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(Disclaimer: Just because I know how to clean stainless steel appliances, doesn't mean I actually do it.)
If you have stainless steel refrigerator like I do (and especially if you have kids), chances are, that refrigerator looks like this:
Cleaning stainless steel appliances is not like cleaning other surfaces, because it's easy to leave behind streaks from the actual cleaning process itself.
We sell a really good cleaner for stainless steel appliances called Citrushine. I used to use it all the time when I worked at the stores (if you think your kitchen is bad, imagine how much our appliances get touched!).
But sometimes company is coming over — which is about the only time I'll polish my stainless steel — and you don't have time to run to the store.
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North Callaway, Paris, Community R-6 basketball reports
NORTH CALLAWAY GIRLS: The Ladybirds began slow Friday in a conference game against Bowling Green at home losing 43-34 and could not catch up. "Against an average team it is hard to catch up, let alone against a team like Bowling Green," said NorCal Coach Jack Peace.
Maddie Sorrell had a good performance for the Ladybirds with 15 points and 15 rebounds. Tara Oberlag scored 9 points for NorCal.
NorCal is now 13-8 overall and 4-3 in conference.
Bowling Green: 12-15-18-8
North Callaway: 1-7-10-16
The JV team lost 52-14. Bailey Langworthy scored 4 points for North Callaway. The Ladybirds record is 3-14.
NORTH CALLAWAY BOYS: The Thunderbirds had a much better game against the Bowling Green Bobcats winning 68-63.
"It was good to be home after three weeks on the road and the boys did everything they needed to do to win," said NorCal coach Jack Turlington.
For the Thunderbirds Zac Eads scored 21 points. Justin Murphy had 14 points and led the team with 5 assists. Jacob Haubner scored 10 points and brought down 9 rebounds and Meguel Hudson led with 5 steals.
North Callaway is 13-10 overall and 4-3 conference.
Bowling Green: 11-14-18-20
North Callaway: 14-18-14-22.
PARIS BOYS: The Coyotes are still struggling from the field, losing a conference game to Marceline 60-26. Leading the way for Paris were Jon Turner and Zane Lockhart with 6 points each. Laine Forrest and Slater Stone scored 5 points each, Brett Mason and Kyle Popkes scored 2 points each.
The Coyotes are 3-19 overall and 1-7 in conference.
Paris: 8-4-4-10
Marceline: 17-16-14-13
COMMUNITY R-6 GIRLS: Community R-6 coach Bob Curtis understands why the Silex Lady Owls have compiled a record of 22-1 this season and are ranked No. 1 in the state in Class 2. "They have multiple weapons as anyone in their starting lineup can lead them in scoring on a given night. I thought we did a nice job on all-stater Natalie Fleming holding her to 11 points which is half of her average point total per game for the season. Unfortunately the Millers (Aly and Leah) combined for 30 in the contest," said the R-6 coach.
For R-6 Emmalee McCoskey had another monster night scoring 17 points and pulling down 8 rebounds in the 65-38 loss. She has 39 points and 20 rebounds in the last two conference games. "I really like how she has played in the last two weeks," said her coach. Paige Curtis scored 6 for R-6, Paige Harris, had 5 points, Danielle Brooks and Amelia Knipfel, 4 points each and Sam Jackson scored 2.
The Lady Trojans are 13-7 overall and 5-2 in conference.
Silex: 13-22-18-12
COMMUNITY R-6 BOYS: The Trojans won a conference game against Silex 64-42. Lane Thebeau scored 17 points, with 3 from three-point range, Conner Brooks had 2 three-pointers and Kyle Curtis hit 1 from three-point range. Clay Thebeau and Sean Wilson scored 12 points each. Justin Durham scored 8. Wilson and Brooks pulled down 7 rebounds each and Durham brought down 5. Clay Thebeau came up with 3 assists and 10 steals.
The Trojans are 16-5 overall and 5-2 in conference.
Silex: 18-4-7-13

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One of the biggest challenges while doing my dissertation research was recreating Scotch Settlement, the community of Scottish Highlanders that was the subject of my work. There was no contemporary list of residents, so I had to do an awful lot of family history research in America and in Scotland. I've written an article about this experience in the September/October 2012 issue of Family Chronicle. There is also an article on UK place names and another on Scottish online resources.
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Alfresco and Jive Integration makes social content available to users across both platforms to enhance discussion and cross-collaboration
LONDON and LOS ANGELES — March 29, 2011 — Alfresco Software, the open platform for social content management, and Jive Software today announced a partnership to bring best of breed content management and social business software together for customers. The companies are collaborating with Jive consulting partner, SolutionSet to deliver an Alfresco-Jive connector that brings enterprise-class repository functionality to Jive content and allows Alfresco content to behave as native Jive content.
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The integration will be based on Alfresco Enterprise 3.4 using the CMIS open standard. Alfresco Enterprise 3.4 is a content platform that can co-exist with social business systems such as Jive to help manage and retain the content created by social business systems.
"Social business systems like Jive are certainly enabling new ways of collaboration in the enterprise, and users are adopting them quickly. Now enterprises can have the best of both worlds," said John Newton, Alfresco CTO. "By combining best of breed social business technology with best of breed ECM, enterprise content becomes both social and organized; resulting in more effective employees & well-managed enterprise content. This partnership is a perfect example of how open standards, like CMIS, can enable new & powerful use cases."
"We are excited to join forces with Alfresco to drive the benefits of Social Business Software to our customers," said Matt Tucker, Co-Founder and CTO of Jive. "Alfresco provides a proven enterprise content management system. Jive taps into the Alfresco system to 'socialize' the content, facilitate collaboration, and make it available in the activity stream. Access and interaction with Alfresco content becomes seamless in Jive. This makes content management more searchable, ratable, likable, commentable, and most importantly, more social."
Key new capabilities users will be able to take advantage of using the Alfresco/ Jive integration include:
- Cross Platform Publishing - In the Jive-Alfresco integration, documents can be created in Alfresco and published to Jive or created in Jive and published to Alfresco. Additionally, within Jive users can bring in an existing Alfresco document. In this way, users are free to work wherever they please (Jive or Alfresco) while still taking advantage of the integration.
- Common User Database and Taxonomy – By using LDAP, Jive and Alfresco will utilize the common user store database to ensure that authorship of documents can remain consistent.
- Permissions Mapping and Synching – In order to maintain consistent content visibility / editability between systems, users can synchronize ACLs between both Jive and Alfresco systems.
- Standards-Based Integration - The primary interface from Jive to Alfresco is the CMIS interface, a standard enterprise content management API that is supported by Alfresco.
"As a customer of both Jive and Alfresco, we are already taking advantage of Alfresco's robust document management features on our Jive C3 Collaboration Platform," said John A.Glowacki, Jr. Corporate VP and CTO, CSC. "We are pleased to see that Jive and Alfresco are partnering to deliver tighter integration and long-term support for our combined solution."
The Alfresco / Jive integration will be available soon. Join Alfresco & Jive at the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit March 29th where both Jive and Alfresco will be available to further discuss the integration.
