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Whenever Lady Bisons softball coach Kristin Peck wants to provide some extra motivation for her team this season, she only has to mention the number 7.
That is where the Lady Bisons were picked to finish this season in the Atlantic Sun Conference in a preseason vote of the coaches. The lack of respect was a little bewildering to Peck who returns seven starters from a team that qualified for the A-Sun Tournament last season.
Making it even more difficult to understand is that the Lady Bisons return four players who ranked in the top 25 in the conference in hitting, three in the top 10. The Lady Bisons led the conference in hitting with a .304 average, the only team to bat .300 or higher.
And it isn't all about offense for the Lady Bisons. They were also third in the conference in fielding percentage last season.
"I was really surprised to see that," Peck said. "We would have much preferred to have been picked higher and I think we deserved it. Our players will look at this as a challenge.
"Last year we were picked second to last and we finished fifth in the regular season. It's going to be a challenge for us this season to finish higher."
The three returning Lady Bisons in the top 10 in hitting were senior first baseman Heather Collins, sophomore shortstop Abby Keese and sophomore outfielder Lauren Dortwegt. Collins was fourth with a .373 average followed by Keese in sixth with a .363 average and Dortwegt in ninth with a .354 average,
"Hitting was easily our strength last year," Peck said. "Hitting wise I think we are going to pick it up right where we left off. All of the players who were freshmen last year have a year under their belts.
"We have told them they are no longer going to be a surprise anymore. Everybody out there has seen them hit. They are going to know how to pitch to them. There are going to be notes on each of them. They have to elevate their game to the next level."
Collins was named as a preseason All-Conference team member. Last season Collins became the first Lady Bisons player to earn a spot on the A-Sun All-Conference First Team.
Collins also finished 2007 in the top four in the conference in home runs (14), RBI (53), slugging percentage (.669), and on-base percentage (.443).
Keese, Dortwegt and infielder Kellie Sirus were all named to the A-Sun All-Freshman Team. Dortwegt was also a second team All-Conference selection.
"We have a group of players that seem to be up for any challenge," Peck said. "They are competitive. They want to win. We will definitely use this ranking as a tool to help get us ready.
"We spent a lot of the fall and a lot of the preseason improving little-by-little every day. If we can improve every day whether it is in our middle game, our hitting, our defense or our pitching it is going to pay dividends in the end."
The poll, the complete preseason All-Conference Team and the conference press release are in the PDF at the top of the page.


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Imagine that you are terminated from your job. You're in your 60s. You know that it's going to be hard to find new work. You consider filing an age-discrimination complaint.
But your employer says that it's just eliminating your position, not discriminating against you because of your age. That means your employer is acting legally, right?
Well, maybe not, a federal appeals court ruled last month. In 2011, James Pierson was fired from his job as facilities manager at the Dickson, Tenn., plant of Quad/Graphics, a huge printing company based in Sussex, Wis. The company said it was downsizing. But what it did suggested that the explanation was false: It filled the position with another manager who was 15 years younger than Pierson.
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Pierson, now 62, encountered a problem when he sued and Quad/Graphics used its "reduction in force" excuse to explain his termination. Without more evidence of age discrimination, the trial court said, Pierson was out of luck. It dismissed his case.
But the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati disagreed. Pierson had at least presented enough evidence to let a jury hear about his problem, the court ruled. Most persuasive? The fact that Quad/Graphics offered different explanations for its decision to terminate Pierson – ranging from the purported reduction in force to the suggestion that he wasn't a "team player."
Judge Karen Nelson Moore found the changing justifications fishy. "Although it is possible that [the company decision maker] had Pierson's allegedly poor teamwork in mind when he initially selected him for termination, and that both reasons played a role in Pierson's discharge, a reasonable jury could conclude that [the person who fired him] shifted the reasons for his decision over time," Moore wrote. "Such shifting justifications raise an inference that the proffered reasons are false and are pretext for discrimination."
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AARP has also been urging Congress to pass the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act, which would effectively reverse a 2009 Supreme Court ruling that has made it more difficult for older workers to prove claims of illegal discrimination based on age.
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Gonna check out Food Rules. Any book with Maira Kalman's illustrations is super! Thanks, Amanda!ReplyDelete
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Here's MarketWatch's live blog of the 86th annual Academy Awards in which the historical saga "12 Years A Slave" took best picture and Matthew McConaughey and Cate Blanchett won top acting Oscars for "Dallas Buyers Club" and "Blue Jasmine," respectively.
MarketWatch's Los Angeles Bureau Chief Russ Britt kept tabs on the action from L.A. for Hollywood's annual ritual of patting itself on the back. Among the highlights of the three-plus-hour extravaganza from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood: host Ellen DeGeneres clogged Twitter with a selfie featuring a number of Hollywood celebrities, and ordered pizza for them.
Other than that, there were few surprises. The space drama "Gravity" took seven awards, mostly technical, including top honors for director Alfonso Cuaron. Best supporting actor honors went to "Slave's" Lupita Nyong'o and "Dallas Buyers Club's" Jared Leto.
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Hi, it's Russ Britt reporting from Los Angeles. I'll be keeping you up to speed on the Oscars if you're not near a TV/can't watch/won't stomach the ceremonies from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. Along the way, I hope to enlighten you with what little wisdom I've gained from watching the Oscars for MarketWatch over the last 13 years. I'll also try to offer some of the writings/videos of others around the Web who might have something interesting to say. Feel free to email me at email@example.com or tweet @russbrittmktw with any insights or comments. Off we go……..
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First things first…..In case you need a scoresheet, here's an official one from ABC, the network broadcasting tonight's gala: http://oscar.go.com/nominees
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Sorry, let's provide an actual link this time: Here you go.
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One thing we stumbled upon this week was this amusing item from the Hollywood Reporter, which it calls a "brutally honest ballot" from an anonymous director.
When asked what his pick for Best Animated Feature was, the director replied: "I have seen none of them. I have no interest whatsoever. That ended when I was 6. My son dragged me to a few when he was 6; I would seat him and go outside and make phone calls."
Here you go. It's good for a chuckle or two.
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Incidentally, the link at the top is a video of Wall Street Journal film critic Joe Morganstern and his take on who should win the Oscars. We'll have more videos from the Journal as the night goes on.
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Another interesting link we found this week came from the online Hollywood news source The Wrap, 86 facts about the what happens backstage at the 86th Oscars….
Among the tidbits, nameplates are prepared for all nominees, not just the winners, in advance so they can be affixed to their statuette that night. The losers' nameplates are destroyed once the ceremony is over.
Also, some red carpet facts: The crimson entryway is put down in the middle of Hollywood Boulevard the week before the Oscars (the street is shut down over a two-block span during the week). Potholes or rough spots in the street are filled in with sand.
And, there are only two co-ed restrooms on the stage level of the Dolby Theater, and the lines are often long and star-studded.
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Some shots from the red carpet…..here's the odds-on favorite to win Best Actress Cate Blanchett from the film "Blue Jasmine."
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True to our word, here's another video from the Wall Street Journal team on the Oscars, this one on some of the films that didn't get nominated:
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Show's underway, Ellen DeGeneres is on the stage.
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Show's underway, Ellen DeGeneres is on the stage.
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Anne Hathaway, last year's best supporting actress, is on stage to present best supporting actor…..
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And the winner is, Jared Leto of "Dallas Buyers Club," the odds-on favorite who has won a number of other awards leading up to the Oscars. Leto played an AIDS-afflicted, cross-dressing associate of Matthew McConaughey's character in the film.
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Leto and McConaughey have been sweeping up most of the awards where they've been nominated, and McConaughey, who plays a heterosexual, free-wheeling cowboy who ends up with AIDS in the mid-1980s and smuggles drugs from Mexico that had yet to be approved in the U.S. for use.
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Here's Leto outside the Dolby Theater prior to the ceremonies:
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One interesting feature from earlier this week was that noting Sandra Bullock's take for her Oscar-nominated role in "Gravity" may end up being $70 million when her $20 million up-front salary and an estimated $50 million in back-end royalties are figured into the mix.
