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She's been saved by the dinner bell. Tiffani Thiessen is getting a food show.
The Cooking Channel says: "Tiffani Thiessen invites her celebrity friends over for good company, great stories and delicious food. With guests like Jason Priestley, Seth Green, her White Collar co-stars and more, it's a wonderful blend of dinner, drinks and fun. Come for the party, stay for the food."
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The one-mile Mount Vernon will be run as race 5 on Sunday's 10-race card, with the Kingston, also at one mile, going off as race 7.
"I really wanted to run him one more time last year because I didn't know what to think after the Breeders' Cup," said trainer Bruce Brown, who just over a year ago claimed Compliance Officer for $25,000 for La Marca Stable. "He spent the winter in Ocala, and since he's been back he hasn't missed a beat. Our only problem is keeping him on the ground – it's hard keeping him from doing too much."
The 2-1 favorite on the morning line, Compliance Officer drew post position 8 and will be ridden for the first time by Javier Castellano.
Coming in to challenge Compliance Officer on his home turf will be graded stakes winner Mr. Vegas, fourth in the Grade 2 Mervin H. Muniz Memorial at the Fair Grounds last time out. Winner of the Grade 3 Colonel E. R. Bradley at the Fair Grounds in January, the Richard Scherer trainee will be returning to Belmont for the first time since last June, when he won an optional claimer at the Kingston distance while in the care of trainer Christophe Clement.
Miguel Mena rides Mr. Vegas, the 5-2 second choice on the morning line, from post position 6.
Also starting in the Kingston will be the winners of the past two editions: 2011 victor Pocket Cowboys and Minnie Punt, who won the previous year.
Owned and trained by Scott Schwartz, Pocket Cowboys has made two starts this year, finishing fourth in the Three Coins Up overnight stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack on April 13 and a distant third in the off-the-turf Milesius at Belmont on May 3. He will be ridden by Hall of Famer Edgar Prado at 10-1 on the morning line, leaving from post position 2.
Minnie Punt will be seeking his first victory since taking the 2010 Kingston. Now 6, the Gold Fever gelding has made four starts since, most recently finishing third in an optional claimer at Gulfstream Park on January 22. At 20-1 on the morning line, he will be ridden by newly minted Hall of Famer John Velazquez from post position 7.
Also entered, from the rail out, are Lubash, Writingonthewall, Abilio, and Street Game. Saginaw and Johannesburg Smile will run only if the race comes off the turf.
Hessonite has made a single start in 2012, stalking the pace and then finishing sixth behind Winter Memories in the Grade 3 Beaugay on May 5. Trained by David Donk for William Punk, Jr. and Philip DeLeo, the Freud filly was 4-1-1 from six starts as a 3-year-old in 2011, including a victory over males in the New York Stallion Series in August at Saratoga Race Course as well as the Ticonderoga and NYSS Cupecoy's Joy at Belmont.
As the 7-2 third choice on the morning line, Hessonite will be ridden by Ramon Dominguez from post position 6.
Favored at 9-5 on the morning line is Gitchee Goomie, winner of the 2011 Mount Vernon and most recently second to Winter Memories in the Beaugay. The 5-year-old daughter of City Zip, trained by Rick Violette, has been first or second in all but one of her past 11 starts, the exception a fifth behind winner Stacelita in the Grade 1 Flower Bowl Invitational at Belmont on October 1.
Gitchee Goomie leaves from post position 3 with Alan Garcia in the irons.
Risky Rachel, winner of both her 2012 starts by a combined margin of 11 ¼ lengths, will be making her turf debut in the Mount Vernon. The 5-year-old Limehouse mare, who added the Putthepowdertoit and Broadway stakes to her 2011 victory in the Iroquois, will be ridden by Cornelio Velasquez as she leaves from post position 4 at 3-1 on the morning line.
Completing the field, from the rail out, are Mystic City, Lisa Jean, Rogue's Jewel, Dreaming of Cara and Frivolous Buck. Harbor Mist was entered Main Track Only.