Additional resources on Alfresco's approach, vision and strategy are also available:
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- Alfresco Enterprise 3.4 screen shots (https://www.flickr.com/photos/alfrescosoftware)
- Follow Alfresco on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube
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- Follow Jive on Twitter or Facebook
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Copyright Week: If We Want To Get Copyright Right, It's Time To Go Back To Basics
from the copyright-week deptAll week we've been posting stories for Copyright Week, discussing important elements of copyright law that are at risk of getting trampled or destroyed in the effort to reform copyright. These are issues that will be squashed almost entirely if we leave it to the lobbyists to hash out what a new copyright law looks like. Today is the final day of Copyright Week, which happens to coincide with the second anniversary of Internet Freedom Day -- the day that the internet spoke up and said NO!! the last time a group of lobbyist sought to change copyright in dangerous ways, with SOPA/PIPA.
So how can we get copyright right? Well, respecting things like transparency, the public domain, open access, the freedom to tinker and fair use are certainly important and necessary starting points.
But it goes much further than that. I think it's worth repeating the basic framework for copyright reform I suggested last year, because not only does it still apply, it appears that Congress has shown no interest in following that framework. Instead, they've still been setting everything up as a "blue team vs. red team" game where every proposal has someone arguing for the exact opposite, and everything is seen as a zero sum game, rather than looking for solutions that actually expand the opportunity for everyone. So here are the basic principles I suggested earlier, which I think bear repeating:
- Pretty much everyone is both a content creator and a content consumer. Over and over again we heard about concerns of certain creators as if they were a separate class of people unrelated to the wider public. That's silly. Especially as we have copyright law today -- in which every piece of creative content is immediately covered by copyright at the moment the expression is set in fixed form -- we are all creators. Nearly every email you write is probably covered by copyright. Every creator is also a consumer of content, and that includes professional creators. Professional content creation often involves building off of the influences of other works. We should support that as well. Otherwise, we begin to treat copyright as a sort of welfare program for professional creators, which is never what it was intended to be.
- Technology is just a tool. It is neither a competitor to, nor an enemy of, content creators. With so many Representatives setting up the debate as "content vs. technology," we start to go down a very dangerous and distorted path that has little to do with reality. As a tool, technology certainly can create challenges for existing and traditional business models, but also tremendous opportunity. Look at the success of platforms like Kickstarter today. Would anyone seriously argue that the "technology" company Kickstarter is "anti" creator? Similarly, we're seeing more and more artists succeed by embracing new technology platforms that enable them to do amazing things: Bandcamp, TopSpin, BandZoogle, ReverbNation, SongKick, Dropbox, SoundCloud, Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, HumbleBundle -- and many, many, many more. The list literally goes on and on and on. These are the tools that so many content creators are embracing today to help them to be better able to create, to promote, to distribute, to connect and to monetize their works than ever before. To argue that this is tech vs. content, when the tech companies seem to be handing content creators the most useful tools they've ever had to be successful, seems ridiculous.
- Every legislative choice has costs and benefits. Too often, it seems like those pushing a certain proposal like to only look at one side of that equation. If we're to have an effective debate over copyright reform, it should include an upfront look at the costs and the benefits, the conditions and the consequences of various decisions across the board on the public. The purpose of copyright law, explicitly, is to promote the progress. We should be weighing carefully whether or not each change really would promote progress of science and the useful arts.
- Decisions need to be made based on empirical data. As we've discussed in the past, historically, copyright reform discussions have been almost entirely faith-based. This is why the claims of "everyone just wants stuff for free" are so concerning," since the data suggests that's not even close to true. Given the recent call for objective research that would be practical in the copyright debate by the US National Research Council, I'm hopeful that we'll actually begin to see some useful data for this discussion. Hopefully those in Congress will actually pay attention to the data, rather than continue to insist that blatantly false claims must be true.
- Finally, and most importantly, the focus needs to remain on promoting the progress of science and the useful arts. It's not about "protecting" any industry or any class. It's about what most helps to promote overall progress. Each proposal should be judged on that standard.
Rather than viewing copyright policy as a zero sum game where one party "winning" means someone else losing, let's recognize that the only real stakeholder is the public, and any policy should be designed to be best for the public, and that's one where both artists and technologists are better off as well, because new technologies enable artists to better create, promote, distribute, connect and monetize their works, while providing the public with more content, more choices, more ways to support, more ways to share, more ways to express and to communicate. And the end result, as we've seen throughout history, tends to be better for just about everyone -- with the exception of those who stay wedded to obsolete models that are built around being the gatekeeper for areas of friction that no longer apply.
Focus on what's best for the public and it will also be best for creators and technologists alike. That's how you "get copyright right."
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They say time flies when you're having fun, and that certainly true for the Ned Smith Center's owl research program. It's difficult for me to believe that this marks our 15th year of studying the ecology and migration of northern saw-whet owls.
The NSCNA project was one of several that began in the fall of 1997 with modest assistance from the Pennsylvania Wild Resource Conservation Fund, whose symbol is the saw-whet. The WRCF allocated about $9,000 to buy enough nets, audiolures and banding equipment to set up nine owl-banding sites across the state, all operated by volunteer banders.
The center's first site was at a private cabin along Mahantongo Mountain in northern Dauphin County, and that year the crew was thrilled to catch 24 owls. The next year we'd moved our operations to the top of Berry Mountain, and the catch jumped to 73 – we thought we'd figured it all out.
The following year, 1999, we began running three fulltime stations – Berry Mountain, one on South Mountain in Cumberland County, and one along Second Mountain in Schuylkill County. That year also marked one of the periodic irruptions that bring huge numbers of saw-whets south, and we banded 727 owls – almost 10 times what we'd caught at Berry Mountain the year before.
Since then, we've banded nearly 6,000 owls – as well as conducting nearly a decade of intensive radio-telemetry work to study their roost sites and nocturnal habits; collaborative studies with researchers looking at the spread of avian influenza, West Nile virus and tick-borne pathogens; deployment of high-tech geolocators to try (thus far with limited success) to study long-term owl movements; and much more.
The only thing making that possible is the incredible commitment of our crew of volunteer banders and assistants – 18 federally licensed banders and 85 assistants, who in total give between 5,000 and 6,000 person-hours a year to this project.
We opened our sites Oct. 3 for this, our 15th season, with as much enthusiasm as we had all those years ago. It's been a slow start, though, in part because of the warm and wet weather with persistent southerly winds, and in part because we've been expecting this to be a slow year, a low point in the saw-whet's population cycle.
How slow? At this point last year – which was just a little above average – we'd caught 146 saw-whets. This year, all three of our sites together have netted just 10, six of them in the past three nights.
I was sharing this news with a group of visitors the other night, and someone raised their hand and asked, "Aren't you alarmed that the owls are declining so badly?" No; this is normal for saw-whet owls, a species that undergoes huge and predictable fluctuations from year to year.
Like many northern raptors, their fortunes are tied to the abundance of their prey (small rodents), most of which have roughly four-year population cycles themselves. When the voles and mice are common, the owls produce a bumper crop of babies – and we have a flight like the one in 2007, when we netted almost 900 owls.
When the rodent cycle bottoms out, as it did this year, the owls produce few chicks, and we get a year like 2006, when we caught barely 200 saw-whets. This fall is shaping up to be one of those years.
The good news is that the mouse cycle is on the way up again, and next year ought to be one of those periodic irruptions, when the skies are filled with migrant owls. And whether it's a good flight ot a meager one, each new season helps us better understand what's driving owl migration – which is why we spend our nights in the woods.