"Gravity" is by far the biggest winner at the box office this year, making more than $700 million worldwide. The film has a shot at best picture, due mostly to its pioneering special effects. Bullock is not expected to win best actress though director Alfonso Cuaron is a favorite to win the prize in his category.
One take from the Hollywood Reporter.
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If you're in an Oscar pool, and want to know the odds for the rest of the categories, here's one link.
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A couple of technical category wins: Costume Design goes to "The Great Gatsby" and Makeup goes to "Dallas Buyers Club."
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Disney's "Frozen" takes the top prize for animated feature. It was expected, as well, and the film passed the $1 billion mark in worldwide receipts this weekend.
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Among the delicate issues the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has to consider is who to put up on its annual "In Memoriam" segment this year.
Those in the film business who passed away during the past year are commemorated, but not everyone gets mention, as The Wrap and others pointed out in stories this week.
Veteran actor and Oscar winner Phillip Seymour Hoffman, pictured above, is likely to be included, but some are wondering whether actor and director Harold Ramis, who died just last week, will be included.
The Wrap outlines who left this world since the last Oscars and who might be included.
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Another predictable outcome, "Gravity" wins for special effects. If you haven't seen it, almost the entire film takes place in outer space, chronicling one astronaut's struggle to return to Earth after a catastrophe hits.
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"@MarketWatch: 'Gravity' eclipsed by NASA and real-deal shots from space http://t.co/bTHtc3abDl" pic.twitter.com/7qODXnZ47M
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How to watch "20 Feet from Stardom," #Oscar for best documentary: http://t.co/XwMXoA4tmR (Everett) pic.twitter.com/eeZrONscq3
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Sorry, looks like my attempt to import a video from the Academy didn't work. Will keep trying.
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"Gravity" wins a couple more technical awards, for sound mixing and sound editing — again as expected. That's three awards so far for the film, a product of Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. unit.
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Another expected win: Lupita Nyong'o wins best supporting actress Oscar for "12 Years A Slave."
It's her first major role in a film. But she was expected to win since she captured a series of awards leading up to the Oscars.
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If we're making the Oscars sound a bit anti-climactic, it may be because we've been following the parade of awards shows since the beginning of the year. Many of the Oscar winners have taken honors from a countless organizations, including the Golden Globes, Actors Guild, Directors Guild, Writers Guild, the British Film awards, numerous critics associations and probably several that we're leaving out of the mix.
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Funny moment….Ellen orders pizza for some of the luminaries in the audience and hands it out….asks Sandra Bullock, she of the $70 million "Gravity" pay day, to foot the bill.
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Another technical prize for "Gravity," for best cinematography. Also predictable. That's number four if you're keeping count.
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In the cinematography category, presenter Bill Murray pays homage to his sometime collaborator, Harold Ramis, with whom he worked on "Caddyshack," "Stripes," "Ghostbusters" and Groundhog Day."….Just in case he doesn't make it into the "In Memoriam" segment.
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Number five for "Gravity," this one for film editing. It should sweep most of the technical awards.
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Actually, there's one more technical award, for production design. "Gravity" director Alfonso Cuaron is likely to win for best director, since he's captured most of the season's honors. But he could be upset by Steve McQueen, who helmed "12 Years A Slave."
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OK, we'll bite….Here's Ellen's epic selfie from Oscars:
If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap
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This is what Twitter looks like when @TheEllenShow takes a star-studded pic at the #Oscars. pic.twitter.com/VS41uyzAWD
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Well, there's one mild surprise….production design (set decoration) goes to "The Great Gatsby," not "Gravity." No clean sweep of all the technical awards. That's two prizes for "Gatsby."
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Eight categories left, if you're getting antsy….two music awards, two writing awards, director, lead actor and actress, and best picture. It'll all be over soon…..
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Before her win, how Lupita Nyong'o stayed balanced before #Oscar week got underway: http://t.co/kfidiuMxml (Getty) pic.twitter.com/KEzrdmzwx5
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Host Ellen DeGeneres shared pizza with Jared Leto during the #Oscars. See more photos: http://t.co/6aFWC4v8K4 (Getty) pic.twitter.com/VRTyIMZx2Y
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They did the "In Memoriam" section (and yes, Harold Ramis was included), and THEN they had Bette Midler come out and sing "Wind Beneath My Wings," a song usually played in tribute to those who have passed on. Not sure why they didn't have her sing simultaneously with the video…..
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Two more awards, one a surprise and one not. The non-surprise was that "Gravity" won for best score, but U2 came all the way from Ireland and didn't win for best song. That honor went to "Frozen," the Disney animated feature that hit the $1 billion mark at the box office this weekend.
The song from "Frozen" that won is called "Let It Go." That's two awards for "Frozen," which also was named best animated feature.
Usually, the big rock stars who pen a song win the Oscar, but that wasn't the case for U2, who were nominated for "Ordinary Love," from "Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom."
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Getting down to the wire now…..two more (half) expected wins for writing: "12 Years A Slave" wins for best adapted screenplay, while "Her," the unusual story of a man who falls in love with a computer voice, wins for original screenplay. "Her" was in a tight race with "American Hustle," the comedy/drama about the 1970s Abscam scandal. "American Hustle" actually is in danger of getting shut out, even though it's tied for most nominations with 10. "Gravity," which has won six honors so far, was nominated for 10 as well. Second-most nominated was "Slave," with nine.
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Alfonso Cuaron takes the top honor for directing for "Gravity," meaning we could have a rare split between director and best picture. Usually the best director's picture takes the top prize but that hasn't been the case this year.
Cuaron becomes the first Hispanic to win the directing prize.
That's now seven awards for "Gravity," and it appears it will be the big winner for the night, capturing nearly all the technical awards and now the directing award.
The question remains whether star Sandra Bullock can score an upset for Best Actress and if the film can win for Best Picture.
Stay tuned. It's crunch time.
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Cate Blanchett does the expected and wins for her role in the Woody Allen film "Blue Jasmine." Blanchett plays a troubled socialite whose world falls apart when her scheming husband goes to jail and commits suicide, leaving her penniless and forced to move in with her working-class sister.
This is the second Oscar for Blanchett, who won a supporting actress honor for her role in "The Aviator."
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And the other shoe drops as Matthew McConaughey takes the Oscar for best actor. McConaughey tore through the awards circuit this year for his role as the AIDS-afflicted electrician/cowboy in "Dallas Buyers Club," from Focus Features, a unit of Comcast Corp.
McConaughey dropped an incredible amount of weight to look reed thin for the film.
This is the second acting award for "Dallas Buyers Club," as Jared Leto took the prize for best supporting actor. Leto played the cross-dressing partner of McConaughey, whose character smuggled AIDS medication in from Mexico when it couldn't be obtained in the U.S.
McConaughey also has made a number of pictures that are being considered for awards after making countless romantic comedies that didn't get much attention from the academy.
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OK, and the big prize, also as expected, goes to "12 Years A Slave," which wins for best picture. The film is a true story about a free African-American artist who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the antebellum South.
It's the third award for the film, which also took adapted screen play honors and won the best supporting actress award for Lupita Nyong'o.
The film comes from 21st Century Fox's Fox Searchlight unit.
Again, the film was the odds-on favorite to win, and so the night was pretty unsurprising, except for the failure of U2 to take best song honors.
The most statuettes went to "Gravity," which took seven Oscars in all. They were mostly technical awards for the space drama, but it also won the award for best director, which went to Alfonso Cuaron.
"Dallas Buyers Club" tied "12 Years A Slave" with three honors, for lead actor Matthew McConaughey, supporting actor Jared Leto and best makeup.
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Amid the victory celebrations for "12 Years A Slave," "Gravity" and "Dallas Buyers Club" at Sunday night's Oscars, one glaring omission was the film "American Hustle," which took no prizes.
"Hustle's" failure to win any awards was remarkable for two reasons. First, it came close to a record number of nominations, 10, without capturing a single statuette. Only 1977's "The Turning Point" and 1985's "The Color Purple" have had more nominations, 11, without a win.
Second, it's remarkable that four actors from the film were nominated for Oscars — lead actors Amy Adams (pictured above) and Christian Bale, along with supporting actors Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence — without capturing more prizes. Usually, actor-driven films are popular with the academy, nearly one-fourth of which is comprised of actors.