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Fear Factor – 01/03/03
Ok boys and girls, this "Special Edition" is NOT for those of you with queasy stomachs. These 6 folks are truly lucky:
Joseph Hall – Model from Daytona Beach, Florida. He's doing this for his mom, awww.
Saira Gouveia – Marketing Consultant from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. She's hoping to overcome her anxieties. Well, she's on the right show.
Joshua Aspiranti – Carpenter from Leslie, Michigan. He quotes Socrates: "know thyself", and says that this is a defining moment in his life. Socrates wouldn't do this, he's much too smart.
Kelly Karll – Waitress from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has a bet with a friend that she'll make it past the first round. Uh oh.
Jelani Ashanti – Youth Counselor from Newark, Delaware. He's doing this for his brother who passed away and was a big fan of the show.
Suzanne Scott – Electronic Saleswoman from Snohomish, Washington. She's had a rough childhood and will use the money to open a group home.
I would like to thank the producers for dressing the women in small, sports bra-like tops.
The gang makes their way through an industrial park, up a ramp and into an old building. They meet up with host Joe Rogan, he goes over the rules and breaks the good news to them. Instead of the regular stunts, they will have 3 "gross" challenges. He shows them their first:
Blood Bath
Contestants will bob for rings in a 50 gallon tank filled with cows blood. They will have 2 minutes to collect as many rings as possible without using their hands. The 2 men and 2 women that get the most will move on.
Kelly is lucky #1, and dons goggles, nose and ear plugs. She goes right to it, covering her face, hair, and chest in blood. She stands up when time runs out looking like something straight out of a horror movie, her final count is 13 rings. We are now treated to a slow-motion shower scene which would be really hot if it wasn't for all that blood.
Saira is up next, and lets Joe in on her phobias. She's afraid of the Boogey Man, the dark, and small spaces. Joe cracks "after this stunt, you'll be haunted by anemic cows", and the other contestants moo. She jumps right in, but appears to be freaking a bit. She keeps standing up, which allows the blood to cover the front of her. But, the lil' trooper keeps going and finishes with 17. She heads over to the shower looking like "Carrie", I'm waiting for a fire to break out. Another slow-motion scene that features her jumping and holding her top open. Bouncy bouncy, thanks Fear Factor!
Suzanne closes out the ladies, and I wonder if her chest might get in the way. She attacks the tank like a madwoman, and manages to pass Kelly's count and send her packing in a little over 1 minute. A shower scene follows, as we say bye to Kelly.
Joseph is first for the guys, and dips his sneakers in the blood to show that he's not afraid to get dirty. Whatever. Pretty boy manages 19, even after dropping a few back into the tank. In a moment for the ladies, Joe Zoolander removes his shirt as he hits the shower and I take this opportunity to go to the kitchen and grab some Cheerios.
Jelani is up next, and doesn't think he'll have a problem because "it looks like Kool-Aid". Oh yeah! Hey, he said it. A slow and steady pace puts him in the lead with 20. Another scene for the women follows.
Joshua closes out this stunt. He tells a story about his old football coach, some kind of pep talk or something. I didn't really understand it, and I don't remember this drill from practice, but I guess it works for him. He dips his face in and comes up screaming, like it's his own blood. He does this for the entire 2 minutes, while throwing in a few punches for good measure, and finishes with 2. This was a pathetic attempt, and this guy has serious issues. "We're going to have to take away his shoelaces and any sharp objects" Joe comments as Josh takes the walk of shame.
On their way to the next challenge, Jelani thinks that his strength, speed, and agility will help him through. Yep, that'll go a long way on GROSS Factor. Suzanne says that she's one of the guys, and just has the body of a chick. Wait, does that mean she has a…. (shudder)…never mind. The next stunt is:
…guess I'll just eat worms
Contestants will get 2 shots with a blow gun, and will be shooting at tomatoes stacked on a table. The tomatoes are numbered 0, 3, 4, 5 and their 2 shot total will be the amount of hornworms they will eat. They will have 30 seconds per worm.
Jelani is first, and hits a 3 and a 5. He pops the first one in his mouth, and as he takes a bite, a stream of bug juice squirts out which freaks everyone out. He's able to put them all down without any problems, other than juice dripping from his mouth.
Saira is next and hits a 4 and a 5. She has all kinds of trouble, as she gags and covers her mouth with her hand. She battles on, and much to my surprise, is able to finish all of them. Once she gets the OK from Joe, she heads for the "Official Fear Factor Chuck Bucket" She says she hated how they squirt in her mouth. Heh.
Suzanne is next, and says that she grew up really poor and had to eat a lot of nasty stuff. She gets a 5 on both shots. She has a little difficulty, but polishes of the little critters with plenty of time to spare. She even goes as far as licking bug juice off of her lips.
Pretty boy gets a pair of 5s as well, and I'm surprised he didn't take his shirt off for this too. In his best "model face" he finishes them, but wants to clean off his tongue before showing anybody because he's a "super model" and needs to be "pretty". Jackass.
It's on to the finals for the lucky 4. Joseph makes a comment about Suzanne being phony. That's pretty funny coming from a model. She counters with him needing a lot of ego stroking. Uh, is that what they're calling it now? Anyway, their final stunt is:
Skunk Hunt
Contestants must make their way through a series of dark tunnels and collect 3 dead skunks. There is only 1 way out among the many dead ends, and the one with the fastest time wins.
Saira is first, and is a little nervous. "You're claustrophobic right", Rogan asks, "that's got to suck for you". She is handed her skunk sack and heads into the tunnel. She makes her way through the maze and surprisingly isn't losing her mind. She tools around for what seems like forever before finally picking up her 3rd skunk and finding the exit in 3:40. Rogan congratulates her on conquering her fears as he counts the vermin.
Jelani is up next, and upon getting through the first tunnel, falls face first into the water. He grabs 2 skunks but hits to many dead ends, and Joe calls him out when he passes Saira's time. He's happy with his performance even though he didn't win, and says that his brother would be proud. I don't know about that, he just did a bunch of sick sh*t for nothing. I bet he had a good laugh though, I know I did.
Pretty boy is next and tears through the maze like a man possessed, quickly collecting 3 new friends. This will look great in his portfolio. He takes a header through the exit and lands right on his pretty face. Sadly, it's not enough to scar him for life. His official time is 1:48.
It's all up to Suzanne, and she takes off into the tunnel. She's making pretty good time, and is even nice enough to stumble in the water and get her tight, skimpy, tank top wet. Thanks Sue, I needed that. It's coming down to the wire as she heads down the exit tunnel with her 3 critters. Joe starts the count "1:45, 46, 47, 48, 49", and that's it, she's done. Maybe she was a little "top heavy" in those tunnels.
Joseph gets the nasty hat trick and is your Gross Factor champion.
Next week: A special "couples" edition.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (MCT) — Less than six months after confidently breaking ground on the first part of a $1.2 billion federal biolab in central Kansas, the state's politicians are fidgeting.
Construction of the central utility plant for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility at Kansas State University is well underway.
But the most important piece of the funding puzzle — another $404 million from Washington to pay for the actual laboratory building — remains stuck, unapproved by Congress and unsigned by the president.
Stuck is not a good place to be. Not with crucial congressional budget talks that threaten funding this year.
If congressional negotiators can agree on resetting a second round of required sequester spending cuts, experts said, the NBAF construction funds will likely sail through.
If their talks collapse, though, Congress is likely to simply extend the current spending law — leaving the NBAF lab as an artist's drawing for another year, or potentially more.
"If you don't reach this agreement ... there will be no funding for this project," said Bill Hoagland, a budget analyst and senior vice president with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
On the record, several Kansas politicians appear confident Washington will approve the NBAF spending. The project enjoys broad support from the White House and both parties in Congress, they noted, and the power plant work is ongoing.
But many Kansas policymakers — facing the reality of a tightfisted federal government — also seemed reluctant to openly assure that lab construction will start in 2014 as planned.
Through his press office, Gov. Sam Brownback would only say he is "working with our federal partners to ensure this vital project will be completed." Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas, a Republican, declined to comment, as did Sen. Pat Roberts, also a Republican.
Rep. Lynn Jenkins, a Kansas Republican, blamed the Senate for failing to pass the NBAF spending.
Ron Trewyn, vice president for research at K-State, said he hoped federal budget disputes would be overcome and the project would get its money.
But "there are hurdles in Washington that have to be cleared for us to get it this year," he said. "Absolutely."
Federal money is critical. Without it, Kansas will not provide the additional $202 million it has authorized for the project, and lab construction will be delayed.
The building is already two years behind schedule and twice as expensive as originally proposed.
House and Senate budget negotiators met for the first time last week. They face a mid-December deadline for presenting a budget package that funds the government while dealing with roughly $90 billion in mandated sequester cuts.
Some Kansas officials worry negotiators will use NBAF money to pay for last-minute deals over the next sequester, which requires cuts to defense programs and discretionary spending.
But Hoagland discounted the use of NBAF as a bargaining chip. Budget negotiators, he said, need long-term savings, not the one-time boost that cutting NBAF would provide.
The NBAF building is designed to replace the aging federal biolab in Plum Island, N.Y. When it is completed, scientists will study pathogens that threaten the nation's livestock.
The Homeland Security Department has pushed for the project for years. Site purchase and clearance, project design and the power plant construction at K-State will be paid for with roughly $200 million in already-allocated state and federal funds.
But building the lab itself will cost nearly $1 billion more. That's why Kansas politicians were ecstatic this spring when President Barack Obama officially proposed another $714 million for actual lab construction.
Kansas agreed to kick in another $202 million of its own several weeks later.
"The state stepped up to the plate," said Fred Logan, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents. "They really won over the Obama administration."
But the extra Kansas funds didn't completely convince the GOP-controlled House. In June, it reduced Obama's recommendation to just $404 million, a figure later adopted by a Senate committee.
The Senate bill never reached the floor. The result: still no money for the main NBAF building.
"The Administration continues to encourage Congress to provide full NBAF funding in this year's appropriations acts," said a statement from Nicole Stickel, a spokeswoman for the Homeland Security Department. "Once these funds are available ... construction can begin on the main laboratory."
While many Kansas politicians and educators will be happy if and when that building begins, others remain less enthusiastic.
Members of Congress from New York have pressed to remove the NBAF funding, arguing instead for upgrades at Plum Island. Those efforts have largely failed.
And some in and out of Kansas are still worried the lab is a safety risk. Federal officials have strengthened the facility design and paid for several studies suggesting the danger from an accidental release of foot-and-mouth disease pathogens is small.
But Brandy Carter, executive director of the Kansas Cattlemen's Association, says her members are still worried their herds could be devastated in an accident or severe weather event.
They're also worried Washington won't spend any more than $404 million on the project, leaving Kansas taxpayers on the hook for promised safety upgrades.
"They're not funding it enough," Carter said. "At this point they need to withdraw that, go back to square one."
Her view isn't likely to be popular with most Kansas politicians, who have enthusiastically backed the project.
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Ground Emerges As Tim Tebow's Favorite Target onion.com/SueCB3Seriously, after re-watching the preseason game against the Browns, I'm going to stick up for Graham Harrell. I'd rather have him as the backup over Colt McCoy or Tarvaris Jackson. Harrell made some poor throws and he'd be an average replacement starter, at best, but he was let down by his teammates on his turnovers:
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The second quarter INT that was returned for a touchdown, overturned by a penalty. Maybe the pass was a little off target, but it still hit TE Tom Crabtree in the hands, who tipped it up in the air for a gift INT to a nearby Browns defender.
The end of the second quarter Hail Mary. It wasn't the best attempt, but that's a pass you expect to be intercepted. When Football Outsiders ranks quarterbacks, it removes Hail Mary INTs from their definition of a turnover because it really isn't one.
The third quarter INT that was returned for a touchdown. I had been hoping to see some good things from TE Ryan Taylor this preseason, but he was held out against the Chargers due to a previous concussion. He returned against the Browns, but he tripped over his own feet on a crossing route and the Browns defender made a diving INT at the spot where Taylor should have been standing. If Taylor doesn't fall on his face, there's no chance that this pass is intercepted.
The fourth quarter intentional grounding in the end zone for a safety. It's been a mixed bag among the backups on the offensive line. Rookie Andrew Datko did a fine job in pass protection and the players at guard looked good, but on this play, the Browns' DE ran a stunt over center that neither the left guard nor center Evan Dietrich-Smith picked up, and the defender ran untouched right up the middle. That looked like Dietrich-Smith's responsibility, and Harrell had no chance.
On three bad plays (excluding the Hail Mary pass), Harrell was let down when a teammate made a bad play. His stats wouldn't have been great even if his teammates had helped him out, but it wouldn't have been a disaster either.
As a final note, if there was ever a competition between Harrell and rookie B.J. Coleman, it ended when Coleman's only attempt against the Browns was a pass he should have never thrown against even a college subdivision team. It looked like the receiver ran a different route, probably in response to the double-team he was facing, and Coleman failed to read the defense. The silver lining is that Coleman should have no problem passing through waivers, and they can stash him on the practice squad. The new question is whether they should keep Coleman under any circumstances.
As a final, final note, I liked what I saw from Datko against the Browns. He's a natural left tackle who's got great size and seems to move his feet well, but he was beaten against the Chargers when bull-rushed and he got no push when asked to run block against the Browns. If you're wondering why the Packers haven't ran the ball well this preseason, it's because their two tackles (Datko and Herb Taylor) can't get any push off the line. It looks like the shoulder Datko injured in college is still holding him back, and he might not be anything more than an emergency option until it's fully healed, but he could be very good by next season.