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Fashion Night Out 2012 gave us lots of offerings. MAC gave us Young Rapunxel lipstick, a limited edition, smokey purple promoted by newcomer rapper, Azealia Banks. The dark lip is on trend for Fall (again).
Strictly a collector's purchase, I ordered with reservation. I've tried the dark lip look. Most dark lip colors look, well, just dark on me.
Was this color worth adding to my collection?
I saw swatches online that I wasn't as impressed with, but I'm always hopeful that MAC's new lipsticks will take on their awesome new matte formula. (It's a matte formula that is stiff without being drying and cakey.) Young Rapunxel is an amplified cream, another formula I'm fond of, but this isn't the creamy, opaque amplified cream I'm used to. It was more sheer with slip; not my cup of tea especially with a dark color. I already own a dark, vamp color with application issues. This was not worth adding to my collection.
Disappointed. Besides, you see a nice, rich, purple color on me because of the yellow flash used to take the picture. It appears to be a generic dark lipstick in person. If you missed out on this color or have skipper's remorse, don't be too upset. MAC's liner in Nightmoth is a dead ringer for the shade. There are also numerous shades that are dupes of the color..a simple Google search will show proof. I wish the tube would at least have had Azealia's signature or a special FNO 2012 packaging. That would have been cool!
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Distance learning courses are a long-established tradition in education and training. Indeed, the University of London established its international program in 1858, making it the world's oldest provider of distance and flexible learning.
Even so, seemingly unavoidable disadvantages have typically resulted in lower completion rates for distance learning than for in-person classes. Until the 21st century, there was no way to avoid the lack of direct interaction between student and teacher or the demoralizing effects of student isolation. Today, however, software has made it possible for distance learning to be conducted in real time and with a much more personal quality.
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Virtual classroom technology is part of the broader learning management software category. It provides individuals and organizations with conferencing and collaboration capabilities. As a result, instructors can directly interact with learners anywhere in the world with an Internet connection, while maximizing both time and location flexibility.
Virtual classroom software can be used by educators as well as trainers at organizations with a large geographical reach, in order to bring learning to students wherever they are located while reducing travel costs to zero. Buyers should expect to find the following functionality in their new system:
|Audio-video streaming
|Instructors can interact directly, in real time, with groups of learners or individuals via streaming audio and video.
|Interactive whiteboards
|Virtual whiteboards allow instructors to share information with students, and include the ability to add real-time annotations, text and highlighting. Learners can also be given access, so they can share their video stream or desktop with the class.
|Learners and instructors can interact via personal or group chat, rather than sit passively listening to lectures. Questions can be addressed directly in real time, and instructors can conduct quick tests.
|Instructors can record classes for playback by absent students. They can also use the audio-video recording functionality to prepare introductions to lessons.
|Breakout rooms
|Instructors can break classes into smaller groups via virtual breakout rooms, where learners can collaborate to solve problems. Breakout rooms have their own chat, whiteboard and document-sharing capabilities.
|Media streaming
|Enables instructors to play audio/video files using a built-in media player.
|Attendance reporting
|Instructors can monitor attendance and send out notifications about upcoming classes to learners.
|Enables instructors to conduct quizzes and surveys during class, then assess learner comprehension by viewing the results in chart form.
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|Instructors can share their desktop as well as multiple file types (PDFs, Word documents etc.) with learners during class.
Organizations that use these systems are able to:
Virtual classroom technology can be used by individual tutors and organizations alike. Although marketing materials are often aimed at educational institutions, any organization with a large and dispersed workforce can benefit from using this technology for internal new-hire and personal development courses, as it eliminates the need for employees to travel for training.
That said, some solutions do cater specifically to higher or secondary ed, while others predominantly serve the corporate world. Meanwhile, some vendors offer different, specialized products for different types of buyers, while some products can be leveraged equally effectively by any type of organization.
What's most important when evaluating software is finding a product with the features and functionality you need, regardless of the type of buyer it's marketed to most heavily.
Although some instructors still harbor doubts about remote learning and virtual classroom tools, they are becoming increasingly commonplace due to the many benefits they offer. Indeed, prestigious educational organizations are now using these tools.
For example, in August 2015, Harvard Business School demonstrated its confidence in virtual classroom technology by launching HBX Live: a virtual classroom capable of "seating" 60 students simultaneously. With this, students from around the world are able to log in and interact directly with faculty members teaching courses. Participants are displayed on individual screens, replicating the effect of sitting in an actual classroom, while others can "audit" classes via an observer model.
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#WeekDaySupper Macadamian Nut Crusted Mahi Mahi
September 9, 2013
I'm always looking to incorporate more fish and seafood in our weekly dinners and this recipe is so easy and delicious, it's perfect for a quick, healthy meal any day of the week.
I've tweaked the original recipe a bit by adding shredded coconut and cayenne to the "crust" mixture and it is so tasty! You could sub another nut if you don't have macadamian nuts on hand. Tip: Keep your nuts in the freezer to make them last longer. I think pistachios or cashews would also work nicely.
To bring this meal together, I like to roast a fresh veggie in the oven while it's preheating for the fish (and while the fish is baking) and serve with a cold salad I've prepped on Sunday for the week, like a Farro Salad. So you've got your dinner cooking in the oven with minimal clean-up. A win-win for a weeknight meal!
Macadamia Nut Crusted Mahi-Mahi
- 1 1/4 cups coarsely ground, roasted macadamia nuts (I pound them in a plastic bag with a mallet)
- 1/2 cup panko
- 1/4 cup shredded coconut
- a pinch of cayenne (more for more kick)
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- Vegetable oil, for brushing foil
- 4 mahi mahi fillets (I love the frozen fillets from Whole Foods)
- salt and pepper
- 2 tablespoons coconut milk
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. In a medium bowl, stir together the nuts, panko, coconut, cayenne, flour, and butter. Set aside.
Place a piece of aluminum foil on a baking sheet and brush it liberally with vegetable oil. Place the mahi mahi on the foil and sprinkle each fillet with salt and pepper on both sides. Bake for 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and brush each fillet with the coconut milk. Divide the nut mixture among the tops of the 4 fillets, patting the mixture to spread and adhere to the fillets. Return to the oven and bake for 10 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown.
Remove from the oven and allow to stand 10 minutes before serving.
Be sure to check out more #WeekDaySupper recipes this week from my fellow foodies!
Tuesday – Healthy. Delicious. – Thai Corn Chowder
Wednesday – Wednesday – Daily Dish Recipes – Guacamole Avocado Pasta
Thursday – Foxes Love Lemons – Squash & Ricotta Gemelli Saute
Friday – Mama's Blissful Bites – Bacon Wrapped Pork Tenderloin with Honey Glaze
Meatless Monday
September 14, 2010
Ok, so I know I haven't blogged in a while, but I have a good excuse(s). In the past month, I have gotten engaged, turned 30, started WeightWatchers (the latter because of the former two) and been out-of-town 11 out of the past 22 days. Oh, and my camera has been in the shop — hence the picture below, which was taken with a BlackBerry (not too bad, I think). Needless to say — it's been a crazy few weeks!