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - The best country(or city) you've ever visited Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in The best country(or city) you've ever visited Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Travel View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message neve_fairyJoined: 17 Sep 2007Posts: 1 Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:50 am Post subject: The best country(or city) you've ever visited Have you ever traveled overseas? If so, where did you go? I visited in Japan two times. The first place was Kyushu and the second was Tokyo. For me, Kyushu was nicer because Tokyo was very similar with the city Seoul in Korea, where I live in. I thought I could experience real Japanese culture in Kyushu. But for people who like thriving town, I recommend Tokyo. Well, it's just my thinking And if I had the chance, I would like to travel other countries. Then, please tell us your story! Where is the best country you've ever visited? Back to top ptitangeJoined: 03 Dec 2005Posts: 39Location: Belgium Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:13 am Post subject: Hmm, this is a hard question. I hesitate between Canada and the US. I went to Vancouver two years ago and that was absolutely amazing. The landscapes there are beautiful, there are loads of interesting museums and stores... I like the US too. I went to both NYC and Sarasota (Florida) last month. I didn't like NYC much, but Florida was so great!!! To sum up, I highly recommend Vancouver and Sarasota _________________http://www.phrasebase.com Back to top CoreyJoined: 23 Mar 2003Posts: 445Location: Costa Rica Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject: Good old Niagara Falls. But then again I may be biased! 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If someone came up to you and said he built a Grand Cherokee with honkin' tires and Dana 60s to get to a manhole, would you think he'd had one too many sips of the happy juice?
That's what we wondered when we first talked to Greg Goan, a sewer and drain specialist from Portland, Maine. All we could picture was this massively built Jeep sitting proudly on the street next to a manhole cover. Of course, a city street was not what we found when we went to check this thing out.
Greg built his '97 Grand Cherokee to reach manholes in the middle of nowhere in order to inspect sewer lines and storm drains. He has a little robot that he drops into the hole to watch real-time video of blockages. The robot is tied to the Jeep through a 700-foot umbilical cord, and Greg can mark on a map where he sees roots, cracks, or giant alligators that need to be removed, fixed, or fed later.
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Still, doesn't sound so rough, does it? Greg tells us that he has clients in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The lines he inspects often run between two roads. No big deal, right? Well, most of the time the roads through the woods of the northeast are pretty far apart, often a matter of miles from one to the other.
Therefore, the Grand Cherokee needs to travel through anything from rocks, mud, steep drop-offs, off-camber sections, and other kinds of hazards that we go to for fun. But Greg does it as part of his 9-5 job.
"I ain't afraid of no ghost." Yes, that's Slimer from the movie Ghostbusters on the front of the Jeep. Unbeknownst to Greg, Slimer decided to go for a ride on the first trip after the build. That went so well, Greg decided it was a good luck charm and could stay. It's a squeak toy, so before every voyage it gets a little squeeze for luck. Hey, if it's worked so far, why stop now?
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The first thing you notice about this Jeep are the 38.5x14.50-16.5LT Super Swamper TSL SX tires. Sure, 38.5-inch tires might not be that big. But on a Grand Cherokee, we still think they look pretty huge. They're wrapped around16.5x10 steel Rock Crawler wheels with 4 inches of backspacing and are bolted to a pair of swapped-in Dana 60 axles.
The front is a high-pinion Dana 60 pirated from a '79 Ford F-350. The inner knuckles were cut off and rotated 6 degrees, the kingpins were rebuilt, and the high steering setup features 11/4-inch-diameter solid chromoly links that move with the aid of an AGR Rock Ram. The Ford dual-piston calipers provide the whoa, while a set of 5.38 gears and an ARB Air Locker provide the go. The rear axle got similar treatment in the form of another set of 5.38s, coupled with an ARB locker and Cadillac calipers and discs braking the rear. Heavy-duty Crane differential covers cap off both axles.
Power is handed down from a 4:1 Atlas II transfer case with 32-spline front and rear outputs through a pair of thick-walled Tom Woods driveshafts sporting 1350 U-joints. The Atlas is bolted to the stock 42RE overdrive automatic transmission, which in turn still takes marching orders from the 5.2L V-8 that was put between the framerails before the Jeep left the factory. Leaving well enough alone, modifications to the engine are few, only a cold-air intake and exhaust modified to clear the suspension.
Elevating the Jeep for those monster tires fell to front and rear 7-inch Rock Krawler lift coils and JKS ACOS adjustable spacers. The front got a Clayton long-arm kit, with the lower links lengthened to push the front axle forward about 4 inches. Longer custom control arms bump the rearend back about 3 inches, and since the Jeep ended up with so much droop, limiting straps were added at each front corner and to the middle of the rear axle so that the shocks wouldn't overextend or the driveshafts separate.
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Custom front and rear bumpstops keep the fenders from feeling the wrath of the tires, and 7100 series remote-reservoir Bilsteins in the front and a matching set of 7100s out back mounted at an angle for more travel prevent the Jeep from acting like a pogo stick. Steel plate aft of the rear doors to the back of the Jeep was used to provide a 3/16-inch cocoon for the rear unibody.
The Bushwacker flares were intended for a regular Cherokee but were made to fit this Grand, and extra wheelwell real estate was freed up in the process. The front has some heavy beef in the form of an ARB Bull Bar with a Warn XD9000 winch perched atop for recovery chores, plus a quartet of PIAA lights for those winter months, when a lot of work is done in the dark.
Rocker protection comes from a pair of Olympic 4x4 guards. The stock rockers, the Olympic guards, and the stock rear bumper were sprayed with Line-X for coverage from brush and rocks.
Inside, the stock leather seats remain, along with much of the stock trim and accoutrements that this top-of-the-line Jeep had in 1997. A clinometer was added to the dashboard, and the ARB switches were installed right under the factory head unit.
In the cargo area resides the rover-a four-wheel, remote-controlled video camera that allows Greg to survey sewers and other limited-access areas. A 2,500-watt inverter and dedicated battery are required to run it. The rover came from Envirosight and feeds images and locations to the PipeTech software loaded into the center-console-mounted laptop. There's also a GPS system.
For our photo shoot, the Jeep was outfitted for wheeling, with more spare tools riding along and much of the work equipment out of the way. Normally a spool (similar to a hose reel) retracts the umbilical cord and is in the cargo area, along with the padded case for the rover and the battery/inverter setup.
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The power of a V-8, 38.5-inch Super Swampers, and Dana 60s make it possible for this Grand to go just about anywhere. A cage would be a good addition to this well-built Jeep, but Greg already knows-it's on the list as the next modification.
The 16.5-inch rims don't have a safety bead, so he can't air down all that much. Beadlocks or 16-inch rims would be a better choice. We'd be nervous about wheeling a Jeep this tall, but Greg assures us it's as stable as a Grand Cherokee on big Swampers can be.
A ZJ built to film sewers-need I say more? However, what I found when I got there was a well-built Jeep that could likely handle just about anything. Imagine going off-road in something that could pretty much climb walls and drop off small cliffs while you sit in a comfy leather seat, soaking up the sun through the sunroof, checking out the beauty of Maine, and being able to say, "I'm at work." I had to admire that. -Melissa Howard
Vehicle: '97 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Engine: 5.2L V-8
Transmission: 42RE
Transfer Case: Atlas II, 4:1 low
Suspension: Clayton long arms (front), 7-inch Rock Krawler springs, and JKS ACOS spacers (front and rear)
Axles: '79 Ford high-pinion Dana 60 (front), '79 Ford Dana 60 (rear)
Wheels: 16.5x10 steel Rock Crawler
Tires: 38.5x14.50-16.5LT Super Swamper TSL SX
Built For: Getting to remote sewer and storm drain-access points
Estimated Cost: $25,000


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The prescription pad has been redesigned for the digital age, and it's changing the way patients get the medication they need. Doctors are now turning to electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) software instead of paper-based notes to handle their prescription orders. However, doctors and practices might benefit from checking out our buyer's guide on prescription writing software to get a better gauge of the industry.