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Matt Adams' second homer of the game proved to be the difference as the St. Louis Cardinals outlasted the Cincinnati Reds, 5-4, in 16 innings on Wednesday.
Adams, who replaced Allen Craig at first base after the latter sprained his left foot rounding first in the fourth inning, took Logan Ondrusek (3-1) deep to right on the second pitch he saw. Carlos Martinez (2-1) secured the win for the Cardinals with a 1-2-3 bottom of the 16th.
Matt Carpenter had three hits and scored twice to pace St. Louis, which won for just the second time in its last seven contests. The Cardinals are a game behind Pittsburgh for first place in the NL Central. After Thursday's finale of this four-game series, the Cardinals host the Pirates for three contests.
"That's just a character win, guys just grinding, not giving up and not giving in," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "Everybody did their part. Those wins you won't forget."
Brandon Phillips homered and drove in his 100th run of the season in defeat. Bronson Arroyo went seven strong innings for Cincinnati, allowing three runs -- two earned -- on seven hits.
The Reds, who occupy the second wild card spot in the NL, are 3 1/2 games behind Pittsburgh.
Adams broke a 3-3 tie with a no-doubter to right off Alfredo Simon to put St. Louis ahead in the top of the 14th.
The Reds responded with a run back in the bottom of the inning off Cardinals' closer Edward Mujica when Billy Hamilton, pinch-running for Ryan Ludwick, stole second and scored on a Zack Cozart single to center. It was Mujica's third blown save of the season.
The Reds had a golden opportunity to win in the 15th inning. With men at the corners, Chris Heisey missed a bunt attempt. Shin-Soo Choo was caught in a rundown and was tagged out going home.
"He didn't see the ball go past him. At that time he was in nomad's land," Reds manager Dusty Baker said of Choo running toward the plate when the ball went past catcher Yadier Molina.
Shelby Miller, who started for St. Louis, ran into trouble early when Choo worked a walk to lead off the bottom of the first before Phillips jumped on the first pitch he saw, ripping a double down the third base line. The Cardinals' right-hander settled down and retired the side around a Jay Bruce walk to avoid any runs.
Cincinnati made the most of its next opportunity when Arroyo sacrificed runners to second and third for Choo, who grounded sharply to second to bring in the game's first run. Miller's wild pitch to Phillips allowed Ryan Hanigan to rush home for a 2-0 lead.
The Cardinals tied the score with a pair of runs in the fourth. Matt Holliday plated Carpenter with a sac fly to center and Joey Votto's errant throw to Arroyo covering first base after diving to his right on a Craig grounder allowed Carlos Beltran to cross home plate without a throw. The runs were St. Louis' first since the third inning of Monday's series-opener.
Phillips was swinging first-pitch once again in the fifth and helped the Reds regain the lead when he took Miller out of the park for his 18th home run of the season.
Carpenter's third hit of the night, a double to right-center, sparked the Cardinals' half of the sixth. Beltran followed with an RBI single to center to tie the game.
St. Louis pitchers had retired 19 straight Reds before Choo muscled a bloop single to center off Tyler Lyons with two outs in the 12th inning, but Phillips struck out, stranding Choo on first.
Game Notes
Phillips became the first Reds' second baseman since Joe Morgan in 1976 to knock in at least 100 runs ... Arroyo laid down three successful sacrifice bunts in his three plate appearances ... Hamilton, who made his major league debut Tuesday night, has entered as a pinch-runner, stolen second and scored in consecutive games to begin his career ... Votto ended 0-for-7 for the first time in his career ... Miller allowed three runs on six hits in 5 2/3 innings ... Matheny said Craig is being sent back to St. Louis to be examined.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jason Collins played his first game with the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday night, becoming the first openly gay player in the four major U.S. professional sports leagues, and Deron Williams had 30 points in a 108-102 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers.
Collins was signed to a 10-day contract Sunday, nearly 10 months after his announcement on April 29 in Sports Illustrated. He had two rebounds and five fouls in 10½ scoreless minutes.
The 12-year veteran spent his first six-plus NBA seasons with the Nets and helped them get to the NBA Finals in 2002 and 2003. This was the 35-year-old center's first NBA game since April 17, 2013, with Washington.
Paul Pierce scored 25 points, helping the Nets end an 11-game losing streak against the Lakers.
Pau Gasol had 22 points and 11 rebounds for the Lakers, who never led and lost for the 24th time in 30 games with Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash and Xavier Henry all sidelined by injuries.
MIAMI (AP) - With LeBron James watching from the bench in a suit and tie, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade powered Miami to the victory.
James was a late scratch after he broke his nose in Thursday's win at Oklahoma City, and his teammates picked up the slack. Bosh had 28 points and 10 rebounds, and Wade added 23 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists.
The Bulls also were also short-handed. Starter Jimmy Butler was a late scratch because of bruised ribs.
Joakim Noah had 20 points, 15 rebounds and four blocks for Chicago, which had won five in a row. The Bulls shot 36 percent.
Miami, playing at home for the first time in 20 days, extended its winning streak to five games.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Jamal Crawford scored 36 points to help the Clippers get the win.
Matt Barnes scored 24 points and Chris Paul had 18 points, 12 assists and eight rebounds for the Clippers, who snapped a two-game skid.
Kevin Durant had 42 points and 10 assists and Serge Ibaka added 20 points for the Thunder, who lost their second straight. It was the most points the Thunder have allowed this season.
Oklahoma City overcame a 15-point deficit late in the third quarter to take a 115-112 lead on a 3-pointer by Durant with 2:43 to play, but the Clippers controlled the game from there.
A 3-pointer by Crawford with 1:30 remaining gave Los Angeles a 119-115 lead.
DENVER (AP) - Isaiah Thomas scored 33 points, Rudy Gay had 32 and Sacramento earned its first win in Denver in six years.
DeMarcus Cousins added 27 points for the Kings, who snapped a nine-game losing streak to the Nuggets at the Pepsi Center. It was Sacramento's first win in the Mile High City since a 118-115 victory on April 5, 2008. The Kings have won three of their last four games overall.
Randy Foye and Evan Fournier each scored 27 points for the slumping Nuggets, who lost for the seventh time in the last eight games. The Nuggets fell to 1-5 without leading scorer Ty Lawson, who missed a sixth game because of a fractured left rib.
Down 58-51 after Foye hit a pair of 3-pointers in the third quarter, the Kings responded with a 21-2 run that put them in front 72-60 with 4:55 left in the period.
PHOENIX (AP) - Patrick Beverley sank the go-ahead 3-pointer with 34.3 seconds to play and Houston escaped with the win.
Dwight Howard scored 25, James Harden had 23 and Beverley 20 for the Rockets, who trailed by 10 entering the fourth quarter.
Goran Dragic scored a career-high 35 points for the Suns, but missed a 3 at the buzzer. Gerald Green had 18 of his 23 points in the third quarter, and Markieff Morris finished with 21 points.
Beverley, who scored 12 in the fourth, made two free throws that boosted Houston's lead to 113-110 with 20 seconds to go before Dragic scored on a layup to cut it to 113-112 with 14.7 seconds to play.
Donatas Motiejunas sank two free throws with 14.1 seconds left to put Houston up 115-112.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Damian Lillard had 32 points and the short-handed Trail Blazers rallied for the victory.
Thomas Robinson had 14 points and a career-high 18 rebounds for Portland, which won its second straight after a three-game slump.
Kevin Love scored 31 for Minnesota, which had won three in a row. It was Love's franchise-best fifth straight game with 30 or more points.
The Blazers played without All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge, who missed his third straight game with a groin injury.
After trailing by as many as 18 points in the first half, Nicolas Batum's fast-break layup gave Portland an 84-80 lead going into the fourth quarter. After Robinson's basket, Victor Claver dunked to extend the lead to 88-80.
CLEVELAND (AP) - John Wall scored 21 points and Bradley Beal had 17, leading Washington to the road victory.
The Wizards held the Cavaliers to 11 fourth-quarter points to return to .500 at 28-28 on the season. They also strengthened their hold on the fifth spot in the Eastern Conference standings.
The strong defensive performance in the final period came after Washington lost Nene to a sprained left knee midway through the third quarter. He had eight points, four rebounds and four assists in 21 minutes.
Luol Deng led Cleveland with 17 points. The Cavaliers played without center Anderson Varejao (sore back) and guards Dion Waiters (hyperextended left knee) and C.J. Miles (sprained left ankle).
Spencer Hawes, playing his second game since being acquired from Philadelphia on Thursday, had 16 points and 12 rebounds for Cleveland.
TORONTO (AP) - Kyle Lowry scored 28 points, DeMar DeRozan had 24 and the Raptors handed the Magic their 15th straight road loss.
Terrence Ross scored 16 and Amir Johnson had 12 points and eight rebounds before leaving with a sprained right ankle in the Raptors' fifth victory in six games.
Toronto improved to 12-3 in its past 15 home games and moved six games above .500 for the first time since Feb 24, 2010, when its record was also 31-25.
Tobias Harris scored 28 points and E'Twaun Moore had 16 as the Magic opened a four-game trip with their fourth loss in five games.