So, in honor of starting a healthier way of eating, I thought I'd post a WeightWatchers recipe I made last night. I must say, I was a little leery about trying a WW recipe. I thought if it's only a few "points" it can't taste good, right? Wrong. This is your perfect Meatless Monday Meal.
Pan-Roasted Mahi-Mahi with Olives, Lemon and Spinach Orzo
(Serves 2, 7 points)
- 1/2 cup uncooked orzo
- 2 TSP olive oil
- 2 skinless Mahi-Mahi fillets (I have the best luck with the frozen fillets)
- 1/2 red onion, sliced vertically
- 1/4 cup sliced pimento stuffed olives
- 6oz bag of fresh spinach leaves
- 1/3 cup white wine
- zest from one lemon
- 1/2 TSP dried dill
- 4 lemon wedges
- salt and pepper to taste
Cook orzo according to package directions, omitting salt and fat. While orzo cooks, heat EVOO in a pan over med/hi heat. Sprinkle fish with salt and pepper, to taste, on each side and add to pan. Cook fish 4 minutes per side, remove from pan and keep warm.
Add onion to pan and saute until clear, about 4 minutes. Add olives, spinach, wine, zest, dill and salt and pepper to taste and stir until spinach begins to wilt. (I like to throw a lid on the pot for about a minute to help wilt the greens.) Stir in the orzo. Divide evenly between two plates, add the fish and serve with lemon wedges. And who said healthy had to taste bad?


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The Mets sent the following letter to season ticket holders:
"Everyone at the Mets – our Ownership, GM Omar Minaya, Manager Jerry Manuel, the coaches, players, front office and staff – shares your disappointment with the 2009 season. You soon will hear from Ownership and Omar about how we plan to improve the ball club through a combination of player signings, trades, enhanced player development and continued commitment to one of the highest player payrolls in MLB.
"We are currently finalizing our ticket pricing for 2010. Season Ticket prices will be reduced by an average of more than 10 percent, with several seating areas being adjusted by more than 20 percent. Every Season Ticket Holder invoice for 2010 will be less than 2009."
Well, I would hope so. There was a lot of promise for this season, from the expectations on the field to Citi Field itself, that went unrealized. It was a terribly disappointing season and it wouldn't be unrealistic to think this might not be a one-year thing, that the Mets are on a downward spiral they won't be able to pull themselves out of.
What the Mets are doing is thank the public for its support. This is a good gesture, one which should dispel some of the talk of the team being in financial distress because of the Ponzi scam. Let's face it, if the Mets were really hurting financially they wouldn't cut prices.


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McALLEN, Texas (AP) - Police in South Texas say data stolen during the Target security breach are now being divided up and sold off regionally as evidenced by the arrest of two Mexican citizens carrying 96 fraudulent credit cards.
McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez said Monday that the cards used by 27-year-old Mary Carmen Garcia and 28-year-old Daniel Guardiola Dominguez, both of Monterrey, Mexico, carried the account information of South Texas residents. They were used to buy tens of thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise at national retailers in the area.
The two were arrested on Sunday morning trying to re-enter the U.S. at the border.
The Target security breach is believed to have involved 40 million credit and debit card accounts and the personal information of 70 million customers.
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Exciting home in San Jose! With sliding glass door!
Having trouble getting going this morning? Today's featured home, brought to you by Burbed reader Tracy Tea House, will get you going. You'll really be excited when you see you can't have it anymore.
1015 S Genevieve Ln
San Jose, CA 95128
Sold: $650,000
Listed: $579,000
Loan Payment: $1,953/mo
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 2
Size: 1,357 sqft
$/Sqft: $426/sqft
Type: Single Family House
Year Built: 1955
Lot Size: 8,400
Days on Movoto: 34 days
Sold Date: 11/19/12
Status: Sold for $650,000
Custom Home in a very desirable neighborhood! Nice floor plan with eat-in kitchen & living room/dining room combination. Living room with wood-burning fireplace, large windows & sliding glass door! Gleaming hardwood floors! New interior paint! Some plantation shutters! Ceiling fan! Indoor laundry! Original kitchen & baths. Large covered patio! Large lot with a very spacious back yard! Fruit trees!
Here's why Tracy sent this one in:
I liked that house it was so WTF!
This one might not be worthy… But I wonder if the amount of !!!! will be enough to push it over the edge… This actually is my type of flipper potential. I like the house and location… and there are , some, plantation shutters!
What's worthy is that it sold for more than 10% over asking! So WTF, is the 28 the Next Mountain View?
Not just hardwood floors, but gleaming hardwood floors. No, not just gleaming hardwood floors, but gleaming hardwood floors! Also, original vintage kitchen from 1955. Why that doesn't have an exclamation point (like almost everything else in the listing) is a real surprise. We mean a real surprise! Fruit trees! Ceiling fan! Some plantation shutters!


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Episode #8 (November 27th)
Hosts: Leftos, Andrew
Episode 8 of the NLSC Podcast is coming your way today! Leftos and I are your hosts again this week, as we discuss a multitude of topics relating to NBA 2K13, our modding community, the future of NBA Live and the current NBA season. Topics include:
- The Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3 versions of NBA 2K13 have received an official patch, but when will the PC get it?
- Speaking of official updates for the PC, we still haven't received the November 17th update. We're less than pleased about it.
- We discuss the PC version's place in the pecking order, while keeping our fingers crossed that it doesn't get phased out.
- Our modding community continues to do great work and make good use of our upload facilities.
- We're approaching 300 files for NBA 2K13 in our database…can we hit 500 by the end of the year?
- The topic of the week is realism in modes like Association and Dynasty. How much realism do we want to see? What else needs to be done for more realism?
- NBA Live comes up in conversation and we talk about how it could bounce back in the coming years. Dynasty Mode improvements are mentioned once or twice.
- What's going on in the real NBA this week?
- Last week's Question of the Week is discussed and a new one is presented.
Click here to listen to the show!
Question of the Week: Realism in Association & Dynasty Modes
How much realism do you like/want to have in modes like Association and Dynasty? Do you find that too many trades or a fantasy draft spoils the experience? Also, what kind of things would you like to see added to enhance realism in those modes? Give us your thoughts and we'll share some of them on the next podcast!
We had intended to release a shorter episode compared to last week's return after our hiatus, but we ended up running long as we were enjoying our discussion; we hope you enjoy it too!


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Tyler Dickovick Professor of Politics
Curriculum Vitae
On leave full year 2018-19
J. Tyler Dickovick is the Grigsby Term Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University. He conducts research on African and Latin American politics, with a focus on decentralization, federalism, and local governance. He is the author of Decentralization and Recentralization in the Developing World: Comparative Studies from Africa and Latin America (2011, Penn State University Press) and co-editor of Decentralization in Africa: The Paradox of State Strength (2014, Lynne Rienner Publications). He has published articles in journals such as Public Administration and Development, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, The Journal of Modern African Studies, and Latin American Research Review. His current research focuses on the comparative causes and consequences of decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Professor Dickovick has authored numerous research reports and studies on decentralization and democratic local governance for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as well as research reports for the Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, and United Nations University. His work has taken him to Brazil, Peru, and numerous African countries, including Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, and South Africa. Prior to his graduate studies, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo from 1995 to 1997.