To give you an idea of its popularity, e-prescribing has been cited as one of the highest-priority health information technology (IT) investments among medical practices surveyed by Software Advice.
Vendors are taking notice of the demand for electronic prescription software. As a result, there are hundreds of solutions available for practices to purchase. In this guide, we'll break down what you need to know before selecting the right e-prescribing software for your organization.
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What Is E-Prescribing Software?
Common Functionality of E-Prescribing Software
Deployment Strategies
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E-prescribing is the process of electronically generating and transmitting a prescription order directly from a healthcare provider to a patient's pharmacy of choice. In other words, doctors can create and send a patient's prescription using their computer or mobile device, rather than using manual methods (e.g., phone calls and faxes) to contact pharmacies.
Electronic prescriptions are transmitted through private, secure and closed networks maintained by e-prescribing software vendors. These networks are able to connect with the vast majority of pharmacies across the country.
The government has supported e-prescriptions by passing laws incentivizing their adoption, such as the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) of 2003 and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009. This is likely due to the software's many benefits, which include:
Source: NCBI
For all these reasons, electronic prescribing has been lauded as a more accurate, efficient and safe alternative to handwritten prescriptions.
Vendors offer a variety of functional breadth and depth in their e-prescribing solutions. Here are some of the most common capabilities:
|Medication selection
|Prescribers can typically choose from more than one option when searching for a medication to include in the prescription order, including generic alternatives to brand-name drugs.
|Prescription creation and submission
|Users can generate new prescriptions to be sent directly to a pharmacy from their desktop computer or mobile device. These orders can be processed individually or several at a time. Order management tools are typically included to ensure pharmacies have received prescriptions.
|Adverse interaction checks
|Most systems offer alerts and warnings for a variety of potential adverse reactions from a particular prescription, such as drug interactions, allergies, dosage amounts and duplicates.
|Refill authorizations
|Pharmacies can send refill requests to prescribers directly through the software's network. Providers can then approve or deny these requests electronically.
|Medication history views
|Most solutions allow users to access a patient's medication history by importing it from a pharmacy's database, or through the medication claims history provided by insurance payers/pharmacy benefit managers.
E-prescribing vendors offer their products through one of two deployment models: standalone applications, or electronic health records (EHR) suites that include electronic prescription capabilities along with several other applications (e.g., patient scheduling and billing).
According to the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), most doctors opt for the integrated EHR model.
This may be because it's easier to implement an e-prescribing system that's integrated with a practice management solution out of the box. Integrating a third-party e-prescribing product with existing EHR software is generally more difficult.
On the other hand, standalone or "best-of-breed" programs have the benefit of being less expensive than EHR suites, in most cases. Since the user is only paying for one application as opposed to three or more, the fee for service isn't usually as high.
Your budget and the size of your practice will be the determining factors when it comes to deciding between a best-of-breed system and an integrated EHR suite. Large and midsize practices with greater resources and multiple prescribers will likely be better served by comprehensive EHR suites than by standalone e-prescribing systems.
Government initiatives and incentive programs: One of the key drivers of e-prescribing are the incentive programs launched by the government to improve healthcare quality, reduce healthcare costs and minimize prescription errors (Source: NCBI). The National Council for Prescription Drugs Program, a pharmacy standards development organization, has developed specialized standards for e-prescribing. The implementation of government initiatives, such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009), and Drug Enforcement Administration's rule allowing electronic prescription of controlled substances (EPCS) have assisted in increasing the use of e-prescribing.
In Europe, eHealth projects, such as the Schleswig-Holstein Health initiative and European Patient Smart Open Services (epSOS), have helped increase the adoption of e-prescribing systems (Source: Persistence Market Research).
Investments in healthcare IT: Rising investments in healthcare IT have increased the adoption of EHR software and other technology. Gartner states that "digital healthcare is propelling spending in enhancing core automation systems like various health information systems and other associated technologies". Improved infrastructure and expansion of healthcare IT have helped in the growth of e-prescribing technology. The growing adoption of integrated EHR models has also aided the e-prescribing market.
Advancements in e-prescribing technology: Persistence Market Research also says that advanced e-prescribing features, such as data security checks, patient history, preparing complete medication lists and information of formulary, are also key drivers of this market. These advancements have helped expand the scope and quality of patient care.
Improved efficiency and reduced expenses: According to the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT, 90 percent of pharmacies and 70 percent of physicians in the U.S. use e-prescribing systems. This has helped the industry improve efficiency, reduce medication errors and enjoy cost-saving benefits.
High costs, security and connectivity issues hinder adoption of e-prescribing systems: The high costs of e-prescribing systems and risks associated with privacy and patient security restrain the growth of e-prescribing market. Other factors include unavailability of high-speed broadband services and integrated networks, especially in developing countries. The absence of competent IT professionals and laws to protect patient privacy discourage pharmacies and healthcare professionals from switching to e-prescribing systems.
The shift to electronic prescribing systems can save funds and manual efforts in the healthcare industry. Additional features offered by these systems help to improve patient care efficiency. Improvements in IT infrastructure and investments in digital healthcare will help improve adoption of e-prescribing systems. Companies that become early adopters will reap the benefits sooner than those who don't.
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The judge in the lawsuit Shawne filed against Tila has set aside the default judgment against Ms. Tequila. You'll recall Shawne sued Tila, claiming she sabotaged a business deal of his by trashing him all over town. Tila didn't file an answer to Shawne's suit so the judge entered a default judgment.
But now the judge has had a change of heart, concluding Tila may not have been given notice a suit was filed ... so the default judgment has been set aside and Tila has until February 16 to answer Shawne's complaint.
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Most wet markets in Penang are still using unit measurement of kati which is equivalent to 600 grams for a kati, prices stated are also based on this measurement. For easy calculation and my budgeting purposes, I always stick to kati.
600g prawn with shell, peeled and deveined
1 tbsp baking soda
Enough water to submerge prawn
- Mix and marinate prawns with baking soda for 30 minutes, either in the fridge or drop in some ice cubes.
- Rinse prawns under running tape water for about 10 minutes or till water running clear. Drain well.
- Add in seasoning such as pepper, tapioca starch and salt (according to your recipe).
- Mix in SAME direction for few minutes, this step will firm up the prawn a little bit giving them more crunchier texture.
- Marinate for further 30 minutes (at least) or keep in the fridge till you need it. I usually prepare in bulk then divide into few small portion before storing in the freezer.
Last but not least, cocktail with thousand island dressing recipe as follows:
Ingredients (2-3 servings):
1 tbsp Japanese mayonnaise
2 tbsp ketchup
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1-2 tsp lime juice
A pinch of salt
6-8 large prawns
Some salad
- Sauce: In a small bowl, mix together all ingredients till well blended. Cover with cling wrap and keep in the fridge till needed.
- As for the prawns, drop them in a pot of boiling water. When water starts to boil again transfer and submerge prawns in iced water. Pat dry with paper towel, arrange on a bed of salad and drizzle the sauce over the top.
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Don't trust the data out of China — or that of the U.S. for that matter?
Well, Dr. Copper (so named because of its reputation for its high correlation with economic growth) seems to be saying the global economy is rebounding quite smartly, thank you.
Copper futures /quotes/zigman/678463/delayed HGU4 have rebounded 14% from their March lows, David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff pointed out in a note to clients Monday.
In fact, the industrials complex more broadly has rallied this year, with nickel prices up 40% and aluminum prices up 8%.
Less positively, however, Barclays cut its global gross domestic product to 3.1% from 3.4%. The investment house cited significant data revisions in the euro area and Japan over the past week, as well as disappointing Chinese trade data.
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Hello ChronoPower, and welcome to our forums!It's been a long time since I've used any sort of RPGMaker software, but from what I can tell, Engine 001 looks pretty decent/easy, is free, and works on MacOS. Good luck, and have fun in your quest to make quests! :P
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The music blasts over the loudspeaker, but is somehow drowned out by the fans bellowing: "You suck. You suck. You suck. You suck." Just another night in the life of Kurt Angle.
But all the "You suck" chants in the world can't dampen Angle's enthusiasm these days: He's going to Wrestlemania in a match he's wanted for two years -- facing Shawn Michaels.