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Of Cabbages and Kings
July 19, 2012
Cheney's Body Language Tattoo artists have plenty of stories, art to share
By LUELLA DOW
Gary Short owns Body Language Tattoo in Cheney. He said, "In 1980 I lived in Oklahoma where tattooing wasn't licensed or allowed. I did it anyway. I practiced on myself until I got good at it. People saw my own tattoos and they'd ask, 'Where did you get them?' and I told them, 'I did it myself.'"
Short has had his business in Cheney since 1997. Cleanliness is very important to him. Every year he takes a bloodborne pathogen test. He said, "This business teaches you a smart way to deal with customers every day. It's easy to keep everybody healthy. This is a straight up business. I don't allow drunks or those on dope. I send them right on out the door."
He keeps three employees busy with "tons of customers."
"Every day is a different day," he said. "Sometimes I have to temporarily take on the part of a counselor or psychologist. Some customers come in and tell you about themselves and they want a little counseling."
Personally, Short likes black and white tattoos. He has many colors to choose from for those who want them. "He said, "Black never fades. I've had these since the early '80s." He said inks now are durable and people take better care of their skin.
Short knows people from places like Germany and Korea. They tell others, "I got a tattoo in Cheney, Washington." His relationships go back 30 years. He is friends with Omie James, who goes by Miami Ink, and LA Ink whose real name is Corey Miller. "He signed my leg in 2009," Short said. Another famous friend is Lyle Tuttle.
How did Gary Short get into the business of tattooing? As a small boy he was always drawing or "doodling" as he said. For him tattooing is an art. Would you like a different design than one you've had for years? Short can change it into something else even better. There are hundreds of pictures to browse through and Short, with his artistic instincts, can give you something original if you prefer.
A friendly person, Short enjoys people. He said, "I'm easy to get along with. I do like Cheney. I raised my kids here. They went through Cheney schools. Cheney has a nice atmosphere."
Short's customers and their likes and needs are as diverse as the designs he creates. We glance around his neat shop where there are many things to catch the eye. His employees go about their work quietly. And Short repeats, "Every day is a different day."
Luella Dow is a Cheney-area author who can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I'm very curious as to how you get so much done with a console based (?) text editor. Like do you have sort of summary view of your calendar, tasks, etc in emacs? Maybe you can post a few screenshots of what you look at everyday. Personally, I'd be lost without an app like Evolution or Korganizer. I can't imagine how you manage all that with emacs.
Migs, that is precisely it. =) planner.el is an Emacs module that gives me a summary view of my tasks, schedule, and notes inside Emacs (which incidentally has a nice graphical interface, too). Together with emacs-wiki.el, it lets me easily manage my website. Another ultra-handy thing is M-x remember from remember.el, which pops up a buffer asking me what I want to remember and stores a note in my daily planner page. For example, this is one such note created by remember.el. A patch contributed by Thomas Gehrlein allows easy navigation of planner pages - simply select dates from M-x calendar.
Personally, I prefer this text-file-based system to Evolution or Korganizer. I remember dropping down to M-x grep to quickly search for something in my daily planner files. I can backup my data files in a .tar.gz. I can perform diffs and version control (although I haven't gotten around to doing so yet! =) ). I can even run it in conjunction with the Remembrance Agent.
My tasks and notes can be linked to my address book through BBDB integration with Planner, and I've modified the BBDB url support to take advantage of certain fields in my database. For example, typing [[bbdb://Sacha.Chua][Sacha Chua]] results in the following link: Sacha Chua. Locally, this brings up the address book record that matches that regular expression. On the Web, it is transformed into a URL following these rules of preference: blog, web, e-mail. That allows me to link to other people and even sites much more easily than HTML or the usual blogging systems might let me do, since HTML and http://www.blogger.com still require me to type the URLs to which I want to link.
Because all of these things run inside GNU Emacs, I can easily access all of my data. I can embed Emacs LISP code into my planner files and have them automatically evaluated and displayed. I can switch to my planner file easily from my IRC chat session or from my mail. I can hook into built-in Emacs functionality or make use of modules developed by other people. It's tons of fun!
And I didn't even write planner.el. Ubercoder John Wiegley did. I discovered planner.el around 2001.11.03. I liked it so much I e-mailed John Wiegley to volunteer tech support and bugfixing for it, and he suggested that I take over maintaining planner.el instead. (2002.11.21) Open source is so much fun! =)
To see a sample of the text files I work with, you can check out my planner directory at http://richip.dhs.org/~sachac/notebook/plans/ . The published files are listed at http://richip.dhs.org/~sachac/notebook/wiki/WikiIndex.php.
People interested in duplicating my setup may want to check out my configuration files. They are all found in my notebook/emacs/ directory. Files of interest are planner-config.el, emacs-wiki-config.el, and remember-config.el. Please write to me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any comments or suggestions, and don't hesitate to ask for help in setting up a wonderful personal information management system in Emacs.
Hmm, http://www.pinoyblogs.com exists. (2003.12.30: Does not exist any more, I think.)
Computer Science is a science, but not an exact science like physics...
Interestingly enough, computer science is as exact as you can get. =) Physics? Even grade-schoolers know about experimental errors and the fact that measurements are never completely exact. Biology is similarly based on guesswork. In contrast, you know that 3 in mathematics is exactly that - 3, not 3.000000000001 or 2.99999999999999999. Computers are somewhat less precise due to the limitations of our hardware, but the theory can be as precise as you want. Think of Turing machines. Think of algorithms.
One of the things I find pretty darn fascinating about computer
science is that it is far cleaner and more exact than the natural
Hello! Those who are into game development or into gaming may want to join the Philippine chapter of the International Game Developers Association. We had our first meeting last April 4. Those interested to join may look up the Manila (Philippine) chapter in http://www.igda.org.
Eric might be interested in this. I suspect a majority will be all talk and no code, but who knows?


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Egenera, a developer of software for managing and automating heterogeneous server environments in converged infrastructure environments, is taking its high availability and disaster recovery capabilities to the cloud with this week's introduction of its new PAN Cloud Director.
The Boxborough, Mass.-based company also introduced PAN Domain Manager, an application it said will make it easier to build converged infrastructures using heterogeneous server environments.
The new applications are integrated with Egenera's PAN Manager software, which automates the provisioning, management and protection of heterogeneous IT infrastructures. PAN Manager works by abstracting the IT infrastructure to create manageable resource pools of servers, I/O, networking and storage.
[Related: Data Center Decision: Converged Infrastructure Vs. Best-Of-Breed]
PAN Manager assigns a profile to individual resources from these pools containing the application configuration and service level requirements. It actively monitors and automatically manages the infrastructure to meet customers' capacity, availability and response time requirements.
PAN Manager creates logical servers that can be "thrown" anywhere, including on blade servers from Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu, NEC, Dell and, as of last month, IBM, said Dan Busby, Egenera's vice president of product management.
"PAN Manager simplifies computer resources and guarantees any app will run on any resources," Busby said. "For example, if you have two servers and one fails, with PAN Manager, the app on the failed server moves to the other one. Our software automatically discovers available resources. We guarantee any app you have can be deployed on any of these resources."
PAN Manager includes auto-failover to any blade it manages, regardless of vendor, with automatic rebooting of an application on the compute resource that is most similar to the one that failed, Busby said. And for disaster recovery, that makes it a good alternative to clustering.
"With PAN Manager, the spares are normally powered off," he said. "In a cluster, all nodes have to be provisioned with the app. With PAN Manager, you provision nodes only when needed. Thus cutting the hardware cost by sharing spares among multiple applications and software costs as no license is needed for the spares."
Egenera's new PAN Cloud Director is a self-service management portal that provides cloud lifecycle automation for applications running in a cloud built on physical or virtual server infrastructures. It supports all major hypervisors as well as native servers.
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News Release 13-106
'M-List' Recognizes Institutions Preparing Workers to Industry Standards in Advanced Manufacturing
NSF-funded advanced manufacturing education projects are well-represented at institutions receiving Manufacturing Institute's seal of approval
June 14, 2013
This material is available primarily for archival purposes. Telephone numbers or other contact information may be out of date; please see current contact information at media contacts.
The Manufacturing Institute recently announced the charter members of the M-List, a designation recognizing excellence in manufacturing education. M-List members are institutions that are preparing students to industry standards in advanced manufacturing, with students earning credentials that are in the NAM-Endorsed Manufacturing Skills Certification System
Manufacturing has evolved in recent decades, and today's manufacturers require a highly skilled workforce. The M-list provides a service for both employers and students, connecting them to an environment that develops skilled welders, machinists, production workers, and other key positions essential to manufacturing.
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Advanced Technological Education program (ATE) aims to strengthen the skills of technicians, whose work is vitally important to the nation's prosperity and security, through grants to community colleges. Through ATE centers and projects, community colleges have a leadership role and work in partnership with universities, secondary schools, business and industry, and government agencies to design and carry out model workforce development initiatives. Almost every institution on the M-list has or has had NSF funding through ATE, representing technician education in fields ranging from renewable energy to engineering technology to aerospace.
"ATE has a lot of models for successful interaction between academe and industry," said ATE lead program director Celeste Carter. "Institutions have leveraged the use of NSF funds to build the infrastructure and capacity of their institutions to be responsive to both students and emerging trends in industry."
"The Manufacturing Institute is proud to recognize schools that are providing the highest quality manufacturing education," said Jennifer McNelly, president of the Manufacturing Institute. "We are pleased to see so many ATE centers included on this list, and look forward highlighting additional ATE institutions as they incorporate NAM-Endorsed certifications."
Institutions on the M-list follow:
California State University, Chico
College of the Canyons
Reedley College
Brevard Community College
Broward College
College of Central Florida
Florida Gateway College
Florida State College at Jacksonville
Hillsborough Community College
Pensacola State College
Polk State College
St. Petersburg College
State College of Florida
Tallahassee Community College
Harper College
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
Des Moines Area Community College
Kirkwood Community College
Wichita Area Technical College
Kellogg Community College
Anoka Technical College
Dunwoody College of Technology
South Central College
Western Nevada College
North Carolina
Cape Fear Community College
Central Carolina Community College
Central Piedmont Community College
Cleveland Community College
Forsyth Technical Community College
Halifax Community College
Randolph Community College
Cuyahoga Community College
Lorain County Community College
Community College of Allegheny County
Lehigh Career and Technical Institute
South Carolina
Florence-Darlington Technical College
Alamo Colleges
Shoreline Community College
Gateway Technical College
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Here I will going to talk about both good and bad points.
How does Ear Force X42 work?
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Three teenagers and a woman were taken to Bendigo Hospital last night after a two-car crash on Averys Road in California Gully.
Ambulance Victoria spokesman John Mullen said a 14-year-old boy had hip and leg injuries, an 18-year-old man hurt his shoulder, while another 18-year-old man had chest injuries.
The 28-year-old woman was being treated for an injury to a lower leg, Mr Mullen said.
Police were still at the scene at the time of print.


