand. They can follow the simple tax planning advice to buy/borrow/die: Buy assets that appreciate in value without producing cash (like shares of Internet stocks), borrow to finance lifestyle, and die to pass on a "stepped up" basis to heirs wherein the tax gain miraculously disappears.
Zuckerberg now has $11 billion or more with which to play this game. He can live off money borrowed against that huge sum (rest assured, he can get good interest rates), never having to sell any asset at a gain, and never having to get an "ordinary" salary again.
As is so often the case, the real wizard here is Buffett, who got into the game in the early 1960s, buying up a company, Berkshire Hathaway, that pays no dividends. Buffett was able to amass his fortune, well north of $50 billion, without ever incurring a tax bill nearly as large as Zuckerberg's.
We cannot all be Warren Buffetts, of course, but being Mark Zuckerberg isn't too shabby, even with that more than a billion dollar tax bill coming due. Zuckerberg can rest peacefully knowing he won't have to worry about paying taxes again. The rest of us aren't quite so blessed.
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Justice Department officials announced Tuesday that the troubled Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has a new leader. Officials handpicked Minnesota's top federal prosecutor, B. Todd Jones, to serve as the bureau's acting director.
Jones is a former military judge advocate with broad experience in sensitive cases. And that could come in handy at the ATF, which is under intense scrutiny from Republicans in Congress over a failed gun trafficking investigation called Fast and Furious. The agency was supposed to be stopping the flow of guns to Mexico, but instead agents sometimes lost track of assault weapons that later turned up at crime scenes on both sides of the Southwest border.
Jones will serve as acting director of the ATF, and he won't give up his Senate confirmed job as the U.S. attorney in Minnesota. The ATF position requires Senate confirmation, too, but no nominee has gotten a successful vote in years because of fights in Congress about gun policy. Kenneth E. Melson, who had been leading the ATF on an interim basis since 2009, has been named a senior advisor on forensic science issues in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy.
Attorney General Eric Holder said he has "great confidence that (Jones) will be a strong and steady influence guiding ATF." Holder also thanked Melson for his service and said he would be a "valuable contributor" on forensic issues. Melson is a past president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) signaled in a written statement that a change at the top of ATF won't make the climate any easier. "Instead of reassigning those responsible for Fast and Furious within the Department of Justice, Attorney General Holder should ask for their resignations and come clean on all alleged gun walking operations...," Cornyn said.


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A strange old perl bug: "Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference" error given for a misleading/wrong line numberby elumelum (Initiate)
|on Feb 13, 2013 at 01:05 UTC ( #1018471=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml )
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Here's a little program:
Running this code under perl v5.8.8 gives me:
Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at arrayref2.pl line 8.
...which is the check on the defined array reference.
Running this code under perl v5.10.1 (*) (with 59 registered patches), the next newest perl I had available, produces this output:
Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at arrayref2.pl line 11.
...which is the check on the undefined array reference.
When laid out this way, I think most would agree that it is easily identifyable as an issue in perl v5.8.8.
However, when I ran across this while working on some legacy perl code at my job (hence the old version(s)) and this situation was masked by much more complex conditionals that were much more deeply nested, this was a real pain to figure out! I was especially thrown off at first when I changed the equivalent of the first if to:
...and it still gave the same undefined array reference error for that line! Though that is also part of what led me to discovering the issue ultimately.
I was unable to turn up anything quite like it searching the web, as for obvious reasons, most of the results were dealing with situations in which the line number reported actually contained an undefined variable being used as an array reference.
I thought I would write this up here on the off-chance that it might turn up amongst search results for someone else if they run into this same issue.
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Deliveryman shot by police may have feared robbery
- Associated Press
- April 23, 2014 - 11:10 AM
PHILADELPHIA — Police say a pizza deliveryman shot and wounded by plainclothes officers may have mistaken them for robbers.
Two city police officers responding to a report of gunshots shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday in the Kingsessing neighborhood saw a man walking down the street wearing a dark shirt with the hood pulled up and his hands in his pockets and tried to stop him, police said.
Philadelphia police Deputy Commissioner Richard Ross said the man fled to a car and then drove toward the officers, who fired because they feared for their safety.
"They believe they're being run over, and they fire their weapons," Ross told WCAU-TV. "We believe, unfortunately, that he also is of the belief that he is being robbed."
Ross said "it looks like it could just be a totally unfortunate situation."
The man may not have heard the officers identify themselves, Ross said.
"I don't know if he thought they were fake police officers or he just didn't hear what they were saying," he said.
Authorities said the 20-year-old resident of nearby Upper Darby was in critical condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with gunshot wounds to the head, neck and leg.
Detectives and the police department's internal affairs unit were investigating. The two officers have been assigned desk duty, which is standard procedure, Ross said.
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Hi, Travelpleb. You've done a great job! But I'm wondering what your plan is for the Ipoh article. Why did you delete all the posts on Ipoh foods? I also find this statement way too weak: "Like everywhere in Malaysia, the local food is sublime." Ipoh has a reputation throughout Malaysia for particularly great food, to the extent that I've known of people from KL who drive to Ipoh just to have lunch and walk around having some more snacks before driving back the same day. To give a kind of analogy, I don't think people would take a day trip from Kuantan to Kuala Terengganu just to gorge themselves on local cuisine. I look forward to your thoughts. Ikan Kekek 01:59, 31 May 2012 (EDT)