"I'm looking at it as a dream match," Angle said over the phone the other day. "I've been asking for this match for two years. Shawn and I have very different styles, but I believe we're the two best wrestlers in WWE.
"Pat Patterson used to say, 'You guys are the best two ever. We're robbing the fans if we don't have this match.' "
And after the Michaels match, what's next?
"I've wrestled everybody," said Angle. "Rock. Undertaker. Stone Cold Steve Austin. Hulk Hogan. I've made them all tap out. Somebody like Batista, maybe. That'd be an excellent match. I'd like to teach him a lesson.
"Another dream? Bret Hart? But he's not going to come back."
Angle wants to win back the confidence of Vince McMahon, confidence that may have been lost.
"This didn't come from Vince's mouth. But I believe he lost a lot of faith in me. I had three neck injuries in a year and a half so I don't blame him for being that way. But I need to prove to him that I'm durable. I'm 100% now. I can carry the title. I can have a championship run."
The fact that the 36-year-old Olympic gold medallist from 1996 is even competing is amazing, given the severity of the neck injuries.
"I've been wrestling for five years and I'd like to have a 10-year career," said Angle. "I want to be able to walk and hold my daughter (Kyra). But make sure you tell people ... I'm not going anywhere."
And does he really suck? Not literally, but ...
"(Away from wrestling) I'm pretty much the same person you see on TV, just pumped up a few notches," said Angle. "I take pride in being the most hated guy in sports. Saying that I suck is just a response to my song. It doesn't bother me."
- Another fantastic RAW last week, but I was left puzzled by a couple of things: It sure looked like Muhammad Hassan missed his cue to lift the ring bell up and hit Chris Benoit who was diving off the top rope. And why have Shawn Michaels pin Edge in the action-packed street fight closing match? Edge hit Michaels with a spear, his finishing move, and Michaels kicked out. Then a bloodied Michaels, with either the goriest or fakest crimson mask we've ever seen, hit his superkick and pinned Edge. Does that mean that Michaels' finishing move is superior? Then we get Angle hitting the ring and knocking out Michaels. Why couldn't Angle interfere earlier and cause a DQ? That way Edge doesn't lose. Are they trying to push Edge over the edge?
- On paper, Wrestlemania is shaping up to be the best ever. Just announced: Hogan into the Hall of Fame and Austin in Piper's Pit. Also, Chris Jericho announced he'll be in a ladder match with five other superstars ... and Randy Orton has his sights on The Undertaker. My boss, Shalom Two Feathers Mitch "The Axe" Axelrad, says he thinks Orton will turn heel with help from his papa Cowboy Bob Orton and beat 'Taker.
- Orlando Jordan won the U.S. title from John Cena on Smackdown!
- Batista will take on Ric Flair in Raleigh, N.C., tomorrow night on RAW. Raleigh is practically home for Flair, who will get lots of support from the fans, even with Triple H in his corner. Could this be the night, Triple H "accidentally" costs Flair the match? And could Flair align himself with Batista? Only WWE's scriptwriters know for sure.
- CPW's all-day Battle Mania 2005 will be held on May 14 at the Robert Guertin Centre in Gatineau. World's strongest man Hugo Girard will be the guest ref in the main event of Wild Dangerous Dan vs. Pierre Carl Ouellet. Girard will also be at CPW's next event, Last Man Standing, on March 19.


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Jeff Russell may have started working with credit unions as a college freshman simply because the position at The Members Group paid better than food service, but the president/CEO of TMG Financial Services has since become credit unions' biggest advocate.
"I didn't know anything about credit unions when I started, even though I walked past one of the largest credit unions in Iowa everyday when I was in junior high school," said Russell. "Most of what I work on is new product development, developing new business models, identifying growth opportunities and how to help credit unions grow in the competitive financial marketplace. It's exciting because there are no typical days when it's about what the future will look like or the next thing."
Russell encourages credit unions to use the economy's challenges as a reason to go out and build membership by selling the credit union advantage. For him the fun has been finding ways around, over, or through obstacles and constantly challenging the default thinking to develop unique and innovative solutions to advance the credit union industry.
He'd like to see more of that forward-facing, long-view perspective within the credit union industry.
"So much of the focus is on today that sometimes the urgent gets in the way of the important. The biggest issue is how leaders can focus their time on things that are important for the future when what's urgent can take up all your time," said Russell. "The world feels like it is changing at a faster pace, and it's kind of like a train where credit unions either get on board or get run over by it. How they do that as an industry, is to be innovative, collaborative, not look like another bank and be different in how they meet consumers' needs."
He added that too often CUs look down the street at the community bank, national bank or even other credit unions as the competition.
"The next generation of consumers in that 18-35 year old range, they do banking in a different way than their parents so the real competition is even beyond ING but Apple, Google, Amazon, Walmart and Greendot. Because they are not depository financial players, they approach business from a different retail perspective of the experience not just on individual products," Russell said. "I recently bought a new water heater for my house, and it was the biggest bummer to buy. But I like hot water. Credit unions need to think in the same vein. People don't want a car loan, they want a car. So Google, Apple and others in the retail environment focus on what that experience is going to look like and that is a big thing credit unions have to deal with in the future."
Given the more diverse players poised to enter the changing competitive landscape, Russell has some concerns regarding the industry's future.
"One of the biggest challenges is that it is more likely credit unions become irrelevant than insolvent," said Russell. "How do credit unions become known as the place for financial services? I as a consumer want innovative technology services or good value at a fair price. All the buzz that should happen in credit unions every day. How do credit unions do that every day and not have a global meltdown or Occupy movement to figure out what a credit union is? It's not about this idea of one national brand, but how individual credit unions offer product set and value relevant to that consumer is the biggest challenge in the next two to 10 years."
He added that there is a need for the industry as a whole to rethink risk.
"One structural issue that happens in financial institutions is that most often people are promoted for how well they do in managing risk, yet the role of the CEO is to take risk. Not necessarily be risky but take calculated risk to grow membership, market share, and in the economy we're in, it's easier not to take risk. It's important that each look at their own financials, but you still have to invest in innovation and the future," said Russell. "We're in a time of transformational change and what makes one grow and be attractive is trying new things, pushing the envelope a little so consumers look to credit unions as a place they can get their financial needs met with the value credit unions always known for."
That dichotomy of growth and fear of the other shoe dropping, like double-dip recession and the like, often has many pulling back when they should be pushing forward.
Not just one to issue a call to action, Russell has lived it and finding the opportunity in challenges led to the creation of the collateralized advance program funding vehicle and a new company, CU Structured Finance LLC. CAP was created in 2008 about a year after the launch of TMG Financial Services when regulatory hurdles forced the company to look for different ways of funding the portfolio purchases it was making.
Through CAP, credit unions were paid a competitive return on their investment. Those funds were secured dollar-for-dollar with high-quality credit card receivables owned by TMG Financial Services. The win-win solution benefitted TMG Financial Services and CAP investors, who were able to put their excess liquidity to work at a time when the return on traditional investments was at an all-time low. Today, the CAP has funding commitments exceeding $125 million from more than 60 credit unions.
Recent challenges faced by the corporate credit union structure created a void in funding availability as corporate credit unions had been the go to financial resource for credit unions and CUSOs. CU Structured Finance, LLC, was developed in September 2010 as a way to help other CUSOs secure and collateralize their debt needs. As a wholly owned subsidiary of TMG Financial Services, it filled the void by offering a secured line of credit approach that allows the CUSO the capacity to grow by tapping credit unions outside their ownership group looking for loans with strong returns from CUSOs that run solid operations.
"The idea is that in crisis there is both opportunity and danger," said Russell. "Some of the most successful businesses start in a recession and some companies that began in the great depression are still around today. Apple, Microsoft both started in a recession and now feels like a real opportunity for credit unions because there is a buy local trend."
He added that technology has been a great equalizer that credit unions can integrate and leverage to bring back the personal "everyone knows my name and what I want or need" experience consumers want and expect today.