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Cutting edge mobile data technology is now being widely used by Herts Police – and you can see a video about it on our website.
Mobile, secure and robust laptops known as Toughpads were rolled out across the county in October, allowing officers to file evidence and access police records while out and about.
Since October the kit has been trialled in a brand new fleet of 86 Vauxhall Astra police cars.
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text: CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Merck & Co. on Monday told an advocacy group that its charitable arm would pull all funding for the Boy Scouts of America due to the youth organization's discriminatory policies toward gay and lesbian Americans. "Merck Foundation has suspended all funding to the Boys Scouts of America," a spokesperson told the group, Scouts for Equality. "The Merck MRK, -0.07% Foundation will consider funding the BSA again when the organization's inclusion criteria has been expanded." The pharmaceutical firm joins Intel INTC, +1.26% and UPS UPS, -0.12% both of which have also cut their financial ties to the group this year for similar reasons.


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Bobby Valentine slumped into a chair in the interview room following a night game early in spring training. Everybody in the room, the manager included, had to be up early the next day for a game in Sarasota, 90 miles away from Fort Myers, Fla.
After five minutes of perfunctory questions and answers, Red Sox media relations director Pam Ganley offered a hopeful, ''Anything else?'' trying to bring an end to the proceedings.
A reporter from Japan asked Valentine about Junichi Tazawa, a young reliever who had thrown an inning that night.
Valentine sat up straight, his eyes bright and his restless hands moving so quickly that he knocked the microphone over.
''I'm not a believer in Tazawa pitching out of the windup, first off,'' he said. ''I don't get it. He needs to, I guess, get that windup down a little better and keep that ball down.
''I'm not a believer in the windup, period. I don't get it. You throw your most important pitches of the game out of the stretch, so you have to be more effective out of the stretch.
''Men are on base when you're pitching out of the stretch. So if that's where you can throw your best pitches, why are you teaching yourself to throw twice, two different ways?
''It's just a crazy thought, but I think if we were just starting the game right now, we wouldn't teach anybody a windup.''
Valentine, in full baseball evangelist mode, went on to explain that it is easier for a pitcher to break a hitter's rhythm out of the stretch. He also pointed out that successful Japanese pitchers Hideo Nomo and Yu Darvish generally eschew the windup.
''Take a guy like Daniel Bard who throws 100 miles an hour out of the stretch,'' Valentine said. ''You think he's going to throw 106 out of the windup? Probably not, right?
''But I know it's not going to happen. Another lifetime, it will all come to pass. It's just one of those things, just another stupid statement late at night. Somebody will say, 'Can you believe that idiot said that?'''
Red Sox pitching coach Bob McClure didn't use that language. But he did wave off Valentine's comments a few days later.
''He wasn't a pitcher,'' said McClure, who most assuredly was.
Valentine thinks he invented baseball; that's the inevitable comment made when he launches into late-night dissertations about windups or why rosters should be expanded in April and not September. His detractors hate it when he stands on the top step of the dugout, smiling as though he's in on a joke that nobody else gets.
''Half the time, I question why I came back. It's my love of the game. I can't think of any one reason other than I really love the game. I like to continue to do things that I love.''Bobby Valentine
But what the Red Sox learned during spring training is not that their new manager thinks he invented the game. He just wants to perfect it to the degree that he is able.
''This,'' said third baseman Kevin Youkilis, ''is going to be a very interesting season.''
Playing it one-on-one
During his 19-year career, lefthander Al Leiter played for Billy Martin, Lou Piniella, Cito Gaston, Jim Leyland, Jack McKeon, and Joe Torre. Those managers account for 11 World Series titles.
But the most Leiter learned about baseball came during the five years he spent with Valentine, who has never won a Series.
''I went through I don't know how many spring trainings and we always did all the usual drills, the same old bull, and nobody explained why we did it; they just told us to do it,'' said Leiter, a lefthanded pitcher who now works for YES and the MLB Network. ''But when I played for Bobby with the Mets, he explained it and added to it.
''I found it interesting, I really did.
''Is he going to get on your nerves? Absolutely he will. If you're sensitive, you'll have some issues. But I had some of the best years of my career when I played for him and it was because I was prepared to pitch. He made sure of that.
''My advice to the Red Sox players is to listen to what he tells you and don't worry about what he says to the media. If you listen to him, you'll be a better player.''
One Red Sox veteran said he spoke more to Valentine individually in this spring training than he did to Terry Francona in the previous three years.
''At first I was like, 'Where is this guy coming from?''' said the player. ''Tito would let the coaches talk to you or just expect you to get better. Bobby tells you what he thinks to your face.''
General manager Ben Cherington has taken notice of that dynamic.
''Tito and Bobby, the end game is the same,'' said Cherington. ''They both want badly to win. They both live and breathe and sleep baseball. They just go about it differently, their personalities are different.
''Where I've seen Bobby have the most impact is one-on-one with a player. That's the biggest intangible benefit, the one-on-one interaction with the player and the information he's getting across to help them become better. You see the adjustments being made on the field.''
Pure love of the game
But that degree of individualized attention comes with a price. Although Francona never uttered a word of criticism in public when a player performed poorly, Valentine will use the media to try to further his point.
When relief pitcher Mark Melancon allowed three runs in a spring training game, Valentine joked at his postgame news conference that the righthander did a good job of backing up the bases after giving up so many hits.
On a day when it appeared that Daniel Bard had pitched well, Valentine took the opportunity to point out he had thrown only one changeup, a pitch he needed to be working on.
When he sent designated hitter David Ortiz out to play first base early in spring training, Valentine wondered aloud why that was newsworthy.
''He has a glove, right?'' asked the manager, jabbing slightly at a player who was immune from criticism from Francona, even when he burst into a news conference last season and started cursing.
''That's life,'' said Valentine. ''When you meet a person you don't know before, you have to try and understand who they are and what they're saying. That's what life is.
''If this was easy, then everybody would have an easy time of it. But nothing is easy.
''To be honest, I think I'm adapting more to them than they're adapting to me.''
Valentine doesn't need the Red Sox. He took a pay cut to leave ESPN, where he spent two seasons as an analyst. He also owns a successful restaurant in his hometown of Stamford, Conn.
At 61, he could lead whatever kind of life he wants. He has friends in all walks of life and interests in activities ranging from downhill skiing to raising collies.
But Valentine can't resist baseball. He never could.
''Half the time, I question why I came back,'' Valentine said. ''It's my love of the game. I can't think of any one reason other than I really love the game. I like to continue to do things that I love.''
Since he was old enough to pick up a bat, Valentine has been in uniform for all but three years of his life. But even then, he stayed around the game. He joined ESPN in 2003 after being fired by the Mets and again in 2009 after leaving the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan after six seasons as their manager.
One popular theory is that Valentine sees the Red Sox as his best chance to finally win the World Series and validate his career.
''That's not it,'' he said. ''Winning a World Series, if that made me something different than I am today, then shame on everybody in the world, including myself.
''But I am with a team that has a terrific group of players and there's no reason we should not be in it to win it. That's why I'm here.''
Dustin Pedroia, whom Francona treated like his second son, has come to realize that.
''You hear a lot of things about Bobby,'' he said. ''But the guy loves the game and he wants to win. What else matters?''
Challenging the perceptions
Valentine has been a managerial defibrillator in his career, shocking squalid teams back to life with his energy.
The Texas Rangers went from 62 victories to 87 in their first full season under Valentine in 1986. The Mets improved by 17 victories once they spent an entire season under Valentine.
In 2004, Valentine took over the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Pacific League. A team that had not been to the Japan Series since 1974 won the title in his second year and also took the Asia Series.
Valentine challenged the 2005 major league World Series champion Chicago White Sox to play a ''real'' World Series. They passed, of course.
''Bobby changed the way we played and made us better,'' said Tsuyoshi Nishioka, a Chiba Lotte infielder in 2005 and now a member of the Minnesota Twins. ''For the players, it was a great experience.''
Now Valentine is back in the majors, having pursued the Red Sox job after dalliances with the Marlins, Blue Jays, and other teams in recent years. So eager was he to return to managing that he agreed to a two-year contract with two team options.
If Valentine can do for the Red Sox what he did for the Rangers, Mets, and Marines, playoff baseball will return to Fenway Park for the first time since 2009. All he has to do now is convince his players that he's here for them and not for the greater glory of Bobby Valentine.
''I know the perception,'' he said. ''Someone will hear something or think something that confuses what is really happening.
''The only thing that I desire, and I've always desired, is for every player to have his best season ever and for every team to look like the team is playing together as a group.
''What takes a long time is for people to understand, and for the players to understand, is that, more than likely, exactly what I want is what they want. They always think it has to be something different.
''Reputation is what other people think about you. Character is what you are. It takes a little longer to figure out a person's character. It's really easy to read about his reputation or have somebody else tell you.''
'He'll stir it up'
Valentine called for a suicide squeeze in the bottom of the ninth inning against the Yankees March 22. It tied the game, ostensibly sending it to extra innings.
But Yankees manager Joe Girardi sent his team to the clubhouse, saying he was out of pitchers. Valentine complained, pointing out that the Yankees actually had several left on their roster.
''I didn't think that that was very courteous,'' Valentine said.
The mini-controversy made headlines.
''I laughed when I saw that,'' said Tom Grieve, who hired Valentine when he was the general manager of the Rangers. ''That's Bobby. He can't help himself. People in Boston will love when he takes those digs at the Yankees. He'll stir it up.
''He's going to demand a lot of those players and maybe you'll find some who don't like that. But they need to give him a chance. He cares about them, I promise you that.''
Grieve said that in 1986, when the Rangers held spring training at decrepit Pompano Beach Municipal Stadium in Florida, Valentine took it upon himself to solve the shortage of batting cages by buying fish nets from a local bait shop and building a cage himself.
''He was so proud of that cage,'' Grieve said. ''Then that night some vandals stole the nets after we used it one day. But he wasn't mad. He was still proud of himself for building it.
''He used to go out on the field with boots on and rake up the mud so the players could have a decent surface. He cares about his guys.''
Grieve, who now broadcasts Rangers games, lauded Cherington for hiring Valentine.
''You have to be strong-minded about Bobby because people out there will bad-mouth him. They'll say he's a cocky [expletive] and all that,'' Grieve said. ''But his single-minded purpose is to build a team that wins and a team that the organization and fans can be proud of.''
Ask Valentine if he is having fun as manager of the Red Sox and you get a surprising answer.
''No,'' he said. ''It's been enjoyable, I guess, in that it's been fulfilling. I go to sleep at night feeling very satisfied and can't wait to wake up the next morning.
''But I think it's been so much work it hasn't been fun. I can't consider it fun.
''Fun is that thing that you're prepared for something and what you prepared for came to fruition and you saw it happen. That's fun because it wasn't time wasted. I don't know how much other fun I need in life.''
So check back in October?
''Oh yeah,'' Valentine said. ''I think we're going to have some fun.''