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Hodgkin lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system drains excess fluid from the blood and protects against infection. Hodgkin lymphoma is different from other forms of
Cancer occurs when cells in the body—in this case a type of white blood cell called lymphocyte—divide without control or order. If cells keep dividing uncontrollably when new cells are not needed, a mass of tissue forms, called a growth or tumor. The term cancer refers to
malignant tumors, which can invade nearby tissue and can spread to other parts of the body. A
benign tumor
does not invade or spread.
The exact causes that lead to Hodgkin lymphoma are unknown. It is likely related to complex genetic and environmental factors that lead to changes in the immune system. There is some compelling evidence to suggest an association with certain viral infections, such as Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) or HIV.
Hodgkin lymphoma is more common in men and people ages 15-40 and over 55 years of age. Other factors that may increase your chance of Hodgkin lymphoma include:
Symptoms include:
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done, paying particular attention to your lymph nodes.
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radiation therapy,
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In many cases, both chemotherapy and radiation are used to cure a patient of Hodgkin lymphoma. The choice of treatments will be based on:
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If the cancer does not respond to chemotherapy or radiation, the outcome is usually poor. There are some treatment options available, including:
is the surgical removal of the spleen, an organ that is part of the lymphatic system. In some cases, splenectomy is recommended in people who have lymphoma.
There are no guidelines for preventing Hodgkin lymphoma because the cause is unknown.
American Cancer Societyhttp://www.cancer.org
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Canadian Cancer Societyhttp://www.cancer.ca
Lymphoma Canadahttp://www.lymphoma.ca
General information about adult
Hodgkin lymphoma. National Cancer Institute
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Accessed February 25, 2015.
Hodgkin disease. American Cancer Society website. Available at:
http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/cid/documents/webcontent/003105-pdf.pdf. Accessed March 3, 2014.
Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at:
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We start out hearing from Byron about how much he wants to pick out the best aspects of the women or something like that on his next one-on-one date. Blah blah blah. Next, we go to Cheresse, who wants the one-on-one date to be alone with Byron since it is so difficult to get any alone time with him, what with living with him 24-7 and having him right in the next room and stuff. Unfortunately for Cheresse, the date goes to Andrea, who gets a note that says Lets fly away from here and share a sunset together on the coast. A memory that we will hold dear forever. Shockingly, Andrea does not cry at this gag-worthy note, which is just what she wanted because she has strong emotions towards him. She makes it through those statements without crying as well.
Andrea getting the one-on-one date is not just what Jayne wanted. Instead, Jayne is pissy, because she and Andrea are so completely different from one another. So Jayne goes to talk to Byron about what hes looking for. (Apparently it is not as hard for Jayne to get alone time with Byron as it is for Cheresse.) Jayne tells Byron that she is frustrated and not into competing (umm, hello, then why did you sign up for this show?) and is jealous because she hears about and sees Byron having physical contact with other girls. Byron reassures Jayne that he cant imagine her not being here-he thinks about her, talks about her and asks about her a lot and also mentions that he is very attracted to her (come on, what else is he going to say?) They cuddle. Awwwww. In confessional later, Byron says that they have a special bond.
Andrea thinks that she and Byron have a good connection, which means a lot to her. On their one-on-one date, Byron says he is looking to find out who Andrea is, what makes her tick and what her passions are. And what is the first thing she says in the limo? This is my year. Im going to find my soulmate, either with you or with someone else. Awwww, Andrea, way to make Byron feel special. It sounds like domesticity is your passion. Of course, Byron only comes back with Can you see it happening with me? Andrea shakes her head yes, and then Byron kisses her on the cheek. In confessional she says Byron and I are feeling each other-he kissed me and I wanted more. She sounds a little psycho when she says it, and I want to remind her that she is the designated crier of the season, not the designated psycho.
During the ride, Andrea says that she is giddy like a little child, and says it was a great ride; very romantic. Byron thinks it was a perfect moment, apart from his little plane crash comment earlier. Next (after an interlude of back at the house-see below) they have dinner in the terribly romantic hangar, where Byron talks about being sad when he travels by himself and Andrea talks about how lonely she is. Tear. Over champagne and dessert in the romantic library off of the hangar, Andrea talks about how she feels like she is falling in love with Byron and voiceovers from both mention how excited they are that this might be it as they feed each other cake. Foreshadowing, anyone?
Back at the house
the women talk about who feels like they are getting a rose, who is on the fence and who is confident. Susie is concerned, Elizabeth says maybe because she hasnt been able to observe Byrons interactions with everyone else (duh Elizabeth) and Jayne says definitely yes. Cheresse is worried about being Andreas polar opposite-Andrea is domestic; Andrea has taken charge of the house like this is her house blah blah blah. We get our first annoying Krysta confessional of the night, where we learn that Krysta is intimidated by Jayne. I know. I am stunned too.


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Bo Jackson enjoys going to the supermarket much more these days.
Back when he was a two-sport pro athlete and pop culture star more than two decades ago, the family cook couldn't do his grocery shopping without being mobbed by fans. Perhaps surprising for a guy who was once everywhere on TV in a classic ad campaign, not everyone knows Bo anymore.
An admittedly private person who long struggled with stuttering, Jackson has taken on a more public persona recently. He agreed to participate in a documentary about the only man to be selected for both the NFL's Pro Bowl and baseball's All-Star game.
"You Don't Know Bo," about the 1985 Heisman Trophy winner, will premiere Saturday on ESPN after this year's Heisman ceremony.
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