"The question we need to ask ourselves is how as an industry do we keep moving forward, innovating," said Russell. "So many seem to be waiting for things to return to normal, when really, the new norm will never again be the old normal. Forget that and instead focus on how you can continue to reinvent, to be what consumers need and for the next generation find solutions that add value to their experience. Credit unions need to reinvent themselves to make sure they are not like the bookstore that has to compete against Amazon."


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In 2008, with three years of teaching experience at a state secondary school and a master's degree in English Language Teaching, I decided to come to the U. S. to explore the American culture. My journey in the States started as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at Portland State University (PSU), Oregon. After teaching Turkish at PSU for one academic year, I decided to take classes from the Applied Linguistics Department. In 2009, I was accepted to the master's degree program in Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in Applied Linguistics. As a bilingual, my research interest was on bilinguals and their use of emotion language. I completed the degree in TESOL in two years with a thesis topic focused on Emotion Language of Turkish-English Bilinguals.
After completing the master's program, I started looking for doctoral programs in the Portland and Seattle area. I always wanted to pursue a Ph.D. degree in language education. My master's degree experience at a university in the U.S. encouraged me to stay in the country and continue my studies. When I couldn't find Ph.D. Programs in Applied Linguistics in the Pacific Northwest, I started to look for professors with similar research interests and I found Dr. Nagy at SPU! I thought working with him would be a great opportunity for me – and indeed it is!
Since starting the program in 2011, I completed three quarters of coursework and I learned much about research and educational theories in the core courses. Writing a colloquium paper gave me the opportunity to focus on my own research interest which is morphological awareness and academic reading of adult second language learners. Working as a graduate assistant in School of Education at SPU provides me with the opportunity of conducting research. In short, SPU has been a great learning environment for me. Through a teaching practicum that is part of the doctoral program, I was able to teach second year Turkish at the University of Washington in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations. I had 8 students – 7 were American and one Albanian. Preparing the course syllabus and materials, keeping a reflective journal, and being formally observed all contributed to my learning and teaching to a great extent. Furthermore, I gained teaching experience at the university level.
After completing the Ph.D. program at SPU, my long-term goal is to get published and teach at the university level in a TESOL program while training future language teachers.
Melike is a student in the Ph.D. Program in Education at Seattle Pacific University. She currently serves as a Graduate Assistant at SPU and as an Instructor at the University of Washington's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization.


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Khronos Drives Rapid Evolution of Cross-Platform 3D Graphics with Release of OpenGL 4.1 Specification
- New open API specification available immediately;
- Wide-ranging enhancements with full backwards compatibility;
- Enhanced integration with OpenCL for seamless visual computing;
- Integrates OpenGL ES functionality for desktop and mobile platform portability
July 26, 2010 Los Angeles, SIGGRAPH 2010 The Khronos Group today announced the immediate release of the OpenGL® 4.1 specification, bringing the very latest graphics functionality to the most advanced and widely adopted cross-platform 2D and 3D graphics API (application programming interface). OpenGL 4.1 is the sixth update to OpenGL specification in two years, continuing the rapid evolution of this royalty-free specification. This new version continues to maintain full backwards compatibility to enable developers to begin using new features whenever they choose, while portably accessing state-of-the-art GPU functionality across diverse operating systems and platforms.
The OpenGL 4.1 specification has been defined by the OpenGL ARB (Architecture Review Board) working group at Khronos, and includes the GLSL 4.10 update to the OpenGL Shading language and is accompanied by a number of extensions introducing cutting-edge functionality to the OpenGL standard. The full specification is available for immediate download at http://www.opengl.org/registry.
New functionality in the core OpenGL 4.1 specification includes:
- Full compatibility with OpenGL ES 2.0 APIs for easier porting between mobile and desktop platforms;
- The ability to query and load a binary for shader program objects to save re-compilation time;
- The capability to bind programs individually to programmable stages for programming flexibility;
- 64-bit floating-point component vertex shader inputs for higher geometric precision;
- Multiple viewports for a rendering surface for increased rendering flexibility.
New ARB extensions introduced with OpenGL 4.1 include:
- OpenGL sync objects linked to OpenCL event objects for enhanced OpenCL interoperability;
- The ability to set stencil values in a fragment shader for enhanced rendering flexibility;
- Features to improve robustness, for example when running WebGL applications;
- Callback mechanisms to receive enhanced errors and warning messages.
Lastly, Khronos has simultaneously released a set of ARB extensions to enable as much OpenGL 4.1 core functionality as possible on previous generation GPU hardware; providing maximum flexibility and platform coverage for application developers.


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Hurt by ethanol
I don't think much of your ethanol. [See "The heck with ethanol critics," December 2007, page 4.] It may be good for some people. But it is hurting cattle people bad. Feeder calves went down $0.30 a pound in the fall from last spring because feed is so high.
Fertilizer is high because of so much corn being raised.
But I guess no one thinks of the hurt it is doing.
Mrs. Lester Tuggle
Worthville, KY
1,000% agreement
You will probably get plenty of comments on your editorial that appeared in the December 2007 Farm Industry News. I, for one, agree with your comments 1,000%! Our Project Development Manager, Sara Wilcox, made the same comments at a Brock seminar she spoke at this past summer and was not treated graciously for her opinion.
Ernie Moody
Chairman, Board of Directors
Illini Bio-Energy, LLC
IH Socket Set
I have an International Harvester socket set that I purchased when an IH dealer went out of business in my area. I need replacement parts for a ½-in. drive ratchet.
Aaron Freese
According to John Henigan, Case IH customer relations representative, both Case and International Harvester had a program years ago offering a lifetime warranty on tools provided by either company. To find replacement parts, contact your local Case IH dealer or parts manager. To find your nearest dealer, go to www.caseih.com and find the Dealer Locator. Then enter your zip code and the site will generate a list of the five Case IH dealers closest to you. The Web site has a "contact us" feature providing e-mail information. Or you can call the Case IH Customer Relations Department at 262/636-6011.
BMB mower
Where can I find parts for a BMB 12-ft. mower with two rotaries and eight blades?
Albert L. Reynolds
Booker, TX
Alamo Group purchased BMB in 1986 to provide manufacturing capacity for the Rhino product line of agricultural equipment. Call the Rhino Parts Department at 800/446-5158 or send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com. Or write to Rhino at 1020 S. Sangamon Ave., Gibson City, IL 60936.
Tie rods
I am looking for tie rods for a Case IH 2096 tractor with MFWD. It has a ZF front axle. Case IH does not make them, and I have been unable to find any aftermarket parts for it.
Kevin Peterson
All-States Ag Parts, Urbandale, IA, would be able to provide what you are looking for. All-States Ag Parts has seven salvage yards in addition to two full-time salvage buyers that travel the country looking for parts and antique to late-model machinery. The company offers a one-year warranty on all parts, whether used, new, or re-built. Call All-States Ag Parts at 866/609-1260 or visit www.tractorpartsasap.com.
Manure tank
I am looking for parts for a 1,500-gal. liquid manure tank manufactured by Hawkeye Steel.? It was manufactured in Waterloo, IA, in the 1980s. If you can give me any advice as to the availability of obtaining parts I would appreciate it. Thank-you.?
W. Yuska?
Buckingham, IA
Contact Hawkeye Steel Products, Box 2000, Houghton, IA 52631, 319/469-4141, www.hawkeysteel.com.


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Scott Storm made his directorial debut with this intense psychological thriller. Screenwriter Ben Sharpe (Randall Slavin), is attempting to conquer a writer's block when former friend Tom Rice turns up with a completed manuscript and solid publisher connections.
Ben pretends to be pleased for his one-time pal, but in truth he harbors much envy and resentment, a situation that worsens when he eavesdrops on Tom's lovemaking with publisher's daughter Amanda (Andrea Roth). At the typewriter, he pecks out a fiendish plot to gain the upper hand on Tom -- with Amanda becoming a pawn in the game.
Synthesized music score by Joe Kraemer. Shown at the 1998 Slamdance Film Festival.
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2014 may be better year for local real estate, but not by much
If 2013 was a year of uncertainty for local real estate, 2014 is poised to be a little more stable but far from spectacular, according to industry analysts in eastern Connecticut.