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station's close call.
The international space station's three crew members climbed into their Soyuz lifeboat as a "precautionary measure" while a piece of space junk passed by today, NASA said. The space agency said the debris from a spent satellite rocket motor zipped past, apparently without causing damage, and the crew was given the all-clear to return to the station and resume normal operations.
NASA spokesman Bill Jeffs said this sort of maneuver is not unprecedented - it's happened at least once before. Usually, NASA has enough advance warning to move the station well out of the way. In this case, however, military debris-trackers alerted NASA on Wednesday night, too late to plan an avoidance maneuver.
Space agency spokesmen said this afternoon that the debris was about 5 inches (12.7 centimeters) in size, which would be larger than the initial estimates of 0.35 inches (9 millimeters). The space junk, said to be from a PAM-D, or payload assist motor, was projected to pass about 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) from the station at 12:39 p.m. ET, Jeffs said.
That was close enough to cause concern: Another agency spokesman, Josh Byerly, told me that a collision alert is raised anytime an object is projected to come within an imaginary "pizza box" around the station, measuring 0.75 kilometers above and below the station and 25 kilometers on each side (0.47 miles up and down, by 15.6 by 15.6 miles).
That's why the crew was told to put the station into unmanned mode, get into their Russian-built Soyuz capsule and wait. If the debris had struck the station and breached the hull, the crew might have had to fly the Soyuz back down to Earth and leave the multibillion-dollar orbiting outpost under remote control.
The three crew members - station commander Mike Fincke and flight engineer Sandra Magnus from NASA, as well as Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov - waited for a tense 10 minutes, looking out the Soyuz windows. "We didn't see anything, of course," Fincke said later. "We were wondering how close we were."
Orbital debris has been a big issue for NASA and the military these days, in part due to last month's collision of a Russian military satellite and an Iridium telecommunications satellite that created hundreds of pieces of junk. The space agency also noted recently that the space-junk factor has raised the estimated risk for an upcoming shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope - from a 1-in-300 chance of catastrophe to a 1-in-185 chance.
A 5-inch-wide piece of metal might not sound like much, but it can be a big deal when it's traveling 18,000 miles (28,800 kilometers) per hour. Critical parts of the station have been shielded to withstand the impact of objects on the order of a centimeter wide, and ground controllers try to make sure that the station can be moved far away from bigger objects.
Over at Spaceflight Now, Bill Harwood points out that "a 0.4-inch-wide sphere of aluminum moving at orbital speeds packs the same punch as a 400-pound safe moving at 60 mph."
Check out this archived story and this FAQ file from NASA for more about our orbital junkyard and the problems it's causing.
Update for 3:57 p.m. ET: NASA's Josh Byerly told me that the space station's crew has taken refuge in the Soyuz as many as five times before today due to concerns about passing space debris. You can listen to highlights from today's conversation between station crew members and Russian Mission Control by clicking through to this audio clip.
Update for 4:21 p.m. ET: Byerly has corrected the earlier estimate of the object's size. He said in an e-mail that the earlier, smaller number "was actually the radar cross section number, which equates to the larger size." The reference to the size has been revised above.
Update for 10:26 p.m. ET: The Associated Press report about the close call stresses the fact that there's much more junk where today's piece came from. "It's yet another warning shot that we really have to do something about space debris now. We have to do something on an international level," Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell told AP. Just yesterday, The Wall Street Journal delved into several heavy-duty methods for getting rid of space junk, including nets, magnets, lasers and rocket-powered water guns.
Earlier versions had the time for closest approach slightly wrong, and misstated one of the dimensions for the "pizza box" - which is an occupational hazard when a person has clumsy fingers and is trying to juggle a Twitter feed as well. (Tip o' the Log to Tom Sowa.)


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FCC Aims Improve Completion Rate of Long-Distance Calls to Rural Areas
The FCC Thursday issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) which seeks comment on rules to help address problems in the completion of long-distance telephone calls to rural customers.
The the NPRM is specifcally aimed at intermediate carries who complete long-distance calls for long-distance providers, such as wireless providers, cable companies, interexchange carriers (IXCs), local exchange carriers (LECs), and providers of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services.
In a statmeent the FCC contended that some of these intermediate providers offering wholesale call delivery services "may be failing to deliver a significant number of calls to rural telephone company customers, noting "evidence indicates that the retail long-distance providers may not be adequately examining the resultant rural call completion performance."
The FCC will consider measures to improve the commission's ability to monitor the delivery of long-distance calls to rural areas and aid enforcement action in connection with providers' call-completion practices as necessary. The commission is also seeking opinons on how to minimize the burden of compliance with these proposed rules, particularly for originating providers whose call-routing practices do not appear to cause significant call-completion problems.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said the commission has continually receieved complaints about rural call completion issues.
"In too many towns across the country, the basic ability of all Americans to reliably receive phone calls—a bedrock of America's communication policy—has come into doubt," Genchowski said in a statement. "This has got to stop. The FCC has a fundamental responsibility to ensure phone calls complete reliably."
Genachowski said the commission had "no illusions" that the new proposals in the NPRM may impose "meaningful new burdens" on some carriers.