He is a co-author, with Professor Jonathan Eastwood (Dept. of Sociology, Washington and Lee) of a textbook, Comparative Politics: Integrating Theories, Methods, and Cases (Oxford University Press, 2012, 2nd ed. 2015, 3rd ed. 2018). The text offers a new model for introductory courses in comparative politics. It addresses major questions in the field by combining several pedagogical features that enhance students' critical thinking: surveys of major theoretical approaches; synopses of major works in comparative politics; an accessible approach to social science methods; and a set of country case materials for testing hypotheses. This text has two accompanying readers, both from Oxford University Press: Current Debates in Comparative Politics (2014, 2nd ed. 2018) and Comparative Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings (2016).
Ph.D. in public affairs, Princeton University (2004)
M.A. in public affairs, Princeton University (2002)
M.P.A., Princeton University (2000)
B.Sc. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania (1995)
B.A. in International Relations, University of Pennsylvania (1995)
African politics, Latin American politics, decentralization, federalism, local governance, and international development.
International Development, International Political Economy, Latin American Politics, Comparative Political Analysis, African Politics (Spring Term Abroad programs in Senegal and Ghana), Global Politics, and Applied Statistics.


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William Douglas Robson-Scott:
A Preliminary Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center
|Robson-Scott, William Douglas, 1903-1980
|William Douglas Robson-Scott Papers
|1903-1980, undated
|2 boxes (.84 linear feet)
|English, Dutch, German
|Open for research
|Purchase, 2010 (2009-12-01-P)
|Processed by:
|Stephen Cooper, 2010
The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center
|The bulk of the William Robson-Scott Papers consists of approximately 500 letters (1903-1980) sent to Robson-Scott by friends and family, most of them handwritten. Also present is a small amount of correspondence to his wife Elaine. A very few letters were written by Robson-Scott himself, the majority of which were to H. D. Ziman and Harry Bergholtz. Some letters, especially among the group of family correspondence, were between third-parties related to or associated with Robson-Scott. A small amount of correspondence is in Dutch and German and/or professionally-related. Notable correspondents include Christopher Isherwood, Sybille Bedford and her partner Eda Lord, John Lloyd, Darsie Gillie, George Rink, and Adrian Stokes.
|Among the Eda Lord letters are three photographs of, presumably, Lord at various exotic locations. In the folder of Robson-Scott letters to Ziman and Bergholtz are a typescript of three lightly-edited poems by Robson-Scott and a carbon-copy draft of a Robson-Scott obituary by an unknown author.
|The collection arrived at the Ransom Center in 2010 grouped by correspondents and in rough chronological order within these groups. During accessioning, the existing groups were retained, with most of the original folder titles transferred to new folders. The chronological order within each group was corrected when necessary. Although some of the earlier correspondence is on acidic and fragile paper and some letters have seen rough treatment, all of the materials are in relatively good condition.


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Dayton Budget Proposal Invests in Jobs, Helps Police Officers and Veterans, Funds Essential Health Care Services – March 12, 2012
Office of the Governor
Contact: Katharine Tinucci
651.201.3441 office
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Fiscally Responsible Budget Closes Corporate Tax Loopholes to Fund Minnesota's Priorities
St. Paul, MN – Governor Mark Dayton today unveiled his Supplemental FY12-13 Budget proposal, which invests in jobs, provides needed resources for Police Officers and benefits to Veterans, and funds essential healthcare for the Minnesotans most in need. The Governor's $60 million supplemental budget is balanced and fiscally responsible, which is in line with his challenge to the Legislature to offset any new General Fund spending with revenues.
Governor Dayton said, "My supplemental budget invests in more jobs for Minnesotans, deserved support for our Police Officers and Veterans, and correcting the most extreme cuts to essential health care made last year. Those are my priorities: the people of Minnesota and good jobs for all of them."
Currently, our state's Police Officers and local departments are tasked with buying their own protective bulletproof vests. The state has a fund for reimbursing those purchases to help defray the costs and ensure that the safety of our Police Officers is not left to chance. However, this fund has run dry, and currently there are more than 700 vests awaiting reimbursement due to lack of funds. Governor Dayton's supplemental budget includes $515,000 so that outstanding and projected reimbursements are paid in full through the end of the biennium.
Highlights of the Supplemental Budget:
Funds the Dayton Jobs Bill. The budget includes $35 million for the Jobs Now Tax Credit, which will put thousands of Veterans, students, and currently unemployed Minnesotans back to work. The budget also includes $2 million for an expansion of FastTRAC and an additional $10 million for the Minnesota Investment Fund.
Increases Benefits for Veterans. The Governor's supplemental budget provides $915,000 for an expansion of the Veterans GI Bill, $1.05 million in increased funding for County Veterans Service Officers, and keeps the Governor's commitment for $100,000 in sustained funding for honor guard services.
Reverses Deepest Cuts in DHS. The Governor's supplemental budget includes $5.9 million for Personal Care Attendant funding, $6.4 million for Medical Education Research Costs, and $4.7 million for emergency, life-saving care like chemotherapy and dialysis for the sickest Minnesotans.
Fighting the Spread of Asian Carp. The Governor's budget includes $4 million annually for the control of aquatic invasive species.
The Governor's budget proposal is fiscally responsible, funded without further increasing taxes on individual taxpayers or Minnesota homeowners. Currently, some multi-national corporations who pay taxes in Minnesota receive an 80% tax preference on qualifying overseas income. This type of tax treatment is only available in a few states for multi-national corporations. By simply reducing that tax preference to 62% this year, and 39% in years to come, Minnesota can pay for the types of services and programs we value without affecting our status as a competitive and attractive place to do business.
A complete copy of Governor Dayton's supplemental budget can be viewed athttp://mn.gov/governor/initiatives/budget/
A copy of the 'Reducing Corporate Tax Loopholes' FAQ is attached.
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That is a lot like saying that you have a friend, a good man, who provides for the needy through organizations such as World Vision, and also constantly helps neighbours in need. However, when he gets angry at people, he kills them. Just two sides of his personality. No contradiction here, "except in minds insufficiently committed to reasoning from all the data."
Actually, the Christian position is not at all like the example you gave. I never said that when God gets angry with people He kills them. It is more like saying, "I have a friend, a good man, who provides for the needy through organizations such as World Vision, and also constantly helps neighbours in need. He is also a district judge, and he punished his own son, whom he loved, because the young man was a serial killer."
A judge who punishes criminals justly is acting in love to society. A judge who does not punish criminals, or who punishes them less than justly, is cowardly and unloving. Just ask the parents of the victims killed in prison by a convicted murderer serving a life sentence. Add to this that those same parents have to work to pay the taxes that provide free housing, food and medical care for the man who murdered their son, for the rest of that man's leisurely life. This is your idea of love?
I know of course you will come back with your notion that God's character can be inconsistent since He is God.
I don't know why you think I would say a thing as stupid as that, when I have argued consistently that there is no inconsistency in God. If you think a good man, who is a judge handing down severe, but just, sentences is an inconsistent man, then I can see why you have a problem with God the way He has revealed Himself. I should think you would rather get to know the God who declared repeatedly what He is like, than to change Him into a god more suited to your temperaments.