"2013 was really a year of challenges," said Alvin Kinsall of Randall Realtors in Niantic, president of the Eastern Connecticut Association of Realtors, an industry group that covers New London and Windham counties. "There is a positive trend in the market. But it's still a slow process."
Local analysts say that increased consumer confidence, thanks to budget compromises on the federal level that promise to halt disruptions like last fall's partial government shutdown, may spur more home buying this year than in 2013. But a continued backlog of foreclosed properties will likely be a drag on prices, they say.
"I believe (2014) will still be fairly flat when it comes to prices," John Bolduc, chief executive of the local Realtors association, said in a phone interview. "But I expect an improvement in the number of sales."
Bolduc's predictions for New London and Windham counties are a counterpoint to national projections that see a flattening of sales, with price increases averaging 3 to 4 percent. Local real estate won't start seeing substantial price stability until a backlog of bank-owned properties is cleared from the scene, which won't occur for at least another year, Bolduc said.
The problem, according to Bolduc, is that Connecticut requires a judicial process to deal with foreclosed properties while other states, notably California, have expedited ways of moving forward with distressed-property sales.
"REOs (lender-owned properties) have the effect of reducing the average and median (price) because they have been neglected, and by the time they go on the market they are not in good condition," Bolduc said.
Les Bray, principal of Stonington-based Sound Investment Consultants, provided statistics through November showing that sales of single-family houses in New London County are up 11 percent on a one-year rolling average. But prices have dipped about 2 percent over the same period, with the median declining to $210,000.
This is in contrast to real-estate trends in 2012, when, for the first time in eight years, both single-family prices and sales posted increases. While the early part of 2013 saw renewed activity for houses selling above $300,000, Bray said in the past few months the trend was more muted.
"We have seen some erosion wrapping up the year on the high end," Bray said in a phone interview.
He added that new flood regulations going into effect next year will mean substantially higher insurance costs for many commercial and residential real estate owners of property anywhere near a body of water. It's too early to tell, however, what this will mean for owners of real estate when it comes time to sell, he said.
It's also hard to predict the vagaries of interest rates on loans. The Federal Reserve has indicated its intention to keep interest rates low, but Bolduc said extra costs imposed on banks by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act likely will mean rising rates for consumer mortgages.
But, while rising interest costs might seem likely to lead to projections of fewer home sales, Bolduc said the opposite might be the case. People worried about higher rates might be motivated to jump into home buying while interest costs are still near record lows and before they rise further, he suggested.
"Interest rates are starting to tick up, and people really need to get in the market now," he said. "The higher the rates go, the less affordable properties are."
Kinsall added that an encouraging trend has been an increase in new housing starts over the past year. The latest statistics show that new housing approvals through November are up statewide by about 21 percent over the same period a year ago.
"We're projecting a much better 2014," Kinsall said. "Hopefully, the consumer outlook and confidence will continue to build."
Both Bray and Bolduc also cited consumer confidence as the key to real estate performance in 2014. Bray added that this region, which has been hit harder than most of America because of job losses at key economic drivers such as Pfizer Inc. and Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods casinos, also needs to see signs of stability in the labor market.
"Casinos drove the market on the front end when things were going gangbusters," Bray said. "Now, they're creating a drag."
Bolduc agreed that eastern Connecticut is lagging the rest of the nation - and even other parts of the state - in any sort of real-estate rebound. But he said the region's current lull is typical of how the local real estate market responds to national recessions, with the area rarely seeing the extreme highs and lows of other regions.
"We always go in (to a recession) later and come out later," Bolduc said. "We don't have the swings the other areas have."
Fitch's Amara Robinson: from broken back to all-state cheerleader
2Wives, No Anchor owner faces federal narcotics, money laundering charges
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State Government Records Accessioned
Celebration 2000. Minutes, records of events and other information, 1996-2000. 2 boxes. Celebration 2000. Ar1909
Cemetery listing. Listing of patients buried in hospital cemeteries at Lakin and Spencer, n.d. 3 items. Lakin State Hospital, Lakin. Ar1910
Health Care Task Force. Minutes, correspondence, reports and other meeting materials,1982-1995. 21 boxes. Health Care Task Force. Ar1908
Highways. Correspondence and photographs regarding replacement of zero mile stone marker on capitol grounds, 2000. 1 folder. Highways. Ar1911
Rehabilitation Services. Directors correspondence, 1994-1995. 7 boxes. Rehabilitation Services. Ar1898acc
Rehabilitation Services. Directors correspondence, 1995-1996. 7 boxes. Rehabilitation Services. *Ar1898acc
Audiovisual Collections Accessioned
Videotape. A Page From the Past...A Bridge to the Future, VHS (AV6-010), n.d. 1 item. Unknown Donor. AV2001-032
Videotape. A Scar Remains, 25 Years After the Silver Bridge Disaster, VHS (AV6-019), 1992. 1 item. WCHS-TV, Charleston. Av2001-041
Videotape. Blenko Retro: Three Designers of American Glass, VHS (AV6-006), 2001. 1 item. Witak and Novak, Inc, Huntington. Av2001-028
Videotape. Breaking Silence: the story of the Sisters at DeSales Heights, VHS (AV6-003),1993. 1 item. Tommie Dell Smith, Parkersburg. Av2001-025
Videotape. Davis Grubb WV Author and On Location with Fool's Parade, VHS (AV6-023), 1971 and 1978. 1 item. West Virginia Library Commission. Av2001-045
Videotape. Even the Heavens Weep, VHS (AV6-016), 1985. 1 item. WPBY, Nitro. Av2001-038
Videotape. Flood '96: The Greenbrier River Disaster of 1996, VHS (AV6-004), 1996. 1 item. Gary Aide, Ronceverte. Av2001-026
Videotape. Hardwood Forests of the Eastern U.S. A Quiet Success Story VHS (AV6-012),1993. 1 item. Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers Inc., High Point, NC. Av2001-034
Videotape. Harley Warrick: Last of a Breed, VHS (AV6-002), 1997. 1 item. Wheeling National Heritage Area Corp, Wheeling. Av2001-024
Videotape. Helvetia: The Swiss of West Virginia, VHS (AV6-013), 1993.1 item. Augusta Heritage Center of Davis and Elkins College, Elkins. Av2001-035
Videotape. His Eye is on the Sparrow: Ethel Caffie-Austin, Minister of Black Sacred Music, VHS (AV6-007), 1999. 1 item. Anne Lewis, Austin, TX. Av2001-029
Videotape. Holy Cow Swami, VHS (AV6-018), 1996. 1 item. WV Educational Broadcasting Authority, Charleston. Av2001-040
Videotape. Long Journey Home, VHS (AV6-015), 1983. 1 item. Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY. Av2001-037
Videotape. Matewan, written and directed by John Sayles, VHS (AV6-001),1987. 1 item. John Sayles and Maggie Renzi, New York, NY. Av2001-023
Videotape. Our Town - Spring Hill Cemetery, VHS (AV6-022), 1 item. Richard Andre, Charleston. Av2001-044
Videotape. Rocks and Rivers: West Virginia's Geologic Heritage, VHS (AV6-005), 1993. 1 item. West Virginia Geologic and Economic Survey, Morgantown. Av2001-027
Videotape. Spring Hill Cemetery A Historic View, VHS (AV6-021), n.d.1 item. Richard Andre, Charleston. Av2001-043
Videotape. Steaming Up the New River Gorge, VHS (AV6-008), 1994.1 item. Skyfire Productions, Reno, NV. Av2001-030
Videotape. The Video Story of Blairton, Martinsburg, WV. VHS (AV6-011 1&2), n.d. 2 items. William V. Butcher, Sr., Martinsburg. Av2001-033
Videotape. Ties That Bind Show #3, VHS (AV6-009), 2000. 1 item. Michael Hoffman Productions, Inc., Emeryville, CA. Av2001-031