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I watched the television show "Castle". In the television show Richard Castle is a writer who gets to ride along with Detective Kate Becket and her team. In the television show (and I emphasize this) Richard Castle (played by Nathan Fillion) writes a book about Detective Kate Becket and calls her Nikki Heat. Someone thought hey lets write a real book about Nikki Heat and pretend it is written by Richard Castle just like in the television series. There are now 6 books in the Nikki Heat Series written by Richard Castle. Nobody knows who really writes these books. The book jacket shows a picture of Nathan Fillion but they say his name is Richard Castle. Nathan Fillion has even signed some books using his television name Richard Castle. The books have the same characters as in the show but they change the names. Richard Castle is called Jameson Rook, Kate Becket is of course Nikki Heat, Detective Ryan is Raley and Detective Esposito is Ochoa. I like that they renamed Castle as Rook. In Chess in a move called Castling, the Rook can change positions with the King. There after you call that piece a Castle. I like that they choose to use that play on words. When reading the books it is like watching the show but can get confusing. I was reading one of the books and watching the show at the same time, not exactly the same same time, and was getting a wee bit confused. In the show her mother was killed in an alley, but in the book she is killed in their kitchen. On the show during think tank sessions they toss around a little ball the size of a tennis ball, in the book they toss a basketball, I like the show version better. I downloaded from KPL and listened to these books on my mp3 player, KPL also has the print versions and digital. So whether you prefer print, digital or audio KPL has it all. Check it out at KPL.
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Lincoln County High School's Falcons picked up a homecoming win over Coffee County Friday night. LCHS won over the Red Raiders, 21-0.
Coffee County came to town looking for their first win of the season. The Falcons improved their record to 2-6 with district match-ups of Franklin County and Shelbyville remaining in the wings. Lincoln County's strength of schedule has been tough, matching up with three top ten teams. Their playoff hopes remain alive, pending the outcome of their next two games.
Currently in District 8-AAA standings, Columbia leads at 5-0; Franklin County and Tullahoma, 2-1; Lincoln County, 1-2; Shelbyville, 1-3; and Lawrence County, 0-4.
Friday night the tone was set early as turnovers plagued the Raiders. It was Coffee County's first scoreless ball game of the season.
"We had a good performance," Coach Don Thomas said of his Falcons. "We left some points on the field in the first half, but overall it was a team effort.
"Our special teams played well, and the seniors took charge and responsibility of the game," Coach Thomas added. "Defensively, we held Deangelo Rozier to 54 yards. He's had single runs in most games that long.
"We've got a big district game Friday night," he continued. "We're out for fall break, but we'll work every day to get ready for Franklin County."
In Coffee County's opening possession, the ball was snapped over the head of quarterback Peyton Meeker and was recovered by Lincoln County at the 28 yard line. Four plays later, the Falcons had points on the board as Tradarius Christian carried it in from the 12 yard line. Stephen Miller's kick was good, and with 8:49 in the first quarter, the Falcons were up, 7-0.
On the following kickoff, again the Raiders coughed up the ball, giving Lincoln County field position at the 20 yard line. But, Lincoln County had to settle for a 31-yard field goal attempt that missed its mark.
In their third possession of the game, the Raiders went three and out. The Falcons fielded the punt and started at their own 39 yard line. Nine plays later, Kevin Galloway pounded it in from the two, and Miller's kick was good. With 31 ticks on the clock, the Falcons were up, 14-0.
Early in the second period, Coffee County started at their own 29 yard line. The Raiders ate better than six minutes off the clock but turned the ball over on downs at the Falcons' 10 yard line.
Lincoln County moved the ball within field goal range before the half. Miller's attempt again from 31 yards was blocked. After a lot of scrambling, Jack Cooter recovered the ball, but it was determined it was recovered out the back of the end zone.
Lincoln County was up 14-0 at the break.
The Raiders started the second half with an onside kick recovered at the Falcons' 46 yard line. Coffee moved to the 31, but a holding penalty followed by a sack of Meeker took the Raiders back into their own territory at the 42.
Following a third down quick kick by Coffee County, the Falcons started at their own 31 yard line.
Lincoln County moved to midfield but coughed up the ball, recovered by the Raiders, at the Falcon 46. But, the Blue and Red made a defensive stand on a 4th and 2 situation at their own 37 with 5:26 in the third. The Falcons took over on downs, and ten plays later, with 43 seconds remaining in the period, the final points of the night were put on the board. Lincoln County went 63 yards in 10 plays. Christian carried it in from the 11. Miller's PAT was good, and LCHS was up, 21-0
The Raiders moved to midfield in the fourth quarter with the aid of a pass interference call against the Falcons with a first down at the 43 yard line. But, four plays later at the 8:16 mark, Coffee faced a fourth and ten situation still at the 43, turning the ball over on downs.
With backup players on the field the remainder of the game, the Falcons had the win, 21-0.
The Falcons' defense held the Red Raiders to 146 yards of total offense. Deangelo Rozier finished with 54 yards in 16 rushes. Quarterback Peyton Meeker was 13 of 28 in the air for 88 yards with one interception.
Jack Cooter led with 14 tackles; Slade Swinford and Matt McKinney, 7; Chase Rogers and T.J. Crabtree, 5; Jarrett Johnson, 4; and Tyler Bennett had 3.
Offensively, Lincoln County had 351 yards with 292 on the ground and 59 in the air. Beddingfield was 4 of 5 in the air. Christian had 2 catches for 40 yards. Josh Whitaker had 2 for 19 yards.
Christian had 12 rushes for 139 yards and two scores. Kevin Galloway had 12 tries for 62 yards and one score; Beddingfield, 6 for 47; Zach Besherse, 7 for 20; Isaac Tate, 4 for 13; Jack Cooter, 3 tries for 9 yards.
The Falcons finished with 20 first downs to 14 for the Raiders.
For their next action, Lincoln County travels to Franklin County Friday night with kickoff at 7 p.m.


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Major: Civil engineering
Why did you choose to come to the Coast Guard Academy? I chose to go to USCGA because I love the ocean and working to help others.
How long have you been sailing? How did you start sailing? SWAB summer was the first time I sailed a boat.
What is your favorite thing about the sailing team at Coast Guard? The support of my teammates is one aspect of the team that I appreciate the most.
What are your future sailing plans and career goals after graduation? I would love to live on a sail boat...
Tell us something that your teammates would be surprised to know about you. I am not a vegetarian.


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April 2014
The Dream I Had - Poem by Katrina Carver
Posted on 17-Apr-14 10:03
April is Poetry Month. Follow your dream and write a poem...
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Being a Global Citizen - Article by Angela, Teen Blogger
Posted on 15-Apr-14 13:43
It is approaching that time of the year again: when the sun arrives and the greens start to grow. The blizzards and frosts have disappeared, and it makes you want to take a walk outside and embrace nature. You can feel the sun softly warming your smile, while the breeze rustles your hair. If you wake up early in the morning, you can see the golden sunrise and hear the sparrows sing. After the sun colours the evening sky with its grand departure, under a cloudless sky, you can see countless stars bidding you goodnight. But what if you couldn't enjoy being outside anymore? What if we ran out of supplies and resources and our world fell apart?
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Panic by Lauren Oliver - Review by Emily, Teen Blogger
Posted on 07-Apr-14 12:56
As a huge fan of Before I Fall and the Delirium series, I was naturally excited upon discovering that Lauren Oliver had a new book coming out this month. I read blogger Julia's interview with the author and it pumped me up enough to make me go out and buy the book the day it was released. While it's very different from her other books, Panic is sure to be Lauren Oliver's next bestseller.
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The Beginning of Everything - Review by Kathleen, Teen Blogger
Posted on 07-Apr-14 11:02
Thought-provoking novels that feature smart kids who like to wax philosophical are all the rage these days. Unfortunately, some authors who attempt this type of the coming-of-age tale don't do it altogether well. Fortunately, Robyn Schneider, author of The Beginning of Everything, is not one of those authors.
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Unveiled at Launch, Ubooly shows power of sensor technology (and hugs)
Target audience: Entrepreneurs, technologists, designers, marketing professionals, businesses, toy manufacturers, parents.
At last week's Launch Festival in San Francisco, I spent a few minutes talking with Carly Gloge, the founder and CEO of a new startup called Ubooly. They make cuddly plush toys that you can personalize and interact with through your iPhone or iPod Touch. (You stick the device inside the toy.) It's for kids ages 4 to 9.
Carly gave one of the more dynamic presentations on stage at Launch, so I caught up with her after her demo. Ubooly is out "to make toys smart," she said. Smart devices, starting with the iPhone and iPod Touch, have become "so powerful compared to anything else that has been put in toys. So we thought, let's merge the two."
Voilà! The Ubooly (pronounced OO-buh-lee, which I finally pronounced right by the end of the video). What's cool about this is:
• Children form an emotional bond with these toys that they'll carry with them for years;
• Parents get to program the toy via the online Ubooly Lab, starting with setting up their child's favorite color, animal and sports. From there, the parents can activate educational packs that seem best suited to their little one.
Ubooly launched with six packs — written by elementary school teachers and comedy writers — and will expand to 20 by the end of the month, Carly says.
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WOW! I am absolutly loving this thread. Rafa is my favorite tennis player of all time.
Hey Tennis6, you seem to have alot of pics of Nadal that I havn't seen before! Just wondering if you have an online photo album where I could go to look at them all?


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HARRISBURG (AP) — One of the young men who testified against Jerry Sandusky last summer is suing the former assistant coach, Penn State and the charity for young people that Sandusky started.
"Victim 6" sued Tuesday in federal court in Philadelphia, claiming Sandusky's behavior was "ratified" by The Second Mile and Penn State and that the organizations acted with reckless indifference to his rights.
Sandusky is serving a lengthy state prison term after being convicted of sexual abuse of Victim 6 and nine other boys.
Penn State is declining comment and messages weren't immediately returned by a Second Mile official or Sandusky's civil lawyers.
Victim 6 testified that Sandusky, calling himself "the Tickle Monster," grabbed him inside a university shower in March 1998. His mother's complaint triggered a police investigation but no charges.