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I'm still bouncing like Tigger about ED&BV, and so while you're waiting for your copies to arrive in the mail or in your local bookstores, I thought I'd give you a looky loo at some of the photos in the book and some more info about my demo at Taste of Health. You've seen lots of my own photos of these recipes over the last couple of years, but in ED&BV there are 16 colour photos inside, most featuring more than one recipe.
You haven't seen this recipe yet though. Veggie Tempeh Muffuletta. It's scrumptious, and as I mention in the book, although the recipe 'looks' long, it's not hard or time-consuming to make. I just love to chat with you all in my recipes - you know that!! :) And, I'll tell you that this is one of those recipes that you can make if you're still on the fence with tempeh. My husband loves it, and he's not super keen on tempeh normally. When I served this at our photo shoot, noone really knew what that main ingredient was - tofu? - faux meat?... nope, tempeh! So, you must try this recipe.
Next up, Chocolate Pumpkin Pie with Macadamia Maple Cream. This is chocolate decadence, but is so quick to prep - with your food processor and a prepared shell, you can get this pie into the oven in about 15 minutes. No kidding.
Do you remember this post way back? I had a bit of a guessing game for the mystery ingredient? Well, now you know! Yeah, the professional photo is much better... but be sure to make the Macadamia Maple Butter Cream to pair with this pie, 'cause if you're going for decadence you must go over the top!
And, I just posted about my White Bean Hummus with Fresh Thyme and Basil. Here it is again, along with my Peanut Sesame Hummus.
We know all good vegans must have a full repertoire of hummus recipes, and I'm helping you to do that with this book!
There are more great photos to come... and of course, delicious food to match!
Also, for those of you attending the Taste of Health event, here are the recipes I'll be showing in my demo (and yes, samples will be available):
- Acai Antioxidant Smoothie (photo of this smoothie is also in the book)
- Tamari Roasted Chickpeas
- Living Caesar Salad (posted here, and there's also a beautiful photo of this salad in the book!)
- 5-Star Ice Cream Sandwiches (posted here, and there's also an adorable photo in the book!)
After the demo, I'll post a couple of these recipes from my demo on my recipes page.
And, once you start receiving your copies of ED&BV, I want to have some fun. I'll get some feedback from you of recipes you'd like to see on my blog from the book. I'll do my best to showcase the most requested recipes!
Finally, if you're waiting for your bookstore to stock the book, please ask them to bring it in. Sometimes that's the best way for my books to reach the shelves - through your request.


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Nike Air Max 90 Spring/Summer 2012
A whole slew of performance footwear from Nike for Spring/Summer 2012 has popped up at retailers, including Atlanta's Wish. Nice drops for both men and women are seen here including a couple of Air Max 90s, one of which, at a glance, shares a resemblance to the iconic Infrared, but upon closer inspection, you will see that it's an orange color. For the ladies, a couple of great Lunar shoes are available, including a very dope Nike Lunar Always TR+ in a platinum/metallic silver/pink colorway. These sneakers are available at Wish Atlanta.


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My attitude is that any new tournament is better than none and that this one shouldn't be knocked.
But to see even the great Stephen Hendry playing in an arena that isn't even half full is a little dispiriting.
Of course, crowds are not always great in the UK. In Belfast they were poor, although I'd put that down to the fact it was held in August. In Glasgow last month they were much better.
Snooker is still very popular in Britain but there needs to be a big promotional push to let people know there are tournaments actually happening.
Unfortunately, relations between the media and the WPBSA have just fallen to an all time low for reasons I will explain in due course.
What we do know is that in continental Europe there would be a huge turnout were major events to be staged.
At the Berlin leg of the World Series in July there were sell-out crowds of up to 1,600 at a time.
In Warsaw last month there were also huge audiences and I believe this would be repeated in many other parts of Europe.
Let's hope the final in Bahrain attracts a full house.
Top players revel in a great atmosphere. It also makes for good viewing. Despite all the non-entries and withdrawals, the cream has risen to the top now and it would be a shame if they did not get the support they deserve.
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Here, here. I also think it's time to come back to The Republic of Ireland. There has been a great tradition of great snooker in Ireland. Some fantastic events were staged here(most notably at Goffs) and some of the finest, and most exciting players have come from the Emerald Isle, Higgins, Doherty and Taylor. We haven't had a ranking event here in over three years (I'm not sure what happened to the Irish Masters? Maybe Dave can shed some light on this for me?).
On another note. It's hard not to get excited about Hendry's performance today, but did anyone else notice that the long ones were going in too? His Achilles heel of late, if he can sustain this, who's going to stop him?
Looking forward to tomorrow.
Baby Jenx
- 3:16 pm
so much fot the press articles published before the event claiming that they were overflowed with demands for tickets...
People from mainland Europe travel long distances to watch snooker life. I do, many of my friends do. Hamm end of this month will probably be packed.
But of course no member of WPBSA board is living in mainland Europe ... or am I wrong?
- 3:31 pm
- Dave H said...
The Irish Masters disappeared after the dates the promoter had been given were instead given to the China Open, although I suspect it may have been more complicated than that.
The tourbnament was better as an invitation event. Goffs was probably the best venue on the circuit.
- 3:35 pm
Just for information, Goffs is under consideration for a World Series event 2009.
- 3:42 pm
Why has Bristol never had a tournament of any note? Obviously the WSA are based there so would have thought we'd of had something there.
- 3:49 pm
- Dave H said...
Actually Bristol has staged two ranking events - the 1983 Professional Players Tournament and the 1992 Strachan Open, although neither were televised
- 3:53 pm
Wow, could patm really be Pat Mooney? John Higgins' right-hand man in The World Series?! I do hope so as this then adds credence to the Goffs claim! I would love to see snooker return to Goffs!
Thanks a mill for the info Pat.... legend!
Baby Jenx
- 4:00 pm
Thanks Dave, i'd forgotten about the Strachan, I seem to remember it had very low prize money in comparison to the tournaments of that time. However, by today's standards it was probably like winning the lottery!!
- 4:09 pm
Rich P;
The Strachan Open was held at the Thornbury Leisure Centre back in 1992 and was well supported. It was won by James Wattana who beat John Parrott in the final. Like this weeks Bahrain Championship it lacked a lot of the top players - Stephen Hendry, Steve Davis, Jimmy White and Alain Robidoux all skipped the event boasting a first prize of £12,500!
Likewise the Matchroom League Play-Offs were held there the following year, and a fantastic final between Jimmy White and Alan McManus. My memory was Jimmy, whilst being interviewed for the crowd and Eurosport by MC Alan Hughes, dropping the trophy!
I agree, being from Bristol, that we should have a major event on the calendar but I thank my lucky stars that the Welsh Open at Newport is only a short drive across the bridge.
Sadly though, I felt last weeks Premier League evening was very poorly supported at the Newport Centre which resulted in John McDonald and co moving everyone to the front so the venue looked busy for the live SKY broadcast. Very similiar to when Newport staged the 2006 World Cup Of Pool.
- 4:24 pm
Have World Snooker given any reasons why was Bahrain chosen as the venue? Was it just a case of "we want to stage a tournament", and WS went "OK, when do you want us." Surely Dubai would ensure bigger crowds.
- 4:26 pm
Yeah Ryan I remember the Matchroom final as I went to the first session (couldn't get tickets for the evening session).