Videotape. With God on Our Side, Episode 2, The Zeal of Thy House, VHS (AV6-020), n.d. 1 item. Lumiere Productions. Av2001-042
Videotape. WV Nature and Wildlife TV Series promo, VHS (AV6-014), n.d.1 item. Bob Campbell, Elkins. Av2001-036
Manuscripts Accessioned
Account book. Kanawha Salines store (photocopy), 1827. 1 item. Katherine Ann Ferris, Charleston. Ms2001-009
Business ledger. A. W. Campbell, Mingo County hardware store, ca. 1895-1898. 1 volume. Bellamy Mansion Museum, Wilmington, NC. Ms2001-012
Civil War Collection. Diary (photocopy) of Theodore Cook, Co. E, 2nd WV Veteran Infantry; original page Civil War music; prayer card; 1864-Apr. 29-1865 Feb. 28. 3 items. William G. Wallace, Lodi, OH. Ms79-18.1.70
Civil War Collection. Transcript of diary of Amos A. Vandervort, Co. B,14th WV Infantry and notes on family (photocopy), 1863. 1 item. Bill Wintz via Terry Lowry, St. Albans. Ms79-18.1.68
Civil War Collection. Transcript of diary of Shriver Moore, 14th WV Infantry (photocopy),1864. 1 item. Bill Wintz via Terry Lowry, St. Albans. Ms79-18.1.69
Land grants, Hampshire County. Six grants to Simon Taylor and descendants of Susan Ann Taylor and Edward Washington, including two signed by Lord Fairfax, 1749-1846. 6 items. Katherine Harper, Charleston. Ms2001-010
Military records. Service file information on Colonel Thomas Fred Bailey from WWII through Korea and National Guard service (photocopies),1940-1979. 1 item. Bill Wintz, St. Albans. Ms2001-011
Minister's record. List of marriages performed, churches, and sermons given by unidentified minister, 1897-1952. 1 volume. Carol Graley, St. Ms2001-007
Minute book. Tynes Chapel, AME Church, Anawalt, including membership lists, weddings, etc., ca. 1934-1960. 1 volume. Purchase. Ms2001-014
Monongalia County deeds. Deeds for property in Monongalia and Wetzel counties involving Hurley, Layton, Wilson, Shockley, Mapel, Barrickman and Fleming as buyers/sellers, 1804-1888. 4 items. Doris Mehlinger Hallanan, San Francisco, CA. Ms2001-008
Shannondale Springs. Correspondence, notes, booklets and other items pertaining to resort(photocopies), ca. 1845-1954. 1 box. William Theriault, Bakerton. Ms2001-015
Microforms Accessioned
Microfilm. 1850 Virginia Mortality Schedules and Agricultural Report, 1 roll. Naomi Morris, Summersville. Mi2001-004
Microfilm. Buckley, Geoffrey Littlefield. Tapping the big vein: coal mining and environmental alteration in Maryland's Appalachian region, 1789-1906, dissertation, 1997. 1 item. Purchase. Mi2001-018
Microfilm. Cahill, Kevin John. "Fertilizing the Weeds: The New Deal's rural poverty program in West Virginia," dissertation, 1999. 1 item. Purchase. Mi2001-016
Microfilm. Census records 1800 Luzerne County, PA; 1810 Jefferson-Muhlenberg counties, KY; 1850 Berkeley-Botetourt counties, VA (2 copies);1860 Clarke-Cumberland counties, VA; 1870 Geauga County, OH; 1880 Oregon soundex H 400-L166; 1910 Phelps-Red Willow counties, NE; 8 rolls. Roscoe Keeney, Charleston.*Mi2001-003
Microfilm. Compiled unit records, Virginia, West Virginia, 1861-1865. 4 rolls. Purchase, NARA. Mi2001-005
Microfilm. Cook, Samuel Robert. Monacans and mountaineers: a comparative study of colonialism and dependency in southern Appalachia, dissertation. 1997. 1 item. Purchase. Mi2001-021
Microfilm. Fullertons, Fullartons, & Fullingtons of North America, n.d. 1 roll. Gordon W. Fullerton, Honolulu, HI. Mi2001-006
Microfilm. Gorman, Michael Joseph. Political culture in the lower Shenandoah Valley: Frederick County, Virginia, 1836-1861, dissertation.1997. 1 item. Purchase. Mi2001-022
Microfilm. Lewis, Charlene Marie. Ladies and Gentlemen on display: planter society at the Virginia springs, 1790-1860, dissertation. 1997. 1 item. Purchase. Mi2001-019
Microfilm. Lilly, Everett A. Leaving Clear Fork Valley: a story of Appalachian migration, dissertation. 1997. 1 item. Purchase. Mi2001-020
Microfilm. Marriage index of Boyd County, KY; marriage index and records of Greenup County, KY; 1861-1989. 5 rolls. Sheri Pettit, Huntington. Mi2001-002
Microfilm. Marriage records of Meigs and Washington counties, OH, 1789-1918. 17 rolls. Wes Cochran, Parkersburg. Mi2001-001
Microfilm. Peyton, Billy Joe. "To make the crooked ways straight and the rough ways smooth" the federal government's role in laying out and building the Cumberland Road, dissertation, 1999. 1 item. Purchase. Mi2001-017
Photographs Accessioned
Postcards, Mullens. Views of paintings of Homestead, Front Street, Virginian Caboose, ca. 1990s. 4 items. Jack Feller, Mullens. Ph2001-013


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 152 diseños de 47 diseñadores freelance.
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Who's Got Next? Updated Class of 2012 Rankings…Posted by Josh Paunil on May 3rd, 2011
Who's Got Next? is a weekly column by Josh Paunil, the RTC recruiting guru. We encourage you to check out his website dedicated solely to college basketball recruiting, National Recruiting Spotlight, for more detailed recruiting information. Each week he will bring you an overview of what's going on in the complex world of recruiting, from who is signing where among the seniors to who the hot prospects are in the lower levels of the sport. If you have any suggestions as to areas we're missing, please let us know at email@example.com.
With another passing week, there is plenty of recruiting news including standout performances at AAU events, commitments and de-commitments, and the latest news on where high-profile prospects are likely to go to college. However, the biggest revelation by far in this past week was a recruiting scandal at a mid-major D1 school that has yet to win an NCAA Tournament game but somehow managed to land two elite prospects. Read on to see how a young man from Chicago, a head coach at a mid-major basketball program and a high-profile former felon created the biggest recruiting scandal in the past few years.
What We Learned
Kevin Ware's Recruitment and Central Florida's Recruiting Scandal. After class of 2011 shooting guard Kevin Ware committed to the Knights two weeks ago, he backed out of the agreement Thursday when he learned of Kenneth Caldwell's background, a Chicago man with a substantial criminal record and apparent ties to a prominent sports agency. Ware claims that Caldwell repeatedly called him to encourage him to attend Central Florida, traveled to meet with his family and even set up conversations between Ware, himself and head coach Donnie Jones and Jones' staff – contact which is prohibited by the NCAA. Caldwell formally denied recruiting players for UCF and claimed he was simply impressed by UCF… a school that has never won an NCAA Tournament game.
When Ware and his family were asked about what coaches said their relationship with Caldwell was, they said the coaches claimed they had no direct affiliation with him but that they had known him for a year. This left the Ware family wondering exactly who Caldwell was and how he tied in with UCF. On his LinkedIn page, Caldwell claimed to be a recruiter of potential NBA players for ASM Sports, which the company later confirmed. What was even more frightening about Caldwell's background were his two felony convictions in 1991 and again in 1998. He also owes the IRS close to $250,000. After looking at his history and claims, Caldwell could fairly be labeled as a "runner," someone who acts as a middle man to deliver players to universities and agents.
How current UCF commit Michael Chandler Ties In. Caldwell's ties to the UCF program started a few years ago when a high school student whom he refers to as his "son" committed to the Knights. Then, two more players whom Caldwell likes to call his "nephews" also chose UCF for their collegiate careers, including one of the best class of 2011 centers in the country, Michael Chandler. Before becoming a Knight, Chandler had previously committed to Louisville and Xavier before he shocked many people by settling on Central Florida. Chandler's high school coach said he'd never even heard of Central Florida before Chandler committed there. However, Chandler's uncle said the prospect chose UCF on its merits. In Pat Forde's column this week analyzing the odd recruitment, he said a source with knowledge of the situation claimed that Caldwell bragged about having inside information of where Chandler would be attending college well before he made his decision public.