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STARKE, Fla. – Twenty-seven years after his sister's murder in Florida, Chris Crowley has finally found some relief.
William Happ, 51, the man convicted of raping and murdering 21-year-old Angie Crowley in 1986, was executed Tuesday night after receiving a lethal chemical injection at a Florida State Prison.
Happ spent more time on death row than the victim, a 1983 graduate of Oregon High School, spent alive.
Her brother, Chris, 56, now a Missouri resident, and her aunt, Janell Diehl, 76, of Oregon, along with other family members witnessed the execution.
"I feel relieved," said Chris late Tuesday night. "No more worrying about appeals or whatever."
Angie was involved in many school activities while at OHS including cheerleading, drill team, concert band, and marching band. She was also an honor student, sophomore class secretary, and served on the school's newspaper staff.
She had moved to Florida in 1986 to pursue a career as a travel agent.
She was headed to a friend's home on May 24, 1986, when she made a wrong turn and stopped at a gas station across from the Crystal River City Hall to call her friend for directions.
It was there that Happ, who had an extensive criminal background, kidnapped her and then raped and strangled her before leaving her body in a canal.
He was convicted in 1989 by a Florida jury and sentenced to death.
Chris and his late mother, Judy, were the main contacts for updates on the Happ case following Happ's conviction in July 1989. They waited as Happ filed numerous appeals.
Chris set up an online petition asking Florida Governor Rick Scott to sign the death warrant and also emailed the governor and his staff asking for the declaration. He said it was something he promised his mother he would do at the time of her death 5 years ago.
"My mom told me to stay on top of this, and I did," Chris said. "I still miss my sister a whole lot, but this was like an open wound. Now when I look at both their graves I can be at peace. Now it's all over."
Angie and her mother share a headstone at Daysville Cemetery, east of Oregon.
Happ expressed remorse for his actions before given the injection.
"To my agonizing shame, I must confess to the crime," he said. "I wish to offer my most sincere, heartfelt apology. I have prayed for the good Lord to forgive me for my sins. But I understand why those here cannot."
The words didn't mean much to Chris.
"The apology, for what it's worth, I personally think that's more for himself than anything," he said, adding that he doesn't forgive Happ. "He needs to ask someone a lot more important than me for forgiveness."
The Crowley family also gave a statement afterward.
"We have lost a vibrant young lady with dark blue eyes and an infectious smile. With this loss we will no longer experience her great sense of humor, her laughter and her loving and caring personality," Chris said while surrounded by family and friends. "Our loss is also your loss. You have lost the possibility of meeting such a special person."
The randomness of the crime has left questions in Crowley's mind.
"The only thing I would like to know is why, and I don't expect to find out," Crowley said. "I have a lot of hatred for the man. A lot of hatred."
After Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed Happ's death warrant on Sept. 10, Happ told a judge he did not want any lawyers filing appeals for him.
Happ was calm Tuesday when he met with two spiritual advisers, including a Roman Catholic priest who administered last rites, according to Department of Corrections spokeswoman Jessica Cary.
For his last meal, Happ had a 12-ounce box of assorted chocolates and 1½ quarts of German chocolate ice cream.
Happ was the first person to be executed under a new mix of drugs Florida is using for lethal injections. It appeared Happ remained conscious longer and made more body movements after losing consciousness than other people executed recently by lethal injection under the old formula.


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I've spent a long time going over this guy. I've ridiculed, criticized and complained about Mattel's work with the Retro-Action DC Heroes. Finally I have my review up of Lex Luthor. I did this review from a Mego collector standpoint. So if you're not even the slightest bit interested in Megos, knock off two full points from the final score. So how did he shake out? Check out the full review, which I believe is probably the most thorough review of this figure on the net today.
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Chris Anderson here and I am making my first visit to the Gibson Plant.Over the next two weeks I will be visiting each production step in the process of producing a Gibson Electric guitar and sharing it with you.The making of a high quality Gibson Guitar is truly amazing!
So, it all starts with the wood!Truckloads of wood are delivered to the plant each week.That is when the experience and expertise of the wood specialists at Gibson come into play.They base their decisions on which wood works best based on grain, color, moisture content and overall quality.This group manages the initial wood preparation (planing and sanding) and body cuts (based on style).When these are completed the materials move up to the main plant floor to begin their journey towards becoming a Gibson Guitar.
Here I am with Brian Steppy who manages the rotary cutting of guitar necks.
Joey Green explains to me the intricacies of choosing wood for body cuts.
Their expertise comes from years of on-the-job experience, training, and most importantly, the passing of knowledge from one generation to the next.These craftsmen are the first step in making sure that the Gibson you purchase delivers the quality and workmanship you have come to expect!
See you next time! Keep it real and keep it Gibson!


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If you have any events, programs or open classes for Women's History Month, please send the details to email@example.com to have them included in the calendar of events.
Women's History Month is in March. As in the past, Student Life is putting together a host of events to honor the month. As part of the events calendar, please consider hosting an open class if any of your content is relevant. The theme is Women of Character, Courage and Commitment – though your case can relate generally to Women's History Month.
To submit a presentation (open class) please complete the survey at survey monkey. Information about other events for Women's History Month can be found on the Campus Life page.
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The Resource Centre contains practical material about good teaching and learning in the tertiary sector. The Resources can come from the Communities and Project Groups on the site. The Resources are high-quality, well-presented, evidence-based, and relevant to New Zealand.
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"Music of the Sea" Music Concert tonight
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Posted on February 28, 2013
On Thursday, February 28, the Kansas Wesleyan Wind Ensemble, String Orchestra, and Full Orchestra will perform. The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Pioneer Hall in Sams Chapel.
The concert will feature music by W. Franic McBeth, Eric Whitacre, Robert W. Smith and many others. Songs performed will include: "The Seal Lullbay," "Of Sailors and Whales," "Sea Songs," "The Winds of Poseidon" and many others.
The Wind Ensemble is directed by Sarah Bernard-Stevens, the Orchestra is directed by Ken Hakoda, and both Hakoda and Bernard-Stevens direct the Full Orchestra. KWU Senior, Shelby Westfahl will conduct "Sea Songs" during the concert.
The concert is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served following the performance.
For more information contact Sarah Bernard-Stevens at email@example.com.


text: During this National Volunteer Week, the Kalona Library will recognize those who donate their time and energy to the organization. Director of the library, Ann Skaden, says each of their volunteers has a special talent that benefits the library and those who utilize it. She notes they help in a variety of ways, whether it's putting together the newsletter, updating their website, or helping residents with computer questions. Tomorrow an open house is being held for all of the libraries volunteers.


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Scientists Discover New Atomic Technique to Charge Memory Chips
Date added: 2013-03-22
Optical image of a typical ionic liquid (IL) gated device with a droplet of IL on top of the gate electrode and the oxide channel. The gold squares are pads used to make contact to the device via wire-bonding. On right is the magnified image of the device showing the channel (brownish yellow) and the gold electrical contacts (bright yellow). The contacts on the right and left of the channel are the source and drain contacts. The four other contact are used for 4-wire resistance & Hall measurements. (Credit: IBM)
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Cross-section of 64-bit high-performance microprocessor chip
Date added: 2005-12-05
Cross-section of 64-bit high-performance microprocessor chip built in IBM's 90 nm Server-Class CMOS technology with Cu/low-k wiring. Above the transistors, the wiring levels include one W local interconnect, five "1x-scaled" Cu levels in full SiCOH low-k dielectric, three "2x-scaled" Cu/SiCOH levels, two "6x-scaled" Cu levels in FTEOS/SiO2 dielectric, and finally, one Al(Cu) terminal pad and wiring level. The minimum M1 Cu line widths and spaces are 0.12 um.
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IBM Analysis Engineer Tami Vogel holds a prototype of the new Cell microprocessor, a collaboration between engineering teams from IBM, Sony and Toshiba. Essentially a supercomputer on a chip, the Cell microprocessor is expected to transform consumer electronics and digital entertainment.
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The 2014 NBA All-Star weekend is being held in New Orleans this time round and the TNT Sports crew are sure to be shacked up in Bourbon Street for the majority of the weekend.
Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal will be in the beautiful south covering the events and they spoke to GiveMeSport about all things all-star related, the good and the bad sides to the event.
The Big Shaqtus was the first to speak up and he was as outspoken as ever. The 15-time all-star said he was disappointed at the state that the Dunk Contest has now found itself in.
"The dunk contest stinks." Shaq said. "It's full of nobody players that the fans don't know and it's lost it's appeal. I remember as a kid when it was a major attraction and i looked forward to it every year."
"It needs to go back to like it was. Get it back like Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins going against each other and having battles. I saw Birdman (Miami Heat's Chris Anderson) in it and he sucked. It took him 50 attempts to do one dunk. That's not cool," a clearly unimpressed O'Neal added.
Charles Barkley was in a more uplifting mood when he was asked his thoughts on how NBA does the All-Star action.
"The NBA all star game, and the whole weekend...we do it the best." the former Sun, Rocket and Sixer said. "Football all star game is terrible, the baseball one is okay, and i've never seen the Hockey one but i just know that the NBA is the best," the 11 time all star stated.
"It's great for the fans as well, most importantly. Everybody has fun: the players, us guys and the fans." Barkley clearly is enjoying his job working the all-star weekend and was yesterday spotted with a terrible singing attempt at Snoop Dogg's 'Gin and Juice'.
All-Star festivities kick off tonight with the Celeb game involving Kevin Hart among others from the world of entertainment, WNBA players, NBA legends and even politicians.
Then you've got the Rising Stars game, skills contest, three point contest, dunk show and then the main event, the East vs West All-Star game itself.
So from everyone here at GMS, enjoy the weekend and for Shaq's sake we hope Paul George, John Wall and co can bring out some impressive moves in the slam dunk competition.


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If you had good seniority and bought good tickets at the market price, you got what you bargained for.
If people buy in now, they are buying knowing the Jets won't have a home playoff game next year, they are buying what "is available" which might not be what they want.
I tried to upgrade 1month ago and lost out on the seats I wanted. (I snoozed, I lost). As the next invoices go out, I am hoping for better seats.
We shall see.


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