Well Thornbury isn't the ideal venue for snooker. I was thinking more Bristol City centre where people may actually be able to get to. Where in Bristol was the Professional Players tournament held?
I also tend to get my live snooker fix at the Newport Centre - but again crowds could be better.
- 4:59 pm
- stuartfanning said...
I've found it very strange that there appears to be little sponsorship of the Bahrain event. There's a DHL logo along with all the World Snooker and allied stuff around the table. So who is putting up the money for it?
To change the subject a bit. Dave I wish you and the other Eurosport commentators would not keep pretending that your 'commentary position' is in Bahrain rather than a studio in Feltham, West London!
- 6:17 pm
Is Rob Walker over there?
Maybe he could send out a rallying cry: "Let's get the Bahrainis in the building!"
- 6:37 pm
The Professional Players Tournament (PPT) was the fore-runner of the Rothmans Grand Prix and was held, just once, in 1983 at the Redwood Lodge Hotel & Country Club in Failand. In fact I think the qualifiers for the Rothmans Grand Prix in 1984 were also held there.
The last ever staging of the English Professional Championship in 1989 were also held there, but like the Strachan Open in 1992 Steve Davis and Jimmy White skipped the event. From what I can re-collect as a 10 year old watching my first live snooker with my Dad and Brother it was well supported.
You mention the Bristol City ground at Ashton Gate as a possible venue in Bristol, didn't I hear that in the summer the Dolman Stand held a PDC Players Championship Darts event featuring the likes of 13 times World Champion Phil Taylor? If that's the case I'm more than sure it can accommodate snooker.
- 7:08 pm
- Janie Watkins said...
ROFL at Scott - nice one!
I don't think it makes much difference whether you go to Manama, Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Doha from the point of view of crowds BUT i do think this tournament was under promoted because of the rushed late nature of announcing dates.
The Gulf countries, particularly Dubai, Qatar and Bahrain are pushing very strongly for tourism, particularly sports tourism. They're falling over themselves to attract top quality events in any sport and to bring the tourists with them.
These Gulf countries have a very small population, albeit boosted by extremely poor ex-pats from the Indian sub-continent, who'd love to go to the snooker but can't due to their working hours.
We saw it at the Doha Asian Games in 2006 and that's probably one of the reasons Doha didn't win their olympic bid, because they certainly have all the stadia in place and will soon build more if they needed too.
The analysis of the Doha Asian Games was that there just wasn't a history amongst the people of attending these liv events. The Bahranis and Qataris etc will be immensely proud that their country is selected to host a major event, but they don't actually go so far as to go and support the event in person unless they're a fanatic of that particular sport.
So the answer to future events is for long term pre-planning and a major push to make the events attractive to sports tourists, and I doubt there's many of us from Europe who wouldn't enjoy a few days inthe sun in November!
- 9:32 pm
Nothing to do with promotion. It's to do with a lack of basic market research. This is what happens when you take snooker - or any sport - to a place where no-one other than an elite few are actually interested in it.
Another tactical blunder by the desperate gang at world snooker, spending money they can ill afford on flights of fancy - or actually fancy flights
- 9:04 am
I think World Snooker is trying very very hard to destroy this sport. If they were smart, they would hold a tournament in Germany, one in Holland or Belgium, Poland, those kinds of countries. Especially Germany would be good for the crowds, you could get 2 ranking events in Germany with filled arenas, as the World Series has proven already. There is just not enough intwerest in the middle-east, so why do they move a tournament there?
- 9:16 am
Ron said "I think World Snooker is trying very very hard to destroy this sport."
I completely disagree Ron. The truth is it comes really easy to them!
- 9:31 am
God it's pathetic tonight for the second semi-final, there genuinely can't be more than 30 people there.
- 7:12 pm
If I was in charge of World Snooker there would be 5 extra ranking events next season spread out across Europe. And the crowds would be huge. But I'm not in charge and the clowns that are are killing the game we all love. Methinks it's time for a breakaway tour a la PDC in darts.
- 9:21 pm
Bring it to Europe please. I would travel anywhere in Denmark to see a tournament if one was to be staged. These oil money tournaments are pathetic and a waste of time. In the end it's the crowds that determine the local support and Bahrain is obviously a spectacular failure. Bring it to to Europe!!
- 9:40 am
UK is in Europe..bring it home! ;)
- 7:50 am
As weird as it sounds I too (being a dane) would love to see all tournaments being in the UK and Ireland. But if they are so keen to move away from home why not have those tournaments take place in other european countries where the popularity of the sport is sky high? I mean, Bahrain..??
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Hewlett-Packard's allegations of revenue-recognition problems at Autonomy, the U.K. software company it acquired last year, has some market participants uneasy about the approach of a new standard on revenue recognition. The coming global standard is being produced jointly by the U.S. Financial Accounting Board and the International Accounting Standards Board, and it will be principles-based, in line with international standards, rather than offering the detailed regulations common to U.S. GAAP accounting. Critics fear the less detailed approach may allow for more accounting shenanigans.
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The Internet has so far failed to tackle the challenge of broadening political and civic involvement to new and diverse populations, according to a Pew survey.
More people say they have participated in some sort of political or civic activity online, such as promoting social issues, encouraging others to vote or sharing thoughts and comments on issues, than years past. But the survey found that these activities are most common among those who already show up in political life.
Digital engagement, though, is clearly quite different from community engagement. Digital tools seem to provide vast potential for expanding civic engagement and participation, but doing it right will require thinking that's as innovative and unprecedented as the digital tools themselves.
Have you had successful experiences with online engagement? Do you have any ideas for bridging the gap to reach beyond usual suspects? Send your feedback to Allison Rizzolo at firstname.lastname@example.com and join in the conversation with us on Twitter @PublicAgenda.
Watch our website for the aforementioned report on public officials and community leaders. If you are interested in receiving word when the research is released late this month, email Megan Donovan at email@example.com.
An Opportunity for More Public Engagement
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Pete, executive director of Pepperdine University's Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership, is running on a platform of improving civic engagement state-wide. He explains one simple rule that serves as a backbone of that platform: "informed Californians, given the opportunity to participate in a good process (online and/or offline) can make more creative, and more sustainable decisions than government alone. This is especially true on tough issues."
Pete explains more about why he's running on the California political blog Fox and Hounds. You can also read the official announcement in the Sacramento Bee.
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Rosler leaves Brentford to become Wigan boss
Uwe Rosler has been confirmed as manager of Championship side Wigan Athletic.
The former East Germany international had been at Brentford and will begin work at the DW Stadium on Monday, after the clubs have agreed a compensation package.
Rosler, who has also been managed Lillestrom, Viking and Molde previously, will watch Wigan at Millwall on Saturday from the stands, with Graham Barrow in temporary charge.
He leaves Brentford fourth in League One, with Wigan chairman Dave Whelan stating that Rosler can achieve "great things" in his new role.
"Uwe is one of the brightest young managers in the Football League and his ambition is to manage in the Premier League," he said in a statement on the club's website.
"He impressed me enormously when I spoke to him, he has a strong philosophy about how to play the game and has a desire to shape all aspects of the long term future of the club. I think he can and will achieve great things here at Wigan Athletic."
Rosler takes over at Wigan following the sacking of Owen Coyle on Monday, with the FA Cup holders 14th in the table.


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Giacomo Matteotti, (born May 22, 1885, Fratta Polesine, Italy—died June 10, 1924, Rome), Italian Socialist leader whose assassination by Fascists shocked world opinion and shook Benito Mussolini's regime. The Matteotti Crisis, as the event came to be known, initially threatened to bring about the downfall of the Fascists but instead ended with Mussolini as the absolute dictator of Italy.
After graduating from the University of Bologna law school, Matteotti entered law practice and joined the Italian Socialist Party. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1919 and reelected in 1921 and 1924, by which time he had become secretary general of his party. In the meantime, Mussolini, who had succeeded in gaining power, was conducting terroristic attacks on leftists. On May 30, 1924, Matteotti addressed a ringing denunciation of the Fascist Party to the Chamber. Less than two weeks later (June 10) six Fascist squadristi kidnapped Matteotti in Rome, murdered him, and hastily buried his body outside the city near Riano Flaminio.
Matteotti's disappearance created a sensation, as did the discovery of his body a few weeks later. The Italian public had no doubt that Fascists were implicated in the crime and reacted against Fascist rule. Fascist party badges disappeared overnight; the antechamber of Mussolini's office, usually full, stood empty.
The opposition deputies withdrew from the Chamber, in an action known as the Aventine secession, to protest the murder and to work for the overthrow of Mussolini. But the parliamentary forces, powerless before in the events leading to Mussolini's seizure of power in 1922, proved ineffective in keeping public opinion aroused and failed to take decisive action against Mussolini. Despite a prolonged judicial inquiry, the six suspects arrested for the murder were allowed to go free.
Mussolini, at first taken aback by his loss of public favour, decided to take the offensive. On Jan. 3, 1925, in a speech to the Chamber, he took full responsibility for the murder as head of the Fascist party (although whether he gave a direct order for the murder remains uncertain) and dared his critics to prosecute him for the crime, a challenge that never was made since they were too weak to take it up.
The Matteotti Crisis marked a turning point in the history of Italian Fascism. Mussolini abandoned any plan of working with Parliament and took steps to create a totalitarian state, including suppression of the opposition press, exclusion of non-Fascist ministers, and formation of a secret police.
After World War II the democratic regime instituted a new inquiry, and the surviving three assassins were sentenced to 30 years in prison.


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About Precor
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We've established a track record of progressive environmental stewardship and gained industry and government recognition for environmental and manufacturing best practices. Throughout our organisation, Precor has pursued opportunities to eliminate hazardous substance use and hazardous waste, while increasing recycling and acceptable treatment methods.
We also recognise that non-profit organisations play an important role in our communities and we support them through the Precor Gives programme. Precor Gives was established in 2006 to provide employees with a way to support charitable organisations of their choice, through company matching contributions. Currently, more than 70 organisations benefit as a result of Precor Gives.


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Ms. Mc Bride was teaching animal adaptations to her 3rd grade science class. She wrote down the key idea of the chapter that the class is reading on the chalkboard: Adaptations are important to an animal's survival. She taught her students that relevant information is that which is related to the key idea. She gave several examples of information from the chapter and asked students to practice deciding what is relevant and what isn't. Students then read the chapter. When they were done, Ms. McBride divided them into groups and had them brainstorm what they'd learned. Students in each group wrote a list of information they'd learned from the chapter, and then placed an R next to facts that they feel were relevant. Ms. McBride made a large T-chart and displayed the relevant and irrelevant facts from the groups' lists in front of the whole class.
Good readers can distinguish between important and unimportant information in nonfiction text. This ability is key to understanding the content that students must read. First, teachers should introduce students to the conventions of nonfiction text, such as by having them scan chapter titles, headings, subheadings, picture captions, maps, glossaries, and indexes. English language learners should receive plenty of support before they even begin to read the text. They need to understand that reading is not necessarily a front-to-back task.
Students can then learn to identify the title, table of contents, bolded words, photographs, captions, maps, headings, subheadings, and labels in a textbook chapter to preview information. These conventions of nonfiction text help students to identify what is important in the text. Even though the text as a whole was above the reading level
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Hello, I saw your tweet on twitter (I am infodivabronx) about your post, so I flew over here to read.
Teaching children how to read nonfiction text is critical because many kids shut down when they begin to struggle with it. Nonfiction text needs more time to digest. I have to remind my junior high students that all the time.
I particularly like your observation that reading nonfiction is not always a front to back experience.
I'm wondering what are your thoughts and observations on the use of reading motivation strategies used in the classroom, especially as they pertain to ESL students? I ask because I've been doing some reading & research about this topic. I would appreciate your comments.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Research has long shown slight health differences among babies born at different times during the year, and a new study suggests seasonal flu may be a contributing factor.
In the study of over 600,000 women who each had more than one child, researchers found a dip in average pregnancy length - and thus an increase in premature births - for infants conceived in May.
Most of those babies were born at the height of flu season, in early- to mid-winter.
"When you plot the data over time, you see how there are really seasonal patterns," said Hannes Schwandt, who worked on the research at Princeton University in New Jersey.
Past studies also found trends in many aspects of babies' health by birth season. But it's been unclear, the researchers explained, if those differences could be attributed to their mothers.
Although no one is sure why, multiple studies have shown that poorer women are more likely to give birth during the first half of the year, Schwandt said.
By including only women who delivered more than one baby over the decades studied, his team was able to adjust for characteristics of the mother, like poverty, and look only at other factors, he said.
The researchers analyzed birth records for about 1.4 million babies born in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania in the 1990s and 2000s. During that time, average gestation length - the time from conception to birth - was just under 39 weeks.
Gestation length fell for babies conceived early in the year, however, and was shortest for babies conceived in May, at 0.08 weeks (about half a day) shorter than average. Gestation length returned to normal for the babies conceived in June.
(Note: this study was originally published stating erroneously that babies conceived in May had a gestation period 0.8 weeks shorter than average, not 0.08 weeks. A correction will be published.)
The study findings include adjustments for a variety of maternal characteristics that might influence pregnancy, including the women's age, race, education level and whether they were married.
The difference in gestation length would translate to an extra one percent of all babies being born prematurely, the study team wrote in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The trend in gestation length matched up closely with flu season, so that babies conceived in May were born around January and February, when the flu is typically at its peak.
That was especially true for data from the 2009-2010 flu season when a new strain of the H1N1 virus infected more people than usual - offering the "strongest evidence that it was not just a coincidence," Schwandt told Reuters Health.
He said flu infections late in pregnancy may lead to inflammation, a known risk for premature birth.
The study doesn't prove the flu causes dips in gestation length - it only shows an association. The researchers could not account for the effects of temperature and climate, for example.
"The patterns observed could be driven by other factors which vary by season, including infections other than influenza," said Lyndsey Darrow, who has studied birth seasonality at Emory University in Atlanta.
"Nonetheless, this study provides some evidence for influenza as a trigger of preterm labor," Darrow, who wasn't involved in the new research, told Reuters Health in an email.
Schwandt said the findings represent only "statistical averages" and that it may make more sense for pregnant women to get a flu vaccine rather than avoid conceiving in certain months.
"For the individual mother who conceived (in May), I don't think there's a big concern," he said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/1ay7kKW Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, online July 8, 2013.